I used Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" with a gradient in OPI "Jade is the New Black" and Zoya"Charla" before stamping in Barry M "Gold" with Bundle Monster plate 314.
xoxo
Showing posts with label Color Club Where's the Soiree?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color Club Where's the Soiree?. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Black, White and Red All Over....
What's black, white and red all over?
A zebra that doesn't know how to put lipstick on
......boom boom!
Today's manicure is one I will be sporting at a charity pamper party I have organised on Friday night. It uses my Dashica Big B plate for the first time for the dogstooth stamp which I decided I prefer to the new Bundle Monster version as it's smaller. The polishes used are Zoya "Sooki", Zoya "Purity", Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" and for the leaves of my roses I used OPI "Jade is the New Black" and China Glaze "Treehugger".
Not many tickets have been sold for the event at my work while I've been on my holidays to Mauritius and Dorset but one of the girls has extended the event to friends so we may muster up a few folk! We shall see! One of my friends is doing make up and we have some stalls promoting portrait photography and dance classes. Hopefully we will be able to raise some money for the charity Arran Brown Rainbow Foundation and I will have some manicures to show you on the weekend.
xoxo
Friday, 6 April 2012
Perceval Preened
Perceval with your red resplendent,
Dressed here as if from the Orient,
With a coat of Salvatore and a trim so dark,
All topped off with bamboo black.
A England "Perceval" topped with Dollish Polish "Team Salvatore" glitter and a french in Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" and a final embellishment of bamboo leaves using BM 208.
xoxo
Saturday, 25 February 2012
At Last....
This post calls for a repeat of my song choice last weekend: "At Last" by Etta James!
At last, I got stamping to work!
I gave up months ago after my stamper would not pick up any prints or only part of one (despite filing the stamper and using konad polish). I managed to get it to work once with Zoya Trixie. BUT today I decided that even after only wearing my black and white look for only one day, I was going to change it on Sunday and I'd try out some afternoon stamping.... and it worked! I tested out random stuff using both Konad and BM plates, here's the result:
Even though this was just a hodge podge of patterns, I quite like it :) I only did my left hand and sat back rather pleased with myself. The husband had said "I hope you get it to work" and after an unfortunate few hours he had to spend in the office, I proudly showed him my hand when he returned.
I was going to do some floral nails tomorrow freehand but I think I might test out some stamping....
xoxo
At last, I got stamping to work!
I gave up months ago after my stamper would not pick up any prints or only part of one (despite filing the stamper and using konad polish). I managed to get it to work once with Zoya Trixie. BUT today I decided that even after only wearing my black and white look for only one day, I was going to change it on Sunday and I'd try out some afternoon stamping.... and it worked! I tested out random stuff using both Konad and BM plates, here's the result:
Even though this was just a hodge podge of patterns, I quite like it :) I only did my left hand and sat back rather pleased with myself. The husband had said "I hope you get it to work" and after an unfortunate few hours he had to spend in the office, I proudly showed him my hand when he returned.
I was going to do some floral nails tomorrow freehand but I think I might test out some stamping....
xoxo
Saturday, 4 February 2012
My Manicures: December 2011
I had fun this past December with some lovely manicures. I'd seen lots of festive ideas around to recreate on my own fingers as well as some fairly ordinary designs.
The China Glaze Eye Candy collection was packed full of amazing glitters in Marilyn Monroe inspired names of which I appropriated two for myself: "Some Like it Haute" and "Material Girl". I used "Some Like it Haute" in this one, my trusty Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" and my new french manicure colour "Innocence" by China Glaze. I won't be using Innocence again (on me anyway) as it looked too pink against my skin tone in the daylight although it looked okay when I first put it on in artificial light.
A week later I was feeling a tad more festive so I decided to try something kitsch with OPI "I'm Not Really a Waitress" and..... Santa Claus!
I was rather enjoying having Santa on my nails (despite the kitsch factor) so I embellished it with a snowflake rather than doing my next plan of snowflakes on all my nails:
It was also time for some babysitting for my best friend, at my place this time so that they could pack to move house, so after some good behaviour a little girl was rewarded with some Xmas nails of her own in Zoya "Holly" and the same OPI I was wearing:
I absolutely adore this song by Sam Sparro (whatever happened to him??) and no wonder, black and gold go together like ramalamalama kadinga kading shoo bop! Now get that song out of your head and listen to this:
Black and gold had a short shelf life however as I had a friend over for dinner and polish and when I painted a glitter trimmed OPI "Wokka Wokka", I was extremely envious and had to recreate the same in black on myself! For the glitters I used three: China Glaze's "Nova" and "Millennium" and Funky Fingers "Sand and Stilletos" to create a multidimensional shimmer:
A few days later and I had brought out my new Orly artist white water based striper to draw a snowflake (hence the slight tip wear):
Amidst my glitter craze, it was time for a night in Fundee with my cousin for her birthday which always falls on the weekend of a work Xmas night out (incidentally also an early leaving night for yours truly this year) so of course my cousin and her friend got the glitter treatment although I didn't take a photo of my cousin's manicure:
I'm so glad I learned the easy way (I use that word loosely though) to get glitter off my nails. The first time I wore glitter, I swear that my thumb was about to fall off it was so worn out! But the foil method of allowing remover to soak onto your nail while the foil wrapped on each finger prevents the remover from evaporating works a treat.
