China Glaze Blue Years Eve

Hey Guys! Long time no post..okay, it was like 5 days, but it feel like ageeeeeees. Today I have for you something that has been loitering in my Helmer just waiting for the right time to put on, China Glaze Blue Years Eve. Today I had a study day today, so yesterday I asked my colleague (and surrogate mother) what color I should wear today, she voted blue or green. Since I was wearing electric blue pants today, out came the electric blue polish. On a side note, I went for a hit and run shopping today, electric blue is so trending right now, it was everywhere!

 China Glaze Blue Years Eve, with China Glaze Adore stamping and Enchanted Polish Blue Freeze on ring finger

 Blue Years Eve is a gorgeous electric blue shard polish that is made of micro flecks of blue, to give this such an interesting depth!

 Enchanted Polish Blue Freeze is much more gorgeous in real life!

 Blue Years Eve has a light blue sheen in certain lights

Electric Blue goodness! Love :)

This was 2 coats of China Glaze Blue Years Eve, it applied lovely albeit it a bit thin. Didn't make it hard to work with though. China Glaze Adore stamps wonderfully and contrasted well, and Enchanted Polish Blue Freeze was flecky and blingy in the light. So hard to capture of course! My pants were this exact color, so I felt very co-ordinated. Not sure it helped me focus on my Respiratory Care course..but it certainly made me happy!

2 more work days until my holidays start.. can't wait!

Austism Awareness Day- China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic with stamping!

Argh! I am late with my Autism Awareness Day post..but I swear I was wearing this on the actual AA Day...and for Autism Awareness Day we are going blue! Some of us are doing a month of blue, some a week..I will be doing a Blue as much as I can but probably once a week unless I get super inspired. So please check next week for another gorgeous shade of blue :) So which blue did I kick off my Autism Awareness ? I couldn't decided but China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic called to me and so this is what I started with. I wanted to incorporate the puzzle logo of the Autism Society as they represent the mystery and complexity of the autism spectrum.

 China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic with China Glaze Bahamian Escape stamping and Enchanted Polish Freeze Machine glitter accent

 Rodeo Fanatic is gorgeous!

I stamped with puzzle pieces and colored in a few to make it pretty :)

 The mani has a variety of colors in different lights and Rodeo Fanatic has a duochromey finish.

 The glitter of Freeze Machine also had a duochrome effect in the light!

I really loved how this turned out...interesting enough to catch the eye but not overwhelming. I good start on the spectrum of blue :) Now,there is also an awesome blue polish auction in the pipeworks with many awesome contributors of indie polish babes donating to raising funds by auctioning one off custom blue polishes of awesomeness! You can check out this super awesome fund raising and the growing contributors at Paint It Blue! Custom blues for Autism.

Essie Penny Talk with Enchanted Polish Tummy Time

Hellooooo...this post is going to be a straight forward one. Work tonight was crazy..it's true what they say about full moon and medical things going mental!  Metallic polish plus Glitter Polish equals a lovely blingy mani. This is how I particularly like my pedicures..it gives the polish a bit more depth and dimension. Today I paired Penny Talk with Enchanted Polish Tummy time..and here is the result. Warning..too many pics because I couldn't decide. Also, I mattified this look in some of the photos, can you tell the difference??

Partial Sun

 Shade with light reflected, gorgeous rose copper!

 Full Shade

 Macro- mattified :)

 Full Sun

 You have to love a holo heart! 

Mattified!

Alrighty then. First of all what do you think of the combo? I had this on my nails and my mother asked for the same polish with an accent nail of the same glitter, LOL. The difference between the original finsh and Matte top coat was.. negligible really. It took the sheen off the brassiness of the polish slightly, but didn't significantly alter the glitter that I could tell! I will say the more I wear Essie Penny Talk, the more I love the color. Enchanted Polish Tummy Time was a great glitter topper. It's an intriguing combo of red micro glitters, black shards, holo hexes, holo bar glitters and holo heart and stars. *whew* The holo heart required a little bit of fishing but otherwise it was easy application.

Are you bored of Essie Penny Talk yet?? Should I keep going or just move along to a different polish? :)

Enchanted Polish Awesomeness with Glitter and Stamping

Awesomeness is a purple holo polish from Enchanted Polish that I popped into my cart on impulse from Llarowe and last week my polish arrived. It has been sitting on my kitchen table begging me to try it and I know I wanted to..so today is Awesomeness' lucky day, I loves me some purple and holo..and to top it all off I am itching to stamp up a storm so without much ado here is the results!

Awesomeness without and with flash 

Awesomeness without and with flash

Awesomeness with top coat, without and with flash. The polish has morphed from a vibrant purple to a more bluish purple with the Seche Vite top coat and lost some of the holo :( The polish just seemed to soak up the Seche. Not quite what I expected!

So, on with the stamping goodness and various glitter accessories. I wanted to just play around with different finishes and this is what I used.

L-R, Lush Lacquer Hottie Tottie, China Glaze Agent Lavender, Essense It's Purplicious, Girly Bits Hocus Pocus.

 Left Hand Stamping and accent glitter

Pointer Finger - China Glaze Agent Lavender stamping, China Glaze Jade-d dotting and Seche top coat.

Middle Finger - Essence It's Purplicious, Seche top coat

Ring Finger - China Glaze Agent Lavender stamping, no top coat

Little Finger - China Glaze Agent Lavender stamping, no top coat

Left Thumb

Thumb - China Glaze Agent Lavender topped with Girly Bits Hocus Pocus and Seche top coat

Right hand Stamping

Pointer Finger - Awesomeness with 1 coat Agent Lavender, Seche top coat then stamping with China Glaze Agent Lavender and glitter dots with China Glaze Jade-d.

Middle Finger - Awesomness with 3 coats of China Glaze Agent Lavender, Seche top coat, then stamping with Awesomeness

Ring Finger - Awesomness with 2 coats China Glaze Agent Lavender then stamping with China Glaze Agent Lavender, China Glaze Jade-d accent glitter.

Little Finger - Awesomness on it's own! :)

Right Thumb

Thumb -  Awesomeness with Lush Lacquer Hottie Tottie

Left and Right Hand overall appearance.

As you can see, the more Seche top coat I applied, the darker Awesomeness got, it literally soaked up the other polish. I applied China Glaze Agent Lavender to my right pointer, index and ring fingers in different coats as I knew this was going to absorbed somewhat as well and wanted to try an ombre of sorts with the two polishes. I think the various shades of purple looked pretty good :) Awesomeness also stamps nicely, it's just a shame it that a top coat alters the original purple loveliness. 

What do you guys think? Do you have Awesomeness, do you love it? :)