I Love Goooooold!

Hi hi! This is two coats of Julep Sienna topped with two coats of Nyx Girls Gilded Glitter. I love Gilded Glitter. The glitter pieces are all irregularly shaped. It's awesome. Since I'm just wading back into the blogging world, my pictures are going to be unstaged cellphone pics for now. Hence back seat of car, visible foot. 

Anyway, Julep is one of the best polish brands I've tried. It is expensive, but the Maven program is affordable and fun. I had to cancel when I moved, because the rent is too damn high! But that's another great thing about Maven. It was so easy to cancel. 

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Flakie Madness!

Holy crap, it's me! :-O I know, I've been away for so long. I feel like kind of a jerk. Anyways, here's one coat of Milani One Coat Glitter in Silver Dazzle topped with one coat of Finger Paints Special Effects in Twisted. Oooooh, pretty! Click to enlarge if you want!


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Fall Glitter Tips

This is two coats of Julep Stella topped with China Glaze CG in the City. I attempted a gradient effect with the glitter polish. I really liked this glitter. Removal was not as bad as it could have been (still glitter polish removal, though!). Looks like sparkly sand. I don't love this yellow color with this manicure. I do like it, but I feel that the glitter tips would have looked fabulous with a darker base polish. Maybe a dark, smoky purple shade. Or even black. To get a better look at the colors in the glitter, click to enlarge!


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Orly Fowl Play

This is two coats of Orly Fowl Play. If you buy just one Fall collection polish this year, make it this one. LOOK AT IT. I gouged my index finger shortly after painting, so sorry about that. If I hadn't, I would have left this polish on for the rest of my life, maybe. Look at the pictures, then go buy it. 

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Orly Rock Solid

This is two coats of Orly Rock Solid from the Mineral FX collection. The finish is so awesome! I love it. You can see a couple bald-ish spots on a some of my nails, but that's what happens when I paint them at night. As I've said several times. :) 


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Wet n Wild Night Prowl

This is two coats of Wet N Wild Night Prowl. I loved it, especially for 99 cents. It's not even close to a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Bad Romance, but it might be close enough for girls with a budget that does not allow for polishes that cost nearly $20/bottle! Sorry for the lack of posts for the last few days; I was on vacation! 

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Wink, Wink, Twinkle

This is Color Club's Wink, Wink, Twinkle from the Starry Temptress collection (two coats) topped with one coat of the Starry Temptress glitter topcoat. Removal was nightmarish, but it was so pretty that I didn't care as much as I usually do!

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The Most Beautiful Fail

Holy crap, dude. Amazing, right?...Wrong. It looks so pretty in pictures, but let me take you through this journey in fail. Base: 2 coats of ManGlaze Fuggen Ugly. I then attempted to do my now-signature tiger stripes with a glittery striper (you might have seen some of the matte manicures with topcoat tips and whatnot). The striper is Nail Art by Diamond Cosmetics in Opal Glitter, by the way. Anyways, the striper polish is incredibly thick, so the stripes were just blobs. So, I decided to use the striper stuff all over my nail, since it was pretty. Fast forward to the thick and globby end result. I was unsettled. Nail polish has never before provoked from me that reaction. So I topped the mess with Seche Vite and slapped on some Avon Black As Night matte polish, took some photos and immediately removed the whole mess. 

Here are some more pictures of the pretty nightmare:

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Pink Jelly, Sparkly Tips

This is 3 coats of OPI Too Hot Pink to Hold'Em with OPI I Lily Love You on the tips. Those names are a whole lot of awful, aren't they? I love both of these polishes. It is inspired by a look I did for a (super-awesome bestie) friend with a base of China Glaze Purple Panic, and then I Lily Love You, and topped with THPtH'E.

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Yeah, I messed it up, so what?! :) 

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Fourth of July

I didn't love this manicure (maybe because I gouged my index nail on something), but I guess I don't hate it. The red is one coat of China Glaze Hey Sailor, the blue is one coat of China Glaze First Mate, the crackle is China Glaze Crackle Glaze in Lightning Bolt and the glitter is Kleancolor Silver Star. It was easy and quick. Maybe next 4th, I'll give myself enough time to do something spectacular! 

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Gold Digger

This is two coats of Milani 3D topped with one coat of Cover Girl FrostSlicks in Gold Front (a discontinued Dollar Tree find) and one coat of Sally Girl gold glitter (I didn't see a name on the bottle). I got more compliments on this manicure than any other one that I've done. It was very flashy. 

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Teal and Glitter

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover (three coats) topped with LA Colors Color Craze Treasure Island glitter polish. The LA Colors polish is only 99 cents! This manicure looks much better in real life. The China Glaze is quite a bit greener. 

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That's So Wizard

This manicure made me think of wizards. The base is three coats China Glaze Flying Dragon (Neon). On my pinkie, I added two coats of Kleancolor Holo Chrome. My ring finger and thumb feature OPI Silver Shatter. On my middle finger, I used Kleancolor Silver Star, which looks awesome, but takes a bit of work to get the stars how you want them. 

Flying Dragon with no topcoat (looks shiny here, but actually dries to a matte/satin finish): 

Flying Dragon with topcoat (close up and in the sun to show off the blue and pink (or purple?) glitter: 

Finished manicure in the sun: 

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Pink and Sparkly!

This is China Glaze It's Poppin' topped with Nubar Nail Jewels, which is a loose glitter. I can't find the color on Nubar's website, but it is a silver holographic glitter. I attempted to do an ombre or dip-dyed effect. I applied two coats of It's Poppin', and then I applied Orly Top 2 Bottom. I used a fan brush to tap the glitter onto my nails, and followed that up with a thick coat of Seche Vite. Please excuse the chipped area on my ring finger! The pink didn't chip, but the glitter did.

At night, indoors with flash: 

Close-up:

Slightly blurred to show off the holo effect: 

SUPER-blurred! This was a mistake, but I'm posting it because you can see Zoya Areej on my toes: 

This was a fun manicure, and pretty easy to do. Thanks for looking!