Delicate Manicure FT OPI Don't Touch My Tutu, OPI Happy Anniversary & Lynnderella Love Lace and Lilacs

Greetings Fellow Earthlings! 

I don't often wear delicate manicures but when the need calls, you answer. I experimented with some layering, because delicate doesn't have to mean boring.. and came up with this shimmery jelly sammich.

Layering Combo:

OPI Don't Touch My Tutu

OPI Happy Anniversary

Lynnderella Love Lace and Lilacs

OPI Don't Touch My Tutu 

You can see a bit of visible nail line but I am okay with it. I was worried you'd be able to see my unsightly stained nails through this sheerish mani (and you can a bit in pictures) but in person it wasn't noticeable!

I hope you like todays post! Thanks for reading!

SMYTC Holiday Nail Art Challenge! Day 1: Red & Green!

Hi everyone!

I am super psyched about today's post! I am starting my first ever REAL nail art challenge with a wonderful group of girls from "Show Me Your Top Coats"! There is even an awesome blog for it which you should totally go check out right now: www.showmeyourtopcoats.com :)

Here is some of the key points from the SMYTC blog:

The rules: It's simple. Every other day we'll have a theme and you do a manicure based on that theme. You can use stamping, paints, stickers, or any other means of art to create your mani. The first post will go up on December 2nd and will run until the 24th. You can do your manis ahead of time and post them early if need be. You have until 3pm the second day to get your post up. Have fun and be creative!

Please feel free to join in on the fun!

So today's challenge is Red & Green. Simple enough right?  Well I couldn't really come up with anything. So I started by picking a base of my favourite ATM red: OPI Danke Shiny Red from the Fall '11 Germany collection. It is a great one coat red shimmer. It is a beautiful color. Perfect for the holidays!

So then I needed some green. I decided to be sort of simple of the first day and do a green glitter gradient using Lynnderella's Funny Money & Crows Toes Jingle Balls (what an awesome name!). Funny Money is a mish mash of darker green glitters with a splash of some other random colors & Jingle Balls is primarily a medium green glitter with gold bars and even some holo gold stars! I managed to get a star on each finger and I moved them around to be in the same place on each nail :)

 

& There you have it! My first day of the challenge is complete! I hoped you liked my manicure!

Thanks for reading and don't forget to check out the awesome posts from the other great and talented ladies from Show Me Your Topcoats!

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10 Days of Halloween, Day 3: Festive Glitter Tips FT Lynn & CG

Hey everyone!

For day 3 of the 10 Days of Halloween series I am sporting CG Stone Cold (such a great polish, such a great formula!) with Lynnerella Cauldron Drippings on the tips!

I liked this combination. I thought it was super festive and cute :) What do you think?

Lynnderella The Telltale Heart Swatch

Helllooooo!

First of all.. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT IS SEPTEMBER! WTF? Time is flying by with this job. Last I checked.. I'm pretty sure it was May. I hope the weather holds up so I can go to the beach at least ONCE when I get home!

Second of all.. speaking of home.. I go home on Thursday from work! Woohoo! I actually adore the camp I am working in so it is a little bitter sweet.. hopefully I will be back.

ON TO THE POLISH.

Today I am showing you Lynnderella The Telltale Heart from her Halloween Collection from 2011. Different sizes and shapes of Magenta/Fuchsia glitter with a chunky blue obvious shimmer. The base of mine is a little bit tinted magenta. I don't know if that is from bleeding glitter or if it was "intentional". 

My favourite part of the polish are the large square glitters and the blue shimmer.. looks cool with the magenta. This is one coat over black.

It is a very pretty polish but I don't wear it very often. I am thinking about swapping this one!
What do you think?

Lynnderella Shape Shifter - Swatch!

HI:) Today I'm posting Lynnderella Shape Shifter. This was an archived swatch and I intended it to stay that way after the way that everything ended up unfolding but whatever, I went through the trouble to make the original post so here it is. Let it be noted that for me.. I won't be supporting her brand any longer. I won't force my decisions on anyone else though. To each their own. None-the-less... Shape Shifter is a pretty cool polish.

Lynderella Shape Shifter is not for the faint of heart when it comes to glitter. It is a mix of every shape of holographic glitter packed in a clear base that you could ever imagine. These are the ones I spotted:

-Microglitter

-Small, medium, and large hexes

-Small, medium and large squares

-Bar glitter

-Diamonds

-Stars

-Moons

-Hearts

-Butterflies

-Flowers

Whew, that is a LOT of holo glitter!

Here is a close up of a bottle shot. Soooo much holo.

I have done a number of manicures with Shape Shifter, and it is possible to just have a complete nail of holo glitter goodness, but today I wanted just one coat to add some sparkle where you can really see all the different shapes! It is definitely not for everyone, because of all the butterflies and flowers it almost appears childish, but I think its fun.

This is just one coat over Nails Inc Baker Street. It is a bumpy, gritty, thick glitter with all the huge and unique shapes. The unique shapes all tend to curl up on me.. snagging in things if I don't topcoat it enough. I needed a coat of Gelous and two coats of Seche Vite to make all (most) of the glitter lay flat and make it smooth. I dont think I was ever going to get it ALL to be smooth but it was wearable and decently flat with this combo.

