Untried Polish Challenge-Glitter

Awww, it's the last installment of this challenge. This has been so much fun, and has gotten so many Untrieds into the Tried column.

I chose to use one of the new Hard Candy line, Sweet Tooth.

This is one coat over just my regular base of OPI Matte Nail Envy. It is a few colors of glitter, both matte and shiny, in a pale blue base.

The rest of my fingers, I put down two coats of OPI I Think In Pink before my one coat of Sweet Tooth. This really pulled out the pink glitter. I liked it better than the plain.

So, I put one coat of I Think In Pink over Sweet Tooth. The milky pink really worked well over this, like half a jelly sandwich.

You can tell the difference between the two layering methods in this picture.

The texture of the glitter didn't bother me, so I decided to forgo topcoat. 

Yeah, that was a mistake. I don't recall what I did, but three fingers on each hand got crunched up within an hour, and I didn't notice them, so they had dried enough that I couldn't flatten them, so off it came. Sad. (But I replaced it with Zoya Blaze, so not so sad after all!)

So, thank you Jo for inspiring us, leading us through this challenge. It has been fun to do and more importantly, fun to read what the others have been doing!

Jo at Just Add Polish 

Masha at Lost In Lacquer

Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art 

 Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone Files
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

 

Adios!

~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Most Expensive

Second to the last post for this challenge. It has been fun, and I wonder if I might do it again. I certainly haven't stopped buying polishes!
Strap On Your Moonboots by China Glaze in their Holographic collection.
Forgot my 15% off coupon, so I paid full price $9.99. The other two I got from this collection I remembered the coupon.

One coater. Stamped well over two coats of China Glaze White on White.

I was so excited when I bought this that I tossed a coat over what ever mani I had on, right there in the store. It didn't look like much inside, but when I headed to my car, the sunshine just made the rainbows appear, BOOM!

You can see why it was in the running for Prettiest, too!

So what are the others serving up for us today? Take a look:

Jo at Just Add Polish 

Masha at Lost In Lacquer

Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art 

 Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone Files
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

Adios!

~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Prettiest

Skipping around again, but that's OK, Jonochi said so! Thanks, Jo! That freedom makes this so much more enjoyable of a challenge.

This was a bit of a challenge, choosing which polish was to be classified as "Prettiest". I was thisclose to calling my "Most Expensive" polish my prettiest, but ...then I wouldn't have something for that category! I am glad that I decided to do this one, though. It truly is a very pretty polish.

Not that it shows in this picture! I wanted to have a pic that I would (for once) do some color adjusting on, because I knew this Periwinkle blue would not show up decently. And I was testing my idea for nail art, which, BTW, I passed on, and I came up with a much prettier alternative! With another untried! Win-win!

Anyway, this still looks more purple than I want it to, but it is a gorgeous periwinkle in person.

What polish, you ask? Salon Perfect Pure Azure. This is OPI Matte Nail Envy, two coats of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu!,  1 x Seche Vite, and then two coats of Pure Azure. There was also a stamping attempt in there, but I decided that it didn't work.

Then what? I decided to put a dot line with Zoya Song at the edge of the Periwinkle French and then a dot line of Julep Isla inside that.

Rough and ready.

That worked for the Frenched fingers (thumb and pinkie on left, other three on right). So what to do on the other nails?

More stamping, anyone? I used the Vivid Lacquer scribble heart image from VL001 and the whole nail full of scribble hearts from VL009. Stamping polishes were Song and Isla.

I think that Isla is a new favorite, surprisingly. She looks like such an old lady in the bottle, a pearly white, but she does such an excellent job as a subtle stamper, that I think she is another "Prettiest" untried polish!

Xs and Os from VL001

So happy with the way this turned out! Now I have a great mani to wear to my uncle's wedding on Saturday! And I can't stop turning my hands this way and that to see the sparkle in Song!

By the way, this was inspired by Pkbmum's post here. Inspired by, not "a copy of".

Check out the rest of the UPC Bloggers' manicures for today. Only two more prompts left? 

