Claire's Under the Sea

Claire's Under the Sea has been in my stash for quite some time.  In the bottle it appears more green-blue but on the nail my eye picks up more blue than green (it all depends on the light I guess).  This polish goes on easy and is opaque enough for one coat.  There is a big IF though.  That being, it takes forever to dry which pretty much makes the fact that it is a one coater pointless.  Here are 2 coats with no clean up because I am sure they are probably still wet here.

Think Pink

As everyone knows October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Now is the time when a lot of companies put out special products and the proceeds are donated to one of the many, many foundations, hospitals, local groups that are involved in fighting breast cancer and its effects.  I somewhat opted to not buy anything this year and send donations directly to the association of my choice and support friends who are doing walks, runs, etc.

This mani is a few days old now so I am only showing 3 out of the 4 fingers I usually show and hiding some of the tip wear.  I chipped my index finger while knitting.  Yes, I learned how to knit!!!

I used 3 coats of Claire's Mood Polish in Fabulous/Funky with a coat of NYC Love Letters on top.  For 97 cents this Love Letters is well worth it.  The shimmer it adds is beautiful.

I did try to capture both colors of the mood polish but the flourescent color it produces with warmth would not translate for my camera.  I am thinking Love Letters with all my manis for the rest of the month!!  Maybe :-)

Claire's Neon Burst

Wow, can you say bright.  I can honestly say I don't think I have ever worn a color this bright.  The funny thing is the pictures don't even show how bright it really is.  The downside to all this brightness is it took about 7 coats to get it completely opaque but it dries really fast so.  I did throw a coat of Wet N Wild White Creme on my index and ring finger to determine if the number of coats it would take was different.  Maybe by one coat so I would just rather not do it since the Wet N Wild seems to take a while to dry.  You can tell the diffence in the photo but I couldn't see as much of a difference in real life.

After doing this I thought it needed to be jazzed up a bit.  Really?  A color this bright need more attention brought to it!!  Why of course.  Why not set these fingertips ablaze.  With a little help from BundleMonster plate BM12 and Konad Special Polish in Red  I think I got a fiery fingernail.

This mani was a little over the top for me so it didn't even last a whole day.  It was just something fun to do something out of my ordinary picks.

Claire's Mixables Ocean Breeze

Another Mixable mishap but it is all good, I still like the color. When I say mishap I simply mean the bottle I got seemed to be shaken a little to much so the layering effect is more of a swirled effect. This is the 2nd bottle of Claire's that I got like this. Anyhow Ocean Breeze is a baby blue with a bit more lavender than the picture shows. Three coats got rid of most of the streakiness.

It still looked pretty chalky and matte so I knew I wouldn't be wearing this alone. You know my theory, GLITTER MAKES IT ALL BETTER!! This had been proven true once again. Enter Wet N Wild Psycho. A clear polish with iridescent glitter.

Two coats of Psycho gave just enough glitter for a subtle shimmer.

I did add a final coat of Seche Vite because I needed my nails to dry quick so I could get out the door. Sorry for the chips and tip wear. I took these pictures after a weekend of washing dishes and holding babies :-)

Claire's Mixables- The Joker Is On Me

I am not going to call this polish a fail at all since I think my bottle was just a fail. I puchased this bottle of Claire's Mixables Joker during the dollar days event so it was inventory they were trying to get rid of and when I saw it I thought interesting concept. When I looked at the bottle I thought there were supposed to be swirls of colored polish throughout the bottle but it was really supposed to be layers of colors. I guess someone did not take head to the DO NOT SHAKE sticker on the cap and gave it a good shake.

So here is my bottle:

and if you were like me and didn't know, here is a bottle of what it is supposed to look like. A layering of a fuschia, black, and light aqua color. No biggie though, I forged on and decided to see what would come about with this.

Layer 1 definitely looked purple but was very streaky and dried to an almost matte finish. Layer 2..ahhh..black nails or at least a very very very dark purple. There was no sunlight but even with a flash I didn't see to many hints of purple. I did end up slapping on a 3rd coat for good measure though.

Here is where it gets fun. GLITTER. While I was not going to walk around with black nails I added some bling to them. Glitter makes everything better right. YES!!!

Of course I couldn't stop at one layer, so the final product was 3 layers of Claire's Joker and 2 layers of the NK Gold glitter. TA DAAAAAAA!!

I think I saved this mani. What do you think? Have you ever had a mani go terribly wrong and done something to make it great?

How Moody Am I?

I got this fun batch of polishes from Claire's a few weeks back. Unfortunately I did not take pictures when I wore them because they chipped pretty quickly. These are the fun series of mood changing polishes. There is actually one more that I wish I gotten instead of getting the Funky/Fabulous bottle.

These polishes work. I could see the polish changing. I know I am moody so I didn't need the polish to tell me that. At least it was fun to see though.