Neutral Is as Neutral Does

 Well as recommend by the lovely smatz (check out her fashion blog, she knows her stuff) I went with a Sally Hansen Salon Series polish.  I already had this one in my collection AND it satisfied my neutral craving.  Perfect.  Considering how wonderfully this polish applies I'm a little surprised I don't have more from this line.  Also I absolutely love this color.  It's called Gray by Gray and it lives up to its name.  Depending on the light I'm in, the subtle color of the gray changes.  Here it looks more bluish, but in some lights it has more of a green tone, and in others more of a purple.  It's fabulous.




Also BTW's before I put this polish on I tried out another one of my xmas presents!  It's a nail buffing kit from my mom.  Now the nail buffers I've seen before look like little blocks where each side has a differently grained "sand paper." You start on the coarsest side and work your way around until your nails are nice and shiny.  This isn't that.  This kit is a cream with minuscule granules in it.  You place it on each nail and then with a suede buffer pad you rub the cream into your nail.  Then wash off and VOILA! Beautiful shiny nails.  The thumb on the left is buffed, the one on the right is not.

Passive Purple

This color, named Eiffel for this Color by OPI was a bit of a let down.  In the bottle it looks purple with shimmery flecks.  However on my nails I think it looked more like a dark maroon.  Again almost black.  Also I could barely detect the sparkles which was my favorite part about the color I saw in the bottle.  Oh well.

When I removed it I found my nails to be dry and peeling.  I'm giving them a break for a little whiles.  Trying to douse them in cuticle cream.

New thoughts:  I've been really liking the look of neutrals.  I want to continue with documenting my current collection but I might be looking into a new neutrally color as well.  Also I've been thinking about branching out brand wise.  OPI's great, but having a true favorite only counts if you know you don't prefer the other options. So adventuring we go!

New Year's snow

Here is the polish I wore to bring in the New Year.  I know that the glitter polish was very fitting for a New Year's celebration but I got this one from my sister for xmas and I wanted to wear it.  Actually I wore this on my middle fingers for Christmas day as well because the glitter came off and I didn't have the bottle with me.  Lucky it was balanced hand to hand to I decided to do an accent nail.  This is Havana Nights with It  Looks Like Rain Dear layered on top.  Both are from OPI's Sephora line.  My sister got them for me since we don't have a Sephora here and you can only by those colors there.  She is so sweet! I really like this combination.  It got better the longer I wore it too.  It reminds me of mermaids and the sea and also of a new layer of large crystal snowflakes freshly fallen over ice packed snow.

Happy Holidays!!!

AND HERE IT IS!!!! My holiday polish for 2010.  It's Simmer &Shimmer by OPI in their Burlesque line.  I love it!!  It's a glitter and it is so sparkly.  I had to put three coats on to get it opaque.  The bumpyness of the glitter does kind of bug me but I don't have the proper top coat to fix it.  Also it chips easily. oh well.  I can't stop staring at it.  It it mainly made up of flecks of light blue and silver.  But it also has pink, red, gold, and green flecks.  So awesome.  It reminds me of snowflakes and confetti and champagne, and Christmas lights!!  Perfect holiday polish!

All that glitters

So I went up to Ulta to buy some nail polish. When I got to the check out counter they told me that since I spent over a certain amount I got a free bottle of nail polish from the OPI Ulta exclusive Holiday line.

sweet  

I have decided to wear it on my toes for Christmas.  Since I was already planning on wearing Glitzerland I decided to layer them.  Glitzerland is on the bottom and the new polish OPI Gift of Gold is on top.  The picture really doesn't do it justice.  All I see is glitter.  I don't know if the layering made a difference, but I like knowing it's there.  Also, Gift of Gold is a gold glitter, but it has flecks of red and silver, which if you look very carefully at the big toe you can make it out.  It's wonderful!!  So sparkly.

Gift of Gold

Glitzerland

Ghosts of Christmas Past Part II

Here is the color I went out and bought after I decided I did not like the Emerald City by Sally Hansen.  It's surprising how my tastes change since this year I think I actually prefer the green.  Again this is a shimmery polish so it leaves brush strokes.  It's still pretty though.  A very neutral wintry polish.  It could be worn all through winter, not just on the holidays.  The name of this polish is Silver Screen by Revlon.  Before I got into OPI, Revlon was my go-to brand of choice.  They have pretty bottles and always seemed to have the colors I was looking for.  That is until I wanted to branch out a bit and realized OPI made many more colors.

Speaking of many colors. There is a new Ulta store in town, which for you locals I would highly recommend checking out.  It looks like a chain store so you can probably find it elsewhere too.  Anyway, it has beauty products galore.  They range from higher end brands down to the kinds you find at your local Walgreens.  Anyway, they now have the largest selection of nail polish in town. It's heaven. I went up there last week and got the color I'm going to wear for Christmas this year.  Yes, it's from the Burlesque line by OPI.  I won't say which one.  But it is one of the glitters.  I don't think I've worn glitter on my nails since I was in elementary school.  If then.  We'll see how it goes.

Ghosts of Christmas Past Part I

This green nail polish, Emerald City  by Sally Hansen, was a polish I bought last year for the holiday season.  I felt like red was too traditional a color of nail polish to really qualify for holiday status.  So I bought this green.  I have to say it turned out better this year.  It has a shimmer to it, which leaves brush strokes, so you have to be really careful.  Last year I must have been horrible at putting it on because I thought it looked like cartoon boogers on my nails.  This year not so bad.  Anyway, so last year I immediately took it off and went out to buy a different color. Which I will show in my next post.  I thought that this early holiday season would be a good time to show my older holiday colors.  For this year I hope to get one of the OPI Burlesque glitters.  If not I have Glitzerland which is part of this year's winter collection and will suffice.

Glitzerland