Frosty nails

I wish I had some sun with I took these pictures :( Then you could see the prettiness. It was cloudy the day I took pictures, but unfortunately no rain. We're having a serious drought here in Wisconsin.  I did manage to get some sunny pictures later on phone which I posted on the bottom.

Here's how I got this awesome look.

The base is 2 coats of China Glaze Sea Spray.

Next I added on a layer of crackle using Sally Hansen Fractured Foil.  It's a silver crackle, and the crackle effect isn't super obvious. Instead, it creates this nice silver color that still lets some of the base color seep through.

Finally I put on a thin coat of Wet N Wild Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire.  I love the name of this polish as well as the song it is inspired from :)  Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire is a blue micro glitter that has a bit of a holographic effect.

See the holo-ness? I really wish I had sunlight to show you better.

The next two pictures were the ones I managed to take in the sunlight.  The second one really shows the holo effect from Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Hits Hera

Hits Hera is such a beautiful holo. I love turquoise green color that is it (if you all don't know, I'm a sucker for green polish).  I didn't have to do any cleanup when I applied this polish despite the wacky brush.  This picture is also taken after 2 days of wear. I used top coat to make it last longer, and it didn't affect the holo at all.

Aubrie's Nails

Tons of you are probably wondering, who is Aubrie? She's one of the little girls I babysit. She 3 1/2 and loves to have her mom paint her nails. Well, I decided that I would do it one day since I have tons of colors and ideas for her to pick from. To make it easier for Aubrie to choose, I only brought over a few colors.


Here's what she decided for her nails.

The base color is Pure Ice Peony, and Aubrie choose several stickers for me to add on. You can't see them, but she has butterflies on her thumbs. I got a bunch of stickers on eBay for about $1.

I also did Aubrie's toes.

For her toes, I did Zoya Sookie with Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty on top for the glitter. We added some heart stickers to her toes.

Candeo Colors Orchid

Orchid is the final Candeo Colors that I bought. I got this one in a mini when she did a huge restock of minis only.  I also used my final Disney Villain polish as a base coat to preserve Orchid.

This is Disney Villains #16. The ring and pinkie fingers are what the color looks like, while the middle and index fingers show off the shimmer that is present.  I need 2 coats of this.

Orchid lightened up the Villain polish quite a bit, and I like the effect they have together.  They larger glitters in Orchid had to be dug out of the bottle, but I'm going to guess it's because of the mini bottle.  I needed 2 coats on most nails, but did do some dabbing/glitter placement on some of them for a 3 coat.  Onto some swatch spam!

Wet N Wild Grey's Anatomy

In earlier posts, I had shown you 2 other polish colors that needed to be layered in order to make the color shine. Grey's Anatomy is the same way. This is my least favorite though. The brush sucks. It's so stiff that the color is almost impossible to put on, and it leaves messy streaks.

Here's Grey's Anatomy looking absolutely gorgeous in the bottle. Look at all the color shifting.

Then it's boring looking on the nail by itself.

And here it is on the nail over black. The color shift is still nice, but look at all those damn streaks! Ugh. I didn't even more topcoating this mess and took it off right away.

China Glaze Motown Magic

Just a quick post for you today before I head off to school.

I got this color a while ago, and it's sat in my storage system until I finally decided to use it as I work through my untrieds.  Motown Magic is a beautiful dark brown almost black with auburn and gold micro glitter throughout.  These pictures are without topcoat, and you can see that it dries fairly shinny and smooth.

Orly Purple Pleather

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! I had a great last 2 days with a few more plan for today. Tomorrow, I start teaching summer school so it's back to the grind.

Today for you, I have Orly Purple Pleather. I really loved the swatches I saw of this, added it to my wishlist, and got it from a friend. I do have to say that I'm a bit disappointed though. I used 2 thin coats then one thicker one to even things out. I left plenty of time between each coat, but I ended up with bubbles, ridges, and a dent from not-quite dry polish. This swatch is from last week so perhaps I can blame on it the super hot weather we had. I love the pleather finish of this (so unusual!) so I really want it to work!

Happy birthday to me!

Today is my 27th birthday so of course I had to do birthday nails!

These are not only special because of the nail art but also because of the colors I used.
The base coat is OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston. I was born in Galveston, TX so this color means a lot to me! I used 4 coats here due to the squishy jelly nature of the polish.
The glitter used is the very appropriate Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday.
Then I used tons of other polishes to add on the balloons and cupcakes.

Happy (belated) 4th of July!

Sorry this post is a day late, but yesterday was pretty crazy. I also didn't get a chance to do my Independence Day nails until yesterday either so I had to go with something simple instead of a nail art design like I wanted to.

For the base, I used 1 thin and 1 thick coat of Revlon Royal (get this blue if you don't have it!). Then I added on 2 thin coats of OPI Rainbow Connection. The glitter in Rainbow Connection over the dark blue reminds me of fireworks.

Flower and Leaf Fimo Canes

I bought these pre-cut fimo shapes from eBay a while ago but haven't gotten around to using them.  I decided to try out both the flower and leaf shapes that I got along with a untried extra Brazilian polish I received in a swap.  The color is called Risqué Violeta Acinzentado. It's a dark purple with a very dusky quality and a tiny bit of shimmer that I tried to capture.

I won't go into detail about how to use fimo canes as there are many videos on places like YouTube that you can watch. I will have to say that I need a bit more practice on being neater using them. You can see some glue around the edges, and the only ones that are really laying flat are on my ring finger.