Milani Blue Flash & Some Nail Art

This is two coats of the super sexy Milani Blue flash. Easy to apply  as long as you wait a few minutes between coats. It dries a bit gritty & with a matte finish so it needed a couple of coats of topcoat but it's well worth it in my opinion. Gorgeous deep teal & sparse black micro glitter!

One of my new favorite books, Among Others by Jo Walton, also happens to have a pretty cover.

 

The next day I add a bit of China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I love this manicure, super hero glitter nails!

Thanks for reading!
April

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Viva La Lightning Bolt

Hello dear readers! I'm still very busy with school, only two more weeks to go! I've still got a lot of things to do, but right now I just want to show you these nails. :-) Yesterday I wore a brandless plain white creme. It took three coats to get opaque and it took forever to dry, but it was totally worth it. Who knew I could like white nails this much! But sadly the polish already chipped after one short day, so today I added these lightning bolt tips with Essence Viva La Green. I hadn't done lightning bolt tips for a long time, I almost forgot how fun they are to make. ^^ Finally I added a bit of glam with OPI Spark The Triomphe. It's so sparkly! ♥

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Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe

I won this polish from Whitney of Elemental Styles & I'm finally getting around to posting it. Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe is blue tinted version of Color Club Sugarplum Fairy. Shown here at 3 coats & 2 coats of topcoat. The formula is a bit gloopy but not too difficult to apply as long you wait a bit between coats. This one is also awesome!

Thanks for reading!
April

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Color Club Sugarplum Fairy & Quick Nail Art

I won this polish from Whitney of Elemental Styles & I'm finally getting around to posting it. Color Club Sugarplum Fairy is the loudest, craziest polish I've ever used.
Shown here at 3 coats & 2 coats of topcoat. The formula is a bit gloopy but not too difficult to apply as long you wait a bit between coats. It definitely dries gritty but the extra topcoat is worth it for the ridiculous amount of holographic bling you get with this one. I love it & so does Will; he's been sporting it on his toes for about a month!

 

The next day I added some Maybelline Matte Rose for a sort of art deco feel.

Thanks for reading!
April

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OPI Ink with Chemistry 205

Ahhhhhh. Who doesn't love a bit of gorgeous purple shimmer?  Today's combo is the very pretty OPI Ink, which looks a murky dark blurple in the bottle, but on the nail it has a stunning purple shimmer.  Looking at swatches online it seems to be a lot more blue in most photos, but it's definitely more purple in real life.  

This polish was released as part of the OPI Night Brights collection in 2007, the very same collection that had the original My Private Jet in it.  I don't know if this is in fact hard to find these days, but thanks to the lovely Alanna from Pretty Purple Polish that picked this up in Sydney for me.

Hummmmmm. Bar (or string) glitter.  You either love it or hate it.  Me? I love it, except when I get one placed vertically down the nail and it hangs over the free edge.  I always make sure there are no bars too close to the free edge, or else I just know I'm going to pick and fiddle at that bit until I get it off.  I also hate bar glitter that curls up.  That is just wrong.  Luckily I only have one polish that has some curly bar glitters in it, and I'm willing to forgive that shortcoming cause it's such a dang awesome polish (I'm talking about you She Lived in a Swamp!)

Anyway, this is Chemistry 205, which has a lightly tinted purple base, fine silver glitter that spreads out perfectly, and silver holographic bar glitter, which doesn't curl and lays perfectly smooth on the nail. Thanks go to Kristy from The Polish Haven for sending this awesome polish my way!

Two coats of OPI Ink, one coat of Chemistry 205, one coat of Seche Vite top coat.

I'm totally in love with this combo.  How about you? Yay or Nay on the bar glitter?

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Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Jewel Overcoat

Happy Monday everyone!! Today I have the new Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Jewel Overcoats to share with you. Well I only bought two of the four. I was able to track these down at Rite Aid and Duane Reade when they came out. I know I'm very late on posting these :( I don't really remember the price I paid for these but it was somewhere between $5-$6.

White Veil is a white glitter with gold hex glitter in a clear base. Here I did 2 coats over OPI Do You 'Ear About Van Gogh? I find this one to be the most unique of the jewel overcoats. I wish the white glitters showed up as pure white instead of a light gray on this polish.

Multi-Faceted is a chunky black, silver, and holographic hex glitters. It was really hard deciding what color to do this over with, and I finally settled down with a baby blue as a base. Here was 2 coats. It was a little hard to have the glitters all spread out over the nails, that is why you see empty parts without glitter.

It's very rare to see black glitters, that's why I was really excited to get this one. It's the bigger version of my long wanted Nicole by OPI Pitch-Black Glimmer. Do I dare buy it from evilBay? I can't dish out $30 for it.

Anyways, I'm satisfied with both of these glitters, they didn't disappoint me!

What do you guys think of this?

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China Glaze Some Like it Haute and Marry a Millionaire

Oh no, it's Sunday.. that means the weekend is almost over :( Anyways I have a really late posts today. I have two polishes from the China Glaze Eye Candy collection. It was the only two I bought from the collection because after seeing swatches for them, the others didn't really capture my attention.

