China Glaze Midnight Mission

What's up, off centered bottle?  Heh.  Midnight Mission from the Vintage Vixen collection which is being released domestically today (!) is listed as a navy blue frost with silver micro glitter.  The whole Essie Starry Night thing was before me,  but it seems like this could possibly be a bit like it?  I don't know, like I said, this is before my "time".  ^_^


I had a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Midnight Mission, and a top coat of Seche Vite.  This color and formula was pretty decent - nothing extremely special but nothing bad either.  I'm not sure how I feel about navy still.  Sun pictures up first.

I think this would be a really great fall color come September, when the leaves are starting to fall... I think?  We don't have "fall" down here, but I love the concept of trees losing their color and leaves instead of what we have, haha.

I only got one shade picture for you today.

And that's all she wrote.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze First Class Ticket

Oh man.  China Glaze got me all excited with this one - First Class Ticket is a deep purple frost with shimmer and wow, it's amazing.  I did have to do some major color correction on the actual pictures but let me tell you, it was totally worth it.  This is a blurple, meaning you see lots of blue along with the purple - in fact, the shimmer was mostly blue particles.  Oh man, I'm just going to shut my mouth and start with all the pictures (there are a lot of them).


I used a base of Seche Natural, 2 coats of First Class Ticket, and a top of Seche Vite.  Yum.  Sun first.

I mean, seriously - look at this!  Like I said, I had to color correct to get this to its true color - the camera was going nuts saying "BLUE" but this is definitely a purple on your hands.  Soooo pretty.  Shade pictures:

I think this is probably the MUST HAVE of the collection for me.  I absolutely adore this color.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

4th of July Nail Art

So, we went from 109 degrees to Hurricane Alex.  We're talking 5 inches of rain in a day.  What on earth.  I hate this weather.


Thinking back, it's rained EVERY 4th of July that I can think of.  I'm in South Texas!  It's not supposed to rain!  Blah.


I also broke a nail (after all my China Glaze Vintage Vixen swatches, so tomorrow it will look like my nails grew tons!) so I'm back to tiny nubbins again.


Very simple manicure here... Seche Natural for my base, 2 coats of China Glaze Ruby Pumps, some tiny rhinestones from eBay on my ring finger, and a top coat of Seche Vite.  On my ring finger, I used Winning Nails "Tough Coat" which is supposed to specifically seal nail art.  I feel like it makes the rhinestones look a tiny bit gummy.


Anywho, no real sun, but here's a few pictures.  Happy 4th of July to all my American readers!

Tee hee, I kinda screwed up the rhinestones.  Well, I tried.  Kinda looks like a rocket!

NovaLash Eyelash Extentions

*Photo located on NovaLash's website.

On July 12th delayed until spring 2011 :(, I'm getting a complementary set of NovaLash Eyelash Extentions [official website | Facebook Page | Twitter Page] put on from Bella Bella Salon [official website], where I got my purple hair.  Whew, that's a lot of links in a sentence.


Bella Bella is going to start offering NovaLash and were giving out 5 free applications, so I snagged a spot.  This procedure costs about $300 as they apply each lash by hand and it's lash by lash.  I was told that they will fall out with my natural eyelashes, in 2-4 weeks.  I could come back in 2 weeks for a reapplication which would run about $45, or just let them fall out.  I did fail to ask what color they are using, as I've seen on their website that they have green, purple, and blue.  I'd like to stick with just black, hah.


I have a huge love/hate with fake eyelashes... love the way they look - still haven't figured out how to put them ON myself, so this is going to be awesome.  While I'm not going to stop nail polish blogging (yeah right), I am branching out a teeny tiny bit.  Later this month, I will also be reviewing beauty products for Beauty Debutante [official website] and writing as a guest blogger.  Wee!


I'm pretty excited about the whole thing, so expect a post in the coming weeks about it!  ^_^

China Glaze Bogie

I'm a huge purple fan, so I figured that Bogie from the Vintage Vixen 2010 Fall Collection would be right up my alley.  It's not bad, honestly.  It reminds me of a few other colors though, but I'd have to do a comparison to be sure.  China Glaze lists this as "plum frost with shimmer"


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, one coat of Bogie, and a top coat of Seche Vite.

Polish consistency was good - I love only using one coat.  You can see the shimmer a bit and it is very "plum" like in shade.

I do really like how frosts look in the shade/indirect light - it's smooth like a shimmer but not brush strokey like a metallic.  Quite pretty overall.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.