With Colour and Light

Here are a couple more manis I was willing to photograph. I went at least two weeks without polishing. I also wore just red for a while, very beautiful. But now I'm feeling back in the groove of things, so we should be seeing more pictures in a few weeks. Today I'm gunna spend doing candy stripes. :D We can all look forward to that.

First is a glitter mani with an accent.

This is "Pretty Duckling" again. I didn't use base coat or top coat. The accent is a pretty teal cream with some iridescent micro glitters. I really loved these two colors contrasting with one another. And the glitters caught the light so nicely. I realize over and over again that my polishes are so colorful. I really love it that way, but when my friend thinks about maybe painting nails at my house I never have anything to share with her. She likes whites, pinks, nudes, grays, and anything that doesn't shout "look at me!" in the most loud colorful voice.













After wearing the red for a while I did a pretty involved manicure. I'm pretty happy about it. I made a skittles with only three polishes. It is pretty "girly" though cause it's all purple and pink, but whatever.

Here I have Yahoo Color Club "Yahoo Purple," Revlon Parfumerie "African Tea Rose," and China Glaze "Be Merry, Be Bright." I have a few of these China Glaze metallic glitters. I like them, but not really as full manis. I used two coats on top of the colors on my ring fingers. The Revlon perfumed polishes are amazing! I wish I could let you smell the rose right after it dries. It is so pretty and will encourage me to wear more pink polish. I also got a mint polish at the same time. The mint smell lasts much longer than the rose and is very pretty as well, but I really really love the rose. I'll have to remember to show you the mint at some point. It's a neat green and glitter polish. This is the first time I've tried dots. I did the purple dots first and they did not at all want to come off the toothpick. Then when I moved to do the rose I wasn't at all prepared for how quickly it ran off the toothpick. Still it didn't turn out too bad for a first attempt. This was much fun to paint and wear. And it only took about an hour to do, so that was super great. Oh yeah, one note about the purple; her it looks pretty shiny, but I put a clear coat on top. When it dried it was actually pretty matte looking.

Skittles are my favorite.

I haven't been interested in any other events or holiday stuff, so all of my manis have just been regular ol' manis, usually skittles. Here's a quick catch up from any pictures I took.

Here is a fun red/yellow/orange glitter skittles. The neat orange and yellow polish is "Bang" by Salon Perfect. It's a super cool, awesome, unique polish that has tiny orange and yellow spherical glitters. It finishes a bit textured and I just love it. The red one is my gateway polish; "Fireworks" by Hard Candy. I love this combination of glitters. I think the only thing I sometimes don't like about it is the tinted base they are in. I really like to wear my glitters with undies and I usually don't like tinted bases over undies. I really like the yellow glitter too. (We'll be hard pressed to find a glitter I don't really like.) It's name isn't on the bottle, but I think it is "Pretty Duckling" by Broadway Nails. It's also in a tinted base, but that's ok cause it's a really densely populated glitter and doesn't ever really need undies.

This mani was a nightmare cause I put six or seven layers on all of my nails with all different colors and glitters. It was also a super poor application and really, not terribly interesting. I think one of my favorite points about skittles is being able to just play with all the polishes without worry. However that mindset also leads to meh manis. Which is perfectly fine.




 Moving on.








Here is a rainbow skittles! ^_^ My favorite skittles are rainbow skittles. I took a picture of all the bottles cause I was sending a preview to my friend (over at "Guilty Pleasure Colors") so I figure no reason to not share that picture here too. I put glitters on the nails that weren't part of the rainbow so I wouldn't have to find a bunch of extra colors to use. I really like the rainbow skittles like this, so I'll prolly keep using glitters on thumbs and pinkies in future rainbows. I think the most notable part of this rainbow is that awesome shapie glitter. I love it. (Don't know name)

Here is a pretty fun and appealing "skittles" (they aren't all different, but different enough). I was in a green and purple mood and I really wanted to use some of my nail art transfers. I also recently got my multichrome transferred into a bottle with a useable brush and wanted to use it as well. I swapped the greens on each hand and I used a different purple for both (I think cause I couldn't decide which I wanted to use). It's a different color pallet than I usually wear, but I feel like I only liked it more for that reason. Also, that multichrome.

I work at a daycare and am therefore always washing my hands. Over washing leads to all of my manis just completely disintegrating within three days. Even with a basecoat and seche vite over top, I just can't get them to last. Seche vite is expensive and I have reasons to limit my spending on extraneous things like polish, so I've stopped using it for every mani. My basecoat (Sinful Colors) gets really thick quickly and I don't have nail thinner, so I've stopped using that as well. All of this has only led to having more opportunity to paint my nails, and I'm pretty happy about that. If I do an intense mani that takes hours to complete, it is a bit discouraging for it to peel off so quickly. However, those feels don't really stop me from spending my time on big mani projects anyway.

Now for a couple manicures that aren't skittles. o_O

This purple is a franken I made from an old super dark red polish from Hot Topic. It's difficult to apply, but I think it looks pretty good with this iridescent glitter. The glitter belongs to my friend, so I don't know what it is. That pretty blue and green glitter on my pinky is "1derland" by Sally Hansen. It's adorable in name and life.

This is an elusive pink mani. First my friend gave me "Taffy" by Rainbow Polish cause she's awesome. It has silver and pink and white glitters and it has squares and hexes and it's a sparsely populated glitter. I like sparse glitters when I'm wanting to feel more refined. A while later I got "Pixie Pink" by Hard Candy and really wanted to try it out next to "First Love" by Pure Ice. First Love is a pearly pink shimmer sheer polish, so it's really hard to make look nice. I find adding a glitter on top breaks up the flaws of a pearly application nicely.

A St. Patrick's Day Green

Here is some pretty green glitter for St. Patrick's Day.  I've actually been on a "find a great green polish" kick for a bit cause I want all the colors.  That yearning is one reason I picked this glitter up.  I've worn this glitter a few times now.  Each time I have been happy with the result.  Well, maybe not each time, I may have been disappointed when I tried sandwiching it in a white jelly.  With it applied to the whole nail I am happy.  I thought it'd be great to do a full manicure with it because it is green and gold and I love it and it is good and festive for St. Patrick's Day.
I used a shimmery yellow polish as an accent.  I've been looking for a bright shimmery yellow polish to replace one I had long ago.  I really loved it, but the bottle leaked it out and dried it up.  So my friend picked this yellow up for me to try.  It is pretty and goes nice with the green glitter.  I don't think it is what I'm looking for still.  After I finished top coating the yellow, my friend suggested layering some specter flare (spectra flare?) on it, mostly because we love the holo topcoat.  I did indeed like the suggestion, so on went another few layers. ;)

None of these pictures really catch the holo of the accent nail.  I'm pretty happy overall with my manicure.  Don't get too used to full manicures though, I love my skittles.


Maybe I will come back later to add the brands and names of these colors.  For now, please continue to enjoy pretty things. *hugs*