Blue frankenawesomness and glitta

Hi loves <3

Today we have a beautiful layering combo with 2 frankens...

First is just a sky blue, with a crelly (creme/jelly)  consistency.  

Sun

Shade

In my anticipation of some glittery sparkly etsy polishes, I tried to combine a few of my own glitters to create a semi peacockish polish.

Below with a matte top coat.

Sun

Shade

Then I added a shiny top coat... (you can see the awesome holo sparkles)

Sun!!!

Shade
Holo Love

Awesome right?!!!! 

Just for fun, I decided to show you guys my glitter adventure...

Glitter Spills (O.O)
It looked way more rainbowy IRL

 SOOOOO PREEETTYYYY

Hope you all liked my glitzy awesome pic spam!

     -Katy

i wish this was my NOTD.....

The Hungry Asian Sneeze Breeze over blue mattified

.....of course I had to ruin it with nail art

     -Katy

Etsy Awesomeness!!!! The Hungry Asian Sneeze Breeze

Hi gals!
I got home today to find a wonderful package containing my buys from the etsy store : The Hungry Asian!!!!! I purchased two minis, Sea Monster and Sneeze Breeze.

Today I'm showing you:

Sneeze Breeze is a lovely clear based polish with mini black and iridescent blue matte glitters.

In the pictures below, I have it layered over a blue pastel franken polish. The amount of black vs iridescent blue glitter changes depending on the light...really awesome, right?

look how the iridescent blue glitter glows! pretty :P

I totally love this polish!! It has so many layering possibilities.....over white, grey, black, orange, pink, etc, etc....... 

The only issue was that the glitter was super bumpy and needed 3 coats of top coat to be smooth. But that could be resolved by doing a thinner coat and careful brushstrokes. I'm sure this will look great matted as well...

Thoughts?

    -Katy

Hello Holos'!!

Happy Weekend! Guess what?!?!! The sun showed today! AND that means.......HOLOs! (and a super pic heavy post ;)
I also tried to create a multi chrome holo...
 sneak peak hehe

For the base I did 2 coats of Milani Orchidia, a pretty purple with some silver/glass flecks. It would have been pretty opaque in 3 coats but I was not so concerned about VNL

then...

with 2 coats of Milani Cyberspace

(letting the pics do the talking)

Aren't those holo colors amazing?1

AHHHHH SO pretty!! I love holographic polishes! And not to mention how amazingly beautiful and glass flecked it looks in the shade. The purple underneath makes it a more blurply color and adds a tiny bit of duo chrome. This isn't quite linear but more tightly scattered. And of course the holo is about 100x better in real life...

 Oh and I don't know why my pointer finder looks so blue, but if you were to wear the color without a colored base coat that is more what it would look like.

What do you think? love or LOVE?
thanks for watching!

   -Katy

Sky BLue

Happy Weekend!
Here's are cheery nail polish of the day! One of my nameless frankens made with an assortment of blues...
I might be calling this 'Cheer me up!' because it does just that whenever I wear it ;)

application was good, a little on the thin side but builds nicely.
3 coats with topcoat.
They was some tip wear, as I put it on last night and did not wrap tips

Sun

Direct Sun

Shade

Very Cheerful!! There is some shy micro blue sparkles hiding somewhere...
What do you think?

  -Katy

spring sunday!

I believe it is still officially winter, but it sure feels like spring...We finally had some rain! (Yay plants)

Anyway, I'm switching my mind set to spring feel-good colors. During all the seasons, I try to have a manicure that cheers me up/inspires me/ makes me feel happy! Spring is just more so. Onto the polish!

This is actually another guest appearance from my right hand. I think she will be making more appearances on my blog. ;) I am wearing one coat of OPI Alpine Snow and 2 coats of my franken, Mazarine* Salt (yay a franken with a name) top with a coat of SV. I think this would also look cool over black but the white brightened it up.

 *Vocab word of the day! 

Mazarine : a deep, rich blue*  Im deciding to pronounce it Maz-ar-I'-ne 

Its a little chipped up, but you get the picture.

Mazarine Salt is a sheer blue based pearly polish with scattered blue sparkle particles (the salt).

