NEW YORK SUMMER SWATCHES

POPPIES
Wowsers!!! Insert here>>>> cartoon bulging eyes! I LOVE this color!!!





DESERT FLOWER
This was super sheer and you can still see VNL after three coats. Wah - wah- wahhhhhhh... Not a fan of this one.





HOT GREEN
I thought this was ok. I have other green jelly polishes I like more than this, but I still like it, just not my fave.

GLITTER GIFTS

The other day I rec'd a few nail polishes from fellow bloggers over at CONCRETE AND NAIL POLISH. The blog is run by two sisters, April and Ashley, who are located here in Oklahoma, like me. They are just a few hours north of me in Tulsa. They sent me a couple of nail polishes, and they must know a thing or two about what I like because they were both glitters!! WOO HOO, way to go girls!


I did a couple of swatches of these to share with you all.


NEW YORK SUMMER
This looks totally hot both ways, I think. I was surprised how much I liked this just over my nude nails, but it looked really cool!

TIC TAC

This is an awesome dense, blue glitter. Super shiny! I think this looks better on its own than over the black base that I tried. Such a pretty shade of blue, I love it.

GREEN WITH ENVY, LAYERED

I decided to do a little layering over Orly's Green With Envy, since I wasn't just thrilled with it on it's own, at least not on me anyway.

I chose four colors to layer over GWE, and did two coats of each.

CLAIRES - GO GREEN

NEW YORK SUMMER - DOLLAR BILL

NFU OH - # 54

NK - INFINITY

I thought they all looked good, but I think my favorite is Dollar Bill. I just love the shimmer it has and the cool color of green that it turned it.

Which is your favorite?

TRANS DESIGN ORDER

Last week I placed an order with Trans Design , I needed to order a couple of the prizes that I have up for grabs (the konad kit and the CG Summer Collection) in my two contest that I am currently running right now. (You can find all the info for these HERE and HERE).

I got a couple of cool and cheap things I wanted to share with you all.

On Trans Design's website these were listed as Kolor-Ring, and it shows a picture like they are little bottles that have a ring attached to it and you can keep it on your key ring. However, what came in the mail is a different brand, but the colors listed on the website are the colors I wanted, so I'm not complaining, The brand on the bottles I got say TIME SQUARE. These were on sale for .49 CENTS EACH! Pretty damn cheap, how could I pass that up. I ordered three, all pastel colors. Today when I looked at the website, they were back up to their regular price of $1.37 ea, which is still pretty cheap. Despite the cheap price, these all seem pretty pigmented. When I opened the bottles and pulled the brushes out to take a look, the colors did not appear to be sheer what so ever. I'm anxious to try these out and see how I like them and how well they apply. I saw a couple of other colors from this brand I wouldn't mind trying out if these have good results.

Next up I ordered another of the New York Summer's in Hot Lime Green. I like the name of that one. I unfortunately didn't read very well and this is clearly marked as a sheer (ugh!!!) and it also has sort of a pearly finish to it, which I am not a huge fan of. However, this color still might work well layered with another color. This one cost me $1.59.







The last two I ordered is a brand called Amour. I ordered a glitter polish called Rain Glitter, which looks nothing like it did on the website. Maybe it's just me, but on the website it looked like a green glitter. This is clearly a black with multi colored glitter. This is listed on sale for $1.99 regularly $2.49. This is still currently on sale with Trans Design.






The second color I ordered is Unique Ruby. This is a special polish, this is called Amour Color Effect.

This is what Trans Design says of this color:

NEW!
The special formula contains Titanium dioxide platelets of precisely controlled thickness reflects gold, red, green or blue by interference . . .and transmit the respective complementary colors. Deposited on mica for reinforcement . . . combined with colors pigment to introduce intensity, contrast and extraordinary color play.
Chart Colors produced below are based on using a Natural Base / Black Colored Tip for better effects.

Instructions:
Step 1: Apply black polish to the free edge.
Step 2: Allow polish to dry, apply color effect polish to the entire surface of the nail.
Step 3: Apply top coat.

This is how Trans Design shows it should look:


Now, if I only had longer nails to try this out. Although, I assume any nail polish would have an effect similar to this if you first painted black on the free edge. So as soon as I get some nails I will try this out and let you know how it works. This sells for $2.99.

IF ANYONE HAS TRIED THIS BRAND I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK.

KONI - THANKS COLETTE!

Colette from My Simple Pleasures coined the name "koni" for Konadicure and I think it's perfect - plus it's much shorter and faster to type :) So from now on I will be using this word to describe any Konading I do in the future. Great job on the word Colette :)

This is a koni I did last night. On my last Trans Design order I finally got New York Summer - Amaranth. A beautiful bright green with a jelly finish. This color did not disappoint! And it is really cheap too, it was $1.49! I thought the polish applied really well. It went on sheer for the first coat but was opaque by the second one. I would have added a third coat if I was to wear this alone, but since I knew I was going to Koni it, I didn't. I thought it was a pretty good polish for only a buck fifty.

I also ordered another New York Summer color called Dollar Bill. It's green too and I really just liked the name. Reminds me of Dolla Bill from the movie The Players Club. Bernie Mac played Dolla Bill and I think he really stole the show in that one! I used to quote many a line from him. Such a great comedian lost way before his time. Anyway, that used to be my favorite movie and the soundtrack used to be playing in my car like 24-7 - lol! I haven't tried this color out yet, but I will soon! I will have to Koni something with that color that goes with the movie, like maybe putting a little stripper pole on each nail or something - lmao! I know, I play too much :)

WHAT I USED:

Not shown: Konad Special Polish in White

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

This patten kind of reminds me of the handkerchief pattern, you know the one I'm talking about? It is usually red and white or navy and white. I really like this when I got done with it.

What do you guys think?

And does anyone else remember Dolla Bill from the Players Club?