Shatter the Sky

Honestly, I grabbed Pure Ice Celestial off the shelf because I am in a never-ending quest to find the perfect Tardis blue.   This isn't it, but it's still nice!

It's a little streaky, and there are a couple of bubbles, but I was also in a rush and glopped the polish on rather carelessly.

For some reason, I love layering glitter and such over this color.  It's just a good, solid blue.  It does stain a lot though, which I always wind up forgetting about when I wear it.  Boo.

Then, just because I was bored, I put a coat of China Glaze Cracked Medallion over it!

This was the first time I used a crackle polish and I think it went pretty well!  I can't say I'm a huge fan of the trend, but this was on clearance at Sally's for $2 so I couldn't pass it up.  I almost want to go back for the other colors I saw... almost.

I really love the color of Cracked Medallion.  It's gold, but almost antique-y rather than in-your-face yellow gold.  Don't you love my technical terms? :D  In any case, the gold looks really nice against Celestial.  I want to go hunt around for more interesting colors to layer it over now!  Maybe a really dark, stormy grey?

I may never have Fantasy Fire, but at least I have glitter!

First off, went to Wal-Mart for a fruit plate to take to work... and walked out with $35 worth of nail polish.  It's probably a good thing people are such slobs and had destroyed most of the displays or I'm sure I would have bought more!

Fantasy Fire was one of the first polishes I saw when I was getting into polish (I act like it was so long ago, but it's less than a month!) but I didn't realize how rare it was until I actually tried to hunt it down to buy it.   Yowza!  I love love love the way the polish works, but I don't think I'll ever need it enough to pay that much for such a small bottle.  So, I did the next best thing: layers of glitter to remind me of it!

It's obviously not supposed to look just like it, but I really like the result!  It looks so static in the pictures, but whenever I move my fingers the colors of the flashing sparkles is constantly shifting red to gold to purple to blue.  I could have benefited from being a little more careful with the red layer, but live and learn!

The base is Celestial by Pure Ice.  It covered fairly well with one coat, though it bubbled a bit.  Probably my fault since I'm still getting the hang of doing "real" manicures on myself, but I wasn't concerned since the glitter would cover it no sweat.  

On top of the Celestial I put one generous coat each of Milani Red Sparkle, Milani Twinkle, and Essie As Gold As It Gets.  The Essie was an afterthought this morning literally two minutes before I dashed off to work, but I'm so glad I added it!  There are some gold sparkles in the Red Sparkle, but As Gold As It Gets looks so wonderful when the light hits it just right.

The pictures with the bottle are inside under a desk lamp and the two without are out in the sun.

Look at the way that picture came out! The glitter is coming aliiiiiiive!

I banged my hands around all day today at work as usual and it did start to chip already, but so far was easy to patch.  Definitely a manicure I'll do again!