OPI Black Shatter has arrived!!

YAY, Black Shatter is finally here!! I was soooo excited when it arrived!! I wanted to try 2 different manis, so I decided to layer it over a sparkly gold & then a flakie.

Here is the first one I tried....I did a base of Orly Luxe and then a coat of China Glaze Medallion, which FYI is my fave sparkly gold glitter! Black Shatter needs to be used over a 100% dry mani, and used VERY quickly. I actually prefer the smaller cracked looked, like in my previous post, but this is still nice.

Then I wanted to try it over a flakie, so I used a base of Love & Beauty, from Forever 21, and then added Nfu-Oh 50 over top.

1 word.......BEAUTIFUL!!

Now here it is with Black Shatter over top

A Holiday layering experiment....

This was a mani that I did, just sort of playing around, lol, but I loved how it turned out. I started with my Sinful's Black on Black, and then added Sinful's All About You. Its an awesome gold, orange, rust colored glitter.

Then, cause I can never leave anything alone, I wanted to add some red to this, just to make it a tad more festive. I had this polish I ordered from Forever 21, and loved it, but it was just to sheer. Well, it was perfect for what I visioned. I love how it was sheer enough to let All About You still show through!

A new franken!! Love & Beauty gets a makeover!

I was sitting at my desk at work, and I looked in my drawer to grab my black polish. What did I see.....this really pretty green polish that I got from Forever 21. and had never tried yet. I completely forgot that I had brought it in a while ago, to swatch!! So I did......and OMG, it was awful!!! It was sooo sheer that it looked like mucus, and would have needed about 6 coats to even get close to the bottle color. No thanks!! Well as I was about to throw it out, cause I couldn't even bare to pass it on to anyone, that would just be mean, I decided to add black! Now the bottle was full, and I added 2 drops of black, and shook like mad. That wasn't dark enough for me, and the bottle was already full, so I dumped out about 1/5 of it, and then added about 4-5 more drops of black, and this is what I got. Now since the original polish was sooooooooo thin, it still took 3 coats to get it to this, but the end result was WAY better. I seriously love this green! I just wish I had a pic of what the original color looked like :(

Random Swatches

I have been noticing just how many polishes I have that don't get used. It's kind of sad. So lately I have been just grabbing a few at a time, and swatching them.

This is a polish I got from Forever 21, and it's just called Magenta/Black. This is 3 coats, and it's amazing!

I am in love with this polish, and the pics of it. It's so glossy. This is Finger Paints Tough Art to Follow.

Here we have a Hard Candy called Sweet P

I picked this up on clearance, I'm a sucker for sales.

Camouflage

Twinkle, I am loving the gold shimmer in this.

Iced Merlot, over black. Do you see the amazing shimmer in this?!?!?!

Another Hard Candy, Lava

and here it is, of course, layered over black

Okay, off to get more together ;P

OPI Merry Midnight

Since OPI Merry Midnight def needs to be layered over something, I decided to try it over Forever 21's Love & Beauty, Lavender. Merry Midnight is from the 2009 OPI Holiday Wishes Collection. So it was LE, and may be hard to find. If you do come across it, I suggest you grab it.

Look at the rainbow flakies in the bottle!!!!!! I just wish it showed up that well on the actual nail.

It's still very pretty though!

Purple Funky French Mani :)

This is a mani from.....this week too, I know, I know, I'm kind of behind, but I'm playing catch-up now. I was feeling pretty creative, and if you know my style...it's funky french's. They will always have my heart. I wanted something purple to match my work outfit, and this is how the story goes.......

I started off with Forever 21's Love & Beauty polish in Lavender (really creative names F21)

Then of course, that was too boring for me, So I used OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark Matte for some fun tips.

But...that just wanted enough. So I added ChG (China Glaze) C-C-Courage to it....and this is my result. I LOVE it!