Tri Polish Tuesday#2-Stiletto Heels, Grey, Turquoise and Lavender

Here is my second week effort for Tri-Polish Tuesday. 

I've seen this set up called the V-Gap but I like calling it The Stiletto Gap and the longer your nails, the higher the heel.

Today I am using China Glaze's Turned Up Turquoise, Koco's Set In Stone and Cosmetic's Art's Lavender Foil.

  The Line Up

"no name"by cosmetics arts, Set In Stone by Koco and Turned Up Turquoise by Chine Glaze

Chinese New Year

This is a re-post from The MeadowTree Journal. It was first published on 2/09/13.

It's Chinese New Year and we were going to a celebration event. Something was needed that would go with my Asian inspired blouse that I made last year and my jade jewelry. 

First, I put on a very dark green base. Using a nail brush, I applied double curved lines in gold with space between to lay down a small line of gold glitter between.  Finally, things were top coated with Julep's Freedom topcoat. 

Here's the lineup:

1. The base coat is what I call Green 20 by Cosmetic Arts (middle). Cosmetic Arts does not seem to include names on their bottles. I found this at Ross. From what I read on other blogs, Ross is the only place to find Cosmetic Art polish and it usually sales for $1.99. Forsythe Cosmetic Group, the same company that makes Color Club makes Cosmetic Arts.

2. The double gold lines are from Revlon's Gold Coin 925 (far right). I got this one from Ebay.

3. The glitter is a strange little thing that I found on Ebay also. It smells way to strong and I won't be getting strange polishes off of Ebay again. 

That's it this time around.  Still having way to much fun with this.  Until the next one..........

It's the Year Of The Snake, not my favorite animal, but oh well.....

Had to add this years symbol-Year Of The Horse

August '13 Nail Journal #1-Life After A Broken Nail-10 Polishes Of Fun

August '13 Nail Journal #1

Life After A Severely Broken Nail
Tearing Through The Polishes

The next month with be just single colors. With the exception of foils and metallics,  I add some type of topper if possible. I want to distract from the one nail that is incredible short.

Hashtag from the new Jenna Hipp "What's Hot" mini collection. I love this color. It has a brightness and cleanness about it. 

On day 2 I changed the look up with Color Club's Snowflakes from the 2012 Winter Affair Collection. Snowflakes is a flakie top coat. On top of Hashtag it flashed orange and gold. It did not take a great picture but the look was very nice and I got a few complements. So I guess that the Winter Affair can also be a Summer Fling. 

Jenna Hipp's Freshmaker: again from the new Jenna Hipp "What's Hot"mini collection

Changing it up with a top coat of Nfu-Oh #54-I don't need to talk about Nfu-Oh flakies;don't need to say anything, it's Nfu-Oh

Modern Romance by Essence-part of their Colour & go series. I really like this line. The price is right and the brushes are wonderful. The bottle caps match the polish which is another plus. This particular shade was a bit thin but not bad. Modern Romance is a light peach with a pink shimmer, really quite lovely

Changing it up with Sakura Matsuri by Rainbow Honey. Sakura Matsuri is the namesake of the collection.

This is a base coat of Son Of A Gun, the first Ulta lacquer that I bought (in January-probably something psychological about me picking orange at the beginning of winter.  In the end, it is just a average orange cream.

Changing it up with an OPI vintage classic, Man Of La Mancha.  La Mancha was part of their 2003 Holiday On Broadway collection.
This one is not 3 free. Anything before '04 isn't going to be. 

And I wore two single coats. this first one I needed to do something with but it was the first polish on after I broke the nail and I really wasn't in the mood.  The metallic shimmer needed nothing else. 

And I love this shade by Cosmetic Arts. It's a branch of Color  Club and has no name. In my stash I call it
 #14-Deep Lilac Metallic Shimmer

All of these polishes are cruelty free. The OPI was made before December, 2010.

That's it.