NOTD: Color Club Magnetic Force

OK, so I'm not exactly forcing myself to blog, so much as I'm firmly encouraging myself to do a post before I go to bed.  & this will likely happen frequently, so I may not have much to say all the time - but then again, a truly lovely polish speaks for itself - like Color Club Magnetic Force does:

Chocolate brown magnetic, what's not  to love?  Aside from the really bad break I had in these pics that was much more glaringly obvious in some of the rejected pics LOL.

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Claire's Teal Green + Color Club Steel of the Night

I still have so many magnetic polishes that I picked up & haven't even worn yet - but they are so pretty I can't regret it =)  This is Claire's unnamed teal green magnetic on the thumb & ring fingers, and Color Club Steel of the Night on the rest:

I love how dark SotN is, nearly as dark as Layla Black Metal (which you can see pics of HERE), & equally gorgeous.

I also wore it matte for a few days, although I don't remember which specific top coat I did it with:

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Color Club Hipnotic - Magnetic Force Polish

I picked up some of the Color Club Magnetic Force polishes at Hot Topic, and then I started seeing them all over the place - under the labels of different brands! If I recall, Finger Paints didn't even bother to change the names of the colors, and I saw another set of dupes from another brand that doesn't come to mind right now, but come on - come up with your own stuff polish companies!

This was another favorite, both for the juicy berry color, and for the design that I ended up doing, by holding the magnet at alternating angles every other nail.  This is Color Club Hipnotic from their Magnetic Force collection:

I did take one vid of this but upon review, it being an extremely dreary cloudy overcast crappy day it didn't really do the polish even as good of justice as the pics, so I skipped uploading it.

Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

NOTD: Color Club Alter Ego

Well, hopefully you're able to enjoy some outdoor time this lovely holiday weekend, but if you're stuck inside due to heat or severe weather or whatever else, allow me to contribute to entertaining you:

Color Club Alter Ego is, in a word, awesome.  Purple, gold, quite nearly a duo-chrome shimmer - pretty enough that it didn't need any stamping or anything added, it stood on it's own & I wasn't bored with it even after several days:

So nice that I have tomorrow off work, so hopefully I'll have time for some more posting then =)  Thanks for reading.

~Colette

Haul - Hunger Games, Color Club Magnetics & Layla

If it's not one thing it's another ... for those of you who don't follow the Fan Page, Frisky has been quite sick & so I've been spending some time with her.  She is curled comfortably, close on her blanket on the chair next to my computer right now.

Anyway, this haul post has been a ridiculously long time coming.  I originally shot the haul like a month ago, but I wanted to include the swatches with the blog post & didn't get around to editing those until a few days ago.  Here's the haul vid:

& for a closer look at the bottles - first China Glaze:

Top row are all from the Hunger Games collection - Harvest Moon, Fast Track, Hook and Line, Stone Cold, Smoke and Ashes & Luxe and Lush.  Bottom - First Mate & Long Kiss.

The Laylas, which at this point I have worn each of them & I am so in love:

Black Metal, Silver Galaxy & Metallic Sky.

The Color Club Magnetic Force colors - which, on a side note, are exactly the same down to the name as the Finger Paints magnetics.  FAIL Finger Paints, for shame:

Steel of the Night, Electro-Midnight, Hipnotic & Magnetic Force.

& the last of the magnetics (for this haul) from Claire's:

The Unnamed Silver & Unnamed Green.

My OPIs from the Holland collection:

Vampsterdam - which I recently used in a tutorial - Dutch 'Ya Love OPI?, Gouda Gouda Two Shoes & Wooden Shoe Like to Know?

My very first Illamasqua polishes, which I received for review:

Radium, Bacterium, and from the Theatre of the Namesless collection, Taint & Vice.

And lastly Milani (top) & Savvy & Finger Paints (bottom):

Hot Pink, Lavender, French Rose Opal Frost, Chrome & Comet's Collar.

Finally, here's the swatch vid!

I am not making anywhere near the progress I would like playing catch up.  But just know that I'm also nowhere near ever giving up blogging!  I will fit it in somehow, eventually.

Thanks for reading.  

~Colette

(These Illamasqua polishes were sent to me for review)

Guest NOTD: Color Club Gossip Column + Finger Paints Motley

I'm finding a few things I'd completely forgotten that I even took pictures of LOL, and this is one of those.  Mom saw Color Club Gossip Column somewhere, in an old post or something I think, and requested it, then added layer of Finger Paints Motley on top for some subtle shimmer:

I think this combination would have looked awesome matte too -just about anything with flakies does after all =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: OPI Gargantuan Green Grape Matte + m64

I started out with a base color of OPI Gargantuan Green Grape Matte:

Then I did some stamping with Color Club Wild at Heart & Konad image plate m64.  I remember when I had this on being disapointed disappointed that the purple didn't actually look more purple - in a lot of lights it just turned out brown =(  & I had tested beforehand & it looked like it would be OK, I don't know if the top coat is to blame for it blending to mud or what ... 

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

China Glaze Magnetix Collection & Swatches (& the Rest of my Huge Nailogy Haul)

I need to put myself on a no-buy ... soon LOL.  But probably not until after I snag some colors from the Hunger Games collection =)  I placed a rather large order from Nailogy after I saw the China Glaze Magnetix collection swatched on The Nailphile.

So hard to resist filling up the cart to get free shipping =)  The original reason for the order was obviously the China Glaze Magnetix collection:

Attraction, Drawn to You, Instant Chemistry, Pull Me Close, Cling On, You Move Me.

Here are the Essie colors that I picked up:

Navigate Her (from the Navigate Her collection), and Armed & Ready (from the Go Overboard collection).

& finally the Color Club colors:

Top:  Glitter Envy & Wink, Wink, Twinkle (from the Starry Temptress collection).  Middle:  Alter Ego (from the Alter Ego collection), Nouveau Vintage (from the Back to Boho collection) & Cold Metal (from the Foiled collection).  Bottom:  Sugar Plum Fairy, Beyond the Mistletoe & Holiday Splendor (from the Beyond the Mistletoe collection).

Here are all of the colors from the Magnetix collection swatched with all 3 of the magnets:

And here are some close up shots:

I don't feel like I'm getting quite as much done this weekend as last, but still - some progress is better than none =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Zoya Malia + bm213

I so totally apologize for being an AWOL blogger this week!  A combination of business & laziness - I just took off this mani, which I'd had on since Sunday.  I know, right?  That's such a long time, I was so bored with it by today LOL.  I was dealing with YouTube problems also, which I finally got cleared up, and then last weekend I helped my stylist at a hair show, took pictures & etc - these nails were actually done to match the purple dress I wore to the event =)

 

I started off with a base color of Zoya Malia - a very lovely lavender creme, completely opaque & even at 2 coats:

 

Then I stamped with Bundle Monster image plate bm213 & Color Club Wild at Heart:

 

Double stamping of course, but this was a very easy design to do it with.  Even though the full nail images on my 2nd set of BM plates are bigger than on the original set, it's still a bit of a better fit for me to stamp it "sideways."  Especially since either direction I'd still need to double stamp.

 

I don't even know what I'm about to put on my nails ... my patches could use a change so I'm thinking glitter since when I soak it off usually my patches come off too.  But that would mean I definitely have to make extra time this weekend, which is busy again with a birthday party, a lunch date, and a fruit tart to be made for work Monday!  Gah, what happened to my boring weekends?!  LOL  If I have any free time I'd like to make a new tutorial, I'd also like to get some more of this year's books posted ... we'll see =)

 

Thanks for reading.

 

~Colette