China Glaze Sci-Fi

OK I am enchanted with this color. It’s a metallic lavender-silver from China Glaze, and it’s much prettier in person than this picture can show. I feel like I have cyborg fingers!

Gradient Nails

Finally attempted gradient nails! I don’t think they’re too bad for my first try. There are a lot of different methods for doing this, using sponges and brushes and orange sticks and doing the dark color first and doing the light color first, etc. So I did a base coat of a pale neutral, then a light coat of the pale purple, then a thin stripe of the dark purple, covering the top 3/4 of the nail with a light glitter polish after. I think there’s too much difference between the light and dark here, and the glitter coat is too heavy, I might switch to China Glaze Fairy Dust next time, instead of the OPI DS Coronation. The two purples are also OPI, sorry I don’t have those names with me at the moment.

These look way cooler in motion than they do in a still. I really like them. Kinda creepy and strange with this dark purple.

Double Lavender

Wanted to go back to something a little less eye-catching, so this is a cheapy Sally Hansen lavender I picked up at Dierberg’s, with a coat of OPI DS Coronation atop it.

When I got done with this manicure I was putting the lavender away and realized I had an almost identical, but much prettier, lavender from OPI that I’ve never even opened. Oops. Perhaps I need some sort of polish-cataloging app on my phone, so I don’t buy anymore duplicates.

Frostbite Friday

Here’s today’s nail experiment (well, technically yesterday’s)

It’s China Glaze “Frostbite” (bright blue base coat) and OPI “Last Friday Night” (blue glitter top coat)

I like both of these, the blue is insanely bright and hard for me to get used to, and also, it stinks. Or, it stank when I was applying it. Like skunk. I have never had a nail polish smell so foul.

But otherwise kind of fun? I don’t know if I would just wear the blue on its own, it’s kind of costumey. But fun to play with.

Holy Barbie Nails Batman!

So this is my newest flavor. This is two coats of OPI Got a Date To-Knight! and two coats of OPI Teenage Dream (glitter) on top of that. I like this a lot, and it’s much brighter and glittery in person. I will work on capturing glittery nails better. The pink base coat is really thin, and if I was wearing that alone would have taken at least three coats, so I was disappointed in that, but otherwise I really like this combo. I totally do look like I should be driving Barbie’s dream car though, this stuff is distractingly pink and sparkly.

Not Like in the Movies

I tried to get a picture of these in the sun, so you could see how prettily they sparkled, but it didn’t work out. This is three layers of OPI “Not Like in the Movies” and one layer of OPI Designer Series “Coronation”

Here it is with flash. I clearly need to be better at nail photos. But, new camera phone takes time to learn.

Anyway, this is getting a little skanky, so I will probably change it out tonight with one of the, um,  thirteen new bottles I bought this weekend. Starting to believe I have a problem.