Earth Day Mani- Recycled!

Butter London British Racing Green was my first high-end polish and I still love it- it's in my top three green faves. The brush is perfect for my curved nails, rarely do I need to gyrate to get the edges. Gorgeous dark green with a blue tinged shimmer. Smooth and even.  I did a quick 2 coat mani Monday evening, but as is the case with very dark polishes (even using Poshe topcoat) I had a bit of tipwear by Tuesday evening, so I sponged on an untried, Goh Holographic Hero. It's quite dense and I wasn't happy with the effect, so a few dots of BRG and voila! This should last another day or two-

Love Yourself Manicure!

I was getting a bit stressed trying to do at least a FEW of the weekly/daily challenges, and was under a bit of condemnation when Claire from Purple Fairy Dust wrote about doing your nails just for yourself- (here) So I took a deep breath and forgot about the challenges- if I get there, I get there, otherwise... meh. This one makes me very very happy- Zoya Yara, a multi-faceted olive green with golden and green and maybe a few red or copper glitters in it. This polish made me smile from the first nail! It went on like a dream- everything I love in a polish. I put it over Seche Rebuild and Seche Clear. I had just gotten some nerdlacquer so I did a single coat of Aurum over one nail then added my favorite color, orange, dots to the others. OPI Roll in the Hague from their new Holland collection is amazing. Dense, creamy and a perfect bright orange cream. Seche Vite and Gelous over the glitter nails with Out The Door over the others.

And Matted- I prefer this actually!

Barry M (thanks, Crumpet!) Racing Green and Essie As Gold As It Gets

On weekends we wear green. After a disaster with Orly Lucky Duck (caution- stains) and trying to recreate a beautiful design I saw earlier today, I opted for the gorgeous deep blue/green Barry and his wonderful M Racing Green. Got him and some of his brothers in a swap with the marvelous Debbie Crumpet (go join her blog....here......now!  http://thecrumpet.blogspot.com/) and I decided he needed a coat for the chilly weather we're having- so he got covered with Essie's new gold flakie As Gold As It Gets. It has a wee bit of pink in the flakie as well as the gold- very pretty and covers well- this is one coat over two of Barry M. Base is Orly Bonder and Revlon Quick Dry Topcoat.

Ah Butter London British Racing Green!

On Weekends We Wear Green, remember? So I wanted to get a head start on the weekend because I have a special mani planned for the facebook PAA Monday challenge, Plaid. This is two thin coats of the gloriously buttery aptly named butter london (yes lower caps) British Racing Green. My dad had an MG Midget this color when I was a teen. I wore this the first time several months ago when they had a BOGO sale. As soon as I had it on my nails I knew I couldn't put anything over it just yet. But this is the SECOND time, so it got a single layer of CND Jade Sparkles. The blurry pic shows the gold and green shimmery particles pretty well. BRG has it's own slight shimmer but it gets a  little lost in the glory of the CND effect. I applied over a coat of Zoya ridge filler and another of Zoya Anchor base. Single coat or Orly Sealon over top (slow drying tc but I didn't want it to shrink)

 Alone with no CND effect. GORGEOUS, right?