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Glitter Gal Bruised Ego- full sun

Office light

flash

filtered sun

LVX Viridian with Barry M Foil Effects Gold stripes

ecent manis

Haute Fashion- Recreating a Jin Soon Choi Mani in Allure Magazine

Grabbed a bunch of LVX and made this simple stark cool mani- perfectly refreshing...
Seche Vite over....

happened to match some flyers I was working with today!!

my inspiration

Two for the Price of One

yeah it's been a week, here's what I've been up to- a matchy matchy spotted mani with Cult Nails glorious black Nevermore over LVX creamy dreamy oh-so-faintly-griege Cashmere. Also, ILNP Fall Semesterm three coats of the beautiful blue shift/sparkle/holo. (sorry no sun pics, it really does have a good linear holo in the sunlight)

Nail Rehab is working!!

Sorry for the gruesome "before" picture, but this is what I was dealing with after three months of packing and two weeks of moving. I didn't think there was any reason to move my polish, after all, these things would never grow back and be pretty again, would they? Well, after eight weeks, I am happy to report I've got a bit of free edge on all but one nail now and my cuticles have stopped bleeding! Hurrah for small victories!
My first foray was last weekend when my daughter Grace got married. That's the pale gray and glitter number, Priti Silver Birch accented with RUS polish in SN 01 (yeah sexy name for holo silver glitter) I followed that with LVX Azzurum, risking Smurf hands for a glorious navy cream. Heavily oiled cuticles before removal helped a bunch with that! And today brings us to Zoya Spencer, from the Naturel Deux collection. I'm not normally a nude fan, but these colors are deeper and creamier than their first collection. Spencer is the palest of the browns, a warm mocha color that's opaque in two thin coats. I have learned from experience, that Zoya really really does wear best with her own base and topcoats.

BEFORE

NOTD

If you've never heard of LVX polish, then go run, google then buy these! Such a gorgeous high end maker with perfect brushes and dense streak free colors. Love love. Here is Monaco, a brilliant bright marine blue and D'Orsay, a lightly peached cream. I tend to use very thin coats, so I needed two of the blue and four of the cream. One day's wear, and the sun if coming out tomorrow, so I spiced them up with a quick coat of ILNP Mega.

Yipes! Stripes! MSMD

Yipes, stripes, Beechnut's got 'em, yipes, stripes in Fruit Stripe gum, yipes stripes five different flavors, get Beechnut's Fruit Stripe gum! Ok so now if you're over 50, you'll have that jingle in your head all day, you're welcome!

I didn't set out to make my nails resemble the gum from my childhood, I actually was doing a MSMD of the wonderful Manicurity here.  However, I'm not a white base person, so I used LVX Cashmere as a base. It's a creamy stone color you could also call a warm pale gray. I also don't lean towards primary colors much, so Bettina's Resort collection with it's tropical shades fit my taste.  After finishing, this song came into my head I hadn't thought of in many years, and I have to admit, they do look a little like the gum-