Enchanted Polish 1999 and Monsters Ink

I'm finally making a post!

I lost a great deal of my polish collection which included a lot of my favorite polishes that I blogged about here previously. When I was moving my family actually threw them away.
But I've decided to try to get back into my blog as one of my 2018 resolutions.

I recently used Enchanted Polish 1999 with Monsters Ink as an accent nail.

I love 1999. Not just because of the name- I want all the Prince polishes since he was my favorite singer- but this has a beautiful foil/super holo finish. It's the color that I wanted Purple Roses to be. And in the sunlight the holo really pops.

I took this picture standing by the window- I was lucky that it was sunny when I took the picture because we recently had 3 days of rain.

I took this picture inside where you can see the foil finish.

Whimsy, Ciao Milano, & Oceanic Forces

So now not only did my middle fingernail become a nub, my ring fingernail did too! I might just cut them all to balance everything out.

I do have a few swatches that I didn't post yet.

Here is one featuring one of my absolute favorite shades of blue, Whimsy by Picture Polish. I actually got a lot of compliments on my mani that day.

I have a few colors by Picture Polish and they are easy to apply. They are color-accurate as far as bottles and swatches, so if you get one you won't be disappointed. The only thing I was ever "meh" about was Revolution (the glitter peel-off basecoat) but that's for another review. :) If anyone else has tried it, let me know what you thought of it!

Index and pinky- Whimsy (the index finger also has a holo topcoat by Pixie Polish- unfortunately right now she had to close her etsy store) Middle finger has Enchanted Ciao Milano, and the ring finger has Emily de Molly Oceanic Forces! I was so happy when I finally got Oceanic Forces! It took me at least 3 or 4 tries to finally get it.

I took this picture outside. Maybe I should have used some more Glitter Food on my ring fingr? LOL

Inside with flash (makes it hard to read the bottle, huh?)

no flash, naturally blurry

For some reason the living in my lighting room is really great at picking up holos!

a Holo-Gasm with an Ice Castle and Lucky Stars

This was sort of a nail experiment. I finally got Enchanted Ice Castle (remember my Castle on a Cloud mishap?) Ice Castle IS actually blue and purple, like I wanted. (This is over black)

I also got Darling Diva lucky star- because I love anything with stars and this is also supposed to glow in the dark, and in blacklight. However, I didn't realize that Darling Diva is not as sheer as I thought it was- so what I did on my middle finger over a blue and purple  is definitely a don't- but I was going to a bar that had a blacklight that night and I left this as is.

On my ring finger I used some Jade and Ozotic beam polishes over blak to make a rainbow- but do you know what made everything so wonderful and shiny?

Nail Nation 3000 Silver hologasm. Maria means it when she says hologasm. Look at this. This picture is not edited (except for my watermark)- I was just outside and the sun ACTUALLY MADE MY NAIL SPARKLE LIKE THAT.

I will have to take a picture of it in normal indoor lighting sometime, because the silver sparkles make it look like you literally have jewelry shining on your nails.

I also used Sephora UV topcoat- because even after I tried activating my polish with my blacklight, it did not glow in the dark. I don't know if I got a bad bottle or what. Can anyone please tell me? I have seen other people with swatches of this polish glowing in the dark.

 I still love the stars, but check out how awesome this holo looks in the blacklight! It looks like foil flames!

This one was done with the "Night" setting in photobucket. It shows more of the colors where the Darling Diva stars are. But it also shows a bunch of lines/staticky crap from my phone, which I apologize for.

Enchanted Castle on a Cloud

This is an OOPS! post.

Have you ever had a hard time telling 2 colors apart, even when you see swatches? That is what happened to me with Enchanted Ice Castle and Castle on a Cloud. For some reason,on my laptop monitor, they both looked like they had some blue/purple in them. I knew Castle on a Cloud had some pink in it but I didn't think it would look really pale on me.

I swatched it- in a gradient over Kids, and on my thumb over black, but it doesn't seem to look the same on me as it does on other people.

So this actually resulted in my first swap! In a few days I should have my first Aly's Dream Polish- a nice seafoam green color, which is a much more "me" color.

(this just picked up all the tons of holo because my bathroom light is very glarey- still a cool picture)

I think this one is much more color accurate: (the lines are from me putting the Castle on a Cloud between Kids and some glitter, but it just blends right in)

So what do you think? Do any of you have Castle on a Cloud? Does it look like this on you? Does it look similar to other swatches you've seen, or is my monitor just really messed up?

Bellskandi Plumberry & a ring!

Well I finally have another mouse, although it isn't pretty and purple like my other one.

I always tend to get overexcited about trends and want to BUY ALL THE COLORS (well, all the shades of blue, green, and purple.)

I love thermal polish and I wasn't able to get the Dance Legend thermo glitter that went from white to black and had silver glitter- but I did come across a review of Bellskandi Plumberry, which was described as going from blue to purple- and she also makes matching jewelry!

Well, I was just experimenting with different polishes and I was really excited that the ring really does change color. So does the polish. It is sheer though, so if you have any cracks or imperfections in your nails they will show. I had a big crack in my Infamous Wonky Nail that shows in my 2nd picture- but you can also see how the thermal polish created a gradient effect.

