V-day, two looks. Love and Fun!

Okay, we either like valentines day or hate it. But why can't we just have fun with it? No hard feelings.. I decided to do two looks for vday, one for love and one for fun.

I liked Renee's idea of different looks using the same base color, shows how you can stretch out a bottle of polish if you have a smaller collection. It gave me the idea to do this:

For the love! I used to Fresh paint in Delicious, a gorgeous creme red that screams Valentine's day approved! And for the topcoat I used a super chunky silver glitter from Funky Fingers called Stage Dive. I like to call this one Red hearts and diamond bling (cheesy yes..Do I care.. no!)

Now for the fun, I have had this color from Zoya for a while, called Keiko . It's a creamy gorgeous medium creme purple. For the topcoat I used Luxe effects pure pearlfection by Essie. I love this topcoat! Not as much as fairy dust by China Glaze though, but close;) I just loved how this fun and simple V-day manicure came out, it's still girly but not the expected pink or red.

(thanks http://xxxbeautyredefinedxxx.blogspot.com for image link)

But that's it for now, I hope everyone had a wonderful chocolate filled Valentine's day! tata!

More Kleancolor:)

My second (and last!) package came today, and I of course started thinking of combinations that would go good together. I have this bottle of nail polish by the brand Fresh Paint. I found this polish in the store Five Below, and pretty much have never seen it anywhere else. Even online, it's practically a ghost polish.  The color that is in the link is the color I used, a very pretty purple/beige/pink.

The color that I topped it off with is kiss goodbye, a gorgeous multicolor with base colors of well...everything! If you look closely you can see a slight pink tint in the polish:

Here is how the rest of the manicure came out:

 Not the best pictures I know! But if any of our blog readers know.. the weather in NY hasn't been sunny.. at all. It's been dull, freezing and depressing! We actually got some snow today, which was nice.. but mostly it's been just really cold, so the snow is now just a huge packed ice blanket (does that make sense?)

But I digress, I am now on a strict no  buy nail polish order! The only reason (well not the only) that I bought these polishes was that I had about 10$ worth of eBay bucks that were about to expire, so I bought the lot of Kleancolors and only paid 4$ for them after the discount :) I will post pictures of the lot, mostly glitters though. I also realized that even though Kleancolor is 3-free, they do contain camphor. That may explain the horrible smell! But then again, camphor is in my medicated cherry chapstick.. (1%) I don't know if this is a good thing, but if I can put it on my lips, then it can't be too horrible in my polish. (don't mind me..I'm just muttering to myself) But that's it for now, ta-ta!

Nail Art!

Remember when I did that flower nail art a few months back? This one. Well I thought, " hey let me try out that fall version that I was talking about at the end of the post. I didn't quite turn out the way I was imagining. I tried something different and I like!

FLASH!

I used a brand called Fresh Paint, which the only store I have seen it in is a store called Five Below.  Ive only been there once, but I fell in love! It had the best selection and I also found Funky Fingers! The color is a really pretty beige with hints of brown and pink and the drying time was under a minute! The I used Burgundy from Revlon. I wanted to use Lincoln Park after Dark, but it was too dark. The for the gold, I used Rochelle from Zoya, it's a beautiful gold! It also looks much more copperish in the bottle. And for the last part, just small dots of pink glitter nail art polish from Kiss.

But when I was finished.. it just felt off. It also almost had a cheetah/leopard look to it, which isn't a bad thing per say, I just wasn't going for that look! I grabbed Nubar 2010, and ta da, flaky goodness:)
When in doubt, go flaky;)

Okay, enough from me, back to work!
Erika