DizzyNails

 This was a blue on blue glitter-groovy mani!  I used a dusty blue StrangeBeautiful for my base color (two coats).  It seems to me to look close to Illamasqua Force.  I don't think I've worn Force yet...but then again, my bottle has drastically changed colors since I bought it.  Weird.

 I used a coat of Shimmer Polish in Jenny over top, then followed with Gelous and Sephora X top coat.

 I loved this mani.  It was one of those where the more you look at it, up close, the better it gets!

 Shimmer Polish makes some super beautiful blends, I must say.  Love!

 Sparkle sparkle sparkle sparkle!!!!!  Let me count the ways I love this!  This is pretty much the hottest hawtness evar.

 I used a coat of black (honestly, I can't recall if it was Finger Paints or Cult Nails) followed by a coat of Lynnderella Thank Blue, Too!  I finished with two coats of Gelous and a coat of Sephora X top coat.

 I wore this for about three or four days and they were some happy pretty nail days, I tell you!

 This mani started with two coats of a Dose plummy polish.  It's a wee tiny little bottle.  It came with two other polishes in similar tones.

 Application on the Dose polish was easy enough, despite the very small brush.  I would have gone for a third coat had I not been planning to slap glitter over top.  Two was fine for this look, though.

 I added a coat of Lynnderella Elf Assured, then followed with Gelous and Sephora X top coat.  Elf Assured has really pretty delicate, icy shimmers (you can see them better in some of my pics, but not as well in others).  Application was pretty easy and I used a combination of painting and dabbing motions, which is my standard now with Lynnderella glitters.

 I really enjoyed this combination and it wore for about three days, if I'm remembering right.

 This is three coats of Lippmann Sugar Shack.  I recently got the three piece holiday set at Bloomingdales.  They had plenty of them, still!

 Call me a sucker for shimmery, duochromey, glass flecked polishes.  The formula is always tricky for me - but I think I've finally mastered it.  I just have to go very slow and wait in between coats.  This prevents bubbles for me, which I find particularly troublesome with this type of finish.

 I really love the blue shimmer!  I used Sephora X base and top coats here, which gave me a good three days of wear (better than what I normally get with Lippmanns).

 Elf Love is amazing.  I am really blown away by how cool it looks over the black!  It's all retro-artsy-graffiti-ish, if I do so say!

 I used one coat of Cult Nails Nevermore (my current fave black), then one coat of Elf Love.  I didn't really dab much - it was more just straight painting, carefully.  It applied very easily.

 I should not have waited so long to wear this beauty.  I'm sure you read that a lot on blogs (and, no doubt, have read it before on here)!  I am ga-ga in love with Star Gazer 161.

 I used three coats here and topped it with Butter London's top coat.  Application was easy.  The brush was a little bit fluffier than I like, but didn't give me any trouble.

 Yes, it looks almost black in most lights.  But I see the purple!  I know it's purple.  And the shimmer is just...*speechless*

 A very special thank you to the very special lady who made this dream possible and gave me this stunning polish!  <3 p=""> This wore well for three days on me.  I switch up my base and top combos so much that I can't help but wonder if it would have worn even better had I used Sephora X base and top.  Nonetheless, three days is respectable enough for me!

 This is three coats of Two Fingered Salute.  I used the Sephora X base and top coats with it.  This color is really unique being a dusty sea foam sort of minty green with copper micro glitters.

 I did this manicure at my parents' house, in very poor lighting, with no clean up!  I was very worried about how it was going to turn out, but really, aside from my nails looking very ridged here, the actual manicure came out well.  :)  I couldn't even tell you if I needed that third coat of polish or not because of the dim lighting.  Ha!