llarowe - white wedding

this polish had to have been the most difficult for me to photograph.  the shimmer in this one is definitely there in person, it reminds me of sunlight hitting snow.  it is absolutely gorgeous.

information from llarowe's site about the description:

White Wedding was created with Leah Ann from Llarowe, is exclusive to Llarowe & piCture pOlish and forms part of our Collaboration collection.  Does Leah Ann fancy rockers from the eighties?  She asked for a 'platinum white with rainbows' and then advised it would be called White Wedding. White Wedding is not a holo, not a mulit chromatic and not a glitter.  It has a mystery effect that is just magical (you will not see it in our photo) so you really need to see White Wedding in person!

i used three thin coats of this, wicked fast topcoat and duri rejuvacote as my base.

i don't normally wear such light colors, but this is definitely and exception.  i can see going for this one often.

i did try several different settings on my dslr to try to capture how it flashes, i did get some good color, but this is so much more in person.

manipulative stamped

last week my stamping plates from llarowe had arrived at my parents.  there was a bit of a wait with them, but that's fine.  i'll gladly wait for some epic nail mail ;)  in the same package was a lot of the new picture polish colors as well as some pretty and polished and 2 of the new enchanted polish colors.  i have a package waiting to be picked up at the post office with the other new enchanted polishes i was able to grab.  pics of those will be posted once i have everything.

with this manicure i used cult nails manipulative, stamped with the hits stamping polish carried by ninja polish.  i picked up a couple of colors of that when i bought their facets collection.   the stamping polish is awesome, really pigmented so picking up the color wasn't a problem.

these stamping plates are the best things i've tried so far.  i do have a set of the bundle monster plates, however with my nails being longer they've never really worked when i've tried them.  also their etching seems to be not as deep as the images on llarowe's plates.

when i first got these i tried out 10 different stamps just for the hell of it.  my nails looked like a mess with nothing matching and stamping a green over a hot pink, but i couldn't wait to get home from my parent's to try an actual manicure.  

i somehow smudged my ring finger on my left hand...totally my fault while stamping.  the stamper and the image plates are perfect.  i also like that llarowe is selling a plastic scraper and not a metal one like the konad one i have to use with my BM plates.  if you're not careful the plates will get scratched with the metal.

on to the pics...

ninja polish - zultanite

didn't have a chance to clean this up my cuticles when i took these.  excuse the black that's showing.  i used cult nails nevermore as my base.

this is 1 of  3 colors that i ordered recently by ninja polish.  i am in absolute love with all 3 of them in the bottle.  the first one i grabbed to wear is this one.  i don't know which to try on myself next.  i did to a manicure for my mom with the garnet one.  it looked like color shift in beetle wings.  i'll actually probably do the alexandrite one next.

these have shot up to the top of being my favorite polishes.

sally hansen - kinetic copper

really love the flecky copper color in this when you use the magnet.  the magnet on this one also seemed a lot stronger than the other brands that i have used.

layla ultra violet

pretty sure the trick to these holo's are to have a really smooth basecoat.  i tried doing these with my usual 'get it on' cult nails base and it smudged bad.  i threw on gelous over that and tried again and it seemed to go on perfect.  will need to try that first the next time i grab one of these.

the holo on the ones that i've worn from this set are insane.

4 days of wear and my ring finger is starting to flake off near my cuticle.  other than that, no real issues with wear on these for me.

pahlish typewriter keys

this is over opi 'don't talk bach to me' from their new 'germany' collection.  typewriter keys was purchased from llarowe.

crowstoes - murder by #'s

this is over cult nails - nevermore.   1 coat of nevermore and 1 coat of murder by #'s.  1 coat of gelous and 1 coat of seche vite over the whole thing.