China Glaze - Blue Bells Ring

For Christmas my brother-in-law got me a $15 gift card to Sally’s, I’m sure he thought he got the most boring gift ever, but to me it was magical. I was able to prolong the shopping adventure until Saturday and it was as glorious as I had imagined. For $15 (and five cents) I got six polishes as Sally’s, I should point out that I also had a coupon, a 15% off, and my Sally’s card, that’s right, I’m the shit at polish shopping.

Two of the polishes I got were Seche Vite top and base coat; so far I love the base coat as much as I love the top coat, thank you SV for being awesome. The other four are all colors so being the totally normal, rational person I am, I tried to use all four colors in one manicure, that manicure failed. That manicure failed so bad I have no pictures of it. It was a hot mess on my hands, and to make it better the blue I used wouldn’t come off so it kind of looked like I slaughtered an entire community of Smurfs (I smurfed them good in their smurf). By the time I finished cleaning up the Smurf gore I had had quite a bit to drink so I was nervous how my next attempt would go, considering the preamble, I’m pretty pleased with these nails.

They are so super shiny

For this manicure I used China Glaze Blue Bells Ring (AKA the Smurf bringer), Orly Angel Eyes, and OPI DS Radiance. The base blue is the China Glaze; I put the Orly on my ring fingers and then proceeded to put so much decoration on those nails you can hardly tell that there is a glitter overlay. Blue Bells Ring was on clearance at Sally’s, which along with the name makes me think it is part of a holiday collection. It is a great color, the coverage I crazy amazing. Believe it or not, I’m only wearing one coat in these pictures, crazy right?

One coat!

The color is much darker on than it looks in the bottle but has a great silver sparkle to it. It is a huge pain in the butt to remove though and completely stains your hands. I think it is a testament to how much I like the color that I would use it again after the first clean up. I’m pretty sure Angel Eyes is also a holiday color, it is a dense blue micro glitter with medium sized holographic glitter. I’m excited to use it again when I can get a better idea of what it looks like.

You can kind of see some of the holographic glitter

These nails are very messy, and I totally messed up on my line work, but they turned out very flashy and fun. I was informed afterwards that they are the school colors of a local high school, so my nails totally say ‘go bulldogs’.