Color Club

The One With the Easter Collaboration With The Nail Art Squad

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world, and Happy Easter!  I can't believe Easter is already here.  Where is the year going!?  Although, Easter is usually in April so I guess in my mind we are further a long in the year than we really are.  Oh well.

Today I am part of an Easter collaboration with The Nail Art Squad!  We all decided to do white nails decorated like Easter Eggs.  I'm not a fan of Easter egg nail art on my own nails because I think my nails are too squatty for it, so I tried to think of something a little outside of the box for today.

I've been dying to use my Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons since I purchased them a few weeks ago, and I figured today would be a great day for this...especially for Easter Egg art.  I decided to go with a splatter design, which looked awesome but WOULD NOT PHOTOGRAPH.  Sigh.  I seriously only got one workable photo of this manicure.  Someone needs to give me lessons on photographing pastels because I stink at it.

Oh well, let's take a look at my manicure....my one photo of my manicure.


Colors Used:
  • Color Club Neon Pastel Poptastic
You can see how awesome the splatter looked, just not clearly.  Ugh.  So upsetting when something doesn't photograph right.  I think the reason for this was because of the white background.  I probably should have used My Boyfriend Scales Walls which is a not-so-bright white and maybe it would have shown up better.  Oh well....too late now.  Regardless, I love these pastel neons and can't wait to use them more!

Here's the photo of all the lovely ladies who collaborated this time around!



Now all of The Nail Art Squad didn't post this time around, but if you are interested to see who is in our little group, take a look at the list below!  We will be doing monthly, or maybe even bi-monthly depending on what's going on, collaborations!

I hope everyone has an AMAZING Easter with their family and friends.  Let's not forget the real reason for today.  I am beyond thankful and blessed that Christ died for my sins and I am able to celebrate this day.

Until next time, <3.

Holiday

The One With the St. Patrick's Day Collaboration

9:00:00 AM

Nothing to Disclose

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!  Hope you all are decked out in green and your nails are extremely festive!  You can guarantee mine are as are the ladies in The Nail Art Squad!  Every month (or maybe more) I am going to be posting along side a group of wonderful bloggers as part of an Instagram collaboration.  I posted with these ladies for New Years and Valentine's Day, and this past month we decided to become an official little group and give ourselves a name.  Now we are The Nail Art Squad.  Thanks to our fearless leader Sarah of 25_SweetPea for gathering us together for this!

Today I am re-creating a design I did on one of my resident's nails.  She wanted something green with a shamrock.  Easy peasy.  Her middle nail I did orange, and well on mine I did gold because I decided this year I wasn't going to do any rainbow/pot of gold manicures for St. Patrick's Day.  I went with a holo polish to incorporate a rainbow....which I think works....right??

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • ILNP - 1 UP
  • ILNP - Clockwork
  • Orly - White Tips
  • Zoya - Maria Luisa
Oh my goodness gracious....1 Up is the most gorgeous green polish I have every laid my eyes on.  Barbara really hit a home run with this one!  Such a gorgeous concentrated peridot green polish with a strong holo effect.  Two coats and done.  Inside people are commenting on the sparkle and holo.  I have always wanted a birthstone shade polish, and this is perfect.  I'll be using it again in August!

Clockwork is just as gorgeous.  I actually bought this polish after seeing Sarah's manicure using it.  A gorgeous bronze gold flakie with holo throughout.  I honestly thought the holo was going to be hidden because of the metallic flakes, but it is just as amazing.  Two coats, pure perfection.



I always forget how gorgeous Zoya Maria Luisa is.  A small gold flaked flakie....just very dainty.  I used it one other time for a Bestie Twin Nail with Fashion Footing and vowed to use it more than never did.  It was super separated when I pulled it out of my Melmer, but it came together quickly.

I can't stop staring at the holo in that last photo.  I'm just amazed by it!!!  The color, the holo, just everything.  LOVE

What do you think?  Lover of ILNP holos?

