Zoya Zuza + Crows Toes I Make the Path

This is actually the first mani I did with my Crows Toes but silly holiday made me post the other one first and then, well, I got lazy. Anyway, first up is Zoya Zuza, holy cow do I love this polish! I wore it for like 4 days before adding the Crows Toes (I was actually wearing it when I got the package and immediately rifled through trying to find the perfect glitter for it. I did.) and I swear I've never gotten so many compliments on a mani before. Great application too, if I'd done a thicker coat I probably could have gotten away with one coat.

I Make the Path is the Crows Toes I eventually decided to put on top. First I did a little gradient on my thumb since that's my preferred way of wearing glitter and then I did a full coat on my pointer to see how I'd like it once I realized how gorgeous the glitter was. Gyuh, I've never been a fan of glitter bombs but Crows Toes is making me reconsider.

I picked up this set from Overall Beauty and they're on Llarowe too. Can't wait to play with more of them!

Zoya - Miley

I have a boatload of NerdLacquers that I still need to post about but ugh I'm sooo lazy and the NerdLacquers are so beautiful I just end up taking so many pics and then it takes forever to sort and process. SO decided to just post some crap cellphone pics of tonight's mani instead. Still, NerdLacquer coming soon!

Tonight I decided to go completely against all of my natural instincts and put on Zoya Miley. My normal mani is a 2 coater in some darker shade or nude. This is a pale pale pale lilac that is so sheer I can barely believe it.


Look at that, 3 coats and the nail line you can see from space.

Added a layer of China Glaze Fairy Dust and then another layer of Miley.


I think it would need another 2 coats to be opaque but it's so time to sleep.

Jury is still out on Miley. I don't know how I like it with my skin tone or when I'll be willing to fuss with the sheerness but on the other hand it'll be great for glitter sandwiches and it is a nice colour and unlike some other super light and sheer polishes this one goes on quite nicely and evenly.

A Midnight Skittles Mani

Wasn't I going to be posting here? Fail. Always. And I was going to use my shiny new camera (which I've been using! It's a Canon Rebel T2i and it's fabulous but I haven't actually started transferring photos from camera to computer...) but nope, you get crappy cell phone pic of an uncleaned up mani.

There I was last night hibernating away from the snow storm that decided to hit Chicagoland, laying on the couch, sipping a beer (Two Brothers The North Wind, fabulous Imperial IPA, if you're somewhere they distribute you should try it), catching up on two weeks of DVR (Oh Revenge, why are you so awesome? And how are EVC's lips so perfect?) and the day's blog roll. Had on a perfectly lovely Orly Au Champagne mani that was only a day old. I wander off to the bedroom to get ready for bed and I spot my latest Meijer purchases (Milani Orchidia and L'Oreal Paparazzi Pleaser) on my bedside table. Suddenly I'm cross-legged in front of the melmer pulling out purples and swatching over that lovely white (which I hadn't even taken pics of *shakes fist*)

Well what's done is done right? So I continue getting ready for bed and go to move the laundry into the dryer. I'm still kind of confused about what had just happened since I've never really had an inclination to do skittles before and really I think my body just does what it wants to with no input from me. So I'm staring at my nails while trying to figure out what happened when suddenly I realize, damn, the light in the laundry room is so much better than the one in the bathroom (where I normally take evening pics) So I grab my phone and snap a few pics.



Lol dryer lint on the nail. I was transferring laundry while taking pics.


Left hand; R to L; Zoya Danii, Zoya Nimue, L'Oreal Paparazzi Pleaser, Milani Orchidia, Orly Fowl Play




Right Hand; L to R; Revlon Scandalous, a-England Lady of the Lake, a-England Elaine, China Glaze Spontaneous, Butter London Marrow

Maybe now that I've made an actual post I'll work on getting my lazy ass to upload pics from the camera! Maybe...