DizzyNails

 Hello, friends!  I apologize for not having updated in nearly a week.  I've merely been lazy.  The pictures are backing up and I've got tons to post - now I just need to do it!

 This is three coats of OPI GoldenEye.

 Application and wear were good.  I did use two coats of top coat, just to be safe.  Lately I'm finding that I need more top coat layers because my more recent favorite formulas are not as thick as the old faves (Seche Vite and Poshe, for example).

 I can deal with another coat, though, if it means an extra day or two of wear!

 After I got GoldenEye, I realized I have a dupe - maybe even two, thinking about Orly Glitz and Glamour!  The dupe in question, however, is Sally Hansen Gilded Lily, which I bought from Target maybe a couple of months ago.

 Here are the bottle comparisons.  Looking mighty dupey.

 And here are some nail wheel comparisons.

 If I try to imagine a difference, it's that Gilded Lily might be a hair darker in color and maybe more reflective and shiny.  That might be due to formulation density and/or brush differences, though.  I'm gonna say that they are super close and you definitely don't need both.

 This is my current NOTD - Contrary Polish Bonfire.  I used two coats here, topped with Butter London's top coat.

 Bonfire is a beautiful, deep reddish orange with shimmery and glittery bits.

 My beloved Butter London top coat does not do as good a job smoothing out glitters as I would like it to - I could have used a second coat to really smooth this out more.

 For this mani I started with two coats of Contrary Polish Santorini.

 Santorini is much prettier and more shimmery than my pictures let on.  It also dries matte, for what it's worth.  I added a coat of Two Birds Vel-awesome-raptor, followed by many coats of top coat.

 You might not be able to tell here, but the top coats were a total fail and gave me a zillion tiny bubbles (see on the ring finger below)!  I blame the Pro FX ultra fast dry top coat for that.  I believe I used a coat of Instant Artificials, two or three coats of Dior's top coat, then a coat of Pro FX (by that point I was amused that Dior was doing nothing to smooth the glitters, probably due to its watery texture, so I just slapped on the Pro FX hoping that its thicker texture would do the trick).  It did smooth everything, but at the cost of a million bubbles!  Truthfully, it didn't matter much since Vel-awesome-raptor's tons of tiny green and black glitters largely masked the bubbles.

 Are you ready for this?!

 This is three coats of Two Birds Shine by Night.

 Uh.....YES, PLEASE!

 This instantly reminded me of Across the Universe, but truly, I think this is cooler.

 My coworker saw these and squealed, "Green Hornet nails!" with delight!  :)

 This post is going to feature a new-to-me indie polish called Two Birds.

 I started here with two coats of OPI You Only Live Twice.  It is a really beautiful and shimmery pink that leans red.

 The redness here freaked my camera out, of course, so you'll have to imagine that this is a million times prettier in person!  It's a very holiday gorgeous kind of color.

 Spun Sugar has big white glitter, small blue glitter, and tiny pink glitters all in a nearly translucent base.  I'm not positive if it's completely translucent or ever so slightly pink.  Obviously for this combo, it didn't really matter to me because of my pinkish undies!

 I love how it looks!  The glitters dispersed themselves really nicely and I think it's a cute mani.  :)

 I'm definitely going to have fun coming up with other combinations to use with Spun Sugar.

 What color would you put it over?

 I finally got around to wearing OPI Metallic 4 Life recently.  I did a coat of Finger Paints Black Expressionism as my base, then a coat of Metallic 4 Life, two coats of Seche Vite, and finished with two coats of Essie Matte About You.

I know that sounds like a lot of coats and a lot of nonsense, but it was really relatively quick and easy.  I did it kind of late at night, too, and was able to go to bed pretty quick.  That, of course, is the beauty of Seche Vite.

The bummer-oosky of Seche Vite, though, is that at a day and a half of wear time my polish began to chip and lift.  I knew it would happen.

For being such a relatively simple glitter polish, I really really love this.  It just plain makes me happy.  Go figure.

Here is a picture of Georgia lounging around on her couch.  It cracks me up that her tail is between her legs!

 I've been feeling like wearing darker Fall colors lately, so it was only natural that I grabbed Barry M Red Black to try.  It did not disappoint!

 I used three coats here.  It was a great application and I had good wear.  I did mess something up to end up with a few bubbles within a couple nails (you can see them mostly on my pinky), but fortunately it hardly showed in real life, thus I was able to cope with it.  :)