Christmas Ornament

Hi guys!

Today I have another christmas themed nail art to share with you. I created this mani as an entry for Nail Polish Canada holiday nail art challenge, and the theme is 'Decorations'. I had a few other ideas before I finally decided to do this one. I like it cause it's pretty simple but I can make it colorful, and it's also very christmas-y. The decoration I picked is christmas ornaments. I was inspired by The Nail Network nail polish christmas ornaments.

My background is a gradient, using OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue and What's With The Cattitude over a white base. All the ornaments were free-handed, started with a white polish. Colors used for the ornaments are: OPI Under The Mistletoe, OPI It's Frosty Outside, OPI Goldeneye, OPI< Catch Me In Your Net, OPI This Gown Needs a Crown,  Zoya Arabella, CbL Monkey See Monkey Do, CbL, Behead The Drama Queen, Picture Polish Imperial, Picture Polish Metallic Mush. Finished off with Glisten & Glog HK Girl top coat.

This turned out better than I expected, and i really love it! If you love it too, please vote for my mani here, I'm #36! I would really appreciate your support <3

XO

Novi

Swatches: ILNP My Little Glacier (H)

Hi guys!!

Brrr! It really starting to feel like winter here. Which in my nail care routine means more moisturizer, hand lotion, and cuticles oil, or having a prune looking hands and dry cuticles. Yikes! 

Anyway, I have a new polish that just joined my stash a few days ago. It's one of the new holographic multi chrome, My Little Glacier (H). Sad to say, this is my first disappointing experience with this brand. While the formula itself is great, I applied it easily to get to opacity in 3 thin coats. As a part of ultra chrome collection, I barely see any color shifting in this, even in low lightning, which usually makes the shifting more intense. The holo effect is just what you would expect to see from a holo polish, but only under a bright light. In regular lightning, it just looks flat :(

My photos were taken in a light box, 3 coats no top coat.

My Little Glacier (H)

My Little Glacier (H)

My Little Glacier (H)

My Little Glacier (H)

Even though I'm not a fan of this one, I do really like all the other ILNP polishes I have bought. Guess you can't win them all! ;) You can get you hands on ILNP polishes here. They have polishes from various finishes from creme, glitter topper, jellies, holographic, and of course, ultra chrome. And they ship world wide!

XO

Novi

Watermarble War!

Happy Hump Day!

Yes, today is the day for another watermarble post. For all my new readers, a while ago I decided to have a segment every Wednesday, and I call it Watermarble Wednesday. Although sometimes life get in the way and I missed one here and then. 

And why am I calling this post a war? Well, today for some reason watermarble just doesn't like me! It took WAY longer for me to get this mani done. It's like they know that I haven't been doing it often lately and now they're making work for it. But I still came out as a winner! *throw fist in the air* well, at least for most of the nails. They don't all look as neat as I liked them to be, and I'm already getting a headache from the fumes.

As usual, I started with a white base, here I use OPI My Boyfriend Scales The Walls. For the watermarble I use all OPI shades, Miss You-niverse, Suzi's HUngary again, My Vampire is buff, and for the last drop I use Dutch Ya Just Love OPI?.

That's it for today! Hope you liked it ;)

XO

Novi

Christmas Gradient

Hi guys!!

I have the first snow this year today! Only a little bit, but enough to get me excited and stuck my head out the window *grins*. It made me want to do some holiday themed mani. But today it's just a simple one. A red and green gradient, the official christmas colors! 

 The red here is OPI Under The Mistletoe and the green is CbL Behead The Drama Queen. Both a very shimmery color. I added INM Northern Lights, cause I just can't resist not to do that to ALL my gradients, lol! I finished off the gradients with Glisten & Glow HK Girl top coat. My accent nail is OPI It's Frosty Outside.

I will be back with more holiday themed mani!  Hope you liked this one :)

XO

Novi

Swatches & Nail Art: Girly Bits Peel Here & A Stripper Has Been Sleeping In My Bed

Hi guys!!

I have 2 gorgeous new Girly Bits shades that were released on their 2nd anniversary to share with you today. Both of them are really unique in my collection, that's always nice! And it's a good way to start December with a sparkly tips ;)

Peel Here, described by the creator as a purple leaning dove grey shimmer, with holo elements. It is classy and understated, but far from boring. The perfect balance between shimmer and holo, I call this finish a 'shimmolo'. 
This is a very interesting shade, something you can wear to work but not boring. The holo shimmer is just gorgeous! Here's shown 2 coats with top coat.

Girly Bits Peel Here

Girly Bits Peel Here

A Stripper Has Been Sleeping In My Bed, phew! it's a long name!Its a holo micro glitter in a clear base. This is just AH-mazing!! Disco ball in a bottle! I think I need this kind of polish one for every color! I won't be showing this on regular swatches, instead I did a nail art with it over Peel Here. But I'm sure you can still see how amazing it is! This is one of those polishes that are not safe to wear while you're driving, wear gloves! Lol!

I finally used my crafting scissor (that I got a while ago) for the chevron stripes. For the accent nail, I created a star using striping tape. I sealed off the mani with 2 coats of Glisten & Glow HK Girl top coat.

As this post is written, these two shades are on pre-order from Girly Bits until December 4th 2013. You can also check out Girly Bits authorized distributors all around the world here for stock availability.


XO
Novi