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A Beautiful Failure

I had very different ideas for how this post was supposed to turn out.

You were supposed to see gorgeous pictures of Guerlain Terracotta Riviera 02 polish all by itself, in different types of lighting (so as to show off the slight duochrome blurpleness).

Due to unforseen failures on multiple levels, you are seeing the quicky pictures I took just before taking this combination off.

And the sun was just about to set, which is why these pictures look so warm.

I used two coats of Riviera, a blue leaning purple nearly frosty duochrome. It's my first Guerlain polish ever! It has a cute wooden cap. I love Guerlain makeup and fragrances.

And because of little bubbles all over the place and a smudge on my ring finger, I topped it off with a coat of Hits Hefesto, to try and salvage the mani. No save. No go. But fun pictures!

My Toxic Mani

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I very recently wore two of my Illamasqua Toxic Nature polishes. I started with two coats of Stagnate.

Stagnate is a mauvey brown creme. It kind of reminds me of chocolate milk, just a little.

I decided to pair it with the ever fugly yet awesome Bacterium!

It turned out pretty cool.

Bacterium is a frosty iridescent and therefore requires slightly more patience and care in applying.

The overall effect looked kind of green, kind of brown, and sometimes a silvery gray, too, depending on the light! And there's also the bit of blue flash to Bacterium.

I was bracing myself to receive negative comments from people when I wore this, but I actually got a few compliments! Score for Toxic Nature!!

Do you ever get the urge to put on fugly colors and just wear 'em proudly?

Strange Duo

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I wasn't sure if I was even going to post these pictures, but figured, why not? I started with three coats of Shades by Barielle Jess' Champagne Toast and then did two coats of Wet 'N Wild Prancer.

Jess' Champagne Toast is a frosty lilac that looks silvery gray in some lights. It also has an almost duochrome quality in the bottle, looking pink, purple, blue, and silver all at once. There is lots of pink micro glitter in it which is very pretty.

The problem is that Jess' Champagne Toast looks a little lumpy on. It's also very frosty, which I knew it would be, yet I still imagined it could be more spectacular on the nail, if that makes sense. Wet 'N Wild Prancer is awesome, but I had some difficulty with glitter placement using two rather thick coats. I could have placed the larger pieces with a toothpick, but it would have been a lot of work that I was trying to avoid! I still think it's really fun, I just wish it had a higher ratio of glitter bits to clear base. Also, the bottle is itty bitty tiny.

Lumpy Yellow

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Here is Sally Hansen HD in Hue. I did three coats.

This is a very frosty, bright, light yellow with shimmer. It's really glowy and attention-seeking!

I took several different pictures of this in various types of light and settings, but most are too awful for me to show you. These two are the only decent ones. Truthfully, I had a bit of trouble on the application. There were several bumps, lumps, and bubbles. Mostly bubbles, I fear. I cannot stand bubbles. I loathe bubbles.

Back and Refreshed

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Well, it's official. My summer vacation is over. It was really nice, though, so I'm very grateful for that!

This is two coats of Givenchy Island Palm. My friend got it for me while on vacation in France. It's my first Givenchy polish!

The bottle is little and really cute.

At first, I thought it was maybe your standard green frost, but then realized it has a very decent blue flash duochrome to it!

Yes, it's an unforgiving finish and you have to be very careful in applying it, but I still love it.

I think it's so pretty and fresh.

The actual polish, as I recall, was a bit thick. I think I added a little thinner for the second coat.

I still have a lot of catching up to do with my posts, so bear with me and hopefully I can crank it out in the next week or so! :)

My best friend and I counted my polish stash yesterday...yes we did. I have been wanting to for some time. What do you think? Any guesses?

We also re-organized my collection by color, which I'm super excited about! It was funny at times, trying to decide how to categorize certain very ambiguous colors (you know the ones I mean!). I have the most of blues. 271! I was kind of surprised by my seemingly smallish stash of reds (78) and blacks (35). I have a healthy 252 purples as well as 211 greens. Yeah, baby!!

Soooooo, the grand total at this moment......is......1,487. That is including minis and excluding treatments/base coats/top coats. That also excludes Konad stamping polishes and art polishes/stripers. I have four Ikea Helmers and I am happy to say I still have some room to grow. ;)

What do you think of my collection? How big is yours?

More Flakes and Whatnot

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The first mani you're seeing is four coats of NYX Paradise and one coat of Chanel Illusion D'Or.

I did this mani twice in a row because when I was nearly finished the first time, the NYX bottle knocked over and spilled all over the floor (and my p.j. pant leg)!

You ever try cleaning up a spill with freshly painted, still wet nails? Yeah, doesn't work.

Anyway, this was pretty and I enjoyed it.

Here I did Inglot 320, two coats, topped with a coat of Inglot 203.

The flakes on top of the frost gave it quite a bit of texture, but I still think it's kind of cool!

It reminds me of a crazy Christmas Tree ornament my mom has. It's a metallic, frosty pickle. Yeah, a pickle. Something to do with a German tradition or...something.

Then I threw on a coat of China Glaze Sour Apple and a coat of Matte Magic!

Still looking like crazy pickles, but fun no less.

What do you think? Totally bonkers?

This is my current mani, MAC Originality, two coats. It's a coppery frost with copper flakes.

It is a dead-one match for Urban Decay's Baked color! I have the eye shadow and the eyeliner. I think of them as my Baked nails.

I love this color, but am not in love with it on my skin tone. I think it's do-able, though.

Also reminds me of shiny pennies...with texture.

Pasha

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Here's a shocker for everyone: me wearing taupe! This is Zoya Pasha, three coats. It's a soft mushroomy, cool, taupe with a slight silver frost. The application was very nice and I had no problems with streaking (but was fairly cautious and careful).