What's on my nails today?

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A short post today of a dotticure done with Zoya Yara. a beautiful mossy green with gold shimmers, and a-england Princess Sabra, an golden olive green holo.

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Today another attempt at stamping... but maybe a bit too subtle and definitely not durable enough.

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A quick post today with a beautiful made-for-me polish: Nothing To Be Desired by Polish Alcoholic.

I saw a picture of Velvet Goldmine on Sabrina's Facebook page when she announced her Fall 2014 collection. I really liked it but I thought it would look even better if it were a darker color, like berry of burgundy. A couple of messages later and Sabrina agreed to try and make a berry version of Velvet Goldmine... and this is it!

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Nothing To Be Desired is a gorgeous berry red jelly that is packed with small iridescent and rose gold glitter. I used three thin coats over OPI Natural Base to obtain full opacity, and two generous coats of Seche Vite to make the surface completely smooth (although one would probably have been enough if I had been more careful applying it).

Making this polish with Sabrina was something I would happily do again (and probably will in the future). She was very patient and sent lots of pictures of the different polishes she mixed until it was just the way I envisioned it. When the package arrived, the bottle was wrapped in purple and pink crepe paper and closed with a small ribbon (and of course I ripped it open without taking a picture first...). Sabrina also made a custom label for the bottle so I won't have to remember its name.

I just can't stop looking at my hands, the polish looks so squishy, the color is great and the glitters in the lower layers keep peeking through when I wiggle my fingers... definitely Nothing To Be Desired!


Do you have custom made polishes in your stash?


Nothing To Be Desired was custom made for me by Polish Alcoholic.
You can request a custom polish through the blue button on the left of the shop.

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I was looking for a clean, office friendly look and this is what it turned out to be :)

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Today I have a gorgeous blue polish with a suede finish for you to look at: El Corazon - Matte & Shine Effect 161. It was given to me by Maria from Hypnotic Polish.

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Today a fall colored manicure that was heavily inspired by the Sketched Flowers Jacki of Adventures in Acetone did for The Digit-al Dozen Does Floral. I loved the colors and the sketchy feel of her manicure when I saw it but as I can't freehand if my life depended on it I decided to stamp instead of paint.

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Today I have a layering experiment on my nails... and boy, did it work out great!!

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Here I was, wondering why there was no place to leave a comment... only to discover it WOULD be nice to actually enable commenting!
So I did that... just now :S

I thought senior moments appeared AFTER gray hairs and crows feet showed up.
I guess I was wrong ;)

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Today swatches of a gorgeous charcoal gray holographic polish: a-england Fated Prince.

Fated Prince is part of the five piece Burne-Jones Dream collection that was released in 2013 and it's a one-coater if your coats aren't too thin.

I used two coats and a layer of Seche Vite to protect the polish.

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Another skittlette today, this time using two gorgeous Naturel colors by Zoya.

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I finally did it! I stamped all my nails for a manicure and I didn't even mess up too bad, if I say so myself :)

When I saw the Golden Leaves manicure by Bregje from Oooh, Shinies, I wanted to do a manicure just like it so I checked my stash and I found the exact same green, a pretty good substitute for the gold and a plate with a leaf pattern. Not the elegant one Bregje used though (so that plate is now on my wishlist... just a couple more months until Santa comes along and I've been a really good girl ;)

This is my result:

Green and golden leaves - indoors, no flash

I used 2 coats of Catrice Squeeze Me as base color and all nails were stamped with China Glaze Passion and Bundle Monster plate BM-H11. As usual OPI Natural Base went underneath everything and Seche Vite was used before stamping and as top coat.

I still need a lot of practice but I'm really proud of my first stamped manicure. Hope you like it too :)

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Today a manicure I had on for an entire week. Not because I love it so much (although I do love it) but because it has been so busy I haven't been near a bottle of polish, let alone have the time to paint my nails :(

I was going through my polishes, looking for inspiration to do a darker, more autumn-y manicure and I spotted a gorgeous royal purple: a-england Avalon... and after that this happened:

Purple and lilac manicure - indoors, no flash