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It's finally Spooky Bitch Season and that means it's time for some fun & festive Spooky Bitch Nails.

I actually did this design last year, but my nails were short and I wasn't actively blogging. So obviously I had to recreate them.

How does the adage go? If it didn't happen on the Internet, then it did it happen at all. Right? Right.  

What Did I Use?

• Base color: two coats of a VHTF gem. An original formula OPI Bubble Bath--the girls that get it, get it.
• Bloody hand prints: Sally Hansen Insta-dri The Un-Red & What's Up Nails Bloody Hands stencils
• Cha Cha Covers Crime Scene Tape decals
• Quick dry top coat
• Illamasqua Boudicca on my Cindy Hand (not photographed)

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Because it's still Christmas, thus not too late for a swatch and review of a holiday nail polish collection. What's on today's roster? A swatch and review of China Glaze Cheers! Holiday 2015.


Kicking things off is Mix and Mingle & Break the Ice
Mix and Mingle is fully opaque in 2-3 coats, but this cool-toned purple drags if you aren't careful. The formula is somewhere between a crème and a jelly; so yeah, that make it a crelly.
Break the Ice is a glitter topper that consists of silver holographic shards. The coverage you see above and below is actually one coat with a minimal amount of maneuvering the glitter once on the nail bed. An added bonus? I didn't have to fish to get the glitter out of the bottle.

Don't Get Elfed Up & I Soiree I Didn't Do It
Don't Get Elfed Up is (described by China Glaze) as a deep emerald shimmer. It reaches full opacity in two coats.
I Soiree I Didn't Do It becomes fully opaque in three coats, after applying the first coat I assumed it should only have been a glitter topper. I soiree I didn't know it would be full coverage. (See what I did there?)

Son of a Nut Cracker & Ugly Christmas Sweater
Son of a Nut Cracker is a "fiery red-orange pearl" that reaches full opacity in two coats. It's nice color, but I feel like I have a dupe in my stash. And I'm pretty sure that dupe is another China Glaze lacquer.
Ugly Christmas Sweater well, I'm just a not a fan of this one. I'd probably wear it to an ugly nail polish party--you know, if that was a thing. Anyway, I used two coats.

Better Not Pout & Brand Sparklin' New Year
Better Not Pout nothing too unique about this berry pearl shade but the formula is pretty decent in 1-2 coats.
Brand Sparklin' New Year sadly, yet another shade I just couldn't love. Shown here is three coats. Perhaps it'd look better as one coat over an opaque purple crème?

Wine Down For What? & Bring On the Bubbly
Wine Down For What? generally, I'm not a wine fan, be it color or beverage, but dare I say I'm loving this two coat crème.
Bring On the Bubbly a slightly holo gold glitter? Needless to say it's one of my favorites. Shown above and below is only one coat with no fishing, or glitter manipulation required.

Peppermint to Be & Coal Hands, Warm Heart
Peppermint to Be a simple red shimmer shown in two coats. There's nothing too original about this color, but it's still a nice red shimmer to have in any stash.
Coal Hands, Warm Heart is three coats and reminds me of a tame version of Essie Bulgaria. Some of you may already know how I feel about Essie Bulgaria. If you don't, allow me to summarize it for you really quick. Ew.


Overall, there is literally something for everyone in this collection. Some shades are pretty standard crowd pleasers (i.e. Break the Ice, Mix and Mingle, and Bring on the Bubbly) while others are pretty polarizing (i.e. Coal Hands, Warm Heart, Ugly Sweater Party, and Brand Sparklin' New Year). So depending on your taste you're bound to like at least one lacquer in this twelve piece holiday set.


Since we're on the subject of China Glaze holiday collections, so far, there hasn't been one that tops the Cirque Du Soleil collection from 2012. At least, that's just my opinion.


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Spot any fast favorites? Think this collex is better than the Cirque Du Soleil collex from holiday nail polish past? Sound off in the comments.
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Finals week has come and gone, and the semester is over. Not only has my hair not turned gray from stress, I survived. Not only have I survived, I'm still holding down my 4.0 GPA! Yes, y'all I'm smart and my nails stay cute! Double threat over here.

Now that I've got more time for my nails (and you lovely folks) I've got some nail art featuring the entire Zoya MATTEVELVET Winter/Holiday 2015 collection.


I've been itching to play with these since the press release came out (catch it HERE if you missed it) but, alas, schoolwork. *sigh*

Zoya claims they are "perfectly opaque" and they aren't lying.



I decided to go the route of two accent nails, all the while painting my thumb Yves and my ring & pinky fingers Iris.


I had to do something simple to start utilizing my freehand nail art muscles again because every time I take a nail art break, my skills always weaken upon return.



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Press SampleA little while back I showed you guys half of the China Glaze Twinkle collection and today I have the remaining six shades. With the exception of one, all of the lacquers in this half are glitter toppers.

So let's get things started with the nail polish name I like the most, Chillin' With My Snow-mies.

Chillin' With My Snow-mies
These multi-sized white hex glitters does required a lot of fishing so just be prepared if you decide to use it.

Dancing & Prancing
D&P is very familiar. Remember all those Happy Birthday-esque lacquers that were crazy popular a few years back? Yeah, add this one to the list. Shown above in two coats.

De-light
I love a good gold glitter so you all know I was hyped when I finally saw this shade in person. With bits of gold hex glitters and small holographic bar glitter, this is definitely a fun glitter topper. But if the bar glitter had been any bigger I would've passed on this polish altogether. Shown above in two coats.

Feeling Twinkly
This dark blue micro-glitter is shown above in three coats. There's nothing to special about this shade, in fact I'm sure I have a dupe in my stash, but there's nothing wrong with this lacquer either.

Meet Me Under The Stars
Meet Me Under The Stars is the only shade in this half of the collection that isn't a glitter topper. It's a charcoal grey jelly with silver micro-glitter throughout. It reaches full opacity in three coats. Much like the last shade, there is nothing too special about this polish and I know I have a dupe in my stash, but there isn't any too bad about this polish.

Pine-ing For Glitter
Pine-ing For Glitter contains different sized forest green glitters and is shown above in 3 coats. I don't have a dead on dupe, but I have a few polishes in my stash that are similar.

Overall these shades aren't too bad, but most are nothing ground breaking.
If you prefer cremés and shimmers check out part one here.

Have any of these shades? Or any dead on dupes?
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