China Glaze Eye Candy Collection

Hi everyone! Today I have China Glaze Eye Candy swatches to show you. I know I'm a tad late, but it's my blog and I still feel like doing it =] These were released as Holiday 2011 polishes and there are 6 in the collection. They're inspired by Marilyn Monroe and described as 3-D glitters because there are different sizes and shapes of glitter in each polish to give a 3-D effect.

Love Marilyn. Indoors.

Outdoors.

Blonde Bombshell. Indoors.

Outdoors.

Material Girl. Indoors.

Outdoors.

Lorelei's Tiara. Indoors.

Outdoors.

Some Like It Haute. Indoors.

Outdoors.

Marry A Millionaire. Indoors.

Here's an enlarged photo since it looks a little blurry in the above photo.

Outdoors.

I used three coats for each. Some were actually fine in two, but I did a third for good measure. All photos are shown with one coat of topcoat. These are all beautiful. Personally I would wear all of them alone except Lorelei's Tiara and Marry A Millionaire. They're pretty, but not my favorite colors. Blonde Bombshell and Marry A Millionaire have bar glitter, which I thought was pretty cool. Some Like It Haute has holo glitter which I think looks gorgeous against it's dark base. Formula was good. I read that Material Girl is pretty thick and added polish thinner before use, so if it does have an issue, I wouldn't know. Hope you enjoyed these lovely glitters! Until next time.

Victoria's Secret PINK Inspired Nails

Hello everyone! Hope you all are having a good weekend. I received a lot of Victoria's Secret items this week in the mail and one of the things I ordered inspired me! Haha like I said before, it's rare that I do a mani that is inspired by something (sounds lame huh? lol), but anyways here it is! I used a base color of China Glaze Flyin' High. Thumb and ring finger are stamped using RA 110 in Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Presto Pink. Index is stamped using Konad M72. Middle is stamped using Konad M17 and M18. Pinky is stamped using RA 114. I used Konad White for all the other stamping. This would've been perfect for "nails inspired by a color" on the 31 day nail challenge. Guess I will have to come up with something else for that day. I will save the 31 day nail challenge for this summer so I won't rush, but I'm dying to do it!

OPI Black Onyx, China Glaze White Out, and RA 114

Hi everyone! Today I have another design to show you. I did this really quick. I just wanted to test out another Red Angel nail art plate. I'll be testing them a lot these next couple of weeks so stay tuned for more. On my pinky, middle, and thumb I used OPI Black Onyx and stamped using RA 114 in Konad White. Then on my ring and index finger I used China Glaze White Out and stamped using RA 114 in Konad Black. I wanted to see what color combination would look best. After trying it out, I like the white base with black stamp better. It might be hard to tell, but something I noticed so far using the Red Angel plates is that the image has tiny little parts that showed up bald when I stamped, which is something that never happens to me using Konad. It's no biggie, but I'm really anal sometimes and it bothers me just a bit haha.

QUESTION: I need some help from everyone. On my Facebook I like to use only one photo of each manicure, but I'm having a hard time picking a 'pose' lol. Do you prefer A, B, or C? Please help! =]

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Nicole by OPI Pink Seriously and RA 102

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't made a post since last year! Haha that seems so long ago. Anyways, I have FINALLY received my Red Angel nail plates I purchased off of Amazon. I ordered them on December 8th and received them on December 27, way past the expected delivery date AND I live in the same state they shipped out from. Pretty ridiculous right?! Anyways, if you're interested in purchasing them they come in a set of 21 nail plates and I believe including shipping, it came out to about $17.

For this mani I used a base of Nicole by OPI Pink Seriously. It is my very first polish from that brand and it has this weird 'Perfect Stroke' brush. It will take me a bit of getting used to, but I think it worked pretty well. I stamped using Red Angel plate 102 in Konad Black.

Review:
As far as the Red Angel nail plates go, I have only used this design so far, but it came out better than I expected it to. I have pretty long nails and as you can see, the design covered my whole nail! I only had to stamp a little extra on my thumb, but I have to do that with Konad as well. The shipping time is the only thing that killed the purchase for me. I have read that other people received it in a few days, so maybe it was because I made a purchase around the holidays. Other than that, I would recommend these plates, it's a great deal. I find it hard to see all the designs of nail plate sets online, so I took pics of the nail plates so anyone who is interested can get a closer look! (Click to enlarge)