Day 311) OPI Mariah Carey Holiday 2013 Collection (mini pack liquid sand)

OPI recently came out with their new Holiday/Christmas limited edition.
Again, they joined forces with Mariah Carey and to be honest when I think of Christmas I have good memories of spending time in the bar with my friends and singing along with Mariah's 'All I want for Christmas'.

The collection is quite big for a limited one and consists of
- 12 full sized bottles

 

 



- A special PURE topcoat
A luxurious clear topcoat with flakes of genuine 18K white gold and silver

- And 3 mini packs

4 mini nail lacquers of the regular full sized bottles











3 mini liquid sands which are exclusive for this mini pack

 



 

3 mini liquid sands which are exclusive for this mini pack.

I've used the last mini pack for today's nail art.
If you have any requests for swatching one or more of these, please let me know!

The mini pack contains 3 mini liquid sands:
- Emotions; a black liquid sand with small round black glitters
- It's frosty outside; a silver liquid sand with small round silver glitter
- Kiss me at midnight; a blue liquid sand with small round silver glitter
Two coats gives an opaque outcome.

For the nail art I also used another OPI mini liquid sand; OPI Couture de Minnie Magazine Cover Mouse.

As inspiration for today's nail art I used the names of the lacquers.
On the nails you'll see a night sky with blue full moon (midnight) and silver dots representing snow (frosty). On the pinky I used several colors to make some fireworks for New Years Eve (midnight). In front of the blue full moon I painted a silhouette with santa hat which is blowing frosty air filled with hearts/love and a kiss (emotions and kiss at midnight)

Day 242) Nail art brick wall

When I bought my Artdeco sparkling sand nail lacquer (gold) I had trouble deciding which one to take.
There was also a beautiful black one but after a lot of thinking I chose the gold because I saw some more ways to use this one (read Christmas time).
I regretted that I couldn't take them both but today my eye catched Essence Colour & Go Sparkle Sand Effect nail polish.
The color in the bottle showed some similarities with the Artdeco black one that I couldn't afford.
Obviously this ended up in my shopping basket.

Want to know what I'm talking about...
Here is a swatch of this polish:

 

Essence Colour & Go Sparkle Sand Effect - 165 Here's my number

 

 

I'm loving the color! It's not really black but more of an anthracite which makes it more appealing for a wider public.

The sparkling effect is brought by multicolor micro glitter.

Two coats gives an opaque coverage and it goes on very smoothly.

As I was applying this polish I asked myself if this was really a sand nail lacquer. Most of the sand lacquers I know are matte. This one was so shiny I couldn't believe that there was any texture in it.

The picture above reveals some of the shinyness that was still there.

But after some time I saw this polish drying and it turned into a really (beautiful) sand nail lacquer (this look can be found in the next picture).

 

 

Anthracite...stones...tiles...floors...walls...brick...BRICK WALL

Logic thinking right ;-P

Well, here is my brick wall nail art:





 



 

Day 212) Liquid sands nail art

I worked my but off today and I'm really tired.
Today is a very simple nail art again.
As compensation I'll show you my new purchase ;-D

Artdeco - 53 Sparkling Sand Nail Lacquer

(Douglas)

I decided to paint 4 of my nails with this beautiful golden liquid sand version and make a nail art on the ring finger nail as an accent.

For the nail art I used some stencils:

Wynie Accessories - Ref. 570601

I already did a Chevron nail art. So, for today's nail art I used the left ones.
After the basecoat I applied two of the stencils on my nail.
Then I applied the golden liquid sand on the free parts:

I removed the stencils and I filled the open spaces with another liquid sand that I own: OPI Couture de Minnie - Magazine Cover Mouse.

Here are today's nails: