Starry Night Sky-July's HPB's Nail Link Up

Welcome to July's Hobby Polish Blogger's Nail Challenge Link UP. This months theme is Starry Night Sky. Rather than do something realistic, I tried to go with an abstract feeling of a night sky. 

It ended up being a tad more complicated that I originally intended. I used six different colors and kept doing different combos on a nail wheel, until I found something that I thought really worked. And I made sure I used my two polishes that were named Starry Night. 

The first three photos are just poses with a few of the polishes I used. After that, there are step by steps.

The Steps

Step 1-Not wanting a purely black sky, I first put on a couple of coats of CrowsToes' Minion.

Step 2-Next came on coat of Sinful Color's Starry Night.

Step 3-I had seen were people had painted areas when doing a Galaxy mani (although I wasn't really after that) and with a brush added a few wispy lines with Orly's Platinum.

Step 4-I decided to punch up the sparkle and added one think coat of Wet N' Wild's Hallucinate.

Step 5-Using a large dotting tool I used Starry Night by Glitzology. Glitzology is no longer in existence but she made heavy duty glitter bombs when she was. There's star glitter in here and some got on my nails, which was O.K. by me.

Step 6-Using a smaller dotting tool I made lots of small dots using Zoya's Tomoko, a Pixie Dust.

And there you have it. Here's my Nailie that I took.  

Well, that's it for me this time around. But as I mentioned earlier, I am taking part in The Hobby Polish Blogger's group link-up. This is a great group of bloggers on Facebook that are very supportive and always are willing to give help to other bloggers. So check some of their art out below.

So until next time, take care and shine on!

Terri


 

An InLinkz Link-up

Gradient Using Crows Toes

Hello Everyone, We are halfway through the week and I hope everyone is smiling and probably at this point making plans for the weekend!

Today, I have a gradient that I did earlier in the week with two Crow Toes' polishes. I won these in a huge Indie action over a year ago and finally decided it was time.

Minion and L'il Miss Cyanide were released about two years ago (in different collections). The are still available through Llarowe which shows you their staying power and popularity.


I first painted my nails with L'il Miss Cyanide. This is a medium violet that shifts to green to a golden yellow. 

After painting around my nails with Jolie's Liquid Latex, I sponged on Minion. This also is a shifter. I read that it shifts from purple to green, but I didn't see that so much. What I saw was a deep blue violet to a purple violet. Minion also has flakies that show up nicely.

And here is a macro.

That's it for today. I am starting to love gradations. Jolie's latex makes them so easy.  Does anyone else do gradations just for the fun of it?

Take care,

Sherbert Fizz, Tiquilla Sunrise, And Happi!

These three polishes just sounded like they wanted to be together! So, I am closing out my Summer with some deep vibrant pinks.

POLISH NOTES

Crowstoe's Tequila Sunrise

Tequila Sunrise was part of Crowstoe's springTHIS collection from Spring '13. I also featured another polish from this collection in an earlier post (Green Thumb Of Doom).

Tequila Sunrise is a bright, bright pink that is loaded with color changing shimmer. It is mainly gold but can shift from pink to green in different light. And does it shimmer! It is a three season polish and can still be found at retailers.
But be warned, Llarowe says they only have 1 left. 




Zoya's Happi

This is a great name for this polish. Happi is a duochrome that changes from pink to gold. The gold is really noticeable. The photo above shows the great gold color change.

Duochromes are my favorite kind of polishes and I think I have all of Zoya's. They don't make many, so it wasn't hard.
Being Zoya, they keep their polishes in the line up for a very long time and it can be found on their Internet Site.

Ciaté's Sherbet Fizz

Sherbert Fizz is what I would call a Crelly. It is a coral/pink red which makes it comfortable in this curated post. It has a pearlescent finish and is a very different polish than the other two. I used two coats, but you can still see a nail line. Probably three would be a good bet.

If you shop the Marshalls/TJ Maxx stores, keep your eyes peeled for Ciaté polishes. They are starting to get a few and are $5.99 verses the $15 that Sephora charges. They are the older colors, but Ciaté is such a good product, I will take any color at $6!

