Playing Catch Up

Hello!

So... sorry about neglecting my posting duties. My laziness just gets to me and time gets away from me. But now I'm back in school and while that should mean less time to post, being on a schedule actually helps me remember to post so I should be posting more frequently. Hopefully.

Today is the first day of classes. It would have been yesterday but due to Irene, the move in date for school was postponed from Saturday and Sunday to Tuesday. I'm wearing a tape mani inspired by Nailside using 3 Zoyas, which you will see sometime. But today I need to start posting from my backlog of pictures... once I get through those, I start showing current manis. 

So first is OPI No Room For The Blues. This was a huge lemming of mine from the time when I first got into nail polish in January and saw it on Chloe's Nails. I recently was able to get it my Ulta haul. Its not super unique, just your average bright sky blue. The formula is good. You can probably get full coverage in 2 coats if your nails are less stained than mine. My staining has gotten so bad that I have to do extra coats of light colors... :/ So I did 3 coats for the pictures. This is without top coat because at the time I was out of SV. I personally find that OPIs take a longer time to dry and don't wear very well, unless you use top coat. I don't regret this purchase but thinking back, I do wish that maybe I had used that $8 for a more unique polish.

These pictures are all under my LED desk lamp.

Next is a franken I made when I seriously needing a bright coral color (for some reason... probably because it was the middle of summer and it felt like a summer-y color.) To make it I used my franken that I called Pretty in Peach, which was too manikin hands on me and turned it coral. The original franken, Pretty in Peach was made of about 1/2 bottle of Sinful Snow Me White, 1/4 bottle of SH XW Sun Kissed and about 20 drops of a yellow creme. To make it a bright coral, I added a significant amount of Sinful Pink (neon pink), about 20 drops of CG Heli-yum and about 20 drops of Zoya Rica. The sparkle in Rica doesn't really translate onto the nail, however.

You can see in the bottle some of the sparkle (in some of the pictures... if you look really hard!), as well as that it doesn't look mixed all the way. It was, I shook the living hell out of it, and it was all mixed on the inside. I'm really happy with this franken, its the exact color I wanted. It took me a while to come up with a name for it but I finally called Malibu Barbie.

These pictures are all 3 coats with SV taken in sunlight.

I even did a matching pedi!

That's all for today. I have class in about 10 minutes, or that's when I'm leaving. I want to be there early and I'm still not sure how long it takes me to walk from this apartment to the science building.

I hope you all enjoy your day/night!

Thanks for looking, following and commenting!

Fiona

Hey Look, I'm Posting!!

Hello!

Hi guys! Well, the mood struck and I felt like posting today. Mostly because I made this awesome franken last night that I just have to share with you guys. I've been frankening a lot lately. Mostly due to my desire for new polishes and my broke ass can't buy any new ones so I've been making "new" ones. I've had some successes and some fails. My recent fail you won't get to see because I dumped it out and tried again. That one was actually my first attempt at what ended up being this one. That one began with about 1/4 Sinful Daddy's Girl and 1/4 Orly Blue Collar with assorted glitters thrown in. Note to self and all frankeners out there: do not mix a dark jelly with a dense creme. You will get a funky dark gray blue color that is like Zoya Caitlin but ugly and chunky and sticky.

What I was trying to make was a purpley blue mulicolored glitter. The key is to just mix glitter polishes and don't try to make a base color because the base color will overtake the glitter. All of the glitter polishes I have are in the blue and purple family, besides being silver, so I figured why not mix them all together!!? And it worked out beautifully!

I call it Brittany S. Pierce (more on that in a minute) and here's the recipe:
About equal amounts of each (I only filled a 15 ml bottle about 1/4 full):
Zoya Roxy
Nina Ultra Pro Purple X-ing
Pure Ice Beware (fine silver glitter)
Pure Ice Strapless (fine blue glitter)
Pure Ice Cheatin' (fine blue/purple/pink glitter)
Wet n' Wild Kaleidoscope (chunky holo glitter)
Kleancolor Chunky Holo Purple

And a shake a shake a and voila!! Gorgeous! This actually shakes together so nicely too. Ugh, I hate shaking together dense cremes, I actually bruised my palms rolling a bottle back and forth while frankening... =P

So the name. I'm a recent Gleek, and a total and complete Glee fan its ridiculous. I just recently watched the whole first season on Netflix and then was able to find a site that had all the episodes for the second season as well. I was hooked immeadiately!! Its so so so so so good, I'm in love!! While I was frankening this polish I was listening (and singing along to) Glee songs so figured the name has to be something to do with Glee. I know $OPI (Sephora by OPI) did a Glee collection either this year or last year... anyway. They named the polishes after most of the characters but skipped a lot of them. One of which is Brittany, the adorabley ditzy Cheerio, who's one of my favorites. I think her character is one of the funniest on TV!!
Watch the video, this has the best Brittany moments. I know its 9 minutes long but its totally worth it!!

I really think Brittany would like this polish (I hope she would!!) especially because its sparkly and has rainbow glitters!

Here's some more pictures. These are all indoor under my LED desk lamp because its raining.

