ABC Challenge The Letter Q

This was a hard one (as will some in the future) I don't have all that many Q polishes.

I managed to find Queen For A Night by Finger Paints, it's from the Masked Affair Collection in 2014. I must add Finger Paints has become one of my favourite polish brands. Though I do tend to wait til they are on clearance at Sally Beauty to buy them.

Isn't that a pretty polish?  This is a dark blue polish with a green shift and lots of gold flakes in it.

The shift is more apparent in the bottle, but I can notice it on my nails.

Though it didn't on me, I have read that this polish can stain.

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ABC Challenge The Letter P

Princess Peach by EatSleepPolish is my P polish for the ABC Challenge.

This is from the Fairies & Princesses collection which is still available on

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Even though pink is not a favorite nail color of mine, this is a very pretty pink holographic polish.

Easy application with a decent holo effect.

I think the holo shows up more in this second photo. It's not the strongest holo, but it's definitely there. The unicorn on my ring finger is also available on EatSleepPolish. Caterina has a number of different vinyls available.

ABC Challenge The Letter O

For my O polish in the ABC Challenge I chose Orly's Oui.

It is a pretty purple with a very intense gold shimmer in it. I think the next picture shows it better.

I only have a mini bottle, but I really should have a large one, This is just such a gorgeous polish.

ABC Challenge The Letter N

For my N polish I used a new addition to my collection, Nori from Zoya. I got it when Zoya opened their shipping to Canada.

Nori is one of the newer and regrettably last of the Pixie Dusts Zoya is making.

 Nori is a Magical Pixie Dust which means it has holographic hex glitter, that sparkles through.

Even though I didn't top coat this, I really didn't feel that much texture to it.

Just an add on to this, I used NYC's Strip Me Off Basecoat. I am loving it so far. I wore this mani for almost 4 days without losing any peeling off or any chips for that matter.

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ABC Challenge: M

Again a little late, but this is my M polish. It is Finger Paints Margarita Mambo. Which happened to be a fitting color for St. Patricks Day.

It is a very pretty vibrant green, but it was quite sheer. I needed to do three coats and I can still see some nail line. Though it was not as noticeable in person.

This has a pretty yellowish-gold shimmer running through it.

ABC Challenge: The Letter L

I choose KB Shimmer's Let's Sleigh Together for my L polish.

KB Shimmer has fast become one of my favourite Indie brand polishes. Such beautiful glitter polishes, with great formulas.

Let's Sleigh Together is  grey based with green and blue microglitter, blue and green smaller hex glitter and larger blue circle glitters plus it has a holographic microglitter that sparkles.

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ABC Challenge brought to you by the letter K

Next up in the ABC Challenge is K, for my K polish I chose Square Hue's Kalver Straat.

It's a nice pretty hot pink color.

The next picture shows a better bottle shot.

Two coats and not a bad formula, but the brush was rather stiff making applying it somewhat difficult.

J is for Jack

I had originally chosen Jail Bait from Pure Ice as my J polish in the ABC Challenge, but then I got Jack the Lad by Butter London from a buy on a Swap/Sell group. So I changed my mind a used it.

Jack the Lad has a dark green jelly like base with yellow, blue and green shimmer.

I admit I had a hard time photographing it on the nails, but it was definitely there.

(excuse the paper cut on my ring finger)

Here is another photo in the sun.

This one really shows the shimmer in the bottle.

Very pretty polish, would make a nice St. Patty's day mani.

ABC Challenge I - Infra Red

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For my I polish for the ABC Challenge I chose Infra Red by China Glaze. It was one of their Holographic polishes that came out in 2013 I believe.

It was going to be a sunny day(finally) so I thought a holo would be a good choice.

While not an overly spectacular holo in normal light. In fact it seems to have a shift to blue when you look at it.

 In the sun it is more holographic.

I am a fan of the China Glaze Holographic polishes. There are still a couple more I need to get a hold of.

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ABC Challenge H - Halley's Comet by Orly

My H polish for the ABC Challenge is Orly's Halley's Comet, which is a beautiful turquoise polish with a very strong gold shimmer running thru it.

The above photo was taken in the sunlight.

I love this polish color, it was on my want list for awhile.

This photo was taken in my lightbox. In both you can see a slight nail line, but I really didn't notice it while wearing the polish.

I wore this for 5 days, most of them working and had no chipping and very little tipwear.

I will say I had some staining on my nails and on my skin around my nails when I removed it. I used Julep's Vanish to remove the staining from my nails and it just washed off from my skin, which was nice.

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ABC Challenge: The Letter G

For G I choose Essie's Go Ginza. I got this polish from the subscription box TopBox.

I didn't mind the formula on this one, but the brush was horrible, I found it to be really, really stiff which made it hard to paint my nails.

I have a feeling this will make it's way to my declutter stash as I have Essie's  Full Steam ahead which I find to be a nicer light purple color.

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