Lynnderella Lucky Numbers

Outdoors in full sun:

Today's manicure is Lynnderella Lucky Numbers over Rescue Beauty Lounge Film Noir.
Film Noir is a purpley dark red jellyish creme. Lucky Numbers is a clear base full of purple shimmer with red and black square and hex glitters of various sizes, and bar glitters. It's very chunky. The bar glitter is projecting everywhere.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of RBL Film Noir, two coats of Lucky Numbers, one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc, and one coat of Seche Vite.

Lynnderella Connect the Dots

Outdoors in full sun:

Today's manicure is Lynnderella Connect the Dots over China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise.
ChG TuT is a watery turquoise neon shimmer polish. Connect the Dots is a clear base with green and peach microshimmer loaded with a bunch of sizes of white and black square and hex, as well as bar glitter.
Connect the Dots was originally released in Lynnderella's First Edition, but I bought it (in the new fatter bottle) during one of the halloween sales.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of Turned Up Turquoise, two coats of Connect the Dots, one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc, and one coat of Seche Vite.

More Revlon layering: Facets of Fuchsia over Fierce

This mani is a Revlon Facets of Fuchsia over Revlon Fierce from the Edgy Elegance foil collection.
Fierce is a magenta/silver foil polish and facets of fuchsia is magenta glitters and hex glitter in a sheer black base.
As with the last Target glitter and Edgy Elegance foil, the coverage/formula on Fierce is great and the glitter in Facets of Fuchsia is a little bit dull and one-note, especially after working with Lynderellas...
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, one coat of Fierce, one coat of Facets of Fuchsia, and one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc.
Indoors in artificial light:


Outdoors in full sun:


I got a chance to layer Dior Rock Coat over this mani (a smoky transparent top coat).

Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire

Today's manicure is Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire layered over Wet n Wild Buy Me a Drink from the recently released On the Prowl collection.
Very Pretty Vampire is a clear base with large red hex and square glitters, small red hex glitter, small black hex glitter, small magenta hex glitter, orange square glitter, and black, magenta, and red glitters. The glitter is a little more sparse than it is is Cauldron Drippings or Bibbitty Bobbitty Boo Blue.
You can buy these Lynnderella polishes here: lynnderella-lynnderella.blogspot.
Lynderella posted yesterday that she's opening the shop for another sale next week (the week of Sept 19).
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of WnW Buy Me a Drink, two coats of Very Pretty Vampire, and one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc.
Taken indoors in artificial light:


Taken outdoors in full sun:

Tony Moly GT01 Mercury

This mani is Tony Moly GT01 from the Galaxy Collection. As previously stated, Tony Moly is a Korean brand (not distributed in the US as far as I know). I ordered the whole collection on eBay for $10 a bottle. This is a black jelly loaded with silver, blue, and red glitter.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of polish, and one coat of Seche Vite tc.
These pictures were taken indoors with artificial light.

Lynnderella Mercurial

natural light:

w flash:

Today's mani is Lynnderella Mercurial. I put it on for my friend's bachelorette party.
Mercurial is a blackened silver shimmer jelly-ish base filled with small and large silver hex glitters, large square silver glitter, and small lilac hex glitters. It is so variable (or mercurial) that it almost looks better indoors, since the complexity can get lost in the glare of the sun.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of mercurial, and one coat of Seche Vite tc.
All these photos were taken indoors with natural and artificial light.

First attempt at tape manicure

So six degrees of Kevin Bacon, I just discovered Chloe's Nails and her awesome tape manicures. I was inspired by this one in particular:
St Patty Patchwork
I did so many coats, I really hope this holds up through the wedding I'm attending Saturday. I tried to complement the art deco inspired elements of my dress.
I started with one coat of SpaRitual LacquerLock bc, one coat of CND stickey bc, two coats of Essie Smooth Sailing (a cornflower blurple shimmer from the 2011 Summer collection), and one coat of Seche Vite. The first time I jumped the gun applying tape and it got wrinkly, so I waited a good half hour the second time. Then I applied a diagonal strip of tape to each nail and layered one coat of Illamasqua Boosh over the Essie and one coat of seche vite.


After that dried I used a second diagonal tape placement and did two coats of OPI Spark de Triomphe (a 2011 Serena Williams Grand Slam duo release - loads of silver glitter with larger subtle-y gold glitters) with another coat of seche vite. After that dried I finished with a coat of seche vite over the whole nail. For those not counting, that means my tips have 10 frickin' coats. It's definitely not perfect, and it was time consuming, but I am still into it.
These pictures were taken indoors using an artificial light source.

Etude House WH004

Today's manicure is Etude House WH004. Etude House is a (very cute) Korean brand of cosmetics. For a time their polishes were available from etudehouseusa.com, ostensibly the brand's US distribution arm, but the site was actually unaffiliated with the brand and was shut down due to copyright infringement. This information is gathered from the internet, so take it with a grain of salt. For the time it was active, polishes were often massively backordered. These polishes can be ordered from eBay, and likely other webstores.
This polish is a vampy black with blurpley teal duochrome macroshimmer particles. It's tough to catch the shimmer without a strong light source, but it is lovely when viewed in sunshine.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual bc, one coat CND Stickey, two coats of varnish, and one coat of Out the Door tc.
These pictures were all taken indoors using artificial lighting.

RBL Spring 2011: The Quick and the Dirty

I ordered from RBL on Saturday and to my surprise and delight, my package of new spring colors from the 2011 Iconic/Ironic collection was on my doorstep when I got home from work today. My cuticles are a disaster, but I did quick 2-coat (no base or top coat) swatches to share with you. These are all so lovely. I am the most ambivalent about Recherche because of it's simplicity, but I look forward to doing full manis with all of these interesting colors.
These pictures were taken indoors with artificial lighting.

l to r: Recherche, Iconoclast, Decorous, Insouciant


Recherche
a plummy, brownish, blackened purple super-vampy creme
The closest thing I have in my stash is Hard Candy Normal and a Strange Beautiful brown, but neither is a match.
\ ruh-sher-SHAY \ , adjective;
1.Uncommon; exotic; rare.
2.Exquisite; choice.
3.Excessively refined; affected.
4.Pretentious; overblown.


Iconoclast
black with multicolor flashes of microshimmer
I have nothing like this in my collection.
[ahy-kon-uh-klast]
–noun
1.a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
2.a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.


Decorous
milk chocolate with a flash of purplish shimmer
The closest thing in my stash to this is Chanel Particulare and that has no shimmer.
[dek-er-uhs, dih-kawr-uhs, -kohr-]
–adjective
characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.


Insouciant
soft lilac with a flash of blue shimmer
I have nothing like this in my stash.
[in-soo-see-uhnt; Fr. an-soo-syahn]
–adjective
free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.