My Zoya Polish Exchange Haul

I hope you all got to participate!  I personally find the donate option easier than the mailing option, but whichever way you go this is like the deal that I look forward to all year.  I bought 21 bottles, 3 colors were back ordered so this is what I got:

Closer shot of the first row:

Left to right:  Reva, Kimmy, Apple, Tanzy, Rica & Faye, the 6 colors from the Sunshine collection.

Second row:

Phoebe (from the Mod Mattes collection), Dove, Jules, Gemma (all 3 from the Intimate collection), Valerie, & Cheryl.

Third row:

Kelly, Shawn, Tiffany, Reece, Lexi & Yummy.

If you'd like to see me ramble about the colors you can check out the vid =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Sunirse Burst Water Marble

Bright, summery, fun colors - I quite like this even though it's not the design I originally thought I could pull off.  Base is 2 coats of Color Mates Spring Fling, marbling done with Spring Fling, Color Mates Fuchsia Flash, & China Glaze Thataway:

Favorite nails - left thumb & index, right pink & ring:

& the tutorial:

Bonus pics - this is the kind of weather we're dealing with - nearly 90 degrees (mind, it was snowing last Monday), mammatus clouds, and hail - some pretty as an agate, some bigger than a quarter!

Too humid for doing nails ... so mom's marble is put off yet another day LOL.  Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

Quick Staining Update

For those of you who're curious =)  I soaked off all that glitter with pure acetone + foil, and took off my patches also.  It all came off pretty well, but still a lot of staining underneath:

 

 

I don't normally care, but this was bad even for me.  I made a paste of baking soda + peroxide, and did a few rounds of scrubbing with that, and it really helped a lot:

 

 

In the process of redoing my patches right now, then I'll see what I feel like doing for my manicure =)  Also still need to do mom's Mother's Day marble, because we both got totally lazy yesterday & didn't get to it LOL.  Thanks for reading.

 

~Colette

NOTD: Orly Bubby Bombshell + Hidden Treasure

I still have this on my nails ... it's lasted nearly a week partially due to me being in love with it & partially due to me being to busy to take it off LOL.  I started out with I think 3-4 coats of Orly Bubbly Bombshell:

 

 

This glitter has both small & medium-sized bright pink glitter - you can see the different sizes in this shot which was at one coat:

 

 

Then, I don't exactly think I came up with this idea or anything, but I can't remember ever having seen it.  As though being a glitter weren't enough, I decided to add a layer of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, and it turned into this flashy, amazing, foily creation that reminded me of like wrapping paper or something:

 

 

Here's a look in motion:

 

 

And then after a few days I did some stamping with Black special polish & one of my new Bundle Monster plates, bm208, and topped with Matte Magic:

I think I decided this is like 8 or 9 layers of polish to soak off?  LOL no wonder I'm procrastinating =)  & we'll see once it comes off if it's worsened the staining from that orange Hard Candy, or if the amount of acetone I'll no doubt need helps get them back to normal.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

~Colette