Jo at Just Add Polish 

Masha at Lost In Lacquer

Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art 

 Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone Files
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

Adios!
~~Lizajane

PS-What do you use for your blog photos? Instagram is becoming more "social" and I don't like clogging that up with manicure pics.

Untried Polish Challenge-Cheapest

My cheapest untried? How about a Sally Girl, on clearance? Yep, that is what it is.
This was a color that I just couldn't justify paying even the cheap price of 99 cents. So when it went on clearance, I grabbed it at 59 cents!

This is Sally Girl 812161, three coats, which I put on over a coat of China Glaze White On White-needed some unders with the Blaze Orange!

I paired it with another polish from the Evil League of Evil Collex from Vivid Lacquer-Random Crazy Happenstance.

There were occasional bright orange pieces in RCH that made me think this might work, so pinkie has RCH by itself, and pointer has it over the Sally Girl.

This got the three coats because it dragged a little on the second coat, although I may have been in a rush to get this done.

Another couple of colors that I will have to pull out come fall.

I love how this picture looks like an old-fashioned hand tinted photograph. Positively unnaturally glowy.

59 cents! Pretty darn cheap! That's a whole lotta color for that little price!

Only two more prompts left! Jo, what should we do when this is done? Thanks for organizing this challenge.

Jo at Just Add Polish 

Masha at Lost In Lacquer

Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art 

 Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone Files
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Creme

 

This particular polish should have been in the running for "prettiest", but I didn't realize it until I had already decided on that category.

For the creme prompt I chose to feature Julep Millie from the May 2013 box. I love Art Nouveau and the pretties in this box hark back to that era. Millie is a lovely deep purple creme.

It applies beautifully-this is one coat. Absolutely lovely.

Of course, I couldn't leave it at that.
As I was painting the swatch sticks, I saw that Millie and Vivid Lacquer's Moonlit Cheshire would work very very nicely together.

Anni packs so many varieties of glitter in her polishes. This one has full coverage in three coats, but I only used one.

I see purple bar glitter, hexes, flakies, black micro glitter, sliver flakies and micro glitters, and holo glitters. So complex and pretty.

What are the others putting out there today?

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art 

 Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone Files
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

Adios!

~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Ugliest

Someone who isn't into polish might ask why one would have a polish one would classify as ugly. They just don't understand.
This was included in a collection, and I liked at least three of the eight, and have regretted not picking up other collections, so this, I bought the whole thing (in minis).

This is a skittle mani, since I didn't know what it would look good over, but I knew from my swatch stick that it would need unders of some sort.

Black, orange, copper, nude, (and white on the thumb).
Now that I have this on, it isn't that bad. It is a warm beige jelly with red, orange, copper and blue glitters in it.

I used three coats over each base color, and Seche Vite to top coat it-I think this collection (Evil League of Evil from Vivid Lacquer) is mostly a rubbery finish, and that is appealing less and less to me.

This is really surprising me, because I thought this would be an "apply and remove immediately" manicure, but I think I will keep it on for work, it mellowed together enough that the skittle isn't bothering me.

Thanks Jo for including this prompt, because I would never have tried this one without it, and now I am looking forward to fall when the colors will be more appropriate.

Take a look at the other bloggers who are doing this challenge, you might find something that you love!

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art 

 Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone FIles
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Was A Gift

w00t! I figured out one polish that I had that was both untried and that I hadn't bought!

Last year, I won some polishes from Enchanted Polish through Facebook. The fact that it was a giveaway prize means that it was a gift, right? This is the last of the lot, the last of the entire Imagine Collection that I hadn't used yet.

Take a look at Enchanted Polish Mean Mr. Mustard!

I don't think I was successful at getting the duochrome to come out to play, but look what showed up!

HOLO! I didn't realize this had HOLO!

Because we were leaving on vacation, I didn't actually do a whole mani of this, I put one coat of Rimmel (Black) over the previous mani (see previous post) and then one coat of Mean Mr. Mustard.

Except on the thumb. I remembered that the others in this collection were one-coaters, so I tried one coat over that glittery black, and here is the result. Success! Now I think these may go in the stamping rotation!

