Sephora By OPI - Just a Little Dangerous

Nostalgia time!

So when I started getting into nail polish this was the first polish I ever bought after looking it up first. Since then 95% of my nail polish I buy is only bought after I have seen a swatch. 

Just a Little Dangerous is a pretty aubergine polish that flashes pink and light purple shimmer.  And despite how dark it is most of the time you can tell it is Purple.  I used 3 coats for this.  I probably could have used 2.  But this is one of the few bottles of polish I own that's pretty much half finished.  Because it's been uses so much it went on a tad goopy with the first coat.  But a bit of thinner fixed it.  While I love this colour, my only negative is the polish seems a tad dull under indoor lighting.  I don't know why.  Oh well it's still a beautiful colour!  Tomorrow I'll post how I made it into a badass mani for my friends birthday today :)

 Indoor flash 1

 Indoor flash 2

 Indoor no flash

Natural light

L'Oreal After Hours - I Dont Hate Flakies

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy and my wisdom teeth have been a bitch over the past week.  But I have returned.  Nail polish in one hand, rapier in the other.

Fist I have a swatch to show you.  This is L'Oreal After Hours.  I found it on sale when I was in Montreal.  It's a blackened navy blue jelly.  And when I say blackened I mean it.  It's almost black.  I used 2 coats for most of my fingers.  But some needed a third(as you'll be able to see).

After I put on after hours I decided it needed a bit more unf.  So I added a coat of Inglot 204 on top of it.  And that did the trick!

Well I hope you guys had a great week.  I should be around more :)

 You can see a small bald spot on my ring finger.

London 2012!

So as you know the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics are tonight.  I will not be watching it because I have a rehearsal to go to.  At least it's not the all important closing ceremony featuring TAKE THAT!

Even though I'm not a huge sports fan I decided I wanted to do Olympic nails.  Originally I did the Union Jack in gold, silver and bronze.  But the shades that I had in each were BLAH together.  So I ended up with this.  On my left hand medals using microbeads. And London 2012 written on two of my fingers.  On the other hand I just painted my hands the colours of the the Olympic rings and added glitter.

And you know what?  Since I don't care all that much for sports I wish everyone participating the best of luck.  I hope you all win :) Even though most people there will in fact lose... #REALITY.

I used Essie - Moon Struck, China Glaze - White Ice, Sephora By OPI - Just a Little Dangerous, Sally Hansen - Pacific Blue, Orly - Hook Up, Essie - Pretty Edgy, Essie - Fishnet Stockings, OPI - Black Onyx, China Glaze - Medallion, acrylic paint and a roller ball pen for the text.

Half and Half

So today was one of those days.  You know those days when you just took of your previous mani, and you want to put something on your nails that's different but is no way over the top.  But what do do exactly? That's when I remembered the Fifty-Fifty mani over at Nailside.  Huzzah! Simple as blueberry pie (Which is super simple to make.  I suggest you all go and make some immediately!  I just made cottage pie the other day.  Those 2 things have nothing in common.  It was just something else I wanted to share.)

For this I simply used a piece of tape. Originally I used Orly's Iron Butterfly as a base, and Orly's Sweet Peacock for the other half.  But it didn't pop as much as I like it too. So I decided to go over it carefully with Zoya's Phoebe. I liked it much better this way.

You may notice my middle finger looks slightly odd on the Zoya side.  It has nothing to do with the polish.  I just nicked it and painted over it hoping to cover it up.

Stay tuned! Hopefully next time I post I'll have some Olympic nails for you! Or I'll fail horribly and you'll get nails covered in colourful spots.

My original mani.

Sinful Colors Espresso + Coke nails + Nail Fail

So I love Sinful Colors Espresso.  Seriously.  It's such a classy, rich colour. *drools*.

It's a gorgeous brown shimmer with red undertones. I used 3 easy coats although I could have gotten away with 2. It was a TAD on the thin side.  Not seriously, but I know for next time.  Some of the photos might make it look a bit brush strokey but in person they aren't noticeable.

Next I decided to keep on the Espresso and use them for Coke nails.  As you all probably know I love Coke.  But over the years it's become more costly. I sometimes buy it off the street.   Well it depends on the street.  You can't get Coke off every street corner.   Some don't have vending machines... See what I did there? Yup.  Anyways truth be told I rarely drink pop. It's kinda horrific for your insides.

Anyways for this I used the Espresso, then a coat of some OLD Wet n Wild gold glitter with no name. Followed by sponging on a mixture of Claire's Snowball and OPI's Over The Taupe. Then on top of then I put those clear microbeads to look like bubbles rising to the surface.  Then I shook a bottle of my Sally Hansen Quick dry top coat and put it on top so it would make extra real tiny bubbles.  Followed up with Seche Vite that was a bit thick.  I shook that bottle too. Finally another coat of the SH topcoat.  It looks pretty cool for an experiment if I do say so myself!

Finally I did watermelons on my right hand.  You would think they would be easy.  But I somehow managed to ruin them. They stink.  But I will still show them to you.

 With Flash

 Coke nails

Don't even look at this for more than a second.

OPI's My Pointe Exactly + Illamasqua's Raindrops = Perfectness

My Pointe Exactly is the only shade I got from this years soft shades collection from OPI.  I don't LOVE soft shades and I don't wear them a lot but I do like them.  And I like knowing I have some work safe shades.  You know in case I ever get a real job. I was lucky enough to a) Buy Illamasqua Raindrops on sale from Illamsaqua's website for £5. b) Buy it before it was discontinued.

My Pointe Exactly is a sheer gray Jelly. I used 3 coats for the swatch.  Although if I wanted to layer these 2 again.  I would probably only use 2.  The formula was fine.  No problems at all.  I then layered 2 thin goats of Illamasqua's Raindrops on top. Raindrops is a blue/gray, jelly polish full of iridescent flakies.

I think My Pointe Exactly works as perfect underwear for Raindrops. And what girl doesn't like really nice underwear?

Side by side. My Pointe Exactly looks less blue in person.

 It's still a bit sheer with 3 coats as you can see.  But nothing major.

 With Raindrops!

Milani - Gold Glitz : Seeing is Believeing

1) I got a huge piece of a shrimps tail accidentally lodged in my throat.  I had to fish it out with my finger.  It was HUGE guys.  I honestly wanted to take a picture and post it (It wasn't gross looking at all, just the hard shell) But I'll save that for another time.

2)More seeing is believing stuff.  I for the first time EVER wore just a glitter.  A pure glitter.  Now I'll do a full mani every once in a while and top it off with some glitter but I never do just glitter... Until today (well 3 days ago).

I wore Milani's Gold Glitz.  It's a gold glitter peppered with orange/coppery glitter. And let me just say it's pretty effin amazing.  For something that is pure glitter it's actually not over the top.  It's really blingy without being overly obnoxious.  This is of course one of Milani's one coat glitters.  I did 2 coats because most fingers needed it.  Although some would have looked fine with the one. The formula was a tad goopy but nothing thinner can't fix.

Does this mean I'll be wearing more full glitter manis?  Absolutely not.

 BLING!

Blurry but you can really see all the orange.