Brown with Gold stripes + white hearts and Zoya's Limited Edition 18K gilty

Love this. I had no idea where I was going with it, it started off as testing my new gold polish I got from a $1.89 Walgreens sale. (Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure brand.) Thought it was too light for my taste, so I thought it was the perfect time to try my striping tape I ordered. Sooo. I added Essie's Little Brown Dress on top of it after applying the tape. In the process of doing this, I smudged the lines a little and I'm a perfectionist. Sooo. I added little white hearts using my white nail polish striper. Thank god for stripers! Heh.

The next day after I had done this mani, my pre order of Zoya's Gilty Pleasures 18K gold flake top coat came in. Perfect timing, as it goes very well with the mani I had did. Of course I had to use it, ended up putting it on my accent thumbs. :-)

Sorry bout the tip wear. I hate Essie polish, it tends to chip fast for me.
Must be a weak formula. :(

Saran Wrap, striping, dots, and glitter

Not a clue on what to name this.

The peach color is gorgeous! Omg. That one is Sinful Colors - Hazard, i think. It's literally THE perfect peach color. Better than China Glaze's shades.

The black stripes I used a random Cosmo Girl striping polish, and the glitter was also by Cosmo Girl. For the Saran Wrap thumbs I used a black Pure Ice. After that dried, I put on Sinful's Hazard again and smudged with the saran wrap. :) Kinda wish I did peach with the black on top but oh well, too little; too late.

Why does this mani remind me of, "Ke$ha" and Lady Gaga for some reason???

    

 

Dark plum holographic half moon stripes

That's a mouthful, huh? I suppose this half moon mani is rather hard to see when it comes to the half moon part, but it's still pretty and I like it a lot. My nails do look a bit wonky as my Sally Hansen Insta Dry top coat is very very VERY low and it's a little gooey and such at this point. I may have 3 more uses out of it, max, if that. I even put in some polish thinner before I used it this time.

I had actually done a swatch of the China Glaze dark plum color, but my Nikon camera is super awkward with uploading and I couldn't find them. I shall upload them at a later date.

If you haven't noticed, I'm really liking the holographic striping polishes.

The following polishes are what I used:

1. Sephora by OPI base coat
2. China Glaze - VII
3. Art Club - Lilac Hologram
4. Sally Hansen Insta Dry top coat

Holographic striping over neon jelly purple

These are the polishes I decided to use this time around. Here we have (from left to right):

• Art Club - Glitter hologram
• Art Club - Lilac hologram
• Studio M - Thunderbolt

I made a previous post about Studio M's Thunderbolt. From my research, it IS a jelly. It goes on very different compared to a cream polish. This is the strangest nail polish I've used yet!

This polish is very very difficult to capture properly on camera. In poor lighting, it looks to be a dark-ish to medium shade of purple, and in sunlight/better lighting it's a bright neon purple. The bottle is damn cute, too.

I decided to keep it simple, mostly trying out all of my new polishes in one go. (I still have one hologram striping one I didn't use though.) My base coat (ORLY's Bonder) has been acting really weird ever since I got it. It tends to make my cuticles really strange even when I try not to overflood them. This is not the first time where it's made the top ends of my nails look like they're some what peeling. I can't say I like ORLY's Bonder base coat, but it's all I have right now. I use other base coats and my nails don't do this crap, but yeah. Sorry about the tops of my nails looking odd.

Up close. See what I'm talking about? My base coat makes the top
look so weird. Not the first time Orly's bonder base coat has
did this to me. Time for a new one, eh?