♥ China Glaze 'Sexy in the City' w/ Toronto 'M' #28 ♥

'Color Cosmetic # 28' & China Glaze 'Sexy in the City'

NOTE; My posts are allllllll out of order, the internet is angry with me. Uploading pics & typing is difficult for some reason. Anyhoo- here is how I jazzed up a previous mani. I think it turned out very pretty.

How I did this;

• 2 coats of 'M' Color Cosmetic's # 28
• 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat 
• Apply Nailene Tip Guides diagonally
  
• 2 coats of China Glaze 'Sexy in the City'
• when dry-remove tip guides, buff any raised areas & apply 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat
  

I wanted to get 1 more day out of my Toronto polish  - 'Color Cosmetic # 28', so I stuck on some Nailene Nail Tip Guides diagonally across the tips of my nails and applied 2 coats of China Glaze 'Sexy in the City'. When it was dry, I  peeled off the Nailene nail tip guides, gently buffed any raised areas, and applied 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat I find that lately I am into subtle contrast, so I thought that these two colors were similar. Whenever I end up wearing this polish I always ask myself "Why don't I wear this more". ChG 'Sexy in the City' is a beautiful polish. It is perfect for layering over a mani that needs refreshing.

  

 

 

!!!!!  Exciting Photo commentary  !!!!!

Grrrrrr. The hot pink on the packaging of these Nailene French Tip Guides, sometimes messes with my camera. When I have worn polish's that are hott pink or orange, taking a photo without my skin turning orange is impossible. But it certainly is helping to show-off the green iridescence of the GhG 'Sexy in the City'

A low lighting photo which miraculously canceled out the orange tones created by that hot pink packaging.

No hot pink = no orangeness. This photo was taken after I removed the package of Nailene french tip guides. After I removed the tip guides from my nails,  the ridges created by the tip guides are visible. When your nails are slightly wet you can take a chance and gently 'squish' these down with the pads of your finger tip. But - waiting till your nails are dry enough to gently buff with a fine buffer will result in a crisper, perfect line. Usually 2 coats of Top Coat will conceal a raised ridge, too

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= How I did this - In photos =

This is a 2 day old mani, that I wanted to get a little more life out of before I removed it. This was 2 coats of this blue & 2 coats of T.C.

Applied Nailene french tip guides

Applied 2 coats of China Glaze 'Sexy in the City', waited till they were dry & removed, buffed any raised areas and applied 2 coats of T.C.

 - ta-da -

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♥ Icing mini's Skittles ♥

I can't believe I am writing this; but these polish's need less glitter. Less of the smaller silver glitter, that is; and more of these awesome colored specks of glitter. In the blurry fuzzy single nail photo below, you can see the glowey blue/purple specks of glitter very easily. There almost seems to be too much of the silver glitter, and I feel that in normal lighting conditions, this dense smaller silver glitter envelops these awesome blue specks of glitter. There are several better swatches of these on the interwebz, mine are not that great.

 These 5 minis are very pretty polish's, they applied just fine, the brush was easily maneuverable, and they dried in a timely fashion. This is one coat over black with 1 coat of NaileneT.C. My only complaint is wishing there was more 'specks' of these awesome glowey specks, and having less silver glitter.

THUMB - Goldie locks - creamy silver

INDEX - Sparklin Girl - purple

MIDDLE - Starry Eyes - Blue

RING - Passion - Pink

PINKY - Oscar - Gold

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♥ WTF Toronto polish & The 'Trophy wife nails I use ♥

1/06/10...seriously?

So I really, really love the darkest blue polish that I picked up in Toronto, Ontario- but it stained my nails terribly ( my false nails ). Also, I found that it is a foil polish, as when I was removing it there was a sheet of silver polish left on my nails that required some serious elbow grease and acetone! I didn't even get it all off.

The photo's below are after polish remover- and a close up shot of my thumb nail. Pictured above as well as the last photo are the 'Trophy Wife' length nails I am wearing at the moment. I loooooooove these false nails and I am stocked up for a few more months.

Anyhoo- I did some serious prep before applying these false nails, and will be 'stuck' ( ha-ha ) with them for a week or two. I will be sure to apply a base-coat the next time I try any more weird obscure brands of polish.

 

 

- Trophy-Wife length nails.... I ♥ these

 

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Nail Polish Challenge... yes I am still working on this.

= Frankens =

So - since I have run out of 'space' to post photos without paying for it, for now I think I should clear out my "to post" posts. I seriously have 14 posts - waiting to be posted that have just been sitting around for like 3 months....

WOW - This Billie 'French White' did something totally un-expected when I mixed it with Wet 'n' Wild Blue Sapphire' = It hid all the shimmer from 'Blue Sapphire'! I could only spot it very faintly in the bottle and in strong sunshine on my nails. So this was a pleasant surprise, I was not expecting lite blue cremes, I was hoping for shimmery lite blues. I'm not complaining = these turned out lovely♥

I also tried to franken a jelly or a more sheer version of  Wet n' Wild 'Blue Sapphire'  by mixing half 'Blue Sapphire & half clear nail polish, but it is still way, waaaay too opaque. I am starting to appreciate sheer & jelly-ish finishes more, and need something to compliment all my glitter creations I come up with. I am going to mess around with this sheer version of 'Blue Sapphire' I need another bottle of this though, I am in love with this color!

* Wet n' Wild Franken polish are turning out to be awesome! plus there $.99 cents in the USA & $1.59 in Canada! Has any Canadians come across the new Wn'W polish's yet? =  = off to MUA for answers.....