Have a great St. Patrick's Day!! <3

Nail Collab

The One With the Valentine's Day Instagram Collab

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!  How are you all doing today?  It's Valentine's Day so we all know how happy I am.  NOT!  Cannot wait until tomorrow where I can sit and enjoy the Grammy's and act like this day never happened!  Seriously, this is the first Sunday in forever that the Grammy's aren't on.  Did they purposely move it to the 15th because of Valentine's Day?

Today I am participating in an Instagram Valentine's Day collaboration.  I figured this would force me to actually create and post a manicure for today.  So I came up with something I really do think is extremely Valentine's Day and only lasted a full day on my nails before I took it off.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Zoya - Rooney
  • Zoya - Livingston
  • Zoya - Tomoko

I will admit, Zoya has some perfect Valentine's Day colors with these polishes.  I have owned Rooney for awhile and I'm shocked I don't use it more.  It's such a pretty shade of pink which applies perfectly in two coats.  I might ignore it for the next month or so to forget the fact it was a good polish for today, but I will return to it.  Maybe in the summer time!

Tomoko is my all time favorite Pixie Dust polish which can be used year round.  It's such a pretty champagne gold color and it sparkles quite nicely.  Two coats plus a top coat for my manicure today.  You can leave it without a topper and it's still just as sparkly.


For my design, I used the polish brush of Rooney and created the heart on my nails.  When that was dried, I went through with Livingston and created a smaller heart.  It's pretty much the same technique  I use to do the cloud designs, which I haven't done in a long long time!

What do you think?  Fan of this look?  Something you think you might try next year?

Until next time, <3.

China Glaze

Neon Rainbow Nail Collab 2015!

9:00:00 AM


Good morning polished world!!  How are you all today??  I'm doing fabulously because as you all know, it is FRIDAY!  I feel like all Friday's are holidays.  Especially after long work weeks....and this one was one of those.

Today I am super excited to be part of my first Instagram Collaboration.  Amber, from Nails Like Lace, hosts random collaborations throughout the course of the year.  Dozens upon dozens of girls participate and share their manicures and Amber puts them together in an awesome collage.  Every time I see the collab announcement, I forget or run out of time to create a design.  When Amber announced this round, I was beyond thrilled that I actually had a manicure on my hands that would be perfect!

This collaborations theme is Neon Rainbow!  You know me, I love all things neon, and after buying all the China Glaze Electric Nights polishes, everything was neon.  I was itching to do a gradient with them so I got to work and did this awesome rainbow design.

Let's take a look!




Colors Used:
  • Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
  • Orly - Glowstick
  • China Glaze - Glow With the Flow
  • China Glaze - DJ Blew My Mind
Yes, you are seeing that right, I only used three polishes to get this awesome gradient design!!!  For my pointer and pinkie, I blended Glowstick with Glow With the Flow.  The yellow and pink blended together to create an orange in the middle.  For the next nail, I used Glow With the Flow along with DJ Blew My Mind, which created an awesome purple color.  The last finger was created using DJ Blew My Mind and Glowstick which created a green color.  I think that is my favorite nail.  Okay who am I kidding, they all are my favorite.



For my top coat, I used FingerPaints new Gel Like Top coat.  I am a devout fan of INM Out the Door, but this...this top coat is to DIE for!!!!  I'm not going to lie, I was iffy about using it.  I don't have good luck with non-fast dry top coats.  This top coat though dried BEYOND shinny and dried pretty quickly.  Not as fast as my Out the Door, but not too long that I felt inconvenienced.  It was a little thicker than most top coats, but that didn't effect anything.  The wear time was three days.  I was going to keep them on longer, but you know me, I get bored with my manicures fast.

Long story short, this top coat is a keeper!

What do you think?  Fan of this design?  Love the rainbow collab?

 Check out the collage below which features so many other lovely artists!


I loved being part of this and cannot wait for the next!

Until next time , <3.