Platinum and gold

Today I have a quick mani I did for a group challenge. The challenge was to use the colors platinum or gold or both if you wanted to. I chose to do both. 

I used Barielle's Platinum Ring as my base color, then used American Apparel's Meteor Shower on top of all but one of my nails. 

The Barielle polish went on like a dream, I love their formula. I only had to use 1 coat to get full coverage. 

The American Apparel polish..... it served its purpose and that is about all I can say right now. It is NOT my favorite polish that is for sure. I am going to give it a few more tries before it is cast into the you are a waste of polish bin.

Yeah I'm giving you the stink eye Mr. Polish!

So there ya have it, my platinum and gold nails. What is your favorite platinum polish? Have you tried any polishes from Barielle or American Apparel? 

*All products purchased by me, all opinions are my own because nobody tells me what to say!*

Peace, Love and Cupcakes!

Zoya Ziv and a few lights too!

Good morning everyone reading! Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I have had trouble getting into the blog and couldn't make any posts. I've had a busier than normal week, I've been watching my great nephew who is always going and talking and talking and talking LOL. So let me show you what I've had on my nails most of this week.

Zoya Ziv

This is Zoya's Ziv from their Ornate collection. This is such a gorgeous metallic gold polish. It is like having gold foil on your nails. I only used one coat and had full coverage, no brush strokes or streaks. Also very minimal tip wear and no chipping after 3 days of having it on.
 

Zoya Ziv

Ziv is such a great gold polish and can be used for so many looks. I think it could be used for an elegant dinner party look, a rockin New Years Eve look, and even for a fun every day look. It is definitely my favorite gold polish I own! I'm sure I will be using it alot.

In a group I'm in we do makeup/nail challenges. It is a fun way to get people excited about doing and sharing their looks. We always have so much fun with the challenges that Wendi the one and only Makeup Zombie gives us. At the end of the time we are given to come up with our looks, she then posts them to her blog for the world to see. This weeks challenge was Metallic, and I can't believe how hard it was for me to decide on what to do and use. That is until Ziv came in the mail! Here is what I did for the challenge. 

Zoya Ziv with an accent nail of Christmas lights.

 Look at Ziv shine!

Of course I started with 1 coat of Ziv, then I went to work on the lights. For the light strand I used an ultra fine point black sharpie and just drew the strand how I wanted it to look. I then took a dotting tool and used Pure Ice On His Saddle, Color Club Berry And Bright and Glitter Wonderland, and Zoya Ivanka to make the lights. That was it. Super easy, super simple, but super cute. I do think I may have gotten carried away and added a few too many lights though. I will suggest that if you use a sharpie for any of your designs to make sure you use a topcoat to seal it. It does rub off pretty easily.

You can find Makeup Zombie's blog here. Make sure to check out the challenge post that should be up soon!

What is your favorite gold polish?

Peace, Love and Cupcakes!