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Friday, December 31, 2010

Sinful Colors Just You Wait.....



and wait I did! almost 10 months after seeing this fabulous duo-chrome polish on Mary's Blog, Body and Soul - I have it! I found this in Canada at London Drugs, it was a surprise to see the Sinful Colors polish's collection here in Canada. So far they only have the boring, work appropriate shades, none of the funky bright polish's that can be found at Walgreen's USA or on-line at Cherry culture and the Sinful Colors website.

I really really wanted this polish - and now I have it. It is a fabulous STRONG duo-chrome that ranks right up with the older Sally Hansen Duo-Chrome Nail Prisms, too bad it's all gloomy and cloudy outside.  Indoors the duo-chrome is apparent, but it shows more of a flashy evergreen, with a slight tinge of golden shimmer.

I have layered 1 coat of Sinful Colors Just You wait over my previous mani, NYC Canal Street, I added 2 outdoor pic's of that must have polish as well in this post. While these photos under cloudy skies do not showcase the gorgeous green to burgundy to purple to gold duo-chrome, the effect is still visible. This is another must have.

It looks so boring the bottle, what a surprise! My next American acquisition will be Love My Nails Dazzling -  it is soooooo pretty, and only .99 cents ( seriously! ) If you have a chance to check out the Walmart USA website, there is fabulous photos of most of the LOVE My Nails polish's ( do not pick a location on the walmart website, just type in love my nails..... or it doesn't show up for some reason )

I am puzzled that there is so many in-expensive and friggen awesome polish's out there that rarely end up on blogs, I'm talking more about polish available in the USA that are in-expensive and can be found easily at Walmarts or other department stores and drug-stores. I'm just one girl from Canada, so I am calling out USA polish lovers go model those cheap, readily available polish's that are often overlooked. there has been more 'coverage' of these in recent months, but if you happen to have any shades that are spectacular or that need to be known about, I hope that more people will blog about those.



♥ I hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Years Eve ♥

♥ Please, Please Don't Drink and Drive ♥

outdoors, cloudy skies


indoor flo




weird dim lighting








Below; NYC Canal Street, I layered 1 coat of  Sinful Colors Just You Wait over NYC Canal Street.
Here it is outdoors under cloudy skies.




indoors fluorescent lighting






Thursday, December 30, 2010

♥ NYC Canal Street ♥


 NYC Canal Street  3 thin coats - this IS AN AWESOME POLISH!



Well, well, well ~ i FAIL AT AUTO-POST!

Merry Christmas nail polish blog-land and pardon me for not double-checking my blog & auto-post feature. Hopefully everyone had a fun, enjoyable holiday. I am happy to be home.

This week I plan to model the rest of the NYC In A New York Minute polish's I have acquired recently - the 'sorta boring common' shades that I seem to have passed on previously. I think because the display for this brand is all tucked away and squished together I tend to pass them by. These polish's dry fast and have superb colour pay-off, there is a great selection of colours and the formula is awesome. I loooooooove these! I am sorry I waited so long to buy them all.

This is 3 thin coats of NYC Canal Street, a rich bronze-burgundy. It looks like a metallic foil on the nail - but it is not a foil, so there will be no bits of silver all over my hands . I know there are some great outdoor swatches of this on Google images, but I still want to get outside for some better macro shots in the a.m. tomorrow. This formula is fabulous and it applied wonderfully. I am appalled that these are only .99 cents to $2.50-ish they are definitely a superior polish and it is worth having the entire collection ( even the boring work appropriate colours are nice! )

all my photos are indoors under fluorescent lighting.....( EDIT I added 2 outdoor shots )







indoor flo






 ♥



Monday, December 20, 2010

2 snowey looks with Sally Hansen Candy Lace


franken w/ Fing'rs nail art paint & S.H. Candy Lace

so this is supposed to be icicles, anti-gravitational icicles, because the blue base polish is a sky blue, and they really are hanging off of nothing...... Whatever, just go with it lol!

2 thin coats of a franken I made with Wet n' Wild Blue Sapphire and white - seriously; Wet n' wild frankens turn out the best! I used Billie White which encapsulated all the shimmer in Wet n Wild Blue Sapphire. An added bonus to that is in Canada they are like 2 bucks each ( in USA .99 cents ) but many of th colors I have mixed up turned out lovely.




so; I started drawing vertical lines with the fing'rs nail art strip polish, then filled in the areas.... I had to go over 3 times to get the look I wanted. I know this would work out lovely with white nail polish and a fine brush ( thats for another day).


filled it all in, fixed up some sparse areas....


added 2 coats of Sally Hansen Candy Lace


voila!

