Petites Black Diamond, Wet & Wild Femme Fatale and Stamping

This is Wet & Wild Femme Fatale with Petites Black Diamond as accent. These are two polishes I put in my swap/donate pile, but thought I should be thorough and try them again.

Black Diamond is more holo in real life. Probably still not as holo as the good version of CC Revvvolution, but I don't have that polish to compare.

 
I stamped with plate m64 and reversed colors.

Taking these out of the swap pile because they're pretty good for stamping. The only problem is Black Diamond ignited for me a huge lemming for Revvvolution. D'oh!

Pink Leopard Palate Cleanser

Or maybe pink cheetah. Actually, no clue. I just felt a bit overwhelmed with the bold colors these past weeks. The base is Revlon Lilac Pastelle, 3 coats. It's a light pink with blue undertones. I did not even bother taking a picture by itself because it bubbled a lot.  I stamped with plate m57, and China Glaze Recycle which isn't really a good stamping polish but it works. Then I dotted the spots with Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Diamond.

A thin layer of Diamond seems to be holo, even in low light. Curious. I love studying polishes by way of frankening, and Diamond has now moved its way to the top of that list.

Someone make a polish that looks exactly like the nail prisms label?

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.

A Galaxy Far, Far Away

This is one coat of OPI Servin' Up Sparkle over last post's blue franken. Ahhh! Inadvertent galaxy nails! This looked even better in person. I couldn't stop staring at my nails.

Intentionally blurred.

I accidentally dented the pointer finger. I didn't want to remix a batch just for one finger. That's a problem with single batch frankens that I don't know how to work around. So, I just painted the pointer with one coat of NYC West Village and reapplied the glitter. Actually, I think I like the calmer base better.

I was so sad to take this one off after three days. That almost never happens.

My Favorite Green

I confess, I am not particularly fussed about holos. I think they're nice but I don't really understand the craze that's currently sweeping the nail world. That doesn't explain why I bought Nubar Reclaim, except this is a color I would wear even if it wasn't holo, tricks are just a bonus. This is my go to polish when I want to feel better. It also doesn't give me lobster hands in real life, I don't know what happened here.

This is two coats plus topcoat, under the lamp. Sorry, we haven't had sunshine in several weeks. Still, very holo, yes?

I need more Nubar in my life. Now I'm off to work on a paper that's due tonight. I'm not supposed to be blogging (or playing Plants vs Zombies) at all. Shh, don't rat me out!

Happy polishing, everyone. :)

Teal Chrome Holo Franken 004

I mixed this one mid-March but it's been pretty persistently cloudy so I didn't try it until this week.

This is one base coat + two coats franken + one top coat

Teal:
Chrome:


Holo:



Full sunlight washes out the color a lot:



What I love about this one is its duo-finish quality.

Recipe:

1/2 bottle New York Color East Village
1/2 bottle Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Diamond
10 drops New York Color West Village

Hey, this is my first time posting a recipe. Let me know if you have any tips or suggestions to do it a different way.

Also, name change. I kept trying to log into the wrong gmail account so I changed my blogger ID so it matches my email. But now I'm regretting using blogger at all. The interface is so clunky and unintuitive. Every time I sit down to write a post, I end up wanting to punch a dwarf in the nose! Umm, yeah /rant

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!