Archives: Playing with Shatter

I got a bunch of OPI shatters, including their blue collection and played around with them 😀

Base color: Orly Blue Collar
OPI Silver Shatter
I love this effect– I really love the silver shatter over a blue base, it just looks wonderful like that.

Pure Ice Crimson, with OPI Navy Shatter over it. It just looks black here, but I adore this effect. It looks just like cooling lava!

Pure Ice Crimson, with OPI Blue Shatter over it. Spiderman! XD

It was really interesting to look at. It looked almost multichromatic from afar due to insufficient contrast, and people thought they were like a chameleon. XD

Archives: Playing with Shatter

I got a bunch of OPI shatters, including their blue collection and played around with them 😀

Base color: Orly Blue Collar
OPI Silver Shatter
I love this effect– I really love the silver shatter over a blue base, it just looks wonderful like that.

Pure Ice Crimson, with OPI Navy Shatter over it. It just looks black here, but I adore this effect. It looks just like cooling lava!

Pure Ice Crimson, with OPI Blue Shatter over it. Spiderman! XD

It was really interesting to look at. It looked almost multichromatic from afar due to insufficient contrast, and people thought they were like a chameleon. XD

Guest Nails– Cherry Blossom

My dear friend, Meredith, graduated from our University with a BA with Honors today! I originally promised to do her nails, as I thought I would be here for graduation. Alas, I discovered the flight I bought sent me home last Sunday! (And about my lack of posts, let’s just say finals and real life overwhelmed me. I do have plenty, and I mean plenty, of photos and swatches for y’all!)
So I told her to fit a set of fake nails and give them to me, and I would paint them 🙂 She said to surprise her, so I chose cherry blossoms as she lived in Japan last summer, and since has been in love with that country. A bonus, she can also keep these nails forever with careful removal =)

If you wanted to know how to say “I love you” in American Sign Language, this would be it. 🙂

This featured three Orly polishes, and two American Apparel polishes whose names I have forgotten, and they’re currently stashed far away from me. I’ll just edit this part later, lol. I used a tip of a pencil and the rounded part of a hair pin because at that moment everything had been packed away and I didn’t have my nail art stuff out. It was also my very first attempt at freehand art… yikes! It turned out okay, I hope?

Such long fake nails! I’m going to be surprised if she tells me she never poked herself in the eye with it. 😛

Guest Nails– Cherry Blossom

My dear friend, Meredith, graduated from our University with a BA with Honors today! I originally promised to do her nails, as I thought I would be here for graduation. Alas, I discovered the flight I bought sent me home last Sunday! (And about my lack of posts, let’s just say finals and real life overwhelmed me. I do have plenty, and I mean plenty, of photos and swatches for y’all!)
So I told her to fit a set of fake nails and give them to me, and I would paint them 🙂 She said to surprise her, so I chose cherry blossoms as she lived in Japan last summer, and since has been in love with that country. A bonus, she can also keep these nails forever with careful removal =)

If you wanted to know how to say “I love you” in American Sign Language, this would be it. 🙂

This featured three Orly polishes, and two American Apparel polishes whose names I have forgotten, and they’re currently stashed far away from me. I’ll just edit this part later, lol. I used a tip of a pencil and the rounded part of a hair pin because at that moment everything had been packed away and I didn’t have my nail art stuff out. It was also my very first attempt at freehand art… yikes! It turned out okay, I hope?

Such long fake nails! I’m going to be surprised if she tells me she never poked herself in the eye with it. 😛

Sparkles

I encourage you to click ’em to make ’em bigger. I’m starting a new system of linking back to my Flickr account, because Picasa washes out my pictures and makes me pout and frown.

Awesome huh?

The base is Color Club Where’s the Soiree? The version of this color that I have, is a simple black creme. It is topped with Orly Prisma Gloss Silver an amazing holographic topcoat. It is AMAZING let me reiterate!! I want to have babies with it.
I taped off the ends for a funky french. It was so rock star. I told Shauna that she had to have this polish, and these pictures are why!

Here’s a closeup/blurry shot to show the SPARKLES.

mmmm. Sparkles.

Sparkles

I encourage you to click ’em to make ’em bigger. I’m starting a new system of linking back to my Flickr account, because Picasa washes out my pictures and makes me pout and frown.

Awesome huh?

The base is Color Club Where’s the Soiree? The version of this color that I have, is a simple black creme. It is topped with Orly Prisma Gloss Silver an amazing holographic topcoat. It is AMAZING let me reiterate!! I want to have babies with it.
I taped off the ends for a funky french. It was so rock star. I told Shauna that she had to have this polish, and these pictures are why!

Here’s a closeup/blurry shot to show the SPARKLES.

mmmm. Sparkles.

A Challenge From Nick

Create a manicure based on this!

Challenge accepted, I said:

Here it is! 😉 But to keep the authenticity of the inspiration, I mattified it all down and the final product (viz., what I have on my nails now) would be this:

Base: Orly Cashmere Cardigan (it pulls too blue in this picture though, it’s a lot more periwinkle and purpley)
Black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree? freehanded
Stamp: Konad M64 with Icing by Claire’s Sterling Silver

A Challenge From Nick

Create a manicure based on this!

Challenge accepted, I said:

Here it is! 😉 But to keep the authenticity of the inspiration, I mattified it all down and the final product (viz., what I have on my nails now) would be this:

Base: Orly Cashmere Cardigan (it pulls too blue in this picture though, it’s a lot more periwinkle and purpley)
Black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree? freehanded
Stamp: Konad M64 with Icing by Claire’s Sterling Silver

Glistening Gold

lolol bad title. Shrug. here be the pretty.

Orly Pure Gold swatch. A beautiful matte, and the formula is to die for in mattes, IMO. It dries very quickly but not TOO quickly– like to the point where you can’t correct or else you’ll pull up the first layer.

Nummy. Baby blue chrome, what’s to hate?

I got a big ass Avon haul in today, and among these was the Avon Mirror Shine collection which I had heard was wonderful for stamping (I have been on a chrome polish collecting prowl lately I admit) so I got all their colors. Not to mention, they are having a big sale on their polish online as well.

Base color: Orly Pure Gold
Stamping Color: Avon Mirror Shine in Glisten
Bundle monster stamping plate

Glistening Gold

lolol bad title. Shrug. here be the pretty.

Orly Pure Gold swatch. A beautiful matte, and the formula is to die for in mattes, IMO. It dries very quickly but not TOO quickly– like to the point where you can’t correct or else you’ll pull up the first layer.

Nummy. Baby blue chrome, what’s to hate?

I got a big ass Avon haul in today, and among these was the Avon Mirror Shine collection which I had heard was wonderful for stamping (I have been on a chrome polish collecting prowl lately I admit) so I got all their colors. Not to mention, they are having a big sale on their polish online as well.

Base color: Orly Pure Gold
Stamping Color: Avon Mirror Shine in Glisten
Bundle monster stamping plate