Retro Spring Water Marble

  The gorgeous colors from the Zoya Beach collection were all sitting in a row, calling out to me... since I couldn't choose just one, I decided to go for four at once!

Outdoors, shade

  After a base coat of Sally Hansen Xtreme White On, I marbled Zoya Wednesday, Shelby, Arizona and Tracie together using water marbling technique.  When combined these colors totally make me think retro... so they needed some disco glam as well, haha.  I topped it all off with a coat of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure and Seche Vite and was good to go.  These nails were fun and bright and I really enjoyed them!

Nicole by OPI Wel-Kim To My World - Swatches and Review

  Finally made a bit of decent swatching time for myself the last week or so!  I am still a smidge behind but almost caught up.  Here are six new shades from Nicole by OPI, the Wel-Kim to My World collection for Spring 2012.  As always, swatches shown no base coat, with top coat.

Others Pale by Kim-parison

Outdoors, natural light

This polish is a slightly off-white creme with the slightest touch of rosy pink.  I really like it as an alternative to super bright white cremes, but I found it to be just a bit tacky and streaky on application - whites are always a bit tough.  However it evened out nicely with three coats.

Kim Konfidential

Outdoors, natural light

 Yellowish beige creme.  I think this has a bit too much yellow to look quite right with my skin tone perhaps?  I have seen it looking pretty nice on some other people though.  Smooth application, three coats.

Lights, Kim-era, Action!

Outdoors, natural light

Shimmery silver-white with a sort of opalescent glow.  This one has some duochrome in the bottle, which is not quite as apparent on the nails and totally absent in pictures.  This took three thin coats for full opacity as well.

Up and Kim-ing Pink

Outdoors, natural light

Light pink creme - fairly sure this is a near (or perfect) dupe to OPI Pink Friday (let me know if you want a comparison).   Three thin coats for full opacity

Her Kim's The Sun

Outdoors, natural light

 This glitter top coat is full of gorgeous golden iridescent small glitter particles.  This is one coat over Up and Kim-ing Pink, but it would look great over pretty much any shade.

Nothing Kim-pares to Blue

Outdoors, natural light

 Yay, a blue!  This is a periwinkle blue shimmer which took three coats to reach opacity.  This kind of reminds me a bit of I Don't Give a Rotterdam from OPI Holland, I may have to do a comparison soon.  However I think it is a bit brighter.

Overall Review

For the most part I really liked the colors in this collection.  I had a bit of trouble with the formula on a couple of these, and I would have preferred two-coaters (each polish shown is three coats, except for the glitter), however the colors are fun and very springy.  Some of these seem to be similar to what we have seen before and others are a bit more original.  I am growing a bit tired of the whole Kardashian theme, honestly... but I suppose the names don't really matter as long as the polish is pretty, right?  :)

More Nicole by OPI Spring 2012 collections up later this week!

 DISCLOSURE: The polishes featured in this post  were provided to Polishology by OPI for review purposes.  This is an honest and independent review and was in no way influenced by the company.

Maine Attraction + Giveaway Winner!

  First up, some nails - I got this gorgeous blue from Ulta awhile back with rewards points, so it was free - always nice!  It is a really gorgeous and fairly unique shade of blue.

Outdoors, shade

  This is two coats of Ulta Maine Attraction with stamping using Konad White and plate RA-109.  Loved the formula and the color on this one - I can never have too many blue polishes!  The dusty quality to this kind of makes it feel antique... or something along those lines.  :)  The flowers gave it a really classy and elegant look.

  I also finally wanted to announce the winner of the ElectroPop giveaway - sorry this has taken me so long!  I will be throwing in a couple of extra things for the winner, since this is about 2 months overdue and I feel kind of bad about that.  Now on to the winner.... congratulations to....

Annelise, from the blog No Naked Nails, as well as a variety of other awesome blogs that she runs.  Thanks so much for following!  :)

Girly Pink Skulls

  Every once in awhile I just feel like wearing some skulls.  Sometimes this means one of my awesome Jack Skellington shirts, other times it means skulls on the nails.  Here is a fun mani I wore a couple of weeks ago (along with my creepy Jack tee) when I was feeling the need to express my feelings with skulls.  :)

Indoors, artificial light

  Started out with two coats of Zoya Shelby, followed by argyle stamping with Konad Special Black and plate m60.  Added skulls with bundle monster plate BM-225 and Konad Special White.  Decided to go matte with a top coat of China Glaze Matte Magic top coat.  Really love the way these turned out!

Outdoors, sun

  Just realized the other day that I sort of totally forgot about the CG ElectroPop giveaway... so sorry about that!  I will get the winner announced this week.  May throw in an extra or two since it has been like.. almost two months since it ended, heh.  Look for the announcement hopefully by Wednesday!  :)

Stone Cold

  Another quick post today - still dealing with all of this life-change stuff and to top it off the sinusitis/bronchitis that I thought I got rid of a couple of weeks ago came back with a vengeance.  Ah, life... :)

Outdoors, shade

  Two coats of China Glaze Stone Cold from their Capitol Colors Hunger Games collection.  Gorgeous dark gray/black matte polish.  As with all mattes dries super fast so apply quickly or it can get streaky.  I'm not usually into blacks like this but the matte finish makes it totally awesome.