Crow Toes Merope

Collection: Pleiades (2012 Winter)

Taupe base with blue/ pink/ red duochrome shimmer and small translucent flakes. I’ve been looking for a blue to red duochrome every since I saw this. Merope definitely fits the bill and the shimmer even has an additional green flash.

Cult Nails Manipulative

Collection: Divas and Drama (2012 Spring)

Dusty tiffany blue with green micro-shimmer. While China Glaze For Audrey is from the same color family, it’s brighter and has no shimmer. Manipulative pulls too green on me to be a true tiffany blue but I love the hidden shimmer.

After reading about Cult Nails’ great formula on various reviews, I expected this to be as smooth as butter. It is highly pigmented for a light shade but butter it is not – I found it thick and streaky. Adding plenty of thinner really helped but I recommend a light hand during application for the best results.

Polish peels:
• Michelle Base (1 coat)
• Cult Nails Manipulative (2 coats)
• Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat (1 coat)

Polish Days: Something New

I almost forgot about this month’s Polish Days even though it was pushed back a week (because the first Tuesday fell on the 1^st). The idea was to try something new – an untried color, a technique or even a new finish! I have quite a number of untried polishes but I thought it would be more fun to try a new technique. Then I remembered an old trend: newspaper nails!

My original idea was to have nude nails but I failed my first attempt. So I switched colors because newspapers are usually grey. I couldn’t get the ink to ‘print’ clearly on my index finger (as seen) even though the rest turned out better.

Three Beauties Radient Turquoise

Sheer green base with blue/ purple duochrome glass flecks. I bought this polish on a hunch that it’ll look awesome over a black base and I’m happy to show you that I’m right! Look at that glass fleck duochrome goodness!