I wanted to add this polish to my must haves, because I really love it - but I do not have any great photos of it. I love all the irregular sized chunks of flecks in it.... It is a perfect rendition of those big fluffy globs of snow that sometimes fall.


This is is 3 thin coats of Sally Hansen Candy Lace layered over a VERY sheer Icing LE no-name.


3 coats of Icing no-name sheer grey shimmer


w/ 3 coats of ally Hansen Candy Lace






Sunday, December 19, 2010

DEEZ NAILZ Polish's I couldnt live without - 2010 edition


 above Billie Blue Skies

 - this is  picture packed post -

There is more than 50 on here, I started to make a list of my top 20 polish's, but I couldn't weed out more than 30... So~ this is my 2010 list of polish's that I don't want to be without, that I would go to the store and purchase if I didn't have them or lost them, and that I would purchase again if needed.

I have a few other posts lined up in the next week or so;

MUST Have's -  polish's everyone needs
non polish things YOU NEED for fun easy nail art
my best frankens post
THE BEST things I have learned from YOU or figured out and shared w/ everyone
A hard to find or ancient polish post


I was very happy to see that most of these are part of permanent collections, and you can purchase them today - in stores or online. Some of these are Canadian only, and some are older. Many are replaceable, but if something should happen and I was without these particular polish's I would run ot the store and buy them all again

a fast drying 2 coat SOLID black creme that I don't have a photo of lol!
WNW  black creme


WNW  sapphire blue

WNW  night prowl

 
WNW  wild orchid



 
s.h.insta dri mint sprint

 
sh red carpet

 
sh blue me away

 
s.h. fresh lavender

emerald green

 
lavender envy ( layered over X-treme wear S.H Flirt which is also on this list )

 
green with envy 2 coats layered over a shimmery burgundy


 
love my nails all that

 
love my nails diva

icing dark & stormy ( dupes= ChG Rodeo Fanatic, JOE Fresh Peacock )

 
icing Bordeaux

 
icing Monet

 
icing 5 set le mystery purple

 
icing bamboozled again

 
NYC love letters

 
NYC skin tight denim

 
NYC prince st

 
NYC pier 17

 
NYC west village

I'm embarrassed that I don't have excellent photos of these next 3 - becuase they are fabulous!
-pure ice busted
-pure ice oh baby
-pure ice strapless

 
pure ice cheat'in



 
sinful colours rise and shine

 
mint apple

 
all about you

 
fuchsia purple

 
San Fransisco

 
i love you

 
confetti my favirote martian

 
indulge fudge brownie trio copper flecks

indulge tropical trio the orange in the middle is redonk!

 
China Glaze shower together

 
China Glaze spontaneous

( no photo )
Icing hazelnut

 
Icing hazelnut mini knock-off

 
claire's matte cobalt ( with matte TC )


claire's matte green ( with Nailene TC )

 
claire's 14 karats


 
Ardene matte about blue


 
Ardene apple-tini


 
Billie green meadows

 
Billie pink pansy


 
Billie Electric Purple / purple rain / purple haze ( all similar base colour with different shimmers)

 
Billie blue skies

 
Billie royal ( 3rd version)

 
Billie plutonium plum   (with iron red )

 
Billie silver (with alloy )


 
Billie steel blue

 
Billie electric Blue


 
Billie hot to trot ( a perfect shimmery blue to layer with )

 
Billie electric coral

 
Billie burning hot

 
Billie majestic

 
Billie regal

 
Billie grape ( scented )

 
Avon olive green

 
Avon jade


 
nail fetish gravy train



 
sh. nail prisms diamond

 
sh. nail prisms garnet lapis

 
sh. nail prisms ruby emerald

 
sh. nail prisms bronze pink

 
Arrissa rock amethyst


 
maybelline new years blues

 
maybelline violet aluminum

 
maybelline blackened teal

 
maybelline sapphire blue

 
maybelline matte brownie

 
la colors electricity

 
la colors copper

 
elf royal

 
midie #374

 
sally hansen soft satin ( layered over NYC China Town )

 
sally hansen iris opal ( 1 coat layered over Black )
♥ thanks mom I love You ♥

 
 Nat Robbins phantom ( chocolate brown with strong purple flash )