Glitter

Here is LA Girl Glitter "Purge" over Midori. It's a fun, really opaque glitter. Three coats and I think you would have full coverage.

And this is OPI Don't Mess with OPI. A very beautiful sage-green creme. No application problems, it's a beautiful, must have green!

Zoya Midori

Here is Zoya Midori. It's a beautiful apple-green-gold. It's perfect in two coats. I didn't think this shade would work well with my skin tone. I actually bought it with pedicure intent. It doesn't look half bad!

These were both taken with flash. I usually don't like using flash in my photos. It causes a bit of glare (though in this case it helps you see the yellow-gold in Midori) and can make for a visually unpleasant photo on top of washing everything out. However, it's very cloudy today and I couldn't manage a photo without flash.

By the way, Midori stained my nails yellow. Double up on your basecoat.

I have a few more green photos I will post throughout the day!

St. Patrick's Day Mani

Here is my St. Patrick's Day Mani. That is supposed to be a rubber duck, haha. I submitted this to the Nouveau Cheap  blog because she requested for St. Patrick's day manis.

The middle finger is Sinful Colors green ocean, a very colorful, green-blue flakie that comes out during the month of March. I'm not a huge fan of flakies, but I thought everyone might be interested in seeing this one. It retails for 1.99 and you can find it at Walgreen's. I used two coats.

The colors I used are....

Spoiled: Permission to Proceed
Zoya: Pippa
Wet n Wild: Black Creme
Spoiled: Correction Tape
OPI: A Good Man-Darin is Hard to Find
Sinful Colors: Green Ocean
China Glaze: Ga Ga for Green
L.A. Girl Glitter Addict: Synergy

I had not used Spoiled Permission to Proceed until I did this mani. To my surprise, it's a beautiful jelly, making the color very wearable. I love jellys, they're my favorite finish. Half the time, if you tell me a polish is a jelly I will buy it before I decide I like the color or not. It's the reason I bought Velvet Lounge by Megan Miller, and I rarely ever wear that color.

Here's a swatch of just Permission to Proceed. This is two coats. It definitely needs three or four for full opacity. Jellys are like that, but they're totally worth it. I only did two coats of this because I was planning nail art on top. Honestly, I have yet to meet a jelly I don't like.

OH SNAP I HAVE AN IDEA NOW!!

Drugstore Week,Day 3: Revlon

Revlon is one of my favorite drugstore brands. Like Sally Hansen, they're really branching out in their nail polish lines and the quality is always improving. Prices range from 2.99-7.99 depending on where and what line you're purchasing.

Let's start with the stunner. My absolute omg-wtf-surprise-favorite:

Rain Forest

 

This is from the color stay nail enamel line that, I believe is supposed to work like a gel polish minus the UV light. Are you seeing this, people? -jaw drops- This gorgeous hunter green with beautiful green-gold sparkles is just too much to handle. I just...die when I wear this polish and I never want to take it off. It's beautiful and rich. The application is a dream in two coats. I just can't get over this polish. I think it would look beautiful on everyone - the color is cool enough and the glitter is warm enough. This color just makes me go "eeeeeee!" when I wear it. I feel like rowing down the Amazon or..eating a banana. This retails for 4.99-7.99.

Sheer Rose

 

As the name states, this is a sheer rose color. It is opaque in two coats, as seen above, but could use three as well. It's a beautiful, dainty, feminine neutral that I fell in love with the moment I put it on. It looks much more beautiful on the nail compared to the bottle. There is this very fine, subtle gold-pink glitter in here that puts a fun twist on neutral. This retails for 2.99-4.99.

Blue Mosaic

 

Hello awesome glitter! This is Blue Mosaic over Essie Go Overboard. Blue Mosaic is so much fun! It looks like a blizzard on my nails. There is blue and silver micro glitter and large aqua, green, and silver hexagons. If you do not have this polish you need it! It looks best over blues, whites, and black. It might look good over green as well but I have not tried.This also retails for 2.99-4.99.

Stormy

 

This is Revlon Stormy - my favorite grey! It's a deep grey, looks a little like asphalt sometimes. I love it because it's just grey, not greige, there's no obvious blue tones involved. It's just a straight up grey. It's classy and chic without the darkness of a black polish, and none of the effort a black polish takes, either.

I love Revlon. They're one of my favorite brands. If you don't own any of these colors I highly recommend you buy them. ESPECIALLY rain forest. -drools-. You get good quality and range for the price. Revlon is definitely top notch!

Zoya Bevin + Essie SOTT

 Here is just a quick mani I did this evening. First we have Zoya Bevin. When I originally saw the promo photos and swatches for the Zoya True collection, the color that grabbed my attention was Bevin. She's a very pretty, creamy sage green color. It's a nice way to wear a fun color without it being overpowering. IMO, it's work friendly. Here is a swatch of Bevin:

As you can see, she's really pretty, fairly neutral and flattering.

I'm not in the business of having to tame down my mani's though. The only issues I run across are, "will this dry before my toddler wakes up?" So I added Essie Shine of the Times.

I really love Essie's SOTT. It looks gorgeous in the bottle and is a fun, easy way to jazz up most colors. Flakies seem to be super hot right now so I would pick this up and add it to your collection since it's one of the easier flakies to find. At $8.00 it isn't the cheapest, the Finger Paints are the cheapest, but those sell out really fast! The colors are really obvious in this flakie: I usually just see gold, red, and orange but if I tilt my nail up I can also see green.

Also, I have no idea what's going on with my finger in the second picture. I swear I don't have super powers. What I DO have is an incredibly cheap macro lens that adds vignetting to my photos and bulges on the outside - which is why the focus is "off" in a lot of photos. I need to figure out a new way to take pictures with this. Maybe setting up my tripod would help.

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