Some Like it Haute is a graphite gray glitter based with holographic glitters. 3 coats. This one is quite interesting, I love the gray glitter and then the holographic glitters just adds the right amount of spark to it.

Marry a Millionaire is a purple glitter with holographic bar glitters. 4 coats. I love the holographic bar glitters on this one, I just wished it was more opaque instead of having such a clear base.

I was a little disappointed with these because I was hoping they were opaqued with like 2 coats, but they needed more. Sometimes I get a little lazy. The formula were a little thick for these, but that's normal for heavy glitters. But it wasn't something too hard to work with. I did like both of them though especially Some Like it Haute. What were your opinions on these?

That is all I have for today, enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

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China Glaze Hunger Games Capitol Colours Collection

Happy Friday!! I have a very picture heavy post today. Today I have the China Glaze Hunger Games Capitol Colours collection to share. I still have yet to watch the movie, but I did read the first book and fell in love with it. I'm actually looking forward to the movie whenever I have time for it. Anyways, I was quite excited when I heard China Glaze is making a collection for the Hunger Games.

Foie Gras is a mushroom brown creme. 2 coats.

Dress Me Up is a mocha light brown creme. 2 coats

Stone Cold is a charcoal black matte with silver shimmer. 2 coats

Fast Track is a light taupe creme base with gold shimmers. 2 coats. Absolutely love this one.

Hook and Line is a frosty light gray. 2 coats. Oh my, how unique and interesting is THIS one?!

Harvest Moon is a metallic copper shimmer. 2 coats. Another gorgeous color.

Mahogany Magic is a medium brown creme and it kind of reminds me those Werther's caramel hard candy. Yum..

Argo is an olive green shimmer. 2 coats. 

Riveting is a fiery orange red with gold shimmers. 2 coats. It has a slight jelly finish. This one is beautiful!

Smoke and Ashes is a black base with blue and green shimmers. 2 coats. I love the green and blue shimmers in it.

Electrify is a mixture of gold and red glitters. 3 coats. Such an interesting glitter combination. This would be perfect for Chinese New Year lol

Electrify over Mahogany Magic

There's also a top coat called Luxe and Lush which is a chunky flake glitter in a clear base. I did it over a few polishes, which you can see below.

Luxe and Lush over Foie Gras

Luxe and Lush over Dress Me Up

Luxe and Lush over Stone Cold, you can see how shimmery Stone Cold is!

Luxe and Lush over Hook and Line

The formula for these were very good. They all applied very nicely and smoothly. I had so much fun wearing these. I can't really pick a favorite because there are so many gorgeous colors and so unique. I'm getting a headache just trying to think of one I like most of the rest. I guess they are all my favorites then haha

I ordered these from Victoria's Nail Supply and it was totally worth the money. What do you ladies think of this collection?

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China Glaze Prismatic - Liquid Crystal - pimped

I bought the set of China Glaze Prismatic polishes quite a while back and I finally got around to trying one out.  I'd read on other blogs that these are so much better in real life than they are in photos, and I do agree.  

Most of these have a subtle colour shift, but some of them do not.  The one I chose to wear does have a good colour shift.  This is Liquid Crystal and it shifts from blue to purple.  In fact the colour shift is the exact same one that Ozotic 506 has.  Soooo, what I decided to do was pimp up that colour shift a little bit.

Here is two layers of Liquid Crystal topped with one layer of Ozotic 506 and then top coat.  I love that adding Ozotic 506 on top emphasized the colour shift in this polish, but it's still so sheer that you can see all the pretty glitter particles beneath.  I'm totally going to try this soon with some of the other CG prismatic colours (maybe the silver one that doesn't shift much I could try the green Ozotic 503 over?  hmmmmmm).

Very soon after taking this polish off, I chipped the corner off my nail on my ring finger, and subsequently nubbinised. Note to self - never buff nails again to remove yellow stains.  Sure it works, but my nails are so flimsy at the tips right now its breakage city.  Next time, stick with the yellow and just cover it up.

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Nicole by OPI Three Walmart Exclusives

Today I have three Walmart Exclusives from Nicole by OPI to share with you guys. Nicole by OPI has came out with a lot of new colors for Spring, I wonder if that will be the same for Summer!


The Gold Shoulder is a shimmery silver/gold. Not quite silver and not quite gold. 2 coats

Best Pink Ever is a fuchsia shimmer. 2 coats. I should've done 3 coats, since there my nails are still visible.

 Fabulous is My Middle Name is a pink, gold, blue, silver mixture of bar glitter and microglitter. This was 4 coats. Still not full coverage. This is probably best as a top coat.

Surely these colors are not interesting at all. But I do like the bar glitters. I'm starting to see a lot more of those in recent collections, and I'm very happy about that. I really like bar glitters! The formula for these were pretty good, applied with no issues.

Well that's all I have for today, what do you guys think of this collection?

(These were sent to me for review)

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