Day 4: Green

Well, I used the China Glaze "Near Dark" with Nails Inc. Holographic Topcoat. Ugh. Terrible. It lasted 24 hours? Something like that. China Glaze and I still have issues to work out. I'm trying to figure out what it is I'm doing wrong! It's frustrating!!!! Grrrr. I've just got to practice some more, I guess.

So, for my green mani, I used the Nails Inc. Wyndham collection.

I'll upload with pictures later, but I just thought I'd share a little post about what I'm wearing!

I'll be back to edit soon! :)

EDIT: January 10, 2012

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I hope everyone has enjoyed their 2012 so far! Blogging around the holidays is so difficult because of all the things to do and places to be. So, without further ado, here is the Wyndham collection!

Forgive the terrible job. I had no nail polish remover to clean up the cuticle area...

This picture above shows a good color spectrum of the flakie. There's greens and blues and purples. The rest of the pictures say the same sort of things, so I'm just going to let you look at the pretties. :)

Blinded by the flash!!! Haha. This shows the greener, yellower tones. Maybe some orange too? 

From a different angle with lots of flash again. This shows more of the blue and purple.

Overall, I love this collection to death! It had great staying power too. Stayed on a whole week with only 2 chips!!

BASE

nails inc Kensington Caviar base coat

COLOR

nails inc Teal Black Kensington Polish

nails inc The Wyndham Overglaze Top Coat

TOP COAT

nails inc Kensington Caviar top coat

Day 3: Yellow!

Day 3 was the day for Yellow!

I took yellow and gave it a more "golden" spin for the autumnal season. I hope y'all like it!

And, unfortunately, the time when these photos were taken, it was during a 4 day rainy period, so I have no good pictures with sunshine.
:(

The final mani!

I'm trying to capture the awesomeness that's in this bottle!!!! 

 When you click on the photo for a larger image, you can see the multi-colored glitter that's in this gold!

And, because I can't leave well enough alone, giraffe spots and polka dots!!! 

Products used:

BASE

China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base Coat

COLORS

Sinful Colors - Pull Over (true yellow; first coat)

Sinful Colors - This Is It (shimmery gold; second coat)

FIRST TOP COAT

Sinful Colors - Quick Dry

KONAD COLOR

OPI - DS Radiance

POLKA DOTS

OPI - DS Original

Sally Hansen - Lightening

SECOND TOP COAT

Sally Hansen - Dries Instantly

FEAUX-NAD PLATE

M61

Coming up next is green!! It'll be a few days before I post it... But I know what I plan on doing. I just finished finals so I have a lot of "minor" things to do (for example, laundry, cleaning my room, re-potting plants, other things that take a back seat when graduate school is in full force). I plan on this design being very Christmas-y. I'm going to visit family this Thursday, so I need pretty nails! Right now, my nails are sittin' pretty with just OPI Nail Envy.

I plan to "bring on the green" with some China Glaze Near Dark. I picked up some small acrylic paints to test with, so be prepared for Christmas trees! I might try a little sponging too to make Near Dark more Christmas-tree like. It will be fun!!! I can't wait to paint and post pictures! Let's hope I don't do too terribly! :-/