Oh and this is 3 coats with no SV because I'm all out. Plus, I think you guys will notice I've cut my nails. I liked them long but I was terrified of a bad break and with fall coming and the start of wearing darker colors (not that I follow seasons anyway) I think darker colors look better on shorties.

Well that's it. Hope you enjoyed.

Thanks for looking, commenting and following!!

Have a great day/night!

Fiona

I'm Back!

Hello!

Yes, I'm back from my little unscheduled break! I'll try not to go MIA again but can't promise anything. Ironically, I should be back and able to report feeling great but I have actually taken ill today. My family is sick as well so we're thinking its a virus of some kind. My mom, brother, sister and I are all experiencing stomach flu issues (I'll spare you the details) as well as a fever, dizziness and fatigue. So I'm really feeling like crap right now.

So, all that aside, I have some pictures of the manis and pedis that I remembered to take pictures of while I was away.

First is a mani I did a while ago (I honestly don't remember when) with Sinful Forget Now and Sally Hansen Crackle Overcoat Fractured Foil. Forget Now is a magenta glass fleck jelly very similar to China Glaze Ahoy! and 108 Degrees as well as the new OPI Be A Dahlia Will You? from the Nice Stems collection. Oh yes, I have done my homework on this one!! I am still convinced this is a dupe of one of the above but since no one has done a really good comparison of them and I don't own any of them... I'll just have to speculate. 

These pictures really don't accurately capture what Forget Now really looks like. Its most like the bottle in the first picture, but thats still too red due to these crappy indoor flash pictures. I'll have to take some sunlight pics of this by itself.

Here's a pedi I did last week with Zoya Faye. I didn't think I would like this on my toes because I don't really like it with my skin tone, but I ended up loving it! I even discovered I have shoes that perfectly match this, but forgot to get a picture of them. The sad part is that I have soooo many pairs of shoes, that I was able to "discover" a pair that I own... I seriously have around 25 pairs of shoes and only wear about 4.

This is Nicole Make A Comet-Ment, a fine holo glitter. Holo fans, check this one out!! Its a scattered holo but its still awesomeness in a bottle! I have 3 coats pictured here, but if you do less than you can get a subtler look with the base color showing more. This is over Wet n' Wild Black Creme (best black EVER!!)

I mean, look at that bottle!! That is closer to what this actually looks like with top coat. I didn't wear any top coat with this because my bottle of SV is reaching its last days and I desperately need a replacement bottle. I saving it for slow drying polishes and nail art. This dries very quickly but does leave a the typical gritty glitter finish.

Here's a blurry picture to show the holoness!

Ba-BAM!! Now thats awesome! Get this one if you can, I always see it at Target! I mean it, you need this! You have to see it in person!

As you can see on my pinkie, its only holo in certain lights but thats due to the lack of top coat. Without top coat and in normal lighting (not sunlight) it kinda looks like static or white noise/snow on an old TV set set. But get it in the sun, it'll blind you!

Last, this is my latest franken. I have officially caught the frankening bug and have made quite a few.

I named it 3 AM. The story behind this is, I was doing my nails at around midnight, as usual, and was doing leopard print with Orly Its Up to Blue and China Glaze Four Leaf Clover. Its Up to Blue is a foily, metallic bright teal. I did the spots with IUtB over FLC and realized it created a mermaid-y, mettallic greenish-teal reminiscent of Zoya Charla and its many dupes. So, in a stroke of genius, I got out Sinful Love Nails, which I discovered was an almost exact dupe of IUtB, and Zoya Ivanka, from the same collection as Charla and basically the green version. Next, I needed an empty polish bottle. So, after looking through my stash at polishes that I never wear and don't like and picked up Wet n' Wild Raincheck. It was 99 cents and I realized that I don't like it, since its a grayed out periwinkle frost, so I emptied it out and rinsed the bottle a few times with acetone. Then I emptied about half of my bottle of Love Nails into the empty WnW bottle and added a bunch of Ivanka, tearing up because I was using up one of my precious Zoyas. After adding and shaking and adding and shaking, I ended up using half of my bottle of Ivanka (*tears up*) By the time I was done, it was 3 AM, so that was its name.

Unfortunately, these pictures aren't showing what this truly looks like. The color is less saturated and there's more sparkle in it. The addition of Ivanka, created a really awesome gold sparkle. The sparkle is not as dense as it is in the Zoya Sparkles so it doesn't create a foil look. But its there, I swear, just not showing up at all on film.

I am in LOVE with this polish, it has almost quenched my lemming for Charla (or one of the dupes) and I know it really doesn't look like it here, but in real life, this polish is quite close to Charla. I have been wearing this for the past 3 days (which is very unusual for me) with no tip wear (I did use SV since it dries slow) and still love it just as much and am not sick of it yet!!

For my next post, I will have pictures of my other franken which I decided to call Glitter in the Haze. Its a lilac version of the Lippman Glitter in the Air, or close to it and I love it!

Finally, here's my pedi that I did a few nights ago.

