Purple to orange gradation & nail art stickers

Purple to orange gradation & nail art stickers

Oh my... I had such a hard time photographing this mani that I'm just going to post this single pic of it... I'm sorry. :/ The puple base is Golden Rose Classics Metallic Nail Lacquer #10 (phew!) and the orange is Jessica Pumpkin Delight (Scrangie has an awesome swatch of it on her site). As usual, nail art stickers, blah blah blah. ;)

Royal purple & silver nail art

Royal purple & silver nail art

The purple is Golden Rose Fantastic Colour 180 - and boy, oh boy did I spend at least half an hour trying to fix the colours. My camera insisted that I was wearing a bright blue polish instead of this beautiful rich purple (and that I had a serious case of lobster hands).

H&M Notoriously Beautiful & glitter funky French

H&M - Notoriously Beautiful, 1 coat

H&M - Notoriously Beautiful & glitter funky French

BeYu 317, Sally Hansen DVD & Pure Ice Busted

BeYu - 317, 1 coat

BeYu - 317 & Sally Hansen - DVD 1 + 2 coats

BeYu 317, Sally Hansen DVD & Pure Ice Busted, 1 + 2 + 1 coats

BeYu 317, Sally Hansen DVD & Pure Ice Busted, 1 + 2 + 1 coats, mattified

GOSH Sweet Rose & Flormar Supershine Miracle Colors U15

GOSH - Sweet Rose, 2 coats

GOSH - Sweet Rose & Flormar Supershine Miracle Colors - U15, 2 + 2 coats

Prom Dress Disaster franken & LaRosa Hot Purple

Franken - Prom Dress Disaster, 3 coats over 1 coat of Color Club Pucci-licious

Franken - Prom Dress Disaster & LaRosa - Hot Purple, 3 + 1 coats

Max Factor Silver 20 & Flormar Supershine Miracle Colors U16

Max Factor - Silver 20, 3 coats

Max Factor - Silver 20 & Flormar Supershine Miracle Colors - U16, 3 + 2 coats

H&M Cool Summer & Midnight Fowl franken

H&M - Cool Summer, 2 coats

I have the allergic flue from Hell right now, so I'll make this short and sweet. Cool Summer is a H&M Hello Kitty polish from either last summer or the one before it. Purple shimmer with blue and pink microglitter, nice enough formula, great brush.

H&M - Cool Summer & Franken - Midnight Fowl, 2 + 2 coats

I skipped on OPI Merry Midnight a couple of years ago, and when Orly recently came out with Fowl Play, I was the first one clicking the order button on eBay. Much to my dismay it was darker and dustier than Merry Midnight, so I decided to make it more to my liking. The recipe is under this bottle pic:

 Franken - Midnight Fowl

- Orly Fowl Play (just a bit, no more than 1/10 of the whole bottle shown here)

- New York Summer Hot Purple (dark purple jelly)

- GOSH Rainbow (orange to green duochrome flakies)

- Pastel Manicure M22 (iridescent blue round glitter)

- Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor (iridescent blue square glitter)

- Misa Honeybunch (white glass flecks)

- Nfu-Oh 054 (green to blue duochrome flakies)

That's all for today, folks. Now, please excuse me while I go and die... -.-

Las Vegas Showgirl's Nightmare

Las Vegas Showgirl's Nightmare

It all started with two coats of L'Oréal Resist and Shine #739, the most gorgeous cool gold you'll ever see. Unfortunately, every single Resist and Shine polish I've tried ends up bubbling like a mofo, and this one was no exception. The finished product here is an attempt to hide those ugly bumps - the sponged on purple microglitter did conceal the vast majority of them, and since I had gone through all that trouble, I decided to finally make some use of my large selection of (plastic) rhinestones. Garish, yes, but I couldn't stop looking at my nails during the whole two days that the stones stayed on.