China Glaze The Glam Finale, Holiday 2017 Collection - My Picks

For my last post of the year, I have my picks from the Glam Finale Collection by China Glaze.  There are 12 polishes in this collection in a mix of formulas including glitters, shimmers, metallics and matte.  Here are my picks:

Sparkle On is a red jelly base with multisized red and hex glitter.

Big Hair & Bubbly is a mix of small and micro hex gold glitter in a clear base.  It can be used as a topper, but builds up to full coverage nicely.

Don't Be a Snow-flake is a milky jelly base with small silver glitter and holographic hex glitter.  This is one of my favorites.  I love the look of this one.

Queen Of Sequins is a dark purple base with blue and copper/pink shimmer.

New Year, New Boo is a royal blue shimmer.

Love OPI XOXO Holiday 2017 Collection - My Picks

The Love OPI XOXO Holiday Collection consists of 12 limited edition shades in crème, shimmer, pearlescent shimmer, metallic, jelly and flakie formulas.  Here are my picks:

Coalmates is a dark charcoal with deep blue and holographic shimmer.  I'm wearing this one right now and it's a stunner!

Ornament to be Together is a silver foil with holographic shimmer.  I almost passed on this one.  Really, who needs another silver polish?  But, the holographic shimmer makes this one stand out.  The holographic is much more visible in person.  I'm really glad that I chose it!

 Top the Package with a Beau is black with metallic gold flakies. This one is really unique to my collection. I like it even more that I thought I would!

Zoya Party Girls Holiday 2017 Collection - My Picks

It's holiday time!!!  I always get excited to see the new holiday collections.  This year Zoya released the Party Girls Collection.  It consists of 12 polishes in crème, shimmer, metallic and peal formulas.  Here are my picks:

Isadora is a deep wine with a purple/blue shimmer shift.  It has a great formula and applied well.

Tawny - is a copper shimmer in a jelly formula.  This one started off extremely sheer.  It's a 3 coater, but it's lovely.

China Glaze Seas and Greetings Holiday 2016 Collection - My Picks

The Seas and Greetings collection features 12 polishes in crème, metallic, glitter and matte formulas.  China glaze surprised us all this holiday with a collection that seems more fitting for spring and summer.  It's inspired by the oceanside with beachy shades, but they pull in the holiday theme with the polish names.  This is the first time that I haven't been head over heels for a holiday collection from China Glaze.  Oh well, maybe next year.

Eat, Pink, Be Merry is a light pink with pink shimmer in a crelly formula.

Sand In My Mistletoes is a light nude with a peach tone in a crème formula.

Son Of A Nutcracker

Son Of A Nutcracker is part of the "Cheers" collection that China Glaze released for this past holiday season.  I didn't purchase it back then because it didn't look Christmassy to me.  It looked like something that should be in a spring or summer collection.  Recently, I found it on sale so I picked it up.  I'm so glad that I did.  It's a beautiful deep coral with orange shimmer that glows on the nail.  It's way more appropriate for spring and summer in my opinion and I'm enjoying it this time of year.  This would be a gorgeous pedicure color.  I'm glad that I didn't miss out on it!

I Carol About You and Your Present Required

Purple - I Carol About You by OPI
Glitter - Your Present Required by China Glaze

OPI Blush Hour and Kiss Me Or Elf!

Nails - Kiss Me Or Elf! by OPI
Glitter - Blush Hour by OPI

China Glaze Cheers Collection - My Picks

This week I've been enjoying my picks from the China Glaze Cheers collection that was released for Holiday 2015.  The collection consists of 12 polishes in a variety of glitters, glitter toppers, shimmers and creams.  I chose 4 of them and here they are:

Better Not Pout  is my absolute favorite polish from this collection.  I'm in love with this shade!  It's a beautiful berry shimmer that glows on the nail.  You can see the "lit from within" quality from the picture below, but in person it is even better.  This would be a gorgeous pedicure color to kick off the spring.

 

Don't Get Elfed Up is a deep blue green shimmer bordering on teal in certain lighting.  I really like this shade and find the name of it rather amusing. 

 

  

Bring On The Bubbly is a gold glitter topper full of multi-sized holographic hex glitter. (It's worn over Midnight Kiss from the 2010 Holiday Collection by China Glaze.)

