Nail of The Week: Peachy Keen

From the China Glaze Up and Away collection, Peachy Keen was the nail polish I thought I was not going to like. I pictured it being streaky and making my hands look sick. But I was pleasantly surprised.

It is a creamy pastel, with some pink in it making it look like Salmon in color. It went on very smooth, non streaky and it was opaque with the first coat. I hope the other pastels in this collection is just as easy to work with.

Nail Polish: Chine Glaze - Peachy Keen (2 Coats)

Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Ciao! xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

Nail of The Week: My Valentine's Day Manicure

This is what I did as a Valentine's Day manicure. I wanted to do something that I would be able to live with all week. I knew that if I did the hearts and pastels I would have drove myself crazy. I like girlie things but I am not that girlie.

Nail Polish: O.P.I Black Onyx, China Glaze Heli-Yum (2 Coats)

Base: Nail Tek, Orly Bonder

Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

It is not my best manicure. I love OPI's Black Onyx nail polish. But it is always such a pain to work with for me because of the little air bubbles that always happen when I use it. Does anyone know how I can avoid this?

As for the pink color, I used Heli-Yum from the China Glaze Up and Away collection. It is a very pretty raspberry pink color. But as much as I liked the color this was the wrong polish to use on this manicure. It was pretty difficult to work with because it was really runny.

I will be trying this manicure again. But with different nail polish colors.

What do you think?

Nail of The Day: Sugar High

This is the manicure I did while snowed in on Wednesday. This nail polish is called Sugar High from the China Glaze Up and Away collection.

It is a very pretty creme pink nail polish. It is a very bright, almost neon pink. So far I am really loving the nail polishes from this collection.

Nail Polish: China Glaze - Sugar High (2 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Ciao! Xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week: Birthday Nails

This weekend was my birthday weekend and I wanted something bright and summery to brighten up an otherwise dreary winter day. I decided to try one of my nail polishes from the China Glaze Up and Away collection.

Nail Polish: Chine Glaze Four Leaf Glover (2 Coats)
Base: Nail Tek III and Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Four Leaf Glover is such a pretty color and it was the perfect color to bring some sunshine to my day. I was surprised that I did not pick one of the two yellow from the collection to wear as my manicure, since I have been on a massive hunt for a nice yellow polish.

As I was looking through my nail polish drawer I found my Cover Girl Amethyst Mist glitter nail polish. I decided to try it out over Four Leaf Glover.

As a bonus this is what it looked like outside on Saturday. See why I wanted something bright and cheerful for my birthday?
I am so ready for summer!

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Alice in Wonderland for OPI Polishes

Today on Transdesign they released the Alice in Wonderland for OPI Nail Polishes that I spoke of here. I had been stalking the site since I walked into the office at 7 AM, waiting for them to become available for purchase. They became available about an hour ago and I am happy to report that those babies will be mine in a few days time. I am all about glitter nail polish even though they are a pain to remove.

While I was on the site I also noticed that the Essie spring collection will be released tomorrow. I am not a huge fan of Essie but I saw that they will have a lilac and coral colored nail polish as part of the collection. I really love both of those colors in a polish and I am really tempted to try them out. But those will have to wait. I will see if the ladies of some of my favorite nail blogs do a review/swatch on the polishes so I can see what they look like and then decide.

Now I am just waiting for the China Glaze spring collection to come out so that I can get my hands on the two yellow polishes in the collection. I am a little obsessed with getting the perfect yellow polish. Last year I got a yellow polish from Sephora as shown in this manicure. But it took so many coats to get it to look decent that it took forever for my mani to dry.

Will you be getting any nail polishes from the collections that are coming out?

Ciao!! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Fall Nails

Here are swatches of my favorite polishes to wear during the fall:
From left to right China Glaze Recycle, China Glaze Unplugged, OPI Russian Navy, OPI Lincoln Park at Midnight, OPI Black Onyx

And here is my manicure of the week:


Nail Polish Brand: OPI
Color: Here Today… Aragon Tomorrow (2 Coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week: Pink Underground

Nail Polish Brand: China Glaze
Color: Pink Underground (2 Coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Anyone that knows me for longer then five minutes knows I am not really a fan of pink. But for some reason or another I own about 5 or 6 pink nailpolishes in different shades. I for some reason love pink nails in the summer. I also love it on short nails.

Nail of The Week: Strawberry Lemonade

This is my manicure for the week. I had pictures of the last weeks manicure but Mr. P's computer was attacked by a virus and the picture was lost before I got to post it.

Nail Polish Brand: China Glaze
Color: Its Poppin' (Pink)

Nail Polish Brand: Shades by Barielle
Color: Lemondrops (Yellow)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of The Week: Shower Together

Nail Polish Brand: China Glaze
Color: Shower Together (2 Coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Sorry for the messy looking polish. The picture was taken before I did the clean up.

This color is pretty cool. But I think I will leave this color for the fall, it does not scream spring or summer to me. This polish is so thick that I could have gotten away with one coat but I was not satisfied with the color turn out. So I went ahead and applied a second coat just too see how dark the color got. I must say I like it much better but not one of my favorite polishes.

What do you all think?

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

My Nail Polish Collection

Here is my army of nail polishes:
ATTACK!

I was trying to take a picture of everything. I will see if I take smaller group picture's. Let me know if you want a closer look of something or if you want me to swatch anything.


Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Nail of the Week

Nail Polish Brand: Shades by Barielle
Color: Grape Escape (2 coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

I LOVE this nail polish color.

BUT even though I loved the color I will not be getting the polishes again and this is why:

1) I did not like the brush. It is way too small.
2) Each bottle is $8. These bottles are small. I cannot justify buying this polish again when I run out. The only reason I got it in the first place was because of the sale they had at the time.

The price alone is reason enough for me not to get it again. For that price I can buy two China Glaze nail polishes at Head2Toe or at 8ty8 Beauty. So any other reason is just icing on the cake.

If price or the brush is not a big deal for you, I highly recommend the polishes. The color is intense, even before I put on the top coat the polish had a high shine. It is the perfect consistency, not runny or too thick and so far it has not chipped.

Right now the site has a special, Buy two get one free and free shipping on orders over $50.

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of The Week

Nail Polish Brand: China Glaze
Color: Blue Sparrow (Three Coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Note about the China Glaze Blue Sparrow. While the color looks very pretty in the bottle. I am not 100% sure how I feel about this color. When I began to apply the color, the polish was very runny. Now that the nails are dry the color looks dull, it does not look as sparkly as I expected or even as sparkly as it looks in the bottle. It almost looks like textured blue nail polish. Not blue, glitter nail polish.

I wonder if I should use a different top coat for this polish? The next time I try it I am going to use a different top coat. One that leaves a higher shine then Seche Vite. I will also try different combinations with this polish. Maybe a blue polish underneath and then one coat of the Blue Sparrow on top?

I really would love to make it work because it just looks so pretty in the bottle and even before it dries into its dull matte state.

Until next time, Ciao!! xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

UPDATE: I ended up figuring out how to best use this color and I now love it. When I first used it I just applied one too many coats and I am using the Sally Hansen Acrylic Nails top coat and it looks awesome.