L O V E this glitter!

So, I mentioned earlier that teal/aqua is my favorite mani color lately, well wait til you see what I found at the Dollar Tree!!! Swoon worthy! This is LA Colors glitter in I believe the name of Tropical Island. Again, I hate that they don't list the color name on the bottle!

I added one coat of Tropical Island over yesterday's mani and OMG, I adore it!!!! Please make sure to enlarge the picks.


Look at the contrast of the glitter/base color.


and a closeup. There's a mixture of teal and green. The silver and hex glitter are from magnet.


Edit: The name is Treasure Island, I just bought a backup today ♥

China Glaze Atlantis!

I don't know what my deal is lately, but my new favorite nail color is teal / aqua blue. I L O V E Atlantis so much it's one of the few I keep a backup of ☺ Atlantis is an aqua jelly base filled with awesome sparkly holo glitter. This color in the sun is just blinding!

The base color is an LA Colors teal. It's pretty readily available at the Dollar Tree. What I dislike about these DT colors is that they list the name on a packaging but not on the bottle. So I don't know the proper name for this one. But it's 2 coats with one coat of Atlantis overtop.




Of course my camera doesn't properly show off this color with sunlight. Here's a shot I took under my Ikea lamp. This is more like it, see all those colors?


Here is the LA Colors by itself. I ♥ this! Be warned though, wear a basecoat or your nails will stain a teal color. Not pretty!


If you don't own this color yet, trust me, hunt it down and get a bottle.
Thanks for looking!

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 ☺

Thanks for looking!

Half Moon manicure

Can you believe I wore my last manicure for 5 days?? I really did adore the brown, orange and silver combo and just couldn't stop looking at my fingers ♥

But it was time for a change. I decided to do a half moon mani this time. I used La Color's I think the name of it was Live? It's that silver foil from the Dollar Tree. And the red is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Wined Up.




For the guides, I used those little circles that you use to reinforce the holes you punch in paper. I just cut them in half....the only problem is they're a little hard to get all the moon's even. But overall, I really do like this mani ☺

Thanks for looking!!