Showing posts with label color club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color club. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Swirly Stamping

Well today has been eventful. My Sundays always seem, through a series of unexpected events, to become the most news-worthy day of the week! First I got in a big panic over the state of my blog when I thought myself a clever-clogs and decided to mess with my domain settings whilst trying to figure out subdomains. I couldn't see my blog at all for close to an hour but luckily it didn't seem to affect any of you guys. Next thing, I find out that I was on the Tumblr Radar which was just incredible! Did you have a good weekend?



My base colour for this mani is Barry M Guava and I used Nailz Craze Plate NC02 to stamp on the swirly patterns. The polish I used to stamp is a dusty chrome blue from Color Club but there's no name on the bottle. This is actually one of my first ever Color Club polishes. They're not easy to get hold of in the UK. I picked up a (generally disappointing) set of 6 shades plus a topcoat from TK Maxx for £7.99 recently. Despite the disappointment, which was mostly due to my bad choices, I think I'll be back there to pick up a set of cremes very soon.



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Friday, August 9, 2013

Pools of Jewels


This is one of those posts where I have no idea what to name it. Hannah of Polly Polish said it reminded her of jewels, and my fantastic brain managed to rhyme pools with jewels. So there we have it. Hannah also pointed out that this reminded her of a design done by Jeanette of The Swatchaholic for Polish Days, and it does look very similar, although I think hers is much nicer!

To get this look I started with a base of w7 Black, then I used 4 of the Color Club Take Wing collection polishes (Daisy Does It, Fly With Me, Sparkle & Soar and Wing Fling) and a nail art brush to make splodges. I wish I could make it sound more sophisticated than that, but that's really all I did! I finished with 2 coats of top coat to make it look glassy.



More pictures ahead!







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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Awesome rainbowy goodness aka Color Club Halo Hues

Want to see some awesome rainbowy goodness, of course you do!  We finally got a sunny afternoon, so I pulled out the Halo Hues for some sunshine action.

The Color Club Halo Hues collection really does not disappoint in the holo department and I have three of them to show you today. These polishes were kindly sent to me from a new Melbourne based Aussie etailer - Maconii Collection. They are selling a range of polish brands including Color Club, Glitter Gal, JOSS, Nfu Oh and OPI.  They have some of the discontinued Nfu Oh flakies if Aussies are looking to get them locally.

The Color Club Halo Hues polishes have been around for a while, so I'm not going to go into much detail about how fabulous they are.  These are some of the best holo polishes available in my opinion, right up there with the Dance Legend holos.  The formula is fantastic, the opacity is great and the holo kicks arse!

Angel Kiss - pale green uber holographic polish from the 2012 Halo Hues.





Eternal Beauty - a bold and darker purple linear holographic from the 2013 Halo Hues.





Halo-graphic - pale pink strong linear holographic from the 2012 Halo Hues.





So did you notice the totally awesome Color Club brand stamp?  Well of course you did - Der! 

The Color Club brand stamp is from Fab Ur Nails FUN plate #12. The plate it totally awesome and has nearly 50 polish brand names on the plate, as well as a bunch of other cool designs.  I purchased mine as a pre-order back in June directly from Fab Ur Nails, but Llarowe is now stocking this brand of plates (although I don't see plate #12 on her site).  I think you will be seeing me wearing the brand name stamps quite a bit - I'm such a sucker for gimmicky stuff like this!
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Digit-al Dozen;Tape Mani's, Day 3

It's back to Digit-al Dozen mani's this week; I have a few mani's finished but unfortunately, haven't been able to post them due to being too busy or having no internet due to storm systems.  Then, I finally got some time...and the internet is working.... then Blogger was being an arse, giving me an error code to my posts and wouldn't let me add any text or do any type of editing to the pix...anyway, I seem to have figured it out, so finally joining the group posts today!  Here's what I came up with.


Started with a base of two coats of Layla Softouch Effect 06, topped with SV.  (Those in FB Adventure's in Stamping will know that this weeks challenge was doing a mani using the colour of your birthstone...I have an August birthday, my stone is peridot and this is the start of the mani I did for the challenge...just didn't get around to posting it!)


Stamped using white Konad special polish using Cheeky Jumbo 10 Plate, Happy Hands.  (I topped the mani with SV and wore it for a day like this, but as this post has so many pix, no pix shown at this time. )


The next day for the Digit-al Dozen tape challenge mani, I added various pieces of tape over the stamped base and then applied Color Club Pink Flame to the tape void area.  This green and pink combination is one that I love and I wear this colour combination fairly often; although, I'm not sure how many of the mani's have been posted though!  


My taping skill (lack thereof, actually!) is to be desired so the end result wasn't the best.  The pink on the index finger is all blotchy as I nicked the pink while putting tape on the middle finger so just brushed over top of it to fix. And, well, you can clearly see the rest of the mistakes!

Once Pink Flame was dry, stamped using white Konad special polish and added a row of hearts and lips from plate SdP 120.


