Red Dog Designs Love Hurts

Hi All!  Sorry for the late post but I just got home from my yoga class.  Health comes first!  And speaking of health, I have really been craving and enjoying some amazing watermelon recently and so I wanted to put on a polish that reminded me of that.

This is Red Dog Designs Love Hurts from the Valentine collection.  I know the base color isn't spot on with a watermelon but the black glitters reminded me of seeds.  There are also holographic circles in there that are just gorgeous when they peek out of the magenta/pink base.  I believe this is two coats.  I don't really remember because I had this swatched for a long, long time.  I hope you all have a great night and I'll have some fun nail art for you tomorrow...if I can come up with anything. (:

Ornament Nail Art

Last year I seemed to get a pretty great reaction to my Christmas Day mani which was inspired by tree ornaments.  I decided I wanted to recreate them but this time with a few of my new Julie G Frosted Gumdrops.

I tried to use the same color scheme so I started with the same base color of OPI DS Original.  For the green I used Julie G Mistletoe, the purple is Julie G Sugar Plum Fairy, and the magenta is Julie G Ho Ho Ho.  Of course I used striping tape to get different widths between the colors and, well...that's it!

I hope you enjoyed this mani and I will be posting something on Christmas Day, but I will make it very brief because everyone should be spending time with their families and eating yummy desserts.  Let me know if there is any particular design you'd like to see in the comments below.

Julie G Frosted Gumdrops Holiday 2013

I think the title of this post is pretty self-explanatory for what you will be seeing this evening.  I am super excited that I bought these.  There is not a bad one in the bunch and eventhough it's tough to choose, I do have a couple favorites.  I wanted to wait until the first day of December to put these up just to get everyone in the holiday spirit if you aren't already.

After two days of swatching and a little bit of staining (yep, you read that right) I can finally show you the Julie G Frosted Gumdrops Holiday 2013 collection and my first ever Julie G polishes.  (:

This is two coats of Silver Bells.  This is definitely one of my favorites of the collection.  It's such a clean, bright, true silver and super sparkly which is always great.  I can't wait to wear this one again...and again.

This is two coats of Gift of Gold.  It's not one of my favorites but still gorgeous.  I think if it were a little less yellow-toned I would have loved it as much as the rest.  I think this could be one of those great nail art polishes.

This is one coat of Mistletoe.  This one really looks like sparkly greenery to me and I love it.  I also love that it's a very true green and not leaning blue or yellow.  It has some bright green glitters that really make it something special.

This is two coats of Sleigh Ride and the only stainer of the bunch.  I think this is similar to Zoya Liberty which also stains so maybe it's just something the bright blue pigment does, but nothing a little scrub brush and baking soda can't fix.  Nonetheless, the polish is gorgeous and easily one of my favorites.  I got a lot of compliments on this one.

This is two coats of Sugar Plum Fairy and of course my other favorite simply because it's purple.  However it looks nothing like my other purple textured polishes which is good.  I can't have dupes 'round this place.  It also has beautiful bright purple glitters that really stand out in the right light.

This is two coats of Ho Ho Ho.  It's not one of those colors that I like to wear often but the glitter and texture really make me want to.  This magenta shade looks great on just about everyone.

The texture on these was great and trumps most of the textured polish I have.  They also dried super fast.  My only negative was the brushes.  Each one was fanned out at the end which made it a little difficult to get the polish on without having to clean polish off my skin.  It is definitely something I can look past because these Frosted Gumdrops are awesome.  Great job Julie G!

China Glaze Bump & Grind

Good Evening!!

I am so exhausted today for some reason so this will be a fairly short post.  Besides as I'm trying to type it up, I'm zoning out and making all kinds of typos.  I went to Ulta the other day for shop for some super cheap nail supplies (if you missed that post, HERE you go!) and I saw that they already had the displays for OPI Bond Girls sands and China Glaze Textures.  I really thought they weren't supposed to be out until next month.  So since my OPIs are on their way, I thought I'd pick over the China Glazes and saw one that I really liked:  Bump & Grind.

This one, along with two others, were on my wishlist, but I actually didn't really like the other colors as much as I thought I would so I took them off and bought only this one.

Bump & Grind is a bright magenta creme base polish with the textured and matte finish.  Unlike the other textured polish that most bloggers have shown (Zoya, OPI, Kiko) these are all creme base with no shimmer. It's nice to have something a little different, but at the same time I'm in love with shimmers so I don't really know how much this will get worn.

I am happy that I bought this polish, but I don't think I'd buy anymore of them.  I just really love the glitter and the sparkle of the sands and pixies.  What's your thought on the cremes vs. sparkle textured polish?  Are you into the textured trend at all?

This didn't really turn out to be so short after all.  Go me!  lol Have a great night!