Pink October: OPI Care to Danse? and KleanColor Metallic White + Stamping

I don't think the blog post title is long enough. I needed a palette cleasner so I went for one the OPI NYC Ballets and turned it into a jelly sandwich with some sparkle and added some for-the-cause stamping.

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I started out with two coats of Care to Danse? and then added one layer of Klean Color Metallic White which is a shimmery metallic white flecked polish.  It's very sparkly!  I then added two more thin coats of Care to Danse? and sealed with a coat of Out the Door.  I used Orly Bonder as my base coat.

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You can really see the sparkles from the Klean Color here.  These two colors play SO nicely together and make such a clean/delicate jelly sandwich.

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For the stamping I used Bundle Monster plate BM-321and Konad Special White stamping polish.  For the pink ribbons I used Zoya Lara which is the perfect pink for the occasion!

I'm still currently selling the Pink of Me polish in my Etsy store. Two dollars from each purchase goes towards Men's Breast Cancer Awareness education.  Pink of Me is available HERE. So far $32 has been raised!

Oopsie Daisies Pink of Me

Parlez-Vous OPI and Klean Color Luscious Lilac

I thought the combination of purples for this manicure would have looked a lot better than they do.  But oops.  Luscious Lilac has far too much red in it, but it is pretty so I decided to keep the mani even though it didn't mesh as I had hoped.

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This is two coats of Parlez-Vous OPI and two coats of Luscious Lilac over Orly Bonder and sealed with Out the Door.  You could seriously get away with one coat with Luscious Lilac. It's super pigmented and sparkly.  I want to wear it as a full mani next, maybe. Both formulas were incredible - smooth, opaque and easy to apply.  Considering the brands are pretty much at different ends of the spectrum, I was really surprised.

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Parlez-Vous OPI is a ridiculously cremey polish while Luscios Lilac has glass fleck, sparkles and who knows what else - but it's fabulous! I definitely love both of these two, I can't believe they've been in my untrieds so long!

My giveaway for my first collection of Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish ends on Friday!

Blank Slate Nails Part II

I had so much fun with my rainbow zebra nails I wanted to give the blank canvas style mani another try.  This time I chose random polka dots in summery colors for my design.

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This is the final product but it didn't always look so circusy!

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I started with Orly Bonder and used 2-3 coats of Sally Hansen Whirlwind White and sealed it with OtD.

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Then I started adding dots with my dotting tools. I used one large end and one tiny end of the dotting tools to create a stylized gradient effect.

For the dots, I used KleanColor Mango, KleanColor Bikini Green, Brucci JT's Ocean Blue and Sally Hansen Lightening.

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I started with big green and yellow dots. I used the smaller dotting tool for the blue and orange.  I also made sure that the edge of my nail was covered to help along the gradient effect.

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Blank Slate Nails Part I

Blank slate nails! They're like a canvas screaming for some color. I wouldn't wear a regular stark white polish on its own as it looks like White-Out but I would use a stark white for a base for some fun designs!

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This is a blank slate, just screaming for something to be done! I started with Orly Bonder and used 2-3 coats of Sally Hansen Whirlwind White and sealed it with OtD.  Looking at my white nails just gets the gears turning!

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Rainbow zebra stripes? Sure! I used plate BM-223 and a few different colors to do this.  KleanColor Mango, Sally Hansen Lightening,  China Glaze Fuchsia Fanatic and KleanColor Bikini Green.  I did diagonal stripes on the plate with the polish to get some more fluidity in the design.

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It kind of reminded me of Fruit Stripe Gum. It's obviously not a direct take on it, but it made me feel like Fruit Stripe Gum and Lisa Frank had a party on my nails.

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Overall I think its a sunny, fun, summery mani that doesn't take much effort. I may try this with other full-nail images from my plates. What do you think about it?

Summery Funky French

It's almost Memorial Day, which means it's almost June.. which means it's almost summer! And what better way to celebrate that than with an obnoxious funky french?! I went full derp on this one (you NEVER go full derp!)  My sister politely told me it belongs at the Jersey Shore, which at this time of the year, becomes a scary place.

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So for this mani I did things similarly to how I do my regular french manicures, which is applying the color to the bare nail so it is easy to shape it and fix any errors. After the color was on, I applied a coat of Orly Bonder. Then I stamped with WnW Black Creme and I can't remember which Bundle Monster plate (oops), after that I put on another coat of Bonder. I'm not sure if my layering was the best but it worked in this case!

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After the second coat of Bonder, I applied Instant Artificials since the color had left a visible lip/edge sort and was raised a bit compared to the bare nail.  After that dried a little, I sealed it with Out the Door.

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I used China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy for the pink (3 coats), KleanColor Mango for the orange (2 coats) and KleanColor Bikini Green for the green (2 coats).

KleanColor Bikini Green

I've been consumed by academia lately. Finals weren't the issues (I've yet to take them) but more so final projects and papers.  Always due the week before finals, always big chunks of your grade.  Two of my finals there is no way to "study" for them, so I've got a light load in regards to studying, at least!

