Wing Dust "Coral Leaf"

Hi everyone!  Quick post before I'm off to bed!  I've been keeping my nails very neutral on my current rotation (not that I think anyone would actually notice or care), but I decided to branch out a little more by wearing Wing Dust "Coral Leaf" the past couple days:

"Coral Leaf" is a pale coral creme-jelly hybrid with some dark microglitter (that didn't really come out in my pictures, but is there in real life!) and gold foil flakes.  The gold foil just pops against the coral background and make this polish special!

This is two thin coats here.  You can still see a bit of VNL, but I liked the way it looked.  If you did thicker coats, you probably wouldn't have the VNL.

I've been wearing nudes so far on this rotation, so I'm going go wild tomorrow and wear a color!  Crazy!

Thanks for reading!

Back to school mani!

As I was leafing through the Jan/Feb issue of Nail It! I decided to do a mani inspired by the cover model for my first day back this semester

They used foil nail strips for the gold, but I decided to do something similar with a new foil finish polish.

I did two coats of OPI Push & Shove from the new Gwen Stefani collection, then put down hole reinforcement stickers to block off the bottom part.  Then I painted a coat of OPI Lincoln Park After Dark for the tips!  Mine's obviously not as crisp as the professional one, but I'm happy with it!

Push & Shove is another foil finish like the Formula X I showed the other day.  It comes with a mini bottle of Lay Down that Base, which is OPI's special base coat.  This is even shinier in person!  I hope OPI comes out with more of these mirror finishes!!

Lincoln Park After Dark is a classic OPI shade from the 2005 Chicago collection.  I know it looks black in these pictures, but it's really a deep dark plum.  You can kind of see where it smudged a bit.  I like colors that are dark, but not quite black like this.  They're sort of softer somehow.

All right guys, I'm back to school tomorrow.  I probably won't be posting as much, and I definitely won't be able to do much nail art, but I'll still try to post at least once a week!

This is my last semester of classes before I start rotations!  I'm excited, but also nervous!!

Formula X "10 Below"

Hi Girls!

I've been a little under the weather, so I haven't been exercising everyday like I wanted to, but I'm feeling better today so I decided to give the first day of Insanity a try!  Holy crap!  I'm amazed I was able to finish it all!  I actually felt really good when I finished it; like I had accomplished something!  We'll see if I can actually keep up with it.  I'm guessing it will take me more than 60 days!

After my workout, I decided to try a special polish:  "10 Below", a limited edition "Foil Look" set from Formula X, containing a polish (10 Below) and a special base coat.

 More pictures and my review after the jump!