Whirled Away

Clearly I've been obsessed with sparkles lately :-D  I've bought so many in the last little while that I'm losing count.  I bought this one (China Glaze Whirled Away) on sale at Winners.  I've had my eye on it for a little while but now that I have it, I don't know how much use I'm going to get out of it.  I think this is one where you have to spend some time to place the pieces individually to get a pattern you like .. I didn't do that.

Base - Nicole by OPI Respect the World
Sparkles - China Glaze Whirled Away

Turned up Turquoise

I just realized that I haven't posted in 10 days!  eek!  So here goes...

When I tried China Glaze's Turned up Turquoise I didn't know what I was expecting ... but I can tell you I wasn't expecting this.  Don't get me wrong, I like it. Just not what I expected.  The biggest surprise? .. it's matte!  It didn't say that anywhere on the bottle and all the pictures I saw of it had a top coat on it so I was totally caught off guard.  But hey, if you don't like matte nail polishes, just put a glossy top coat over it and you're good to go.  Here, I used a top coat just on the tips.

The coolest thing about this one? ... it glows a bright green under black light!

Under black light

Shower together

I feel like I'm really behind on my posts!  I've done my nails about 5 times since the last one but I think only two of them are picture worthy.  I've been totally obsessed with sparkles lately!  This, of course, means that I'm going through nail polish remover like a fiend. Kind of a love / hate relationship really.

I bought this blue on impulse thinking that it might be really similar to OPI No room for the blues ... but I was wrong.  It's one of my favourite China Glaze polishes when it comes to how easily it went on.  The sparkles made me happy, they had a blue gel type base with dark blue, light blue/green and purple sparkles.

Base - China Glaze Shower Together
Sparkles - China Glaze Water you waiting for

Easy St.Patty's Day Nails

Let me start by saying that this was not my first crack at St.Patty's day nails, I tried, triangles, clovers, hats, stripes ... everything just looked so crazy!  So I settled on this, a nice simple look that still screams "Hand over that Guinness!!"

Base - China Glaze Tree Hugger
Sparkles - China Glaze Running in Circles

Running in Circles

Soooo ... I went a little overboard.  This started out as an attempt to do something for St.Patty's day ... it ended up with me trying a different pattern on every nail.  In my head it was super cool, in reality a little weird.  I liked the individual patterns though ... which one is your favourite??

Base - China Glaze Running in Circles
Top - OPI Onyx

LEFT HAND:

RIGHT HAND:  (sorry it was hard to not shake the camera when holding it with my left hand)

Happy Polishing!

Double Bogie

Another one of the China Glaze polishes I bought ... China Glaze - Bogie.  Silvery purple and it goes on really well!  I'll probably put a silver print on this tomorrow :-)

Flowers and striping tape

I had to play with this new colour some more ... so I busted out my new Konad plate (m73) and white stamping polish and went at it.  Then some silver striping tape for good measure :-)  I messed it up a little bit but ah well, that's life.

Base: China Glaze - For Audrey
Top: Konad stamping polish in white