Zoya Midori

I meant to use this polish a long time ago, I really did. I just got caught up with other polishes. After all, I do have over 800 polishes in my stash...I really need to destash. I wore Midori with accent nails of Cult Nails Nevermore, my all time favorite black. It dries so shiny and it's so sexy! Seriously, as pretty as Midori is, I couldn't stop staring at my nails that had Nevermore on them.

Both polishes together.

The deliciousness that is Midori! Look at that gold shimmer!

As if you weren't already drooling over this polish...

Check out the clean gap on my black nail! Ok...back to the polish now.

Golden shimmer....ermahgerd!!!

Ignore the weird tipwear and just enjoy the polish.

I used 2 coats of each polish. Nevermore was almost opaque in one coat, but I lean towards really thin coats, so I did 2 even though some nails didn't require 2 coats. If you usually do medium or thick coats, you won't need more than one coat. Midori is a 2 coater, but I flubbed up my index finger so I did 3 coats on that nail. Both polishes are topped off with one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast. I hardly had to do any cleanup, and I highly recommend both polishes for their phenomenal formulas.

Happy Polishing,

J

Sally Hansen Nail Prisms + Sneak Peek

Heads up! This post contains a motherload of pics!

Today's manicure is Zoya Juicy with Sally Hansen Nail Prisms in Ruby Diamond. I used two coats of Juicy on all my nails and then added 2 coats of Ruby Diamond on all nails except my ring fingers. I thought Ruby Diamond was going to be sheer so that's why I applied Juicy first. Ruby Diamond covers in 2 coats, just make sure to spread it evenly so no brushstrokes appear. I also thought Juicy was closer in color to Ruby Diamond than it ended up being. And Juicy is a semi-jelly. It's not quite opaque at 2 coats and it dries really glossy. I used Poshe top coat on all my nails and it didn't hide the holo. Yay!

Excuse the wrinkles in my nails. That was my fault. I had on too many coats of base coat and so it didn't dry properly and caused my polish to slip off.

Sneak Peek: I got my order from Fyrinnae so I'm gonna swatch them and upload them for you! They are so pretty in the jars and I bet they'll be even prettier swatched!

Flash, indoors.

No flash, indoors.

Happy Polishing,

J

L.A. Colors Intense Bright Nail Polish - Amp'd Blue

Let me just say this - I LOVE this polish!!! Beautiful application (2 coats), quick dry time (I'm looking at you Essie), and gorgeous shimmer! Plus, it's blue. The only downfall is that this polish doesn't come in a big enough bottle!! This is part of the L.A. Colors Intense Collection in Amp'd. None of the bottles have names, so I'll just be putting the collection name with the basic color name. All the polishes in this collection contain shimmer, but I haven't swatched them yet. The bottles are all 0.24 oz/7 ml. I got this set for $3.00 on sale at Cherry Culture where they are currently having a sale off the usual price of $6.00. Enjoy the rest of the pics of this beauty! I used 2 layers of China Glaze Dorothy Who over the 2 coats of polish on my ring finger.

In case you hadn't noticed. I had to darken the pic severely to get the color accurate.

Aquafina water bottle for comparison

In the shade outside.

It looks lighter in full sunlight of course.

Happy Polishing, 

J

Varnish Me: Giveaway

Varnish Me is having a giveaway for reaching 100 followers! She's giving away 6 nail polishes to one lucky reader! You can enter the giveaway here. Good luck!

Polish Fanatic!!!

So I recently discovered that I'm addicted to nail polish. I never really used to do my nails because I would get fed up of the sucky polishes I was using. Apparently, I wasn't using enough coats or the formulas weren't up to par because I tried China Glaze nail polishes about a month ago for the first time and I've been in love ever since then!! I may post up a manicure every now and then if I really like it, but today I really wanted to talk about a giveaway! sonidlo is having a NUBAR giveaway where you can get 8 NUBAR nail polishes!! So enter and see if you win!!

Happy polishing,

J