Ciate Trio swatches

Been away awhile again. I wanted to show you all what I've been up to. First up, I got a trio of Ciate polishes from Sephora in JC Penney the other day while I was scavenging for $7 Illamasquas. They caught my eye because they looked like versions of MAC Bad Fairy. One a brighter pink with glitter, one duller duochrome, and one a gold green shimmer with pink glitter. After swatching them, I'm not really thrilled, and they might have to go back. $25 for three mini polishes is pretty bonkers. But I've swatched two of them here for you. The third, Heirloom, was basically like Orly Space Cadet without the teal base, just purpley pink brown.

Ciate Love Letters, two coats over two coats of a Chelsea grey. Pretty duochrome, but basically like Sally Hansen Lava with extra hexes in fuschia and light copper.

And Ciate Antique Broach, one thin coat over Sinful Sugar Rush.

Over all, decent formula, pretty colors, but not worth $25. The only unique aspect of these is the addition of multiple sizes of hex glitters to brighten up the polish. I don't mind the glitters, I was afraid they would get too covered in the shimmer and get that frosty look. But  also didn't think there was enough contrast between the shimmer and glitter. Meh.

Holo funky franken french + OPI DS Glamour

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I'm having my first three day weekend off of work in foreveerrrrr. So I wanted to do something fun and holo-y. Awhile ago I made a franken using half a bottle of OPI DS Original and some American Apparel Hassid to make a black holographic polish I dubbed Rainbow Road. So for this manicure I did alternating nails of Zoya Pinta and Sinful Black on Black, and then layered DS Glamour over Pinta and my franken Rainbow Road over the black. This morning I added funky french tips in the alternating colors (just the holos, no base underneath) so it's very subtle.

Mmmmmm... Rainbows.... Now I need to clean my house :/

An ETF and Nfu-oh 51, and some Chanel Top Coat Velvet (Matte top coat)

So sometimes I feel bad that I post a lot of hard to finds and holos. So here is a swatch for an easy to find drugstore nail polish, Sinful Daddy's Girl! A beautiful purple jelly with pinkish purple glass flecks. This is four coats in this swatch with one coat of Seche Vite.

And of course, I had to layer, so I added one coat of the beauuutiful Nfu-oh 51, a purple jelly with magic color shifting flakes and pigment. Has a similar to Clarins 230 but extra goodness.

 Then matte-ified with the China Glaze matte-iffying topcoat.

Ahhhhh! I love how duochromey and dreamy it looks! Love so much!

And the next day I put on 3 coats of a Forever 21 polish I've nicknamed Ned, 2 coats of Seche Vite:

Aaaand, here it is with the Chanel Top Coat Velvet Matte topcoat:

This mani just made my day. It was so girly and so happy. Looked like candy after I mattified it. Also kinda reminds me of Icing Tiger's Blood. Mmmm. Love the iridescent glitter. Only thing I didn't like was the consistency. It was pretty thick so I needed to thin it.

Connect the Dots! Another Lynnderella

This is Lynderella Connect the Dots over two coats of Sinful Colors Beverly Hills. I LOVE the lavender shade of BH, but it bubbled like crazy! It was a thick mess. Definitely needed some thinner. And Connect the Dots is way more lovely than I had anticipated. I love the little sparkles that are thrown in with the glitter. The arrangement of the glitter remind me of Donald Duck in Math-magic Land. Anybody remember that old cartoon? It always made my head hurt.


And a shot with me trying to get a good angle of the tattoo on my ankle (was showing off on the new nail polish forum.)