Color Club The Uptown

Good afternoon!  It's rainy over here so I am about to start a pot of stew and the recipe looks so good I can't wait to try it.  Nothing like the smell of garlic and onion simmering in olive oil to get everyone in the house ready for dinner.  But before I do that I just wanted to share a couple pictures of a Color Club polish I recently bought.  So let's take a little looksie!

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This is The Uptown from the Fall 2013 Girl About Town collection.  The Uptown has a sheer purple jelly base and is loaded with color shifting flakes.  So many colors wanted to show up - red, copper, green...you can literally see a rainbow of colors in The Uptown.  But different lighting will give you differnect effects.  Also, the movement of the color shifting flakies made it hard for my camera to focus on my nails, I tried my best I promise!  Now I know from reading other posts that The Uptown builds up on it's own but I chose to wear it over a base color hoping to get the most color shift bang for my buck!  So here I have 2 coats of Barry M Indigo, a pretty blurple creme.  I layered 1 coat of The Uptown over Indigo.  The Uptown had a fabulous formula with loads of flakies coming out.  The flakies spread easily on my nails.  They did dry with a little texture, so I used 1 thick layer of topcoat to smooth them out.  

*these pictures are in regular indoor lighting*

*these pictures are indoors, under a bright white light with a white background - outdoor pictures look similar to these*

Red Dog Designs All Of Time And Space

Good morning readers!  I hope your weekend has been full of fun and Halloween parties.  Mine was full of soccer and birthdays.  And now before I head off to my soccer game I wanted to share this pretty little ditty that my friend Gina from Red Dog Designs sent me to try out!  Recently a group of our friends decided we weren't too happy with a mainstream polish that was released.  We talked about the possible reasons why it didn't work and what would make it better.  Gina started tinkering and came up with a couple versions of her own.  Guess what....they are both gorgeous!!  She hit it out of the park!  I am sharing the purple version today, which has now been released in the Who's 50th Anniversary collection and my friend Michelle at Ehmkay Nails is sharing the black version (you can see it HERE).  So lets take a look shall we?

This is All Of Time And Space from the Who's both Anniversary collection.  When I look at this polish I see night sky, stars, constellations!  It's like a gorgeous purple and blue galaxy on my nails.  All Of Time And Space is an inky purple jelly based polish full of pink-purple glitters with aqua shimmer.  I also see some blue hexs.  The formula and application were both AH-MAZING!  With each coat the depth grew and got better!  I used 4 coats for full coverage, but 3 would have been completely fine.  I used 1 layer of topcoat to finish.  

More social media links!

Red Dog Designs: Shop, Facebook, Instagram

Ehmkay Nails: Facebook, Instagram

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