Del Sol Heart Breaker

Good morning!Since So Cal is still experiencing warm weather due to the Santa Ana, I decided now would be the perfect time for a color changing polish. Del Sol polishes, as you may or may not be aware, change colors in the sun. They react to UVA and possibly UVB rays and change colors so they look different indoors and outdoors. This is Del Sol Heart Breaker indoors..

And outdoors..

Indoors Heartbreaker is a warm maroon red jelly packed with tons of medium square silver glitter. When outdoors, Heartbreaker turns into a deep burgundy-maroon-plum colored jelly packed with the same silver glitter. I really like the color of Heartbreaker both indoors and outdoors a lot. It's fun yet sophisticated and just too darn fun. I love color changing polishes!

Has anyone else tried Del Sol? What's you favorite from their line?
~Dori

Smoking Hot Goody Plum Drop

Okay, so I like this purple so much that I just couldn't take it off. I decided I had to make this already awesome polish better and what better way to make a polish better then to add glitter on top!!! This is Maybelline Goody Plum Drop topped with one coat of Sinful Smoking Hot. Smoking Hot is exactly what it says... smoking hot. I love this glitter, it's tiny golden and iridescent glitter packed inside a clear base. So sparkly yet delicate and the perfect glitter for Goody Plum Drop :0)

It's a new week; Happy Sunday!
~Dori

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

New Years Eve Mani

 

OPI Dazzled by Gold topped with 2 coats ChG Cleopatra and 2 coats ChG Medallion. Hope you all have a great New Years Eve!

See you in the new year!

~Dori

China Glaze Party Hearty over Maybelline Minty

 

So I know that New Years Eve is literally right around the corner but I'm still in the Christmas mood and I'm still trying to wear my Christmas manis while it still socially acceptable. I was sad at how little I wore Party Hearty. I was really looking forward to this coming out and when I finally got it, I think I only wore it 5 times maybe. I just had to wear it once more before the Christmas season was over. I guess this is my last official Christmas mani of the year cause I tomorrow is NYE and I'm goin for the BLING!!
I have to say, I'm really sad to see the holiday season end. This has always been my favorite time of the year and I'm always sad to see the Christmas/Holiday season end. If it were up to me, it would be December every month :0). I am however very happy to see 2010 go. This has probably been the worst year for my family and I, especially health wise. So on a sad note, the holiday season is almost over and I start school Monday but on a happy note, I'm happy for a new year and a fresh start and I graduate in June! Tomorrow's post will probably be very quick so I want to wish you all a Happy New Year now. Hope you all have fun.. and be safe!

~Dori

OPI Smitten With Mittens

 OPI Smitten With Mittens is from last year's winter Holiday Wishes collection. It's a lot like Dear Santa but a deeper cranberry red as opposed to Dear Santa which is a true red. Smitten With Mittens is has gold fleck glitter which is easy seen in the bottle but looks red on the nail. Love this polish for the holidays. I'm on a red glitter kick right now and this one if one of my all time favorites!

By the way, I'm listening to Christmas music as I write this. Please tell me I'm not the only one who still wants to listen to music after the holiday is over? I think I'll listen to it up until New Years Eve :0)
~Doei

China Glaze Party Hearty

Wanting to wear Party Heaty for Christmas but don't know what to layer it over? I have just a few ideas for you! I didn't end up wearing Party Hearty as much as I had hoped to.. I wanted to try it once alone and once over white, gold, and silver but none of those happened. I do however have some other combo ideas you might like..

Over my White Christmas mani (Orly Gumdrop)

Over Color Club Magic Attraction

Over BI Pretty In Pink

Over Essie Mint Candy Apple

Over Red Holo No Name Snowman
I think my favorite combo was over Color Club Magic Attraction. Hope this gives you a few ideas :)

~Dori

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

It's pouring here in So Cal and I can't sleep at all cause the rain is so loud. I got about 2 terrible hours of sleep and just can't fall back asleep. What better to do when the noisy rain keeps you up all night long?! Blog about nail polish, of course! China Glaze Ruby Pumps. Two coats of gorgeous Christmas red glitter. In real life, this polish is a much darker red but my camera hates reds and refuses to photograph them correctly. I love how the glitter in this polish looks lit from within and like its burning hot coals underneath the surface. As far as red glitters go, this is the original and possibly still the best there is out there. A must own if you're a polish lover and perfect for Christmas! :0)

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

Zoya Ivanka

This polish is so hard to photograph!.. Especially on a dark, cloudy, rainy day.Zoya Ivanka is from this past summer's Sparkle collection. The is a true medium green (reminds me of $$$... maybe it's names after Ivanka Trump??) that has a gold duochrome to it. I love this. It sparkles, it shimmers, it has a bit of a foil look to it too... and even though it came out in the summer and it looks like a summer color to me, it looks like Christmas to me too! Yesterday I got a dozen compliments on my nails at work. I think this polish has gotten more compliments than any other nail polish I've worn in a very long time. Winner winner chicken dinner!!

~Dori

Christmas Snowman

Hello readers! Any of you own any of these cute lil snowmen polishes from Rite Aid?.. the ones by Blue Cross? Well none of the colors really appealed to me but the bottles are too gosh darn cute to pass up so I had to get at least one and this frosty red snowman with tiny holo glitter was the lucky winner that got to come home with me!

And to make him even more festive I added China Glaze Party Heart on top! Woop woop!

A Christmas party on my nails? Yes please!!

~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

Christmas Nails

Can you believe there's only a week left until Christmas?! By this time next next week I will be sitting under my tree with my family opening gifts. Or possibly we'll still be eating our prefect Christmas breakfast (now that we're all adults my mom insists that Christmas morning breakfast come before presents, not after) consisting of the most amazing glazed upside down sticky buns (I'll make sure to share pictures!!) and Lil' Smokies. Yum, yum, yum!! But with only one week left until Christmas, I'm scrambling to crank out as many Christmas manis as possible. Christmas only comes once a year, and since I'm a huge fan of the season, I want to go all out in every way possible.. including nails! Here's my Christmas nails for today, I was going to wait to show them tomorrow but I'm too excited about them to resist! I got off work late last night and stayed up til 1:00 doing these. I think my lack of sleep was worth it :0)

Left hand: Santa's Hat, Gingerbread Man, Christmas Tree, Candy Cane

Right Hand: Ice Skate, Christmas Present, Rudolph, Snowman

And for my thumbs I was at a bit of a loss as to what to do, so I just put China Glaze Party Hearty on top!

I actually really like how Party Hearty looks over Color Club Magic Attraction (the base color I used here), I think I'm gonna have to do a full mani like this.. it's so sparkly and festive and I love how every color glitter in Party Hearty shows up over Magic Attraction. What other colors do you all like Party Hearty over? Anyone else do any fun Christmas nail art?

Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!
~Dori