Essie: Wrapped in Rubies and Finger Paints: It Baroque

In honor my broken nails growing out enough to finally have a free edge, I was inspired to show off two colors today 8-) It's nice to be able to polish my nails and actually have them look decent now.

First up is Essie Wrapped in Rubies. The bottle shows a reddish brown color with heavy amounts of gold shimmer. On the nail, the shimmer isn't anywhere near as noticeable as the bottle and there really isn't any brown, it still translates into a nice autumn red color. Perfect for this time of year. I really loved wearing this one.

The next color up for today is Finger Paints It Baroque. It's an army green shade that's so earthy, I just love it. I don't own many FP polishes, but this one was pretty perfect. The formula and brush were amazing, I had enough control when applying that I didn't have to do any cleanup (a rarity for me! LOL).

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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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Studio M: Silver Lining ...with flakies

I found this color on clearance at Meijer, Silver Lining is from Studio M's holiday collection. It's a grayed out white frost. Pretty color, but I really hate seeing the brush strokes. They actually don't look too bad in the photo, but they really stood out in person.



So, I've always wanted to try wearing a flakie over a white and I wasn't disappointed. It was hard to photograph, and I have the worst lobster hands here, but the polish looks great 8-) I love how it looks like an opal. Very cool. This is two coats of Finger Paints Twisted.



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Finger Paints: Twisted

I was lucky enough to find all five Finger Paints flakies at my local Sally's just after Christmas. I called four different stores looking for them, and only one had any. The lady over the phone told me they only had three colors left, so I had her hold them, but when I went to the store, I checked over the display and they still had all five. So I think I lucked out! Of all the colors in the set, this one is my favorite. It's called Twisted and is the most colorful of the bunch. The flakes shift from shades of blue, green and red. This is two coats overtop Finger Paints Black Expressionism.



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Gingerbread Nails

I really love all the warm toned gold glitters that came out around this time last year and Finger Paint's Holly Good Time is one of my absolute favorites. I used OPI's Ginger Bells as a base and the two color go together so well. HGT is a clear base with gold and red micro glitter.



Ginger Bells solo:



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Finger Paints: Winter Wishes

Just a quick NOTD today, Finger Paints Winter Wishes. This is from the holiday 2010 collection. I only got two colors from this set and wish I had bought the others! I'll have to try to hunt them down someday ☺



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Finger Paints: Holly Good Time

Ok, it's the day after Thanksgiving, so it's the official kick off of the Christmas season!!!



My first Holiday mani is so amazing; I have a ton of picks for you. This is Finger Paints Holly Good Time, which looks a bit more Thanksgiving-y to me, but hey, I'm not complaining. I used one heavy coat over Orly's Glam Rock and I think those two colors hit it off perfectly.

Holly Good Time is a warm brownish gold micro sized glitter mixed with red glitter. I ADORE this color!!! It's my first Finger Paints and I'm so happy with it.









Look at how awesome this is in the sunlight:




Here's a mega closeup of the glitter:



Yay, can't wait to start using all my Holiday colors!!!
Happy Holidays!!