Glitzology Cotton Candy & As You Wish - Swatches and Review

Hi all!

Today I have a couple more Glitzology polishes to share. I bought these during her last $5.00 sale after seeing swatches on Globe & Nail. Both polishes were pretty thick and loaded with glitter but it helped to apply easily since you don't have to fish to find glitter on the brush.

First up is Glitzology Cotton Candy. It's a mix of pastel glitters in a sheer tinted base. I've shown one coat over Wet 'N Wild On a Trip and the accent nail is China Glaze It's a Trap-eze. I did this mani in a rush for a friend's birthday party and the whole look was very candy like. The tinted base in Cotton Candy has a delicious shimmer with a slight blue flash to complete the candy frosting look. I think she really nailed the inspiration from cotton candy!

Next is As You Wish, inspired by the movie The Princess Bride! I love that movie so hard, I had to have this based on the name alone but, thankfully, it's one of my favorites from Glitzology so far! I've shown one coat over SOPI Cartwheels on the Catwalk. As You Wish features matte white and holo-y teal big hexes with an assortment of smaller lavender and purple glitter. This would look great over a light purple too!

I really have to take a second to mention how sweet Stacy is. I initially messaged her because of shipping prices through etsy and she replied quickly and helped me out, no questions asked. Every single interaction with her has been great and she really is invested in creating her brand so she'll offer some things that other sellers just can't/won't. For example, she can create a custom order if you wanted to a discontinued color or want one of her polishes without bar glitter.

For news and sales, like Glitzology on Facebook and check out her stocked Etsy shop! I know she's releasing new colors (starting today, I believe) and she's currently holding a 25% off sale with the code NEWYEARSKISS25 and, if you purchase four (4) full size bottles, she'll include one more for free!

What do you think about these? Tired of glitter yet? ;)

Black Spots Over Green

Hi all!

Sorry I've been a little absent, between school and christmas-type social obligations my 'me' time in which I blogged and such has been scarce. For those of you who commented on my post about my friend's passing, your words really meant a lot and I wanted to let you all know that his death saved 5 other lives because of organ donation. We said our goodbyes to him on Thursday and, while it was very hard to see him like that, I always find funerals help to start the healing process. He is and will always be incredibly missed.

Let's get ourselves happy and look at some nails, yes? This is a mani I did last week when I was super rushed and contemplating some type of self harm because of a presentation I had due the next day. In order to keep my sanity, I decided to take a break and do my nails but it had to be quick so I grabbed from my untrieds pile on the table and these two looked perfect for each other.

I have two coats of Essie Mojito Madness with Sation I Paint in Peace on my accent nails and I topped everything with one coat of the black Fergie glitter from Wet 'N Wild.

I originally passed on Mojito Madness when it first came out but I saw it the other day and just had to have it. It's such a nice bright color and it has a great formula so I'm definitely psyched to have found it. Sation I Paint in Peace is a gorgeous deep green with silver shimmer and I LOVE IT. The formula is a little thick but not unmanageable and it covered completely in one coat! I really suggest picking up the Sation polishes if you can find them, I've yet to be disappointed.

Thank you for looking and have a great day lovelies!

31 Day Challenge Day 11 - Polka Dots

Hi all!

I'm currently writing this before midnight so I'm still good! Sorry it took me so long, I've been exhausted and running errands all day so when I got home I was just pooped. I'll stop babbling so I can get this in under the wire :P

I love polka dots, they always get noticed and they're so easy to do! Thing is, I had way too many ideas in my head for this challenge day and not enough time or energy to really devote to them so I went with a simple polka dot gradient. I used Essie Absolutely Shore as the base and dotted with Wet 'N Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint, Zoya Zuza and Illamasqua Muse.

I have had these on my to do list forever so I'm glad I get to check them off at least. I tried to do dots of two different sizes but, for some reason, they all came out pretty uniform. I really did love the outcome, I'm just too tired to appreciate them, I think.

Make sure you stop by all the blogs featuring polka dots today!

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints 
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish 
- Robin Sparkles 

Fergie's an L.A. Girl Full of Glitter (AKA, Black Glitter!)

*This is a scheduled post, I'll be back the 24th. Maybe 25th if I'm too exhausted*  

HAAAAPPY FRIDAY!!

As you probably know by now, Fergie is the beauty ambassador (I think that's the title, let me know if I'm wrong!) for Wet 'N Wild and has recently released her first nail polish collection/collaboration. It has cool colors but, what you really need to know (if you didn't already), is that it has a black glitter in it! And that's what I'm showing ya today.

I've done two coats of L.A. Girl Delirious, which is an awesome light teal color but with a golden shimmer! It's kind of a spectacular color and I'm so happy since this was just a random find and I have nothing else like it. I was at Charlotte Russe and they had a small rack of LA Girl polishes on the register! It's my first time seeing this brand here but I have heard good things about them before so I bought two.