I liked Mean Mr. Mustard a lot more than I expected-as an old fart, these bright greens don't appeal to me, Peridot did nothing for me, and this is along those lines.

Enchanted Polish is available at Llarowe , Harlow & Co., and MeiMei's Signatures, as well as on their own Big Cartel site, I think.

Take a look at what the other bloggers are doing for this challenge-

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily
Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents
Sam at Polished Art
Lizajane at Organic Neglect
Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails
Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone FIles
Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish

Alison at UKNailRunner 

As for me, this has been a lovely vacation week of camping, biking, Geocaching, and getting a new granddaughter! A great week!

Adios!

~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Oldest

Quickie post today-I wore this on Sunday, before going camping for vacation.
This is one of two that I got when I was just getting into nail polish last year-not that I didn't wear polish before that, but it was not like it is now. Last year, I was able to bring my entire collection with on vacation (50 polishes). This year, I am taking a break and didn't bring anything except cuticle oil, hand creme, and OPI Matte Nail Envy. I need to get those cuticle back into shape (although I don't see much change yet.)

Anyway, this polish. China Glaze. Tinsel Town. I bought it in a two pack with Champagne Kisses from the Christmas 2011 collection. I really like it but am glad that I waited to wear it. It was massively textured by itself, so I used a coat of Gelous and a coat of Seche Vite to topcoat it. Last year, I wouldn't have known what to do with a textured polish.

No topcoat.

Super glittery!

Topcoated, in the sunshine.

I liked how it applied (2 coats), and how it wore, but it was a typical glitter with regard to removal. (PIA, in case you don't know.)

Take a look-see at the other bloggers' manicures for this challenge. And thank you, Jo, for the ideas.

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Sam at Polished Art

Jo at Just Add Polish

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails

Wish me luck with getting online for the next post. Tonight's was iffy, but we are camping, so what do you expect?

Adios!

~~Lizajane 

Untried Polish Challenge-In Season

Ooo, three untrieds in this mani, which of the remaining categories should I classify it into? I guess In Season is the most appropriate.

I started by laying down two coats of OPI I Think In Pink, and then dotted on the flowers using Sally Hansen White On, and then dotted the centers with China Glaze Not In This Galaxy.

I Think In Pink was part of the Pink of Hearts Duo, for 2012's breast cancer awareness campaign along with You Glitter Be Good To Me. It is a milky pink crelly. I think. If it isn't a crelly, it is a jelly. I think this is the only crelly I have, so I am not certain it truly is. Anyway. Two coats gave surprisingly good coverage.

I thought this was so pretty! I was going to keep this, but then I went back to the original plan of  jelly layers-you have probably seen them elsewhere on the internet. So I tossed another coat of ITIP over this, added more dotty flowers, and then topped with another coat of ITIP.

On this last one, I left the one flower without a coat of I Think In Pink on it, just to see the original.


I so apologize for the state of my cuticles. I have been working hard on improving them-more moisturizer, cuticle oil, and water for internal hydration. Not certain it is working yet, but I keep trying.


See what the other participants have this time! Thanks Jo!

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Sam at Polished Art

Jo at Just Add Polish

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails

I am on vacation now and will be leaving for a distant location Monday, so I don't know that I will get the next few installments done here, but Jo graciously said initially that we could take all the time we want, so I am taking advantage of that. I will be missing this month's Tri-Polish Challenge, or at least posting late.

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Newest

Skipping ahead to newest today because I just got these on Saturday and I love this! And I have to get this in before I receive my Julep Add On, because then THAT will be the newest.

How am I going to get ahead on my untrieds when I keep buying more? Only by counting it as a percentage rather than the raw number, that's how.

Anni at Vivid Lacquer had a sale and I took advantage of it, grabbing one grab bag, one discontinued/limited edition color, and one current offering.

(Night time pictures don't do these justice!)

