Happy First Birthday, Polishology!

  To celebrate my blog-o-versary/ the first birthday of Polishology, I did a fun celebration manicure!  I had a lot of different ideas for celebration manicures, but in the end I really like what I came up with!

  For this manicure, I started off with two coats of Zoya Areej, a gorgeous medium pink creme.  I added white swirls using Konad Special White polish and plate m63.  I then added one coat of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Cherry Punch, a really pretty reddish pink with silver holographic round and bar glitter.  Finally, I added cupcakes using BM14 and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Brisk Blue and Konad Special White.  For the finishing touch, I added a cherry on top using red rhinestones!

Fuzzy artificial light pic for holo glitter effect!

  I really love how these turned out.  A wonderful way to celebrate Polishology turning one!  I still can't believe it has been a whole year.  Come back Friday to see how things have changed in the past year - including never-before-seen first konadicures! :)

Polishology's 1st Blog-o-versary Giveaway!!

  I am so excited that this blog has been around for a whole year.  I wondered last year when I started this whether it would still be around - perhaps I would lose interest, or maybe nobody would read it and therefore I would stop writing.  But I am so thrilled to have so many wonderful followers - especially those of you who visit often and comment - and am happy to say I love nail polish more now than I did a year ago!  To celebrate, I want to give back to all of you wonderful readers who make this blog amazing!

  One lucky winner will receive the polishes above!  I tried to include a variety here, so hopefully there is something in it for everyone!  Here is a more detailed look at the prize.

Deborah Lippmann Prizes

  First up, the prize pack includes two Deborah Lippmann glitters, Ruby Red Slippers and Bad Romance, as well as a Lippmann topcoat, On A Clear Day.

China Glaze Prizes

  Next, I have included four of my favorites from the new China Glaze Metro collection, Midtown Magic, Skyscraper, CG In The City, and Trendsetter.

Pixel Polish Prizes

  Finally, there are 10 Pixel polishes included, each 5 mL.  Colors are Supernova, Oh Wee!, Oh Boy!, Spam a Lot, Oh Goly Gee!, Text Us, Cuddle Time, Show Me The $, Pixel Dust, and Turqouise the Noise.

  This giveaway is open internationally to all followers - you must be a GFC follower to enter!  This contest will run until September 23rd, and the winner will be announced the next week, most likely the 26th.  The winner will have 72 hours to get back to me or another winner will be chosen.  Winner will be chosen by random number generator.  As always, I reserve the right to add an extra entry or two for those who comment regularly on the blog. :)  Please fill out the form below to enter.  Good luck and thanks again for being such awesome readers!  Luck for my "Happy Birthday Polishology!" konadicure on Wednesday!

Giveaway Closed - Thanks for Participating!

Dusty Purples - Comparison

  This is a comparison I did not because I thought the polishes were dupes, because they clearly are not, but simply to see on the nail exactly what the differences are.  This spring I squired three dusty purples and wanted to look at them all next to each other - I thought somebody else might find this interesting as well, so here you go.  :)

OPI Planks A Lot, OPI Parlez Vous OPI?, Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid

Outdoors, shade

  OPI Planks A Lot is clearly the brightest of the bunch, and compared to the other two hardly looks "dusty" at all, but compared to a more bright purple it definitely is.  OPI Parlez-Vous OPI? is the darkest of the three, and definitely has the more muted dusty look as compared to Planks a Lot.  Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid is the lightest, and also the most grayed out of all three purples (Grurple?).  It is also the only of these three with a subtle shimmer; the others are cremes.

Outdoors, sunlight

  These differences are the same yet more pronounced in sunlight.  I used two coats for each here, and application was very nice and smooth on all three of these polishes.  They are all very nice dusty purples, and each definitely has its own special place in my collection!

Del Sol Color Changing Nail Polish

   On the last day of our vacation in Hawaii, we went to the Dole Pineapple Plantation to get some ice cream.  As we were leaving through the shop, I spotted a rack of polish out of the corner of my eye, and of course had to reroute and check it out!  It was a rack of Del Sol color changing polish, which is a brand I had heard about before and thought sounded like a lot of fun, so I picked one up to give it a go!

Indoors

Outdoors

  This is Del Sol Girls Night Out, and the whole deal with this brand is that it changes color in the sunlight.  Above, you can see the color this polish was indoors - a bright medium pink.  However, in the sun, it changes into a deep dark berry!  This polish also has a touch of golden microshimmer, which makes it even more gorgeous.  I had no complaints with application or wear either.  I stamped the flowers with BM-205 and Konad Special White.  I did this mani the day after we got home - between this and my Hawaiian Pink Diamond manicure, it was a great way to bookend an awesome vacation!

Hawaiian Pink Diamond

  I recently went on an absolutely fabulous vacation to Hawaii, and of course I did up my nails for the event!  While these nails only last a few days there (pool, snorkeling, sand castle building... it is all rough on manicures) they were a great start to the trip!

Outdoors, sunlight

  For these nails, I started off with three coats of Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Pink Diamond, an amazing medium pink linear holographic.  This is just such an amazing holo... I have a couple of pictures of it by itself later on.  I then added swirls using the design from Konad plate m65 and Color Club Worth the Risque.

Sunlight

  Holo was definitely the way to go for the start of the trip - sitting out on the beach or floating out in the ocean, I couldn't stop staring at these nails!  Holographic polishes mesmerize me.  I should not wear them to work, I tend to get less done...

Pink Diamond alone, sunlight

And some more

  Love this polish!  I only have one other SH Nail Prisms.. maybe it is time to make a visit to evilBay and get some more?