Sally Hansen 'Platinum'

Hey guys.

I have a polish for you today that i've had for a couple years now,

and for some reason- have yet to wear.

Turns out, it's a lovely little number!

Hears 2 coats of Sally Hansen's 'Platinum'.

'Platinum' is a silky, gorgeous, pearl duochrome shimmer.

It's very tame, but definitely pretty.

Would be great for a wedding or some other formal event :)

'Shivon'

Helloooooo.

 I have a pretty and intriguing polish for you today!

Here's 2 coats of Zoya's 'Shivon' :)

'Shivon' is a metallic "rose gold with hints of purple & bronze & a strong gold duochrome shimmer". Basically, NOMZ. I didn't even realize the duochrome until I got outside,

and boy, is it gorgeous :)

POLISH INFORMATION

Brand: Zoya

Type: Metallic Duochrome

Formula: Great!

Opacity (1-5): 4

Application: Good

Price:  $8

Get This: Zoya.com

What do you think of this polish?

Day 2: Favorite children's book nail art

Happy Sunday funday!

Today is Day 2 of the children themed nail art challenge i'm doing.

Today's theme is for my child's favorite children's book!

She has many favorites, but one of them is The Rainbow Fish. I'm sure all of you are familiar with this book. I think my daughter likes it best because if the colors, seeing as how she doesn't really understand anything else about it yet, haha.

SO, I went out on a limb and attempted to fish scale nail art using my dotting tool.

(this is prior to clean up, because i wanted a good picture before they got messed up)

As you can see... it didn't work out all that well :( For some reason i have the hardest time with the dotting tool. I think if I made each dot bigger, it would have helped. But oh well.

This was taken outside not long after...and YEP, it already got messed up. My dots were somewhat gloopy, and my topcoat did nothing to help the matter. It got mushed and smushed minutes after I took that first photo. humph.

Here's what I decided to do with my right hand, after the dotting tool art fail.

Easy peasy.

Despite how it turned out,

I really like all the colors I chose.

I'm thinking about doing some nail art or creating an eye look with them in the future...

Here's what all I used!

SO, nail art fail for this day :( But lesson learned, I think. It will be interesting to try again after i've had more practice!

Just Spotted the Lizard!

WHEW!

What an exhausting Monday.

Huge biochem/thermodynamics test AND a presentation...

but it's all over with now :)

Today i've got the first of the OPI minis from the Spiderman collection I bought the other day- 'Just Spotted the Lizard!'

(daylight, shade)

This polish is a rich, silky, metallic duochrome of olive green and gold.

Here's 2 coats.

(sunlight)

Here you can see just how awesomely sparkly it is. 

It's mostly gold in direct sunlight like this.

You may also notice (aside from my horrid cuticles) that my ring finger is chipped :(

I hadn't had this polish on 6 hours (& I went to sleep as soon as it dried) before it chipped.

However, most of my other fingers didn't do that... so all in all, it's probably not a huge problem with this polish.

That being said, I was reallllly surprised at how much I liked this!

I thought it looked interesting in the bottle, but certainly not something that I'd like.

In the end, though, the luscious quality of the polish totally won me over... not to mention how it sparkles in the sunlight! Totally blinding!

Another perk is that this stuff dried super quickly; I never even added any SV.

I like that I don't have another polish in my collection remotely like this, as well.

Do any of you have 'Just Spotted the Lizard!' ?

What are your thoughts?

ALSO,

yesterday was one of the rare days where I went a little matchy-matchy with my makeup and outfit :x So I figured I'd show you!

I know they say NOT to match eyeshadow to outfits,

but I don't care. I love the colors in my top,

and this 'fiery' eye is a favorite of mine to do :)

So yes, I wore this out in public!

I always get compliments on it, too :D