 Here is the links to the other 4 posts in my "Deez Nailz Nail Polish Challenge" where i am trying to come up with as any looks as I can with just 2 colors of polish's and regular everyday items from around the house, like mailing labels, sponges for sponging, can opener, cement mixer, light-bulbs and glitter.

NP Challenge # 1

NP Challenge # 2

NP Challenge # 3

NP Challenge # 4

Far Left - 1/2 Clear & 1/2 Wet n' Wild 'Blue Sapphire'

Middle -  3/4 Billie 'French White' & 1/4 Wet n' Wild 'Blue Sapphire'

Right - 1/2 Wet n' Wild 'Blue Sapphire' & 1/2 Billie 'French White'

 

THUMB - 2 coats of white & two coats of franken 1/2 clear & 1/2 'Blue Sapphire'

INDEX - 2 coats of Billie 'French White'

MIDDLE - 2 coats of  3/4 White & 1/4 Blue Sapphire''

RING - 2 coats of 1/2 White & 1/2 'Blue Sapphire'

PINKY - 2 coats of Wet n' Wild 'Blue Sapphire'

 

 = comparison to the 'sheer sapphire' (thumb) polish I made to origional (pinky) =

 

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The end of Deez Nailz?

 WOW!

I loved adding all these photos to my blog but it has finally happened~ I tried to load up new photos and I got this message....

"this site has exceeded it's file quota" 

I was just asking that a few weeks ago - how much space does a blog have?...... well, I still don't know how much space I have used, but apparently I have run out of it. At the end of summer I made a new blog deez10nailz.blogspot.com, - I will start posting over there = unless I figure out how to fix this one so I can still post here

I still have 14 posts-waiting-to-be-posted. So I will just be posting those un-posted posts till I figure all this out.

Has anyone else out there run into this problem yet? I really love blogger - I am stubborn and do not want to learn a new type of 'blogger' or 'word-press' type thing. I hope it isn't like, un-ethical to just start up a new blog and keep this one running as well.

Grrrr.. what to do?

Here is my other blog, just in case............... I am glad I thought of that♥

http://deez10nailz.blogspot.com/
 

Never mind - I figured it out - I have already used 99% of my allotted picasa web album space...

 

 

 

Picasa Web Albums

	1 GB
0.99 GB (99%) in use

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♥ Nat Robbins "Greed" ♥

4 coats of Nat Robbin's "Greed"

 Here is 4 coats of Nat Robbins "Greed". I have added a few comparison photos of Sally Hansen " Emerald City" at the end of this post. This Nat Robbins Polish "Greed" is 2 to 3 shades lighter than "Emerald City".These photos are with no Top Coat as I found this polish to be extremely shiny on it's own and plan to add some nail stickers or other embellishment soon. "Greed" needs 4 to 5 coats to be opaque, and will benefit from being left open for a few hours on a window-sill or outdoors to thicken up. This is a older discontinued polish that I found at a smaller dollar store in my town.

I think I would choose Sally Hansen "Emerald City" over this polish becuase Nat Robbins "Greed" is very, very thin, and needs almost 5 coats to be totally opaque. "Emerald City" also dried very fast, while this polish "Greed" took a little longer than I expected. I wish there was actually grass outside to use as a prop - but instead there is like 2 feet of snow.

ALSO!!!!! I really, really want to have my blog roll with photos of other peoples blogs - is anyone finding that it takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r. for my blog page to load up? I hope not - becuase I really want to keep the photos with the blog links♥

= Left to Right, 1 coats, 2 coats, 3 coats, 4 coats =

 

{ pardon my right hand nubbins above - I am doing some exciting crafty things and would totally demolish the Nailene trophy wife nails I usually wear - These are Kiss Brand Nails - the 'active curved' that a friend passed along to me.I cut them down to a very short size becuase I am doing a few DIY home things this weekend}

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 Ring - 2 coats of Sally Hansen Extreme Wear 'Emerald City'

  

Ring - 2 coats of Sally Hansen Extreme Wear 'Emerald City'  

 Ring - 2 coats of Sally Hansen Extreme Wear 'Emerald City'  

Ring - 2 coats of Sally Hansen Extreme Wear 'Emerald City' ♥

♥ 'Midnight Hour' - Nat Robbins ♥

Here is the lovely 'Midnight Hour' from the brand 'Nat Robbins'. This is 4 coats with 1 coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat. This polish is very runny and will benefit from being left open for a couple of hours to thicken up  { I can't believe I just wrote that }. I found that a full mani took a little longer than usual to dry - but the humidity in my home is very, very high at the moment.

I almost sacrificed my Old Skool Wet n' Wild glitter to make a franken exactly like this last week - thank goodness I waited! This is a pretty jelly-glitter polish and I have recently seen that BB has come out with some very pretty glittery jelly's. Initially the jelly-ish finish of polish's like this are a turn-off for me. But I am starting to like them more and more.

I found this polish at a dollar store in my town called "A Buck or Two". There are a few of these stores across Canada HERE is the link  for the company's website, where you can check if they have a store in your Canadian town. I have found alot of older Sally Hansen's, Naturistic's Super Chrome's, L.A. Girl (old yucky colors) and some Caboodle's products at these stores as well. Also if you are from Ontario - check out my awesome dollar store haul post from January.= Lucky Ontario girls!!!!!

Does anyone out there recall seeing this "Nat Robbin's" brand in stores?

Thank friggen goodness I was able to take some outdoor photos. The sunshine turned my skin a weird color =but my nails turned out great!

 

  

 

 

  

 

   

@3 coats - no T.C. - pre clean-up

 

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