These are just a couple of pictures of my Christmas nails from this year – I decided to use China Glaze’s Mistletoe Kisses alone, with no extras.
Continue reading Christmas Nails: China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses
My favorite holiday polish ever is Party Hearty from China Glaze – it’s the perfect mix of big red glitter and smaller green and gold glitter. It came out in 2010, so it’s fun to pull it out each year, sort of a holiday tradition.
Continue reading Christmas Glitter: Dior Lime and Dior Lady w/ China Glaze Party Hearty
I saw a polka dot manicure on Short n’ Chic recently that I liked a lot, so I tried it out myself. It required buying a bottle of OPI’s My Boyfriend Scales Walls to use as the base, but I had been considering that anyway so it provided a good excuse.
Continue reading Christmas Polka Dots w/ OPI The Spy Who Loved Me
I tried out a new combination with Dior Lime – I used a base of Sally Hansen Malt for a “y-gap” manicure, a design used by U.K. nail celebrity Sophy Robson.
I’ve been trying to branch out lately and try the sorts of nail art things that I haven’t done before, so I have here my first moon manicure, using OPI’s Tomorrow Never Dies and Dior’s Grege.
Continue reading Moon Manicure – OPI Tomorrow Never Dies w/ Dior Grege
I haven’t bought any China Glaze polishes for a while, but the new Cirque du Soleil Collection has a few interesting glitters that caught my eye. I tried out Whirled Away over a creamy Dior in these swatches.
Continue reading China Glaze Cirque du Soleil Whirled Away w/ Dior Pink Graffiti
The second polish from Dior’s Les Violets Collection that I have to show is Orchid. It’s a dark, reddish purple creme, perfect for colder weather. I tried it layered with a glitter from OPI’s Holiday Collection from 2011.
Continue reading Dior Les Violets Hypnotiques – Orchid w/ OPI Divine Swine
Dior’s Shadow is from the Les Violets Hypnotiques Collection, which took a long time to reach America but was finally available this summer in Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale.
I’ve never really been into the “accent nail” thing, but I saw a picture of an Anne Hathaway manicure that somehow got me, and for Thanksgiving I tried my own version with OPI’s new You Only Live Twice and Dior’s Icy Dew.
Continue reading OPI Skyfall Collection You Only Live Twice w/ Dior Icy Dew: Red and White Manicure
Dior’s polishes for this holiday season even look like little Christmas ornaments; they’re packaged in little round bottles topped with decorative gold tops. I was trying to be restrained about this collection, but I changed my mind after seeing how quickly Diva sold out online.
Continue reading Dior Grand Bal Collection – Diorling Vernis Diva
Last year at Christmas, Selfridges was selling an exclusive Dior polish named Swan, number 011. I even called the Selfridges Dior counter in London to try to have it sent to me here in Kentucky, but it was impossible-I couldn’t get it done. I’ve looked for it since then with no luck, but when I realized that Dior’s new “Lady” polish was also numbered 011, I starting wondering if I had finally managed to snag Swan, under a different name.
Continue reading Dior Vernis Swan – now d/b/a Dior Vernis Lady?
Dior has a collection of three bright polishes for their Cruise 2013 line – even for those of us who are not taking a cruise this winter, it’s fun to have these polishes pop up in the middle of the darkening, colder days of the end of the year.
Continue reading Dior Vernis Cruise 2013 – Lime, Mango and Pasteque
I have swatches of a couple more polishes from the OPI Skyfall Collection – a crazy red and the 18 karat gold topcoat, The Man With The Golden Gun.
Continue reading OPI Die Another Day w/ The Man With The Golden Gun
I have another layering experiment with OPI’s The Living Daylights to share – I like this one best! I thought that a lighter color would help show off all of the interesting colors in this topcoat.
Dior’s Amazonia is a dark, greyish olive-brown color, and was released as part of the Fall 2012 Golden Jungle Collection. It has that Dior tiny shimmer, and feels cozy. I tried it as a base layer for OPI’s new glitter for Holiday 2012, The Living Daylights.
OPI’s holiday collection is starting to show up in stores now – it’s another movie tie-in, this time the new James Bond movie (Skyfall). Each of the twelve polishes in the collection is named after a Bond movie, and I have swatches of the couple I’ve picked up.