Zoya

Ok, are you aware of how awesome Zoya is? You must make a free account on zoya.com and "like" them on Facebook. There polish is amazing. I wish I had every single one. I'm not sure where I'd store it but I'd find a way. ;) It's high quality lacquer without the high price tag. Their customer service has always been a positive experience for me. Now, the reason you need to make an account and "like" them is because they have amazing promos. On Halloween, they gave away free polish! You just had to pay for the shipping. Seriously! The next day, a buy 2 get 2 code came out. In fact, that code B2G2 is still valid. It expires on Nov. 5 I believe.

You will be seeing a lot of Zoya love from me. I have a little collection starting and I can't resist a Zoya sale.

If you're not sure which polish will look good on your skin tone, you can order what they call spoons. They are inexpensive, and the money you spend on the spoons go towards a credit that you can use to order your polish!

I did not get payed for this lil shout out. Zoya doesn't know that I exist but I do love them!

Day 4 - Green

I had a hard time picking which green to show you today. They are all so beautiful. I picked one of my favorites, Zoya's Edyta (Wicked Collection). Edyta is one of my most unique colors, it has so many colors that come out with the light. Inside, it looks like a dark metallic green. When the light hits it, a beautiful metallic gold and dark blue comes out with the green. It's pretty awesome if you ask me. =) I recommend using two base coats because this baby can stain. I had a hard time capturing all of the colors that is Edyta. Luckily, you can see what I'm talking about in the pictures of the bottle. What you see in the bottle is what it looks like on the nail in person.

Thanks for reading! Tomorrow is blue!

Day 3 - Yellow

Ok, yellow is so not my color. It completely washes me out. Ok, enough complaining....here we go! 

The one and only yellow polish I own is China Glaze - Happy Go Lucky. It's a pretty good yellow. I tried out quite a few and it was the only yellow polish that had good coverage. The other brands/shades were very shear and hard to work with. This goes on pretty streaky for the first coat but the second coat went on smoothly. After two coats, I put on Seche Vite and gave it time to dry (just a few minutes). Then, I stamped on my flowers from Bundle Monster plate #224 with Konad's Special White polish. I always put on a top coat before I stamp so I can quickly wipe off mistakes without taking off my base color. You can only get away with that once before you start rubbing off your polish but it gives you a little wiggle room! =) After I finished stamping, I put on another coat of Seche Vite and called it a night!

I am SO excited for tomorrow's challenge color. I absolutely love green nail polish. The challenge is choosing just one! Hmm......

Thanks for reading!

Day 2 - Orange Nails

I was dreading this day because I never wear orange polish! I only have one in my stash (OPI's In my Back Pocket) that I bought for Halloween designs. Then I realized, Halloween! Today is Halloween! How perfect is that? I did use a Konad Stamp with special black polish (that's what it's called) to make it a little more festive. Hope you like it!!

Happy Halloween!!!

Challenge Day 1 - Red Nails

Yay, I did the first challenge day on time. =) This wasn't much of a challenge for me. Red is my favorite color. My nail polish collection reflects my love of red. I had to make the conscious decision to stop buying red polish when I realized the lack of variety I had. It only helped a little...I just buy more polish. ;)

For today's challenge, I was torn between two reds that I haven't tried yet so I put them together. 

No flash

Flash

The solid shade of red is Zoya's Colbie. It may be my favorite red along with OPI's I'm Not Really a Waitress. Colbie is absolutely stunning. It's a deep red that looks slightly black around the edges. There's a faint shimmer or pearl effect that is only noticed outdoors.The sparkle you see on top of Colbie in my picture with the flash is not apart of the polish. It was accidentally transferred from the glitter nails when I put on my top coat. Woops! I liked it so I let it be.  ;p

I used OPI's Gettin Miss Piggy with It on my ring finger and thumb. It's my favorite of the glitter polishes from The Muppets collection so far. I haven't tried them all yet but the fact that it's red makes it an easy win in my book. It doesn't have as much silver glitter as the other glitters which I like....although it could just be my bottle. I'm not really into the silver glitter in this collection. What do you think about it? I did layer this on top of Colbie. I feel that the Muppet glitters are to sparse and take too many layers to make opaque. I prefer to put a matching color underneath as a base color.

I used Seche Vite for my top coat, I prefer it when using glitter. It took two coats on top of my glittery nails to smooth them out.

Tomorrow is orange which is not my favorite. In fact, I only have one shade. Can I use my Halloween nails and cheat? Ok ok, I'll play fair. ;)

Thanks for reading! Hopefully I'll have Day 2 posted tomorrow!

31 Day Nail Challenge

Tomorrow I'm going to start this challenge. I'm really excited and very nervous at the same time. There are techniques/looks like water marbling, galaxy and tribal nails that I've never attempted before. I'm just starting to learn about nail art so I worry that some of the days might not be pretty. The point is to challenge myself and learn so I'm putting it all up baby! We can cringe and celebrate together with my successes and failures. lol Click the picture below to enlarge.

I don't know who created this challenge. I got this challenge from http://www.letthemhavepolish.com who is already on day 20. She is amazing, you must check out her blog if you haven't already. She and two of her friends are doing the challenge together and it has truly been inspiring. She was gracious enough to tell me to go for it. So here we go!!!! First day red. I can do red. ;)

See ya tomorrow!! 

p.s. I'd love to have you do this challenge with me. If you're interested let me know. We can link up in our posts. 

Oh! One last note....I have to say that I will be taking the challenge slowly. If I'm having a bad pain day, I will be in my bed laying on an ice pack. I do often have days where I'm in bed all day. I'm going to try my best to do this every day but if a day gets skipped let me apologize in advance. 

Ok, now, really, see ya tomorrow!! =)

Crazy & Funky Halloween Nails

I haven't decided if I like this yet. It's definitely just for Halloween for me! What do you think?

I used OPI In my Back Pocket for the base color. I believe it's from the Brights Collection. The polka dots were stamped on with Konad Plate #M79  with Konad's Black Special Polish. I love that it's called special. lol On my ring finger you may notice something strange going on, I put black rhinestones on top of the dots to give a little extra dimension. It's kinda fun, I'm just not used to anything this bold. =)