East/ West Village Franken

NYC EAST Village and NYC WEST Village - a 50/50 ratio made this lovely franken. This is 4 thin coats, with my MIDDLE nail at 2 thick coats, which resulted in some bubbles. Wish I could get some sunshine pics of this = will do comparisons tomorrow.


Also - I think Blogger reset everyone's blog so that you have to verify you are human, and not a spam robot from the future. When I went to comment on blogs that did not previously have this the verify catchpa thing came up, including on my blog = = =booooo! those things annoying, but necessary to stop spam.

 NYC West Village & NYC East Village made this lovely franken 

 I am naming this polish 'Dude Looks Like a Lady' for the anonymous e-mailer who thinks I am a dude. I actually think that early 90's hair metal ballads will be the name of this collection of frankens (see my post from yesterday ). So i will have plenty of cool names. - its actually kinda hard to come up with names for my frankens - so 90's glam rock/hair metal it is! ( those are the same things, right? )


I will do comparison to other peacock-like colours tomorrow. This polish is just a straight up dark blue with teal shimmer, there is no purple or gold in here - it is very pretty and I actually wanted to purchase a polish just like this. it still needs 3 to 4 thin coats but dries FAST!!!!!

- the stickers come off very easy on these -

Here is the post on NYC EAST Village, it is a very sheer teal shimmer that needs 5 or more coats to opacity.

And HERE is the post on NYC WEST Village, which is a dark shimmery blue - it can be opaque in 2 coats and dries very fast - too fast, but I like my polish's like that!!!!!

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Claire's Goldmine & exciting new frankens!!!!!

above - Claire's Goldmine, 2 coats layered over Billie Gold metallic w/ 2 coats of TC

But first frankens!!!!!!!I found a few bottles of NYC East village on sale a few months ago. I knew I would  be whipping up some frankens with them eventually. I finally got around to it this evening. Before I knew it it was 10:45, my whole evening spent franken-ing! All my frankens turned out as I envisioned they would. I am so excited to wear them.

 NYC East Village5 coats w/ TC = This polish is pretty layered over other polish's and it did dry fast..

NYC East Village is a ridiculously sheer teal shimmer. HERE is a previous post I did on this polish The only polish's I used for these frankens below were NYC West Village, a Black creme, a White creme and a shimmery sparkly Icing polish. These were very simple to make. taking your time, adding drop by drop for deep pigmented colours and taking notes is they way to go when frankening.

I will be doing individual posts on these starting tomorrow. Sorry about just bottle pic's and small swatches.... I had to post this asap, because using this for frankens worked out excellent - plus the labels peeled off more easily than any polish label I have come across!

( I picked these up for 72 cents each last Autumn)

and my frankens, with the OG at the end

.... and a few more photos of Claire's Goldmine, 2 coats w/ 2 coats of TC

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a sheer boring gold shimmer, new old stuff and a few more nail blog links I missed yesterday ♥

No-Name Icing gold shimmery polish, 2 coats layered over Naturistic's Chrome in Solid Gold with 1 coat of TC.

This polish, along with the others that came with it in the mini 5 set are very sheer. They are build able but need 4 to 5 coats to hide VNL. I'll have to hunt around for some photos where I compared this to something else.

Also; Here is a few more nail blog links, I thought I had these on my list for yesterday - oops!


no naked nails

polish art addiction

ferahfezas favourites

spellbinding nails

moondancer jen

seriouspolish junkie

paint that nail


...and some old school Nail Fetish nails I found at my favirote dollar store in town.... a long, long time ago I had these in forrest green, they were a gift from my friend 'C' who bought them a gazillion years ago, and I also recieved some from another friend 'A'  as a gift as well. I was surprised to see these in the store, so of course I had to but them.

I am not sure how old these are but I love pre-painted artificial nails

L-R, vampy red, bright copper and shimmery lilac

anyhoo- here is a few more photos of this sheer shimmery polish.

I have layered this sheer gold polish over 2 coats of Naturistic's Super Chrome in Solid Gold

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A Simple Gold Sponge Mani

The polish's I used for this look were Icing Manic Monday, Billie Gold, Icing no-name gold shimmer and ELF Golden Goddess. I sponged the Billie Gold metallic polish over my nails, then sponged on the no-name Icing polish over that and -extending past- the gold, then applied 1 coat of ELF Golden Goddess. I need another coat or two of Top Coat for ELF Golden Goddess..... it looks really lumpy plus the base on it is matte = but it dries fast for me so I am not complaining.

Icing Manic Monday - a dark, dark green

Billie Gold - thick metallic gold, very opaque & dries fast

un-named Icing polish - gold shimmer

The gold hearts did not hang on overnight..... many of them fell off. So today I removed what was still hanging on and sponged over my nails.