Mixing One Of My Frankens For A Simple Nail Design.

I was experimenting with a pink sheer polish with glitter at the beginning of the summer. I used it to make a wider stripe down the center of each nail. I then painted a pink that I had (never heard of the company. I think I got it at the Dollar Store last summer) on either side. The look is very subtle, but worked for me. I wore it a few days.

Well, that is it for this time. Until the next time, Take Care...............Terri

Light And Bright Summer Greens

Before Summer was over I wanted to wear and get in some beautiful light and bright greens.

POLISH NOTES

Cult Nail's Thrive

 Thrive was part of Cult Nail's Spring Radiance collection this past spring. Cult Nails had some fabulous sales this summer and I made sure I picked Thrive up. This is a light mint green with teal shimmer. On top of that it has a slight texture and dries to a waxed finish. For me, it is a classic Cult Nail look and I love it. It can still be purchased at the Cult Nail website. 

Rescue Beauty Lounge's Fire Queen

The one brand that I have been really wanting this past year has been Rescue Beauty Lounge. I finally have a few in the stash. Fire Queen was part of the Fan 2.0 collection that came out during the late fall of 2013. Fire Queen is a light jadeite cream. It's inspiration comes from the vintage green glass and  Fire King cookware of the mid-20th century. It is very unique in it shade and being Rescue Beauty Lounge it goes on 
flawlessly.  

Floss Gloss's Glowstar

 

Floss Gloss's Glowstar is a cream that reminds me of those glow in the dark stars that you buy for the kids' rooms. This is probably my favorite of the four colors presented today. Glowstar was the one polish that attracted me to Floss Gloss which was created by two art students. Floss Gloss has a very unique website to visit and see their other lacquers. 

CrowsToes' Green Thumb Of Doom

 I got Green Thumb Of Doom in an Ebay auction last winter to support dog rescue. This is from the 2013 Spring THIS collection. It is still buy-able at Llarowe. Green Thumb is a brighter green shimmer polish with green micro-flakes. In the bottle I didn't think I would like it. But on, it is an entirely different thing. The micro-flakes get a silver look about them when in the sun and it is just stunning. This one will be around for awhile. 

 Nail Art

I wanted to keep Glowstar on a little longer and so added a quick design using Nuf-oh 56. 

I hoped you enjoyed my curated light and bright greens. Usually I just pick three, but it was harder this time so four made the cut. And all four of these polishes are cruelty free. I cannot find out 100% about Nfu-Oh.

So that is it until the next time............Terri

And here is a link to Norway Nails for CrowsToes and Cult Nails

Need Some Bling? How About My Favorite Amazon.

Last December, I won an Ebay auction benefiting animal rescue. The item was a lot of Indie polishes. Five different Crows Toes polishes were in the haul.

I picked My Favorite Amazon to wear to our last Kansas City Symphony concert at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. I only wanted to wear it on my ring fingers so picked Style Icon by Fnug as its companion.

 Notes

My Favorite Amazon by Crows Toes

If I understand what a "glitter bomb" is, this is one. You can see how many different types of glitter are mingling on my nail.  It makes a statement and I put it on as thick as I could (many single coats to build it up). 

Crows Toes is created by a forty something artist out of North Caroline who also has lots of critters. She sounds

like my kind of people. 

At this very moment, LLarowe has My Favorite Amazon on sale for $7.00.  

Style Icon by Fnug

Style Icon is a metallic taupe and I thought a perfect match for the glitter. It went on great and never had a chip for the time I wore it.

 

Fnug polish is a high quality polish from Denmark and is created by Charlotte Fnug Munksgaard. Fnug is hard to come by in the states. I purchased this one bottle on sale from LLarowe. They must have decided to stop carrying it because it is now nowhere to be found on their site. 

Fnug is also has some pretty great holographic polish and some of these can be found at Ninja Polish. 

Well, that is it. These were two great polishes that worked together great and gave me just the look I was after.  

The silk shirt that inspired it all. This is one of the motifs on the shirt that I wore to the concert. It played a major inspiration to the color combination that I used on my nails.