Can we all agree that Color Club Cloud 9 is holo perfection in a bottle?  Sadly, this is my only holo polish, but after hearing news that Color Club released new colors, I am quickly going to change that.  After seeing other swatches online of the new China Glaze holos, and old swatches of Layla holos, I feel as if the Color Club ones have the strongest effect.

Cloud 9 is a gorgeous light lavender polish, reason I was attracted to it in the first place.  I'm a lover for purples and blues, so it was a tough decision picking just one.  Since my collection was lacking lavenders, I went for this one.  As you can see, the holo shows up magnificently.  The application of the polish was a dream as well.  This manicure was done using 3 coats, but you could get away with two.

My only issue with Color Club is the bottle itself.  I like the square shape and all, but I hate that handle.  It's not because I hate it when I'm polishing, I hate it when I'm trying to open my polish.  It always gets stuck!!  No matter what I do, each and every time it is stuck.  I had a bottle of Factory Girl which was my favorite sky blue polish, and I couldn't use it for about 8 months because I could not get it open.  I ended up buying those rubber bottle opener things from Bed, Bath, and Beyond and I was able to get it open again, but seriously  it's impossible.  Hurts my poor lil hand trying.  Anyone else have that issue?

What do you think?  Love the holo, hate the holo?

I ended up doing a tape manicure with these and I will be showing you all after Valentine's Day!!!  They looked better in person than they did in the photos, but regardless, I'll be sharing!  See you soon, and wish me luck on my thesis!

For this manicure, I used one coat of each polish, and now that I look at the picture, it really looks like I used more.  I wouldn't really thank the Ulta polish for this, even though that polish has amazing coverage.  All the credit goes to the gorgeous Moonstone, which sadly I could not get to properly photograph! 

Application was perfect.  Since it is frosty, if you don't apply it perfectly straight you could have ended up with a crooked brush stroke look, but I really didn't see that as a huge issue.  The formula was great, that over this one coat of Snow White, I only needed one coat.  On the naked nail, to get full coverage, all you need is two coats.

As stated before, moonstone is a gorgeous, frosty white polish, which makes your nails look like pearls.  Depending on the light, it has a really pretty subtle pink shimmer.  Now that I look closely at the first picture, you can see the pink shimmer!  If you angle it in a different way, it turns kind of blue-ish.  Despite the fact it was so simple, I was in love with it!  I wore it for a day with no nail art, then sadly ruined it trying to attempt some.  I was really depressed and wished I wore it plain for days.  I can't wait to use it again

What do you think?  Love the frosty white look?  Have any Lustre Shines?  Ready for Nemo??

Hope to bring you some nail art next post!  I think I can make that happen as I did an awesome holo tape manicure last night.  Then I have some Valentines Day nails which I'm going to save for the awful day.  Just have to edit all them. blech. 

Until then, <3.

Okay, maybe they weren't as horrible as I thought.  To get these nails, I first started out with a base coat of Pink Blink and Miss Conduct.  Pink Blink is a very pretty pastel pink polish.  I love using it for nail art, although for painting a base I found it a tad difficult to use.  It wasn't the brush itself, or the application, but what happened when I was applying it.  Let me start off by saying, I love the shape of the brush, it is U shaped so it fits right up against the cuticle and with one or two swipes you get full coverage.  What I disliked was how the polish dripped down the stick part of the brush then onto the brush, and then flooded my nail.  I think if the stick part wasn't flat and square this wouldn't happen.  Then when you have such a thin lil neck on the bottle, you can't really rub much excess polish off.  Despite this, I love the polish.  It's worth it when you're working with an amazing formula.

And well, I love Orly Miss Conduct.  Perfect pink polish with holo glitter.  Gosh, I loved it.  When the bases were dried, with a dotting tool, I added the hearts and the leopard spots.  With my nail art brush, I outlined all the spots with black and filled in some of the blank areas.

Now time for Kylie's masterpiece!

Cute, right??  Amazing talent this lil chica has.  I love her bigger hearts.  Mine disappeared into the leopard, while hers stood out which I like.  The colors Kylie used were Zoya - Dana, Loreal - Penthouse Pink, and Black Acrylic Paint.  Maybe I need to start using acrylics?  hmmm.  

Have you tried this design?  Like Kylie's nails?  Like my nails?  Had that issue with the Sally Hansen brush I had?

Slowly I'm getting into the Valentines Day spirit through my nail art.  I still hate the holiday, nothing will change that, and I cannot wait for the 15th!  For all you lovely followers though, I shall continue to put on some Valentines Day nail art.  Do you have any suggestions?  I'd love to hear!

Until next time <3

Now we all know me, I dislike a few things in this lil nail polish blog-o-sphere.  Those things are, simple manicures (on me only, on others they look amazing and for me I freak), water marbling, and tape manicures.  After this manicure, I believe we can take tape manicures off that list.

In the past, whenever I've attempted tape mani's, I would use scotch tape.  Each and every single time I attempted to use scotch tape, I would rip off a could portion of the base coat, or the stupid polish would sneak under the tape.  I became extremely jealous of all the other girls who could successfully do a scotch tape manicure.

I received some nail art tape from the Born Pretty Store to review.  I was iffy about it due to my past with scotch tape, but I was quick to see it was a totally different experience.  And now, I am in LOVE with tape manicures!!!

For this manicure, I was inspired by a gradient laser tape manicure I saw over at Chalkboard Nails.  Instead of using the same colors Sarah used, I decided to go all pink since Valentines Day is right around the corner.  Despite my hate for the holiday, I thought I would be festive, especially for you followers.  Let's see what I came up with using my new tape!

Love, love, love!  To get this look, I started with a base coat of Ulta Snow White.  I believe that this is my new favorite white polish.  For this manicure, I used only white coat on the base.  Typically I use 2 for full coverage, but for some reason, when I applied one coat this time I did have full coverage.  

Since I only used one coat, I decided to skip a layer of Out the Door and waited five minutes for the white polish to dry.  When dried, I took four pieces of nail art tape and placed them on the nail in different directions.  It is easiest to do this one nail at a time.  I could not imagine having tape on all my nails then attempting a gradient.

Once the tape was applied, I took my make up sponge and painted my colors on and dabbed it onto a paper plate.  After a few dabs, I dabbed the sponge onto my nail.  When the gradient had completely covered the nail, I quickly removed the tape.  I waited a few seconds, then added some Out the Door.  Bing, bang, boom, took a bit of time, but in the end it was worth it.  Love.

I'm in love with this tape.  To me it was super easy to use!  It didn't stick onto the nail so much that it ripped off the paint base, and it wasn't not sticky enough that it didn't want to stick.  My only complaint was that I kept losing the end of the tape!!  When you have wet nails, this can be a problem!  I decided to pre-cut all my strips of tape before.  Actually, I used about 12 little pieces all together.  I was lucky to be able to use the same pieces numerous times.  Maybe because I was doing a gradient and not as much paint was getting onto the top of the tape?  Who knows.