Color Club Charity Ball Stamped

This is one of the polishes I won in a giveaway hosted by Paillette! It's Color Club Charity Ball, three coats.

Sunlight (the sun came out after hiding for a week, yarr!):

I stamped with Revlon Copper Penny and plate m64, rotating the design for each finger as I went. Also, I scraped the plate for the pinkie using a metal scraper but with all the other fingers I used a plastic scraper. It made for a cleaner image. I'm mentioning this because usually a metal scraper usually works better for me. Odd.

Under the lamp:

Something I didn't notice until I was editing the pictures is how orange-brown Charity Ball leans on me than everyone else. Here's a link to Johanna's swatch, hers looks much redder. If I'm not mistaken, this is the exact bottle that she swatched with. Since that made me feel crazy, I took a picture of me holding something else orange-brown to show you (and I'm not trying to hide my pinkie, it's just hard holding a full bottle with four fingers)

 

Vaseline bottle photo courtesy of drugstore.com. See? More orange-brown, not very much red. It's this color in real life as well. So bizarre.

Based on swatches I saw online, I didn't think I would like Charity Ball. It turns out I absolutely love it!  It's really perfect for fall. And it's not a color I would buy for myself so thank you Johanna!!

Funky Drunk French

Argh! I broke the nail on my thumb! This brings the times I've broken a nail to two. First world pain and suffering. I nubbinized everything and now I have an excuse to try something I've wanted to for a while. It's with a french nail design from plate m45 but on the diagonal. This is one coat Rimmel Midnight Blue stamped with Revlon Copper Penny.

Madly rushing today. I thought it was a good day to test a new topcoat, Out the Door. While it dried fast, I'm not happy with the brush marks. Will have to test some more.

Pink Leopard Palate Cleanser

Or maybe pink cheetah. Actually, no clue. I just felt a bit overwhelmed with the bold colors these past weeks. The base is Revlon Lilac Pastelle, 3 coats. It's a light pink with blue undertones. I did not even bother taking a picture by itself because it bubbled a lot.  I stamped with plate m57, and China Glaze Recycle which isn't really a good stamping polish but it works. Then I dotted the spots with Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Diamond.

A thin layer of Diamond seems to be holo, even in low light. Curious. I love studying polishes by way of frankening, and Diamond has now moved its way to the top of that list.

Someone make a polish that looks exactly like the nail prisms label?

Better Together + Not So Blueberry

Okay, I started off with three coats of Essie Better Together, no topcoat. I generally avoid pinks but I love milky polishes.

I stamped with Revlon Not So Blueberry and mash plate m78. The lovely Kris from http://mylucidbubble.blogspot.com/ gave this to me but it doesn't want to photograph correctly so I haven't done a proper post on it yet. x.o

 

For whatever reason, my camera caught the  purple and mild teal duochrome this time. Yay! Oh, that gives me an idea.

 

 No topcoat. I like the contrasting finishes.

Palette Cleanser

Look at what my aunt brought back for me from the Bahamas: rum cake! She didn't buy any bottles of rum though. Methinks her priorities aren't quite right lol. Anyway, it's giving me some ideas for later. Like a more relevantly pirate-themed collection

 

 

And my NOTD. Two coats of New York Color Hint of Mint + Revlon Gold Coin for stamping. The light base really brings out the silver in GC.

By the way, the cake was delicious!

Is this work appropriate?

This is one careful coat of Revlon's Copper Penny, but the middle finger could have used two because I am not always careful. Plus stamping with Sinful's Black on Black using Mash plate m57 and topcoat. Pardon the slight (only 3 hours :(...) tip-wear.

Ahh, but I didn't use a base-coat (I wasn't planning on wearing this as an actual mani) and there was no staining and no chips even after five days!

Anyway, this probably isn't work appropriate but no one noticed (or at least no one said anything) but we were in the middle of launching a new project last week. Though I did get called out for wearing dark blue polish a few months ago. /pout

How do people do this?

I don't mean blog on a regular basis. *snort* I am trying to be better, though. I really am. No, I'm talking about having long nails. I've been growing out my nails and slowly losing my mind at the same time.Anyway, enough whingeing.

Two coats NYC Persistently Putty stamped with Revlon Copper Penny using Mash plate m44.

 

 I know this taupey color has been overdone, but I am not sick of it at all. This one leans a bit more purple in real life.

Rapture Resistent

Hey! Guess who's done with finals! \o/

Oi, okay. I've been procrastinating.

The lovely and mischievous Kris from My Lucid Bubble sent me this. Thank you, Kris!

It's Beach from Revlon and it's scented! Three coats plus topcoat.

I thought it was chartreuse but actually, in most lights it's a cheery metallic yellow.

Technically it's still chartreuse, but it leans much more yellow than I thought.

I had some bubbling issues, but it was so hot and humid, and I shouldn't have been painting my nails near a fan. The formula was surprisingly nice and dried fast. So, how does it smell? Strongly like suntan lotion. Not great... And I am some kind of masochist, because I kept sniffing my fingers every five minutes!

Kris also sent me Not So Blueberry. Which I will swatch and also post my franken attempt, as soon as I figure out how to configure my camera so it can take pictures of purples.

Oh yeah. Monkey asked me to put a GFC option on my blog. Where are my surprised eyebrows? Anyway, I did. :P

Hump Day

I had a crummy weekend. Someone sideswiped my car and drove away. Bah. I hope y'all are having better days!

Anyway, on to nails!

This is Revlon Powder Puff Matte Suede, two coats + two coats Seche (this thing eats TC)

This would have been opaque with one more coat but I couldn't stand the thick and funky texture that was three coats. I hated it so much the first time I swatched it, don't know what possessed me to try again.  Luckily, VNL doesn't really bother me and it turns out I like it in two coats, a lot. Enough that I wore it for four days. I thought it made my nails look like porcelain, heh.

Oh yeah, I remembered why I hated it so much. It took forever to dry. I waited 30 minutes to paint an accent on my ring finger but just ended up smudging it instead. So, I said the hell with the matte finish and threw on TC.


The nice thing though, it has a secret blue flash, but I had a devil of time capturing with the camera.

Reminds me of moonlight reflecting off snow.