Elevation Polish - Sunset Among the Palms

Oh how hard it is to be selective when ordering from Elevation Polish. As you may or may not know, Lulu just released her Hawaiian collection. There are many, MANY beautiful colors to be had. I, however limited myself to two colors. I took a much appreciated recommendation from my friend Jenne at Polished Pathology. She told me for sure that one of my colors had to be Sunset Among the Palms. I was leaning towards something different, but I'm glad she recommended this one, because it's beautiful.

Sunset Among the Palms is a gorgeous purple/pink filled with gunmetal flakies and a scattered holo effect. Application went on smooth as silk, I have on two coats of color and one coat of Seche Vite.

Look at those pretty flakies that are coming through in this pic!

Unfortunately the sun hasn't been coming out to play, here in Minnesota, so the holo won't make an appearance today.

These pictures are very color accurate, in my opinion. Pink/purples can be a brat to capture in pictures sometimes. The only inaccuracy is that my pictures don't do this color it's justice. I am so glad I listened to Jenne and got this color. You should get it too.

As I've told you before, Elevation restocks happen on the 7th and the 22nd of each month. The 7th at 9pm and the 22nd at 9am. At the moment this shade is sold out. This is part of a regularly stocked collection, but can sell out fairly quickly. If you want to grab this, or any of the other Hawaiian beauties get on over to Elevation's online store and grab some for yourself!

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A England - Sleeping Palace

It's Friday, people! Woo hoo! Actually I'm not all that excited because I work Saturdays, so Friday isn't Friday to me.

I've been on a cleaning spree today, and decided to take a break and post my mani from the other day.

I finally used A England's "Sleeping Palace" which is part of the Burne - Jones dream collection. The website is listing it as sold out, but with a little googling I'm sure you could get your hands on it.

Sleeping palace is a lovely dusty plum with a subtle golden shimmer. It also has a soft holographic effect as well. 

In my photos I have on ONE coat of Sleeping Palace and one coat of Seche Vite.

I've never experienced my topcoat dulling the holo in a polish, until it happened with this one. You can still see the holo, it just isn't as strong. Still beautiful though, right? 

I added some nail stamping to this color, because it seemed appropriate.

"Crown your hands and feet". 

Don't mind if I do,

I stamped this mani with Sally Hansen's gold color foil shade and used the Cheeky Jumbo Princess Charming plate. The crowns are the perfect addition, aren't they?

Have an amazing weekend!

OPI Holiday 2014 - Comet in the sky

Hi all! I have one of the glitter toppers from the OPI/Gwen Stefani Holiday 2014 collaboration to show you. I have to say...I wasn't super excited about this collection when I first saw it. Don't get me wrong...this collection has some very nice colors and when it comes to quality product, OPI has it on lock. I was in store at my favorite cosmoprof and got to see the colors in person. The one that really stood out to me was a glitter topper called "Comet in the Sky".

It's kinda fun, isn't it?? I had to have it, simply because the bottle itself looks so beautiful. I'm a sucker for iridescent sheer flakes and glitter, so the combo of that and black is super cool to me. 

In my pictures I am wearing two coats of Comet in the Sky over two coats of OPI's French Quarter for your Thoughts. 

It's a chunky glitter so it definitely needs a generous portion of topcoat to smooth it out. I really like this, as far as glitter toppers go. No fishing for big pieces, and all of the glitters place themselves really nicely.

Now that I've tried this one, I might need to go grab the other glitters in this collection!

Thanks for reading! Have a fabulous day!

Galaxy Nail art

Brrrrrrr! Up here, in the great frozen north, we are having our first BIG snowstorm of the season. My plans are to stay inside all day unless I absolutely HAVE TO go outside.

I was feeling a little uninspired yesterday when it was time to decide how to do my nails. I'm always enamored with the night sky and what's up there in outer space. I came across a photo on Reddit and I felt like it would be a good one to inspire my nail art for the day.

This is two photos stitched together of the Orion Nebulae. [Source]

So beautiful.

Here's my nails, inspired by this amazing photograph.

Depending on who you ask, galaxy nail art may or may not be the "thing" anymore. Either way, I sure do like it. It's a fun, and super simple way to make your nails look super cool!

I started off with a black base, and then sponged on different layers of blue and purple shades. I added a few stars and then topped it off with a layer of Fairy Dust, by China Glaze.

Twinkle, twinkle!

Since the snow is coming down, and I don't have a whole lot to do, I think I'll go think up some more nail art ideas!

Thanks for reading!