China Glaze Little Drummer Boy

I'm attempting to get back into the swing of things with the New Year and all.  Here is a post from last year that somehow never made its way out of my computer.


Unfortunately, I never got a good bottle picture of China Glaze Little Drummer Boy from the Tis The Season collection, but it's the lone blue in the bunch.  I used a base of Seche Natural, only one coat of Little Drummer Boy and a top coat of Seche Vite.  There was a deep blue shimmer just like in Sephora by OPI Club Scene Queen, but no grey and it wasn't some sheer mess.

As you can see in the sun, I'm back to nubbins... again.  At Christmas, I had a bit of free edge, but then I had a "family issue" and well, just BLAH.  I was pretty ticked, to be honest, because I have RACKS of polish waiting to be swatched and I hate rocking nubbins.

The shade pictures really do this color some justice.  I had debated on hand drawing some snowflakes over this for Christmas, but I'm not very patient and only have one striper brush currently.  Fun times!


I still three more colors from this collection to swatch and much more to come!  I'm hoping to get two posts done a day for at least awhile to get caught up.  There are so many collections coming out this year and if given the opportunity to review them, I want to make sure it's done in a timely manner so you can see what colors you will be lemming.


Have a great New Year!

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.

Happy 2011!

Happy 2011 Everyone!

Blogs of Note

It's the day after Christmas - I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays!

First today is Candy Coated Tips.  Jackie has medium length nails and also makes jewelry!  She has quite a bit of OPI which I love to see all the colors since I really got into polish "late" and don't own a lot of the great colors like the DS series.

Next is Chromatic Misadventures.  Claudia posts a large variety of brands and colors but I think she does post always in her house and not outdoors, which can lead to a bit of color discrepancy.  She has medium nails and was featured as a Top 50 Nail Blog by SpaBeautySchools.com

Last today is Cindy Blogs Nails.  Cindy has medium to short nails and blogs a mix of swatches and nail art.

Enjoy!

Christmas Manicure

Water marble before scrubbing clean up

I really went all out this year on my manicure.  Looking back, I think I needed to stick with one product line of colors - not sure... it was crazy fun to create but also super time consuming.


I started out with a base coat of Seche Natural.  Next I added one coat of China Glaze Cheers To You.  I did several test runs of what base color would look best and the silver in Cheers To You seemed to really make the colors pop.  Next I did a water marble of Zoya Edyta and Zoya Kym.  I did 3 drops of Edyta and 2 drops of Kym for each nail.  Because both are glitter nail polishes, you have to be careful with the way that the polish disperses in the water.  I did not actually swirl the polish because it kept falling apart when I did that, so I just went straight down with my nails in the best possible spot.  To keep my hands (semi) clean, I used petroleum jelly all over my nails down the joint but even then you can see I needed some clean up.  I finally ended with a topping of ManGlaze Matte-Astrophe Clear Matte Top Coat to give it a nice satin look.  Only problem with the matte was that it chipped a tiny bit in some places.


I did have issues with both my pinkies.  On my left hand, I just let it be, but on my right hand, I cheated and just laid down a base coat of Kym and added some swipes of Edyta.


Here's my left hand in the sun and then the shade.  The sun made the matte top coat look non-existent, but it was there.  I did the manicure on Thursday morning and just took all these pictures on Christmas Day, so it lasted a good while.

Next is my right hand, sun and then shade.  You can see how I cheated on the pinkie. 

Yay!  Water marbling checked marked off my list!

Merry Christmas!

Man have I been a slacker this month!  The holidays are always weird for me.


But I have this ridiculously excited renewed sense for the New Year!  The best part was hearing that my cousin is as into nail polish as I am (HI KAREN!) and it just reminded me why I love blogging.


Things to come here on Polish Galore:
-Pulling a new winner from my 500+ Followers Giveaway
-Holding my one year blogging Giveaway
-Pulling the winner of my Apothica Giveaway
-Having my Urban Decay Pigments Giveaway
-Loads and loads of nail polish!
-Posting my eyeshadow and pigments collection (TBA, I have more nail polish to review).


Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, Happy Holidays to all, and LOTS OF LOVE from me!