Seize the Sparkle

Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 3 Coats SinfulColors Folly Spoiled Champagne Siren (accent) SinfulColors Queen of Beauty (accent) OPI Gaining Mole-mentum (accent) SOPI Flurry Up! (accent) 1 Coat Borghese Clear Coat 1 Coat Seche Vite I've come to realize that I probably have a good 40 or 50 shades of hot and bright pink that slightly vary from one another. But they're all different, so they're all totally neccessary. This one... Folly from SinfulColors is a very close-to-red shade of raspberry pink. A raspberry almost-red with tiny little pink sparkles in it. I'm not sure you can see them in my pictures, and you definitely can't see them when you look at the bottle. But I swear, they're there, and aren't sparkles always a good surprise? (yes. yes they are!) Application was great... SinfulColors polishes are pretty consistent for me, and the brush is standard sized. Folly had an almost jellyish look to it while I appl

So, I'm really trying to channel warm weather with all these spring colors. Think it'll work?!? Today I'm wearing a bright, shimmery, sky blue from SinfulColors. It's definitely a nice contrast to all the rain outside right now... But you know what they say, showers before flowers... :) Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 4 Coats SinfulColors Violets Are Blue 1 Coat Borghese Clear Coat 1 Coat Seche Vite If I had to picture a color to go with the name Violets Are Blue... I'd probably go with something a bit more purple leaning. BUT... that doesn't mean I don't like this shade. I just might've named it differently. It's a part of Sinful Colors Mod in Bloom Collection for Spring 2014. Violets Are Blue is a cool, sky blue creme polish with silver microshimmer. It's a cool cousin to Sinful Colors Cinderella, and a pretty on-trend color for Spring 2014. The shimmer adds a nice softness to the polish, so it doesn&

Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 3 Coats L'Oreal Too Dimensional 1 Coat OPI Clear Coat 1 Coat Seche Vite I don't own very many textured nail polishes. The ones I do own tend to fall in the same category as Too Dimensional... total glitterbombs! It's a part of L'Oreal's Colour Riche Gold Dust collection that came out a bit before the Holidays. I thought about purchasing a couple of these shades, but so far, this has been the only one I've added to my collection! Too Dimensional has an indigo base that is packed with small blue and silver hex glitter, plus some superfine green-gold shimmer. There's a lot of sparkle to this one! When sunlight hits it, it radiates glimmer... I honestly don't think it has a bad side. It photographed really well, and I may or may not have gone a little overboard with taking pictures! Application was good. The polish didn't build up too badly on the brush like some textu

Today's nails are definitely channeling spring... and flowers... sunshine, too. Despite the fact that it is snowing... yes, snowing outside. Say it with me and maybe it will be so... spring Spring SPR ING!!!  Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 3 Coats Wet n Wild On A Trip 1 Coat OPI Top Coat 1 Coat Seche Vite This shade of purple totally reminds me of wisteria... one of my favorite flowers! I've had this polish for quite some time, and I think I wore it in a skittle mani when I first got it, and haven't touched it since. So, I dusted it off and got to work! On A Trip is a mid-toned blue-leaning purple. It has a slight crelly finish to it, so it shines even without all the top coat! Application was great... 3 easy thin coats with the big mop of a brush. Surprisingly, I don't mind moppy brushes as much lately... perhaps I'm getting used to them? Scary thought, I know! I'm debating whether I want to put on a completely diff

Spring is here... like really officially here. And that just feels so good. The sun is warming up... the days are a little longer... I know after all the snow we got this past winter, even most coldaholics are ready to welcome Spring with a big old hug. What Spring is made of... c/o theBerry.com I know I haven't been posting very regularly lately, and I'm aiming to change that very soon. Things have been extra crazy at Chez Sparkle. Mr. Sparkle, or shall I say, SPC Sparkle is away training because he joined the Guard. And now Chez Sparkle is now plural and Peanut and I are slightly more nomadic. But we'll get used to it. And creativity? Oh... where are you? Not sure if its the winter blahs or what, but I could use some Springspiration to get my creative juices flowing. Maybe they need to thaw out first? I dunno.  In other news... yes, I watched the PLL Season 4 Finale, I'm just incredibly behind with my recap and the following theory post, but it WILL happ

