Glitterbomb

I was working in the lab, late one night...nah, just kidding. Getting into the spirit of the season early. I was up super late one night, browsing through my dashboard and I came across this awesomesauce post by Marisa. I thought, I don't have all of those but I have similar stuff, surely I can pull this off! Seven layers later, I had something different, but I still love it.
Okay, I used Taunting Teal by Sonia Kashuk as my base. I know I've got a deep navy somewhere but I couldn't think of one, so I picked this off of my desk and thought it might be similar enough to achieve the results.
My layering went like this: Sinful Colors Green Ocean, Island Girl Mahalo Dream, Nubar 2010, NYX Girls Aqua Glitter, Pure Ice Busted, and Sinful Colors All About You. Whew. The flakie/glitter iridescence going on here is amazing - it flashes so many colors and it just glows. Mermaid scales! You'd think seven layers would dry slowly, right? Nah, it went pretty quickly since I used thin layers. I was pretty shocked myself. I think the next time I try this I'll be more careful in my placement, and maybe go for more of a gradient effect.
On to the photos. I think this looks a lot better in person, in my opinion, but hopefully you'll get the idea!

Really, it doesn't feel as thick as it looks here, especially my pinkie finger. Also, this is surprisingly smooth - the mylar opalescent flakies in Mahalo Dream can be sticky, but smooth out well with one layer of top coat.
I wish I could capture how much more magical this looks. If you decide to try this, please let me know, I'd like to see!

NYX Girls Robotic

I'd been wanting to replace my China Glaze Blk-Bila-Bong for a while now, because I really liked it. So imagine my surprise when I got around to swatching this NYX Girls Robotic, and it looks like a dead on dupe! What a bonus. I don't have the two to compare, but I'm going to reference you to Helen's swatch of the China Glaze, so you can know what that looks like as well.
Robotic is a black jelly base loaded with teal metallic shimmer. It's an awesome vampy polish! I had to use three coats to get it to this level of opacity, but I didn't mind that - I actually anticipated it, a lot of times these types of dark jellies with shimmer require more than two coats.

Ahhh it just glows! This will probably not appeal to those of you who don't like dark polishes, but I LOVE polishes like this and I just crave them. They were my first loves, before I branched out into bright colors.

Pink Wednesday: Revlon Pink Lingerie and NYX Dreamy Glitter

So, I'm posting this a little late, but as the ever lovely Diana pointed out - "Sailors and rare seabirds will still be celebrating Pink Wednesday." Isn't she awesome?

Anyway, I'm back online, and I have a cute mani to show off - and I'm not one for cute, but I LOVED this so freaking much. Pink Lingerie is a well applied creme from the Top Speed line. Okay, let's veer slightly off topic for the moment. In doing my "Focus On" series, I had a couple of Revlons featured and we discussed a bit the hit or miss formula that Revlon can have. I've noticed the Top Speed polishes seem to have a MUCH better application than the regular line - anyone else had this experience?

Anyway, Pink Lingerie. This was almost a jelly, it was pretty squishy - but it had such great coverage, I'd call it more of a creme or a jelly creme. I then topped it with one of the NYX glitters I picked up called Dreamy Glitter - this has THREE different types of glitter in a slightly pink tinted jelly base. There's fine square glitter, hexagonal glitter, and stars. *swoon* The slightly pink base made the stars almost meld with Pink Lingerie, like they were sunk into the base polish in some lights. Really neat.

The last photo for a good bottle shot of the glitters. So much fun!

New York Summer Amaranth and NYX Girls Enchanted Forest: Jelly Sammich!

Okay, so "back in the day", Mary of Body and Soul Beauty sent me this AWESOME vampy jelly, China Glaze Dripping Wet. When I got it, she had a little note in it that mentioned it looked fantastic over a glitter - so, the first incarnation of the jelly sandwich! I had started seeing another version a month or so ago on Tumblr (which is a total addiction!!) in which you did a layer of jelly, a layer of glitter, and then another layer of jelly. SO much fun! I've been playing with these for a while but this is the first one I managed to photograph without messing it up first.
So this is a single coat of New York Summer Amaranth ( AKA - the most amazing green jelly, ever! ) and then two coats of NYX Girls Enchanted Forest, and then one more coat of Amaranth. Plus, CND Air Dry.
Yum, squishy glittery goodness!

GAH (I'm using a lot of caps in this post) I love this so freaking much I can't wait to do it again. This was awesome!