Ericas Nails & More Nail Art Challenge! Day 5 Valentines Day Nails

Happy Valentines Day & welcome to day 5 of Erica's Nails & More Nail Art Challenge!

Today is clearly themed Vday nails. I spend my Valentines Day with my fur boyfriends and girlfriends at my local SPCA. I go about three times a week, and this week is no different :) Furbabies need loving too. Plus its way more fun than the same ol' dinner & a movie.

Anyway, I digress. Here is my manicure!

I used OPI Pink Friday, China Glaze Seduce Me, China Glaze Midnight Kiss & Rainbow Honey My Love! I was so happy to get my Rainbow Honey order so quickly & I was most excited to try the LE, My Love (my untried!). I love it! It is full of gold sparkle and pink shimmer, iridescent goodness, and silvered white and pink heart glitters! Very pretty combo. I added some stripes and heart rhinestones too :]

Do you like it? I'm quite happy with how it turned out! I like that CG Seduce Me darkens the tone of it a bit and the heart rhinestones and Pink Friday still add a bit of fun!

Oh and looky at what I got in the mail!! I was part of a Secret Cupid Swap and this is my gift that I received from the lovely Chasadie! I LOOOVEEE IT so I had to show it off! I had been lemming Zoya Aurora for FOREVER. And I wanted to try a liquid sand so badly and she picked the PERFECT colour :) I also got a ton of cool samples (I'm most excited about the John Frieda ones ;) I don't know how she knew that those are some of my favourite candies but they almost didn't make it to the picture because I ate them all up immediately!

And just for a bonus, here is a picture of my last years Valentine, Mr. Duke!! I am happy to say that a year later, he is in a happy forever home. Warm, safe & sound with a forever family. Now THAT is a happy Valentines Day story <3

Don't forge to check out the other awesome nail art from Day 5!!

NOTD Funky French! Fail Art.

Hi!

Quick break from work to post some fail art! I tried to do a "funky french" manicure and it just went from bad to worse.

I started with Zoya Cho (which I really like), and then added the tips in Color Club Perfect Molten (I really like this one too!). Then with a black striper I did those lines. However much I like those two polishes.... it does not look good. Haha This mani didn't last too long! Should have just slapped some glitter on Cho and called it a day, but of course I had to muck it up :P

I thought adding rhinestones would fix it..... just added insult to injury LOL :P

Color Club Hot Like Lava - Swatch & Review!

Just a quick swatch/review today of one of my all time favourite pinks. This is Color Clubs Hot Like Lava. You guys ever play the game when you were kids and you had to jump around the living room on the furniture and you couldn't touch the ground because it was made of lava? I loved that game. In fact.. the name is the only thing that bothers me about this polish..... it's pink. While lava is actually falls between orange and red n'est pas? :P Anyway, everything else about this polish is great.

It is a bright, extremely saturated, deep jewel toned pink with a somewhat shimmery foil finish. Formula was amazing and this is one coat, no topcoat, and no clean up. I couldn't be happier with the quality of this one. It dried quick and with some sparkle. I love it :)

This came out with Color Clubs Foiled Collection in 2011 just before the holidays. All the polishes in that collection were foil finishes and they all had amazing formulas!

Thats it for today! Do you have any colours from the foiled collection? Do you like them as much as I do? I am still spotting them on sale for 3.99 at Lawtons in Canada!

Zoya Zuza - Swatch

Herrrrroh!

Here is the only polish I have from the Zoya Summer Beach\Surf collections. It's the one that is getting the most attention: Zuza. What a sassy name. Zoya doesn't ship to Canada so it is more tricky for me to get a hold of. Nail Polish Canada sells Zoya for $8.75 and I've had really good experiences shopping with them. They also have been getting their collections in faster than they used to, which I am happy about.

***Side note: Every time I email\tweet\FB Zoya about whether they have future plans to ship to Canada I get zero response. Absolutely nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Not even a "No plans as of yet" or anything. Even if the answer is no I would still like to be aware, 'tis why I asked! I gave up on asking quite a while ago now. I wish they'd respond to my legitimate question as fast as they respond to their Facebook page about what they did on the weekend. Ok, end rant and here are some pictures of Zuza!

Zoya describes Zuza as "Deep, saturated, oceanic turquoise with gold and silver metallic shimmer and a foil-like finish. A beachy, colorful, foil-like shade with the perfect balance between blue and green." and I think it is pretty bang on.


For me, it definitely applied like a foil, and not a shimmer. Mine was slightly chunky but with a second coat it was perfect. It looks to my eyes to have much more silver than gold shimmer but it gives it a glowy shimmery shine and tons of depth. It really is a great balance between blue and green, I wouldn't be able to choose whether it is a blued-green or a greened-blue. I'm going to go with Goldilocks here and say it's just right.

I think Zuza is unique and perfect for the season, and if the rest of the collection looks anything like this on the nail, I'll have to make another purchase! Im keeping my eyes on Kimber and Carley!