Ok- pinky-thumb

I had various purples and some stars from the Born Pretty store (part of a contest entry you will see later)- ring is Enchanted Kids, middle finger is Picture Polish Violet Femme with the Bellskandi Plumberry on top and some Ninja Polish nebula on the tip and my index finger has Plumberry over January Morning by Girly Bits.

Blue tint when cold

Purple Tint when warm

(my thumb also has some leftover glitter I tried on)- I think it's Darling Diva Blue on Black. I just dabbed a little on, because my boyfriend said that it looked like cookies and cream in the bottle and I was trying to show him that the glitter was actually blue! 

Colors by Llarowe- Her Eyes Shined

My mouse stopped working so I will let the picture explain what I did LOL.

But I was REALLY happy to find this beautiful Femme Fatale color on Ebay for a normal price!! Then the next day I got one of the Colors by Llarowe in the mail- Her Eyes Shined. It is beyond beautiful.

I haven't used many jelly polishes, but this is the best kind I've ever used. I love how the blue shimmer sparkles on my nails without even using topcoat.

This is the result of my experiment:

You can get Colors by Llarowe on- guess where? llarowe.com! She's having a restock tomorrow. She has stocked twice and I still have not been able to get any of her holos. Wish me luck?

Enchanted & Rainbow Honey

Here is another catch-up post for you!

I finally got a couple of polishes from the Enchanted Time to Pretend collection! I am wearing Kids in this one and I am very impressed by it!'

I also got a beautiful Rainbow Honey color called Sakura Matsuri. This is the first Rainbow Honey color I have ever had. The flowers really sucked me in.

I did a green gradient on my ring finger before layering the Rainbow Honey over it, but it was a hot mess. I used a dark green base color, then Darling Diva What You Do For Money Honey (I tried that by itself first, but it is very sheer) and on the tip of my nail I used NFU  056- a very bright green, pretty glitter.

The flowers came out too fast when I was working on my ring finger! They remind me of a beaded curtain pattern like on the cover of one of Britney Spears' old albums. (ew I'm showing my age now.) But can anyone see the resemblance?

Hare Hooky at the Hamlet/emerald birthstone mani

Hi everyone! Sorry for not posting in awhile- I do have a few pictures leftover from before my awkward nail break, so I'll try to get caught up ASAP.

Have you ever based a manicure around one color beause you like it so much? That is what I did with HARE polish Hooky at the Hamlet. I was so happy when it was finally back in stock at Llarowe.

I did make it slightly darker by layering it over an Ozotic multichrome. Check here to see the original color (it's a lovely cyan on its own)

If memory serves correctly, my thumb and pinky nail are HITS chameleon, my wonky index finger was one of the new HITS multichrome holos (I have Super Cute and Sweet Dreams) and the middle finger was one I was very excited to get from a group- Green Peace on Earth by Enchanted.

I also was using an excuse to wear lots of green nail polish because my birthday was last month. I'm really loving emerald (my birthstone) being the color of the year this year- although I know my ring finger and the darker flashes on my thumb and pinky are the only emerald looking ones this time.

My first Enchanteds and NFU-oh's!

I was able to get my very first Enchanted Polishes, thanks to the lovely Leah at llarowe making sure people could only get one bottle of each color. I got them in the mail yesterday!!

I have been wanting to try some of these colors for months! I wasn't able to get Ocean Potion, since it seemed to sell out in .02 of a nanosecond. I also wasn't able to get any of the Dance Legend holos.

From left to right (over Layla softouch effect in black)- sit back and get comfortable, since I went a little buckwild this time!

I think the thumb is Magical Mystery Tour? It looks so similar to Across the Universe (on my pinky) that I was having difficulty telling. My thumbnail got a crack on the side and broke beyond repair. I tried using the teabag method to fix it, but I couldn't get the glue to stick right.

Hey Jude is on my pointer finger. That was my rogue wonky nail, but it broke :( I don't know why Hey Jude looks so silver in the pictures. I thought it would look more similar to my ring finger.
My middle finger has Ciao Milano on it (similar colors to Magical Mystery Tour and Across the Universe, but made entirely of glitter!) It reminds me of Jupiter Aurora by Coco Allure. Has anyone done any comparisons?
I also put a holo I got from Pixie Polish on top of Ciao Milano to add some extra rainbowy-ness.
My ring Finger has Deviantly Daring by China Glaze. Then I added Cosmic Forces by Girly Bits to add a blue tint. I also got my first NFU-oh's (I heard the flakies are being discontinued soon!) I tried doing a split of  the flakies #54 and #56.

I guess you can see the flakies more from this angle:

(Excuse the cleanup- at first I tried using Orion by Crowstoes on my pointer finger but I didn't like the shade of green it turned out as.. but for some reason the green in Hey Jude is not wanting to show up in these pictures at all!)

Enchanted is also known for their lovely packaging. They have a castle on both the bottle an the box.

With flash in my bathroom lighting, there's too much glare to see it: (Holding a bottle of Hey Jude- notice my pointer fingernail now looks purple instead of gray/silver? The bottle also looks kind of purple)

With the flash off, you can see the famous castle logo, and the bottle and my pointer finger FINALLY look green!

The logo also reminds me of a cool Gothic clock that style.ly had on their Facebook page the other day. That picture is here.