DizzyNails

Here is another spoil from my friend's trip to France, Illamasqua Jo'Mina. I've been wanting it ever since I knew it existed. Illamasqua & purple = true love.

I wish I had pictures of just Jo'Mina for you, but I suppose a quick search of the web should provide plenty of inspiration if needed. I tend to be very "Get er done!" when doing my manis, so I don't often take the time to snap pics of my base color.

This is the first post I have regarding the newly reformulated Sephora polishes. I picked up several when they launched about a month ago. They have gorgeous brightly colored cremes and a rainbow to choose from.

This is Yellow Umbrella. I believe I did two coats, but it might have been three.

The brush is wider and the polish supposedly dries faster. I think they were trying to mimic the SH Insta-Dris. I'm not going to comment on the dry time because I always use a quick-dry top coat and don't have any memory of the dry time being out of the ordinary in either direction.

Needless to say, this is a beautiful polish that applied very well and was a pleasure to work with and wear! It was a little weird getting used to the big brush, but I had it down in no time.

I'm trying out doing separate posts for separate manis...which will now potentially include multiple posts a day (when the mood strikes). Hopefully this will make things easier for me in terms of posting.

I forgot to take notes on this mani, so I'm struggling to remember exactly what I used and how much of each. I know I started with LA Girl Metal Graphite, two coats.

Then, I'm pretty sure I used a coat of $OPI Sparkle Me Silver top coat.

This is when bottles in the pictures would've come in handy, no? :)

This is just two coats of Milani Flash Light. It was from a recent LE collection. I don't tend to wear a lot of oranges, but I was drawn to the beautiful glass-flecked shimmer and glowiness about this.

I apologize because my pictures really didn't capture this one properly.

It's extremely vibrant and lively. Not neon, but think neon, if that makes sense.

In the above picture, I tried to adjust the color slightly to reflect the true color of the polish. Not terribly successful!!

This is the lovely Lancome Deep Water Green, a.k.a. Pop Petrol. I used two coats and it applied fabulously. Another score from my friend's trip to France! :)

I topped it with a coat of Cover Girl IceSlicks Anti-Freeze.

I'm really pleased with the end result.

So, naturally, I took a bazillion pictures.

It kind of makes me think of Van Gogh's Starry Night.

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!

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?

What a crazy, long, hard week! I'm glad it's over. I've been wanting to post for a long time, so I'm happy to finally be doing it. :)

This was two coats of Finger Paints Amethyst Atelier with one coat of Sally Hansen HD DVD.

I love the purple to blue shift on DVD!

Yummy, awesome almost black, luscious green jelly!

And here is Lippmann Lady Sings the Blues. I did two sort of thick coats.

I put it over Essence Pool Party (one coat, I think), which was completely unnecessary!! I had no idea it would be so opaque on its own.

I think the pictures really turned out terrific. It reminds me of blue jeans, but in a sexy, edgy, chunky-glitter-interpretation kind of way!

Kind of like blue jeans and asphalt?! Yeah. Love it.

Now for some more chunky blue glitter fabulousness, Lippmann Across the Universe!

Love, love, love this one, too, and adore the photos. :)

I also did two thick-ish coats of this one.

It didn't wear too well on me and was chippy by the end of the first day. I freaking loved it so much that I applied it again, as a repeat, and wore for another day or so after, in a row!