I swung by my dollar store and picked up a couple Klean Colors.  This one stood out to me so I grabbed it.

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This is Bikini Green, 3 coats over Orly Bonder and sealed with Sally Hansen Diamond Flash top coat.  All of my other topcoats have picked up shimmer from various manicures, I'm keeping this one "pure" by only using it on cremes.  My giant bottle of OTD has a ton of shimmer in from my mother carelessly using it, and the rest have just picked some up over time.

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I think there is some neon to this one, it didn't photograph 100% accurately.  It's close, though.  It's really a sunny green but it is a bit more grassy in real life.

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You don't necessarily need 3 coats for this. I did two on my right hand. I'm not sure why it always works out like that, maybe I meticulously scrape too much polish off the brush when I'm painting with my dominant hand, I'm not sure.

KleanColor Mango

My dollar store has a KleanColor display! And it's a real dollar store, so they're only a dollar.  This encouraged me to pick up some new types I'd normally pass on.

KleanColor Mango is an almost neon creme of sorts.  It's a strange polish but very bright.

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This is three coats over Orly Bonder sealed with OTD.  It wore really well but KleanColor's take a little bit longer to dry.

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You could easily do only 2 coats, I did on my right hand.

Flash

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It was so fun to wear this, my hands were distracting me.  Definitely a summer color, not so much early spring, but that's OK.  If you can get your hands on this one, do it!

Fresh Paint Emo and KleanColor Blue Satin

I found the Fresh Paint polishes at Five Below, I'm not sure if they're sold anywhere else. And I feel like I hit the jackpot, my sister informed me that our local dollar store had a display of KleanColors. So today's mani is a layered one using both brands.

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This is two coats of Emo over CND Sticket and sealed with Beauty Secrets Top Coat.  It's a dark blue jelly.  I swatched it on some tape on my arm so you can see that it really is blue.

See? Blue!

I figured KC Blue Satin would look nice over it, so that's what I did.

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Such a pretty combination!  This is one coat of Blue Satin sealed with OTD.  This was just a swatch and remove, so I don't know how they did with wear.  I can't wait to play with the rest of my new beauties!

Ulta Aim to Squeeze & KleanColor Chunky Holo Candy Jelly Sandwich

The Ulta Aim to Squeeze polish came in a set of minis comparable to the OPI Texas Sorbets.  I used the orange one from the Ulta mini set and put 3 coats, one coat of KC Chunky Holo Candy and then one more of Aim to Squeeze, a fun orange jelly.

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This is over CND Stickey and sealed with OTD, of course.  The three coats of AtS on their own were.. quite ugly.  It's a fun polish to sandwich with but in my humble opinion, fugly on its own.

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Its just not my style and there was some bare spots (my fault) on the tips, but they were covered by the rest of the layers.

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Definitely click to enlarge to see the detail. Candy is INCREDIBLY subtle buried in the jelly.

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Revlon Royal & KleanColor Chunky Holo Bluebell

I've had these KleanColors forever and finally tested them out - about time!  I also have an upcoming post with a different Chunky Holo so keep an eye out for that, too.

I went food shopping and spotted Revlon Royal.  I don't know how many times I've passed it up but I ended up picking it up at Wegman's of all places, it was time for me to own this stunning blue jelly after dodging it for ages and I'm very glad I finally got it!

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This is two coats of Royal (it's surprisingly very opaque for a jelly!) with one coat of Chunky Holo Bluebell over CND Stickey and sealed with OTD. The whole combination was so shiny and eye catching.  The KC is a bit subtle over this color but when the light hit it right, it was stunning.

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I did have a little bit of trouble trying to catch the essence of this combo due to the shiny glare from my lamp, but you can get a pretty good idea of what it looks like if you click to enlarge.

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Jessica Disco Diva & Valentine's Stamping

With the lover's holiday approaching, I thought it'd be cute to add some themed stamping to my dazzling previous manicure.  I seriously can't get enough of Disco Diva, the linear holo is so incredibly strong!

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I used Funky Fingers Monster Ballad for stamping and Klean Color Metallic Blue for the dots as well as Monster Ballad.  The finishes of the colors (foils) played so nicely with the base (holo).

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For anyone wondering, the rose is from plate BM09 and the kissy lips are from plate BM02.  I used a dotting tool for the dots, of course!

Turkeys Are Brown

And so are my nails.  Well I should specify that COOKED turkeys are brown, some have brown feathers, too.. but I digress.  I like brown but I'm not loving the shimmery metallic nonsense that's going on.  That boils down to personal taste though as there is nothing wrong with the formulas.

This is two coats of Klean Color Coffee Addict with two coats of OTD.  One thick coat would've sufficed but I used two.  It's pretty, but not my style.  It took a little bit longer to dry than most polishes, too.

This is two coats of OPI Warm & Fozzie which runs in the same family as Coffee Addict but has some different qualities to it.  I had a hard time trying to photograph this one o.0