I want to apologize in advance for the pictures, most of them were blurry and I have no idea why. 

LOOK AT THE MACRO SHIMMAH!

Then I added one coat of 'Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night'. Since that's a mouthful, it shall be henceforth referred to as the black glitter. Black Glitter has small hex black glitter and larger hex gold glitter. With the shimmer from Delirious (side note, love the name) and the golden hexes it was just magical :D.

GARBDSHAFDS I loved it. It's a black glitter you can find at Walgreens for $3.49 instead of fighting against hordes of polished crazies at Etsy. I mean, my wishlist still has a lot of indies, but that's exactly why. I don't have the attention span required to shop like that.

Now, while I don't have a scheduled post for Monday, I'll probably be tweeting (@PolishedKat) and Instagramming (@hookedonpolish) every nail polish that I buy while I'm in NYC so feel free to follow me there!

Have a good weekend ladies!

Cupcake Frosting Gradient & Stamping (And Some Questions For Ya)

It's FRIDAY! You know what else that means? It's my mom's bday!! Happy birthday mom!! (Yes, my boyfriend and mom's bdays are a week apart. And yes, I'm broke).

I had a hard time naming this particular combo I did. It looked so sweet and more springy than summery but I really didn't want to take it off. You might have seen a preview of this if you follow me on Instragram (hookedonpolish) or Twitter (@polishedkat) but chances are you didn't 'cause barely anyone knows I'm there :P. I post pics of nails, dogs, cats and occasionally food. If that sounds like your cup 'o tea then you know where to find me!

I used Essie Lilacism as a base and sponged with Wet 'N Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint using my regular gradient method of brushing both colors directly onto the sponge. I have to give props to Carolina from Colores de Carol for this, she posted this awesome gradient and I fell in love. I didn't have the same colors but I improvised and still loved the result! Then I stamped with Sally Hansen Whirlwind White and Konad m78. This is also my first time using a true blue Konad plate and I love it! I only bought the plate for this particular design and I can tell I'll be using it a lot.

Sorry about the mess, I was not in the mood to do double clean up for the pics :(

I freakin' loved this I tell you! The only reason I took it off was because not only was it chipping already, I got something pretty exciting in the mail and couldn't wait any longer to try it! (It's also on Instagram :D)

Now about the questions. I've been toying with the idea of posting daily but don't want to exhaust my very limited creativity for nail art so I ask, would you be interested in my adding different posts? Be it food related, make up reviews, plain swatches of polishes or specific requests (tutorial, comparisons, etc) or would you rather I just keep my current posting schedule (monday-wednesday-friday-random weekend day)? Also, if you have any suggestions about my current posts I'd love to hear that too. Let me know in the comments!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Black and White Challenge Day 5 - Color Base with Black

'Ello! Welcome back for another Black and White Challenge day!

Today we had the task of creating a mani with a color base and black accents. This is much more up my alley, with this challenge I've discovered I don't necessarily love black nails. They look so chic on some people, maybe it's just my nubbins.

For this look I started with two coats of Wet 'N Wild's I Need a Refresh-Mint. I absolutely love this color! I still want China Glaze's For Audrey but this satisfies that for the time being. Now, about the brush...I know a lot of people hate it because it's so big and floppy but for some reason it gives me near perfect application and a very clean cuticle line! I rarely had to do any cleanup and it was a one coater on most nails, but maybe I was using a thicker coat. Then I fell asleep and ruined it. The mani was so full of sheet marks on every single nail that I almost just scrapped it all, but I really enjoyed it so to try to save it I sponged a very thin layer of China Glaze's Some Like It Haute, a charcoal black glitter with holo glitter mixed in.

What's this?! No sheet marks? Oh Seche Vite, you always hide my imperfections! Except you also shrunk my mani from the cuticles and the sides. Oh well. It looked so girly and clean but I though it didn't have enough black for this challenge so I stamped with Wet 'N Wild black creme and BM-208.

I'm really digging the finished look! My mom didn't adore the plain sponging but she loved the stamping. I think she thought my cuticles looked dirty or something.

So there you have it! We're officially halfway through the challenge and I'll be very sad the day it's over. I've enjoyed seeing everyone's manis and feeling like a part of something.

As always, be sure to check the other blogs participating:

Purple Glitters 

Colorfull bottle

Biba's beauty corner 

Taya 

Nail crazy 

Mateji ustvarjata 

My nail grafiti 

Colores de Carol 

Emerald sparkle 

Wacky Laki 
Omgnoodles
LACQUERED TIPS  
WelcomeTo Brianna's World! 
Pink Polish Addic
My Little Vanities
Posh nail art
Biberlee - Džumbus
Oje Gemisi Kalkiyor 
The Nail Buff