Happy Halloween!

Here's my Halloween manicure

Index finger: color club (the orange from the take wing collection) with a skull stamped with black creme. The rest is black creme with Orly's Monster Mash layered over it. 

Ring is from Target. 

My mom is an enabler

Today I have Lilac Quartz from Avon's Brushed Metals collection. 

I visited my mom this weekend and this little gem was waiting for me! 

It is so pretty. It's a lilac-y silver color with a decent amount of texture. In the sun, this really shines. The formula on this was really easy to work with and it dried super quickly. I did not use a topcoat as I wanted the texture to be seen in all its glory!

Photos!

Clever name

Today I'm wearing Maybelline Color Show nail stickers in Metal Prisms. I think they could have come up with a more clever name, but that's just my opinion. 

I got these at Big Lots for $1. I think these stickers retail for about $7 or so. I have never tried "stickers" before. I've only tried the real nail polish strips. 

The first thing I noticed was the smell was very plasticky, unlike polish strips, which smell like, well, polish. In fact, the ingredients are adhesive type ingredients. 

I'm interested to see how these wear. 

Absolutely Afflorable!

Sorry I've been MIA for a while. I have been really busy - I know, excuses, excuses!

I actually had this on my nails a couple of weeks ago - I'm so behind on taking photos of my nails and stuff. This is Sally Hansen Salon Effects in Afflorable. I picked this up at Big Lots for $1. It lasted super long - for me anyway- it was about a week or so. For me, anything that lasts longer than a day or two is awesome because I tend to have peelie nails. I really liked this and got several comments (even one from my boss - who is awesome!)

On to the photos:

No flash

Flash

I know it's not Groundhog Day, but...

We are having our annual Outer Circle Groundhog Club picnic tomorrow. It's something the club does to get together and have a good time and raise money and supplies for the local humane society. So, I did special nails for the picnic.  I think they came out ok, but I'm a perfectionist, so I think they could be better. 

If you're curious about the club itself, we have a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theoutercirclegroundhogclub 

Fuzzy nails!

Helloooo! Today I'm rocking fuzzy nails! This is Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat in All Yarned Up. I hate that the name of this polish ends in a prepositional phrase, but I do like the polish itself.

For the photos below I used 3 (I think) coats of the fuzzy over Sally Hansen CSM's Iced Coffee. Not sure I needed the base color, but I like it.

All Yarned Up is made of teeny bar glitter that is matte in a clear base. The colors of the glitter are orange, blue and yellow. I know some folks have a love/hate relationship with bar glitter, but personally I love it. This went on amazingly well over my base color. You get a good amount of glitter on the brush with minimal effort. I did use a topcoat just to keep those little fuzzies at bay.

At first I tried using the fuzzy over orange and yellow, but you couldn't see the orange or yellow glitter, which is why I went with a neutral base. I'm really happy with the results of this mani! Yay!

China Glaze Hologram in Don't be a Luna-tic

I'm wearing China Glaze's Don't be a Luna-tic on my nails today. I am so in love with holographic colors. This is from the Hologram collection released this past spring. It is so pretty in natural sunlight. Not sure if my photos did it justice or not. I don't think so, even though, I took lots of them. They are all taken outside in the sunshine. 

 

I used 3 coats and no topcoat for this manicure.

Does anyone else have an obsession with holographic colors?