Magnetic Freakin' Violet and Sportsgirl Northern Lights

Freakin' Violet is like the missing polish in the Nfu-Oh flakie line up.

Two coats. Violet jelly, electric blue flakies and an amazing green shimmer that I couldn't capture. You can see it clearly in the bottle though. It was much more opaque than I was expecting and completely fine after two coats.

With a layer of Sportsgirl Northern Lights. Another gift from my buddy Kristy. Northern Lights has blue shimmer and glitter particles as well as irregular red shards. Really cool. This puppy never showed up at any of the Sportsgirls near me and I have no idea if it's discontinued or not. Snap it up if you see it though because it is lovely.

NOTDs - CrowsToes, Lynnderella, NerdLacquer and Nfu-Oh

I'm really behind in posting. Here are a few NOTDs. Sorry, not much chat since I'm in a rush to go out to dinner and then get back to do more study *sigh* Such is life.... lol

One coat of CrowsToes Absolum over CND Urban Oasis. Absolum is packed with glitter! I will probably try to wear it alone next time.

Two coats of Lynnderella Love Potion No. 99 over China Glaze Virtual Violet. A little more red than my pictures show. Supremely gorgeous.

NerdLacquer All of Time and Space. Two coats over Essence You Belong To Me. I didn't really need the base but I was already wearing it beforehand. I hope everything is ok with the creator of NerdLacquer...

One coat of Nfu-Oh 56 over Revlon Royal. So so pretty. I love how glowy the flakies are in the sun.

NOTD Spam

Just some of what's been on my nails lately.

A-England Saint George konaded with ChG 2030 and plate BM20. Saint George is such a gorgeous and saturated teal. Opaque in one single coat as well!

Gradient done with Etude's Wannabe Perfumed Syrup Nails set. Look how pretty the packaging is...

Pa A20. Bight jelly-esque blue. I really need more Pa's. I adore each and every one I have.

Lynnderella Change over Essence Nude It! I've done this exact combination before but I adored it so much I wanted to wear it again.

Big Universo Espectral over black. A beauty from Brazil. The flakies are really dense in this one. Only one coat is pictured above.

NYX Girls Gilded Glitter

One of my favourites from the new NYX line. It's so very unique. I don't own anything like it.

Gilded Glitter is essentially a tonne of different sized, irregular gold flakes in a clear base. Some are tiny and some are pretty large. But the flakes themselves are unusual. Here's a close-up...

I'm big! Click me!

The flakes are metallic gold shards. Not like your regular flaky polishes and definitely not gold leaf flakes (a la Rococo). This is two coats on black. Pretty awesome!

Inglot 203

Inglot makes some great flakies. The only problem is that the bottles are tiny and retail for $15. Luckily for me, the Inglot store close to me put some of the flakies on sale for $5 each intermittently some time last year. I stalked the store for a month trying to catch the sales which I've yet seen happen again.

In the end, I managed to get a hold of 203, 204 and 205. Unfortunately, I've never seen the the one flakie left (202) for sale and I don't think I can cough up $15 for a mini bottle. Oh well... maybe some day they'll have a sale again.

Here is 203 over black. To my eyes, it flashes a bright green, turquoise, teal and a bright electric blue. So cool.

Duochrome! LOVE!

The flakes in the Inglots seem to look different to the ones in Hidden Treasure and the Nfu-Ohs don't you think? They seem to be more like shards than flakes - more angular and much more random in size

 I like. A lot.

NOTD Nfu-Oh 52 over Milani Rad Purple

I remember seeing this posted somewhere a while back but I can't for the life of me find it. In any case, I love this combo!

The combination of the predominately green flakies just really works with the red/purple base of the Milani.


And because I have absolutely nothing interesting to say, here's a pic of last year's orchids after a nice shower.

I can't wait for this year's blooms!