various nail mail

for whatever reason the straight on shots of the bottles would not photograph accurately, the pictures showing the names on the bottoms of the bottles are way more accurate.

ugh, forgot to get a picture of the gold topcoat from the opi skyfall collection.  when i wear it i'll get a bottle shot.  it's just a pure gold colored bottle that came in a black box.

these were purchased as a set from amazon.

hare - electric flame

this is from 'the illuminated life:  fall 2012' collection, this was purchased from llarowe.  it's not easy to photograph at all, but it is sooo gorgeous in person.  the purplish flecks really are noticeable and the polish just glows.

i did thin this down a bit before using it with an OPI thinner, several people have said that it was too thick when they first applied it, i could have probably added more thinner, but i got it to work.

i used cult nails - scandalous as my base color.  it's pretty close, but not an exact match.

this is 2 coats of scandalous, 2 coats of electric flame and 1 coat of seche vite.

 

girly bits - apparition

this is one coat of apparition over this manicure. this was released as a halloween polish.

i love how the bar glitter glows and how texas tea still shines underneath.

oh, and look.  no more stains from time traveler >.>

i  purchased mine from llarowe.    this is also available on girly bit's site.

nail pattern boldness - texas tea

this is 1 coat of texas tea over 2 coats of cult nails - time traveler which is a dark blue cream, 1 coat of gelous and 1 coat of seche vite.

this polish glows in person like no other.

it's a llarowe exclusive polish.

i have a few other nail pattern boldness polishes that i picked up from their etsy shop before llarowe started carrying them.  i'm a sucker for matte glitters and they have several.

i love this polish.  i had no application issues with it and it's glass smooth with the top coats.

time traveler did stain a bit with cleanup, i've tried 3 times last night to get it to completely clean up and it just won't, so this was as good as i could get it ;)   in person the blue staining is not a noticeable, but as we all know, cameras seem to catch everything...random glitter, that spot that was missed in cleanup, just everything >.<

anyhow, onto the pics.

slightly blurred to show more of the color:

halloweenish marble

so, cleanup on this was a bitch.  i ran out of tape, but still decided to just go for it, so excuse around my cuticles.  they got flooded when i did the actual marble.

i used orly 'decades of dysfunction' as my base, then marbled with cult nails 'nevermore' and 'deal with it' along with china glaze 'roguish red', which is definitely an orange and not so red.


left hand:

stamped candy corn

i was wanting to do a stamped halloween manicure using pretty & polished - candy corn. n this is a polish that changes based on temperature,  sometimes its all yellow, sometimes all orange, or like this; faded together.

 i started out with bundle monster plates....they wouldn't pick up with either my konad stamper or the xl stamper from llarowe, so those got ditched pretty fast.  i tried the smallest tree on the llarowe plates, however they were too big for my nails since i just had cut them down, so i decided just to pick a random image and go with it.

i started using the HITS stamping polish, then decided to try out cult nails - nevermore.  i honestly can't tell the difference.  my middle and ring finger are HITS, the rest are nevermore.

this is 3 layers of candy corn, no base color used.

this is the image i used.

 

 

polish remover 'scrubby tub'

this thing is awesome...it's a tub of acetone with little scrubbers on the site that work wonderfully on removing glitter.

i used this while taking off the spooky floam manicure i last posted about.  when i removed regular floam with polish remover and cotton i had glitter all over my fingers and up where my cuticles are...not with this.

the little fingers work really well at removing everything.  for whatever reason it reminds me of a sea urchin O.o

i picked this up at target for a couple of bucks.