Winstonia Store Dotting Tool review and leopard nail art!

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Hi Guys!

Hopefully this week is treating you well, the weather by me has been so crappy. It’s been raining for about a week straight and it’s not letting up anytime soon. Come on! It’s Summer! I’m supposed to be sitting in my driveway every day after work with a frozen drink and yelling at all the neighborhood kids for leaving their garbage all over my lawn. This is a true story, I’ve actually become this lady lol Hey, just don’t act like an ass outside of my house and leave your trash and we can all exist peacefully. Haha!



Well onto my mani that I’m so in love with. I was sent a new dotting tool from Winstonia Store for review, I was like dotting tool? Why do I need a new dotting tool? But now that I’ve used it I’ve seen the light! It’s actually pretty great and I think they’ve improved the whole dotting experience. It’s a metal double-ended barrel and the tips unscrew from the ends and then can be stored inside of the barrel. It comes with 8 interchangeable tips, so instead of having 4 double-ended dotting tools you can now have one! It’s very well made and has a good weight to it. It feels pretty fancy actually haha The only downside that I could think of, would be if you were in the middle of doing a mani and wanted to switch out a tip you’d have to unscrew one and potentially mess up your in-process mani. But for this mani I only needed to 2 size tips so I just screwed them in before I started. I don’t think I’ve ever needed more than 2 sizes for one design so I don’t see myself running into this problem but I thought it was worth noting.

Winstonia Store sent me a 10% discount code, use code TWISTAR. Pretty clever code right? HA! Love it.



This purple! I reviewed the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons HERE and then I also did a bunch of stamping manis with this collection HERE. I’ve been wanting to use ‘Diggin’ The Dancing Queen’ again and leopard seemed purrfect! Like my review said, these polishes got mostly bad reviews BUT I find using 2 coats over 1 coat white undies and they are sooooo pretty! They’re a little thick but sheer but the white undie cancels it all out and they’re worth it to me.

Rainbow Gradient Zebra Stamping with Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons

(These polishes were purchased by me)

Why is it Monday already?  Arrrghhhhhh!  Oh yea, Good Morning I guess lol

I’ve been thinking of how to use the polishes from the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons again, see my reviews HERE and HERE.  Inspiration struck in the form of a Zebra, specifically a Rainbow Zebra.  Guess what, they do exist! 

Check it out See, I told you so lol
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More Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon swatches! This time with nail art!

(These polishes were purchased by me)

Hey Everyone!

Guess what?  I got even more swatches of the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons!  As if I didn't post enough lol, you can see my first set of "plain" swatches without nail art and read my review here Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection Swatch Review - Spring 2015.  For these swatches I wanted to focus on stamping since I just got a shit-load of new stamping plates from HeHe and Qgirl.  Keep in mind, for all of these swatches I used 1 coat of white (Rica Polish Whiteout) and 2 layers of color topped with HK Girl Top Coat from Glisten & Glow.  Ok onto swatches!

Don't you just love a good collage!  These colors in this collection just make my eyeballs so happy!  Loving the whole collection, I can't pick a fav.

I'll start with my fav stamping I did for this collection!  This is 'Diggin' The Dancing Queen.'  When I posted this on instagram so many people thought it was really watermarble!  Haha!  I haven't even tried to watermarble yet so this stamping plate, HeHe 040, is a good substitute.  I used Rica Polish Blackout and a couple of 2mm black studs to finish it off.

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Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection Swatch Review - Spring 2015

(These polishes were purchased by me)

 

Hey Everyone!

Today I have a collection to share that I am SO excited about!  They are just me in a bottle lol  I'm talking about the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection for Spring 2015.  ALL the things I love, crème finish, pastel, and neon!  Well, washed out neon if you want to be specific.  You may have seen a lot of swatches of these on instagram and heard us all talking about the.... not so great formula?  Well, ok they're not perfect BUT I kind of expect that with these types of colors AND if you use a white undie (like I do with all neons) they are perfectly fine!  I only needed 2 coats of each color over 1 coat of white to reach full opacity with no patchiness or streakiness.  Now, if you didn't use a white undie these would probably take 3 or 4 coats to be opaque and even out.  So, moral of the story kids:  don't forget to wear clean undies with these!  Onto swatches and reviews!

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Color Club East Austin Bright Coral and Gold mani!

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Winter is really kicking my butt, it just won’t go away.  I know I sound like a broken record but I have another bright mani for my Winter blues lol Color Club East Austin is like Boom, Pow I’m bright in yo face!  Haha Check it out.

You may not have believed me when I said Color Club East Austin was bright lol  I have read it is a close dupe to China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy but I don’t have that one so I can’t say.  It’s a bright glowing coral peach.  Is it neon?  I think it’s one lightbulb away from being a neon haha!  To me, neon has that vibrating feel to it this glows but does not “vibrate” my eyeballs, does that even make sense?  I used 3 coats here because it can be a bit sheer if you use thinner coats.

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Color Club East Austin - leopard spots accent nail

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This is the last of my posts with crappy pics, I promise ;) I have been taking pics of my last few manis with my ottlite and they are leaps and bounds better. I'm no pro but you get what I mean. Onto the mani!

I love all things coral, neon, gold, and leopard print so I had to combine them ALL into one glorious mani. Color Club East Austin is one of those bright neons that makes your camera freak out all goofy. So yes, it is that bright.

Color Club East Austin is a neon coral peach creme. Formula was a bit wonky, kinda thick but streaky, I used 3 coats. Next time I will add some thinner to see if that helps. But my goodness! The color and crazy brightness are so so great so I forgive it for not having the best formula. I have seen it compared to China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy but I'd say it's a little whiter, very close though.


On the ring I used OPI Love. Angel. Music. Baby aka LAMB from the OPI Gwen Stefani collection. I did 2 coats and it dries very fastI have a thing for golds but this one makes me happy. It's a satin finish and has tons of super fine shimmer which gives it a lot of dimension. The satin finish is meant to be worn without top coat and it does look gorgeous that way but I've worn it both ways and can't decide on topic. The leopard dots are East Austin for the inner part and Sinful Colors black for the outer spots.

I loved everything about this mani and was sad to remove it.

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