Game Day Nails!

The skins are in the playoffs so... party like it's the Superbowl!  I did some game day nails for the game this afternoon.  This was really fun!

Products Used:

China Glaze Merry Berry

Spoiled Designated Driver

Wet n Wild 449C

China Glaze Electrify

Essie As Gold As It Gets

Milani Jewel FX in Gold

LA Colors Art Deco in White

Green and Gold Winter Holiday Mani

Simple, subtle, lovely!  Like gold decorations on a Christmas tree.  I needed something quick that I could wear to work, and this was it!  I'm loving this deep green- I used a brand I've never used before- something cheap from Target because I was in a hurry.  And I was pleasantly surprised!  The perfect green for what I wanted.

Products Used:

Sonia Kashuk Emerald City

Essie As Gold As It Gets

Orly Ingenue and Alabaster Verve

I recently posted a swatch of Orly's Alabaster Verve.  I don't have a lot of Orly polish in my collection, so when I was at the store I went ahead and got myself three bottles.  I also purchased Ingenue, when was labelled with a little "new" ring around it but really isn't new- it's from the winter/holiday collection.  It is a pink based loaded up with tiny, shimmery gold glitter.  It is also basically identical to a bunch of other polishes floating around, but I don't own any of those and this was on sale so into my bin it went, and onto my fingers.  I love it layered over Alabaster Verve.  This is two coasts AV and one coat of Ingenue with Seche Vite as a top coat.

I'm really not a fan of gold.  I'm much more of a silver/white gold person as far as personal taste goes.  However, my skin tone disagrees- gold looks pretty great on me (if I do say so myself, heeey!).  I love this color with my skin tone!  

Goldfish Scales

Man I went a little buck wild this past week.  I used an amazon giftcard to buy the entire China Glaze Electropop collection, and if that weren't enough, I went to Ulta and bought like 10 more polishes (most on clearance).  It was great!

One of my Ulta purchases was Sally Hansen's Shiny Penny.  I figured I might be able to use it for stamping.  But then I had a better idea... Layer Shine of the Times on top and see what happened.  Can I just say.... it was GLORIOUS.  Subtle, but dazzling under the right conditions.  It reminded me of a goldfish, and I couldn't stop staring at them.  One of my students told me I looked like I had flecks of gold on my fingernails.  I take that as a mark of approval!

What do you think?  Goldfish scales?  Does this look meet your stamp of approval?

Products Used:

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Shiny Penny

Essie Shine of the Times

Orly Space Cadet- Picture Heavy!

I don't really even have words for an introduction, so I will let these (many) photos speak for themselves....

Right?!?!?!  Where do I begin?  There are so many colors here.  There's pink (which was hardest to capture), green, bronze, gold all set in a blue/teal base.  Every time you move your hand you see a different color- or a different shade of a color you knew was there!  It's so cool!

The pictures about show three coats.

Mermaid Nails: Teal and Gold Glitter

I bought these from a local store on sale (buy one get one half off).  The gold is what I really wanted, and the teal was more of an afterthought.  But the more I looked at them together in my basket, the more I thought they looked really great together.  And the more I looked, the more they started to remind me of mermaids!  So I came home and tried it out, and I have to say I love them together.

And on another note, I'm LOVING these big gold hexagonal glitters.  I will DEFINITELY use them again, and if they have them in silver I'm totally getting it next time I hit the store, sale or no sale.

I will probably do this again in the summer, if I ever get myself to the beach.

Products used:

Milani: Pool Party

Milani Jewel FX: Gold