Walmart refuses to enable my addiction!

So a few people have been seeing new colors from Salon Perfect popping up in their Walmarts, and this got me pretty excited. So I went to my local Walmart the other day and the nail polish section looked as bad as it did last time I was there... mostly empty and in a state of disarray. It's nice to have a big section just for nail polish but what is the point if they never stock anything new? Or even refill the stock in the first place? 

I sometimes wonder if they don't refill the stock because they don't know half of it is missing, as in people are walking out of the store with a pocket full of polish and not paying for it. I mean the alternative to that theory is they just never stock it even though they know it's a nearly empty aisle.

All this is kinda beside the point. What I wanted to mention was the new Salon Perfect Holographic Collection which is crazy similar to China Glaze's Hologlam collection. Not surprising considering they are owned by the same parent company. They still look very pretty. Maybe not as holographic as one would like but I'm addicted to sparkly stuff.

I first saw pictures that weren't form the company at nouveaucheap. And form there did more digging and found this comparison at ohthreeohfour. Apparently a lot of the colors are pretty much exact dupes of the China Glaze colors. Which is sad but at least it gives people a cheaper way to get holo polishes. I got all my China Glaze Hologlam colors form the clearance bin at Sally Beauty so the price was pretty similar thanks to mark down.

Anyway I will continue to hold out hope that my walmart with pull it's self together and carry these colors!

Day 9, Rainbow!

At first I was really worried about this as I have very little bright rainbowy colors, but I made it work using a yellow, a pink and a blue metallic polish from KleanColor.

Polishes Used:
Sinful Colors Snow Me White
KleanColor Metallic Yellow
KleanColor Metallic Pink
KleanColor Metallic Blue
Seche Vite
Pure Ice Black Out (in second picture)

This was quite messy to do but I still love (for the most part) how it turned out. I used a white base coat then KleanColor Metallic Pink and Metallic Yellow on the index and pinky fingers, Metallic Yellow and Metallic Blue on thumb and ring finger and Metallic Blue and Metallic Pink on the middle finger. Because of how the colors blend and overlap it looks like I used more colors than I did, but luckily I did not have to break out my super-stain-happy KleanColor Metallic Green.

Still I was not totally happy and thought it looked incomplete somehow. So I went looking for stamps to try. And I wound up with this:

Now I really, really like it. Animal prints and I usually don't get along but this was gorgeous in my opinion.

And there you have it, Day 9. Rainbows.

Day 8, Metallic

So I went simple for metallic again. I am Emmers queen of Lazyland!!

Anyway here it is:

  

Used Pure Ice Fast Lane for the base color then OPI Silver Shatter on my ring finger and thumb nail. In all honesty I am regretting the crackle. I should have done something else, but I was tired and >insert excuses here<

Oh well. Tomorrow's prompt should be interesting. Not sure what I am gonna do for it. Hmmm.... rainbows.....

Day 7: Black and White.

My black and white nails were stamps again. I like how they turned out but I also don't like how they streaked in some areas.

I wanted something with a kind of "retro" feel as far as the design. The stamp is from the Mash-42 plate. The polishes used were SinfulColors Snow Me White, and Pure Ice Black Out.

Day 6: Purple.

Ugh. First paint job was a DISASTER. I'll just show you...

So maybe "disaster" is a strong word but I hated the result... I didn't want a straight gradient, so I added the dots and immediately regretted it.

So I did a second one. xD

Scrapped the gradient and went for STAMPS!

KleanColor Metallic Purple and Metallic Fuchsia as base colors and Pure Ice Silver Star for the stamps.

The ring finger's stamp is the same silver stamp as the other fingers but when I added the top coat it drew pigment from the base color into the silver.

I really, REALLY, need to get my fingers more moisturized. I need to buy gloves so I can apply lotion then gloves then go to bed and hope it helps revive my skin.

Also when I went to do stamps I couldn't find my stamper thing... I just about had a panic attack I was afraid my ferrets had stolen the thing and eaten the rubber bits. That would have sucked. But no, it was in a baggy on my table with my orange sticks and my scraper card and stuff. the LAST place I looked. I even had a flashlight out and was looking under my TV stand and cabinet.... I so silly.

Anyway it is bed time.

Day 5: Blue!

So the first thing I did was try the dry water marbling on my right hand. And it worked pretty good except my very first try I messed up royally. "Oh it should be dry now -yank- Oh crud ALL the polish came off WITH the plastic...."  Kinda a reverse of what was supposed to happen. So I tried again and it worked better I just had to patiently sit a while and watch and episode of Empires. Here is the result:

Sinful Colors Hot Spot and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away

Once again it's an epic mess. I am getting lazier and lazier as this challenge goes on and it's only day five... BUT IT'S STILL PRETTY!

My other hand I went a different route....
Gradient!

Sinful Colors Gorgeous on all fingers.

Sinful Colors Opening Night on thumb and Sinful Colors Hot Spot on the rest.

 I love how it turned out.

Yes there are days specifically for gradients and Water Marbles but I havent done either in so long, and seeing them on the list was taunting me.

I'm easily taunted.


Also blue is my favorite color ever so I had to so some thing special.

Dry Water Marble

So after reading this tutorial I decided to try a dry water marble. I have done regular ones but the mess is annoying as everyone says and this method is not only cleaner for my fingers but less wasteful of my polish as well. So that's a super bonus.

I'm trying it with blue polishes for the Day 5 challenge, Blue Nails. I will post when I wake up, it's about 5:30am now and after this I am gonna try to sleep (again). So far it looks pretty great just messy. :P

Look forward to it!