For Xmas week, what else was there to wear on my fingers but.....Xmas presents!! I used China Glaze "Emerald Sparkle", Zoya "Demi", CC "Where's the Soiree?" with Northern Lights holographic top coat, CG "Ruby Pumps" and CG "Little Drummer Boy."
I ended the year with my favourite dots for new year and my new job in Color Club "Where's the Soiree?", CG "HI Tek" and OPI "Designer de Better" which of course is that much loved black and gold:
And that was my 2011 folks!
xxx
The China Glaze Eye Candy collection was packed full of amazing glitters in Marilyn Monroe inspired names of which I appropriated two for myself: "Some Like it Haute" and "Material Girl". I used "Some Like it Haute" in this one, my trusty Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" and my new french manicure colour "Innocence" by China Glaze. I won't be using Innocence again (on me anyway) as it looked too pink against my skin tone in the daylight although it looked okay when I first put it on in artificial light.
A week later I was feeling a tad more festive so I decided to try something kitsch with OPI "I'm Not Really a Waitress" and..... Santa Claus!
I was rather enjoying having Santa on my nails (despite the kitsch factor) so I embellished it with a snowflake rather than doing my next plan of snowflakes on all my nails:
It was also time for some babysitting for my best friend, at my place this time so that they could pack to move house, so after some good behaviour a little girl was rewarded with some Xmas nails of her own in Zoya "Holly" and the same OPI I was wearing:
I absolutely adore this song by Sam Sparro (whatever happened to him??) and no wonder, black and gold go together like ramalamalama kadinga kading shoo bop! Now get that song out of your head and listen to this:
I used "Where's the Soiree?" and China Glaze "Hi Tek" for my black and gold combo. Unfortunately, I fear I have ruined the aforementioned "Hi Tek" due to keeping the bottle half open while dipping a brush in rather than taking a blob out :( It was a rare find so I'll be sorry if it doesn't recover.
Black and gold had a short shelf life however as I had a friend over for dinner and polish and when I painted a glitter trimmed OPI "Wokka Wokka", I was extremely envious and had to recreate the same in black on myself! For the glitters I used three: China Glaze's "Nova" and "Millennium" and Funky Fingers "Sand and Stilletos" to create a multidimensional shimmer:
A few days later and I had brought out my new Orly artist white water based striper to draw a snowflake (hence the slight tip wear):
Amidst my glitter craze, it was time for a night in Fundee with my cousin for her birthday which always falls on the weekend of a work Xmas night out (incidentally also an early leaving night for yours truly this year) so of course my cousin and her friend got the glitter treatment although I didn't take a photo of my cousin's manicure:
I'm so glad I learned the easy way (I use that word loosely though) to get glitter off my nails. The first time I wore glitter, I swear that my thumb was about to fall off it was so worn out! But the foil method of allowing remover to soak onto your nail while the foil wrapped on each finger prevents the remover from evaporating works a treat.
For Xmas week, what else was there to wear on my fingers but.....Xmas presents!! I used China Glaze "Emerald Sparkle", Zoya "Demi", CC "Where's the Soiree?" with Northern Lights holographic top coat, CG "Ruby Pumps" and CG "Little Drummer Boy."
I ended the year with my favourite dots for new year and my new job in Color Club "Where's the Soiree?", CG "HI Tek" and OPI "Designer de Better" which of course is that much loved black and gold:
And that was my 2011 folks!
xxx
Friday, 3 February 2012
My Manicures: November 2011
Good evening this fine Friday on a chilly evening in the burgh. I have been out with a colleague from my old work and painted her nails before we went out. It was only a short sojourn so here I am ready to continue with posting my manicures from November last year. Almost up to date and then I can post what I have been wearing this week and change my manicure tomorrow and post that next week. I'm enjoying this blogging business! Even if only two people are following me!
My first attempt was actually in July when some of us girls made a cake for a colleague in the shape of an Irn Bru can (a Scottish soft drink for those not in the know) and a drink she is addicted to! A friend on our team had seen a professional cake but it cost over £100 so I suggested we attempt to make it ourselves. Here is what the can should look like and our version of it, she takes part in the moonwalk for breast cancer so the figurine I found in the cake decorating shop was extremely apt and she loved the cake:
Irn Bru also made this hilarious advert which amused many of us one year and even spawned a "raoul" ringtone:
Anyway, that's enough about cakes and back to manicures!
