Day 15- Favourite Band

This one was hard, I love so many bands. I’m a headbanger at heart, the heavier the better. But Van Halen have been a favourite of mine since I was 7 or so.

I used my red holo franken for the base, BYS Black Satin, NYC Colors Casper and Orly Dazzle for the art

Creative Lacquer Challenge Day 5 - Inspired by something in your home

Mario Pez! featuring my red franken holo!

I feel pretty...

And with this beauty, could you blame me?!

Outdoors, direct sunlight

Yes, my one and only Lynnderella! I've had her for a few weeks now, and have only JUST plucked up the courage to use her.


Very Pretty Vampire is a wine red sheer base, packed with black, red and burgundy glitter, in a range of sizes and shapes. It's a very complex polish, and would make for a great layering polish, but i wanted to try it on its own.

Bottle shots, direct sunlight

This polish takes a bit of work though. Because of all the glitter, making it a bit chunky, its a little hard to apply, nothing terrible though. It dries a little gritty, a good top coat or two wouldn't hurt. I needed 3 costs to get it opaque, but I did grab a photo to show you the differences between layers...

  One coat over black or red would look fantastic!

Epic Close Up!

I'm loving this polish, definitely worth the wait, and lives up to the hype! Lynnderellas can be found at  Llarowe and are $15 per jar.

Galax-E (pic heavy!)

I am SO excited about this post! I won a giveaway (my very first!) from Pretty & Polished last month and part of the prize was one of her Frankens, Galax-E.  I'd been eyeing off a few of her polishes on her etsy too, so that was a bonus! I totally need to buy a few more (I'm looking at you, Martian Salad!)

Galax-E is a black, jelly-ish base PACKED with silver and holographic glitter. It is, essentially, a galaxy on your nails. And boy, is it AMAZING! I wear a lot of black, both nails and clothes, and this has become an instant classic! Application was perfect, went on smoothly, and didn't dry gritty at all. In my pictures, I have 3 coats, and a coat of top coat. I could have gotten away with 2 but I've gotten into a habit of doing 3.

I adore Galax-E, I really do. I think I'm going to need to order another bottle soon! Now, onto the pics, shall we? They were all taken in direct sunlight, and I did (as usual) include a few blurry shots, to show off the awesome holo effect!

 

NOTD - Holo Goodness! (pic heavy!)

Can I just tell you now how good blog sales are? I’ve managed to snag some amazing polishes through them and this is no exception!

What I have here is Nubar Gem with an accent nail of a holo gold franken I was sent as an added bonus, both from the lovely Carli at Vintage Musings of a Modern Pinup.

Just look at Nubar Gem. Isn’t it AMAZING?! 3 Coats, and no top coat. The gold holo is just one coat, which rocks! Nubar Gem is a part of the Prism collection, and is a taupe base which sometimes looks a bit purple, almost duo-chromey, packed with densely scattered holo. 

The gold holo, just labelled "magnetic holo", is gorgeous as well, and i'm not a huge fan of gold! The holo is not as strong as in the Nubar, but it is definitely there. it's more linear than the Nubar as well, and it looks nice alongside the Nubar. I also think that it would make a good stamping polish, if i can ever master the art of stamping LOL!

And a couple of blurry shots to show off the awesome holo-ness!

Nail Mail Spam!

6 packages waiting for me at the post office today, it was like christmas!

A england Perceval
Milani Red Sparkle
Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire
Orly androgynie
Nubar Gem
A mini franken labelled “magnetic holo”
CG turned up turquoise (neon)
mini CG Ruby Pumps
Pretty and Polished Galax-e
CG Cosmic

I also got a box of sally hansen nail strips, called Groove, and a mini manicure set and some files as part of a pretty and polished giveaway.

I got the A england and Lynnderella from Llarowe's free shipping sale, Galax-E and Ruby Pumps as a part of the Pretty and Polished giveaway, Nubar Gem and the Magnetic Holo from a blog sale, the Milani from a blog sale and the rest on ebay :D

Now... which one to wear first?