I like it, it has layers!

Ha ha, has anyone seen 7 Psychopaths? If so, I'm sure you recognize the name of the post. I adore Christopher Walken and I adore today's mani. It sort of happened by mistake, but sometimes my unintended experiments really work out for the best. LOL. This is a mixture of China Glaze Grape Pop, Pure Ice Heart Breaker and Color Club Snow Flakes. ♥




Here's a closeup. Grape Pop starts off with a nice base, but the addition of Heart Breaker makes it lend more towards a blue color. Topping that you get the colors of gold, green and yellow from Snow Flakes, while at the same time, the shimmer from Heart Breaker peeks through. This really is a very pretty mix and a new favorite. I'll be wearing this combo intentionally next time ;-)




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Sinful Colors: Red Ocean

So, yesterday was all about Green Ocean, so today I thought I'd show off Red Ocean. I know I used a Rimmel red jelly color as the base, but I can't seem to find the bottle, so I don't know the name of the color. Sorry! Like GO, Red Ocean is a combo of chunky flakies and glitter in a very sheer red jelly base. It's really just a topcoat, there's no way it would be opaque on it's own. You just have to enlarge the picks to really see the detail. I was lucky enough to find this at Meijer a couple of years ago. They had Red Ocean, Pink Ocean and Deep Red Ocean all in it's own display....and of course I got all three ☺





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Tonight's the Night for Drinking!

Tonight's the night for green beer and great Irish music! Speaking of, if you're ever in Michigan, you should check out my favorite Irish band, Blackthorn

So today I really wanted to show off Sinful Colors Green Ocean. Like the other Ocean colors, it has a very sheer tinted jelly base, flakies and glitter all mixed together.

This is over yesterday's Zoya mani:


and over Sinful Colors Daddy's Girl:



Everyone have a great night tonight!

Finger Paints: Motley

Well, day two of my Revlon mani is not going well. Major shrinkage and bubbling. Blah. It hasn't even been 24 hrs yet and all I did was watch a movie and go to bed. Hmm, not impressed. Bummer! So I decided to re-wrap the tips, add another layer of color and top it off with a coat of Finger Paints Motley to hide any new bubbling.

Motley is a green and blue flakie and I just love it overtop a teal color. I usually wear flakies over black, but I'm trying to experiment more with them and I really like this combo.










Here's what the Revlon color looked like before I fixed it.


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Night Lights layered mani

I love layered mani's, and this one might be one of my favorites. I started off with Loreal Star Magnet in Grey, but since I didn't like how the star pattern turned out, I decided to layer Sally Hansen Night Lights overtop. NL is a sheer grey jelly base packed full of multi colored holo glitter. Both colors looked great together, but of course, I wasn't done yet. Really, I just never know when to stop and most of the time I ruin a great mani because of it, but this time, I lucked out. I added a layer of my BF Shmoopy's flakie franken overtop and it was perfection!



The flakies in the franken are multi colored, and with the colored holo glitter, they go so well togehter! You gotta enlarge these picks!


Unfortunately, I do not have the recipe, the bottle was Colorama's Shimmer Girl. The base is now a light blue jelly.


Check out the closeup ♥♥♥ Glitters and flakies go so well together.


Thanks for looking!

Another super layered experiment

Well, I did it again. Sometimes I never know when to quit...I started off with Ulta's After Midnight. This is two coats + one coat of Seche Vite



So of course I thought I needed a bit of sparkle, so I added one layer of Mrs Claus with another layer of Seche Vite:


Still not done! I added one more layer of Nfu Oh 40:


Here's a closeup:


It's strangely interesting to look at. I do think it shows better IRL instead of photos...and this makes me want to layer 40 over a red. I like the red base/blue flakie combo.

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Barielle: Elle's Spell

What this? Red flakies? What's not to love! Elle's Spell is just that! Check out the bottle pick:



and here we have it by itself, layered over Revlon's Ruby and my favorite, Femme Noir:



Here's an awesome Femme Noir closeup for you....so amazing!



and on the nail:



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Nfu-Oh 60

I ordered two Nfu-Oh polishes, here is the second one. I have to say that I was most excited for # 60. Everyone describes it as an oil slick on the nail. Just look at this amazing bottle shot:


WOW, huh? Look at all the colors :) Unfortunately, it does not translate to the nail. This is one coat layered over Wet N Wild Black Creme.

I certainly can't say I don't like it, I mean c'mon it's a Nfu-Oh flakie! But I was expecting a bit more out of it...so I am a bit disappointed, I just wish the duochrome was more prominent on the nail.

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Nfu-Oh 44

This is my new favorite polish! Nfu-Oh 44 is an orange jelly base with fakies that flash an orangy red and green color. This is amazing. Here is the bottle pick:


Here is one coat layered over Wet N Wild Black Creme. Look at all the duochromy goodness!!!


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Toma Vibrant with Colorama Ruby Rays

So today's NOTD is inspired by tonight's True Blood premier:

I picked up this Toma from a dusty last weekend, and I have nothing but raves for it. The formula and brush were awesome and application was a breeze. I topped it with Colorama's Ruby Rays, which is my favorite flakie color, especially when layered over a deep red. It flashes orange and green.


I think I need a Ruby Rays backup. I was eyeballing Nfu Oh 44, they seem similar to me. Does anyone have both? I think I need more flakies in my life!

Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

Yesterday's NOTD was Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure over Revlon Dark Pleasures in Patent Leather:



I tracked this baby down at Walgreens. My husband really liked this one 8-)

Milani Fairy Tale and Nfu Oh 40

This is my first Nfu Oh flakie, I got this one (#40) along with #51, which is the purple one. Here I have Milani's Fairy Take, a black color with blue micro glitter and topped that off with Nfu Oh 40.