nail polish whoo!

Ah, nail polish, how much I love thee. So much so that I made a separate tab for "nail polish" on my blog's home page. So colorful and sparkly... which not-so-coincidentally are my two favorite qualities in... anything! I've amassed quite a collection of glittery nail polishes. Too many, maybe?

Anyway, here are pictures of super-pretty nail polish colors on my not-as-pretty fingers!

China Glaze Blue Paradise, Girly Bits Cosmic Ocean, China Glaze Techno

KBShimmer Oh Splat!

OPI Cosmo-not Tonight Honey and KBShimmer Clown Puke

Hm... looking at these pictures makes me realize how short my pinky is in comparison to my other fingers. Weird. In an attempt to achieve a balance between enthusiast and crazed hoarder, I've been giving away some of my unused polishes to my friends. I don't know if it works that well when you keep buying nail polish, though.

Not really sure where you can find the China Glaze and OPI colors (I bought these years ago), but KBShimmer polishes are available on their website. And I buy most of my indie nail polishes like Girly Bits from Llarowe.

finger thingies!

I've been having some fun with painting my nails with crazy glittery polish lately. As you can clearly see.

After seriously stalking looking at some nail polish blogs (guys, there are blogs solely dedicated to nail polish... and they all have perfect nails! How do they do this???), I purchased a few different brands and colors. Y'know, for market research purposes! I took some pictures, too. I hear that's what bloggers do. Take pictures of silly stuff.

So, let's see... I guess I should share which colors I'm wearing, yeah?

Top: OPI Casino Royale (the plummy color!), and KBShimmer Showgirl.
Middle: KBShimmer Clown Puke over OPI Cosmo-Not Tonight Honey
Bottom: China Glaze It's a Trap-eze! over China Glaze Aquadelic 

challenge day two

I'm behind, as expected. So here's the day 2 challenge - orange nails! I was so excited about taking pictures with my new camera that I forgot to clean up the manicure. Whoops. I added stars to my thumb. The manicure was inspired by Flyers colors for the game today! Except they lost... womp womp. I guess they're saving their energy for the playoffs that start next week!

These little stars are my favorites to add to manicures! I need to be careful not to use all of them too quickly! I purchased them from Born Pretty. They have a ton of nail art tools - stamping plates, gems... everything you might possibly need. 

That's it for now!

the hungry asian strawberry

The first challenge is red nails! I did one layer of a base coat (OPI Start to Finish), one layer of China Glaze Poinsettia, then one layer of The Hungry Asian Strawberry. It's such a fun red polish with really fine black glitter to mimic its namesake fruit. The lovely Kae from The Hungry Asian makes her own nail polishes! She has better swatches, too, so go check her blog. My camera refused to photograph the glitter for some reason, so I had to use my iPhone... not that it's much better!

Here's the whole schedule, if you'd like to do it as well!

I realize the challenge is supposed to be completed in 31 days, but I just don't have the time (or patience) to do a new nail color or design each day. I'm going to bend the rules a bit and do the 31 manicures at a snail's my own pace.

china glaze omg

I'm wearing China Glaze OMG right now - it's a really fun holographic polish that I bought a few years ago and have kept in my ever-growing stash of polishes. I want to try nail art (pondering on whether to buy stamps and mini rhinestones/beads right now), so I'm going to attempt a 31 day/manicure challenge I found on Emerald Sparkled!

In thinking about what sort of stuff I want to post about from now on, I've come up with a few categories and silly names to keep me organized. So there's the "nailed" category for nail polish. I'll share the other names with you when I actually getting around to posting about those categories!