DizzyNails

I started with two coats of OPI Roadhouse Blues. This was flippin' opaque and amazing in one.

These pictures here are shown without topcoat. The application and formula are perfection.

I was not expecting this polish to steal my heart, but it has!

My original plan was to put purple glitter over it...but I changed my mind.

I decided to take OPI I Lily Love You out for a spin!

Here it is at one coat over Roadhouse Blues.

I topped it with a coat of Gelous and then a coat of Nails Inc. Kensington Caviar top coat.

There were a few rogue flakies that I needed to gently convince to lay down flat, even with all that top coat goodness over.

This is two coats of Nails Inc. St. John's Wood. I seriously could have done with just one coat.

The application was great and I even thought I might have seen some glints of secret shimmer while applying...although it was late at night and I was quite tired, so I very well could have been hallucinating that part. :) I hope you'll pardon the scuffs as this is my second day wearing it and I'm sure I gave it a bit of a beating at work yesterday.

It's in the periwinkle family, which is beloved because it combines two of my favorite colors: purple and blue. It also reminds me of Eeyore, which makes me happy as well.

I took three rounds of pictures of this one because I simply cannot get pictures that accurately reflect what I see when I look down at them. I see purple. PURPLE.

At times it leans blue, but over all the color reminds me a little bit of OPI Funkey Dunkey, to give you an idea of what I'm dealing with here!

And can you believe that I'm wearing just a creme mani with no shimmer, glitter, flakes, or stamps?!

I am so happy to say that I now own Nails Inc. polishes! I've waited a long time to have these.

I couldn't quite decide what to wear for my first Nails Inc. mani, so I picked two different 3D glitters to put on over black. I alternated every other nail with Bloomsbury Square and Connaught Square.

Connaught Square is the blue, green, and purple. Bloomsbury Square is the pink and purple. Each is shown at one coat over two coats of Illamasqua Boosh.

I used the Kensington Caviar base and top coats (two coats of top coat because these glitters at top coat eaters!). The wear was pretty good for me with some chipping on the third day (yes, sadly that is pretty good for me). I do feel the top coat dries a bit slow for my taste, but to be fair I will try it again and report back.

In the future with these 3D glitters, I will definitely do a coat of Gelous after the glitter and before my quick-dry top coat.

I got these two and several more Nails Inc. polishes at Sephora. Only certain Sephora stores will be stocking them and not all of those stores have them out on display yet (they are not visible to the public yet at my Sephora store). I'm really happy that they are available more easily now in the U.S.!

Did you get all that? Minty aqua. Golden shimmer (tons!). Lots of holographic and silver glitter. It's crazy!!

I needed a little bit of extra magic the other day, so I felt it was only appropriate to bust out a TiNS polish. TiNS do not disappoint, my friend.

This mani is straight off of MUA's Nail Board. Nail Board rocks!!!

Two lovely girls (nrahman1993 and MeganChair) came up with this combination of polishes, so a huge shout out to them for their genius! :)

I started with a coat of the purplelicious jelly wonder that is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Purple Pizazz.

Then I added a coat of OPI Last Friday Night.

Next, another coat of Purple Pizazz.

Then, a coat of the magical Clarins 230.

I finished with two coats of Poshe (it wasn't drying fast enough with one).

I had, much to my relief and joy, NO VNL at the tips!!! Hooray!

I hate when the tips shrink back when I'm wearing jelly polishes. *shudder*

The picture above is one of my favorites, shown in a bit of shade outdoors.

I wasn't able to capture the uber cool green shimmer of Clarins 230, but it did show itself on special occasions for me.

If you don't own Clarins 230, don't despair! This combo looks really rad even just with Purple Pizazz and Last Friday Night - I promise!

I definitely think I'll be trying more jelly/shimmer/glitter combinations in the near future.

I really love how this looks and wearing it has made me so happy!

What has been one of your favorite manis or combinations you've worn lately? :)

This was from a couple of days ago. I had put it on, kind of in a hurry, late at night. I might not have added the Crackle except that there was this weird little piece of nail sticking up from out of the middle of the polish on my one thumb nail. I had to cover it somehow!

I used two coats of $OPI My Personal Serpent and then cracked it with China Glaze Medallion Crackle. My Personal Serpent is very opaque and I think I could have done just one coat had I been more careful.

I did not wait very long at all before putting the Crackle over (and didn't use top coat over My Personal Serpent), and it was kind of an interesting experiment!

Some of the cracks were epic and the most beautiful I've ever had - most, in fact! A few were really lame, though (like my pinky here).

This mani features Sephora by OPI Frankly, I Don't Give A-dam and OPI Silver Shatter.

Frankly, I Don't Give A-dam is shown at two coats. It's a really pretty (and seems to be unique in my collection) medium gray with a pinch of lavender.

The application was great, too!

I like how the Shatter turned out. This was the first time I let the base polish dry on its own without any kind of top coat before Shattering it. Dry time on FIDGAd was really quick!

While I always enjoy Shatter/Crackle manis with tons of contrast, I am really loving this tone on tone, too!!