Can't see the snowman for the trees


Here's another quick look I did for Christmas.  I had some issues with the topcoat dragging the stamping on this one. Not sure if that's because the lines were so delicate or if I just didn't wait long enough to apply. But it was a fun sparkly look anyway!

Colors Used:
China Glaze Winter Holly 
Moyou London White
Stamp by Moyou London: Scandi plate 01 

I want candy...


This was a quick holiday look I put together! It literally took about ten minutes and it was so much fun for Christmas. :)

Colors Used:
China Glaze Winter Berry and Fairy Dust
Stamp by Moyou London

Swatch of the Day Round-up; Week 3



So I've kind of made the executive decision that on Sunday's I'm going to take a break from the Swatch of the Day. I have this round up post and then I also only have six slots to put pictures in AND it gives me a chance to show off new collections or artwork or whatever. So there will still be content to see it just won't be part of the swatch of the day.  It should make it a lot easier to figure out how to do the round-up posts!  Anyway this week I did a whole week of China Glaze and didn't add any other brands. Mostly this is because, having stumbled upon a polish which is not even pictured here, I remembered how much I absolutely LOVED the Capitol Colors collection and I decided to go through them again. So three of my seven this week are from that collection and next week will likely be a whole week of them. Anyway here we go! 


On Sunday we went all the way back to 2011 for this gem from the Metro Collection. I had (possibly still have) quite a few from that collection and I remember it being a really nice release. But this one has sat mostly untried for YEARS. It's a shame too because it's just gorgeous. A deep burgundy base with gold and coppery flecks of glitter throughout. It's stunning matte as well (you can catch it bothw ways on my Ista!). 


On Monday I showed you Winter Berry. This color comes from the 2011 Holiday collection.  It's a pretty berry toned red cream.  I'm not a huge fan of reds in general but this one is a little more pink leaning and looked great on my skin tone.


On Tuesday we stayed with the Christmas polishes and I showed you this absolute STUNNER Winter Holly which was from their 2012 Holiday collection.  It's a gorgeous green full coverage micro glitter with gold glitter throughout. 


Wednesday, with Christmas over I wanted to step away from the reds and greens so I grabbed this polish, also from the Metro collection. It's called Brownstone and it's pretty obvious why. It's a terracotta brick shade and I don't love it honestly. I probably bought it just to round out the collection and I'm not sure I've ever used it (I may have though). It's nice but not my thing.


Thursday I picked up Riveting, a magical glass fleck orange from the Capitol Colors collection. I really despise oranges and I always forget how drop dead gorgeous this one is.  It's really amazing and it looks like your nails are lit from within.  I didn't even want to take it off!  But all good things come to an end and on Friday...


...we continued swatching the Capitol Colors with Fast Track.  This one is a neutral base with some gold glass flecks through it.  I always think this one is going to be so pretty on me and then when I swatch it my skin tone magically makes it into blech.  It's still pretty but it starts to lean more tan/yellowy on my skin. I also have to say that when press originally started coming out about this collection the names given and the inspirations behind them were NOT the districts. This color, for example was listed as Cat Nip and it was meant to be a nod to Katniss. Which I can somewhat see (and somewhat not because what a blah color for a revolutionary).  I don't get this AT ALL for a transportation district. Riveting, by the way was originally called Fire in Flight and was inspired by the Mockingjay. Anyway...


So we arrive at Saturday and we're STILL swatching Capitol Colors. This one is Foie Gras. It's a gorgeous mink brown cream.  This one is representing District 10 which is the livestock district and I can get behind that. I mean it's brown. Foie gras is brown. It makes some sense. This one was originally a nod to Gale, and called Rebel. Which actually makes less sense than livestock so...it's hit or miss on them. lol. Anyway that's the weekly roundup! I won't be doing a swatch of the day today so that way next week we have six and they'll all fit neatly into my roundup frame and I won't have to worry about squeezing another one in somehow. :)  Which color from this week was your favorite?

Fast women, fast cars, fast...food?



Here's a fun design I did with some Zoya's and a Moyou London plate. I'm working on using my plates a little more intricately because sometimes it's nice to just pop on a quick stamp and be done but if you have a little more time there is a world of awesome things that can be done with stamping. These are somewhat hurried and not as neat as I'd have liked but I had fun with them anyway! 

Colors used: 

All colors are by Zoya:
Molly, Ling, Jill, and Delia

Moyou plate:
Cookbook 06 

Life's a beach...


Here's a fun design I did forever ago! I'm still dreaming of sandy beaches and crashing waves. Winter is great and all but the coming new year always gets me thinking about new adventures and travels! How about you?

Colors used:
Zoya Cala and Mallory
MoYou White Knight
MoYou Scandi Collection 01
Seche Vite

In the dark of the night...


Who loves starry winter night skies and midnight snow storms? Well...maybe not the snow storms, at least if I have to work the next day. ðŸ˜‚😂 But here's a pretty design with stars and snow over a nice deep black base anyway.

Colors used:
China Glaze Maliboo-boo and Zoya snow white

Turks and Cai-quoise


Now that Christmas is over, is it too early to start thinking about tropical vacations? 😂 This was a pretty quick water marble done over China Glaze Kinetic Candy. I used China Glaze Liquid Leather for the black and OPI Goldeneye for the gold. Marbling seems to be tricky on shorter nails since there isn't as much space to get a great design but overall I liked the way these turned out! 

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