Finger Paints Flakies!!

Helllllo lovelies!

Sorry it's been a while!  I had all those posts set up for the holidays when I'd be out of town and ended up being busy for much longer than that!  Anywhoooo I've still been painting my nails and taking pictures, so I've got quite a few to show you! 

I'll start with the most recent, because I know lots of people are talking about and searching for the new Finger Paints flakie polishes!  And if you're not, you should be because they are awesome! 

My Sally's had all of them when I went up there this weekend, but as I had forgotten my coupons and I wasn't sure if I'd like them or not, I only picked up the two that I liked the most from swatches: Motley and Flecked.  Oh and the black that came with them: Black Expressionism.  Surprisingly I didn't have a black cream, gasp!  I know, I know...but I never liked dark colors before.  But this one, is GREAT!  I mean, it IS black, but I was still surprised to see that it covered perfectly in one coat.  BUT, since dark polishes are a little unforgiving and I'm a little sloppy, so I put on two coats to cover up parts of the nail I missed.   

First up, Motley:

I had to file my nails down :(

Oooh you don't notice how poor your clean up was until you check out a close up pic :)

Holy moly Motley is a beauty!  It's a beautiful purpley blue-to-green flakie that looks awesome when it catches the light!  It seems super royal blue to me, but I've heard it being called purple before, what do you think?  I love the blue to teal to green transition, it matches my house haha.  It goes on a little sparse for my taste, so this is two coats!

Okay so after I took my time cleaning up black and swatching Motley, no part of me wanted to take it off and swatch Flecked.  I didn't think it'd hold a candle to Motley!  SO I just decided to add a coat of Flecked on top of Motley and BAM! It's awesome:

Wooo!  I love this combination.  Flecked on it's own is a bright teal-to-green flakie and since both Motley and Flecked have the teal/green in them, I thought they'd look great together and I was right!  Flecked is a bit more dense than Motley so I only put one coat on for this look.  Together it's like all the colors of the sea came together on my nail.  In the sun the green from Flecked catches and shines pretty brilliantly.  I think they'd look great over a dark blue or dusty teal polish, as well!  I'll have to try that in the future.

My wallet desperately wants me to resist buying the rest of these Finger Paints flakies, but we'll see what I decide in the future :) 

Have you guys tried these? Do you love them?!

<3 Whitney

Funky Fingers Teal Scales!

Okay. So.  I was bored with crackle polishes for a while, but I have a new love!

And it is called Teal Scales!  I'm bummed because I bought this the day after Thanksgiving and went back to look for another bottle last week and they had no more!  I haven't been to the other Five Below, yet, so I guess I'll have to check that out sometime soon!

I first added two coats of OPI Designer de Better and then one coat of Teal Scales, beautiful!  I wish my pictures showed the full effects of this awesome polish.  The BF said it looked like dragon skin, hah.

Wee it's a beautiful combination of a shimmer metallic teal that transitions from blue to green in certain lighting.  I love it!  I need to think of some better polish combinations to show off it's beauty better--anyone have any good ideas?!

Have a great new year!  Hopefully I'll be able to post again before then :)

<3 Whitney

ORLY Fowl Play!

Hey pretties!

Hope you all had a great holiday, I sure did!  But it's back to work tomorrow and Thursday!  Ugh!

So this is a swatch from like...a month or so ago that I forgot to post!  Bummer :( 

But that's okay, I'm getting to it now!  If you haven't seen it already, ORLY Fowl Play is a beauuutifulll dark purple FLAKIE polish!  It has a purple jelly base with a bunch of different colored flakies in it including red and yellow with some small silver glitters as well.  I love it.  It's definitely my favorite from the whole Birds of a Feather collection!

It needs two coats for opacity, but these pictures are with three since I needed to fill it in a bit.  Check out this beauty!

Ahhh!  Love it.  My pictures are a little on the dark side, so I encourage you to check out some other swatches as well to see the full extent of this awesome polish!  Or just go take my word for it and buy it immediately :)  I know you have Christmas gift cards to use! 

Love you ladies!

<3 Whitney

Candy Cane Stripes!

Merry Christmas Eve!

I've had this mani on all week because I like it so much.

That and the fact that I'm out of town and would rather hang out with people I don't see often than paint my nails :)

BUT I love it nonetheless and I've got quite a few compliments on it.  Probably because they didn't look too close and notice that I made white streaks accidentally because I'm too impatient before I add topcoat, but whatever!  Here it is:

Yes I realize those are all pretty much the same picture.  But oh well! 

I've seen candy-cane and striped mani's all over the place lately but it seemed easy enough for me to do quickly and it turned out pretty well, I think!

I used two coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps and then just added diagonal white stripes with a color club art club polish.  Voila!  I also added a glittery/holo top coat to make the white sparkly like the red but you can't really tell.

Wellll that's it for now!  Hope you guys have a great Christmas if that's what you celebrate!

<3 Whitney  

Another Color Club Scented Polish--Sugar Plum Yum!

So after trying Color Club Orna-Minted, I decided to try the other giant scented glitter polish I picked up by Color Club: Sugar Plum Yum!

It is a pretty color combination of smaller green glitters and large dark blue/violet glitters all packed into one.  Since the green glitters looked similar to CC Holiday Splendor, I decided to use two coats of that as a base and here's what I came up with:

I found that the blue glitters are just so large that in some places it looked like I had dented the polish! Although it's possible that I did, haha. It does smell delicious though, kind of like candy!