This is my first November manicure in OPI "La Pasitively Hot Matte" with lightning bolts (a la nailside) in OPI wokka wokka which barely lasted a day before I covered the whole mani in wokka wokka, only for that to last a day before I drew on a corset accent nail (I guess it was a fickle week!):
I moved onto my new Zoyas next for a "Faye" and "Demi" french and striped look:
It is well known that I have a passion for polka dots and although I don't like kitsch manicures much for myself to wear, I decided that ladybirds (yes, that is what we in Britain call them) were calling my name because they are in my favourite colours and fulfil my dotty dreams:
I used Zoya "Sooki" and Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" for this with Sally Hansen "Sterling" for the eyes. I loved this so much I kept it on for two weeks!
My next manicure was for the night of the thirtieth birthday party and I decided to try pinstripes to go with my blue dress. I used a new blue glitter striper which I am never using again after it would not dry and left glitter particles in my seche vite! Grrr! I was not amused! The mani also became ragged on the edges after a shower so I only wore this for the night:
My next manicure took longer to perfect but I was much happier with and I wore it a while. It is China Glaze "Grape Pop" with various shades of purple and mauve used to create a diamond pattern on my ring finger and outlined with a white striper:
I also did a quick and sort of messy manicure on my half sister when she came over for a night of pizza and chat. I used Color Club "Worth the Risque" and China Glaze "Nova":
And thus November was concluded! See you next time for my December manicures which will be very festive, without fail!
xxx
Thursday, 2 February 2012
My Manicures: October 2011
My first manicure in October was the week of my birthday using my new OPI "Ski Teal We Drop", a beautiful teal that I decided to try stamping on. It didn't work out too well so I only did an accent nail:
On my birthday itself I changed my nails to a dark red from China Glaze called "City Siren" which I thought would look great on my nails but is a bit too brown toned for me to love it. I decided to go dotty for my birthday! I loved this dotty effect so much that I wore it for two weeks, I must do it again:
I also got myself a birthday present of six of the muppets collection: Designer de Better, Pepe's Purple Passion, Divine Swine, Gettin' Miss Piggy With It, Wokka Wokka and Meep-Meep-Meep. Ahhhhh, I love the muppets! I didn't get my favourite muppet Kermy's polish but am thinking it might be on the hit list!
After my China Glaze, I had to change it up with a Zoya. "Envy" this time and somehow it ended up looking like a Xmas manicure:
I had become a devotee of Seche Vite by this time but on this manicure it seemed to cause some shrinkage.
One Saturday afternoon, I invited my half sister over for a pamper party with some friends to do nails and make up with my friend Victoria. She ended up only bringing one friend with her and in the end, I am quite glad! (I'd forgotten what "interesting" conversation you can have with a gaggle of girls aged 12!) My sister also joined us and despite her disdain for nail art, she let me do a subtle neutral design on her:
The patchwork design looked so nice and a great way to use my more of my growing polish collection so I treated myself to one in Zoya "Sooki", China Glaze "2030" and Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" (it kills me to write "color" like that with my pedantic pants nickname but I guess it is an American company, sigh...)
I ended October with a manicure I didn't like too much as it was a poor effort. It was my attempt at cherry blossoms but I think my branches were too thick due to using the wrong brush. I did like them overall so I shall try to recreate it sometime. I did my cherry blossoms on Orly "Ancient Jade":
On my birthday itself I changed my nails to a dark red from China Glaze called "City Siren" which I thought would look great on my nails but is a bit too brown toned for me to love it. I decided to go dotty for my birthday! I loved this dotty effect so much that I wore it for two weeks, I must do it again:
I also got myself a birthday present of six of the muppets collection: Designer de Better, Pepe's Purple Passion, Divine Swine, Gettin' Miss Piggy With It, Wokka Wokka and Meep-Meep-Meep. Ahhhhh, I love the muppets! I didn't get my favourite muppet Kermy's polish but am thinking it might be on the hit list!
After my China Glaze, I had to change it up with a Zoya. "Envy" this time and somehow it ended up looking like a Xmas manicure:
I had become a devotee of Seche Vite by this time but on this manicure it seemed to cause some shrinkage.
One Saturday afternoon, I invited my half sister over for a pamper party with some friends to do nails and make up with my friend Victoria. She ended up only bringing one friend with her and in the end, I am quite glad! (I'd forgotten what "interesting" conversation you can have with a gaggle of girls aged 12!) My sister also joined us and despite her disdain for nail art, she let me do a subtle neutral design on her:
The patchwork design looked so nice and a great way to use my more of my growing polish collection so I treated myself to one in Zoya "Sooki", China Glaze "2030" and Color Club "Where's the Soiree?" (it kills me to write "color" like that with my pedantic pants nickname but I guess it is an American company, sigh...)
I ended October with a manicure I didn't like too much as it was a poor effort. It was my attempt at cherry blossoms but I think my branches were too thick due to using the wrong brush. I did like them overall so I shall try to recreate it sometime. I did my cherry blossoms on Orly "Ancient Jade":
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