Mani Monday: Opalescent Topper

It is Mani Monday and this paint job has an opalescent topper to finish it off! This is actually the mani I did last week, I never got a chance to post this. I gave my nails a rest this week, which I think is good to do once in a while. Your nails need to breathe too you know! Anyway on to the mani! Can you guess what polish I am using? It probably may come as a shock that it is Sinful Colors lol! I love this polish! This really is a basic polish change, with a twist. I wanted to try one of the new polishes I got. So I painted Sinful Colors Calypso on my nails. It is a beautiful, dark blue green polish with a creme finish; and it is part of their permanent line. And guys Calypso is a one coater, which makes it even better! I loved it on it's own, but I was really itching to try the opalescent toppers I had also bought. I was going to use the green one,but then changed my mind and decided to use the purple one and it turned out perfectly! It is a sheer, shimmery purple topper called Flight To See. It was released this year as part of the 2015 Sinful Colors Spring Collection and it was a new release. It was, however, limited edition, but I am sure it will pop up again in another collection, which is pretty normal for Sinful Colors. Anyway, on it's own Flight To See is a really pretty shimmery purple with a silver flux. When paired with Calypso, it turns into this very deep jewel tones purple, that has beautiful metallic looking finish! It stays dark around the edges of the nail and as your eye moves toward the middle of the nail, the light picks up the silver flux and make this purple pop! I am a fan! I can't wait to try out the green opalescent topper that I got too! So keep your eyes out for a post about that soon. Happy Monday and happy painting everyone!  

Sinful Colors Calypso

Sinful Colors Flight To See
over Calypso with flash

Sinful Colors Flight To See
over Calypso without flash

Mani Monday: Metallic Mani

Sinful Colors Mesmerize

Sinful Colors Supernova

It's Mani Monday!! I love nail polish! This is no secret! I think, however, the manicure I gave myself this week, could be my go to favorite. I am loving the color combo and the contrast between the metallic and creme finishes! I love how metallic nail polishes look! Funny thing is, when I see them in the store, I never buy them. So the other day I was in Target and I was perusing the Sinful Colors display and I picked up this metallic nail polish and decided to buy it! It is Sinful Colors Supernova. I was drawn to it because it is a rose gold color and I just think rose gold is so pretty. It also has a silver shimmer to it that gives it the metallic, tin foil looking effect. The picture of the bottle to the left is accurate, the pictures of it on my nails look more gold, but when I used a flash, you can see the silver shimmer. Anyway, I thought it looked familiar, so I did some digging and found out it was originally released in 2012 as part of the Fall Collection Hot Flash Metallics. Sinful Colors will sometimes re-release limited edition colors on their own or as part of a new collection. I am glad I spotted this one because there were only a few bottles left! I paired it with Sinful Colors Mesmerize. This is also a limited edition color. It was first released in 2012, also in the Fall in the Enchanted/Muse Collection. It was re-released again in the Spring of 2013 as part of the Haute Rebel Collection, which is when I picked it up. Mesmerize is a deep purple color with blue undertones that has a creme finish. When you see the picture of it on my nails, the camera makes it look more blue than it actually is. the picture of it in the bottle at the top to the right is more accurate. Now, on to how to get this manicure!

Step 1: As always start with a base coat to help prevent any staining. As usual, I used Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Strengthener.

Step 2: Apply your base color. I used Sinful Colors Supernova. This is other tape mani, so let that base color dry completely before going onto the next step!

With Flash

No flash

Step 3: Apply the straightest edge of the tape to the nail.

Creating the Nail Design

Step 4: Paint the nail below the tape, the part of the nail closest to the cuticle. Then, before that polish dries, remove the tape. It should leave you with a nice, crisp line! Repeat this on all of your nails!

Paint the Color and then remove the tape

Step 5: Let that second color dry a little bit, to prevent streaking. Then apply a fast drying top coat. Once again, as usual, I used Sally Hansen Insta Dry Top Coat. Clean up the cuticle and around the nail bed with some acetone or nail polish remover, if necessary and voila, an easy to create and pretty new manicure! 