Here we have the grab bag minis Waning Gibbous, Would You Kindly, You Are NOT My Nemesis, and Pick Your Portal. I also got Real, Audible Connection, but I RAKed that right away to a friend at work. The one on the end is the limited edition Black Widow-I hesitated on that one at Halloween because I hate hate HATE spiders, but when it was available marked down, I grabbed the last bottle. And last but not least, there is Theoretical Rainbow.

Theoretical Rainbow is part of VL's Theoretical line, with Rockstar, Blogger, Vegan, Girlfriend and Gamer. (I also have a failed Rockstar, renamed Rejected Rockstar, the glitter bled which is why it was rejected. She tests everything for at least a month for colorfastness. She also only uses stainless steel mixing balls.)

Three easy coats of polish and a coat of Seche Vite gives you this:

You have to look pretty hard to see it, but there is the whole rainbow in there, ROY G. BIV.  The yellow is a neon so with all the rest in there, it is hiding pretty hard. And either the violet or the indigo is sparkly, so you can only see it on occasion, like here:

See? There on my pinkie? Sparkle! You might also get some hints of the yellow, mainly on the ring finger, slightly to the left of midline between the two obvious pieces of blue and green. You don't see it? I told you it was subtle. Oh, you were distracted by my nasty cuticles. Well, excuuuuuuuse me! (As Steve Martin used to say).

Anyway...I am loving this mani. Looking at it this morning, after a day and a half, there is starting to be just a hint of tipwear at my weak point (pointer!), but it doesn't show much because of the light tint of the base color-yes, it is tinted but I can't decide if it is light blue, light lilac, light pink, or light grey. Subtlety, again.

Thanks for looking, thanks, Jo for running this challenge, and take a look at the other participants. (Am I being overly precious by never saying "ladies", in case a man is doing a challenge? Or am I just being inclusive?)

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Sam at Polished Art

Jo at Just Add Polish

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Warm

Another Untried being kicked to the curb today!

With all my untrieds, I have a low number of what I would call Warm colors. I am rather pale, with a blue undertone to my skin, so I lean heavily to the cool colors.

However, I do give in to impulse, on occasion. Ahem.

But it's so PRETTY! Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Lava, three coats.
I was wondering about it with the first coat, it went on rather sheer, but I remembered from my swatch stick that it covered up pretty well. I'm not certain that the third was necessary, but I wanted to be very even.

And the duochrome!

Or should we call it multichrome?

Peachy, orangy, pinky, burgandy-y foily goodness!
I did experience some bubbling between the coats.
And some obligatory Seche Vite shrinkage.
But I still think it is gorgeous.

I am thinking about stamping over it tomorrow morning, with some black and an all-over design. If I do, I will edit this post and add another picture.

eta: Here it is stamped with with Zoya Raven, plate Bundle Monster 322. Looks nice, but I think I still have to order Konad Black.

Check out the other participants' manicures.

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Sam at Polished Art

Jo at Just Add Polish

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails 

And once again, thank you Jo for coming up with this challenge!

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Three Colors

Going back to the Three Colors of untried polishes, then I will be back on track with Jo at Just Add Polish. Even though skipping around is allowed, I feel like going along.

I changed my initial plans on this mani completely, I initially planned on using the Zang Toi Trio from Zoya, but I got inspired and did this:

I used my usual OPI Matte Nail Envy and then dotted on some pansies with Orly Royal Velvet. That is the PERFECT pansy color, blue and purple and rich and deep. SO love this color!
That's one color.
Next, I added some black stems with my striper and then picked up my fan brush. I first used OPI Nein, Nein, Nein, Okay Fine!, brushed as a grassy French, and then Julep Piper over, to lighten the grass.
That's two and three colors.
I went back and used my yellow striper for the centers .
A quick coat of  SV , hoping and praying that it wouldn't smudge, and there we go!

The thumb only got the grass, not really sold on that.
One more shot, in my car, afternoon light rather than morning:

This is a far more Spring-y mani than anything I would have come up with using the Zang Toi Trio, gorgeous colors though they are.

Take a bit to check out the other blogger's creativity.

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Sam at Polished Art

Jo at Just Add Polish

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Until Friday!
Adios!
~~Lizajane