Nails of the Week: Canada Day Edition!

Happy Canada Day everyone! 

I don't usually do theme nails, but Canada Day is the exception. What better way to celebrate my favourite country's birthday than with a shiny new manicure?

I've already expressed my love for Color Club's Halo Hues collection (my favourite collection in years) and now I'm rediscovering a love for China Glaze's Tronica collection from 2011. 

I don't think I've worn 3D Fantasy before, but I have no idea why not because it's GORGEOUS!

Just look how pretty!

I couldn't take my eyes off it while I was out driving today. Here is a shot in direct sunlight while sitting in the car. (It was parked!)

So pretty!

Application was a dream and top coat didn't dull the holo effect. 

It's like little fireworks on my nails!

A macro shot of the scattered glitter.

A macro shot of that gorgeous, gorgeous holo.

Nails of the Week: American Apparel Neon Red

The sun is out and that always puts me in the mood for bright, bold colours. This picture doesn't even come close to the true brightness of American Apparel's Neon Red. 

But neither does this one really. The colour is a bright neon orange, but looks more coral next to Colour Club's Wham! Pow!, which I'm wearing on my toes. 

I wore this colour pretty much all summer last year and I'll probably be wearing it a lot this summer too. Well, along with all my other neons.  

Nail Polish of the Week(s): So Many Polishes, So Little Time...

It's been a (long) while since I updated my polishes of the week, so here is a picture dump of the manicures I haven't posted lately. 

Top left: Colour Club Halo Hues - Eternal Beauty & Beyond, top middle: Colour Club Halo Hues - Cerubic & Eternal Beauty, top right: Butter London Fiver & OPI Crown Me Already

Bottom Left: Orly Cotton Candy, Essie Mint Candy Apple, Colour Club Halo Hues - Halo-graphic, bottom middle: China Glaze Aquadelic, & Essie Mint Candy Apple, bottom right: Essie E-nuf is e-nuf

Top left: OPI Mariah Carey collection - Butterfly Moment top middle: Essie Butler Please, top right: Cosmetic Arts

Bottom Left: OPI Dutch Tulips, bottom middle: Colour Club Poptastic Collection - Poptastic, bottom right: Colour Club Poptastic Collection - Warhol

Colour Club Halo Hues Collection

Nail polish is my weakness.

Well, one of my weaknesses.

And holo polishes are my ultimate nail polish-related weakness.

It's like wearing little sparkly rainbows on your nails!

So, a few weeks ago I got a reminder email from Nailpolishcanada.com about their Seche Vite sale and I figured I should order a couple bottles while the sale was on. And that's when I discovered that all the Colour Club Halo Hues collection was back in stock, much to the chagrin of no one, because LOOK AT HOW PRETTY!

I originally debated on whether or not I should buy these because I have a lot of nail polish and I technically don't need new polish, but LOOK AT HOW PRETTY!

And LOOK AT HOW PRETTY! won in the end.

As it always does.

Top L-R: Angel Kiss, Blue Heaven, Cherubic, Bottom L-R: Cloud Nine, Halo-Graphic, Harp On It

So far I've tried out 3 of the 6. I'm currently wearing Blue Heaven on my toes and Halo-Graphic on my nails. Below is a photo of me wearing Cloud Nine last week.

Cloud Nine

The holo-ness of the polishes are quite strong and the wear is pretty fantastic. I usually don't get a long wear time with Colour Club polishes. I had Cloud Nine on for 6 days before I took it off; there was some tip wear and only one chip, and that was because I used my thumb nail to peel off a price sticker on something.

A close-up of Cloud Nine

I'm currently on day 5 of wearing Halo-Graphic, and it's still going strong (again, aside from one chip that I got from using my thumb nail to pick off a price sticker. WE CAN PUT HUMANS ON THE MOON BUT WE CAN'T MAKE A EASY PEEL-OFF PRICE TAG?!)

I also just got 4 of the Mariah Carey OPI polishes and  I am itching to try them out, but also dying to wear the other 3 holos I haven't worn yet. Oh woe is me. 

Halo-Graphic, with flash.