snow

love when it snows.

just shot this picture.  the sun hit the ice on the branches just right and i got stars.

open full sized to see.

indulgence water marble

this watermarble was done last night over this manicure.  i used opi ds - indulgence and fingerpaints - black expressionism. 

i really should start doing more marbles again.  i love how they turn out and my nails are finally long enough again to do them on.

left hand:

blah, looks like i need to go back and clean up my thumb...

right hand:

pistachio gelato

picked this up at target, they had them 2 for 8 bucks.    this is so packed with flavor...it's amazing.

the other one that i picked up was some chocolate one.  it also looks really good.

just thought i'd share this.

opi - ds indulgence

i picked this up at ulta yesterday.  ran in to get a new bottle of  topcoat and saw that they actually had these.  this was the last indulgence, there were 2 luxurious left. 

this is 2 coats of indulgence with 1 coat of poshe topcoat.  loving poshe.  it's much more shiny than seche vite and there's no shrinking like you will sometimes get with seche.

i love all of the ds polishes, but this one might be in my top 3.

you do see more of the gold colored flecks in person, my camera didn't want to pick them up.

spectraflair experiment

so apparently my sister didn't like the thought of me taking a break from uploading pictures.  so, here i am :P

i purchased some grades of spectraflair from here.  it is not the powder form, it is in a suspension base and it is extremely concentrated.   i first mixed some up in an opi topcoat since that's the clear i had sitting out. i realized that it was way too much even though i hardly used any, so i found a 2nd bottle of dumped about a quarter of the first bottle into it and that's what i have on right now.  when wearing that first mix on its own you don't see any of the colored polish underneath.

i also wanted to try with a color, so i found my old cnd oilslick and put some in.  i like it better used as a topcoat to be honest.  i didn't want to add too much into the colored polish and have it also turn pure silver,  so i just stopped and decided to go with the topcoat.

no cleanup done on the below pics.  honestly just wanted to get these online.

nail nation 3000 - happy holo-days

i was planning on getting this uploaded this morning, but that didn't happen.  i went out at 7am to go get the cats food and found out that my battery had died.  my dad thankfully came out with a new one and put it in for me.  so instead of writing this up like i was planning to this morning, i was outside with him.

this is 2 coats of nail nation happy holo-days #104.  this applied great like all of maria's other polishes.    i then decided to do a gradient with butterfly net #16.  shaped glitters like animals, hearts, etc arent' my thing, so i just used an orange stick to take the butterflies that came out on the brush off.

i love holo-days on it's own.  it looks jade in some lights, celery colored in others.  i don't have another holo that is anything like this one.

after butterfly net i used 1 coat of gelous and 1 coat of seche vite.  it is glass smooth.  usually bar glitter will try to stick up, but not the case with with one.

no cleanup was done in the first pictures since i knew i'd be adding to it.

ludurana supernova - onda de luz

this collection is available at llarowe.  i haven't seen holos that are this strong like ever.  this is 2 coats of onda over 1 coat of cult nails - nevermore, 1 coat of seche vite over the top.

all of these photos are with flash, but it does glow like crazy in lower light as well.  the holo was not as strong under the shitty lights we have at work.

i'm also uploading a video of this.  i'll probably start doing these for holo polishes.  this was taken on my itouch with the light on.