Tammy Taylor Dazzle Rocks Rockstar Glitter "Night on the Town" Collection

Some more products from Tammy Taylor Nails. These are her Dazzle Rocks or 1oz /10gm jar of loose glitter. They can be found HEREon her site for$14.95 for each color. Tammy Taylor also has several videos posted on that same page showing how these glitters can be utilized with gel polish and acrylic powders. I don't have either of those techniques in my skill set, so I used them over regular nail lacquers for these swatches.

Midnight Sky is the first one.

Fine black glitter, with larger black, irridescent blue, green, and yellow pieces.

I first painted my nails with OPI Eurso Euro, then sprinkled some "Midnight Sky" over the top. I lightly pressed it so the pieces would lie flat then applied regular topcoat.

Shimmering Stars

Over all white appearance that changes to opalescent pastel over a base color.

Here I'm showing it over China Glaze Spontaneous

Moonlight has an over all gold appearance.

Fine gold glitter and larger opalescent pieces.

Here I'm showing it over Orly Ancient Jade

Rock Me Red

Fine red glitter mixed with larger gold pieces.

I always have a hard time figuring out what to pair red glitters with. Anybody else suffer that same dilemma? Here I'm showing it over China Glaze Electric Beat

City Lights

A mix of silver

Here I'm showing it over China Glaze Laced Up



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Twilight Gradient

Not like the movie Twilight, just in that this is reminiscent to the sky at dusk.

China Glaze Too Yacht to Handle

OPI Dating A Royal

Sinful Colors Black on Black

These pictures were after a days worth of wear, so that's why they are kind of dinged up if you look close.

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Bonkers Nail Art

Another cartoon look. This one is lesser known, but I remember being a fan. 

It aired from 1993-1995 on the Disney Channel. 

From wikipedia - "The premise of the series was that Bonkers D. Bobcat, an anthropomorphic bobcat who was a popular cartoon star had washed out of show business and became a cop. He was made the junior partner of Detective Lucky Piquel, a grim and ill-tempered human who hates toons. Throughout the series, the pair work together to solve crimes in the Hollywood, Los Angeles, California region. Bonkers repeatedly tried to win Piquel's praise, but usually just ended up ruining missions with his antics."

I painted Bonker's face on my thumb nail, then my ring nail is an outline of a police shield with the logo name across it. Polishes used - Orly Snowcone, Shimmer Polish Maria, OPI Honey Ryder, & Kiss Nail Art Striper in black. All the rest are acrylic paints.

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Bobby's World

Do you remember Bobby's World? It ran from 1990 to 1998 on FOX Kids. It was created by Howie Mandel (I didn't know that prior to looking this up!) It's based on the life of an energetic little 4 year old with a big imagination.

Tutorial?

I started with OPI...Eurso Euro, each subsequent step was created with acrylic paint.

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OPI Liquid Sands - Jinx & Honey Ryder

These are part of the OPI Bond Girls Liquid Sand Collection. 

The gritty texture trend in nail polish was a turn off when I first saw swatch pictures. And when I first applied these I had a big case of the heebie jeebies because it felt so.... wrong! But I wore Jinx for 3 days and by the end I had gotten used to it and felt it was pretty cool after all.

They were provided for review by Beyond Polish.

Jinx

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Bright orange/coral with gold glitter. Being a liquid sand, it's meant to have this gritty texture.

Very easy to apply, just 2 coats, dry time is fast.

Honey Ryder

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Light neutral gold tone. This polish seemed less textured than Jinx. 

Pictured is 2 coats. The formula was equally easy to apply.

 

*These were provided for review*

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OPI...Eurso Euro

I was recently introduced to the website Beyond Polish. They offer an excellent selection of nail polish because they carry so many great brands. Their prices are reasonable as well, which is always nice! They were nice enough to provide some polishes for me to review here for you guys.

OPI...Eurso Euro

From the Euro Centrale collection, can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Deep creme blue. I like that it doesn't lean towards black in low lights. It stays most definitely blue. Pictured is 2 coats, the formula was great I had no issues with application.

 

*Again, this polish was provided for review*

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OPI - HTF - mystery polish....

This is the third polish that I scored from Goodwill for only 99 cents. It's label is missing so I have no idea which one it could possibly be.... But the simple lettering on the back of the bottle matches the bottle of Plymouth Lox. It's not like the newer OPI bottles that have a lot of lettering and symbols. 

The fill line hits at the horizontal line just below the OPI letters.

It's a warm orange with hints of coral. Creme finish. Pictured is 3 thin coats. The lid of this one was quite stuck and required some effort to get into. Then I had to add a couple of drops of thinner because it was slightly gloopy. Once I thinned it a bit, it applied perfectly.

So do you have any idea what it could be? I don't have much knowledge when it comes to old OPIs. I'd appreciate any help I can get.

Then I decided to use it in some nail art inspired by this look I found through Pinterest.

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OPI - HTF - Back in the Saddle

This is another great black label find at my local Goodwill. I got it for only 99 cents.

The fill line on this bottle was also just barely used.
It hits right at the rim of the bottle well above the OPI lettering.

It's a pumpkin-y orange color with heavy gold shimmer.

2 coats are pictured. Again, despite smelling of toxic old fumes, the formula was still really good and went on smooth.

The label on the bottom is pretty disgusting and damaged. 

I tried to clean it up a bit but it's still difficult to read. 

In the sunlight I managed to make out that it's 4 words long and the last word is "Saddle" so my online digging leads me to believe it's "Back in the Saddle" from the "Wild Wild West" collection from 1999. The color seems to match.

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