My School Colors

So, I was looking at my graduation tassel hanging up in my room the other day - my school colors were orange and black - so it inspired me to do a couple of orange and black manis today. Yeah, I know it screams Halloween, but I don't care ☺



This is Pure Ice crackle in Crushed overtop WnW Black Creme. I love when crackles have shimmer to them.


Now this is one coat of Wet n Wild Fastdry in 9021 Orange. It's a very sheer glass fleck color, but when worn overtop WnW Black, it kind of looks gold instead of orange.


So I decided to layer it over Cover Girl Candy Corn to see if it looked any different....better, but still gold.


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Borghese: Stellare Notte - layerd mani fail

So I started with 2 coats of Stellare Notte. I'm sorry to say I was bored by it....these was no umph. I felt it needed to be dressed up a bit. I seem to need to add glitter to everything lately.




...so in an effort to change things up a bit without glitter, I added a layer of LA Color's Enchanting....and nope, didn't like this any better. It was just dull.


so I decided to add a layer of Cover Girl's crackle polish in Ghost overtop....and fail! I think it was the humid weather that day, but it just kind of buckled instead of cracked.


Blech, mani fail! I ended up removing it and starting over...I hate when that happens ☺

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Cover Girl Nail Slicks: Midnight Forest

I have another couple of cool Dollar Tree finds today. This is called Midnight Forest, and it's a blackened teal-ish color.



and the accent nail is Sally Hansen Hard as Nails: Trick or Treat:


Trick or Treat is a black jelly with multi colored glitter. I found the entire line of old Sally Hansen Halloween glitters at the DT. They are so cute! I'll have more to show you soon ☺

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Revlon Perplex + Cover Girl City Lights

I ♥♥♥ Perplex. It's definitely in my all time top 10 favs. And another color in my all time top 10 is Cover Girl City Lights. CL is a holo glitter top coat that dries smooth and can dress up any color.

I used the tape method for the accent finger:


I adore the shimmer in Perplex:


I love it!

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Cover Girl Mattalic Triple Platinum + Ice Slicks Anti-Freeze

Here's the second Cover Girl 2-pack I picked up. The first color is another mattalic called Triple Platinum. These are really cool! I wish they had more colors than these two.



and now what are the odds that my nail crush, Scrangie, just posted Anti-Freeze?? I almost don't want to show my pick!! LOL. Obviously looking at her's I should have layered this over a darker color ☺



ok, so inspired by Scrangie, here are Pink Ice and Anti Freeze over Color Club Bewitching:



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Cover Girl Mattalic Bronze + Ice Slick Pink Ice

I just found this little gem at the Dollar Tree yesterday. At first I didn't get the name Matt-allic. It's a matte metallic....duh! Some days I'm just a little slow. This reminds me of Orly's Glam Rock a bit. It's not as matte as the Orly, although this pick make it look shiner than it does in real life.

and it was packaged with a "nail glaze" called Pink Ice. This is one layer. The glitter is pretty subtle.

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Sally Hansen Extreme Wear: Blue Icing

Today's color is Blue Icing, and it comes from the same set as Mystic Lilac. It's a light ice blue color mixed with sparce amounts of holo glitter and holo bar glitter.

This is three coats without top coat. Unfortunately, the glitter doesn't show well and the texture is a bit bumpy.



So it jazz it up a bit without changing the color, I added one very thin coat of Cover Girl City Lights to it and topped it off with Sally Hansen Hard as Nails topcoat.



I love me some holo!



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Halloween Nails - Bewitching Set

Today's Halloween mani is a funky french. The base color is Cover Girl Candy Corn (which by the way, is the perfect pumpkin orange), the tips are Hocus Pocus from the Bewitching set. It was a littler boring on its own, so I decided to try the decals that came with the Color Club Bewitching set.



I fauxnaded the pumpkin on the thumb nail using BM plate P57:


Here is the right hand:


The decals really make the mani. They're so cute!

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Halloween Nails - Candy Corn

I've wanted to do Candy Corn nails ever since I saw someone on MUA do them last year ☺ I used Cover Girl Boundless Color in Candy Corn (ha!), Wet n Wild White Creme and Avon Nailwear Pro in Sunshine; I used tape as the guides.



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Halloween Nails

So from now until Christmas is my favorite time of year. I adore fall and the Holidays coming up (especially Halloween), so I've decided to do a series of Halloween inspired mani's from now until October 31st. Here is my first.

The base color is Diamond Cosmetics in Mystical Knights. It's a beautiful dark blue color with a hint of a frost.


And I topped it with a recent Dollar Store find, Cover Girl Crackle polish in Jack O Lantern. I had previously swatched this on a popsicle stick, but this is the 1st time on the nail. What a freaking cool effect this is, it's so Halloween! I used two coats over the Mystical Knights. I love how the blue base kind of glows through the orange.



Please excuse the raindrop on my ring finger in this shot....

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Dollar Tree combo pack

I recently grabbed this combo pack from the Dollar Tree. The first color is Cover Girl Nail Slicks in Chocolate Mint. The bottle color is, well a chocolate brown color (I know, creative, huh?) with a mint green shimmer.


and here is a swatch..the shimmer is pretty noticeable in natural light, but not as much indoors:


Now this is the reason I bought the combo. This is Cover Girl Crackle polish in Jack-O-Lantern. The bottle color is a bright orange.

This is two coats over Jordana's Night Fall. I looks like the polish would just flake off, but it didn't. This is without a topcoat.


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Layering: win or epic fail?

Yesterday, I badly dented my Hue are You mani before it was dry...I hate it when that happens! So, to fix it without redoing the entire mani, I added a layer of Cover City Lights which is a silver holo glitter topcoat. I thought that made the color to too cool and I what I loved so much about the HAU is the warm tones. So on top of City Lights, I added a layer of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure.

Here is the result....drum roll.....

Direct sunlight:


So far so good. Can't see any sign of the flakies. Here it is in shade:



The orange tones of HT really come through and warm it up. Here is an angle view:




My first thought was EPIC FAIL! Blach! and no time before work to fix it....but as the day wore on, I don't hate it. I think kinda like it...there's all sorts of stuff going on whenever I look down at them. What do you think???

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Cover Girl Mauvelicious with Pure Ice Busted

Cover Girl Mauvelicious is a neutral mauve color. When I bought it, I thought it would be a cream, but it's actually a jelly finish. So it's very sheer and kind of boring on it's own because of that, so I added a layer of Pure Ice Busted over top. Busted is a sheer glass fleck purple color. Here is the result:




Not bad, but definitely boring....I've been in a vampy mood lately and this just isn't doing it for me.

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Orly Royal Navy + Cover Girl City Lights

Today I'm wearing Orly in Royal Navy. RN is a beautiful color, dark blue with light blue shimmer. You can really see the blue shimmer in the bottle of the shot below. I love Orly's, I think they may be my favorite brand, but I do seem to have a hard time picking out colors I like. So far, I only have Enchanted Forest, Royal Navy, Glam Rock, Glam and Prisma Gloss Gold. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I need more Orly in my life.....

Now, unfortunately, for some reason, I got horrible bubbling with this color:


I know, it's bad, right? So, to fix the bubbling (or rather to cover it up) I added a layer of Cover Girl in City Lights. Wow, what a pretty combo that turned out to be!


Look at all the colors!

City Lights is a clear topcoat with silver holographic micro glitter. It dried to a smooth finish and I don't feel like I need to add another layer of top coat over it. I highly recommend it if you love holos.

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