Christmas 2014: Gliterring Holiday Abstracts

Hey lacquer ladies,

I should be giving you all a lot more holiday nail art now that December has started and I promise I will starting today.  Lol I have been a touch distracted by all the neons and watermarbles.  Hehe! I will bring you a few more posts like that as well, but let's kick off the holiday season with my first mani directed at Christmas though it is totally non traditional.  Go figure ;)  I love glitter and I love holographics.  This that sparkle and glimmer are what the holiday is all about at least for me so today I created something just that.  So sparkly you can't look away...

Wallpaperings...On Sundays I Stamp!

Happy Sunday polished prisoners,

I hope your weekends have been going well and the Thanksgiving plans are flowing.  I've been having a pleasant weekend myself - good weather, good company, good food, and good news.  So who am I to complain?  I know several of the ladies over in the AIS group were excited for today's challenge which is simply matte i.e. some aspect of our manicure must include matte polish or topcoat.  Hmm I was on a fench about this because while I do love matte polishes and Essie's deliciously awesome matte topcoat no inspiration was forthcoming.  So I decided to return to one of my old loves - nudes and wallpaper.  I think this one was a winning combo...

Mani-louge

Base & Topcoats: CND Stickey, Poshe Fast Drying Topcoat, and Essie Matte About You

Base color: OPI Berlin There Done That

Glitter accent: Lynnderella Change

Stamping polishes: China Glaze Passion and Konad Special Polish in Black

Stamping plate: Dashica XL SdP 3

I left two nails shiny and the rest matte notice how cG Passion stays bold nube or matte. One more reason to love this polish ;)

Let's do a quick rundown shall we?  First, I am loving everything about OPI's Germany Collection. These colors are rich and Berlin There Done That was opaque in ONE COAT!! You all know how friggin excited I get whenever I run across one coaters because it makes nail art so much easier it also means this elegant lady probably stamps beautifully.  So win all around :)  Second, I haven't touched my Lynns in a while.  Honestly I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them, but I bought them and truth be told I love them.  So change made and appearance and it's gorgeous both matte and glossy!  Third and final, I love the Dashica plates and recently I unbelievably won the Like and Share giveaway from Shirley.  So I had to pull out my Dashica plates, the first plates I've ever purchased internationally, in anticipation of my set to come!

So here we are - it's Sunday, the weathers relatively fine, I've got gorgeous wallpaper nails though I may be biased, and things are relatively good in my world.  I'm wishing all my readers a happy Sunday and let me say thanks to everyone for sticking with my tiny and slow little blog.  I'm really enjoying my nail art these days.  Toodles...

Red Carpet Lacquer's Toro Meets Lynnderella's Connect the Dots and Very Pretty Vampire

Hey lacquer ladies,

In the brief intermission between my last post a slew of indie polish orders hit my door.  Most have been a delicious dream come true.  Others a tad more frustrating but I'll leave that discussion for a later post.  I will say this now.  Glitter polishes are dangerous - to both my budget and my nail art designs.  Some of these polishes are so pretty I can't think of how to add extra beauty to them or I dare not because they are so badass all I can do is stare.  Heehee...now onto the mani.  Red Carpet Lacquer created Toro - a shimmering red microglitter base with red squares and bars this is intermixed to a much lesser degree with white and black bar and hex glitter.  It is the maker's homage to Bring It On. Eep cheerleaders - still cute though!

For me Toro is what happens when red meets Lynndrella's CTD's i.e. a lacquerheads wet dream ok ok maybe this lacquerhead's wet dream.  Alas - maybe it was because the polish bottle was so full so it couldn't be mixed to it's full potential or because the ratio of white and black glitter to red wasn't quite what I expected.  However that was nothing a little additional layering of CTD couldn't handle.  When I did I thought I'd died and gone to polish heaven - sparkly sparkly or in the words of my friend Steve - just too cool! I also wanted one unique nail so I made a sandwich which Sally Hansen's Cardinal as a base color (btw's this is the base color for this entire mani) followed by Lynnderella's Very Pretty Vampire followed by a swipe of Toro.  Yum Yum Yum.   Spam please?  Oh yes....

Talk about Sunday bloody Sunday!

I don't know about you ladies but I could definitely be inspired to do some running with the bulls after meeting Toro! This mani would be so clutch for a bloody Valantine's Day or a cult Holloween kinda thing.  Love these polishes to bits and pieces - you can check out Red Carpet Lacquer here and Lynnderella polishes can be gotten at Llarowe though she is currently not accepting wishlists, but in my opinion she is definitely worth the wait.

Lynnderella Forget You Not and Connect The Dots Layering + Paisley Nail Art

Hello my lil' lacquer lovers,

Okay if you don't know who Lynnderella is as a polish fanatic you may have just been living under a rock...a large one.  A while ago I spoke about how disappointed I was not to be able to make her blog sale and missed out on some serious awesomesauce.  Then Miss Lynn decided to stop selling her polishes via her blog because her amazing one woman show just couldn't keep up with organizing the sales, shipping etc and creating the polishes too.  So she decided to leave the distributing to Ilarowe. Unfortunately, I still wasn't able to get my hands on the polishes and so I submitted a wishlist and just decided to wait and see if a poli-racle (polish miracle lol) would happen.  And then it did 23 of them to be exact and finally finally I was able to get my hands on some Connect the Dots (CTD) along with many others!

There is no justice done to this color indoors - light truly makes all the difference in term of hue of the SH and demensionality of FYN.

 I started out with Sally Hansen's Pacific Blue.  I could post just about this polish - the color is sick sick sick!  So pretty it makes me want to paint my nails over and over again.  The application smooth and dreamy. What more could I ask for?  Uh clearly some layering magic and so I thought Lynnderella Forget You Not would look perfect over this.  It has purple/grey hex glitter with a fine purple and blue microglitter in a purpley sheer base.  However I still felt it needed some spice.  You can blame that on my cornbread loving southern roots after all I'm always looking for a little spice!  I immediately reached for a holy grail polish - Lynderella's CTD's.  Again a single layer and it was love.  I got a bit persnickety and bored a few days later so of course I added some stamping in Konad Special white using my Dashica SdP A plate.

I cannot get over this blue - killing me seriously!

Stamp, stamp, stamp!

Purrty...

To those ladies still hesitating over Lynnderella polishes or waiting because they are pretty hard to attain don't give up hope!  Ilarowe will be accepting wishlists again soon and will also be randomly placing them on the website unannounced for ordering.  Either way you can still get your hands on these lovely polishes without spending a fortune attempting to get them elsewhere (ahem Evilbay).  Personally my wishlist is far from fulfilled as there were several that weren't available when my wishlist came through, but I'm hoping to eventually get all of the one's my polish loving heart aspires to own :)  Thanks for reading and please let me know what you thought!