Spring Flowers

 

I feel like I'm jumping the gun a little bit getting all geared up for Spring when it's still January but it's hard not to when its 80  and tank top, shorts, and flip flops weather. This mani is one that I did for my friend Rochelle. You may remember I featured another mani of her's last week on the blog. Well I've sucked her into the nail polish world and obsessed and she was so thrilled to be featured on the blog last week, I decided to do it again :0). This was three coats of Milani Hi-Red from last year's Spring 3D Holographic collection. She wanted flowers on top so I free handed three daisies using OPI Alpine snow as the petals and China Glaze Lemon Fizz and the center on her ring fingers as accent nails. Very cute and very Spring like. :0)

Smile!

~Dori

Winter Snow

I really wanted to do these nails before Christmas but I was always crunched on time and had a red vibe going on so I figured I could put these off until after Christmas. I used 3 coats of Sally Hansen Lavender Envy (I got this polish as a Christmas present 3 years ago from my bff and unfortunately it's been long discontinued), 1 coat China Glaze Fairy Dust, and I used China Glaze Millennium as the snowflakes. The rhinestones are Lamour Crystal AB (Aurora Borealis) Rhinestones that I got from a Nail Polish Beauty store.

Brrrr, it's cold outside!
~Dori

OPI Show It & Glow It

Happy Friday! I'm on a glitter kick lately!! Today I have for you OPI Show It & Glow It from this year's Winter/Holiday Burlesque. Show It & Glow It is a clear base filled with tones of glitter. The majority of the glitter is fuchsia purple followed by purple but there's also a bit of green ,orange, red yellow and blue. It took three coats for this polish to be opaque and get rid of any VNL (visible nail line). I really like this color a lot. When the Burlesque collection first came out I was completely underwhelmed because I felt like since there were so many glitters, OPI had aimed for quantity rather than quality when it came to making the glitters. Well I ended up with half the collection (this, Simmer & Shimmer, and the Tiny Burlesques) and I'm not disappointed so far. Yay for glitter during the holidays!!!

Hope you have a great Friday!

~Dori

OPI Merry Midnight

OPI Merry Midnight is from last year's Holiday Wishes Collection. Merry Midnight is a deep warm plum purple jelly with red opalescent flakies as well as smaller crushed red/blue/silver micro-flakie-glitter. This polish rocks. It's definitely not a traditional Christmas color but every time I look at this I can't help but think "..as visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.." :0)

~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

Nfu Oh 52

Quick post right before I take my last final! Nfu Oh 52 is a deep purple jelly with light blue flakies. 3 coats. Very pretty. Sorry for the quick post, my final starts in exactly 21 minutes so I'm off.

Happy Hump Day!
~Dori

Nfu Oh 51

How was everyone's Thanksgiving and Black Friday? My meal was amazing and I scored some sales that I'm pretty happy about. $225 pea coat for $62?!? Yes please!! Today I have on Nfuh Oh 51. Yes, the beloved 51. It's gorgeous and shimmery and flakie and squooshie and breath taking. I don't even like purple polish but I'm obsessed with this one. 51 is a purple fuschia jelly with pink flakies. It's a little hard to tell in pictures, but the polish actually looks purple-blue on the tips because of VNL (visible nail line) so if VNL annoys you, you'd probably be better off layering this polish over a similar color. Nonetheless, this is a gorgeous polish and a must-have for any flakie love.

~Dori