OPI Mermaid's Tears

So for this mani I knew what I wanted to do. Wanted teal with gold glitter, I'm not a fan of gold in any form jewelry, clothing, polish, or whatever. I only have a few gold polishes and a couple of gold glitters. But I have seen people pair Gold and Teal together and it looks really good. So I had to try some variation of that.

So I went with a teal and a Gold glitter gradient from the cuticle. Then when I was finished I decided to add a little something to it. Finally settled on an image from the first Bundle Monster set. So here it is...

 Used: 

Orly Nail Armor as a base

3 coats OPI Mermaid's Tears 

Sponged on China Glaze Blonde Bombshell

Stamped with Wet N Wild Black Creme using Bundle monster plate 

topped with Gelous then Seche Vite 

I had never actually used Mermaid's Tears, I do have Orly Ancinet Jade seen here which is supposed to be a dupe of each other. It's been a long time since I used Ancient Jade so I'm not really sure how they compare application wise. But mermaid's tears needed 3 coats but doesn't seem too thick on the nail. 

All in all I'm really happy with how this turned out. will definitively try this look again with other colors and stamps. 

China Glaze Near Dark

Today I'm gonna show a mani I did real quick the other night. It was late and I just had to change my polish. Originally I wanted to paint all my nails black and add some sparkle to a couple of nails but I could not find my black so when I saw Near dark sitting there I figured why not it's pretty and I hadn't used it yet. So here it is... 

 Used: 

Base of Orly Nail Armor

3 thin coats China Glaze Near Dark

2 coats China Glaze Some Like it Haute on ring finger and thumb

topped with Gelous on those 2 nails then Seche Vite over everything.

So Near dark is kinda of weird. It was really thin and runny. After I figured that out though I applied thin coats and it seemed to work ok. Ended up using 3 thin coats and still had VNL which kind of annoyed me but not too much. It was ok for a couple of days. 

Also don't mind the tip wear and the chip, these were taken on the second day of wear. 

Drip Drop

So the lovely Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails is having a Nail art Contest, can be anything just needs to be done with dotting tools, so at first I wasn't sure what I wanted to after thinking of a few idea I chose to try the drippy mani. Which I hadn't tried yet, so for a first try I am happy with how it came out. Ok on to the pictures...

Just the day before I did these, I found the new Cast Aways collex and of course had to have them all, and as I was looking at them and trying to decide which ones I "needed" since buying all right then just wasn't an option, my bf takes five of them to buy for me yay. He is such an enabler but that ok...Also found Green Ocean and the Nabi magnetics, yay got two of those can't wait to try.  

Used: 

base coat of Orly Nail Armor

2 coats of Sinful Colors- Pandora on all nails

the dripping is all Sinful colors:

Athens

Grecian Sun

Olympia

Neptune

Zeus 

All topped with Seche Vite 

I used 6 out of the 8 Cast Aways all together, they all applied very well but then most all Sinful Colors I've used are really good. Which is most of their core line lol what can I say, the first I bought were Daddy's Girl and San Francisco, I had to have more after those two. 

 Sorry about the weird lighting I took these right before the sun was going down outside. I usually take my pics in front of a window with light coming through, but at that time it was already getting dark inside, another 10 minutes and I wouldn't of made it.