The colored stripes are done with my striper brush on a base of SH XW Green With Envy (lime green) and I won't list all the colors but there is dark blue, teal, pink and orange. Then a day later, I added the daises with a dotting tool. My pinkie toe is not painted with the stripes because its too small to get more than 2 colors on it and I thought, at the time, it wouldn't be noticed, but now I see that it kinda sticks out as not being striped. Oh well.

I hope you guys enjoyed this and thanks for looking!! I hope to be back to posting regularly!

Fiona

Whatever...

Hello.

*Sigh* So my nails are actually green (ish today... OPI Catch Me in Your Net layered over a navy creme which makes it look very green...) buuut... I don't feel like taking pictures today. I really just feel like lying in bed all day. I don't know whats up with me. I'm in a funk I think. You know the mood where every little thing bugs the crap out of you... or maybe its just me... but thats the kind of mood I'm in today. Sorry to whine... but I feel the need to explain my lackluster post today.

So... since I haven't posted in a while I figure I should and just decided to post the pink manicure I had on on Saturday, before Easter. I was just messing around when I did this. I first painted my franken "Pretty in Peach" but HATED it because its so close to my skin tone (which is so sad...) and it gave me funky looking manikin hands... I don't think I spelled that right but spellcheck isn't telling me its wrong so... So I went over it with Sinful 24/7, a matte hot pink. Then the matte-ness was pissing me off, so I put a layer of Sinful Social Ladder, a sheer shimmery pinkish nude color, on top. I liked it okay at the time but was mostly tired because it was likely 2 AM so I went to bed without any top coat on... which is never a good idea. So it was kinda wrinkled the next day but I took pictures anyway. And now I'm glad I did because now I have something to post for today.

Here it is. Something girly and different. Plus now I fit in with Pink Wednesday. Woo.

Yeah, you can totally see the peach color peeking out around the sides. This is what happens when you paint your nails out of frustration at 2 AM, people. This is totally NOT color accurate as well.

This isn't color accurate either but I like the shade of pink it is here... and it shows off the shimmer nicely.

This is closer to color accurate but its still too bright...

Now its too light here... but close.

Wayyy too light. Whatever.

So I hope the rest of you are having a better day. Thanks for looking.

Now I'm going to go back to being huddled in my bed effectively avoiding reality by reading fan fiction. =P

PS, If you're a fan of fan fiction you might like Wide Awake by angstgoddess003 on Live Journal... I'd put the real link but then I would lose my place... its a Twilight fic but its very different and the best one I've read so far!

Fiona

I've Got the Blues for Autism Swatch Marathon Part 3

Hello!!

Today I have part 3 of my marathon thingy of blue. Are you sick of blue yet? I'm not, surprisingly!!

Part 3 is the dark blue cremes!! Heres what we'll be showing you, and these are the correct polishes this time!

SH XW Pacific Blue, SH Thinking of Blue, OPI Sapphire in the Snow, Fashion Bug Dark Denim, Pure Ice French Kiss, and my franken Blueberry Blast.

First up, on Amanda is SH XW Pacific Blue. 2 coats, no flash.

Next is SH Thinking of Blue. 2 coats.

Indoor lighting, flash.

Indoor, no flash. (Most color accurate)

OPI Sapphire in the Snow. 2 coats.

Indoor, flash. Please ignore the bubbling on my middle nail...

Indoor, no flash.

Fashion Bug (department store brand) Dark Denim on Amanda. 2 coats.

Pure Ice French Kiss on Amanda. 2 coats.

And finally my franken, Blueberry Blast, which is a jelly, on Amanda. 4 coats.

The franken was made using mostly top coat, Pacific Blue and Blue Me Away.

I hope you all enjoy your Monday (as much as possible...) and thanks for looking!!

Oh and Hi and welcome to our new followers!!

Fiona

I've Got the Blues for Autism Swatch Marathon Part 1

Hello!

Today I have for you the first installment of IGTBFASM (Wow, crazy acronym) Part 1 is comprised of light blues and glitters.

I'll keep each of these short and just say the name and how many coats and if its been reviewed it yet or not.

Let's get staaaarted...

My franken, Baby Boy (new and improved, made with white and medium blue cremes) - 2 coats - flash

Baby Boy - no flash

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Blue-Away - 1 coat - lamp lighting, no flash - already reviewed

On Amanda: Sinful Colors Nail Junkie - 3 coats - indoor lighting, no flash - already reviewed/shown over things

Nicole by OPI Me + Blue - 2 or 3 coats (I wrote it down but left the Post-it at school and am home now sooo...) - indoor with flash - Amanda reviewed before

Me + Blue - no flash

Pure Ice Strapless - 3 thick coats - excuse the poor cleanup - have reviewed before - indoor lighting, no flash

On Amanda: Sinful Colors Green Ocean - 2 thick coats - indoors, no flash, blurry to show iridescence - has been reviewed about a million times...

Green Ocean - no flash

I enlisted Amanda to swatch the sheer glitters to spare you the trauma to your eyes my badly stained nails would cause. :)

So that's the end of Part 1. I hope you enjoyed this, let me know if you did, please! :)

Part 2 will probably be up sometime next week... bright blue cremes... oooooh... ahhh...

Hope you have a great day/night and thanks for looking!!

Fiona