SoFlaJo Champagne Cocktail!

I love SoFlaJo and her stinkin' cute collections! 

The one I have to show you ladies today is from her Happy Hour Collection!  It's a beautiful silver glitter holographic polish called Champagne Cocktail!  She sells on her blog site and on Etsy, so check her out!

Wowowowow!  I love this!  Champagne Cocktail is an AWESOME silver holographic polish filled with various sized silver bar and hex holographic glitters!  So unique! 

You could easily layer this polish over another to give it a pretty holographic feel, or it goes on opaque in three coats!  The formula is thinner than many other frankens I've purchased, but I really liked it!  And it comes with a great wide brush for easy application!  I'm in love! 

You can purchase Champagne Cocktail, full sized, here for $10 plus SH!  And I definitely recommend checking out Jody's other polishes! 

<3 Whitney

Pure Ice Crackle Duo!

Gooood morning my pretties!  I hope you all had a good Easter holiday weekend!  I know I did, I got to go home and see my family, it was great :)

I've got a cool polish duo for you today that I was sent to review!  It's a polish + crackle duo from Pure Ice called Pure Ice Lightning Crackle Duo!

First up is the base polish, a lovely, but unnamed, green duochrome/metallic! 

I was really surprised with the formula of Pure Ice, which I hadn't tried before.  Sometimes the cheaper drug store brand polishes have crap formulas, but this one was actually good!  It went on opaque in two coats (but I used three for pictures), and was actually very pretty.   I love the dark green and it's got an ever-so-slight duochrome to it and sometimes looks quite teal.  Overall, very pretty!

On top I layered the lightning crackle:

This polish cracked quite easily, but I wish that it cracked...larger cracks so you could see the green a little more!  I think the silver kind of overpowers the pretty green! Maybe thinner coats could correct this problem, though, it'd been a while since I used a crackle polish!

However, I really do like the look of silver crackle.  I never received the OPI Silver Shatter that I won in someone's giveaway (bummer!), so I was kind of psyched to try this.  I think it'd look great over other colors as well!

Have you guys tried any of the Pure Ice polish duos?  I haven't seen them in stores, but then again, I haven't been in Walmart for a while--and to my knowledge, that's the only place they sell Pure Ice!  Correct me if I'm wrong, though, ladies :)

Hope you enjoyed!

<3 Whitney

OPI DS Coronation!

Sooooo DS Coronation has been on my wish list for the longest time and I was lucky to receive it in a Secret Valentine's Day swap I did with some ladies in a Facebook group I'm in. 

Initially I put it on and I wasn't as excited as I thought I'd be, but once I got in the light and sun, it was awesome!  I wore this on my plane ride when I went out of town for work, and it was ridiculously holo in the lights on the airplane for some reason (I need to get me some of those things).

I seriously couldn't take a bad picture of this polish.  Check it out!

I couldn't capture the scattered holo of this polish very well, you can see it kind of in the first and last pictures if you blow them up.  If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the Sally Hansen Nail Prism Diamond is a dupe for this polish!  I've pulled up their pics side by side and they look pretty similar, Diamond may be a bit darker than Coronation, but I haven't swatched them next to each other.  Regardless, I'm happy to have both in case I run out of one :) 

DS Coronation went on smooth in 2 coats and I love how it sparkled enough to pull me out of my winter blues for a few days :)  Have you guys tried this DS polish?  Which one is your fav?

<3 Whitney

30 Day Challenge Day 7! Color Club De-Luxe-Cious!

So this is the first day of my original challenge! Are any of you ladies doing polish challenges?

I picked silver nails for day 7! Now, I have plenty of foils and glitters, so I thought I'd try something new.

I bought Color Club's De-Luxe-Cious quite a while ago and never tried it even though I loved it in the bottle. It's got a blue-ish/gun metal gray with silver holo shimmers in it. LOVE! I tried to wear it on it's own but it is pretty transparent, so I did two coats of Sally Hansen Midnight Sky (Which I'll do a whole post on later!):

I love this by itself

And thennnn I added two coats of De-Luxe-Cious on top and got a wonderful combination:

I broke both my ring-finger nail and my poor pinkie...ugh so ugly :/

Blurred so you can see the glitter effect

I really loved this polish.  I can't believe I only have one Color Club, hah!  I would like to try it by itself again with maybe 3 or 4 coats and see how opaque I could get it to look...or maybe add one coat over black!  It's just so pretty in the sun.

Has anyone else tried this polish?  Did you LOVE it?!

<3 Whitney

Happy 4th of July!! Fireworks mani :)

Happy Independence Day!

The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays.  I love the summer air, cookouts, and nothing is better than fireworks!  It's just a happy holiday!

I spent a long time thinking about what I should do with my nails and when I decided on fireworks I tested out a couple of ideas on a nail wheel.  They all looked the same except with a different background color and since I have issues with being symmetrical, I didn't skittle the background colors haha.

