Another BCA Mani

Hi all! Today I'm deviating from my Halloween nail art mode and showing you a Breast Cancer Awareness mani I did last night.

I know this is late in the month, but I at least wanted to get one in before October is over. I especially wanted to do this mani to pay tribute to my boyfriend's mother -- she beat breast cancer about 5 years ago. :)

I used Sinful Beautiful Girl and Wet 'n Wild How I Met Your Magenta for the base colors. I topped my ring finger with OPI I Lilly Love You and my pointer finger with OPI Teenage Dream (which I will never get tired of, EVER). On my other fingers I drew little ribbons. My dumb self wasn't thinking before I did my nails and I forgot that the BCA ribbon is pink... so I was forced to do it in a darker pink and it's kind of hard to see, but I still like it.

That's all for today ladies. Happy Friday!

BCA - Color Club Hot Like Lava & Fame and Fortune

Happy Friday everyone

Today's post consists of 2 of Color Club's new line - Hot Like Lava from the Foiled Collection and Fame & Fortune from the Backstage pass collection. 

Hot like lava is a vivid bright pink foil that applies like a dream.  The formula is great, it covers and levels extremely well and is similar to a creme in consistency.  You could use one coat if you so desired - I have used 2 here just to even out thin spots and for density of color.  Pretteh!

Layered over the top is Fame & Fortune from their Backstage Pass collection.  Fame & Fortune is a  mylar holographic flakie in a clear pink base.  The holographic particles really shine when they catch the light.  Typical of a mylar, there are issues with the little flakies poking up in spots and catching on hair, clothing, etc.  I actually ended up picking off the ones that were sticking up because it annoyed me so much.  But overall it's worth it because this polish is so pretty :)  I used 2 coats of Fame & Fortune - be sure to let it dry between coats so you're not just moving the particles around on your nail.  These pics are taken in my light box because it was early in the morning and the sun wasn't up yet so you can't see the full holographic effect of sunlight bouncing off the flakies! :(



Here is a stamping test for Hot Like Lava, applied over a white and black creme.  Coverage is a bit better over light colors.



Thanks for reading, have a lovely day!

Revlon Desire and Klassicolor Fuchsia Glitter

I have swatched this color before, but revisited it for our series of breast cancer awareness manicures.  Revlon Desire is a sheer jelly that dries semi-matte.  It's a little patchy so I applied 3 coats.

As a topcoat I used another one of the strange Klassicolor glitters that I got from a friend that works at Walgreens.  It's called simply Fuchsia Glitter and its a pink base with small pink and silver glitter and some larger hex silver glitters.  The glitter is hard to apply and get even and tends to be thick and goopy.  It does give it some sparkle though!

BCA OPI Play the Peonies and China Glaze Brokenhearted

October begins Breast Cancer Awareness month.  I am so happy to see that so many people are promoting it this month including the NFL.

We will be featuring several BCA manis this month to try to raise awareness.  This mani is a base of OPI Play the Peonies with a coat of China Glaze Broken Hearted crackle applied over it. I think I like this shade of pink shatter over the OPI version.

I'm not a *huge* fan of shatters, although I do like how some of them look.  And I happened to really like how this one turned out.  I usually try to apply the shatter or crackle in a criss cross herringbone pattern to add more interest to the way the polish shatters. 

Why dey so mad? Dey declawed too?