Hard To Find Friday

Happy Friday and welcome to my new idea to change things up a bit here on Nail'd & Polish'd.  Have you ever seen the the letters HTF?  Well, in the nail polish world they stand for Hard To Find.  I thought I would start a once-in-awhile Friday post called Hard To Find Friday and share all my nail polish treasures.  This won't be a weekly thing since I don't have that many.  But hopefully I can get some of my fellow bloggers to help me out.  I thought this might be a good resource in case you are ever out shopping and come across a HTF.  First up my small China Glaze OMG collection!

In 2008 China Glaze released one their most coveted collections called the OMG! collection.  12 stunning holos with cute little names like QT, L8R G8R, & OMG.  China Glaze can do holographic colors.  Don't let the Tronica collection fool you, take a look at these.

~OMG~

~FYI~

~TTYL~

~2NITE~

~L8R G8R~

Gorgeous!  These are avaiable on Ebay, for refty price tags.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

OPI~Pirates of the Caribbean

Today I have 3 pretty colors and a the silver shatter from the OPI~Pirates of the Caribbean collection that came out not too long ago.  I picked up the polishes a while ago and I have been waiting for some store anywhere to get the silver shatter in and finally I found it a few weeks ago.  The polish went on very nice as most OPI's do and the shatter looks so cool!  I love the silver shatter.

Mermaid's Tears, also know as my favorite, is a beautiful mint green creme.

 Steady as She Rose is a pretty light pinkish lilac creme.

Skull & Glossbone is a putty or light beige creme.  I really like this color too and I think it's a perfect neutral.

With Silver Shatter.

OPI~Katy Perry Collection

OPI and Katy Perry teamed up to create a really great collection of four polishes and a shatter finish.  The shatter or crackle effect is all the rage right now and OPI's is wonderful.  This collection has sparkle, shimmer, and duochrome!  You can find these at your favorite OPI retailer.

The One That Got Away is a beautiful magenta base with magenta sparkles.

The One That Got Away with Black Shatter

Teenage Dream is a sweet sheer pink base full of tiny pink glitter and larger iridescent glitter.

Teenage Dream with Black Shatter.

Last Friday Night is a bright sheer blue base with tiny blue glitter and larger iredescent glitter.

Last Friday Night with Black Shatter.

Not Like the Movies is a silver shimmer base with a light purple/green duochrome.  I was hoping this color would be a little darker.  It's actually pretty sheer.  But it is pretty.

Not Like the Movies with Black Shatter.

Tha Black Shatter takes a nail or two to figure out, but once you get the hang of it, it's really pretty easy to use.  I do recommend a top coat.  If you want the mate look, try a thin coat of a regular top coat and then ttry a matte top coat over it.  What do you think?

OPI~DS

Happy the last Friday of January!  Today I have the two newest OPI DS polishes.  I have to say that these two polishes didn't impress me all that much.  They are definitley lacking the wow factor that the other DS polishes have.

Radiance is a very sparkly silver with a foil like finish.

Magic is a blue base with tons of tiny bright blue and magenta sparkles.  The magenta sparkle gives it a pop that make this polish the most unique of the two.  Unfortunately, the camera failed to pick up the magenta goodness.

 

Wet n' Wild Holiday Polish

Happy Wednesday, December 22, 2010!  I have been struggling to get this post up for almost a week now and life keeps getting in the way.  Sorry if I have been a lousy blogger lately and to the person who said it gets easier when your kids get older, you are wrong, very wrong!

I do have some very pretty polish to show you though.  Wet n' Wild came out with these cute little mini sets of sparkly polish paired up with a Megalast top coat.  I have 4 of them for you.

Dancer is silver and irredescent glitter in a clear base.

Donner is a gold shimmer with specks of silver and irredescent micro glitter and little strips of glitter.

Blitzen is my favorite of these four.  It is a champagne shimmer with tiny gold and larger red glitter.

Prancer is a really great too.  Its a clear base with little and bigger hex red glitter.  I have seen this layered over black polish and is is gorgeous.

Most of these are better used for layering, but I do like them alone as well.  I found these pretties at Walgrens, on sale for .99!  Happy Shopping!

Happy December!

I love December!  I'm not ready for all the craziness, but I still love December!  I thought I'd start the month off with some Holiday collections.  Today I have 2 polishes from the Nicole by OPI Holiday Magic collection, Bring on the Tinsel & Spark My Mistletoe.  Both of these are glitters, and they are perfect for layering or wearing alone.  Both of these are 2 coats and inside with a flash(cloudy skies have arrived in sunny California)  Enjoy!

Bring on the Tinsel is a beautiful holiday glitter polish.  It has silver, red, green, and it looks like a splash of gold glitter in a clear base.

