NOTD: Glitter Goblin

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The NOTD I have for you today is China Glaze Glitter Goblin. This polish surprised me. I was not expecting it to have holo glitter, but I'd say it's a pleasant surprise. From the promo pictures I was really expecting Glitter Goblin to be more like China Glaze Spellbound (which I'm still trying to get my hands on). Glitter Goblin starts off with a clear base and is packed full of orange micro glitter and slightly larger holo glitter. In my pictures I layered one coat of Glitter Goblin over OPI Ginger Bells, but I think you could wear Glitter Goblin opaque on its own with 3-4 coats. Glitter Goblin is a bit of a "hungry glitter", so I'd suggest a coat of Gelous before your topcoat if you want a glass smooth finish.

NOTD: OPI Ginger Bells

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Today's NOTD is a polish I passed a billion times. I thought it was hideous in the bottle, but when I saw it at my local beauty supply store for $1.33 I thought, "why not?" So I picked it up, and it sat with my other OPIs for almost a year. I was feeling very much in a fall mood the other day and decided to try it. After all it's only nail polish, and if it's really that bad you can just take it off, right?

Ginger Bells has awoken my love for ugly colors. Ginger Bells is a burnt orange creme polish. It applied wonderfully. My pictures are two thin coats. I was honestly surprised how fond I grew of this color, I'm not usually a fan of orange. I think it looks a bit silly on my skin tone. I think what makes Ginger Bells work for me is how soft and muted it is. It kinda reminds me of pumpkin pie.

What do you think? Is Ginger Bells ugly pretty, or pretty ugly?

NOTD: It's Alive Glitter Gradient

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Before I get to today's post I'd like to thank my new followers for joining me here. To all my followers, I appreciate each and every one of you. I always look forward to your comments. I love the polish community and I'm so glad to be a part of it. Okay, enough mushy stuff... on to the polish

The NOTD I have for you today is one of my all time favorite color combinations, olive green and purple. If you've read my past posts it's no secret that olive/military greens are my favorite color. For today's NOTD I started off with 2 coats of China Glaze Urban Night. Urban Night is a rich red based purple creme polish.Urban Night was released in the 2011 Fall collection. It's not so dark that it looks black on my very fair skin, but it's not obnoxiously bright either. It makes me feel warm and screams fall to me. I needed two thin coats to reach opacity.

Since I can never leave well enough alone, and I'm dying for Halloween to be here, I decided to add a glitter gradient using China Glaze It's Alive. It's Alive is an insanely gorgeous (okay I'm biased) murky olive green  multi-sized glitter polish. It's Alive was part of the 2011 Halloween collection.

What are your favorite color combinations?

NOTD: Hidden Skulls

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It's finally October, my favorite month of the whole year. I love everything about Autumn, from the cool crisp air, getting to wear cozy sweaters and boots, the smell of the grapes ripening on the vines. I especially love all the changing leaves, and Halloween.

This Halloween season NYC ( New York Color) released a UV glowing topcoat called Demon Glow. Admittedly, I purchased my bottle for the name alone. When I got it home I did a bit of research and discovered it was a glowing topcoat. I have another UV glowing topcoat, and I've tried glow in the dark polishes and I admit I've always been a little disappointed.

Upon learning Demon Glow was a UV glowing topcoat I asked my husband if he'd dig out our black light so I could test it. I did not expect the awesomeness I was about to experience.

Using my Chez Delaney XL K stamping plate and Demon Glow I stamped a skull design over Avon Black As Night.

Natural Light

Black Light

How freaking awesome is that?! The great thing about this is you can stamp over any color of polish as long as it's not a neon, or white the UV topcoat image will show up as well as it does here over black. I could totally see this being handy for someone that wants to go out and party Halloween night, but works in a conservative office and doesn't have time to redo her manicure.

I must say I am extremely impressed by the way Demon Glow well, glows. 

Blogiversary Giveaway! (Now Closed)

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To celebrate my one year Blogiversary I'm going to have a little giveaway.

How To Win:
1.You must be subscribed to Starlet's Nails.
2. Comment on this post how you got into nail polish, what you love about it and which China Glaze Awakening polish you'd like to win.
3. Contest is open to US and Canada only (Sorry international readers)
4. You must be 18 or older OR have your parent/guardian's permission to enter
5. Only one comment/entry per person
6. Contest ends on September 30, 2012 at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time

How The Winners Will Be Chosen:
Winners will be chosen randomly with a random number generator on October 1st.
One person will win the grand prize.
Three people will win their choice from the China Glaze Awakening 2010 collection

What are the prizes?

Grand Prize:

OPI Spiderman Mini Collection, CND Stickey Base Coat,
Mini China Glaze Sex On The Beach, and Gingerbread bath bombs

Runner up Prizes:

Left To Right:
Ick-a-body, Zombie Zest, Mummy May I?

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Good Luck, 

     

     Starlet

Blogiversary

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Today is my Blogiversary! I can't believe it's been a whole year! To celebrate this I'm going to have a little Giveaway! I'll be back later tonight with a whole post on the giveaway prizes, rules, etc.

Quick Tip: Avoiding Stained Skin With Highly Pigmented Polishes

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Today I want to share a very quick tip with you...

I'm very very very pale. Most highly pigmented polishes will stain my skin (not necessarily my nails) around my fingers. To avoid this I slather on a very thick hand cream. Then, I take a cotton pad soaked in remover I place it on my nail and wait 5-10 seconds. I slide the pad off my nail with a little pressure and 9 times out of 10 90% of the polish goes with the pad. I repeat this for all ten nails then go back with a cotton bud (Q-tip) or even my clean up brush to get the bits around the sides of my nails that may have been missed.