Artificial Light

Indoors, Natural Light

Shade

Sunshine

This was one Lynderella that I wanted for as long as Connect the Dots longggg longggg ago.... and I finally got it through the wishlist system (seems like forever ago in polish world now). However Lynnderellas are only available through Lynns shop on ebay now (US only- stupid) because of all that craaaaazyness.  For me, I won't be buying her polishes anymore. Don't get me wrong, they are pretty polishes.. and I'm sure she is was well-intentioned.... but I can't support her business practices with my hard earned chedda. There are plenty of other gorgeous glitters out there for me, plenty of fish in the sea ;) However I will be using the ones I did acquire.. I used to feel a moral dilemma about using them but now I have adopted the attitude of "I practically walked on hot coals to buy them, I'm darn well going to wear them". I won't be purchasing any others from her though. HOWEVER I won't push my opinions on you so if you're interested, she is back to updating her blog. www.lynnderella-lynnderella.blogspot.com and I believe her ebay store is something along the lines of lynnderella-lynnderella.

What do you think of Shape Shifter? Is it too random or do you like it? Are you completely done with Lynns or are you still lemming some more?

Lynnderella Matter of the Heart - Swatch !

Today I am showing off what might be my favourite Lynnderella polish, Matter of the Heart. There is always drama surrounding Lynnderella's polishes but I am going to just put that on the back burner and concentrate on the actual polish today! I got it through the wishlist system at Llarowe and let me tell you, this one WAS worth the wait. It is gorgeous! Llarowe will be taking new wishlists soon so sign up for her email updates and keep checking her facebook page if you want in!

Here is a close-up of a bottle shot!

Fuchsia & silver hexes, big and small sqaures in red & pink & silver, and HOLO HEARTS(!) in a milky pale pink base with an iridescent shimmer :)

Here are some pictures on the nails now!! This is two coats of Matter of the Heart over two coats of OPI Mod About You with one coat of Seche Vite on top! 

I love everything about this manicure. I don't usually wear girly polish, but this is an exception because it is so gorgeous. Its unique, soft, feminine, and so pretty!!! I really love the red squares. I don't usually go for red and pink unless it is Valentines Day or something but this ...it just works.

The only thing I wish was different was that I wish there were more hearts. I found they were kinda sparse, and also they stuck really easily to the sides of the bottle instead of coming out to play! I only got two hearts on each hand while doing this manicure!

What do you think of this Lynnderella?

Lynderella She Lived In A Swamp - Glitter Tips!

Today I decided to do something different with She Lived In a Swamp! I'm really into gradients right now so I thought I would try it out! 

She lived in a swamp is my favourite green glitter right now. Its got my favourite shade of chartreuse, as well as medium shaded green and gold glitters in different sized hexes, bars, squares and microglitter too! I love it a whole lot.

I added the glitter gradient on the tips over OPI Did It On 'Em, a dirty yet bright chartreuse shade from the Nicki Minaj Collection. I thought it was the perfect combination... very swamp-like. Plus I had it on my nails yesterday.. haha! 

I should mention that with all of that glitter I needed a coat of gelous and a thick coat of SV to make it shiny and smooth. Here are some.. actually a lot of pictures Hahaha :)

 Can you tell I really liked this manicure?? Hahaha I hope you like it too!

Comparison Post! Lynnderella Connect the Dots VS Cover Band Sticks & Stones

Hello polish people!

Today I am comparing two very unique polishes: Lynnderella Connect the Dots and Cover Band Sticks & Stones.

Muchos drama surrounded the creation that is Sticks & Stones. It tries to "impersonate" the infamous and hard to get a hold of Lynnderella Connect the Dots. To be honest though, Sticks & Stones is tricky to get a hold of too.

They are both unique black and white glitters with about equal black to white in a variety of sizes of hexes, bars, and squares. Both have an iridescent-ish shimmer and a clear base.

I thought it might be a difficult comparison with all of the different possibilities of glitter that could randomly come out on the brush, especially when just looking at the bottle because different colour and shaped glitter are all stuck to the sides.

I put them over OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips! I'm not going to say which polish is on what fingers until the end, and you see if you can guess.

To the untrained eye: Whatever they're the same.

To us polish fanatics: Clearly Connect the Dots is on the index and ring finger, and Sticks and Stones is on the pinky and middle finger.

Differences:

-The shimmer is much more prominent in Connect the Dots

-Black and white microglitters are more abundant in Connect the Dots

-There are different sizes (shapes?) of microglitter in Connect the Dots.

-The microglitter in Sticks & Stones are less abundance but slightly larger, more like mini glitters and are all circles. I find it almost looks a little more cartoony, but also gives the polish a more simple look than CtD.

-Coverband retails for 9 dollars, while the Lynn goes for 15 dollars.

-You can sign up for email updates to purchase Sticks and Stones from Ninja Polish where it is a bit of a race to purchase, while Lynnderella is currently only available through the wishlist system by Llarowe.

Both covered about equally. Sometimes the Lynderella needs two coats to give me the look I want while the Coverband is almost always fine with one coat (in amount but more in glitter variety).

To be honest... I needed both. I bought Sticks & Stones as a backup to my Lynn because I found myself wanting to conserve the glitter. I know, it's a little sad but it's true. I'll let you all make up your own minds. What do you think? Do you need both?

& Here is a shot of Kiss Me On My Tulips on its own! Two easy coats of a very nice pink :)