 

 

 

Coal Hands Warm Heart almost didn't make it into this post because the formula was awful and I would not recommend it.  For me the application was thick in some areas and runny in others making it hard to control. 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Red - Phat Santa by China Glaze
Glitter WHAM! by Formula X

Holo-day Cheer

Tips - Christmas Gone Plaid by OPI
Glitter - Holo-day Cheer by Cirque

I did it again, Just Be-Claws I liked it.

I enjoyed my last mani so much that I decided to do it again using different colors.

 

Black - Who Are You Calling Bossy?!? by OPI

Red - Just Be-Claws by China Glaze

Glitter - Holiday by Darling Diva

Santa Red My List.... is Pink!

While going through my "haven't worn yet" stash I found this pretty pink foil polish, Santa Red My List.  It's from the 2013 Happy HoliGlaze Collection by China Glaze.  The name puzzles me.  There is absolutely nothing red about this color.  It's a beautiful fuchsia pink. But, the name aside it's an awesome one coater.  I can't believe that I let this sit around unused for so long.  The silver foil that I used is Cheers To You. It's from the 2010 Tis The Season To Be Naughty And Nice Collection by China Glaze.  It's my favorite silver polish EVER.  I've used it so much that the bottle is almost empty! As with all holiday collections, it was a limited edition.  So, I'm going to have to go hunting around on ebay or Amazon for another one.  The glitter polish is Call The Doctor by Darling Diva.

Silver - Cheers To You by China Glaze
Pink - Santa Red My List by China Glaze
Glitter - Call The Doctor by Darling Diva

Christmas Pudding

Hello!  It's been a while but, I'm back.  Just in time for my favorite season for nail art, CHRISTMAS!  I've seen many versions of this "Christmas Pudding" manicure and I wanted to try it out. 

Brown - Suzi Loves Cowboys by OPI
White - White Out by China Glaze
Red - Got The Blues For Red by OPI
Green - Christmas Gone Plaid by OPI

China Glaze Twinkle Collection

There were way too many wonderful holiday nail polish collections this year.  I'll admit that I went a little polish purchasing crazy!  There just wasn't enough time, fingers or days in the week to possibly wear and enjoy them all.  Thankfully most of the shades in the collections didn't scream "HOLIDAY" and are very wearable throughout the rest of the winter season.  Over the last week I have been enjoying the Twinkle collection by China Glaze, all 12 of them!  And..... here they are!

Meet Me Under The Stars

 

Dancing & Prancing over No Peeking!

 

Define Good...

 

 

De-Light over Tip Your Hat

 

 

Pine-ing For Glitter over Black

 

 

Feeling Twinkly over I'd Melt For You

 

December To Remember

Chillin' With My Snow-Mies over Out Like A Light 

 

 

Orly Sparkle Collection

Christmas time may be over, but I've got several 2014 holiday polishes that I haven't even worn yet!  I recently got to enjoy the Sparkle collection by Orly and really loved it... with the exception of one shade (which I will comment on later in this post). 

First up is Bling, a gold holographic polish that is unlike anything that I've seen and unlike anything that I have in my collection.

Mirrorball is my favorite polish of this collection.  It's a silver holographic micro glitter.  I wore this beauty on New Years Eve and love it!

 

Steal The Spotlight is my second favorite in this collection.  I love the sprinkle of pink glitter with the teal.

 

Glitter Bomb is a multicolored glitter in a clear base.  This one would work well as a fun glitter topper.  I used several coats here to make it opaque.  (Thank God for OPI's glitter off base coat!)

 

Tinsel is so fun and festive and just screams Christmas.  I loved it!  This is two coats over white polish.  You can guarantee that this will be used for many holiday seasons to come. 

 

Explosion of fun was my least favorite, which is odd considering that it's pink (which is my favorite color of all time).  This was clearly meant to be used as a topper, which I've seen in other blogger swatches.  I wanted to see if I could make it opaque.  That was a major fail.  I can't tell you how many coats this is.  I lost count after seven.  If I reach for this polish again, you can guarantee that it will be used as a topper only. 

Friday Funnies

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas To You!

 

 

Nails - China Glaze Mingle With Kringle (Holiday 2013)

Glitter - Orly Tinsel (Holiday 2014)

Tree - OPI Christmas Gone Plaid (Holiday 2014)

Tree Trunk - OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys (Spring 2011) 

 

 

In My Santa Suit

 

OPI - In My Santa Suit (Holiday 2013)

Holographic Christmas Nails

 

A England - Rose Bower (Red)

A England - Saint George (Green)

Underneath The Mistletoe

 

OPI - Underneath The Mistletoe (Holiday 2013)