Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day to my lovely followers!

Here is some heart themed nail art I did over the weekend.

The base pink is OPI I think in Pink. 

Index finger is just a little purple heart.

Middle finger is stamped with Konad Red polish and Bundle Monster plate 317.

Ring finger is coated with a layer of Darling Diva Ménage à Trois.

Little finger is stamped with Konad Red polish and Plate Konad M3.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Glitzology Cupid's Arrow

My Glitzology order arrived on Monday, just in time for Valentine's Day.  One of the polishes I ordered was Cupid's Arrow.

Glitzology Cupid's Arrow (over OPI If You Moust You Moust) - Natural Light

This is one coat over OPI If You Moust You Moust.  According to the Glitzology description, Cupid's Arrow features a mix of pink and magenta glitters, with pale pink satin hexes, red squares and hexes, magenta shreds, and pink and pale pink hearts! Mine also had a bunch of white hearts in it. The hearts sink to the bottom, so before I used mine I left the bottle upside down over night and the hearts were easy to pull out this way.  One coat was very glitter packed and all that was needed. I am not sure that this polish would look good by itself, it seems much more suited to be a top coat.

Glitzology polish is available here on Etsy.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Soon to be Spotted in NZ: Color Club Halo Hues

Wohoo! Just when I thought that these 6 polishes were going to be really expensive and hard to get to New Zealand, Color Club New Zealand announce they are releasing them in stores on 1 April.

This is the second of two Halo Hues collections. Polishes from the first collection will be available on the usanailsonline website here.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Darling Diva Polish Ménage à Trois - worn 3 ways

Ménage à Trois is the second polish for Valentine's Day from Darling Diva Polish.  

Darling Diva Ménage à Trois - Sunshine

Here is three thick coats of Ménage à Trois by itself.  It is made up of a bunch of different sized and toned pink glitter in a pink tinted base.  The slightly bigger bits of glitter are pink holographic pieces.  

The formula of this was good and not thick, with a good amount of glitter in the polish.  I was using decent thickness coats and it was getting pretty thick on the nail by three coats and I ended up topping it with Gelous and Seche Vite to smooth it down a bit.  There wasn't any glitter poking out, it was more that it was getting thick and starting to freak me out.  After three coats, it was not completely opaque and was getting harder to apply.

 I find this polish is much better as a glitter top coat.

 Darling Diva Ménage à Trois over BJ - Shade

Here is two coats of Ménage à Trois over its matching pink polish BJ (from yesterdays post here).  Ménage à Trois is made up of darker pink glitters than BJ is.

Darling Diva Ménage à Trois (over OPI I Think in Pink) - Sunshine

Wow! we had a lot of sun yesterday and it makes this polish 

seem a bit weird looking, but here you can see the sparkling 

of the holographic bits of glitter in the polish.

Darling Diva Ménage à Trois (over OPI I Think in Pink) - Shade 

This one is more colour accurate than the photo above

Lastly here is two coats of Ménage à Trois over OPI I Think in Pink, which is a light pink jelly polish. Here you can tell that the base for Ménage à Trois is tinted, as it darkened the base OPI pink.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Darling Diva BJ

Valentine's Day is just around the corner so its time for some Valentine's themed polishes.

First up is Darling Diva Polish BJ.  This is one of two polishes from the Darling Diva Valentine's collection.  (This polish is named after the creators soon to be sister in law Bobbi Jo, and not that other thing you were thinking)

Darling Diva Polish BJ - Sunshine

Darling Diva Polish BJ - Shade

BJ is a bright Barbie pink holographic polish, that also has bigger bits of holographic pink glitter scattered through out.  This is two coats and the formula is divine. This is the first Darling Diva Polish I tried of the bunch I ordered and I am impressed, especially with the formula.

You can purchase Darling Diva Polishes here on Etsy.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Lilac Glitter Gradient

Last night, today and tomorrows manicure is two coats of China Glaze Sweet Hook with a glitter gradient of Sephora by OPI Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild.

China Glaze Sweet Hook & Sephora by OPI Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild

Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild was not the easiest polish to use for a glitter gradient as the glitter is a tad too sparse and needs thick coats to make the glitter denser.

Lots of Love
Lisa