Past NOTD Spam

My nails are getting.... better. They should be all right after my next chop! Stupid peelies. In the mean time, here's some past NOTD spam.

China Glaze Lighthouse over Precision The Next It Girl. Sparkly yellow-gold glass fleck!

Here is The Next It Girl by itself...

Creamy egg-yolk yellow. Kind of seems like a blatant rip off of OPI The It Color. It is very nice nevertheless.

Anna Sui 300 over black. Anna Suis come in cute little rose bottles and smell like roses. Yummy! Plus, round glitter is surprisingly quite unusual.

BB Couture Bonnie. BBC glitter in a lush green, slightly jelly base. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

Flomar U31. Deep, almost black base filled with duochrome flaky shimmer. It flashes predominantly purple to pink and ever so slightly golden at extreme angles. Thanks to Kristy and Erina for letting me know about this :)

China Glaze Something Sweet. I haven't seen myself wear pink for quite a while now. So many pinks just look off on me. I did like this one though!

Unnamed Sasatinnie over Australis Here Today Gone Tomorrow. I picked up the Sasatinnie really cheap while I was in Asia. It's got smaller silver, green and blue glitter with larger yellow (gold?) glitter. It's very nice layered.

And the Australis by itself...

How nice is this?! Erina tells me it's a dupe for Illamasqua Rampage. A beauty!

Australis Blue Tiger with China Glaze Cracked Concrete. I'm not too sure I'm so fond of this combo. I think it would have looked better with white crackle instead.

Precision Toxic-Wasting My Time. Reddish, caramel-y brown with lots and lots of gold shimmer. I really loved wearing this. I do so very much enjoy gold shimmer.... :)

NOTD Ozotic Pro 401 with OPI Black Shatter

Just a quick NOTD shot for you. This is four coats of and old, old Ozotic glow in the dark polish which I'm pretty sure is #401 with Black Shatter over the top.

Sorry for the really crappy pic. This is actually the least blurriest one. At least you can still see the cool effect!

Mecca Cosmetica Pixel Pink and Cherimoya 2012 Crucify

As requested by Carli :)

I'm not the hugest fan of crackles... I do like them  but I can't wear them too often. I couldn't resist picking up a few of these Cherimoyas though. There are so many different colours!

Cherimoya crackles are available at Beauty Joint for US$3. They also stock Kleancolor and have really cheap international shipping!
*edit* Apparently shipping costs have gone up a lot(!!) since I ordered two weeks ago :( I'll be sure to edit again if it turns out to be a mistake or just a temporary change.

This is one coat of Crucify over two coats of Pixel Pink.

Crucify is a dark green crackle. I thought I'd also mention that all the 2012s are "new formula crackles" ie. it has a similar formula to the OPI and China Glaze crackles as opposed to the old formulas (eg. Kleancolor, BYS and Cover Girl crackles).

Pixel Pink was a free mini they gave out some time last year at Mecca stores. It's a really nice berry pink creme.

I never realised how time consuming swatching crackles is. It took me 15 minutes to swatch Crucify because I had to wait for the base to be pretty much dry before I applied it. Kudos to those who swatch entire collections full of crack!

NOTD China Glaze First Mate and OPI Silver Shatter

Ok, how come nobody told me First Mate is a freaking ONE COATER??? Gorgeous muted dark blue creme. Application was seriously heaven. It went on smoothly and opaque in one coat. I probably had my mouth hanging open the whole time I was putting this on because it was so unexpectedly wonderful.

Definitely a new favourite of mine.

And because I just got it in the mail, I put Silver Shatter on top

Silver Shatter... I like it but I don't love it. I think I'd be much more into it if the finish wasn't foily. I had hoped for a silver crackle with a chrome finish, like say China Glaze Millennium. That would've been awesome.

Random Swatches

Hey guys! Just a few swatches for you today

CM Midnight Imposter. One of my favourite "starry night" polishes. Little silver square glitters in a deep blue base. 3 coats.

Precision Twilight Zone. Red toned purple with holo glitter and a violet shimmer running through. Kind of reminds me of China Glaze Grape Crush but more red. Really nice formula on this one, 2 coats.

Avon Olive Green. Man Avon has been really good lately. Awesome new colours, brushes and formula. This one is a dupe to RBL Orbis Non Sufficit I believe. This is one freaking coat. Amazing!

Missha HGR01. Three coats. Frosty metallic green with a slight gold and blue duochrome that doesn't show up on the nail as it does in the bottle. It's a little brushstrokey so I had to be careful with this one but the colour is really nice.

Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau. Baby blue cream from the Pardon My French collection. A really stark blue. Lots of white in the base. Two very smooth coats.

China Glaze Sexagon. A silver scattered, but strong holo. Three coats. A little sheer and watery, but all the ones from the Kaleidoscope collection are like that. This puppy looks great under artificial light as well as in the sun.

Essie Demure Vixen from Summer 2010. Putty mauve base with a violet shimmer. Such an unusual color. I really love it, but it didn't look the best against my skin. 3 coats.

China Glaze 2NITE. Smooth, linear blue holo. Gorgeous! One coat over Nfu-Oh Aqua Base.

Catherine Arley 805. Scattered black holo. It's no competitor to MPJ, but it's nice. Really smooth formula that glided on in 2 coats.

BK 04. I picked this baby up while on vacation in Shanghai. Notice it's in a very similar bottle to the Nfu-Ohs. Bright pink holo. The BK holos are really nice. They have this unusual... almost foil finish to them. They're still really sparkly under artificial lighting; not plain metallic looking.

China Glaze Crushed Candy over BK 04. I really like the pink and blue combo of this and the holo just peeking out beneath the crack.

Thanks for reading :)