The Crumpet: The ULTIMATE Purple Holo Comparison Post

The Crumpet: The ULTIMATE Purple Holo Comparison Post: Hi Goddesses I've been threatening for a long time to do a purple holo comparison post, as I've gathered quite a few in my quest ...

Orange Glitter (subtitle: With Love to Crumpet)

So my friend (and I must say, after what she did I use the term with reservation....j/k)  and fellow polish addict Debbie Crumpet showed me a beautiful orange holo she had desecrated with PURPLE CRACKLE!! The horror! The unmitigated gall! I had to sooth my splintered soul my getting out my baby oranges and letting them know I would NEVER do such a horrible thing to them! So to wipe the terrible picture from my brain, I did a manicure of OPI Ginger Bells! (yes, there is a ! in the name, ridiculous OPI seems to like exclamations and hyphens an inordinate amount) and after two coats over Orly Bonder dabbed some Lynnderella Cauldron Drippings and Change also on one nail. Gelous and SV topcoat. Enjoy, pretty oranges! Be free!

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Falling in love with Holos again

I've been trying to stretch myself and wear colors I don't usually- (ie. last weeks' nude/black French) so here is Zoya Breezi with accents of the marvelous Sally Hansen Magical Mail Makeup in Blue Aura. Out the Door topcoat.

NOTD Trying to be elegant

Got my Zoya Shay and did a freehand black French tip with Wet N Wild and touched up with a black nail art brush. Just could not leave well enough alone and had to put a coat of NYX Girls Gilded Glitter over the ring finger. Out the Door topcoat.

Paula's Nails

Paula decided she was going to do color blocking and did the whole thing start to finish- all China Glaze polishes- For Audrey, Solar Powered and Make Some Noise from the new Electropop collection out now. She did the tree and lines with CG Concrete Catwalk. This pic was taken pre-cleanup.

Ice Cream Nails?

Trying to keep with my theme of Green weekends, yet wanting to use the new Essence duo "Don't Feed the Tiger" glitter (the other end is a pretty yet not unusual gold foil) I layered one coat of the glitter over Revlon Aloof and Edgy from the Edgy Elegance LE that was out briefly last fall. I had read that using the two together made the tiny gold glitter in the topcoat disappear and I didn't want to be guilty of that! These foils are very interesting, these two I kept and gave the others away 1. because the colors weren't anything I would wear and 2. the texture was like trying to paint you nails with whipped cream. The coverage is marvelous, though, I could have used one thick coat and been perfect. This mani has Seche Rebuild under and Seche Vite over.
My kids say this looks like mint chip and cookies and cream ice creams.

Inspired by a painting in the ladies room at a bar

I saw this picture in the bathroom at a taproom we were at recently and snapped a pic thinking my surfer/singer/sensitive/inlove daughter might like it for a manicure and, sure enough, she did! I did this over Seche Restore base, THREE coats of OPI Stranger Tides- (streaky but worth it- it's an unusual color) and painted the leaves in acrylic I mixed up- purplish brown. The birds are a random OPI red I think. Out the Door topcoat.