This is how the final look turned out:

Anyhow here's a little walk through on how I did it! First, I decided on silver and used Sally Hansen Celeb City for the background (PS sorry for indoor, bad lighting pictures!):

I used an Art Club nail art polish to make red fireworks.  It was pretty difficult to work with, actually!  To get curved lines was annoying...my right hand looks a lot worse, haha.  But oh well!

 
On the ends of the fireworks, I added dots of China Glaze Ruby Pumps with a dotting tool just to give it a bit of sparkle on the ends.  I think used Funky Fingers 220 Volts for blue fireworks using a dotting tool:

After the blue fireworks were done I added a bit of Funky Fingers Curacao + Sand and Stilettos to dot on the ends of the blue fireworks to give those some glitter as well.  To top it all off I dotted some white randomly with the white Art Club polish I have and put on a top coat.

And that is that!  It turned out quite a bit sloppier than I hoped it would, but that's okay.  I kind of like it and it's festive so it's all good!  I tried some nail art a couple of days ago that turned out much better but you'll have to wait until Thursday to see it :)

Hope you guys all have a GREAT 4th of July!

<3 Whitney

G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S!

Ooh I know I said I'd update last night but I had to work on a last minute paper and then I needed to get to bed early for some interview stuffs this morning.

So I'm in DC, can't remember if I told you guys, and after I got in yesterday I hit up Pentagon City mall and went on a polish hunt!  Didn't really find anything except two glitter polishes from Icing.  Actually one of them was one of the Charlie Sheen polishes called Epic Winning (blue holo glitter) and the other was one called Gimme Some Glitter (pink glitter).  I'll probably use them for giveaways so I'll just post pics of them at a later date.  Trace at the TraceFace Philes just posted a whole entry about the Charlie Sheen polishes so check her out if you're curious!!

Anyway, so I think I found the most fabulous polish I have.  It's another polish from Icing called Glamorous.  I actually initially went into Icing yesterday to pick up another one of these for a giveaway but they didn't have anymore!  I'll have to check back in Ohio.  Anyway, it's a FABULOUS rainbow holographic glitter polish. 

My pictures do NOT capture this fabulous polish in it's entirety and the pictures actually make it look a little more transparent than it is in person.  However, after three coats of this stuff it's so glittery you can't even see through the shine to your nail :)

Outside where my camera failed miserably to see this wonderful holo

Caught a bit of it

Indoors with flash gets it a little better

Someone told me (I think Fiona) that you can take better pictures of neon polishes underwater, so I tried that with this.  You can kind of see the rainbow under water!

I'm pretty disappointed that I couldn't capture this well...but if you have an Icing in your area you should RUN, don't walk, there as soon as possible and pick this up, I promise you won't regret it!  And cosmetics there are buy 1 get 1 half off!!   Three coats made this polish insanely awesome.

I swatched most of my polishes on some nail wheels I bought the other day and when I swatched my crackles I used three coats of Glamorous for my base with OPI Black Shatter!  I loved it so much I decided to do a full mani of it.

 It looked awesome in the sunlight!  I didn't wear a top coat with this because I knew I only was wearing it for a day since it's not interview appropriate!  I desperately wish I would've put on a top coat in between the glitter and the shatter, though!  When I tried to take the glitter off by itself it was so rough it tore up my remover pads.  It was like I was rubbing them on concrete!  Glitter is hard enough to get off as it is because it gets everywhere, but this was just insane!  It didn't make me love it any less, though :)

Since I mentioned it, here is the swatch of most my glitter polishes (and some others), Glamorous is #18:

 

If you can't read my handwriting:

1) Wet n Wild Sparked

2) Ice Pinky Moon (someone told me this was a dupe of KleanColor, I would say yes it is, 100%)

3) LA Girl Head Bangin'

4) Color Club De-luxe-ious

5) Sally Hansen Celeb City (Looks an awful lot like ORLY Shine!)

6) Funky Fingers Down to Earth

7) Astral Lights Glow in the dark polish

8) DragonRhia franken!

9) DragonRhia franken!

10) DragonRhia franken!

11) NY Summer Royal Blue Glitter (Future giveaway!)

12) NY Summer Fuschia Glitter

13) NY Summer Multi Glitter (Future giveaway!)

14) Ulta Pinata-yada-yada

15) Funky Finger Sand and Stilettos

16) Funky Fingers Golden Coast

17) Funky Fingers Baby Baby Baby

18) Icing Glamorous

I was THRILLED with how the Funky Fingers came out.  Sand & Stilettos and Glamorous look similar in this picture but in person you can see some differences.  Sand and Stilettos is a much finer glitter size-wise but I think the holo in Glamorous is better.  I'll swatch them side by side on my nails in the future!

WELL lovelies, I won't be able to post again until Thursday after my final!  Then I'm done with school forever!  Weee :)  Have a great next couple of days!!

<3 Whitney