My latest color, and water marbling attempt!

Hello all! The time for my new update has arrived.

This is the color I wore from last Friday, Sept 30th til today (er, yesterday) Tuesday, Oct 4th.

It's Nicole By OPI Iceburg Lotus. The first few pictures are 2 coats. I definitely suggest 3. Some of the later pictures have 3 coats. And some of my nails have evidence of my attempts at Konad also. You can ignore that, haha.

Here we go, here's Iceburg Lotus!

As you can see, it's a nice green/blue/teal. It also has some purple shimmer when you see it in the bottle. It definitely does in real life also, but it's harder to capture on camera, unfortunately.

The picture above shows what it looks like in normal indoor light... More green than blue.

This is where it gets weird... In lower light, indoors this color is a deep teal type blue. I was shocked when I noticed this. But shocked in a good way! It's beautiful!

This was inside, low light after 3 coats. And attempted Konad-ing on the ring finger.

3 coats in the daylight. Green with a little bit of blue shimmer. So pretty!!

More daylight!

For my base, I used Essie's "Fill the Gap", and as topcoat, I used Seche Vite. Every other day I used OPI Nail Envy as a topcoat.

And now, my water marbling attempts. I used different colors and brands, so I don't quite remember them all, but I shall try!!! :)

I'm staring at my hand now trying to remember what I did where. This was an experiment, so it's *very* temporary. I'll probably remove it tomorrow.

Thumb: Essie French Affair, Nails Inc Electric Lane, Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl, Sinful Colors 24/7
Pointer: Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl, Essie Going Incognito, Sinful Colors Black on Black, Sinful Colors Call You Later
Middle: Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl, Essie Garnet, Sinful Colors Pull Over, Sinful Colors Black on Black
Ring: Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl, Milani Breezy, Essie Pretty Edgy
Pinky: Sinful Colors Tokyo Pearl, Sinful Colors Black on Black, OPI DS Original

Now, I can't guarantee all those are perfectly correct, but I they are as close as possible.

Hope y'all enjoyed! There will probably be a new post soon due to me only having my left nails painted, haha. Stay tuned! :)

First Post! :)

Here we go! Post number one!

This first manicure I feature lasted from Friday, September 23rd, til Wednesday the 28th. Pictures first, then I'll list the components after.

Besides the fact I painted waaaaaaay to far away from my cuticles (and my cleanup job was a little rough), these pictures were taken on Monday, so there were a few chips here and there.

For the base coat, I experimented: Essie "fill the gap" on my left hand, and Essie "ridge filling base coat nail foundation" on my right. "Fill the gap" definitely performed better.
Color: Essie Blanc.
Top coat/glitter: Nails Inc Electric Lane holographic top coat. I let it sit and dry for about 20 minutes before using Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat.
Top coat of Essie "no chips ahead" every other day.

I really liked this combination, especially in light. My pictures did NOT capture the beauty of the holographic Electric Lane AT ALL. Electric Lane is very opal-like in the color it reflects. It's a rainbow of colors that's blinding in the sunshine. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a "sunshine" picture... I'll have to remember that for next time!!!

This was my first experience using Nails Inc and I'd like to try it again. I'm definitely planning on using Electric Lane again over black, or a darker base. This Blanc and Electric Lane combination looks very winter-y and festive.

My next post should be coming within a few days. In the meantime, I'm going to be adding a few more pages to this blog so that my readers can know what to expect from crazy ol' me. :D