Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! Wanted to show you what I had on my nails for the last two days.

I started off by using China Glaze Blue Year's Eve. It's from the Winter 2011 Let It Snow collection. I happened to pick this up at Sally's on clearance! It's a lovely and pretty sapphire blue shimmer. I used 3 coats.

 

I ended up getting Blue Year's Eve because I was looking for a sapphire blue to go with the copper glitter I bought from Forever 21.  The brand is Love & Beauty and it's a copper glitter with hex. I think it looks great topped over blue!

I hope everyone has a great year! This year I'm going to do project 365 this year. Well, actually 366 since it's a leap year. So I will be taking a photo each day and uploading it on my Flickr. Here is my first one.

1/336 Reflective Chimpanzee

MAC - Blue India

Well, it finally arrived on Tuesday night! Ever since I saw a promotional photo in January I have been waiting to purchase this beautiful color from MAC. This nail polish is from the MAC's limited edition Liberty of London collection.

Here is the cute packaging!
The color I purchased is Blue India. It's a very nice blue/slate creme. I have no similar colors to this in my nail polish stash. And from other people's comparisons I really do not think there is a dupe to Blue India. The application is okay. A little more gooey then I would like and the brush can get pretty sticky very fast. It's worth it in the end because the color is gorgeous.

It covered nicely in two coats.

I wanted to change up the top coat a bit. So first up is one coat of CND Copper Shimmer that I placed over Blue India.


For a different style I did two coats of Gold Wash from Maybelline's Colorama Collection.

Old Timers

These are two old nail polishes I have collected in the past few years. The first is from Boots which I bought from Target in the summer of 2008. On the bottle it says Stay Perfect and the color is Temptress. It's a very dark cherry red; it reminds me of Door County Cherries.

Then to spice it up a bit for the next day I added a coat of CND Copper Shimmer. It adds a really nice copper/gold shimmer to the shade and I really like it.


The last picture I have is of a fairly old Maybelline Express Finish in Matte Stone. I just bought it at the Dollar Store. The color was nice and I like the matte finish but it was terribly streaky and would never be worth more than the $1.05 I payed for it.