Friday, January 28, 2011

Fern - BYS

This was the first green polish I ever got.  It was the one that made me fall in love with greens.

This is a beautiful, dark mossy colour, speckled with silvery glitter.


Like all BYS polishes, it applies nice and smoothly.  This one is great for a glitter as well because it's super easy to take off.



This is with no top coat.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Green and black marble

Marbled nails look really cool.  It's just such a pain that they're hard to get consistent.

Here's a marble I did the other day.  I used black and a lime green by CR.

I loved the pinky the best.


I used the lime green over white as the base to get the green to pop better.

Sorry it's a bit of a mess, I sort of gave up after I couldn't make them all as cool as the pinky!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Matte Royal Blue - BYS

This is an awesome royal blue.  It's supposed to be a matte, but actually dries with more of a satin finish.


 As you can see, it's a great, rich blue.  It's a very odd finish though, because it goes on like a jelly, is called a matte but actually dries as a satin.  And it looks much, much cooler with a top coat on it to make it shiny.


Right, here it is with a TC.  How much cooler is this?


Amazing.  I love it.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Blue shimmer/foil -- 4me

This is a pretty awesome polish.  It applies like a shimmer, but dries more like a foil.  It has a very interesting texture, which you can see if you click on and enlarge the pics.

 It's a pretty cool colour too, and applies nicely.  This was 3 coats, which usually I don't have time for, but this was worth it.

It looks great layered over white too, I'll have to do that sometime.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Blue Green - Coral Colors

Coral Colours do some pretty cool colours. Most seem to have some sort of shimmer in them though - I'm not really that much of a fan of shimmers at the moment.  After looking at these pics and seeing this on my nails, it looks more green than blue, but as you can see in the bottle shot, it does look blue in the bottle, so I'm not totally crazy.


Sunday, January 23, 2011

Totally Tangerine - Orly

I wish this polish looked better on me. I really love the colour in the bottle, but it doesn't do great things for my skin colour.

This is 2 coats - like all Orly's, it's pretty great to apply, and has good cover.



Excuse the dent on my thumb, I smooshed it on my face. Yeah, I'm a hot mess with orange nail polish in my hair right now.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Blugh - Silk

This looks like blue in the bottle, but on the nail, it's more a white, frosty mess. With glitter than looks like pimples. There's nothing else I need to say about this.