I got to looking at my nails now and thought the mani is looking a little off as there is stamping only on two fingers and decided more stamping was needed.  I decided to see if  I could challenge myself and get some itty bitty stamping onto those itty bitty pink stripes on the index finger; so added stars from SdP 49 and a flower from SdP 77; also added a couple more flowers from SdP 77 to the pinky. I was surprised that I was able to get a few images on somewhat OK on that thin pink strip!


Topped with SV to finish.


This actually turned out better than I thought; a little on the girly side and really on the busy side...but that is pretty typical of my nails!  It was a good time saver that I was able to use a mani for two challenges, too!

Here's the other Day 3 mani's of the Digital Dozen; again, so much talent in this group!







Thanks for looking!



Friday, May 24, 2013

Holo Flowers

Quick post today. I started with a base colour of OPI Samoan Sand, and painted on the flowers with a nail art brush and Color Club Halo-Graphic. I outlined with black acrylic paint.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Girly Bits Hot Shot

Not a blue mani! lol!  As much as it was great to wear blues in support of Autism Awareness, it was also great to do a mani that wasn't blue!  Girly Bits released some new colours not too long ago; I was able to snag a few during one of llarowe's stocks.  I was lucky enough to get Hot Shot, which was calling my name (but missed out on Bachelor's Button which I'll try to snag next restock...and seen Harlow and Co. got them in too but I missed out there too!).  Hot Shot is a colour I know I'll get a lot of use from and will reach for time and time again. This is what I came up with!


Started with a base of Color Club Pink Flame; this is two coats, no topcoat.


Added a coat of Girly Bits Hot Shot.  This has no topcoat. 


Bottle pix of Hot Shot with the new Girly Bits label!


Stamped with Apipila P.06 with accent of Apipila E using white Konad special polish.  I was looking for a feminine stamp, but contrasting look so it wasn't over the top girly and I think this fit the ticket.  The butterflies added a feminine look as the accent in addition to feminine colour, but did the other fingers offset it so its not way over the edge feminine.  Does that make sense?  It made sense in my head was I was looking for image plates!  In hindsight, I thought the non accent image looks like crackle which is kinda cool!


Topped with SV.


Looking at the mani's I have to post, there's a lot of holographic to come! I've received new Jades, nailnation3000, Aly's Dream Polish, Literary Lacquers, LA Girls 3-D holo's....and have Dance Legend and Avon orders coming ...my Avon lady actually called and left a message on Friday that she was able to order them in advance of the campaign and they have arrived and are being dropped off early in the week.....maybe May will be holo month! That is after Digit-al Dozen Bling Week which starts tomorrow!  Edit:  I realized after I posted this that Bling Week starts May 13th...oops! 

Hope you're having a fantastic weekend; thanks for looking!


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Blue Holo Zippers

It's getting towards the end of the month-long posts of blues in support of Autism Awareness.  To try to mix the blues up a bit, I did a few mani's with different finishes; this is what I did using holo!

Started with a base of one coat of Color Club Over the Moon, no topcoat. 

I still cannot believe how holo these Color Club's are...I find myself reaching for them time and time again for a little pick me up or when I'm pressed for time and want to change my mani because one coat gives such great coverage and it takes no time at all to do a quick mani plus....that holo!!!!  Based on these pix, I probably could have done a second coat as a couple fingers look a little brush strokey, but only evident in macro ....and XL size!

Stamped using white Konad special polish using XXL Big SdP-01.  This image is mirrored and I used both of them for this mani.

Loved how the thumb turned out!

The stamping on my left hand wasn't that good; I'm not sure if this was because of the image or the stamp slipping from the moisturizer on my cuticles which sometimes happens. Here's a rare glimpse at my right where the stamping is shown a little better.

Because this is such a busy mani with so much stamping and the holographic glare, I took a pix outside but kind of shaded my hands; you can see the stamping a little better.

Hope you're having a great week; thanks for looking!


Thursday, March 28, 2013

Holo Hoppers

Here's another Easter mani; unfortunately, I'm a little later posting that I planned as I was too busy with life to get round to posting it any earlier.  This time, I was trying to come up with something a little different rather than the traditional colour schemes of Easter and decided to do a holo Easter mani.

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Started with a base of two coats each of FingerPaints Black Expressionism and Color Club Harp On It; the black has been topped with SV but the holo was not.  (It seems I deleted the uploaded pix inadvertently because blogger was acting all funky and I've already deleted the original from the camera source but I'm sure you get the jest of how it looked!)

Stamped with Konad black special polish and CC Harp On It using fauxnad AT02 (pinky and partial egg on thumb), HD-B (middle, ring and index finger), W105 (zigzag egg on thumb) and Nailways 06 (small bunnies on thumb).


Added a few dots using the same polishes.


Topped with Sally Hansen Diamond Flash Fast Dry topcoat.  The holo stamping and dots really popped with the topcoat!

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The next day, I took a pix outside in overcast skies; you can see the stamping better without all the holo glare.


More pix because I just can't pick one! 



Thanks for looking!