All righty, here is our second-to-last installment of the Hunger Games series! At least everything I got from it. Today's mani begins with Smoke and Ashes, which represents district 12.
Wow I'm really feeling like I should do a reswatch of this because this looks like poop compared to the actual thing. This is two coats of Smoke and Ashes, which is a black polish with loads of blue/green/gold? shimmer. It's very nice and I like it a lot.
Now I also picked up Luxe and Lush so I decided to try it on top of Smoke and Ashes.
Luxe and Lush is the type of flakie topcoat that has the broken mirror sort of look, the edges are more jagged and sharp looking and it doesn't lie as flat as most flakies. The formula wasn't the best and it was kind of hard to get the distribution right but with a little adjustment all was well. I'd like to try this one over a wider variety of colors as well, I'm sure there are many interesting possibilities out there! Have you guys tried any cool combos with Luxe and Lush? Have any suggestions for me? I'm all ears!
Oookay so Blogger has a completely new layout from my side of things and it is a whole different animal, so if things look a little strange I must ask your forgiveness! I'll hopefully get the hang of it soon. It looks cool... just... weird.
Me too, Niall, me too. But we'll get through it.
But anyway, today I have yet another Hunger Games beauty to share with you! This is China Glaze Riveting and it's for district.... 3. I think? I should google this stuff.
This is two coats. Riveting is a bright, vivid orange jelly with lots of gold shimmer. It's extremely eye-catching and vivacious, I really like it! I used to really hate orange polish because it makes me look like a zombie, and you should all know by now that I have a legitimate, crippling fear of zombies and therefore I avoided orange polish like last season's Ugg boots.
But, I have been slowly coming around and easing myself into orange polish with beauties like this one. Riveting is absolutely wonderful and doesn't make me look like a zombie at all.
The formula was absolutely dreamy. I give Riveting a resounding A+!
Louis and Harry think so too. What do YOU think?
So today I have my second selection from the China Glaze Hunger Games collection, Fast Track.
This is 2 coats. Fast Track is a slightly pinky brown nude with a heavy dusting of gold shimmer. I don't remember which district this is for... whoops.
The formula was very nice, no problems to report, she didn't make any trouble!
Sorry if I'm a little subdued, I'm pretty tired today. I had a big lunch with two of my besties and then let Ed Sheeran sing me to sleep... had a pretty nice nap. :) How was your day?
Wow... did I just miss a million days in a row? It feels like I've been gone forever. I did not mean to just up and disappear like that! I just got completely sucked into chaos, sorry!
PLEASE FORGIVE ME
Why do I have so many Louis gifs.... no matter.
Moving swiftly onwards! Today I will be showing you (somewhat belatedly) one of the polishes I picked up from the China Glaze Hunger Games collection, Stone Cold.
This is 2 coats. Stone Cold is a black polish with a whole bunch of lovely silver microglitter. It is really very pretty and the shimmer seems to break into a bunch of different colors in bright sun when you look closely.
The formula was absolutely dreamy, so lovely!
It dries matte, so I naturally had to see how it looked shiny.
OMG is it just me or is it even awesomer? So pretty! Matte is cool and all, but I just can't stand to see beautiful shimmer go to waste like this! It is so amazing in the sun, even better than it looks in pictures.
Have you guys seen the Hunger Games? I went to the midnight premiere. It was pretty good, I thought, but not as amazing as I was hoping for it to be. Elizabeth Banks and Stanley Tucci were definitely my favorites acting-wise, they were both wonderful. Jennifer Lawrence was good too, I just personally don't like Katniss very much. But from what I've seen of her in interviews I want to be her best friend, ugh she's so awesome.
Oh, and also, this literally made me LOL:
Yeah. That pretty much sums it up.
This is extremely over due and I owe a humongous thank you to Iris from Polish Amor because a while back she held a surprise giveaway and I won!!! She sent me a lovely note and a bunch of cool stuff: NK Aquamarine (featured today), an OPI Nevermore mini, Finger Paints Add and Abstract, a decant of Lynnderella Snow Angel (!!!), some pretty butterfly stickers and lots of cool nail art stuff that I haven't used yet because I can't find my tweezers and it'd be pretty impossible to get them all placed right without tweezers.
Anywho, so I would like to say one massive THANK YOU VERY MUCH BECAUSE YOU ARE THE CAT'S PAJAMAS to Iris.
Today we begin with NK Aquamarine.
2 coats. Because it was pale blue, I was afraid it would be streaky or chalky, but I was pleased to find it was surprisingly opaque! It was a little bit thick but look how lovely it is! I've never heard of this brand before but I'm glad to have this baby in my stash.
Now, I finally bit the bullet and bought China Glaze Oxidized Aqua because Sally's is so desperate to clear out all the China Glaze crack that it was all clearanced for like $1.99 or something ridiculous like that. I'm surprised they still have any left, actually. Obviously people are not as addicted to crack as China Glaze had hoped (heh heh. See what I did there?)
Oh... and I totally forgot, cause you can barely even see it in these humongous pictures, I added a layer of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Disco Ball over the top too.
I really like Oxidized Aqua, it cracked really nicely and looked great with Aquamarine.
I really need to get through every other awesome thing Iris sent me! I also owe thanks to another lovely lady, she knows who she is. Her turn comes tomorrow!
So today I'm going to sparkle your pants off.
What's that? You don't think it's possible? Well... I beg to differ.
Okay, now put your pants back on. This is one coat of China Glaze Tinsel Town over one coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme. Tinsel Town is ridiculously sparkly and gorgeous and amazing and you all need to get it right now. If it's still around, it's probably on clearance since it was a holiday polish, so go get it
RIGHT NOW.
Walk, don't run.
Oh, and I also did this:
It's like a reverse French manicure. I think it's called a ruffian? Although I'm not sure why. Anyway, it's super awesome and cool and I literally spent the entire day staring at my nails and moving my hands around like a crazy person. But we've all done that, haven't we?
Anywho, if you don't understand the urgency of getting this polish
RIGHT NOW
then there's not much more I can do for you.
So today I have the last duo that I got from China Glaze's holiday collection.
Blue Year's Eve and Snow Globe
Look at that mysterious speck of dark glitter!
First, Blue Year's Eve by itself.
2 coats. Or... maybe 3... Anywho, Blue Year's Eve is ridiculously beautiful. It's a lovely medium blue glass flecked polish, and occasionally at sharp angles, the flecks shift to purple. It's awesome and is also super reflective.
And then, layer Snow Globe on top... WOW.
Snow Globe is full of different sizes of hex glitter that are iridescent pink, blue, and yellow. It's really pretty and definitely looks great over Blue Year's Eve. Although I might actually like it better over a creme, so that the shimmer and glitter aren't competing for attention. But this is sure as heck awesome, and my favorite combo out of all three that I've done. Do you love this as much as I do?
