N.Y.C. Disco Inferno Top Coat

Wow---- this surprised me! I didn't think I would get this much glitter coverage out of one coat of N.Y.C. Disco Inferno. This is a multi-sized dark blue and silver glitter top coat. It was easy to apply and dried fast. I layered 1 coat of Disco Inferno over 2 coats N.Y.C. Water Street Blue.

These N.Y.C. polishes have been 2 for $3.00 for years and I am always happy with them when I wear them. They are soooooo in-expensive and I find them to be easy to apply. There is 3 new-ish glitter top coats that I hope to wear this week. If you live in Canada, and want to treat yourself - got to Walmart and splurge! $1.50 for 24 hours of glittery goodness! N.Y.C keeps adding new colours to their In A New York Minute line, and so far every one I have tried has been fabulous.

While it was nice to have shorter nails for a while --- I just don't feel glamorous without my fake nails on. These are trophy-wife length Nails that are discontinued. No-matter how bummy I feel - sitting around the house in paint stained sweat-pants, hair in a bun and no make-up--- I feel like a move star with these things on my hands.

2 coats of N.Y.C Water Street ( no- TC, these dry very shiny )

 stuff i used

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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Fanny Z Gold Zebra

I am calling this Fanny Z # 83 polish 'Whoa' because it is a beautiful shimmery blue that made me say 'whoa'! This is 2 coats, and some gold zebra stripes with a franken stripe polish I made ( it's really just Claire's 24 Karat in a stripe bottle ) I chose not to use the obvious silver colour of stripe polish and instead went for a metallic gold. I think this turned out lovely. I am still working on the thickness of my stripes.......

I don't own anything to compare this polish color and finish to: has anyone else spotted these Fanny Z dollar store nail polish's?

  1 coat & 2 coats

P.C. chipotle dipping sauce changed my life...........!!!!.

 sun

 shade

...... more glamour shots

rawr

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Sinful Colors Fly Away & See You Soon

 Today's mani is a lovely saran wrap technique using a base of Sinful Colors Fly Away with See You Soon. I cant believe I haven't paired up these colours together before! Its a fabulous combo..... then again, maybe I have already  -  I have seen KleanColor Bite Me on 4 different blogs today - coveted it savagely, looked it up on the KleanColor website - googled image'd it and realized I ALREADY OWNED AND WORE IT  - twice!

The brush on Fly Away was a little stiffer than  I remember, I used 3 coats which dried fast and super duper shiny.

 polishes  I used -  I have to get into the habit of photographing the names......

 Saran wrap leaves less texture than a sponge, but creates the same effect

Left Top Coat, Right no Top Coat

..... and a few more photos

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Will autopost work today?

.........we will see at 7:00 a.m. Central Time

 Todays nails are a copy inspired by Thriszha over at Fab Ur Nails - she posted this awesome sticks and stones mani...., a few weeks ago. I copied the polish part using nail art stipes polish & added a coat of TC. Love the black and white glitter she used!

I basically brushed on these four colours using nail art polish randomly over my nails. I will definitly try this look again in the future, with a glitter top coat.

stuff I used

whoops @ my middle nail ~ lol

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PROUD! my first nail stamping

I have a long way to go before I can pull off the stuff Ainos2 does at at all Glammed up, but I am off to a good start. I thought my first nail stamping would suck waaaaaaay more, but this isn't that bad for my first try. I started with a base of N.Y.C. Water Street Blue, then used Sally Hansen Chrome in Sapphire to do the stamping. I added a coat of Pure Ice Oh Baby and a coat of TC.

Next time I stamp, I will use a non-chrome polish as this dried way to fast for a beginner like me. I did stamp my index nail on upside down lol. Also I switched to using a cut up store card - sorry Fabricland!

Overall I thought this was easy to do and am already planning my next nail art

Also if you don't come back and share new stuff with us, please don't erase your blog - my goodness, there is some amazing nail art on there!

a coat of Pure Ice is hiding some pretty obvious goofs in this mani.....

stuff I used

the aftermath

Below; after stamping...... I had to double stamp horizontally on my middle and ring nail but could'nt match the pattern at all I think that is advanced stamping and out of my skill range for now..... I waited too long between picking up the image on the stamper and stamping my nail.

Index ( far right ) is upside down - whoops, lol

This is an awesome colour with an awesome formula ( Love NYC In a New York Minute polishes )

.... I think it's been a while since I have used Pure Ice Polish's

............................. so proud

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Shopping my stash

There is literally hundreds of polish's I want that I will never get my hands on, mostly due to self discipline. Even though I have soooooooo much and am able to aquire what I want pretty much instanteously, I have some serious self discipline. I still have those pangs of jealousy and 'I-want-it-right-now' feelings and despite that I keep myself in check and try to utilize what I already have and look at my own things before running out to the store.

the results of layering this polish over a dark base was a surpise to me. I have had this rediculouly cute mini bottle of Sally Girl Way 2 Disco for a few years and have layered it over other polish's but I did not realize that there was such a huge colour shift = especially over darker shades. I bought it for the sheer glitter and used it a couple of times then tucked it into the top drawer of my Deez-elmer.  I have seen soooooo many blue to green shifting glitters and cant beleive I had this sitting in a drawer. Here I have layered 3 coats over Nina Ultra Pro Out of The Blue. All my photos are crappy indoor lighting but that is the best way fro me to photograph the colour shift.

also; NUBBINS -  I will be cracking down on my beading crafts as well as digging outside inb the garden for the next few days.

HERE is a GORGEOUS example of Way 2 disco over a lovely puple creme

a few irridescent glitters I rounded up ( I looooooove Love My Nailz Dazzling )

Elf Twinkle Twinkle is an irridescent polish that is $1.00 - I have used this quite a few times

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