Zoya Summertime

Here is the other half of the Zoya Summer 2011 collection, Summertime. This is a six piece collection featuring cremes.

The polish was two coater in all of the pictures. Had VNL issues with the red ones, but mainly not too terrible. Formula was stellar. I love Zoya although their price tag could go down a little bit more. 🙂

Love Areej! Such a nice take on the Pantone 2011 Color of the Year: Honeysuckle color.

 Areej, a very strong fuchsia.

This is a bit darker in real life. My camera, and the uploading process washed it out 😦

 Breezi, an interesting blue. Almost teal, almost periwinkle. I looked this color up and it seems to match Munsel Blue, according to Wikipedia’s list of color drops (the little blue square above).

Very dark fuchsia creme.

Great purple creme, this photo shows a bit too purple. It’s a lot more “pastel” (washed out) than the photo showing.

 Sooki is a very cool cherry red. It’s the perfect red creme! I don’t LOVE this because the name reminds me of that horrible Snooki from Jersey Shore and I can’t stand her. 😦

Tamsen is a much warmer red– you can see it has a lot more orange than its sister Sooki above. Dark tomato red. It leans a lot towards the orange side than Sooki, who leans towards cherry. 

Love these cremes… I could do without the two reds though. How about a green? 😉 

I also want to see Zoya name their polish after some REAL women, not these vapid beings that you see on trashy, brain-cell-slaughtering TV shows. =\

A Challenge From Nick

Create a manicure based on this!

Challenge accepted, I said:

Here it is! 😉 But to keep the authenticity of the inspiration, I mattified it all down and the final product (viz., what I have on my nails now) would be this:

Base: Orly Cashmere Cardigan (it pulls too blue in this picture though, it’s a lot more periwinkle and purpley)
Black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree? freehanded
Stamp: Konad M64 with Icing by Claire’s Sterling Silver

A Challenge From Nick

Create a manicure based on this!

Challenge accepted, I said:

Here it is! 😉 But to keep the authenticity of the inspiration, I mattified it all down and the final product (viz., what I have on my nails now) would be this:

Base: Orly Cashmere Cardigan (it pulls too blue in this picture though, it’s a lot more periwinkle and purpley)
Black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree? freehanded
Stamp: Konad M64 with Icing by Claire’s Sterling Silver

a-england Camelot

Base color: a-england Camelot
Stamping color: Sally Hansen Chrome in Lilac Sapphire
Bundle Monster plate

a-england Camelot

Base color: a-england Camelot
Stamping color: Sally Hansen Chrome in Lilac Sapphire
Bundle Monster plate

Another spam

Had a frustrating week. But most of it is done. Behind in my blogging, sorry about that! I have 29 followers and I feel so excited that people outside my family and friends are reading my blog!

Here, have spam. (not the canned kind).

Zoya Crystal, a dupe to the OPI Reflecting Pool.

THIS IS GORG. It’s got gold flecks in it, and even in dark it will reflect what little light there is and make me look like I have gold nails. Love it.

China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint, a gorgeous pastel light minty green. 

Stamping color: Sally Hansen Chrome in Cinnamon Diamond

Konad Plate

Aside from the slight smearing by topcoats, this was a great mani– it looked like easter eggs on my nails!

Butter London British Racing Green, with Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure layered over.

BRG is a gorgeous dark green with a visible shimmer in the bottle but when I applied it, it looked like hunter green and there was no shimmer (at least none that I could capture on the camera. D:)

Color Club Love ’em Leave ’em

Taupe “holographic” (it’s really very very scattered. I couldn’t get a linear going)

I present to you my favorite look of all this spam. 

Base color: Color Club Ms. Socialite (gorgeous purple. I totes love it.)

Tip and accent color: OPI Show it & Glow it (from their burlesque collection, a fuchsia glitter)

Striping black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree?

