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Are you dizzy with excitement about nail polish?

 I've probably lost my glitter loving mind with this one.
 I started with four coats of China Glaze CG in the City.  I wanted it to be as opaque as possible.
 Then I added a generous coat of Color Club It's a Hit!
 CG in the City is a funky mix of different colored tiny glitters.  Purple seems to be dominant when I look at the bottle, but on the nail I noticed a ton of silver and black (I think?), which gave it an overall kind of grayish silver feel.
 It's a Hit! is mega chunky purple textured hex glitter.  It actually wasn't too hard to handle during application.  The hexes mostly went where I wanted them to go, with a little coaxing.
 I used Lynnderella's Glitter Tamer and Poshe over everything and it was in fact nearly smooth.  :)
I can't remember which one, but this definitely reminds me of another mani I've done before.  Maybe it's just the silver and purple together.

This is two coats of Milani Blue Lightening with two coats of Lynnderella Love Potion No. 99.
 Blue Lightening reminds me of other similar gorgeous blue to purple duochrome shimmers (the names escape me at the moment, but I'm sure I have at least several dupes or near dupes).
 I was definitely a little disappointed that I needed two coats on a polish that advertises being a one-coater.  Ah well.
 Love Potion No. 99 is a wondrous array of purply glitters, including many large squares and small holo pieces.  Reminds me of salsa!!  Call me crazy.
 I was in a hurry and only used two coats of Seche Vite over this whole mess - which, sadly, did not smooth out the texture near enough.  It was quite bumpy to the touch, even though it doesn't look too bad.  Should have gone with some Glitter Tamer or Gelous under the SV!
 I'm having better luck with the Glitter Tamer now that I've used up some and have a bit more room to add lots of thinner.  It seems to need lots and lots of thinner regularly, but it quite a good thing really.  It does add incredible shine.
 I think the overall look of this mani was more on the purple side.  My camera, of course, decided to show you more of the blue.
If you are wondering about Lynnderella polishes, please see her blog here.  She is THE glitter GENIUS.

Have you seen Tony Moly Galaxy glitters yet?  Probably.  This was my first time wearing one.
 Here I am wearing two coats of Earth (GT02) with a coat of Lynnderella's Glitter Tamer and then Seche Vite over.
 It's perfectly smooth and insanely shiny (I'm pretty sure that has to do with the awesomeness of the Glitter Tamer).
 I ordered this and the others off of Ebay after seeing Stef's pictures.  Can you blame me?!
I simply adore this polish.  From the ease of application to the beautiful collection of glitters it contains, it is a sure winner.  It is mostly gray, blue, pink, and holo (hard to see in my pictures here, but I promise it is in there!) - all winners in my book.

Here I started with two coats of Zoya Envy.  
 I added one, that's right, just one, coat of Lynnderella's She Lived in a Swamp.
 I used a coat of Lynnderella's Glitter Tamer after, followed by two coats of Poshe.
 This one is quite the oddity in my experience because it has pieces of bar-like glitter that are actually curly.  They have a curve to them!  It made the application a little tricky and is also why I needed three coats of something afterword so I didn't feel the little curved bits sticking out.
 Well worth any difficulty, though!  I do love this and have already received numerous compliments and inquiries as to what is on my nails.
 They are quite thick looking, although glassy smooth.  I don't enjoy the thick look personally, but I'm learning to deal with it.  :)
If you don't know anything about Lynnderella's polish, please feel free to check out her blog here.  She is a very talented person who occasionally sells her polish to normally less talented people like myself!  The only downside is that you can't just buy her polish whenever you feel like it (that I know of) - she has to be in production with it and you'd be best to stalk her blog for more info.

I started here with two excellent coats of Nubar Marble Tower.  Then, two coats of Lynnderella's Gotta Love Brains.
 If you haven't heard of Lynnderella yet, then you should definitely check out her blog here!  I just learned that this polish is dedicated to one of my favorite gals on MUA's Nail Board.  Double bonus!  :)
 Gotta Love Brains is pretty much pure awesome in a bottle.  It has baby micro shimmer, several sizes of medium to large glitter, bar glitter, square glitter in several sizes, and hex glitter in various sizes and colors.  I mean, ZOMG!!  It's everything I had hoped it would be, and honestly, so much more.
I used two coats of Seche Vite over it and everything is exceedingly smooth and gorgeous (even the giant hex on my index finger that looks like it's sticking up funny).  Every nail is so uniquely beautiful and dare I say, almost bizarre?!  I adore this.  So.  Much.

So, I'm trying out the new format on Blogger!  It's kind of weird...hope you don't mind if my post looks totally different!
This is three coats of Nubar Indigo Illusion. 
 You've probably been seeing a lot of this one lately in the blogosphere.  I will admit, that's part of the reason that I wanted to wear it again!
 I didn't have awesome pictures of it - which, as you can see, it totally deserves!
 I absolutely love this polish and all the beautiful colors that it flashes!
 It's blue, it's green, it's purple, it's gold, and it's pink!  Maybe it's even other colors I'm not seeing.  :)
The flashes are all pretty strong and apparent, too, which is fabulous. 
The application was really easy, too!  It could maybe get a little brush-strokey if you're careless, but overall I found it to be not very fussy. 
 I'm pretty sure you can still buy this off Nubar's website here.
 Do you love it as much as I do?


This is a one picture post! I snapped this one quickly with my phone last Wednesday.

These are the Sephora Nail Art Patches in A03 Rrrrrrr. They are basically the same as the Sally Hansen ones, in terms of application and wear. I love the new patterns, too!

I have been wearing these for the past week on my vacation. This picture was taken right after I applied them. They suffered great abuse from sand, sun, salt water, and chlorine, but honestly looked pretty darn good even after a week!


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