Chanel Khaki Vert + CND Jade Sparkle

2 coats. My nails were so long!

Now with one coat of Jade Sparkle. So pretty!

China Glaze DV8

DBF and I are heading to the Shedd Aquarium today, so I thought I'd post something blue.

Two coats. Horrible pictures of DV8. My nails are uneven and I have tipwear. If I remember, I wore this during a big sale at work. Needed something gorgeous to distract me. I found this at a dusty. My first and only dusty hunt. I haven't mustered up the courage to go again.

P.S. We're going to the beach on Thursday and I plan on wearing a holo. Which one??? I have many, so make a wild guess!

Butter London Big Smoke

OPI I Lilly Love You

Two coats over Milani Bear to Wear. This was impossible to photograph! ILLY is a pink jelly packed with multicolored flakies. It's GORGEOUS. I want to layer it over everything. I don't think I need to say much else, just look at it!

Milani Bear to Wear

Here's a quickie before I head out or the evening.

Lots of pictures because it was hard to get the color right. BtW is a warm grey. I wasn't crazy about it. I think it clashes with my skin tone a bit. This was three coats, I think. I wore it to a wedding to compliment my magenta & coral dress. I layered over it the next day. You'll see those pictures tomorrow :]

The Evolution of a Mani featuring Essie Shelter Island

I don't get to change my mani as often as I'd like to. I'm a full time student and have a part time job, so needless to say, I'm usually pretty busy. During the school year, I typically change my polish once a week. In order to keep my nails looking good and prevent me from getting bored, I experiment with layering. I'd like to take you on a journey through my latest layering mani, which occurred during my last week of summer school.

Essie Shelter Island. It's slightly sheer/streaky, but nothing outrageous, so I used three coats. It has that half creme/half jelly finish going on that Essie loves to do. I love it, too. It's a gorgeous, dusty light blue. I have no dupes for this. SI is from the popular Northfolk Collection, which also includes Greenport & Sag Harbor.

A few days later, this happened...

I added one coat Essie Kisses & Bisses. I apologize for the terrible picture; I took this at work under my fluorescent office lights. K&B is a very sheer (think topcoat) shimmer polish. In the bottle, it looks mostly red, but over the blue of Shelter Island it pulled more purple. At first I thought it was similar to CND Amethyst Sparkle, but the CND is sparkley (duh) and K&B is shimmery. Kisses & Bisses came out this spring in the French Affair collection.

And finally...

One coat of OPI Servin Up Sparkle. You can see how terrible my outgrowth is. *shudder* SUS has small silver holo glitters and large silver holo hex pieces in a clear base. It was recently released in a Serena Williams duo with Grape... Set... Match (the one I got) or that silver foil who's name escapes me.

Thanks for reading this giant post. Speaking of posting, I hope to be doing more of it now that summer school is over. I have less than a month til fall semester. We're having a huge sale at work this weekend, I'm helping DBF move two weekends in a row, and he's taking a week of in between those weekends, so I'll still be busy, but it'll be "free time" busy, not "I have so many cases to read" busy.

TMF + Dollhouse

My first introduction to hex glitter was China Glaze Dollhouse. I remember seeing it and thinking "This is so ridiculously gaudy...I must have it!" At the time, I was not a very experienced polisher, so I laid it on THICK to get as many hex pieces on the nail as possible. I've never seen so many bubbles in my life.

Noelie is having a giveaway!

The lovely Noelie of Noelie's Nails recently reached 100 followers. *\o/* She's having a giveaway to commemorate this occasion, so please go enter here!