Essie - Dive Bar

This polish is dark. Very dark. Darker on the nail than it looks in the bottle. In the bottle it has a multi chromatic effect that shifts from green to blue to purple.. but unfortunately it doesn't translate to the nail. I'm still wearing it right now and all I can say is that it looks like black with a subtle hint of green shimmer. Kinda disappointing.

All of these pictures were taken indoors because it has been raining for days..

With flash:

Without flash:

 Without flash:

With flash:

 Macro with flash:

Macro without flash:

Without flash:

Without flash and blurred to show some of the multi chrome action (too bad it can't be seen as easily with the naked eye):

With flash:

With flash and underwater:



As you can already guess my overall reaction to this polish is.. meh. Maybe it's just the mood I'm in.. I've been preferring lighter shades of polishes lately, probably because it's spring/almost summer. I guess I'll just have to try this one again in winter..

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China Glaze - Prism

If you love glitter you have got to get this polish. It is chock full of it!! Absolutely gorgeous.

(Once again, I must say that the pictures that were taken without flash are much more color accurate. However, the pictures with flash show off all the sparkly goodness!)

Indoors without flash:

Indoors with flash:

Indoors without flash:

Indoors with flash:

Indoors without flash:

Indoors with flash:

Blurry glitter shot (so purdy!):

Indoors without flash:

Indoors with flash:

Outdoors:

Macro shot (look at all that glitter!!):

The only downside to all this glitter is it was quite difficult to apply because of it's chunkiness. But as you can see it was well worth it in the end!

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"Ideal Teal" with extras!

This is just a quick post to share some pics I took of my Ideal Teal franken with 2 coats of Color Club Femme Fatale layered over it.

Outdoors:

Indoors with flash:



Now in person I swear this is reminiscent of RBL Aqua Lily.. but the camera just didn't want to pick it up that well. So just for fun I layered 1 coat Models Own Indian Ocean over my middle finger - and that came out awesome!!

Indoor macro without flash:

Indoor macro with flash:

I'm completely loving the way it looks and I just couldn't keep it to myself!

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My "Ideal Teal" Franken

Yeah, I know the name is pretty lame.. but so are most nail polish names. I'd been admiring all the teal shades I've been seeing lately and since I really need to cut back on my nail polish spending, I decided to make one with things I already have. I mixed Color Club "Chelsea Girl" and Barry M "Mint Green" and voila! My ideal shade of teal was created!

Outdoors, overcast:

Indoors without flash:

Indoors with flash:

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Indoors with flash:

..and Holden likes it too!

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OPI - Mod About You, Sinful Colors - You Just Wait, and Pretty & Polished - The Amazing Technicolor Topcoat!

I have been buying way too much polish lately so I have way too many untrieds.. to combat this I've been doing some layering experiments so that I can wear multiple polishes at once.

First I started off with 3 coats of OPI "Mod About You"..

Sunlight:

Indoors with flash:

Indoors without flash:

Sunlight:

Indoors without flash:

Then I decided to add 1 coat of Sinful Colors "You Just Wait"..

All of these pics are indoors, with flash:



Even though that looked super pretty, I just had to add Pretty & Polished "The Amazing Technicolor Topcoat" because I've been dying to use it..

 The next 4 pictures were taken outdoors:

Indoors without flash:

Indoors with flash:

Indoors with flash:

Outdoors overcast thumb macro:

This is my right hand ring finger macro shot - I love the black bar glitter piece! 

Indoors with flash:



I'm totally loving this combo! It almost looks good enough to eat.. like a pink frosting cupcake with sprinkles - yum!

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