Finished Manicure

Happy Monday and happy painting everyone!

A Holiday Nail

I love a pretty holiday nail manicure! And who's obsessed with nail polish? Me! Who just realized they haven't done a nail polish blog in like a million years? Um, well that would be me again! So I just picked up a few Sinful Color polishes. And they are beautiful! The two I will be showing are perfect for a holiday look or for whenever if you like! The first one is Sugar Sugar, a really pretty red shimmery shade. The second is All About You, a gold glitter polish. But this gold glittler has some red glitters in it too, making it a perfect glitter to paint on top of Sugar Sugar! First, I applied a base coat, using Sally Hansen's Hard As Nails Strengthener. Then I applied two coats of Sugar Sugar. Then I applied a thin coat of All About You over each nail and added an extra coat to my ring fingers for an accent nail. Then I applied Sally Hansen's Insta Dry in Clearly Quick as a top coat.

Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar and All About You

Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar and All About You Swatch

Happy Painting everyone!!

How do You Duo?

How do you duo today? Do you like purple nail polishes? How about blue? Want them both in one nail polish? Then you need to get Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear in Virtual Violet, because it is virtually amazing! If you like Duo-chrome polishes, then this is a must! It is a violet/blue duo-chrome polish, with subtle undertones of pink. When you see the purple it is such a pretty vibrant violet color and when you see the blue it is sort of a shimmery silvery blue color. The subtle pink undertone that it gives off, really makes the purple pop! It does apply sheer and I needed three coats to get the opacity I was looking for.  Two coats is ok, but I recommend taking the time to apply the third coat! It is so vibrant and pretty with that extra coat! As a top coat, I applied Sally Hansen's Insta Dry in Clearly Quick.

This picture came out so nice! I love that it shows the pink undertones with the violet!

This shot really shows how pretty the polish looks when the light hits it and you see violet!

I love how this one shows of the silvery look of the blue when the light hits it a certain way!

Just in case I haven't said it already, the Xtreme Wear nail polish by Sally Hansen is amazing! These polishes last about a week before they start to chip and they are so pretty. I haven't found a color that I don't like yet and I have been using this line forever! 

Shimmery Goodness

Nail Polishes give me the shimmery goodness that I love! If you like nail polish colors that have a shimmery glitter in them, then I have two that you will want to add to your collection! The first one is Sinful Colors Cinderella. It is a really pretty baby blue color, the color of Cinderella's blue gown actually. It has this gorgeous iridescent glitter in it. The glitter is not over powering, it is very subtle, but it just gives this color the little pop that it craves. The only issue I have with it, is that it applies really sheer. If you want it to be opaque you might need to apply three or four coats. I really hate applying four coats, but the color you get makes it worth it. The nice thing about it being sheer though is that you can always apply it over another blue shade or another color if you like, to add a little shimmer to a polish that doesn't have it.

Sinful Colors Cinderella

The second color is Wet N' Wild's Fast Dry in Teal of Fortune. It is so so so pretty! When I saw it I had to get it because I really don't have anything like it in my nail polish collection. And let me tell you, I was not disappointed! When you look at it in the bottle, it is a gorgeous teal color! When you turn the bottle and let the light hit it, that's when the magic happens! All of sudden you see green shimmer, then gold shimmer, then silver shimmer. It is so pretty! All of those shimmery specks combined with the teal remind me of the ocean almost. It also applies sheer and I needed three coats to get it to look like it does in the bottle. Trust me when I say, taking the extra time to add that third coat is so completely well worth it! 

Wet N' Wild Teal of Fortune

As always I applied Sally Hansen's Insta Dry in Clearly Quick as my top coat. I really love this as a top coat because I love its glossy finish and it dries so fast! Anyway, overall, I love the colors of these two polishes! For $1.99 each you can't really complain! Also, for $1.99, they are really great quality polishes. They lasted a week without chipping! With the job that I do, I can't say there are many polishes that hold up like that, I'm almost always touching up my manicure when I get home from work.