OPI Glacier Bay Blues and Color Club Sugar Plum Yum

 Just a quick post today- but I really wanted to show you the super yumminess that is happening on my nails right now. First up is OPI Glacier Bay Blues which is a deep blue with a very slight dupchrome of purple and green. It is far more present in the bottle than it is on the nail, but it is still very pretty! I managed to buy this recently, and I am so glad to be able to knock it off my wish list. I applied one thin coat and one thicker coat. It can be a little patchy, so if you do thin coats you  might need three. The dry time was good though, so no worries.

You can see the purple a little better in this picture.

After admiring this alone for while, I decided to top it off with Color Club Sugar Plum Yum.

It has different sizes of green and purple glitter  in a clear base.

I love the way this looks over Glacier Bay Blues! It's got more sparkle in real life, and is quite appropriate for the holiday season.

I never used to be a fan of chunkier glitters, but lately I am really enjoying them.

Are you a fan of glitter? If so, what are your favourite types? Ones that are meant to layer over another colour, or ones that are meant to give full coverage? Do you prefer fine or chunky glitter?

 Keep an eye out for new Girly Bits colours, coming soon.

It's been a productive week in the polish lab.

Thanks for looking!!

♥Pam♥

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Color Club Tangerine Scream

Oranges are really hot this summer. Anything from creamsicle orange, to peach, to coral, to hot neon oranges and everything in between.
This is a nearly neon, slightly iridescent orange by Color Club called Tangerine Scream. It's hot, bright and fun. It has a subtle flash of green. It's more apparent in the bottle unfortunately, and on the nail it translates more to a gold flash. Still very pretty. It has a great application but does require 3 coats which is typical of neons, and this also dries a little satiny. Not quite matte, but not shiny.

This is indoors, in natural light with top coat.

Here we go again with the sideways bit. What is up with this?

Anyway, this is outside.

In the sun

And in the shade.

(I am starting to wonder if I have fallen asleep here and I am looking at the monitor crooked.)

And here we have it with  Joe Fresh Matte Topcoat, indoors.

Tangerine Scream is a fun little polish, and for me it has no dupes in my stash.

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

PS, I am going to be away for a few days, but I will have some AWSOME pics for you when I return.

Cheers!

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Color Club What a Shock! Under OPI Blue Shatter

I have really been feelin' the crack lately.
Umm....errr... you know what I mean.
Crackle and Shatter finishes have been very popular this year so far, and more and more are being released.
Today I have Blue Shatter by OPI. It's a very bright blue with a shimmer, but not as much shimmer as the Silver Shatter which is almost a metallic. One of my favourite colour combinations is blue and lime green, so I went with that today.

This is the finished look.

First I applied two coats of Color Club What a Shock! For whatever reason it applied better today than usual. I did use OPI ridge filler as a base, so perhaps that's why? It still had a little bit of cuticle drag but not bad and I was able to get away with two coats.

Then I applied a coat of Seche Vite because with most crackle/shatter polishes you must apply over DRY nail polish. (with the exception of Silver Shatter which seems to crack better over fairly wet polish)

and this is with the blue shatter on top

So summery and bright.

I topped it all off with a thin coat of  Vivid by Color Club. Most shatter polish dries fairly matte, and in my opinion looks nicer with top coat. Plus it flakes off quite easily with out t/c and the bumpier texture of shatters is smoothed out with t/c as well.

Thanks for looking!

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any requests or questions.

♥Pam

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Today's NOTD Color Club Warhol, with design

So I decided to bust out the bright colour today(Color Club Warhol) and I threw a little design on it with OPI Black Shatter and silver and black nail art polish. I am feeling the nail art lately, maybe because of summer? I dunno, but I see lots of nail art in the near future.

This is Color Club Warhol all by herself. It's a bright almost neon fuchsia. It looks a little more berry in this picture than it actually is IRL.  It has a nice smooth application, 2 coats.

Then I added a swipe of OPI Black Shatter to the tips, and next to that a silver line with a nail art polish from Claire's, then silver dots with the same bottle, and lastly a thin black line next to the silver.

The nail art polishes from Claire's are handy because they have a decent brush in them for doing stripes etc.

 

They are semi stiff, so you have decent control and they are medium in thickness. I have a hard time doing really really thin lines with them. Then the cap comes off and there is a pointed end that if you squeeze the bottle a little it makes a perfect dot.

Or you could use a dotting tool, or a ball point pen, or open up a bobby pin and use one of the rubber tipped ends. There are lots of ways to make a home made dotting tool. 

Thanks for looking!

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St. Paddy's Day

For St Paddy's Day this year I simply did a green glitter (Color Club) with an accent nail in a dark green and my attempt at a shamrock.

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