Tom Ford - Trophy Wife

I finally got around to using Tom Ford's Trophy Wife.  It's been sitting in the Bloomingdales bag since early March.

 I tend to favor the darker reds, but this one is lovely.  It looks like a raspberry red with fuchsia shimmer.

 The formula was nice, no bald spots or streaks.  I used two coats with a quick dry top coat.

 In direct sun light the fuchsia shimmer comes out to play.

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Untried Tuesday - Tom Ford Black Sugar #24

My husband is so sweet I asked him to look for a YSL polish and he comes home with not only the YSL but he also stopped at the Tom Ford counter and picked up Black Sugar.  

Black sugar is a limited edition polish that is part of the fall 2013 collection.  This is a plum- taupe with a hidden red shimmer.  The application was great, and for $32 it better be.  It did apply nice and smooth with no bubbles or streaks.  It took two coats for a full  smooth coverage.

 You can see the red in the bottle but not on your nails.

 This looks like a darker version of Chanel's Particuliere.

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Part 1 of Anniversary Present

 Yesterday was my fifteen year wedding anniversary!

  My husband took advantage of having to be in Houston to shop, he sent me this picture to tease me.  Keep in mind I thought I already had received my gift in the form of stamping plates(Sugar Bubbles, MoYou and MoYou UK).  So this was a nice surprise.

 From Neiman's Tom Ford Black Sugar and YSL Gris Underground

 He also stopped at Sephora and picked up Illamasqua's Pink Raindrops

 I did a quick swatch of them will probably review them in detail later on in the week.  The TF and YSL applied like butter but the Illa was think and lumpy.  I applied thinner so hopefully that will help.

And to top it off, he also bought me a pound of See's Candies Nuts and Chews, like the best chocolate ever.

Once all the plates come in I'll post them as well.

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Sunday Challenge

Today's challenge in Adventures in Stamping is to stamp over a nude base.  Here is what I did.

Started off with Tom Fords Toasted Sugar.  I had issues with a new top coat I was trying out, it wrinkled and shrunk.

 Next using the Betina plate B-11 and Cinna-snap from Sally Hansen I added the designs.

 I was hoping the color would be like the bottle instead it turned out to be a lighter red.

 Once again that new top coat had issues, it smeared the design on my index finger.   I had to go back to the Nina QDTC for the rest of them.  

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Tom Ford Dominatrix

Tom Ford Dominatrix is from the Fall 2012 Collection.  While in Houston, my husband was nice enough to pick this up for me when I had him looking for Chanel Malice.

This is a very bright metallic purple.  I was expecting streaks, but the application was nice and smooth, and it dried fairly quickly.  

This was supposed to be limited edition, but it is still available at Nordstrom for $30.

 I did have some bubbles but that was the top coat not the polish.

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Two for One Sunday

So this is my second mani, I really messed up the first one which was for AIS.  Since I removed it I decided to go with a Mother's Day mani instead.

 Started off with Tom Ford's Fever Pink

 It's a dream of an application, no bubbles or streaks, almost a one coater.  This is another polish I found at the Orlando CCO while I was vacationing there earlier this year.

 Broke out the Konad polishes, and the MJ plate II to stamp all the baby images.

 Here is the first mani I had on, it was for Sunday's challenge for the facebook group, Adventure in Stamping.  This weeks challenge was to be inspired from your favorite Fairytale, my choice was the Little Mermaid.  It did not come out like I expected it to.

 So what better  color to use for a Little Mermaid mani than Sinful Colors Neptune.

 It's a nice shimmery blue and for $1, can't beat that.

 I used the MJ Special Edition plate to make the Little Mermaid decals, Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian.  They were a pain, the details are so small I was going cross eyed trying to fill them in.  The Seahorse is from Cheeky plate 38.

Tom Ford in Toasted Sugar

So I was lucky to have found a few Tom Ford's at the CCO when I was vacationing in Orlando.  They retail for $30 and at the CCO they were $21.   Since I'm not comfortable with neutrals I decided to make it a stamp mani.  I used Kleancolor in black, which is my favorite stamping polish, Cheeky E plate and the small part of the Magno XL stamper.

 This is my first nude and an untried, so two birds with one stone.

 The polish applied nice and even, since it was sheer I applied three coats.  

So I broke out with Cheeky plate E and used Kleancolor  in black.  The reason I prefer Kleancolor to stamp with is, it's a nice opaque black but it's easy to clean up, and it doesn't smear like Konad black does.

Well that's it for today, how do you feel about nudes?  Yay or Nay?