Bursts of Bokeh Blue

I love alliteration hahah =P. Hey guys! How are you all today? Doing well, I hope! My one year blog anniversary just passed (June 10th to be exact) and I am so excited to have officially made it to this point. My first post ever was so funny now that I've had a chance to look back on it... such a newb I was =P. Time passes by so quickly, huh?? I hope you all have gotten a chance to enter my 300 Follower Giveaway before the deadline on June 19th. Just about a week left until I pick a winner! But let's get on with official business, shall we? Today's mani consisted of three polishes: Revlon First Class (dark blue creme that's a Target exclusive), Winmax #10 (vibrant turquoise glitters), and L'Apogee Turquesa (subtle blue flakies) --all wonderfully sealed with a matte top coat.

 

So many sparkles!

Revlon First Class on its own under desk lamp without flash

Revlon First Class on its own with flash

L to R: Sally Hansen pacific Blue, Nails Inc Baker St, Revlon First Class

Don't you just love blues?? One of my favorite colors <3. The blurry sparkles from all the glitter and flakies remind me of a bokeh effect commonly seen in photography. It's awesome =D. As you can see from the swatch wheel, First Class is NOT a dupe of the ever-so-popular Nails Inc Baker Street -- it's definitely much darker and has more navy tones in comparison to both Baker Street and Pacific Blue by Sally Hansen. But that's not to say it still isn't super gorgeous! *le sigh* Loves it. Happy (Pink-less) Wednesday and thanks for reading girlies!

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Pink Wednesday: A Layering Combo

So ever since it came out, I've been lemming Butter London Disco Biscuit buuuuut I don't really want to shell out the moolah to get it. What's the next best thing? Layering. Oh yes, here we go.

 An extra pic in the sun!

I used 3 coats of Revlon Desire, a fuschia jelly which I got for a dollar at Big Lots and single coat of NYX Maven, an iridescent blue/pink glitter which I also got for a dollar at my local beauty supply. It's not an exact dupe but $2 >>>> $14, no? Oh, but I will still get my hands on Disco Biscuit. Yes, I will. =D

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Blue Rainbow Flakie Layering

Umm, yeah... I had no clue what to title this post. One reason being that it is ridiculously difficult to even give a name to this mani and another being that I am running on absolutely no sleep for the past 24 hours (probably more now). I'm quite delirious. One good thing to mention though is that my internet is finally alive and kicking! I had to make a bajilliion phone calls and kept getting transferred and put on hold and blablabla... FINALLY got some technical support to come to my house to get everything working again. Yay. Warning, warning: one million pictures ahead...

 The final result of layering and layering and layering... (click to expand!)

 

Not my typical pictures but I thought it'd be fun to try out

something a little different. Yes, lots of pics to get these right.

The sparkles just make my heart flutter!

The many faces of this mani. It changed so many colors, there was 

no way I could capture it all on camera. I wish I could show you 

guys in real life! But DANG, was it freaking thick before it dried...

 Okay now I NEVER take pics like this but I thought it would be 

fun to show off my bottle holding skills. What do you guys think?

Am I a pro at holding polishes yet? Hrmm, I think I could use

a few more lessons in bottle holding to be honest =P

This is a result of staying up till the wee hours of the morning and being ridiculously judgmental and unsatisfied with my mani. I just kept putting more and more polish on. I have no clue how many I even used... it must've been at least 6 or more different kinds. What I DO know is that my base color was China Glaze Calypso Blue - the one I'm holding in the pics. I'm so happy the internet is back up so I could share this post with you guys. Gosh dangit, if it weren't for my phone, I would be dying without access to the internet. Is it bad that I was semi afraid to admit that? D= ... We are so dependent on the internet nowadays huh?! But I must say, without it, I would never be able to meet some of the most fabulous nail polish lovers out there. You guys are awesome! Thank you to all who have followed my blog - I appreciate it so much. I have several awards that I need to dedicate a blog post to but I need to save that for when I actually have time to write a nice post. Until then, I'm gonna try to function for the rest of the day without crashing and burning... =P

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White Glitter Layering

Hi all. So I've been meaning to do some type of layering mani but I never had the time (or patience) to do one until recently. I couldn't really decide on what I wanted to do but since I haven't worn any white colors lately I tried to use up some of my white polishes.

Whites I used: Sally Hansen White On, China Glaze 

White on White, Zoya Lucy, LA Colors Silver Glitter

Shade

Sun

So first I put on one thick layer of Sally Hansen White On. This color had a nice opaque finish which helped with concealing any visible nail line. Next, I used one thin layer of China Glaze White on White to fill in any gaps and to also give the white a "softer" appearance along with being a little bit more "milk/jelly" looking. I applied 2 coats of the silver glitter on top of that because it was somewhat sparse. Then, I put one good coat of Zoya Lucy on top of everything. To seal it all off, I put on one thin layer of a shiny top coat. It looked preeeettty thick when I first applied everything but once it dried it had a much better looking finish.  Overall, I'm happy with the results so hopefully my future layering experiments will turn out well, too! Hope you guys are having a wonderful weekend! =)

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