Glowy Blue Embers

Every once in a while I'll layer some polishes together and fall in love and want to set up residency on my fingernails, hahaha. I'm currently wearing one of my favorite polish combinations ever and I'm super excited to share with you!

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This is one coat (!) of Zoya Song, with one coat Hits Phenomena Afterglow and one coat Finger Paint Asylum.  The layerings are over a coat of Orly Bonder, sealed with a coat of Gelous and then Out the Door. There's like, a circus-y carnival on my nails.

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Zoya Bevin and Essie As Gold As It Gets

I got this Zoya from a promo a few months back but didn't get around to wearing it until now.  Sometimes I know there are certain polishes I'm interested in but they don't scream out to me once I get them, then they sit until I finally wear them and then.. it's love! I've had this on for three days which is unheard of for me. I either pick it off or get too bored of it and remove within 48 hours. This combo has staying power.

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Shown is two coats of Zoya Bevin topped with Essie As Gold As It Gets, all over Orly Bonder & sealed with OTD. Zoya describes Bevin as "a dusty, medium sage green color with teal tones and a creamy opaque finish", which I think is a perfect description!  Essie's AGAIG is slowly inching its way into my Top 25 at least. Not usually a fan of gold anything, but this polish is so delicate and pretty.

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A Jelly Sandwich With OPI

Ever try to capture a really fun manicure but your camera is just all, "NOPE!"? That's what happened today.  I think this needs to be photographed outdoors, but its 11:00pm right now and that wouldn't help much.  I'm busy during daylight hours )= I have no time to do my nails then, so lets just look on at the hot mess I have for you today.

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The photo above is the reason I don't touch my camera settings for swatch photos. Now, I'm pretty pale and I admit that, but I am not translucent.WHAT HAVE I DONE! D:

Seen on this post is a jelly sandwich: 2 coats OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em - 1 coat of OPI I Lily Love you and the one more of OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em.  That is all over Orly Bonder and sealed with Out the Door.

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Yeah you can't really tell what's going on too much there, can ya?  It's difficult to see in real life, so I'm not surprised it doesn't translate well onto the screen. Sorry for that.

OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em has a perfectly lovely formula. I thought it was going to be too sure, but it isn't.  It's a magenta jelly, so it's love, really.  And I Lily Love You is a fun one, but it left bits sticking up that didn't self-level. Anyways, fail.

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OPI Pink Friday & Zoya Chloe

I'm such a sucker for a pink creme.  That has got to be my ultimate color and finish combination, closely followed by pink holos.  I was pretty bummed out when it was revealed that Pink Friday was a creme and not a holo as anticipated.  But nevertheless, I still love a pink nail polish.

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If you're noticing the lack of smoothness, you're right.  This is with no topcoat because I wanted to add Chloe without adding too many layers to avoid chipping.  This is three coats (sigh, kind of one too many) over Orly Bonder.  It was splotchy in some parts, touchdown marks were hard to avoid.  Not the greatest formula on this one.

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I finished this mani with one coat of Zoya Chloe and sealed it with OTD.  It sparkles a lot more in real life; I've never been good at capturing flakies and I'm scared to alter my camera settings for fear of never getting them back.  I think Chloe helped turned what may be considered a boring mani into a fun one.  What do you think?

OPI Wing It & Color Club Fame and Fortune

I was at the mall this weekend and went into Essentials and saw a few of the Color Clubs left that I had been wanting, I hadn't seen them anywhere else so I grabbed Fame and Fortune as soon as I saw it.  I wanted to incorporate it into a mani so I layered it with OPI Wing It that was given to me by a friend from my nail polish forum; the result was fun!

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This is 3 thin coats over CND Stickey, no top coat.  Even with three coats there still is some VNL, but the coats were super thin so that may have a hand it it.  This polish is crazy.  It's really glowy and was a pain to photograph.  The flash picture is further away from its true color, it doesn't quite lean that red in real life. It's hot pink with a neon-y orange undertone and shimmery and maybe even some micro glass flecks.  It's unique is what it is, and I love it, really.

I wanted to play off of a "jelly sandwich" and since Wing It is somewhat jellylike, I sandwiched Color Club Fame and Fortune in it.  This is two coats of Fame and Fortune with another coat of Wing It and then one coat of Instant Artificials and then sealed with OTD.

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The two colors play nicely as Fame and Fortune's base color is very similar to Wing It's base color (a hot magenta of sorts).  My only gripe is that the flakes in Fame and Fortune don't necessarily lay flat.  On two nails, even with IA and OTD, they stuck out and didn't lay flat.  I ran my finest grit buffer over it a few times and it seemed to fix it; good to know! Just make sure it's dry otherwise you'll botch the whole thing.

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Essie Lapiz of Luxury & Finger Paints Motley

I revamped my previous mani with Essie Lapiz of Luxury by removing the popbeauty accent nail and added Finger Paints Motley.  Such a pretty combination!

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This is 3 coats of Lapiz of Luxury over one coat of CND Stickey sealed with Out the Door.

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Lapiz of Luxury wore really well!  No chipping, nice dry time, wonderful formula.  This is one coat of Motley.  A less dense flakie, but still very pretty.  It adds a subtle sparkle.  It also looks amazing over black.

The whole effect is really subtle and understated, but I like that.  If you're looking for something eyecatching I'd suggest Motley over black or red, even. I can't wait to play with all my new flakies!

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