Nude and Maroon

Hello all! Today I have some nail art for you. I really love the way this came out.

I started with two coats of Kalahari Kiss by China Glaze, a nude beige creme. After that dried, I taped off the top half of my nails and painted on a coat of Purr-fect Plum, also by China Glaze. Then I took a dotting tool and made some Purr-fect Plum dots on the nude half of the nail. Simple but very pretty.

I really like this design...I'm sure I'll be repeating it!

Enchanted Polish: Magical Mystery Tour + Glitter

Happy Friday! Today was my last day of classes for the semester. Next week starts finals, and then I go home :)

Today, I have an Enchanted Polish for you. It's from the Beatles Collection, which I had to have as soon as I saw. Beautiful holo duochromes named after one of my favorite bands' songs? Yes please! This one is called Magical Mystery Tour. I also added some glitter to the tips, but I'll get to that soon.

Magical Mystery Tour is a fabulous duochrome with scattered holo - it shifts from warm and cool purple to blue to an almost gold. I started with a base coat of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Black Out because I wanted to conserve polish. Then I added just one coat of MMT. I wanted to add a little more sparkle, so I sponged some glitter on the tips. It's called Sapphire Masquerade by Maybelline Color Show. The name is pretty odd, since the glitter is purple and pink. Pretty nonetheless.

It looks so stunning in the bottle! I couldn't stop moving my fingers around to look at all of the colors.

It looks cool purple here.

This is the warm purple.

You can see the blue in the center of my nails here.

You can see a little of the gold in this picture.

Anyway, I think Enchanted Polish did a fabulous job on these polishes! You can purchase Enchanted Polish from Llarowe.

Zombies and Elvis' Pink Cadillac

Sometimes one color just isn't enough. Today I went for two - Zombies! by Pirate Polish and Elvis' Pink Cadillac by Pretty & Polished.

I layered them to conserve polish. I started with bases of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Mint Sorbet and Bubblegum Pink.

Elvis' Pink Cadillic is a pale pink creme/jelly with matte black hexes in various sizes. The glitter was denser in this than in Zombies. I used two coats, and the formula was easy to work with.

Zombies is basically a mint version of Elvis' Pink Cadillac, which is why I chose to pair them. It did have less tiny hexes. I used two-three coats, depending on how much glitter came out on each finger.

Pirate Polish is available on their Etsy store, and Pretty & Polished (formerly on Etsy) can now be found in their own website.

Flakey Patchwork Mani

I just got back from Student Health Services - I accidentally sliced open a knuckle (and on my photographing hand too)! Luckily, no stitches are required. I just have to try not to bend it too much. I just painted my nails yesterday, so hopefully it heals up a bit before my next manicure. It'll be hard to take pictures without bending my finger!

Anyway, today I have some nail art for you! I bought a bunch of Sinful Colors before I came back to school, but I never got around to trying them. So I did a patchwork mani to test some out.

I started with a base of Sinful Colors Winterberry, a dusty purple. Very pretty! Then I freehanded a thick striped of Sinful Colors Mint Apple and let that dry. I did a final stripe of Sinful Colors Innocent, which was really thick and goopy :( I decided that wasn't enough, so I added a coat of Finger Paints Flecked, which is a clear base with blue-green flakies.

I think the thickness of Innocent made it a little messy, but it's still came out okay!

Lynnderella: Inner Space

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! I know I did - but now it's back to school for the last few weeks of classes (and finals) :(

I currently only own a few Lynnderella polishes. Her polishes are quite pretty, but they're much too expensive (and I'm not a fan of all of the controversy, either). I decided that the ones I bought should be the most versatile type possible: glitter topcoats. My very first Lynnderella is called Inner Space. And man, does she nail it.

Inner Space is about a million different kinds of glitter in a clear base. There's hex, circles, bars, squares, even some stars!

This was just one coat of Inner Space over three coats of Rose Among Thorns by China Glaze (which looks pinker in real life). Lynnderellas are known for being very glitter dense, and I'm definitely sold. Really it's a shame these are so hard to come by (and so expensive) - the formula was perfect, and it's so pretty!

I have to say, I'm really glad I picked up this polish. It's so interesting, and it does remind me of space! It's especially appropriate since I'm actually taking Intro to Astronomy this semester :)

Lynderella polishes can be found through her eBay store, but I bought mine from another eBay seller.