N.Y.C. Top of the Gold

Oh wow! ---- This one is really pretty, too!

1 coat of N.Y.C. Top of the Gold layered over a nude polish. I wasnt sure that the nude base and the gold flakies would look good together = but it turnd out really nice. Top of the Gold is a gold flakie top coat, I found this at walmart Canada for $1.50.

I think this will look amazing over darker polish's and I will definitly be layering this over black in the future. N.Y.C. has 4 new-ish top coats; a matte, a multi-coloured fine glitter, this gold flakie one and a pretty blue and silver sparkle. All four are worth having and I think I'll have to do a N.Y.C. Top coat round up soon.

2 coats of Icing Sandy Beach

Icing Sandy Beach and N.Y.C. Top of the Gold

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Red Dotti-Cure

wow ---that Witchcraft red glitter is something else..... it really glows! This mani is a base of Icing Sandy Beach, multi-sized dots made with Kozmic Colours reds, Sally Hansen Red Comet, and Witchcraft Red Glitter. I used a matte Top Coat from N.Y.C. The bland base polish really made this dotti-cure extra special.

before TC

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pretty pink Gradient sponge with opalescent TC

 i was happy to find this Icing Top coat in the bargain bin at the closest Icing store to me in Minot N.D. in the summer of 2013. Icing Baby Doll top coat has multi-sized opalescent glitter. The formula is the same as most Icing brand nail polish that I have tried, it didn't do much to smoothe out the lumpy sponged polish, and I dont feel like it sped up my dry time, the multi-sized opalescent glitter is mesmerizing. I think that this will be very pretty over a dark royal blue or even black...... next time.

The base of this Mani is a gradient sponge of 2 pretty pink no-name nail polishes from Kozmic Colors that I found at the DollarRama. I have about 75 of these Kozmic color polish's they are found at the Dollar Tree and also at the DollarRama in Canada. They are dirt cheap and this company is cranking out new collection every 6 months, and so I try and get the whole collection at once when I see it.

yes I know this is janky masking tape,  I try to recycle whenever I can 

in dimmer lighting for maximum opalescent-ness.......opalescent-ey......opalescent-tivity

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Icing Shredded with Icing Swept Away

 "Shredded and Swept Away', that sounds like a painful autobiography title. This was 3 fast drying coats of icing Shredded over a pretty grey creme. THIS POLISH SMELLED AWEFUL - but it's so cool! I don't think I have ever used an Icing polish that smelled bad. It is definitely going to go into my smelliest nail polish list.  This mani is 3 coats of Icing Shredded layered over 2 coats of Icing Swept Away.

Icing Swept Away is a medium grey that has a bit of purple to it. The formula was the same as all the other  Icing polish's in a creme finish I have tried - It definitely smelled like a normal nail polish, lol.

I did not add TC to this mani as I took it off immediately after the photos. I didn't want to have a smelly nail polish on my nails when it was potato chip night!... As you can see from the photos and as with most of these types of polish's =  at least 2 thick coats of TC are needed to hide the bumpiness.

I want to wear this polish again in the near future but I plan on adding copious amounts of TC to disguise the smell ( and bumpyness ). Has anyone else out there used an Icing polish  that smelled aweful?

  @ 1 coat ~ I was hoping I would get a bit more coverage of the black shards considering the polish  looks pretty dense in the bottle - I was a little disapointed at the first coat but this polish dried fast.













@2 coats ~ The black shards started to fill in the sparse areas. For the third coat I tried to pick up a few of the black pieces in the neck of the bottle and dab them on where my nail was a little too bare. I added a final dip and sweep and called it a mani!

 Icing Swept Away - 2 coats  - no TC

............. and one more

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Icing Love-It and Wet N Wild Candy-Licious

I love all sorts of glitter but this polish wasn't glittery enough for me. I  recently visited an Icing Store and picked up quite a few of these Icing polishes. We used to have one in the nearest big city but they closed down, it was one of the only reasons I even went to the mall in that town. Anyways, this is a blue/gold/magenta/black glitter that I found too sparse for my glitter neeeds - but I love black glitter right now so  I suppose I will hang onto it.

The base is 3 coats of a light pink creme from Wet N Wild Megalast. I am loving these Megalast polishes from Wet n Wild. I probably could have added another coat as I had a few sparse areas but it was a nice day and I wanted to hang out outside.

WnW Mega Last Candy-Licious on its own... 3 coats

 ......... and here is another pretty WnW Mega Last mani; I heard it Through the Grapevine.  2 coats.

I used this L.A. Colors top/base for this mani and I don't think it dried fast enough..... next time I will give it more time to dry as a base coat. The smudge was not due to the polish but to clumsiness on my part; I really should try to sit still for at least 3 minutes immediately after I paint my nails lol. To disguise the smudge I dabbed on a little more WnW Heard it Through the Grapevine then added a coat of Wet n Wild Fast Dry Hannah Pinktanna.

This polish bottle magically opened by itself and leaked all over the place. I dont recall many blog posts about this basecoat/topcoat, maybe there is a good reason why? Or I need to let it dry a little bit longer before applying my nail polish.

stuff I used Wet n Wild Mega Last I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Fast Dry Hannah Pinktanna & L.A. Colors Base coat/Topcoat.

Hanna Pink Tanna and Blue Wants to be a millionaire are pretty holographic glitter polish's that have saved so many manicure crisis's, the brush's are a little stiff but these are great to have around for nail polish snafu's.

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ChG Watermelon Rind

 I am trying to wear some polish's that have been living in the back of my Deez-elmer..... China Glaze Watermelon Rind is a lovely dark green jelly with silver and some blue glass flecks. This needs 3 coats or more to be opaque, so I layered it over Icing Manic Monday, a dark green that is usually opaque in 2 coats.
 

Icing Manic Monday ( from a previous mani )

 Icing Mnaic Monday and China Glaze Watermelon Rind

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Glitter Bomb

1 coat of Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac with un-named ( but awesome ) Icing polish's and Wet n Wild Party of Five Glitters. I love Lacey Lilac, it is the perfect pastel purple creme - and I can usually use just one coat for perfect coverage. I added 1 coat of a multi-colored Icing polish, then one coat of a lovely blue and silver glitter, then 2 coats of the WnW Party of Five Glitters.

The purple seems like an odd choice as a base for this multi-coloured glitter bomb, but it works! I kept this on my nails for 2 full days. I am wearing artificial nails here, but removal on my pinky - which is my REAL nail - wasnt that bad.

No-Name Icing mini's, Wet nWild Party of Five Glitters

1 coat each of the above glitter polish

Wet n Wild Party of Five Glitters

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I can' stop doing this to my nails......

 Icing Monet, Icing Blue Goose and an un-named teal glitter sponged mani

 
 I started with 2 coats of Icing Monet, then sponged on Icing Blue goose, brushing polis over the tips of my nails for opacity,n then added 1 coat of an un-named Icing teal glitter and a coat of Top coat. Using Icing Monet as a base made Blue Goose look teal and no-where near blue.

I have at least a dozen other nail designs and nail art I wanna try out, but I keep coming back to these pretty sponge manis..............

 from a previous mani; Icing Monet

 From a previous mani; Icing Blue Goose

 Icing Monet, Icing Blue Goose, Icing Teal Glitter

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