Monday Mondayyyyy: ICING Twilight!

Hi pretties!

I have a hard time resisting a nice black glitter.  I think it's my weakness.  I'll probably end up frankening one myself when I find a good black glitter that doesn't bleed.  In Icing Twilight's case it's not the glitter pieces that are black, it's the base, but I love it nonetheless.

Artificial Lighting

Artificial Lighting

Twilight is a black jelly/cream based polish packed full of fine holographic silver glitters.  I think it'd be a great polish to use when doing an "outerspace" themed manicure.  It just looks like the night sky plastered on your nail!  The formula for this polish had a good consistency and went on more like a cream than it did a glitter, which was excellent.  It also only needed 2 coats for full coverage. 

I only have a couple other Icing polishes, and I really like all of them, but this one is probably my favorite!  Have you guys tried this one or picked it up yet?

<3 Whitney

Icing Mood Swing Polish: Stormy/Serene

Hope you guys are having a great Friday! Wooo hooo, weekend!  I'm in Texas this weekend for a wedding, so I'm sure I'm pretty busy (but who knows, actually...'cause this is a scheduled post haha).  But I DO get to see Harry Potter today, yahoo! I've been waiting forever for this movie!  If I weren't at a wedding, I'd do a HP themed mani!

Anyhow, the other day I decided to try my Icing Mood Swing polish since I hadn't yet and I was wearing a blue outfit!  I was excited to try it because the color is supposed to change with your "mood" but in actuality it really only changes if it's hot or cold outside, hah.  I have their Stormy/Serene polish which appears on the label to turn from light blue/teal to a dark blue/purple:

However, this wasn't really an accurate representation of the colors, but whatever! I'll show some pics and then talk about what I think of the polish:

What it looks like normally..you can see my nail tips are darker than my nails

It's like a unintentional funky french :)

This is the color in hot water

Hot water again

Dark blue in cold water

Cold water again!

Overall, I really ended up liking both colors that this polish changed to.  Since my nails go past the tips of my fingers I kind of thought the darker tips/lighter nail part looked a bit awkward, especially since this polish dries matte.  It grew on my after a little while, though!

I'm still not sure I'm really into the matte polish!  I have Zoya Lolly from their Mod Mattes Collection and haven't tried it for that reason.  Anyway...the formula for this is okay.  It goes on pretty easily, but it looked really streaky going on and made me nervous applying it, but after 3 coats it looked all right.  The brush kind of sucked, though, and I ended up getting it everywhere.  I still think it's a really cool idea and I'm glad I bought it!  Tomorrow I'll show you what I did with it when I got tired of the matte look :)

Wellll that's it for now, have a good one, guys!

<3 Whitney

PS have you tried any of the mood color changing polish?  It's making me want to try my Del Sol polish again, I love how it changes in the sun! 

China Glaze Senorita Bonita! + Some Holo Glitter!

Hey all! Glad Blogger is back up and working properly!  Hope things run a little bit more smooth around here now...

Annyyyway, this week I decided to try Senorita Bonita for the first time!  Right after I took off my ruffian I had it on there for a few days but didn't have time to blog about it.  I postponed it due to Pink Wednesday and now I feel I should update with it!

Senorita Bonita is such an "in your face" purple--my bf loved it, but he likes obnoxiously bright colors sometimes.  I thought my skin tone was a little bit pasty to work it properly, but I think when I'm tan for my best friends wedding next month, I'll bust it out again (their color is purple!).

I believe this is three coats, it went on pretty well!  These pictures are actually after 2 days of wear because there was no sun.  You can tell it's been worn, but the color is still pretty.

Woah tip wear, I should probably start wrapping my tips, whoops.

What do you guys think?  I wanted to try it with the ruffian, too, haha.  I'm addicted now.  I DO like it.  Purple just doesn't look good with my skin sometimes!

Anyway, after a few days I got tired of it and added a glitter on top of it.  I went to Icing (aka Claire's) and bought these two polishes: an awesome silver holo glitter and one of their mood polishes:

Mood Swing Stormy/Serene and Glamorous!

I decided to try the glitter on top of the purple.  This is two coats.  I kind of hate it with the purple base, but it would probably look good on its on or on top of a lighter color:

blurred for holo effectiveness :)

Anyway I hope you all have a great weekend!  My AC broke in my apartment so it's been over 80 in there all week.  We've been having the roughest time getting it fixed, too.  I think we're going to have to deposit our rent with the municipal court, actually--so lame.  I'm really pissed about it.  It got up to 88 last night so I called emergency maintenance and they refused to forward the call and send someone out because it was "only 79 degrees" outside instead of the 80 degrees required for it to be an emergency.  What kind of BS is that?!

Okay.  Done venting!  I'm going to be super busy this week but I hope to get a few posts in!  School's almost over, just about 3 weeks left and I am home free!  And hopefully employed..

<3 Whit

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