Spark My Mistletoe is gorgeous!  Red glitter with silver iridescent hexagon shaped glitter in a clear base.  I love this one!  You have to click on this picture to see how magnificent Spark My Mistletoe really is.

I picked these up at Ulta and they were on sale buy one get one 1/2 off until December 3, 2010 and I had a coupon!  Oh, the possibilities with these two polishes!

Today Was a Fairy Tale

Today is Kim Kardasian's 30th birthday and in honor of her birthday, I have a Deborah Lippmann polish to share with you.  Kim wore this color on a recent photo shoot and it is also one of Deborah Lippmann's holiday colors.  But, before I go any further, I want to give you fair warning that there is a picture of Kim Kardashian at the end of this post that some might find inappropriate.  I totally understand and respect your right to that opinion, but I feel this picture is beautiful and I'm posting it.

Today Was a Fairytale and all of the other gorgeous Deborah Lippmann polishes can be found at Deborah Lippmann's website, Nordstrom, Barneys New York, & Neiman Marcus.

Today Was a Fairytale is an amazing combination of  large and small glitter shapes and is infused with Virgin Diamond Powder, suspended in a very sheer blue-grey base.  This polish is extemely sparkley!  I am really left a little speachless by it.

~Outside~

 

~Shade~

 

~Inside with a flash~

 

Kim Kardashian recently wore this polish on a recent photo shoot for the November 2010 issue of W Magazine.  Kim wore this and her outfit was nothing more than silver body paint.  I think this picture is beautiful.

This is a gorgeous color and a very happy birthday with to Kim Kardashian.  I would also like to welcome my husband to Nail'd & Polish'd, lol.

**This product was sent to me for review**

Chrome Nails

Whoo-hoo!  This is the craziest thing I have ever done to my nails.  I am sure by now, you've heard about Minx manicures.  Well, Broadway Nails has their version called Chrome Nails.  These are longer lasting and a more cost effective way to achieve the Minx look.  They are glue-on full nails and they retail for $5.99!  Look for them at your local drug store!

This kit comes with every thing you need to Chrome out your nails!  12 Chrome nails and 12 Chrome with zebra print nails and glue.  It's really easy and check out how cool they look!

I couldn't get a good close up without turning the flash off and it gave them a golden tint in this one, but they are the same silver nails as in the first picture.

Zoya~Lo & Laney

Don't forget to vote for Zoya!  Zoya has been nominated for "Best Polish" by TotalBeauty.com.  Take a minute and vote for Zoya here!  I know you all love Zoya polish as much as I do and if you haven't tried it, you MUST.

Here are 2 more lovely Zoya polishes-Lo and Laney.
Lo is a bright pink creme.

Laney is from the Reverie Collection and it is a light silver with a subtle flash of a green/purple duochrome.

Zoya~Trixie & Aria

Happy Spring fellow polish addicts!  Today I have a couple of Zoya's for you.  Both of these beautiful colors are great for spring.  You can fin these pretty polishes and a zillion others here.

Trixie-hello, where have you been all my life?  It is like tin foil with silver sparkles!  What a great color!

Aria is a pretty raspberry pink with silver and pink sparkles.

MAC~Studded

MAC has come out with several collections in the last few weeks and I picked up one of their matte polishes from the Riveting Collection.  Studded is descibed as a "true silver pearl".   To me it looks more like a silver with a touch of taupe and it's too sparkly to be a pearl, I would say it's more of a shimmer.  It is matte, just more of a satin matte, not like the OPI mattes.  More like OPI Suede.  I think this is a really cool color, I just with it were a little more silver and darker-that would be a great matte silver!

China Glaze~The Tin man, Good Witch?, C-C-Courage, & Dorothy Who?

I have 2 fun things for you all today.  First, I have 4 of the 6 China Glaze Wizard of Ooh Ahz collection and secondly, I have a very special guest showing the collection.  That would be my daughter, Dorothy-perfect, right?  Miss D makes an appearance from time to time here on Nail'd & Polish'd and I felt she really needed to be the one to show these polishes.

So, without further adieu, I bring you The Tin Man, Good Witch?, C-C-Courage, & Dorothy Who? from China Glaze, Wizard of Ooh Ahz.

The Tin Man is a sheer pearly white/silver with micro silver glitter

~The Tin Man~

Good Witch? is a sheer pink pearl with pink micro glitter

~Good Witch?~

C-C-Courage is a purple base with purple glitter

~C-C-Courage~

Dorothy Who is a bright blue base full of blue and silver gitter

~Dorothy Who?~

And since Miss D has tiny nails and photographing her was a bit of a challenge.  So, here are Mama's nails

The 2 polishes missing are Ruby Pumps and Cowardly Lyin'.  You can find my post on Ruby Pumps here and Cowardly Lyin' is a sheer yellow-gold frost with golden glitter.  This collection is really pretty and worth getting!