Tips were freehanded

 Zoya Mitzi for base (a neon green matte)

China Glaze Crackle in Fault Line

China Glaze from their Tronica collection

Stamped with a BP fauxnad, with CG Snow.

Another spam

Had a frustrating week. But most of it is done. Behind in my blogging, sorry about that! I have 29 followers and I feel so excited that people outside my family and friends are reading my blog!

Here, have spam. (not the canned kind).

Zoya Crystal, a dupe to the OPI Reflecting Pool.

THIS IS GORG. It’s got gold flecks in it, and even in dark it will reflect what little light there is and make me look like I have gold nails. Love it.

China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint, a gorgeous pastel light minty green. 

Stamping color: Sally Hansen Chrome in Cinnamon Diamond

Konad Plate

Aside from the slight smearing by topcoats, this was a great mani– it looked like easter eggs on my nails!

Butter London British Racing Green, with Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure layered over.

BRG is a gorgeous dark green with a visible shimmer in the bottle but when I applied it, it looked like hunter green and there was no shimmer (at least none that I could capture on the camera. D:)

Color Club Love ’em Leave ’em

Taupe “holographic” (it’s really very very scattered. I couldn’t get a linear going)

I present to you my favorite look of all this spam. 

Base color: Color Club Ms. Socialite (gorgeous purple. I totes love it.)

Tip and accent color: OPI Show it & Glow it (from their burlesque collection, a fuchsia glitter)

Striping black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree?

Tips were freehanded

 Zoya Mitzi for base (a neon green matte)

China Glaze Crackle in Fault Line

China Glaze from their Tronica collection

Stamped with a BP fauxnad, with CG Snow.

Going out with a bang…

This is the last of my scheduled posts, and the last of my manicures. I decided to go out with a bang and experiment with sponging, a technique I have not really fully mastered. But I love it! I think I made a mistake picking such a herpes-tastic glitter. 😦 It was so hard to clean up, and you can still see some residue in the following photos. I apologize!

I began with a base color from Avon, also in my haul recently. This is Luxe Lavender, a very beautiful pale lilac. In love, I am.

I sponged Milani Purple Gleam on the tips and stamped with Sally Hansen Chrome in Black Pearl, with Konad M60. Inside the flowers are bullion beads from a Bundle Monster nail art package.

Here comes pic spam!

Topped off with Seche Vite, of course.
I am almost done with  my first bottle, wow… But it makes sense, I do other people’s nails and finish it off with SV, and a friend comes over and uses some of it too so that’s why it would go so quickly.

This is hands down one of my most favorite manicures EVAR.

Going out with a bang…

This is the last of my scheduled posts, and the last of my manicures. I decided to go out with a bang and experiment with sponging, a technique I have not really fully mastered. But I love it! I think I made a mistake picking such a herpes-tastic glitter. 😦 It was so hard to clean up, and you can still see some residue in the following photos. I apologize!

I began with a base color from Avon, also in my haul recently. This is Luxe Lavender, a very beautiful pale lilac. In love, I am.

I sponged Milani Purple Gleam on the tips and stamped with Sally Hansen Chrome in Black Pearl, with Konad M60. Inside the flowers are bullion beads from a Bundle Monster nail art package.

Here comes pic spam!

Topped off with Seche Vite, of course.
I am almost done with  my first bottle, wow… But it makes sense, I do other people’s nails and finish it off with SV, and a friend comes over and uses some of it too so that’s why it would go so quickly.

This is hands down one of my most favorite manicures EVAR.

Pastel Hearts :)

I was inspired by Emerald Sparkled’s look, and created something similar.

Sorry for the crap photo quality, but this is the most color accurate photo I could get of Essie Turquoise & Caicos, a color that my camera insists is blue. But my Flip camera sees otherwise!

 

This is okay, but not spot on.

I painted on Essie Lapis of Luxury and Essie Turquoise & Caicos, skittle style first. Then I painted the other color on the base using a little paint brush. 🙂