Indie Polish: Different Dimension

Yes! Another indie polish maker:) I'm happy to support polish makers... Really happy :) I'd been eyeing Different Dimension for a while and I finally took the plunge when she had a sale. I got Social Suicide, That is SO Fetch, and Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty. Also, I picked up a cuticle balm stick. Great idea to be in a chapstick-like form. Fits great in my purse, so my cuticles will always look moist (even if not totally tidy).

This one is Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty. So cute, right? Plus, plus who doesn't love Big Bang Theory references? BAZINGA! This is 3 coats of SKWK over Color Club Worth the Risque.

Soft kitty,Warm kitty,
Little ball of fur.
Happy kitty,Sleepy kitty,
Purr, purr, purr.

Indie Polish: Glitzology

SUPER BLINGY GLITTER BOMB AWESOMENESS!
I'm so in love with the new polishes I ordered from Glitzology. They're gorgeous! Look at them! I could stare at these all day (*_*)
Full sized bottles I picked up: Blue Lagoon, My Viking Boyfriend (no bars), All or Nothing, and Cotton Candy
Mini sized bottles I picked up: Neapolitan, Diamonds & Pearls, Nebula, As You Wish

The first polish I tried from this set was Cotton Candy which I wore over Seche Rose. It's so cute! The pink is very delicate but sugary and fun like getting cotton candy at a carnival! Even my mom liked it and she doesn't like pink polish nor does she like glitter. And this has plenty of both!

Galaxy Nails!

Okay so I'd seen a few tutorials and awesome examples of this technique floating around the web. And I couldn't put it off any longer... I HAD to try it.

Everyone that posted a tutorial said that it was a piece of cake. Easiest thing ever. They weren't too far off the mark on that. I would say that it's easy because it's just randomly sponging a couple of paints onto your nails. But I would also say that consideration for aesthetics comes into play on this. I've seen a couple of examples out there where the galaxy "print" looks too even. That might be my personal preference to see some asymmetry and randomness in a design like this. It's ethereal and just like the cosmos, it's all over the place. I tried to scatter my colors and it sort of worked.

The only other thing I noticed while I was doing this was how unlike a galaxy it looked really until I put the glitter coat on. I didn't want to get my hands messy with the toothbrush splatter technique although it does look awesome like that. So I went with the easy glitter method. But once I put that glitter on, it just BAM! looked like the galaxy. (I think I was channeling Alexis Mateo there...) I even got these odd clumpy polish circles from the sponge dabbing but it worked out fine!

Oh.. another note. I started with a wedge makeup sponge with perfect cut edges. By the end, I'd torn it into smaller pieces (like in Coewless's tutorial) and put the paint on the torn parts to sponge on. Doing that gave a nicer more random sponging pattern.

I REALLY DO love this style. I keep looking at my nails (dangerous while driving) and thinking to myself that it really does look like images of the galaxy on my nails.

 

Polishes:

• NYX Girls - Robotic
• Orly - It's up to Blue
• China Glaze - Electric Beat
• China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
• Essie - Castaway
• Color Club - Worth the Risque
• China Glaze - Fairy Tale
• Seche Vite Top Coat
 

Tutorials and Posts about Galaxy Nails:

•  Polish and Pearls: How To - Galaxy Nails (tutorial)
• Coewless Polish: NOTD – Green/blue Galaxy (+ tutorial!)
• Google Image search for "Galaxy Nails"
• The Nailasaurus: Day 19 Galaxy Nails 2011 / 2012
• Let Them Have Polish: Day 19 Galaxy Nails 2011
• Copy That, Copy Cat: 31 Day Nail Challenge Day 17: Galaxy Nails

Indie Polish: Hit Polish

Yeah. Hit Polish's glitters don't get old! They're so so so cute and sparkly!
This is Hit Polish Retro Chic over OPI Tickle My France-y.
You can pick up her polishes at the Hit Polish Etsy store. She's super easy to work with and shipping was awesomely fast!

 

App I used: Rakugacute

Another HitPolish Hit

HitPolish Patina over Zoya Jules. Feeling classy ;)

Girly

Glitter tips (sinful colors) and deco sticker.

Halloween nails

Katie was a pirate ⚓

and Sarah was Minnie Mouse

Babysitting time = nail polish time!

Always fun to babysit my nieces.

Sarah's: Sinful Polish Cinderella over CG Re-fresh mint over CG Lemon Fizz

My nails: HitPolish Pop Up Video over CG Sea Spray

Katie's: CG Sea Spray over Re-fresh mint

Hit Polish - Shockwave

There are so many blogs out there that are AWESOMELY FULL of nail polish posts but I hardly update so I'm not that awesome :/

In any case, here's a quick post on a new polish I picked up this week from an online shop called Hit Polish.  SO SO SO SOOOOOO~ many CUTE and GLITTERY polishes! I went a little berserk and bought 8 minis for myself >.< (that's my guilty face)

Lookie!

 

Pretty darn cute! I'm wearing Hit Polish's Shockwave (1 coat) over Ruby Wing Myth (which changes color in UV light to a mauve color).

 

Ombre Nails

Big trend these days!

Here's the tutorial I found from thebeautydepartment.com

Here's my efforts at ombre nails:

Lunar New Year 2012

Backlog January 22, 2012

Fauxnad Plates

Backlog January 21,2012

Bought Red Angel and another set of bundlemonster plates from Amazon

Also, Essie's Matte About You

Black and Gold

Backlog January 21, 2011

Erlin pointed this set out to me. It's pretty sophisticated and fun at the same time!

Original Inspiration from Cupcakes and Cashmere - Touch of Grey




Sam Sparro - Black and Gold (YouTube) ... Love this song~

so far behind..

Okay it's been almost a year since I've posted so I'll drop all of the photos of nails I've done in the next post or so. I'll just have to see how this goes :D

April 3, 2011: Coral Crackle


July 3, 2011: Patriotic Mani


August 3, 2011: Red Tigers


October 3, 2011: Graphite and Gold


October 11, 2011: Carnival Accent



December 15, 2011: Another set Disneyland nails