Color Club Winter Affair Collection Swatch and Review

So this is the first time I have ever swatched a collection!

It took a lot of time and honestly I have been sitting on these polishes for over a month...

I just haven't had time with all the craziness in my life lately, but I finally got it done!

Winter Affair is Color Club's holiday collection.

It is made up of six polishes that seem to step slightly away from the usual red, green and gold winter collections. It contains 4 foil-y polishes 1 glitter bomb and 1 top coat flaky polish.

 Each swatch is 2 coats topped with Seche Vite.

Winter Affair

 Winter Affair is the namesake of the collection. It is a wine colored flaky, glass flecked polish. 

This applied like a dream and there was no staining. This is such a beautiful fall/winter shade.

I liked this color more than I thought I would, its just so pretty to look at.

 Berry and Bright

 Berry and Bright is a red foil with slight gold and pink shimmers. This polish was probably my least favorite of the collection. It is perfectly lovely I am just don't wear a lot of reds. This is just not for me. It applied easily and removed easily.

 Ho-Ho-Holly

Ho-Ho-Holly is a green, gold glass fleck polish. This one was a surprise favorite for me. I loved it and didn't want to take it off. This color seems like it would be perfect for Halloween or winter. 

Stunning! This picture doesn't do it justice. 2 easy coats of this polish, removal was just as easy.

Glitter Wonderland

I'm not really sure how this bright purple polish translates to winter or holiday but I'm happy to have it! It's really an awesome color and it seems to shine on its own. Glitter Wonderland is a bright purple foil with pink and blue glitter throughout. The shimmer is clearly visible on the nail and in the bottle. Such a pretty color!

 Gift of Sparkle

Gift of Sparkle is a glitter bomb, no other word for it. This polish is a dark purple base with teeny, tiny pink-fuchsia glitter through the whole bottle and slightly bigger holographic glitter. This polish is opaque in 2 coats with no need for a base color. This glitter dries slightly matte but a quick top coat fixes that in no time.

Snow-Flakes

This top coat is so very similar to a lot of flakies out there. It shifts color from red, orange, yellow, to green. This is one coat of Snow-Flakes over each of the polishes in the collection.

Snow-Flakes over Winter Affair

 Snow-Flakes over Berry and Bright

Snow-Flakes over Ho-Ho-Holly

Snow-Flakes over Glitter Wonderland

Snow-Flakes over Gift of Sparkle

Color Club is available in select stores (like Sally Beauty Supply!) and at their online store

as well as some other e-tailers such as www.transdesign.com. This collection is a lot of fun. As much as I have praised it in this post, honestly there are a few colors that we have seen before. I will have a comparison post coming soon to show some dupes or close to dupes. If there are any colors you would like to see compared just let me know and I will add them to my list. What do you guys think? Any colors you guys need to have?

31 Day Challenge Day 20: Water Marble

I'm back!

Thank you to everyone who reached out to me and my family in our difficult times.

You guys really helped me get through this with all your kind words.

Hopefully now nothing crazy happens for a while because I think my family needs a break :)

Now I know I am so far behind on the challenge... again.

I am just going to try to power through and catch up... again!

Today is water marble!

 I love water marble and I really wanted to incorporate a holographic color, so I pulled out my favorite holo...

DS Original!

1 coat OPI Nail Envy

2 coats China Glaze Sweet Hook

marbled with:

China Glaze Sweet Hook, OPI DS Original, Color Club Rad Nomad

accent nail OPI DS Original

1 coat SV

What do you think?

31 Day Challenge Day 17: Glitter Nails

Welcome to Glitter Nails Day!

I love glitter and I love glitter nail polish.

One of my favorite brands for glitter is Color Club they have amazing glitter polish.

This is one of my favorites, Jingle Jangle it is a lovely mix of tiny purple, blue and teal glitter.

1 coat OPI Nail Envy

2 coats OPI Fly

 2 coats Color Club Jingle Jangle

accent nail individual glitters fished out of OPI Crown Me Already

Check out what the other ladies did today:

 Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints 
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish 
- Robin Sparkles  

31 Day Challenge Day 6: Purple Nails

Hey ladies!

Thank you to everyone who has been wishing me well while I've been sick. You guys are so very sweet.

Today is day 6 of our 31 day challenge and it just happens to be my favorite color, purple!

So I used two of my favorite purples China Glaze Sweet Hook and Color Club Wild at Heart.

1 coat OPI Nail Envy

2 coats CG Sweet Hook

stamped Color Club Wild at Heart and Cheeky XL plate C

1 coat SV

Take a look at the other ladies purple nails:

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Greta at How Was Your Day?
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints 
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish 
- Robin Sparkles 

What do you guys think? What is your favorite color of polish?

Hypnotize Me Blue-Ming

Hey guys!

Just a quick post today :)

I wanted to use one of my new Cult Nails polishes so here it is:

1 coat OPI Nail Envy

3 coats Color Club Blue-Ming

1 coat Cult Nails Hypnotize Me

stamp with Mash-40 Konad Special Black polish

1 coat Seche Vite

I love how trippy this looks, although it is hard to capture the green with my camera without it turning pink.... I don't know why my camera likes doing this :(

This is as true to color as I could get.

I love the sparkle!

Butterfly or Fairy?

Hmmm....

This mani started off as a butterfly but it might be a fairy. 

I started off with Color Club's Pucci-licious.

Then I sponged on some Zoya Mimi for some extra sparkle.

Then with Art Deco's black and silver striper and a dotting tool to make the butterfly wings.

I added some China Glaze Fairy Dust to give it a little extra pizzazz!

This is all topped off with SV.

I love the sparkly part where Mimi and Fairy Dust mix!

Which do you think it is? Butterfly? Fairy?

Try It On Tuesday: Other Worldly Glitter Envy

So, Jasmine at MixedMama informed me that Tuesdays are now

Try It On Tuesdays!

This is wonderful. It's when create a mani using one of your untried polishes.

I know it sounds silly but sometimes I have trouble trying my new polishes because I have so many old favorites, and ideas for manis for my old favorites.

So for my first Tuesday I am going to show you 2 of my untried polishes that have been sitting in my Melmer for months!

This is Color Club's Glitter Envy and Other Worldly

They are two very strange glitter polishes, because they are not sparkly.

I know that sounds like a crime, but they are oddly intriguing to look at...

 I had to layer these over Sally Hanson's White on bc they are some of those pesky, wonderful neons.

These look awesome, although they might not be Color Club's best formula.

They were a bit thin and flooded the cuticles a bit, and were a pain to clean up after.

Still I like the brightness of them and will definitely use them again, maybe just for an accent next time.

What do you think? What are you wearing for TIOT?

Any polishes that you love to hate?

Starry Holo Sweet Hook

Hello it's been a few days! So much going on with Mother's Day tomorrow that I have not had time to post :-( but I do have a new pretty to play with Nfu-Oh 61! It is beautiful and good for stamping!

Polishes:
China Glaze Sweet Hook
Nfu Oh 61
Color Club Wild at heart

Tools:
Cheeky plate CH5

A little blurry to capture some holo