Midnight Blue - Deja Vu

......try'na catch up on posting, while spitting out dope rhymes, just for you...........

This mani is 3 coats of Sinful Colors Midnight Blue --- a gorgeous blue, perfect application, dried fast, it's just awesome! If I applied it too thick there was some notable metallic line, due to the rich metallic properties of this polish. I have read that this polish stains so I did the white school glue base so I can peel it right off when I am finished with it this evening. I picked this up at a Dollar Tree in the U.S.A.            ( yes- a U.S.A. haul post is in the works)

I'm planning a deep metallic blue polish show-down in the near future =  we'll see how this measures up to my all time favorite - N.Y.C. Skin Tight Denim.


On it's own Sinful Colors Midnight Blue is beautiful - but I wanted to layer Pure Ice Deja Vu over it for the day. I tried every conceivable lighting and camera trick to bring out the purple colour shift in Pure Ice Deja Vu but couldn't get it to happen. In photos Pure Ice Deja Vu looks like a  blue glass-flecked polish but there is a strong and pretty purple colour shift/duo-chrome-ey-ness happening. The formula on Deja Vu was thin; so this is 3 coats layered over Sinful Colors Midnight Blue.

None of my photos have TC, and THANK GOODNESS there is no sun shining today- it is ridiculously hot out and I am hoping it will rain and cool off soon.

okay I lied; this one photo is in the brief amount of sunshine we had today....and the first photo posted also has a bit of sun in it ( i love the sunshine but there has been a bit of a heat wave in my part of the country in the last 2 weeks ..... )

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Pure Ice Over You

 Over you from Pure Ice is a dense glitter with 2 sizes of lilac glitter, 2 sizes of teal hex glitter and teal bar glitter.....Today's mani is 2 coats of Over You layered over Lacey Lilac and a coat of TC. I kinda wish there was less lilac glitter in this; it hides the beautiful teal glitter ( less glitter? wtf is wrong with me )

Pure Ice Over You applied perfectly, it's a very dense glitter that dried fast. I am excited to pick up a few of the other glitters from their collection that recently showed up in Canadian walmarts!

I spilled white nail polish all over my hands and parts of my desk, so those aren't dry cuticle you are looking at. Yesterdays mani left major stains on my fingers and cuticles as well - so tonight I am going to take extra care, slather on some serious moisturizer with cuticle oil and possibly some barrier creme for My poor hands.

this is from Pure Ice Saddle me up

 although - it could be from the no-name walmart nail polish remover I am using right now - they did not have the Sally Hansen nail polish remover for artificial nails that I usually buy when I went to the big city..... so I had to buy the walmart brand of remover.......

Here is a few more photos of this beauty -

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Pure Ice Saddle Me Up

 I took a gazillion photos of this and could not get any pics that really captured the pretty colour of this polish. On the nail it looks exactly as it does in the bottle shot below ( after 4 coats ) I found this polish needed 4 coats, it dried super duper fast and is super duper pretty.

indoors

look @ all the snow we still have...................

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NYC Lexingtom Lilac, 5 dollar stamp plates and PURE ICE IN CANADA!!!!!!!!!

N.Y.C. has a whole bunch of new polish's out - this might be old news to everyone but I live in a small farm village, so getting to an actual store with a display that has these polish's and actually buying some is a big deal.  I was super-duper Happy to pick up these 2 pretty polish's, N.Y.C. Lexington Lilac and Wine Bar. Hopefully next time I make it to the big city I'll find the rest of the new shades that I don't already have.

This is 3 coats wit no TC in the photos.... This colour is a lovely dusty lilac shade..... maybe a little to pink to be called lilac. I love NYC nail polish's, the Long Wearing polish's  (S.T.D. # 1 blue 4-eva ) and In a New York Minute, they are so good and sooooooooooo inexpensive. At Walmart I believe these N.Y.C. Long Wearing polish's are $1.27 CAD and the N.Y.C. In A New York Minute have been 2 for $3.00 for more than 6 months.....

one in the sun................

Lexington Lilac and Wine Bar

I'm not really into stamping - even though I see other peoples work and love it....I am more of a fan of free-hand nail art. Anyhoo - I have had these for almost a month and this is the first time I have actually stamped! I found these at the As Seen on TV store in PoloPark Mall in WPG. for 5 bucks! - what ? 

I am not sure of the band or what-not - but they start with a 'B' and have numbers if that helps anyone....

some stamping i did..... I added a swipe of glitter before TC

 all the images i tried worked fine with WnW black, and some older chrome polish's.....

 
 I was delighted to visit the cosmetic section at Walmart and see this..... way back on April 1st I spotted a lovely lady loading up this Pure Ice display. I am sooooooo happy we have these in Canada now - there is some amazing colours and beautiful glitters in this display = = YIPPEE!!!!!!!

I had hoped to quickly grab my go-to nail polish remover and avoid temptation but - I did pick up three shades...... upon chatting with this nice sales associate she took me around the corner and showed me the new Hard Candy display - wow, is there some beautiful shades..... I stayed strong and stuck to my goal of $3 bucks or less per bottle as the Hard Candy polishes were 6 bucks each.... and these were $1.97 each!

 On the Pure Ice Facebook they are saying that Pure Ice is not available in Canada but here they are and there is more than enough shades and finishes in this collection to satisfy anybody.

The colours I picked up are Over You, Home Run, and Saddle me Up. Many of the names in this collection are comically risque.....

and just for fun an update on how i take indoor fluorescent photos in my photo studio lol

I taped 2 pieces of white paper to the wall and my desk and use my grocery store lamp.....

looks good, right? I usually only have to take 2 or 3 photos each and most of them turn out perfect.....

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fan brush nail art

 I have seen this fan brush nail art a few times and it always looks great! I am not sold on it yet as this was my first try - - I think adding Pure Ice Busted made me like it alot more then just the 2 Revlon polishes alone.

For this Mani I started with a base of Revlon Hazy, a grey creme, then used the fan brush to make these interesting whispy stripes. Some people are getting super duper thin whispy stripes and they look amazing - I'll be striving for that next time I try this.

fan brush nail art                      ----                       w/ Pure Ice Busted

 stuff I used - Revlon Hazy, No Shrinking Violet, Plum Seduction, and Pure Ice Busted

  I found the fan brush at the DollarRama ( Canada ) I made sure to tape around my nails to prevent having to do an acetone clean-up later.

Revlon hazy - a grey creme and the only Revlon I have ever purchased that I can say I am happy with. If I purchase any more Revlon nail polish's in the future I will make sure they are either opaque creme polish's or heavy duty glitters.

Here is my right hand that turned out pretty crappy - but it is my first time and I am sure if I try this again I will get better!  It was hard to pick up the right amount of polish with the fan brush ..... I will definitly try to use a slower drying polish in the future as well.

I did a practice run with colours that I thought would look good together

a few more glamour shots.....

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