I totally paused!

Welcome to Nail Polish Lottery Club, where a bunch of people have gotten together for this club to randomly choose a number each week.  That number correlates to your polish collection, and you therefore wear the polish that equals the number for the week.  It’s easier if you manage your polish collection in a spreadsheet or something along those lines.

If you’re interesting in joining up with the NPL Club, you can find them on Facebook!  You can read more about the guidelines here.

This week the chosen number was 21!  For me, that came out to China Glaze Cranberry Splash, which was part of their 2012 Holiday Collection.

To me, Cranberry Splash is the quintessential red for a Christmas ornament.  I decided to play around with having some matte versus shiny, kind of like how ornaments come in both options.  My index and ring fingers have Essie Matte About You for the top coat, middle and pinkie fingers have Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.

I then decided to play around with the tips, so I mattified the ends of the shiny ones, and vice versa.  I think if I do this in the future, I’ll make the tips bigger and possibly in a different pattern than just straight across.

Overall, this is a really fun color, and would be fantastic for the holidays later this year!

Welcome to Nail Polish Lottery Club, where a bunch of people have gotten together for this club to randomly choose a number each week.  That number correlates to your polish collection, and you therefore wear the polish that equals the number for the week.  It’s easier if you manage your polish collection in a spreadsheet or something along those lines.

If you’re interesting in joining up with the NPL Club, you can find them on Facebook!  You can read more about the guidelines here.

The number this week was 97, which corresponded to China Glaze Winter Berry.  I’ve been dying to use this color ever since I got it over the 2012 holiday season, but didn’t have the chance.  Over the last year or so, China Glaze has been releasing these really amazing, super dense glitter polishes that I am in love with.  You can build them up on their own with two or three coats, or layer them over another color.  I’ve been obsessed with them, and this one is no different.

This first picture was taken in full sunlight, although I promise you it still does not totally capture the beauty of this polish.  You have to see it in person to really understand the depth of it!

This is a kind of close-up to get a better idea of the immense sparkle that it has!  This one was taken inside under regular light.  I wanted to get a better close-up, but my iPhone doesn’t have a macro option and I was too lazy to grab the regular camera.

And here’s a not close shot indoors in regular lighting.  Love this polish!!!

A few weeks ago, I was blog surfing and ran across this idea called the Nail Polish Lottery Club, where a bunch of gals (and maybe some guys?) have gotten together for this club to randomly choose a number each week.  That number correlates to your polish collection, and you therefore wear the polish that equals the number for the week.  It’s easier if you manage your polish collection in a spreadsheet or something along those lines, and luckily I started doing that about a year ago so I could keep track of what I have…makes for me not buying dupes

If you’re interesting in joining up with the NPL Club, you can find them on Facebook!  You can read more about the guidelines here.

I lost track of time last week and didn’t post, so I’ve got both weeks 10 and 11 here for y’all today.  The number for week 10 was 128, which for me corresponded with Essie Mochacino:

According to Essie, Mochacino is “a perky gray with shimmer”.  I’ve looked at this color in the drawer before and I think I’ve skipped over it before because it seemed a little boring to me, it’s kind of a neutral and I don’t tend to wear those colors often.  However, I must have overlooked the shimmer in it, because I actually really liked the whole effect when I had it on!  I change my polish up every couple of days so I decided to liven it up a bit with this combo:

This is the same color with OPI Casino Royale on the tips.  Casino Royale is one of my favorite red-ish shades at the moment.

The number for week 11 is 41, and for me that was China Glaze Grape Juice:

I had already been wearing Zoya Nidhi at the time, so I decided to leave that on and do a tape mani to see what it would look like.  The contrast of the red under the purple is pretty bright, but I like it.  And the shimmer in both polishes is really complimentary, though it’s easier to see that in person than it is in the photo.  This one is in full sunlight in my kitchen, taken with my iPhone.

As a comparison, this one was taken in just regular lighting in my home office.  Since I’m indoors more than out, this is a slightly better representation of the combination.

• dorolerium posted on March 24, 2013
  Thank you! It was pure luck that those two colors ended up coming together...I was just lazy and didn't ...
• Tanya @ Mom's Small Victories posted on March 22, 2013
  What an interesting idea. Your nails look great, not a combination of colors I would normally pick...i'm a boring ...