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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China Glaze Metro Collection: Urban Night & CG in the City

Hello beautiful people. Guess where I am?? The LIBRARY. What? Why? How? Huh? Oh my goodness, the internet at my house totally cut out for some bizarre reason so like the dedicated blogger that I am, I drove all the way to the library to make a post for you guys! I actually have another purpose at the library as well, don't worry =P.  Today's mani features two beautiful colors from the newly released China Glaze Fall 2011 Metro Collection (that was a mouth-full). On my main nails is Urban Night and I have CG in the City layered on top of my accent nail.

Sun

Shade

Indoors

 Left: indoors, Middle: shade, Right: sunlight

More pics in direct sunlight

These were also in the sun but taken with flash

So the formula on both of these was really nice and smooth. Application went off without a hitch. Urban Night is a deep dark purple creme/jelly mix and was opaque in two coats. It looks almost like a plum color under flash.  CG in the City is an almost metallic looking glitter mix of maroon/plum, silver, and I think even specks of gold and black in there somewhere. Honestly, it's kinda hard to tell but the overall look is definitely a plum colored glitter mix. I only applied one coat on my accent nail. This collection should be out in stores now so keep an eye out for them! There are twelve colors total in the collection and I bought three other ones that I will feature some time in the near future. Hope you all are having a great beginning of the week! =)

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LA Colors Black Matte French

Hi guys, no time to write much today. It's been a busy busy busy weekend for me! Pictures below.

You can find these polishes at the dollar tree for... $1 (duh!). I got mine for less than that 'cause it came in a pack! Yay for cheap polish!

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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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