Three Glittery NOTDs

I wore these quite a while ago but the pictures have been sitting in my camera for so long I thought I might as well post them. Enjoy!

OPI Teenage Dream with black konad. I'm pretty sure that plate is from the second Bundle Monster set.

Amour Rain Glitter. The glitters in this are itty-bitty little bar glitters. Very cool. I haven't pulled my MaaH out since it was released but seeing this again makes me want to. Badly.

I love blue and copper together. Love. I think it's one of the best colour combinations ever. This mani consisted of iicrc: two coats of Pure Ice Strapless (thank you Noelie!), one coat of LA Girl Jostle, one coat of LA Girl Flamboyant and lastly, another coat of Jostle. Phew!

Franken - Here, have a Rainbow

Such a simple, simple franken. My goal was a really sheer holo top coat akin to DS Shimmer and PCFS except sheerer. Those two are nice but IMO they are too dense to layer over something dark.

FULL ON DOUBLE RAINBOW!

Here is one coat over LA Girl Millennium, a dark purple foil.

Under artificial light...

And in weaksauce sun

I wish I had better pics to show you guys. It really is very nice but I suck at picking up holos on camera.

The recipe is simple. One third of a nice silver holo and two thirds of clear. Easy peasy! I used Ozotic 509 as my silver holo. I have a... "generous" supply of backups of 509 and I figured it'd be okay if I frankened some of it. LOL

I loved how the bottle looked as I was pouring!

Such a neat effect!

LA Girl Color Addicts

LA Girls' Color Addict line has been out for some time now. I've only recently picked up a few from Cherry Culture (along with the few Glitter Addicts I posted here) since there was a small price decrease from $4 to $3 and a 20% sale.

Gold shimmer!!! Oh man, so cool! A whole line with gold shimmer... LA Girl, you really be full of win.

The application on all of these were really smooth and pigmented. Two coats for all.

Hypnotic. A dark(ish) yet bright blue. It actually leans slightly green but my camera sucks and the colour is a little off. Imagine it slightly greener - almost a little teal. Gorgeous colour but beware! It stains like a mofo. This gave me really bad Smurf fingers when I removed it.

Intoxicate. Dark reddy/plummy purple. There is a lot of gold shimmer in this one. It has the most shimmer out of all the others. Just look how much depth the shimmer adds to it!

Idol. Dusty navy blue. In contrast to Intoxicate, Idol has the least amount of shimmer. It's almost a hidden shimmer where it only really pops out at you under bright light or in the sun. The gold works so well with the blue. Such a pretty colour!

Disorder. Medium taupe-y grey. I think my pictures throw this very green. It's not that green at all IRL - it's more of just a dirty grey shade... with gold shimmer!! I love it!


I've been spending so much money lately at Cherry Culture. Between these Color Addicts, Glitter Addicts and NYX... I really hope they have another sale soon :D

LA Girl Glitter Addicts

So.. I really wanted to post a few Etudes that are freaking amazeballs but none of my swatches turned out right D: The pics are just so craptastic that I really can't bring myself to post them. Luckily for me, the mailman came to my rescue! He arrived with my lovely Cherry Culture order! And right after I read this post by Kaz as well. Talk about awesome timing!

So these Glitter Addicts... they are BOSS. Holy crap. LA Girl really outdid themselves. I pretty much ran back to the CC website and ordered a whole lot more the second I opened up my parcel.

Here are the ones I got..

I love LA Girl bottles. The thick layer of glass at the base makes them really bottom heavy. They're really nice to hold. And on an even more superficial note than that... how incredibly awesome is the font on these? LOVE!

The whole line consists of small and large hex glitter in varying colours suspended in a clear base. They're probably dense enough to use on their own in 3-4 coats but I like them layered.


All swatches are one coat over a base

Animate over The Face Shop BL605. I can't stand how pretty this is! Possibly the least unique - Diamond Cosmetics Chunky Red Glitter and Wet n Wild Prancer look dupey. Also, even though it's different, Deborah Lippmann Ruby Red Slippers (one of my all time favourites!) really comes to mind.

Jostle over Bloom Montreal. Jostle is a really nice dark blue glitter. I love the way the glitter looks when it hits the light. It's like it's glowing! I didn't do a good job picking out a base colour for this one though. I think it'd look much better over a light blue.

Eutopia over China Glaze Happy Go Lucky. Eutopia is a little less blue than my pictures are showing here though it still definitely leans on the blue side of purple. I love this over yellow!

Uninhibited over Ulta3 Allure. Saved the best till last! HOLY CRAP BLACK GLITTER! ... AN AWESOME BLACK GLITTER! *coughFunkyChunkycough* It has soothed my lemming for Revlon Streetwear Black Widow a little bit. I love this over Allure. I totally stole the idea off a lovely lady who posted her mani of Black Widow over a nude. It's just too awesome. I can't even... *dies*

Green Eggs and (blue) Spam!

I've found myself swatching a lot of my blues so I've decided to post them all at once so... Spammah! And just a warning: not only is there broken nails in this post, but my nails are also super nubs D:

Unnamed Miki. Reminds me of DS Magic/Orly Lunar Eclipse. Very pretty!

Etude House BL009. Sorry I'm not holding the Etude bottle. They are too curvy and funky for my fingers to wrap around properly, LOL. This is just... so. beautiful. Guise, if you no haz, you needz!

Ozotic 201 over a blue creme (I can't remember what it is). There's blue, purple and a sprinkling of holo bar glitter in this one. I must admit... it's not as awesome as I was hoping it to be.

Nfu-Oh 119. Wooo! Blue jelly! JELLEH!

LA Girl Alkaline Blue. Bright blue foil. I love bright coloured foils. This is one is very nice and glowy.

Essie Lapis of Luxury. I really liked last year's Resort collection. Nice squishy cremes that are almost-but-not-really jellies.

Color Club Pure Energy. Isn't that shimmer just glorious?! So so pretty! Tied for my favourite from the Electro Candy collection with the purple.

Bloom Tel Aviv. This pretty much looks black until it hits the sun. Then the bright blue shimmer flecks pop up.

OPI DS Glamour. Dark blue holo... nuff said.

Ozotic 617. Medium blue scattered holo. Love this one!

Hope you guys enjoyed that! ♥