Giants

Hi!

I know I'm late with this, but I wanted to post the mani I sported for the Super Bowl. Since I'm a New Yorker, I just had to support my home team Giants! I actually don't follow football at all and didn't think I'd be into the game but I was hollering at the screen the whole game lol. It was pretty intense and SO FUN! Though that Tom Brady has got quite an arm, I am proud to say that the Giants won! YAY!



I did a fairly simple mani using OPI in 'Dating A Royal' which is such a gorgeous blue! One of my faves for sure. Unfortunately, the topcoat bubbled up, so I will have to re-swatch this beauty at some point. For the Giants logo I used Wet N Wild Wild Shine in 'French White Crème' and the red stripe is Art Club in 'Red On Red'.

On another note, Color Club is having a nail art contest on their Facebook page. They posted this:

Color Club Nail Lacquer

Valentine’s day is upon us! Ah..the season of significant others, but we see it as another holiday to have an awesome manicure. :) Color Club is holding a Valentine’s Day manicure contest. We want to see simplicity and presentation! Think outside the box, Color Clubbers. You can use between 2-4 Color Club Colors and 1-2 Art Club colors. Be sure to state what colors you used, because we’d love to know!

1st place will receive our new Blossoming 7pk, 2nd place will receive 4 shades from our Blossoming collection and 3rd place will receive 2 shades from our Blossoming collection. The contest starts now until February 15 @ noon (EST). 2 entries per contestant and PLEASE note that we can only ship prizes to US addresses ONLY.

Check out their Facebook page - Color Club Nail Lacquer

Just letting you know that I am not affiliated with Color Club. I just really like their polishes, giveaways, and contests. Now to get working on those V-day mani's! Hope you'll join in the fun!

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by!

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What Rainbows May Come

Hi my peeps! ^.^ Boy did it rain today! It was gloomy all day so I wanted to do something bright and cheery. ^.^ I knew I wanted a rainbow so here's what I came up with!



The rainbow is shooing the rain away - yay! Though, I do kind of like the rain on my pinky. ^.^

Index:
Icing - True Blue (for the sky)
Wet n Wild - French White Creme (for the clouds)

For the rainbow, I used a bunch of nail art stripers and topped it all off with the closest matching glittery stripers I could find. Some of them are made by Art Club and the rest I found in random beauty supply shops so they don't all have names.

Pinky:
China Glaze - Rain Storm (for the sky)
Color Club - Sexy Siren and Revlon Street Wear - Hologram (for the rain)

So there's my rainy day mani - I hope you liked it. Thanks for stopping by! ^.^

jeninjafer
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NYX Blue Ave over WnW Black Creme

Hi ^.^ I just love reading your sweet comments! And I'm so glad you enjoyed my last post! Today's post isn't as exciting, but I'm definitely going to try to bring it back up a few notches tomorrow!

For today's swatches, I've got pictures of NYX Blue Ave. (a flaky polish) over Wet n Wild Black Creme. I was racing against the sun and really just wanted to show you the NYX flakies so I did 1 coat of WnW Black for my base. There were bald spots, but I feel like I've done it no problem with 1 coat before.



I find that some people don’t like the NYX flakies and I can understand where they’re coming from. See, when flaky polishes just started getting popular, I went and got myself NYX Peach Ave, which was a MAJOR disappointment. The flakes were almost like pieces of foily paper that didn’t really smooth out on the nail. Ick. Not too long ago, I guess NYX took a hint and reformulated their flakes. I went to the beauty supply near my school where I got Peach Ave and saw the reformulated Blue Ave and Purple Ave so I picked those up. I was going to get Peach Ave too, but it still looked the same, oh well. Here are some pics.

1 coat


2 coats


3 coats


4 coats


Here’s a bottle shot of Peach Ave and Blue Ave.


Can you see the difference in the pic? You may notice that Peach Ave is not in the regular NYX bottle - that's 'cause I like the NYX brush and wanted to use it for something I like better. I'm not quite sure why I didn't just kick Peach Ave to the curb, but she's still here with an attitude saying "you're gonna want me back". Or maybe that's just the voice of the hoarder in me... Either way, I probably wouldn't repurchase any of the NYX flakies, but I guess they're still nice to have.

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! ^.^

jeninjafer
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