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Are you dizzy with excitement about nail polish?

Last night I was debating what green to put on. I have a couple of new Nicole greens that are nice. I have lots of lovely Illamasqua greens. OPI. I thought it would be nice to wear TiNS again, though.

And it is nice. So nice. I heart TiNS!!!!!

This is The Holiday Cheer. Only two coats!

It's wearing great on me so far, as I've come to expect it to do. :) I should be able to get at least another day or two out of it.

Anyone else rocking out green and glitter right now?

SO PRETTY!

I wore this today. It's three coats of Anna Sui 013, from the Spring 2011 collection, with a coat of China Glaze Snow Globe on top.

I thought 013 was going to be a really cool white with subtle shimmer, but it wasn't building up to white for me. Also, my nails are stained enough (although not terribly so) that I think it made the overall effect look more peachy and stained than white and pure.

Yes, I could have put it over an opaque white or even a jellyish white. Probably should have!

It looked fairly pretty in real life - not as gross as it does here. Certainly not one of my favorite manicures, but frilly, light, and definitely different from what I normally do.

This wore just horribly on me, too. :( I don't know what's going on with my wear time lately.

That brings me to my final, and most important point. This Anna Sui polish is NOT ROSE SCENTED. WTH?! I do not understand. I am so disappointed! All of my others are. I was rather despondent over it last night. I bought it off of Urban Outfitters website, which, I have bought Anna Suis from before and not had any problems. I'm just wondering what the problem could be or if they are no longer going to be scented. I need to test the other four I bought and see if they are scented or not, too, and then I will likely contact Anna Sui's company to ask for an explanation. I'll keep you posted. Also, if anyone has relevant information or experience, please share!

This is my Gamma mani. I used two coats of Illamasqua Gamma and then one coat of CND Effects Sapphire Sparkle.

Gamma is a bold neon orange - however, it doesn't dry matte like most neons.

I can't say that my pictures accurately portray the color, but it is close. It looks more neon and less pumpkin in real life, if that makes sense.

The CND sparkle effect is pretty cool and also did not get accurately portrayed here, either! It's got a blue/pink flash.

The funny thing is that I fully intended to put a purple sparkle over Gamma, thinking that that would look really cool. I was rummaging around in my clear-ish sparkly-glittery drawer looking for one, came upon Sapphire Sparkle, and decided it looked pretty good (perhaps thinking that the combination of the pink and blue looked purple!).

After I put it on, I kind of thought, "Gee, I wish it was actually purple!" But, nonetheless, it looks pretty cool and somewhat purple.

Also, I want to say that Gamma does not really flatter my skin tone one bit. But that has never stopped me from wearing a polish before in my life. :)

There certainly could be worse choices and I think it was a fun change of pace.

Do you like to wear obnoxious oranges? Once in a while the mood strikes me, but overall I don't tend to reach for them as much.

A coworker of mine tried this on and she has golden tan skin. I gotta tell you it looked so stunning on her!

This is Nicole by OPI Sea How Far You Go. It's one of the new Target exclusive colors.

It's a pretty unique duochrome shimmer.

When I first picked up the bottle, I didn't really know what to think of the actual color. I just knew I wanted it!

The predominant color is light gold. I'm not sure I want to say it's a cool toned gold, but it's definitely not very warm.

There's a weird and slight undercurrent of blue.

The blue combined with the gold makes for a somewhat green effect at times, almost khaki or olive.

Isn't it just crazy?!

It reminds me a bit of Sally Hansen HD Opluent Cloud, but there really isn't the purple/gray thing going on here.

Do you think this is pretty or fugly?

I really like it.

This is Orly Royal Velvet. I used three coats here. It is a majestic, flashy, duochrome blurple.

No problems with application.

I absolutely adore this color. It's just perfect.

The duochrome seems to really come out the most in artificial lighting, oddly enough. I took some pictures in my bathroom lighting that you will see soon, below.

Recently my husband looked at my blog and remarked that I post too many pictures of the polish. He said I only need one or two.

Oh, good Husband, I need lots of pictures because they are all so pretty!! ;)

Maybe someday there will be a Mr. Dr. DizzyNails blog and he will just put one or two pictures up per post.

Let's all stay tuned for that!

I have to say that I had a really good nail polish day. I found the new Target Nicole by OPIs!

I was so excited and bought all the ones I wanted (which was nearly all of them).

In fact, I just put on Sea How Far You Go and that will be my next post.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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....and I hate it right back!! Ugh. This is MAC Biker Blue. I just HAD to have it, even though I'm certain I have dupes. I did three coats here.

It was surprisingly sheer.

A couple of terrific gals on MUA suggested that I layer Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure over it.

I did, and here is the result.

There were some very scary sore looking cuticle spots that I tried to blur out for your viewing comfort. :/

But here is why MAC polish hates me! It started lifting at the corners, in a major way, in less than 24 hours of wear (even with my new-found love base coat, Palladio Fuse)! What the H?!

I should have known. This happened to me with the last MAC polish I wore, Bad Fairy.

I guess I thought with the new awesome-sauce base coat, it might just act right.

Not so much. It's a bummer, too, because it was a fun mani and I'm sad I only got to wear it for a day. Ah well....onto bigger and better things (I hope!). :)


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