Quick Photo Dump ;D

Rica's "Squish the Rainbow" set

Unsure of the colors

A baby blue (not sure which) with Indigo Banana's Holo Top Coat

Water Marble using two Revlon colors (names unknown)

Attempt at leadlight technique using Rica's Squishy Lime and Squishy Grape(?)

Dark Blue topped with a ChinaGlaze Prism glitter topper

ILNP Ultra-Chrome Flakie collection (happy birthday to me)

Unknown colors, using nail vinyls to get the lightning bolt outline

An ILNP pink holo with negative space chevrons

All China Glaze colors

Birthday Nails, KB Shimmer "Shade Shifter" with Mundo De Unas Silver stamping polish

Birthday Nails, KB Shimmer "Shade Shifter" with Mundo De Unas Silver stamping polish

Light blue with a holo top coat and stamped with a blue mundo de unas stamping polish

Sorry I don't remember the names of everything. If you are seriously wondering what one is I can rack my brain and look through my polishes to try and figure it out per request. But for now it is 1am and I need sleep.

China Glaze "Liquid Leather"

Amaaazing. Almost a flawless one coat black. If I weren't the queen of lazy I'd take loads of pictures but as is it is 2am and I am the queen of lazy. 

My first coat went on beautifully, and fully opaque except a few small patches. This is easily one of the best blacks I have ever used as I have always needed two coats to get full black opacity with other brands. Definitely glad I picked this up at Sally today. 

Now I wonder if the white I got will be equally amazing....

Combo, Days 25 & 26.

Inspired by "Fashion" and "A Pattern" I chose the pattern "houndstooth" and the fashion aspect was fall colors. Once again half way through I decided I didn't like something and did a switheroo. On my right had I have China Glaze Agro stamped with SinfulColors Rich in Heart on my left China Glaze Agro stamped with SinfulColors Mercury Rising. I like my left hand sooo much better.

Anyway here are the photos. :3

Prett pretty. :3

Combined Days 23+24: Inspired by a Book & Movie

So because I have fallen behind I combined days 23 and 24, my Harry Potter nails are inspired by books and movies! Yaay! I'm such a cheater.... ANYWAY.

I chose to do house colors on my fingers and A skull and snake on my thumb to represent the Death Eaters/Voldemort.To achieve this particular manicure I used 10 polishes. Plus top and base coats.  I wound up doing the design twice because I didn't like how the lines on the original house color nails turned out. I had hoped it would turn out more plaid but it didn't. Then I learned a new way to use my stamper to pick up the image and avoid smearing the polish on the plate. YAY! it made it so I am able to pick up my ACTUAL plaid stamp without it smearing all over it's self. So hurrah for do overs. Also the ring finger (Ravenclaw) had to be redone three times total because the first color I used for bronze came out WAY too orange. I will share all the different "finished" designs so you can see the evolution.

First off with the overly orange Ravenclaw ring finger:

Next we have the "fixed" ring finger but the wrong stripes:

And finally we have the PERFECT house colors! Except somehow I got a black speck on my index finger that was in my top coat's brush. Weird right? But at this point I am pretty much thinking "Redo? NOPENOPENOPE" Anyway here is the final Harry Potter paint job:

An all the colors used were:

Thumb: PureIce Black Out, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mint Sorbet
Index: KleanColor Metallic Yellow, KleanColor Metallic Red
Middle: Pure Ice Silver Star, China Glaze Agro, 
Ring: KleanColor Metallic Mango(1st) Pure Ice Fast Lane (2nd), KleanColor Metallic Sapphire
Pinky: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow, Pure Ice Black Out


So, there we have Days 23 and 24, Inspired by a Movie and Book!

Tomorrow I will be combining Fashion and Pattern! Once again I will be a sneaky cheater!

Day 17, Glitter & Day 18, Half Moons

Well first off I hate glitter usually, wanna know why? Because of my inability to apply it evenly. You thought I was going to say because it is so hard to get off the finger nails huh? Well that is true but mostly my application issues is where my hatred stems from.

For day 17 I chose green and black glitter polish, namely China Glaze's Graffiti Glitter, applied over a dusty green base, Finger Paint's Be-Leaf It Or Not. As usual with me and glitter we were not nice to each other. I won't go into details but I think the Graffiti Glitter may be seeing a therapist for all the verbal abuse I gave it.

Here is how it looks:

It's a great glitter, with bars, and hexes and dots, so pretty! But not when I use it.

Day 18 I'm going to have to skip. Sorry all. I don't have the supplies to do half moons. I can TRY, but I am so scared of failure that I really don't want to. Maybe next year!

Day 10, Gradient!

I was originally gonna use just China Glaze Get Outta My Space and China Glaze Strap On your Moon Boots to make a pink to blue holographic gradient, they sponged on so sheer I knew I would be there forever to get the opacity I like. SO I went for two colors I KNOW make a spectacular gradient. KleanColor Metallic Pink and KleanColor Metallic Sapphire. I used them as a base and got the opacity I wanted then used just China Glaze Get Outta My Space for a sheer holo top coat applied via the cosmetic sponge I had done the regular gradient with. 

What wound up happening was the China Glaze "top coat" made the vibrant base colors more dusty and added the holographic sheen I was hoping for! It is SUPER pretty even in low light when you can't see the holo effect.

Here it is indoors under my desk lamp:

You can see a hint of the holo effect but not much. Because I do my nails almost exclusively at night I had to wait until I woke up this morning to see how they fared under sunlight. I wasn't disappointed. Unfortunately my camera or my skills as a photographer are not well suited to catching the rainbow. So I have a picture and a brief video to share to try and show the beauty.

 

And for reference this is a gradient I did months ago with the same base colors minus the holo topping.

Over all? I am gonna be super sad to remove this for tomorrow's prompt.

Crackly Mail Day Two!

So today I got 6 more bottles of polish in the mail. I kinda went over board with the crackles when I was shopping online and I didn't really realize it till they all started coming in.

I now have three bottles of black crackle from different brands. xD

Anyway today I got the following bottles:

 China Glaze Crackles in Luminous Lavender, Latticed Lilac, Cracked Medallion and Black Mesh

OPI Shatters in Blue Shatter and Silver Shatter

So naturally I had to try them. the only one I didn't try was the China Glaze Black Mesh because I don't expect it to be super different from the Sally Hansen Ink Splatter and the Pure Ice Strobe Light polishes. I could be wrong but I will find out another day.

Also as usual since there were five to test I did one on each finger of my left hand with a black base and one on each finger of my right hand with a white base. So  you will get an idea of how they will look on darks and light colors.

Here are the pictures starting with my left hand:

 Full Sun

Shade

And my right hand:

 Full Sun

Shade

Again the OPI polishes won for quality and ease of application but you can't deny the sparkly beauty of the China Glaze polishes.

My favorite of this bunch ir hands down the OPI Blue Shatter. Blue is my favorite color and this shade is particularly lovely.

A quick bonus picture, my nails as I had them yesterday and earlier today, having used a Klean Color Metallic Aqua base with OPI Super Bass Shatter and topped with a clear high gloss top coat: