Linestone, Tan And Orange Colorblock

A couple of weeks ago my daughters and I attended the 18^th Street Fashion Show. If there is an event that will encourage me to do some type of nail design, this is it. I did a design based the color block dress I wore. I originally intended to do a true color block but ran out of time. It was between shearing one of my ewes or spending more time on my nails. The sheep won out over the nails. So I had dots.

POLISH NOTES

Elevation Polish's Limestone

I wanted to show a close up of this polish. I really like Limestone. This is such a creative take on white polish with it's off white cream, gold micro shimmer and gold flakes. It is thick, goes on smoothly and could be an one coat polish. Elevation Polish can be found HERE. 

China Glaze's Kalahari Kiss was part of The fall 2012 On Safari collection. This is a sandy brown with a definite hint of yellow. It matched the tan on my dress better than anything else I had. I am pretty sure you can't get this though China Glaze anymore. But it is less than $4 a bottle on Ebay.


Ulta's Sun Of A Gun 

Son Of A Gun is a red orange cream. This is one of my favorite oranges. It is thick enough and goes on smoothly. It has been around for awhile so others must like it too. Ulta still carries it and the link to their polishes is here.

Here we are in our group selfie

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Well that's it for this post. Until next time, Take care.......Terri

She Walks In Beauty And Goddess

Polishes: She Walks In Beauty by a-england and  Goddess by Ulta

Notes: I wore this type of french manicure to my high school reunion. She Walks In Beauty is a gorgeous rose tone gold glitter. I have a lot of gold and this one is my favorite. 

For the background color I needed a tempered neutral gold and found that Ulta's Goddess worked perfectly. 

I really though the two pulled together a pretty classy mani. 

A-england and Ulta are cruelty free.

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.

Happy 4th Of July

Happy 4th of July.

Base Coat- Ulta's Red Carpet Red

Glitter-L.A. Colors-Confeti

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Bling I got from Ebay

Terri