I think I added two coats of Sugar Plum Yum on top of Holiday Splendor and it was just tooo much for me!  Too much glittery green and blue.  However, I saw Scrangie's swatches of this and I like it much better on top of black.  Honestly, though, I'll probably never use this polish again, so I'll probably put it in my blog sale when I get back in town!

Have you guys tried any of the CC scented polishes for the holidays?  Do you like them?

<3 Whitney

Christmasss timeeee

Hey ladiesss!  I've got a few Christmas mani's to show you the next few days! 

Here is the first one.  It's kind of a mix of a bunch of different things and then glitter-fied so it looks super bling.  I didn't get very good pictures of this, some are from my cell phone, so I apologize in advance:

Cuticle oil FTW

So yes...very...Christmas-ey. 

For the red nails I added a layer of OPI Animalistic and then two layers of OPI Gettin' Miss Piggy With It! 

For the greens I did a layer of ORLY Lucky Duck and then two layers of OPI Fresh Frog of Bel-Air. 

Then I decided there just wasn't enough silver glitter and added some Color Club Orna-Minted, which is super huge silver glitter pieces that smell like mint.  Yum!

It was a glittery mess, to say the least, and ended up being super thick, but I rocked it for a few days anyway! 

Hope you all are having a great holiday season!

Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe Giveaway WINNER!

Yahooo!  My Beyond the Mistletoe giveaway is finally over! :)

I have validated all of the entries (and there were lots of invalid ones, which made me sad :( )...AND a winner has been chosen!

And the winner issssss.....

April!  Horray! Congratulations ;)

She has been e-mailed and has 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen!

Thanks for entering and have a happy holiday! 

First Holiday Nail Art! Snowflakes!

Remember Funky Finger Sound Check???

I used it as a base for my first holiday manicure with snowflakes!

I wish I'd had a nail art pen...or better yet, a stamping plate with snowflakes, but I tried anyway and regardless of it's sloppiness, it turned out so sparkly I barely notice:

It's so shiny in person!  I used Funky Fingers Sound Check as a base (since it's awesome), then I used a white nail art polish for the snowflakes and dots!

Then I added some glitter chunks here and there using Color Clubs Orna-Minted (and it smells like mint, yum!).  Then for some added sparkle I added a holographic top coat I have from Northern Lights (not pictured).

Overall I think it turned out okay for free hand!  Snowflakes are hard!

What do you think? Have you ladies tried snowflakes before??

<3 Whit

Funky Fingers Sound Check!

Okay.  So normally I don't do "blue" polish very much, but Cold Metal was the only Color Club polish I kept from the Foil'd collection (the rest are on my blogsale!), and when I saw Funky Fingers Sound Check was the same exact color, I picked it up to have a back-up!

I tried FF first because this was around when I wanted a blue and holy moly, I LOVE it! I don't even like the foiled polishes but maybe I'm going to have to give them a second chance.

Sound Check can be a 1-coater polish if you're in a hurry (and you're awesome at polishing and can get it looking great the first time haha...I can't!), but I used two for these pictures.  As usual, Funky Fingers consistency is awesome, I don't know how they're so cheap!  I NEED a Five Below in Knoxville!  I'll just have to stock up when I go home to Columbus :)

Check it out:

!111!!!!! Love.

I don't know how this polish got so awesome.  I may have to go buy more because I want to have this forever.

Have you guys tried this?  I picked up Teal Scales as well and I'm dyinggggggg to try it, but I don't know what to put under it!

<3 Whitney

P.S. Hope you aren't sick of this 'cause I got nail art to show you with Sound Check later ;)

Rockin Something Different Today....from Scünci!

Oh gosh! I forgot to mention that TWO lovely bloggers tagged me for the Versatile Blogger Award!  Thank you so much Connie and Nail Designs!  However, I've already received this and made my list before.  Thanks so much again, though!  I really appreciate it :)

I've got something a little different today.  I'm going to give a brief review of some new hair clips I had the opportunity to try from scünci!

They are called Linziclips and they are new form of "claw" clips with hidden springs and smoother claws!

They come in three sizes: mini, medi, and maxi!  I elected to try the mini clips.  They work like the small butterfly clips, but they're a tad bit bigger.  Here are some additional "views" of them so you can see what I mean by hidden springs:

This is what the top looks like...no more ugly "wings" or visible springs!

Underside...the clamps come together in a smooth line that doesn't dig into your scalp

The teeth hold the hair tight while being much more comfortable than a normal claw clip!  Since the bottom is flat you can even lay down with these clips in and they don't dig into your head like the old ones!  This is a biggie for me...'cause I work 10 hours a day and I can't have hair clips hurtin' my head after a few hours. 

Also what I think is cool about these is that the top is relatively flat as well.  This means that while you're pinning up your cute hair style, you don't have butterfly wings sprouting from your head ruining your style, haha.  They come in all kinds of colors and designs so you can even match them to your outfit.

Overall, I like the mini ones a lot, although they don't "open" enough for me--I think I'm going to have to go out and get some of the "medi" sized ones for the hairstyles I want!  The mini ones are perfect for pulling back a little bit of hair (like for "pinning up" the sides or your bangs), but won't work for a half-up-do like I had hoped 'cause my hair is just too thick!  

You can find these from $3.99-$5.99 at most major retailers or drug stores!  You can check out more information on their facebook page!

Have you guys tried these?  I'm glad I got to try them out--I don't normally look at new hair clips, but maybe I should stop by and see what else scunci has to offer :)

<3 Whitney

P.S. A set of these hair clips (in whatever size you want) will be up for grabs in another giveaway I'll be hosting soon along with some Softlips chapsticks and other goodies...keep your eyes open for this one coming soon!