Red Dog Designs Down With Love w/ Accent

Hi Everyone!  *waves*

I've really been loving this mani with a textured accent nail so much lately so I had to share it with you all.  I've been doing it in all kinds of different colors since I have, not all, but almost every mainstream textured polish out there.

First I used three coats of each Zoya Carter on my ring finger and China Glaze Creative Fantasy on the rest.  Carter is still my favorite textured polish out of all of them.  I just can't help it.

Once all three coats were dry I applied one coat of Red Dog Designs Down With Love.

*side note:  Does anyone else remember that movie Down With Love starring Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger?  I absolutely love that movie and used to own it but can't seem to find it after all of those moves.  Also Renee Zellweger is a fellow Texan and only grew up about 30 minutes from where I live now.*

I didn't need to fish out any of the glitters from DWL which is great.  They seem to just gravitate toward the brush so really I had to put some back.  My nails are too small to hold that many shaped glitters.  I hope you all enjoyed this mani as much as I did.  This is so fun in all color combinations so expect to see it again.  lol  Have a great night!

Red Dog Designs Tainted Love

Hey there!  I am just getting home from my kickboxing class so I'm sure you can imagine, I'm worn out and tired.  I already took a bath so don't worry...I'm blogging to you clean. lol  I am so excited to show you all the polish I have today.  I may be a little late on it because it's technically a Valentine's Day polish (or anti V-day) but it's such a fun polish that I will be wearing all of the time.

Red Dog Designs Tainted Love is not only my first Red Dog polish, but one of my new favorites as well.  I used Zoya Trixie as a fun base color and then layered two coats of Tainted Love over that.  It is such a fun glitter polish with green squares and hexagons and black hearts and skull shapes.  I think I love the skulls more than anything but also the fact that it's green...my favorite color...really puts it over the edge for me.  Just so awesome.  I can't wait to layer it over other colors and to buy more Red Dogs.  I bought all three from the V-day collection and am kicking myself for not getting more.  I'm sure the boyfriend would be kicking me out if I bought anymore polish.  lol

So what do you all think about this awesome polish?  Do you own any Red Dog polish?  If so, which ones are your favorite?  Let me know in the comments below and have a great night!

Zoya Stevie Skittlette

Hey Everyone!  How is your morning going?  I hope you all didn't forget to turn your clocks forward one hour?  I have all mine set to do it automatically so I hope they did or else I'll be in trouble tomorrow when I show up to work an hour late.  lol

Anyway I am so proud of myself because I was able to get so much done yesterday around my apartment and I still had time to go out and run and do a fun skittlette mani for you all.  In case you are all wondering what a skittlette manicure is exactly, I found this definition from So Nailicious.

skit·tle·tte: Not quite a full skittles look, a skittlette manicure is one with at least two different accent nails.  Pick any formation you wish, but for a true skittlette at least two nails need to be the same (the others can all be different) OR two pairs of identical nails and a different nail.

I even had to ask some friends of mine if this mani was a true skittlette.  lol

The base color I chose is two coats of Zoya Stevie.  I just received it in a swap and I love it.  I was going to post just the swatch for you today but I couldn't wait to show you the nail art so I'll save it for another day.  For the nail art I just used Sinful Color Black and Black and Zoya Purity.  For the feather and stripes I just used a striping brush and dipped it straight into the bottles and for the dots, obviously, a dotting too.  This was a super fun and easy mani.  The hard part was really just letting it dry.

I hope you all enjoyed this.  It seems like my friends really love it so get to commenting and tell me what you think!  (:

Zoya Lux

Yea!  I finally got home from my fitness class and now I can show you the very last polish in the Zoya Magical PixieDust trio.

Zoya Lux is a dusty pink textured polish with the larger holo glitters.  I used two coats just like the others.  This one was by far the most textured.  It was very gritty and actually snagged a sweater at work today. lol I love that too.  I just didn't like that the formula was thick.  Not goopy or hard to work with, just a little on the thick side.  I'm too scared to use thinner in it though.  I don't know what it might do to the texture, if anything.  I won't risk it though.  Anyway, I love this shade, but not as much as the other two.  Zoya Cosmo just kills me everytime I see it.  

Zoya Cosmo

Ok so I have the second polish in the Zoya Magical PixieDust trio and I think it's my ultimate favorite.  I mean, like, my favorite textured polish out of all of the brands.

Zoya Cosmo is soooo gorgeous!  It's a silver base with the same chunky holo glitters that are in all three of the Magical PixieDusts.  I only needed one coat but I used two just so I could get more glitter.  lol  I don't even know what else to say about this.  I love it for Spring.  I love it for the holidays.  I love it for a night out on the town.  I think this is just a great texture to wear year-round.  And don't for one second think that I won't.  lol

Have a great night and I'll have the last of the trio for you tomorrow.

Zoya Vega

Ok you guys.  I suck.  lol I'm really trying to get it together and get back to posting everyday since the holidays have been over.  I really just want to say sorry, not sorry because my blog has really taken a back seat in my life since the new year began but for a good reason.  I became a vegetarian in June 2013 and it really changed my life for the better.  It made me want to focus more of my time and energy on my health which is why I'm not able to post everyday anymore.  I get out of work, I come home and eat dinner then I either run at the park or take fitness classes.  Once I get home I have to take a shower and then it's bedtime.  I don't really give myself a lot of time to sit down and focus on my blog.  I've been trying to swatch on Sunday so that I have something for you all, but it get's tough sometimes.  I know I have some new followers and thank you to the older ones for sticking around, but I'm going to be better at managing my time and blog.  I promise.  So keep coming back because I really love that I get to share my love of polish with all of you.  And the few comments I get are greatly appreciated.  I reply to all of them (eventually) so keep 'em coming. ♥

Sorry for that, but I had to get it out there.  Now on to the good stuff.

Zoya Vega is one of my new favorite polishes because, well, it's a textured polish (which I love) but it's the chunky texture which I love the most.  The whole Magical PixieDust trio reminds me a lot of the first OPI sands and I still wear and love those to this day.  Vega is a metallic baby blue texure with chunky holo glitters that pop in the light.  I used two coats and let both dry completely before taking these photos.  I would have shown you all three, but guess what?  I didn't have time to swatch them all.  Are you surprised?  lol

Again thank you to everyone who comes to read my posts everyday.  It's gonna get good again. Have a good night!  (:

Color Club Beyond

I can't believe I haven't blogged this polish before (at least I don't remember doing it) because I've had it for so long.  This is the first Color Club holo I bought but I've shown the other two and not this one.  I've worn it a hundred or so times but never thought to take a picture I guess.

Color Club Beyond is so appropriately named because the black base is super dark but the holo effect looks like far away galaxies.  This polish could be a one-coater if you really wanted it to be but I used two thinner coats for this swatch.  I mean there isn't much else to say about it because I know the photos speak for themselves.  I mean, the holo is to die for and who doesn't love a classic black nail?

I promise I'll post some nail art soon.  I have been trying to get inspired to do something fun, but what?  I think I'm gonna be copy-catting Pinterest manis and trying out tutorials until I can come up with something of my own.