Scotch Tape Mani Revamped

 

Same mani as earlier this morning just revamped. I really like this a lot better. Look at the sparkly holoness in that last pic!! This sparkles like crazy in the sun, I love it. So proud of myself :0)

~Dori

Scotch Tape Design

Gooooood morning! Happy Friday to you all! Boy, am I glad that I don't have classes on Friday this quarter. I hate Friday classes and I love me a 3 day weekend on the regular. Today i decided to try something different and very new to me. On the Nail Board there's a lovely MUAer named Ericka who does these absolutely amazing mani designs using scotch tape. She made a scotch tape funky french tutorial a while back that I tried to copy and my lines came out all out of whack. Well a couple days ago she posted a really cool design and tutorial with scotch tape on the board and on her blog and I thought it was so amazing, I just had to give it a shot! On the blue nails I used Zoya Kotori topped with Color Club Sexy Siren. The design nails are Wet N Wild Black Creme topped with Color Club Sexy Siren. Pretty cool, huh!? I think this time I had better success with scotch tape because I used a thicker non-shiny type of scotch tape which adhered better to my nails making crisper, cleaner lines. I quite like this a lot so I think I'm going to have to experiment more with scotch tape nail art designs.

It's Friday; smile!
~Dori

Pink Glitter Gradient

Too early to start the Valentine's Day manis? Not for me!! I used Color Club Lazer Pink as the tip color and then did 4 different layers of Sinful Pinky Glitter in a gradient from the tips to the base of my nails. I wish my nails weren't so stained and that the glitter was a bit more opaque. I didn't turn out exactly how I wanted so I might have to try this again. Yay for Valentine's Day manis!!

It's a warm day in So Cal :0)
~Dori

Christmas Green

Color Club Object of Envy over Zoya Ivanka. I'm not even a fan of green polish but holy crap, I love this! This to me, is exactly what a Christmas green should look like. LOVE.

~Dori

Color Club Magic Attraction

Color Club Magic Attraction is form the Glitter Vixin collection and is a super gorgeous light pink silver holo. The holo in this polish is of the chunkier sort, along the lines of the China Glaze Kaldiscope Collection. There's also random dark rose pink glitter in this polish that helps give off the pink look to this polish. I love this color and how sparkly and eye-catching it is but application was a PITA. This was 3 coats and I had to wait 2-3 minutes between each coat to prevent dragging and gloopyness at the tips since the polish was so thick. Overall though, I love this polish and am so glad I finnaly got my hands on this. I've had a lemming for this polish for almsot a year and I found the whole Glitter Vixin set last week at Ross for $7.99 so I could not resist! Score!!

P.S. Anyone notice at what time I am posting this? ...I have issues.
~Dori

Color Club Enchanted Holiday

Three posts in a day! I'm on a roll! Either that or I don't have a life.. one or the other. Anyways, we only have 11 days left until Christmas so I'm going to try to shove as much Christmas and holiday related stuff into this blog as I possibly can. Here is the mini collection that Color Club released this holiday season entitled Enchanted. The collection consists of Snowflakes, Magic Elf, Wish List Red, and Enchanted Holiday and also came with a sheet of cute little decals.

Snowflakes is a clear base chock-full of medium, small, and micro iridescent glitter. This polish was so thick and goopey I only needed one coat. If my nails weren't so stained, I'd like this as is but since the orangeyness of my nails underneath is a distraction from how gorgeous this polish is, I think I'd prefer this polish layered over something.. a shimmery light blue, purple, or white maybe :)

Magic Elf is a bright shimmery foil lime green with a very strong yellow-gold duochrome flash. This isn't your typical Christmas green which is kinda cool. I really like how foil-y this polish looks but it's pretty sheer and took three coats. I think this would look really pretty layered over a dark green or black.

Wish List Red is a bright Chrsitmasy- red jelly packed with medium sized red glitter. This was opaque in two coats but it does need two thick coats of top coat in order to be smooth otherwise it just looks bumpy, gritty, and doesn't sparkle to its full potential.

Enchanted Holiday is a clear base full of random shaped small and medium sized light gold glitter. I love the different sizes of glitter.. they give this polish a really nice feel. Again like ChG 5 Golden Rings, this gold feels really light and angelic to me.. so pretty for the holiday season. This was two coats and it came out fairly opaque, though 3 coats might have been better. Like Wish List Red, 2 coats of top coat would probably be better than 1 for a smooth finish.
Overall, I really like this set. I think Enchanted Holiday is my favorite followed by Snowflakes. Wish List Red is pretty but there's so many other similar reds out there like ChG Ruby Pumps. As for Magic Elf, it's pretty, just not my cup of tea. I bought this set from TransDesign.

~Dori

My Top 20

So you may or may not be familiar with MUA, the Nail Board, or the Nail Board Top 20 but each Fall we do a Top 20 polish list in which everyone on the board submits their favorite 20 polishes to a NB member and they tally up the votes. Today was the day that the votes and the 2010 NB Top 20 were shared on the board. It becomes a bit of a spam fest on acid where everyone shares what polishes made their top 20 list and so I figured it was reason as good as any to share with you all what made my top 20 list this year. Some of these I have posted on here before (mostly because I was trying to have swatches done to share on the board when I revealed my top 20 list) so hopefully that's not a big deal. Behold, my Top 20:

In no particular order,
China Glaze Fortune Teller

OPI Absolutely Alice

Deborah Lippman Happy Birthday

Color Club Electro Candy

Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

China Glaze Nova

Essie Mint Candy Apple

OPI Dazzled By Gold

Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers

Nfu Oh 52

OPI Smitten With Mittens

China Glaze Emerald Sparkle

OPI Brand New Skates

OPI The Show Must Go On!

China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy

Nfu Oh 51

China Glaze Party Hearty

Del Sol Trick-Or-Treat

OPI Holiday Glow

And last but certainly not least,
Zoya Charla

There you have it. How many of these make up your favorites too?
~Dori