Not Like the Movies + I Lily Love You

As far as flakes go, I love I Lily Love You more than even Nubar 2010 (the Hidden Treasure dupe) because it flashes more than just two colors. This is three coats OPI Not Like the Movies topped with one coat OPI I Lily Love You. My camera really likes to make my hands look like a lobster, but I wasn't this red in person. Promise!

 I was worried this would cover up the green side, but it didn't.

I loved this so much I bought a bottle for my sister. She actually asked for work appropriate colors ("oops"... hee!) so I got some of those for her as well. I want to buy a backup for myself but I think I'll wait for OPI to release this in other colors and hopefully a clear. Well, I have hope anyway. Actually, I should just hope that they don't change the formula for the worse the way they did Not Like the Movies.

OPI Grape Set Match

OPI Grape Set Match (I'm going to ignore the ellipses) from one of the England Glam Slam sets. I love this color! I took a hundred pictures but I'm not loving any of them. Bugger. But at different angles it's violet, purple, or blue. This is going into the top 20 of the year! and I'm sorta bummed more people aren't talking about it. A consequence of an oversaturated market.

Three coats plus topcoat. Under the lamp:

Sunlight:

GSM comes with a holo topcoat but I don't really like the combination. It just looks too busy. But I decided to play right before taking off the polish. Pointer and middle are one layer of Servin' Up Sparkle, ring and pinkie are one layer LA Colors Sparkling Diamonds.

And I'm almost, almost caught up on email and everything else. Almost.

Not Like the Movies, Stamped

Apparently we had an earthquake and now we're getting a hurricane chaser. Not like the movies indeed... Originally I wasn't going to buy this because really, how many bottles of purple green duochromes do I need? But then I saw it on Paillette's blog and I succumbed. Grr! Actually, I'm really glad I got this. I heard there's a dud version of this floating around and luckily this doesn't seem to be it. And the duochrome should keep me entertained for a couple days if the power goes out. Ha!

Three coats OPI Not Like the Movies stamped with OPI Ogre-the-Top Blue. A really good blue polish for stamping, if you were looking for one.

Aww, the winds and rain are starting to pick up and the mailman just pulled up. It's days like these where I feel bad for them. Well, staying dry doesn't seem to be an option, but I hope everyone on the east coast stays safe!

I've Got the Blues - Franken

Actually, I've got the mean reds today but that is neither here nor there.

So, I've got a super duper easy franken to show today. So tempted to call this multichrome, but it's not. It's just neon pigments refuse to be ignored. My application was a bit funny. Everything is three coats except the pointer finger and thumb which are two. Yeah, it took me three fingers to realize two coats was no different than three.

All natural light (shade):

This ridiculously composed picture in sunlight is the only one that came out color accurate so I'm going to pretend this one was intentional. Every time I think my camera skills are improving the universe shows me how wrong I am. Pfft.

"Recipe"/Polish ratio: roughly 4 parts Sinful Love Nails to one part pink neon (I'm using China Glaze Pool Party).

Thoughts: I read in MUA's review section that Love Nails is a duochrome. What?? I've had this languishing in my stash for a while now and I never noticed. And hey, it is! It's a metallic electric blue in one direction and metallic teal in the other. The color shift is very strong but since it's blue to blue-green, I never noticed. So, I added pink because pink + blue = some kind of purple.  Neons always dry fast and have a tendency to chip fast and this did dry fast but I got about three days before there was tip wear. Yay!

That's all the rambling I'll do for now. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this one heh.

Better Together + Not So Blueberry

Okay, I started off with three coats of Essie Better Together, no topcoat. I generally avoid pinks but I love milky polishes.

I stamped with Revlon Not So Blueberry and mash plate m78. The lovely Kris from http://mylucidbubble.blogspot.com/ gave this to me but it doesn't want to photograph correctly so I haven't done a proper post on it yet. x.o

 

For whatever reason, my camera caught the  purple and mild teal duochrome this time. Yay! Oh, that gives me an idea.

 

 No topcoat. I like the contrasting finishes.

Sinful Colors - Bali Mist

Sinful Colors - Bali Mist, 3 coats + topcoat.

This looks really purple and green in the bottle but on the nail it's like a metallic/opalescent pink. Actually, for whatever reason, this finish makes me a little bit nauseous lol.

See, purple green bottle. So pretty!

Even in low light the duochrome is weak. Luckily I read the MUA reviews and already knew about this, and I bought this intending to exploit its weakness. More on that tomorrow.

But first, just curiously, I stamped this over yesterday's mani. Subtle, but I like it.

*Blogger flipped my photos so they aren't all horizontal. I'm finding this rather disorienting. Anyone know how to fix it?

First Post!

Today seems as good a day as any to pop my posting cherry.

This was actually my mani the day before St. Patrick's day, but I'm posting because ya know... green.

Unnamed franken.

I was aiming for a nude holo.

I mentioned green? This flashes orange or green (thumb).

The green, it was not nearly as meek in person.

I thought I was going to show you a finished product. However, this isn't exactly a nude and it also be a lot more holo.  Back to the drawing board!