Hopefully, everyone has recovered from all their St. Paddy's day endeavors! I snapped a few photos of yesterday's mani and the wonderful gifts I received in the mail!!
For this manicure I did one coat of Rimmel Camouflage with three coats of Nfu-Oh 56. I love the flakies in this manicure. They were a little hard for me to capture in the direct sunlight, but I know you can see those opalescent flakes! Pardon the tip wear, I wore this one all week :)
Here's a macro shot from that same mani.
Here are the lovely giveaway goodies I received this week from Mary over at
Body and Soul. I recently won one of her Friday Follower giveaways and I loooove my prize pack.
I received - California Mango hand care kit
- Orly French Polynesian Travel Kit
- Barielle Rebuilding Nail Protein
- Orly Nail Rescue (So happy I won this!)
- China Glaze Dripping Wet (I'll have swatches for you soon!)
So this was a lovely package to get in the mail. Did you get any goodies in the mail this week?
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Blog Love,
Flakies,
Green,
Nfu-Oh,
Rimmel
Since there is no such thing as too many green polishes, I figure why not post some! Just call me Alan GreenSPAM.
This lovely is Rimmel Camouflage. It's a beautiful green with a golden shimmer to it. The bottle says it'll be good in one coat, but I didn't find that to be the case. This here is two coats! A great St. Patrick's Day color!
Zoya Suvi, is a great blackened deep forest/hunter green. In super dark lighting it can tend to look black, but in the sunlight this polish shows its rich shimmer. This polish does go on sheer, so three coats were completely necessary for me.
Zoya Verushka is one of my all time favorite matte polishes. Its a slightly steely evergreen with fine silver shimmer running all throughout it. This was my go to fall color, but trust me it's not just for fall. Throw a topcoat on this one, please!
Hold onto your balls! Didn't I tell you it would be great?! Simply adding a topcoat transforms this polish to an amazingly sparkly green with tons of shine. I love that I get two very different polishes in one bottle :)
China Glaze's Gussied Up Green is hands down my favorite forest green. Although, similar to Zoya Suvi, I find that Gussied Up Green looks "cleaner" in my opinion. I'm not sure if that makes sense, haha.
Well, from the looks of things I think I need some brighter greens! I've got a few more greens in my collection, but have yet to be photographed. I'll try and post my actual St. Patrick's Day mani later on!
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China Glaze,
Green,
Rimmel,
Shimmer,
Zoya
Since St. Patrick's Day is approaching and green is one of my favorite colors, I figure my blog could use with a green polish. I notice that I've got a lot more blues and purples, but not nearly enough greens as I should.
Welcome to one of my favorite drug store greens. This is two coats of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Emerald City with two coats of Claire's green Chunky Glitter on the ring finger. I liked the idea of an accent nail for this mani and I think it looks fun without all the hassle of glitter removal. I can't say enough about SH Xtreme Wears. They are so worth their little price tag. Claire's also has a few other shades of chunky glitter, but mine only had the blue and green.
So what are your favorite greens?
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Claires,
Glitter,
Green,
Sally Hansen,
Shimmer
Once again I'm attempting to go sans shimmer, glitter and OMGLOOKITHOWSHINY. I will say polishes like the following are making the process far less painful. Today, I bring you a member from the OPI Hong Kong Collection (Say that ten times fast).
Jade is the New Black is a really interesting grayed jade creme, with a slightly dusty quality to it. I haven't seen any other greens out there quite like this one. It applied very well and in my case the second coat smoothed out any trouble spots like magic. It is a little thick, so don't go too crazy with that brush.
So if OPI releases cremes that look like this, I'm sure I'll be fully onboard in no time :)
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Creme,
Green,
OPI,
Spring 2010
This is late, but here is was my Christmas mani, the very famous Emerald Sparkle. This was rereleased this year in the "Love You Snow Much" collection along with a few other polishes. This is the better of the two versions that were released. I don't think I've ever seen the other less sparkled version, so I'll count my blessings.
I can't say enough about China Glaze's nail polishes. Their color selection is fantastic and I've never had any issues with any of them. They put out fun collections and I'm looking forward to seeing what they have on display this year.
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China Glaze,
Green,
Holiday
For this manicure I did one coat of Rimmel Camouflage with three coats of Nfu-Oh 56. I love the flakies in this manicure. They were a little hard for me to capture in the direct sunlight, but I know you can see those opalescent flakes! Pardon the tip wear, I wore this one all week :)