I recommend clicking on the pictures to ENLARGE them! You can see the sparkles better. One coat would have left the sparkles sitting more individually, to a cool effect.

Also, I will try put up a new poll on the sidebar biweekly. I encourage you to take part!

Happy Sunday!

   -Katy

*REswatch* cookie monster

Hey you guys! ;)

Long time no see...sorry about that. This has kinda been a "rest 'n' recover" week for my nails. Also, I ran out of batteries that work with my camera. That, combined with how busy each week is mad it kinda hard to swatch, and take pics.  

     Anyway, I  was looking through my pictures and I came across another swatch of cookie monster, one of my frankens. 

I hope that gives you a better idea of what it looks like ;)

thanks

-Katy

*Guest Post!*

 Happy Saturday! Today we have a very special guest post by my friend Lucy!
 Unfortunately, she does not yet have a blog, but we do share our love of nail polish! 
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Hi polish lovers! I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Today we have Essie Shine of the Times over Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint.

Very pretty flakie layering combo!! 

Thanks again Katy!

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 Beautiful! Since I have both those polishes, I will definitely try this combo.

thc Lucy! 

2 quick mani's ;)

Happy Friday!
I have realized more and more that all the posting I do is in short bursts on the weekend. I hope you guys don't mind, but I will try to be a bit better about that.
So here are some quick mani's from the week...

Cookie Monster is one of my only frankens that has a name. Its is a deep turquoise blue and has stray holographic sparkles. 2 coats. It had a bit of a gritty finish so I topped it off with a coat of SV, leaving it still kinda bumpy but a cool texture.

semi sunlight

Special Appearance! Here we have my shy right hand, wearing 2 coats of Revlon Peachy.

Formula was slightly thin, 2 coats for okay coverage, no topcoat.

Definitely not my best pics, but I was in a hurry. Darn I just hate those blurry pics. watevs! 

Two pretty colors, but nothing amazingly specially unique. I promise you I have some treats planned for this weekend! ;)

thanks for watching,

   -Katy

First Comparison! pale blue

Hey polish lovers! (and cookie lovers :)

Today we have my first comparison.....

Trumpets sound!!!! 

We are going to be comparing some of the different sky/pale blue creme polishes in my collection. I feel that this is one color that many polish companies have made dupes too and definitely a very common color. 

Pretty none the less. :) I am especially drawn to this color because I love blue!!! BLUE BLUE BLUE

*sorry in advance for messy clean up, I was too lazy to clean up in between coats*

On the nail, the polishes are in the opposite order that you see here:

pointer- Essie, middle- Wet n Wild, ring- Revlon, pinky-  Cosmetic Arts

Cosmetic Arts (no name), Revlon Minted, Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint, Essie Turquoise and Caicos

All swatches in this post are shown with Orly Nail Defense base coat and no top coat.

 As you can see, the formula for the first coat for all was a bit streaky...

direct sunlight
1 coat

shade
1 coat

After 2 coats, you start to see more apparent color differences and levels of opacity...

sunlight
2 coats 

shade
2 coats

 And with three, almost all are opaque with their semi different colors...

sunlight
3 coats

shade
3 coats

Conclusion: My favorite color was Essie T&C (I just loved the semi squishy jelly like feel)... a close second both color and formula wise would be Wet n Wild INRM. Revlon M turned out to be more of a pale green color. Cosmetic Arts had similar color to Wet n Wild INRM, but came in last formula wise. I think its worth it to buy both the Wet n Wild (only $1.99) and the Essie ($7.99).

Soooooo... what did you guys think?!! 

I <3 comments! suggestions?!

thanks for watching!

-Katy

are you guys in for a surprise :)

Hola queridas! Hoy vamos a ver una polish "franken" muy preciosia.

Es una de mis favoritas.

pero ahora, no tiene nombre...

pues, aquí hay mi polish

(perdón pero mis títulos son en inglés)

partial/early morning sunlight

shade

close up of the glitter awesomeness!

Es maravilloso, ¿No? 

application fue excelente pero el "glitter" no quería ir en mi uña

Yo lo hice esto con parto de mi "tazmanian devil" y con unos azules diferentes.

chao!

Katy <3