Go Red!

Here's my Clifford the Big Red Holo franken mani for Go Red for heart disease awareness day. Macy's is doing an event tomorrow where you can come in and get a quick health screening for free, and you get %20 off for wearing red to Macy's. This is two coats of CtBRH w/ a black crackle heart accent. Don't take your heart for granted!

I also crackled yesterday's mani too for good measure:

Butter London Victoriana and Flakie Goodness

I've had Butter London's Victoriana sitting in my stash for months now as an untried. It's a little too green for my taste, the shimmer reminds me of a formica counter top. It is very pretty. But not really me. Here is two coats plus a coat of Seche Vite.

Wasn't thrilled so I added some flakies: FingerPaints Motley and Asylum.

And then because I saw Chloe's awesome blog post here, I stopped at Five Below and picked up Funky Fingers Teal Scales, a super cheap crackle polish! Mmmm.:

Essie Cocktail Bling + OPI Turquoise Shatter

For the life of me, I just can't keep a creme plain. Just can't do it. Cocktail Bling is a lovely blue tinted grey. The formula on this one is so far my favorite of my Essies. Almost opaque in one coat, but I did two to even out. Not runny, only had to do minimal cleanup, yay! So here it is on its own:

 

Then I added a coat of Nicole by OPI Make a Comet-ment, a sheer holo topcoat, blurred to show sparkle. Mmmmm:

Then, I shattered it with OPI Turquoise Shatter! Haven't done a shatter in forever. Usually I'll crackle a mani right before I take it off.

...more sparkles to match my Shiny Thing

So here we have fourteen layers of goodness:
Base, sticky base, AA Hassid, 2 coats Turquoise Opal, one coat Seche Vite, one coat Funky Fingers Bella's Boy, one coat Kleancolor Chunky Holo Bluebell. One coat Seche Vite. Later: one coat OPI Turquoise Shatter, one coat Kleancolor Chunky Holo Bluebell, one coat Seche Vite. Little later, one coat Sally Girl gold hex. One last coat Seche Vite. Oo Boy. here ya go:  My shiny thing!!! 

 My nails are so thick but sooo sparkly!

Chanel Graphite... made ... better?

So, I never had much interest in Chanel Graphite. Grays don't seem to do well on me, they give me lobster hands. But it was reeeally slow at work tonight, and my franken from earlier today had chipped (daggone peelies). So I grabbed the Graphite tester and did a quick at-work mani. Got home, cleaned it up. Still not excited about it.
Here's a pic:

Meh, meh. So I added some Crushed Candy China Glaze crackle. Better. But still not enough. So I added some bling with Kleancolor Aurora. STILL not enough. So I remembered my promise to myself, which was to make the most of these hundreds of Halloween nail stickers, so then I added a little Halloween accent nail.
Pics:


Kinda disjointed since the colors are all light and happy and then I have a little ghosty... but I like it!

Layering combos that I love...

OPI Parlez-vous OPI? with CND Copper Shimmer on top. This layering was born when I really wanted to dupe Estee Lauder's Surreal Violet.


Here's American Apparel Hassid with two glitter polishes layered on top. The orange is the scented Orange Fizz Revlon. Then I put the LA Colors mini in a teal shimmer on top. It reminds me of stained glass :).


This is just the Revlon over black by itself.


Here's China Glaze Crushed Candy over a dark Color Club brown, then with Wet n Wild Prancer on top.