NOTD: Friday April 10 2009

My nails on Friday! I used the following two polishes: Revlon Glimmer Gloss in Strawberry Sizzle and Pure Ice in Oh Baby!

Two coats of each. Love of lovely shimmers. The SS has pink and purple (almost blue) shimmer and the OB! has kind of an iridescent green shimmer.

Up real close so you can see all the shimmers!

They are both sheers, so, of course, you can there is still a very distinct VPL.

Also, I broke my nails today, so they are much shorter now :-(

NOTD: Sunday March 22 2009

Today's NOTD is an awesome black polish I got at WalMart -- I never did a haul. Hmmm. I will post that later. Tomorrow maybe. It is by Pure Ice and it's called Beware. "That's not the name of a color" says Kevin. lol

Pure Ice costs $2.00 at Wal-Mart.

It's special because it's not just a black creme, but it looks like there are flecks of mica in it. It's not exactly glittery or shimmery, but very unique I think. The swatches below are two coats each, w/ top and base coats. Forgive the abysmal cleanup job!

With Flash


Without Flash

NOTD: Friday March 20 2009

I haven't bought ANY makeup since December. Crazy, right? Yes. It's okay. I still have plenty to get me by. But, I decided to buy some nail polish this week. I just got paid, and I had worked a little extra, so I had a couple extra bucks. Kevin had to go to Wal-Mart for something, so I went along and spent the whole time in the polish aisle oooh-ing over everything. I got some rad colors, but here is one for now.

I saw this nail polish HAD TO HAVE IT. It is pure silver glitter. Rather fine glitter, too. It's by Pure Ice, a brand I have come to love. They are $2 at Wal-Mart. I don't know where else it is carried.

At three coats, you can still see the tips a bit, but at four coats, it's pretty darn opaque. Pic heavy because I love this polish that much!

3 coats, sunlight

3 coats, fluorescent lights, with flash

3 coats, fluorescent light, no flash

4 coats, sunlight

4 coats, fluorescent light, no flash

4 coats, in the shade, no flash

4 coats, sunlight

Driving with these things is a hazard! They are so distracting. And they catch the light really well. And by catch the light, I mean throw the sunbeams into your eyes and blind you!

NOTD: Thursday March 05 2009

I only had one vote (Tiffasaurus failed me) so now, my nails are green! I'm really liking the color! I wanted something different than what I had on hand, so I frankened!

These are the colors I used:

Recipe: 20 drops of Maybelline Go Go Green (a chartreuse with shimmer), 10 drops of Sally Hansen Emerald City (a darker green with shimmer, not quite forest green), and 10 drops of Pure Ice Jaguar (a champagne gold with a hint of fine glitter).

Mix 'em all together and the result was Harlequin:




I love picking out new names :-)

This color is what Maybelline Go Go Green wishes it was! I mean, compared with the outside of the bottle, it looks like GGG should be this shade, but compare these swatches (one coat each). GGG is a lot more YELLOW than Harlequin. It's hard to tell with one coat, but here are the pictures.


Also, here is the little mixing thing that I use. I don't have very many empty bottles so, I use this and only make enough for one mani.

Frankens and Watermarking

So, first things first. I'm going to start watermarking my photos. The water marks in these are all different sizes because I was playing with them in the photos, trying to decide if I want something a little more discreet or not. Anyway, I think I like them bigger than it is in these first couple photos. Harder to steal, hehe. Now, onto the fun!

I've been having a lot of fun playing with colors lately. I recently saw Never Too Much Glitter's franken of Rescue Beauty Lounge's Concrete Jungle. I loved it! I've never worn a gray polish, so I decided to make my own. Now, RBLs Concrete Jungle is a bluer gray, but I didn't have any blues that weren't glittery or shimmery, so I used Icing's Marine Blue, which is far more green to me. I mixed about 20 drops of the Rimmel White, 2 drops of Icing Marine Blue and 5 drops of Maybelline Onyx Rush. The result: Xanadu! I love coming up with names for colors. I use wikipedia and go to the page for that color and find the one that looks the most like what I've got. True Xanadu would be darker, but wiki was sadly lacking in gray shades. Plus, the name rocks!!! Also, I've never had such a color on my nails before and I LURVE it!


Also, you can see my new awesome hobo gloves. That's what I call fingerless gloves, because they make me feel like a hobo.

Second franken: I mixed a pearly white and a black creme. Actually, I didn't use the ELF, but I used it for the photo so you would know what kind of white I used. I actually used Love My Nails Platinum, but I poured the black into that bottle, so I don't have the original LMN color. I used about 2/3 white and 1/3 black I believe. I didn't record it at the time.

The result: Arsenic!

Last franken for this post. Actually, the first franken I ever tried! For this I mixed Pure Ice Jaguar, Wet'nWild Wild Orchid, and again the same black and white cremes as used in Xanadu. Again, I don't remember how much of each I used. I know I only used about one or two drops of the black because it was looking a little two pale for me. Urrrg. Oh well. I am going to remember from now on. :-)
The result: Thistle! A Lavender-y color with a bit of a holo shimmer, but there isn't that much of the glitter so, really, you can only tell when it's in the bottle. God, how I want a holo. The funny thing is that neither the PIJaguar or the WNW Wild Orchid is a holo.


I had fun with this! So, on that note, sorry I haven't been posting much. I haven't been doing my makeup that much. :-( It's a busy time. I like nail polish because I can put it on one day and wear it for several days in a row. Nothing like eyeshadow, hehe. Oh well.

NOTD: Saturday Dec 13

This NOTD is Pure Ice First Time, two coats, followed by Pure Ice Jaguar, two coats. Tell me what you think of this combo? I wore it to the Lockheed Martin Christmas Party.

NOTD: Pure Ice Jaguar

This is my NOTD for these next few days (my birthday is tomorrow!) This is Pure Ice Jaguar. It's a lovely gold color with sparkles. As you can see in some of the closer up photos, the glitter is a bit on the chunky side but not as bad as some. The first photo is with flash, the other 3 are not. This is three coats.

NOTD: Pure Ice First Time

"Pure Ice" is a brand I've only seen at Walmart. The polish is cheap ($2 a pop) and all the ones I have are very well pigmented. This color you see is called "First Time." It's a frosty green color. Almost reminiscent of the Clinique green, if you know what I'm talking about. Without the frost, I feel like it's similar to that, but a bit deeper. All these photos are taken indoors with a flash. This is two coats with both a top and base coat.

Dontcha love my hobo gloves