Holiday Link Party!

Welcome to Our Holiday Nails of 2013 blog hop hosted by Sparkle Queen! This link party has one purpose: to share our holiday manicures with each other!

Everyone is welcome to share ALL of their holiday nails and manicures. You don’t have to be a blogger to enter either, as long as you can link to your holiday nails, you can enter. So if you are sharing your pictures on Nail Art Gallery, uploading to Pintrest, Instagram or Twitter, or anywhere else, you can enter too. You’ll just need the URL of where your pictures are shared.

Bloggers can use THIS CODE to add the link party into their posts.

Party Details:

*You can enter as many holiday nails as you like, but they must all go to a specific page, they can’t just go to your home page.

*Link as many entries as you want.

*The link party will stay open till shortly after the New Year so any new year’s inspired nails can get added too.

*Nails must be holiday related one way or the other. Maybe the polish you are wearing for Christmas, or your snowy nail art scene. Any and all are welcome.

*Video tutorials are OK as well, as long as you can upload an image for the thumbnail.

Make sure to check out the other entries and show some love to your fellow nail ladies!

Happy Holidays!

Literary Lacquer: Community Collaboration

Products provided for review.

I have two more beautiful Literary Lacquer Community Collab polishes to share with you today! If you'd like a little more information about the collaboration, check the first entry here.

84, Charing Cross Road is a sepia taupe subtle holographic nail polish loaded with silver glass fleck designed by Sheila of Pointless Cafe. The book, 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff is about a correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller, it's a great read and a terrific movie!

One of my favorite polish colors (besides purple and green) is a nice cool taupe without red tones. That color has proven difficult to find until recent years, but especially difficult to find in holographic polish. When I first unwrapped the bottle, I was in love! Not only does it have a subtle holographic sparkle but it also has beautiful glass flecks in it! The polish is quite sheer so I wore two coats over my favorite nude, Theoretically Nude from Vivid Lacquer, and I think they were made for each other!





My Red Hair shifts from orange through copper into red and was created by Debbie Crumpet of The Crumpet, my British Nail Blogger soulmate. She was inspired both by her own hair and by Sylvia Plath's poem Lady Lazarus. The poem can be read at poets.org

I thought at first this was simply a metallic copper but its so much more! The gorgeous copper shifts to red at different angles and is sprinkled with gold glitters! Quite beautiful! I wore three thin coats with Clearly On Top top coat.




Debbie writes:

"I was 16 when I first read Sylvia Plath. At an awkward and impressionable age, I was ready to be awestruck by the visceral power of her writing and the brutal language of her poems. I quickly became obsessed with her, and the great literary tragedy of her marriage to Ted Hughes, and her life, her triumphs and her struggles, have influenced and empowered me like nothing else in my life.
My Red Hair is inspired by her most famous poem, Lady Lazarus, where the heroine, a born sufferer, tortured and abused to the point she has to commit suicide every 10 years to have a chance at a better life, vows that “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.” It’s a chilling line: a whisper, a shriek, a manifesto, and a promise as a cold as dead lover’s kiss.."

And there ya have it! Two more beautiful polishes from the collab set makes four, so there are six more to share with you in the coming days! Which is your favorite so far?

The Community Collaboration is available at Literary Lacquers on Etsy and stay in the know by following the brand on facebook.

Literary Lacquer: Community Collaboration

Products provided by Literary Lacquers for review.

Amy at Literary Lacquers released a community collaboration set and shared the following with me, "My favorite part of the holidays is getting together with my friends and family, so I wanted to celebrate that sense of community in my collection and honor the lovely women I have gotten to know over my first year in business."

I believe her sentiments are evident in that each polish seems to have been created with care and attention to detail. I want to take the same care with each blog post so I'm going to show a few at a time rather than all ten at once.

Phenomenal Woman is a Burgundy to purply shifty holo, designed by Jen Sky Walker of the blog Musings of the Wife of a Jedi. She chose the design to represent one of her favorite poems, Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou.

At first sight of the bottle I couldn't quite figure out if it was red, pink, burgundy, or holo. Guess what? its all those things! Its a nice reddish burgundy in dim lighting, but it flashes pink and when the light hits it the holo and shimmer sparkle and flash! Quite complex, beautiful and definitely a great interpretation of the poem. I wore three thin coats with topcoat for added gloss.






Jen, the blogger who designed the polish writes this about it:

"Scientist by trade, I had the pleasure of being promoted this year to a stay at home mom to a sweet little Jedi baby. It was this new life as a mom with messy hair, spit-up on my shirt, a newly broken nail and chipped polish, and more baby weight than I cared for that led me to choose Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou as the inspiration for my polish creation. Far too often we hold ourselves to an impossible standard of beauty that we fail to see that what truly makes us beautiful comes from the inside, not our outward appearance. I wanted this polish to be bold and confident because that is what makes a woman phenomenal."

Camille Sepharial D'Artigo has a blurple jelly base and is loaded with silver and black holographic sparkle and black microglitter, with a teal-blue flash for extra magic! It was designed by Courtney of Phyrra.net and inspired by one of her favorite characters, Camille, the moon witch from the Otherworld series by Yasmine Galenorn.

When I first saw the bottle I didn't realize the base color was a medium shade of indigo, and I didn't see the black microglitter or teal shift until I tested it on a nail. With the first brush stroke my eyes widened and I think I may have exclaimed, "Wow!" out loud. I knew immediately that I wanted to wear it over Revlon Modern Grace, its the perfect color to go with this polish!
I could have stopped at one coat of Camille, but I just couldn't restrain myself. I love to watch the teeny glitters float and swim as the brush swipes it on - so I wore three coats! Awesome glitter payoff, very nice coverage and definitely dreamy, one your friends will want to own!






Courtney writes this about her polish design:

"I'm a cruelty free beauty blogger who is hair obsessed. I'm an avid urban fantasy reader. My constant companion is my standard poodle Phaedra.
I was inspired by my favorite character Camille Sepharial D'Artigo from the Otherworld Series. I wanted a purple polish because her eyes are violet and I wanted black accents to represent when she works magic."

I have become acquainted with the two polishes that I shared today by wearing them for several days and noticing how they look in different lighting through the day. Both ladies and polishes are equally wonderful and I hope I have conveyed that through photos and writing.

The Community Collaboration is available at Literary Lacquers on Etsy and stay in the know by following the brand on facebook.