How many times have I said I've found thee perfect hot pink? 'Cause I totally did! (Again...) Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 3 Coats OPI Hey Baby 1 Coat Seche Vite Hey Baby is part of OPI's Gwen Stefani collection. I was really excited when I originally heard about the collaberation. I'm not sure what I expected from the collection... I was thinking bold colors, crazy glitters... and we ended up getting a pretty standard collection of colors with a variety of textures. Red creme, pink creme, blackened burgundy creme, gold satin, black satin, silver chrome, and a silver glitter top coat. I can't really say that any of the Gwen Stefani shades jumped out at me when I first saw promo pictures... BUT! On the nail? Hey Baby isn't just hot pink... it's thee hot pink. It's a total instant classic (at least for me!) , that just happens to be in a Limited Edition collection. But the best part? I picked up my bottle at S

Do not adjust your monitor. You're not seeing double... I promise! Thinner has been added... Fences have been mended... me and Indi-Glow? We are now total BFFs!!! Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 2 Coats Sally Hansen Indi-Glow 1 Coat SinfulColors Green Ocean 1 Coat Sally Hansen Indi-Glow 1 Coat Seche Vite It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship... or something like that. ;) My bottle of Indi-Glow has been properly thinned, and we are getting along so well. See how there aren't any sparse side patches like in yesterday's layering ? See? SEE?!? YAAAAY!!! What's nail polish thinner, you ask? The stuff I use looks like this... Beauty Secrets Nail Polish Thinner You can find it at Sally Beauty Supply and it's thee best thing that's happened to nail polish since the foil glitter removal method. (And now that I think about it, I should probably post about that sometime...) But back to the thinner... It turns

Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 1 Coat Sally Hansen Indi-Glow 1 Coat Sephora by OPI The Golden Age 2 Coats Sally Hansen Indi-Glow 1 Coat Seche Vite During my weekly visit to CVS, I found the Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Color Vibrations Glitter Mania LE Spring 2014 Collection freshly displayed on the Nail Bar. (I'm pretty sure it's the longest name for a collection I've ever seen. Just sayin'...) I immediately fell for Indi-Glow... it's a blue jelly cousin to Purple Pizazz (also from Sally Hansen) , one of my favorite jelly sparklers. It's a blurple indigo jelly polish packed with iridescent glitter that flashes orange, yellow, green, and blue. It's a really pretty combo of colors. Very night sky-esque. But then there's the formula... Purple Pizazz can be tricky for me to work with, but Indi-Glow? It's like a mutant little cousin that somehow got landed with the thickest base ever. EVER . Seriously. My first attemp

As soon as I saw swatches of Purple Poodle, I knew it had to be a part of my collection. I was out shopping last weekend and spotted at Ulta... wait for it... waaaaaiiiiit for it...      on.the.clearance.rack. Yoink! Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 2 Coats Orly Purple Poodle 1 Coat Sephora by OPI Indi-Go with the Flow! 1 Coat Orly Purple Poodle 1 Coat Borghese Clear Coat 1 Coat Seche Vite It's another Malibu Stacy layering! Just kidding......... Kinda. O.o Anyway... this layering is insanely girly and glittery, and well... it's just soooooo me. :) Orly Purple Poodle was part of their Surreal Collection for Fall 2013. It's hard for me to fathom that this was on the clearance rack, but there it was... on sale for just $4.99 rather than $8... AND it was on my wishlist. That rarely happens! (Like, never, EVER .) Purple Poodle is a raspberry pink jelly polish loaded with pink, purple, and blue micro-shimmer. It's a pretty polish o

Hard Candy recently came out with a bunch of new polishes for Spring. I've gotta say, there are some really unique and interesting color combos in the glitter polishes I saw. King of Pop was a definite must-have as soon as I laid eyes on it... O.o Polishes Used: 1 Coat Beauty Secrets Ridge Filler 3 Coats Pure Ice Kiss Me Here 2 Coats Hard Candy King of Pop 1 Coat Borghese Clear Coat 1 Coat Seche Vite So... King of Pop is a really cool glitter polish. There's a lot going on... extra-large hex glitter in white and peach, large hex glitter in white and pale pink, medium hex glitter in white and light blue, small hex glitter in white and mint green, and extra-small hex glitter in white and light blue. These are colors that I wouldn't really think to pair together. They're random, but at the same time, they work well together. The gray base I used is Pure Ice Kiss Me Here... one of my favorite polishes! It's a mid-tone gray that lets King of Po