Olympic Fever!

I don't know about you guys, but I have been totally obsessed with the Summer Olympics the past few days.  I love watching swimming and  gymnastics and I have been so happy to see so many talented American athletes take home metals.  It is so excited to watch someones dreams come true right before your eyes! Seeing the America girls gymnastics team take home gold the other night inspired my manicure today.

For this manicure I decided to focus on themes of the Olympics not just the USA.  I painted my pointer, middle and ring finger on each hand with gold, silver and bronze to represent the Olympic metals and on my thumb and pinky I painted the 5 Olympic rings using large and small dotting tools on a white base.

For the gold, silver and bronze fingers I used Julep Oscar, Zoya Trixie, and OPI Take The Stage; and for the rings I used Wet n' Wild French White Creme, Essence Walking on Air, Wet n' Wild Black Creme, China Glaze Poinsettia, China Glaze Solar Power, China Glaze Holly-Day.

To create the ring design I used the large side of a dotting tool to make 5 dots, one of each color featured in the ring design then I used the smallest size dotting tool that I had to add white dots inside the color dots to create the illusion that they are rings.

I am really excited with how this design came out and I have been getting complements on it all week! I also love how simple it was to get the olympic ring look.  Also on a side note this is probably the most bottles of nail polish I have used in one manicure!

What are you wearing for your Olympic mani?  Leave a comment here, on Facebook, or tweet me @Polish_Paradise!

Zoya Charla!

I hope all of my wonderful followers all had great weekends!  Mine was pretty relaxing and my younger brother went to his senior prom!  It was really fun seeing everyone take prom pictures... and it made me feel super old at the same time!

Anyway... I recently got another $10 credit to Copious.com so I decided to by another Zoya polish that I had my eye on... Zoya Charla.  It is a beautiful dark green-blue foil metallic polish.  On its own the polish is amazing, unfortunately I painted my nails with it on Saturday nice, and I had lent my brother my digital camera for the prom since he does not have one of his own, so I do not have any pictures of it by itself.  But I do have two awesome pictures I took of my nails today!

Sunlight

Indoors

Since I have become obsessed with my dotting tools I decided to do something simple with dots on my nails. I used Zoya Trixie, Wet n' Wild French White Creme, and Wet n' Wild Black Creme.  I stared with large dots and worked my way down to smaller ones across my nails in a triangle pattern.

I have to say that I really love the color of Charla and I will defiantly be using this polish a lot more!  If you haven't checked out Copious.com go an check it out!  You get a $10 credit for signing up and there are a lot of cool things on their website to spend it on!

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