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Polish's I used for this Mani

L-R Icing Manic Monday, Billie Gold, Icing no-name gold shimmer, ELF Golden Goddess

I sponged 3/4 of my nails with Billie Gold, and thick gold metallic polish.

L-R

* Sponged 3/4 of nail with Billie Gold
* Sponged on a sheer, shimmery gold polish, leaving a small area of the green base polish
* added 1 coat of ELF Golden Goddess
* Added Top Coat





and my Pot Of Gold St Patrick's Day from yesterday....... those little beads surprised me, I thought they would all fall off, but a surprising amount stayed on, even though I did alot of crafty things today.

Before                                                                                                 After

My nail is at different angels, so it looks like a totally different more rounded shape. I didn't think of doing a before/after till I loaded these photos. I think I would like these beads in clear, and pastel colours. Nail polish dissolves the finish on non NAIL ART micro-beads.

I set these into wet Top Coat but the colour still bled.

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2 pretty polish finish's that look good in dim lighting

I love how the light from the TV bounces of my nails when I am wearing chrome polish's. This is 2 coats of an older dis-continued Sally Hansen Chrome polish called SAPPHIRE which is a lite baby blue chrome. It is super reflective - I love these chrome polish's as 'underwear' for layering. I have amassed quite a collection and can usually match a similar chrome polish to layer over if I need to.

I applied some french tip guides and added a coat of  TURQUOISE (middle bottle) which is almost the same shade as the Pure Ice blue glitter I added over the tips, \strapless which is a dense medium blue glitter. Even though this polish is packed with glitter and could be opaque in 3 coats, I applied 2 coats over a polish with a similar colour just so there wasn't any sparse areas.

I have used these same 3 polish's for another mani HERE

From CHROME NAIL MAKE-UP SALLY HANSEN

L-R = SH Sapphire, SH Turquoise, Pure Ice Strapless

.... and a mani with Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, layered over NYC Skin Tight Denim

I started with 2 thin coats of NYC Skin Tight Denim {or STD lol} and added a thick coat of hidden Treasure, followed by a coat of  Nailene TC. I have only worn Hidden Treasure once on my nails and once on my toes..... I waited and waited for this to come to my town and I rarely ever wear it.

My previous manicure photos of this polish are the most 'used' and re-posted of all my photos. Here is a link to that post, just in case you are interested in seeing it Layered over black. I appreciate polish's with finish's that are very apparent in crappy lighting like duo-chromes, and multi- chromatic polish's, as well as basic chromes like the blue Sally Hansen chrome make-up polish in the mani above.

I think I did a great job of getting all the colours in this photo below. This is outdoors under the patio.

From SPECIAL POSTS

Also I totally have to note =   I wrote last summer I predicted that their would be a readily and widely available multi-chromatic flakey polish available in North America in stores by fall 2010 and I was wrong. I was right about the matte-madness of summer/fall 2010 though....... Does anyone else find it bizarre that there is 6 extremely close dupes of the Charla/Teal of Fortune/Jesses' Girl Glee {and the other 4} but so few good DENSE flakies out there? And also why isn't there a real linear Holographic polish in current collections from SH, Wet n Wild or other dept store brand names?


anyhoo... here is a few more photos of Hidden treasure layered over NYC STD

in low/dim lighting, the multi-chromatic flakes really do their job

w/ NYC Skin Tight Denim

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Wet n Wild Blue wants to marry a Millionaire

2 coats of Wet n' Wild Blue Wants to be a  Millionaire, layered over Sally Hansen Turquoise Chrome. On it's own BWTMaM is a very sheer baby blue polish with holographic micro-glitter. It is girly and dainty and perfect for layering. I have seen many photos of this at 4 to 5 coats and it is beautiful, but I took the easy route and layered it over a discontinued SH Chrome polish. I added 2 coats of Top Coat as I found it had alot of texture to it.

It has a normal looking brush but it is not the same as other WnW polish's I have. The brush is very stiff and I am tempted to pour this into a 'normal' bottle of polish. Even though I have heard bad things about all the Fast Dry brushes it isn't going to stop me from acquiring all of these Fast Dry polish's; even the sheer ones, because they are all really pretty♥

I did not realize that my lead photo in my last post was my mummified finger, sorry, that wasn't supposed to be like that.

Also; how hard did they laugh when the name 'Hannah Pink-tanna' was actually labeled on the bottles and ready to ship to stores? Hannah Pink-tanna is the sheer magenta version of this polish. I think there should be a resource page on MUA for polish company's to reference when thinking up names for polish's.

the Brush = It looks normal but it is on the almost un-manageable side.....

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