Long time no see... Spam

Hello there all you lovelies! October was one hell of a crazy month for me. I just couldn't get myself to sit down and edit some nail pics. But there are a few layering combos and Halloween manis that I really enjoyed, and would love to share with you all!

First up is Butter London Wallis. I wore a bunch of these olive-y greens in October, and got compliments every time! I was pretty surprised because I wouldn't have thought that this murky green would be appreciated by anyone other than nail nerds like us. Of course Wallis is gorgeous, just look at that warm green/gold shimmery goodness.

Now this mani was inspired by someone's combo on MUA who used Wet n Wild Creepy Pumpkin over black. I wanted to kick it up a notch, so I did one coat of Creepy Pumpkin over two coats of an Essence navy jelly. The sparkle was gorgeous and had a gold to green shift! And I stamped a pumpkin on top from the second Bundle Monster set for fun.

And next up, Nubar Raspberry Truffle with Orly Godiva glitter on top. I loved this mani soooo much. Depending on the lighting, it could look more brown or purple in the base, but I loved the contrast with the pinky/gold shimmer and the bronze-y brown glitter in Godiva. It was twinkly and subtle but awesome. I hadn't worn this Nubar for like, two years, and I'm super glad I pulled it out, it's lovely!

And this was my day after election celebration mani. This is a franken that I made using a pink shimmer Sinful, and then loose matte yellow and orange squares, raspberry small shimmer, and orange hexes. Mmmm. Juicy. Then I added OPI Take the Stage tips because I had horrible shrinkage from Poshe topcoat.  Very cheerful mani. Me likey.

And my mani for election day, featuring China Glaze Ride the Waves, Revlon Slipper gitter, and the starry Kleancolor. This was a thick non drying mess, but I loved the final result. Sparkly! And I like the contrast between the red glitter in Slipper and the blue base.

Speaking of election day, the voting process is completely messed up. It took me and my friend three + hours of waiting in line at the first polling place, being told we didn't exist in the system and had therefor never  registered... Well guess what, I have voted in every presidential election since I was legal, and they're telling me I didn't exist. So they told us to go to a different school that matched a previous address of mine. Got there, still not found, still not allowed to vote, provisional or otherwise. Had one of the election helpers call their voting masters and they told me to go back to the original school. OH THE RAGE. It is ridiculously hard to carry out your civic duty when the voting gods are against you. But the original school did let me vote provisionally, but it was so frustrating. Anyways, here's my mani!

Are You Red-y?

Hehe. Punny. Today I have some reds for you! I've been wearing a lot of rainbow glitter and craziness lately, so last night I did a little palette cleanser with a cheapy.  Wet n Wild Red Red is one of those staple colors that I believe everyone should own. Which is funny because I've only owned it for a few days, but this red is great! The formula was smooth and pigmented. I only needed two coats! This isn't the brightest red I own, but it's a nice clean looking red.

And Red Red even got a compliment from The Boy, who has little to no interest in my nail hobby, but is making an effort!

I added two coats of an unnamed polish from one of those $9.99 tubes of nail polishes they had at drug stores around Christmas. This is Shades of the Season untitled red. Gorgeous red shimmer with little gold glitters for flavor. 

Sorry for the imperfect cleanup... it's on my list of to-dos to improve my cleanup method :). 

Yummy!

And here's another red that I like, OPI's Love is a Racket. This originally came in a duo with OPI Pros & Bronze, one of the Serena Williams Glam sets. Love is a Racket is a gorgeous coral-y red with lots of shimmer flakes that give it a really pretty depth.

Thanks for looking!

Lynnderella Bibbity Bobbity Boo Blue Layering Extravaganza!

This all began as an effort to do a basic blue on blue layering. I tried a bunch of combinations and none of them came out quite right. But here's a rundown of the polishes I ended up using: Kleancolor Metallic Sapphire, then Wet n Wild Believe Me It's Real, then Love & Beauty Blue (dupe for LA Girl blue glitter polish, then Lynnderella Bibbity Bobbity Boo Blue. Please excuse the cotton fuzz! I had some issues with this mani: pain to clean up, fuzzy mess, not enough contrast.

Then I matteified it for funsies! I used the Warpaint Beauty matte topcoat from Hot Topic.

Some more catch-up spam!

First up we have my Hunger Games mani! While I was in Vegas, I tried to layer my manis so I wouldn't have to change them as often. So one day I had on CQ Rustic Dream, which I love to death! This is a Rite Aid only polish brand, usually right next to the Chameleons and Petites. Rustic Dream is a gorgeous multichrome that goes from pink to copper to gold. Love it! We planned to see the midnight showing of Hunger Games in Vegas, so I added some flames to my existing mani with Orly Glitz and Glamour. I love that Orly because it's pretty opaque so really great for nail art, I LOVE the formula. Here's the mani that was on fire!

And a flakie extravaganza! Forever 21 has some of the coolest polishes. I found this neat Love & Beauty polish there, uniquely named "Pink".... It's the sheerest reddest pink jelly with the most amaaazing micro-flakie-shimmer. Gorgeousness! It has specks of blue, pink, gold, orange, it's amazing! I wanted to layer it so I put it over Color Club Electronica, a blue tinged purple with subtle pink sparkle. And for extra crazy, I added two coats of Finger Paints Asylum, muahahahahaha!

Here's a shot where you can see all the different flakes!

And more swatches of yesterday's Wet n Wild Speak When Spoken To over black:

And yes that is a Rainbow Dash keychain. :)

Back from Vegas with Spam!!

Alright my friends, I have returned! I had the best time EVER. I had time to paint my nails a few times, but didn't have a lot of time to take pictures. So while I was in Vegas, I got to go to the ABC store (not a booze store), which was full of Hawaiian things and Island Girl nail polish! I'll have swatches of those for you soon enough.

For now, I have the Wet n Bejeweled collection to talk to you about! They are $2.99 and have started popping up at CVS. As far as I can tell, they are near dupes to the China Glaze Prismatic collection that will be coming out next month. These are hard to describe, but they are ridiculously sparkly, with duochrome particles being the base of the polish, very teeny scattered almost imperceptible holo bits, and different small round glitters in a rainbow of different colors. Very fascinating and very twinkly. And the duochrome to these is pretty strong. I layered my first swatch over black to make the colors pop more.

Finger Paints Black Expressionism with Wet n Wild Speak When Spoken To. The duochrome in this goes from aqua to blue to purple to pinkish on the edges.

I know that's a lot of pictures, but I want you all to see how faceted and gorgeous this is. Sooo sparkly. Yum!

Happy Mardi Gras! (and day off for me!)

After a ridiculously stressful couple of weeks, I finally have a couple days off! I wanted to do something fun, so I kind of just grabbed a couple polishes at random. The first I applied was Claire's Cotton Candy scented nail polish. In the bottle it looks like a neon turquoise with a blue flash, with holographic glitter. Unfortunately, the pigmented base of the polish compleeetely covers the holo glitter. So what did I do? I ADDED a holo glitter gradient using, Nicole by  OPI Make a Comet ment. And then for Mardi Gras bling I added Wet n Wild Correction Tape from last year's On the Prowl collection. And a thick coat of Seche Vite.

I really like this, the turquoise doesn't go too green on me (which I hate) and the blue flash really brightens it up. Kinda love it!

Glitterrrr on mah naaaiiiils makes me happyyyyy.