Zoya Neeka

I'm back! I've actually been back for a few days now, but I've been in recovery mode. Anyway, upon my arrival awaited a package consisting of 6 Zoya polishes. I got Zoya Yara, Neeka, Reva, Caitlin, Ki, and Dannii. This lovely little number is Neeka from the new fall 2011 Smoke and Mirrors collection.

                                           The green is just a reflection of the surroundings

Neeka is a deep smoky purple-grey. It has tiny gold glitter that tends to give the polish a speckled sort of look. This color is darker than I would usually go for, but the glitter brings a bit of a fun aspect, which is what attracted me to it.

Cheerleading Konad

Tomorrow morning I will be heading to cheerleading camp for 4 days! Finally the perfect opportunity to use my Konad plate S7! Plate S7 consists entirely of designs related to cheerleading, such as pompoms, a megaphone, and cheerleaders, so cute!

This is Very Cherry! It's very similar to Midnight Sky, which I have previously posted about. It has the same silver sparkle reflects, except instead they do not reside in a grey base. Very Cherry Isn't quite red, but more of a rosey pink raspberry color.

I chopped my nails off in anticipation of camp to avoid breakage.

 Now the Konad design-
                         I'm still a novice at Konad so the designs didn't turn  out quite as crisp and straight as I         would have wanted, but this will suffice.

I used Xtreme Wear Very Cherry, Konad plate S7 and China Glaze Millennium.

"Holos" Color Block

I noticed that these three colors all have similar finishes, so I thought I'd do a design that incorporates them all. They are all noted as holos, but in reality they really don't exemplify very prominent holographic qualities. They all are adorned with sparkles, but the sparkles aren't quite holographic, more like silver reflects. The holo effect is sparse and sporadic, only slightly noticeable in few lightings.

Right-

Left-

                                               A holo this subtle is very difficult to capture. 

These colors are Color Club Fashion Addict, Color Club Worth The Risque, and China Glaze Techno Teal.

Fishtail Braid

I was originally going to do the standard braided look, but I couldn't find another color that worked well with Zoya Mira and China Glaze Shower Together, and well, I really wanted to use those two. So I compromised and went for the "fishtail" look. It doesn't necessarily look like a fishtail, but the concept is the same.

China Glaze Shower Together  and Zoya Mira . The accent nail is China Glaze Shower Together and China Glaze For Audrey.

Midnight Sky

This post was originally going to be about a manicure I did, which will be pictured at the end of the post, but the base color I used is so amazing that it had to become the star of this post. Im a Sally Hansen Xreme Wear collector. The majority of my polish collection is occupied by Xtreme Wears, so when the new collection came out, I raced to get every color. One of those colors was Midnight Sky. Midnight Sky is a dark gunmetal charcoalish color. It has small, not nontheless noticeable, silver frosty glitters. I don't really gravitate towards darker colors, but this is just dazzling. I don't think that the color is particularly unique in the grand scheme of nail polish, but in my collection its a gem.

Now on to the actual look...
                                          I applied Wet N Wild Party Of Five Glitters on top.

Then I matted the look using Essie Matte About You. I'm not usually huge on matte looks, but glitter is an exception.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This is a very simplistic version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Upon further investigation (aka Google Images), I discovered that this is a reasonably popular design, so excuse my unoriginality.

Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo

For the base I used Xtreme Wear Green With Envy. For the face band mask things(?) I used Xtreme Wear Sunkissed, Cherry Red,  Zoya Mira, and Xtreme Wear Blue Me Away!. The eyes are Sinful Colors Snow Me White and Xtreme Wear Black Out.

GO GO POWER RANGERS!

I've been on a bit of a Power Rangers kick lately, so I had to do something Power Rangers themed on my nails. Every nail is the torso of the uniform of the original five Mighty Morphing rangers I wish I had six fingers so that I could do a nail for the Green Ranger, but alas, I do not, So Tommy had to get the boot.

Pink Ranger, Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, Yellow Ranger

Black Ranger

Xtreme Wear Fuchsia Power, Cherry Red, Pacific Blue, Mellow Yellow, Black Out. The diamonds are Xtreme Wear White On.   

Love it. I'm a nerd.