I'm getting a little behind on the posting! For some reason uploading the pictures seems like more of a hassle than actually doing the manicures in the first place! Long-ish post here and then I'll do another tomorrow with one of my new a-england beauties!
First up is... China Glaze Liquid Crystal!
If Ray-diant is like a crushed gold ring, Liquid Crystal is like a silver sapphire ring crushed up and sprinkled on my fingers. Above is three coats by itself. I feel like the polish is thick and I'll go through it fast, but the sparkle alone is worth it. Work has been stressful, but looking at this polish makes me happy and I feel like the richest girl on the block! :D
And finally... O.P.I. It's My Year.
So I finally decided to give in and get a bottle of Seche Vite (LOVE IT, by the way--makes my nails feel so smooth that I keep petting them!) at Target, looked up two shelves, and spotted It's My Year. It took all of about a half second for the bottle to be in my hand. Just the night before I'd been combing the interwebz for a dusky rose polish with gold and given up without finding one that I liked, and then here it was a few hours later right in front of me! Funny how that works!
In the bottle it's one of those I could just spin round and round forever watching the light play off the sparkles. Looks great on the nail too, though my camera picks up a bit more purple that it appeared in person. The last picture is probably the most representative of what I see in person.
Bonus pic of my Ulta haul:
That store is dangerous! I went in just to get a bottle of Butter London West End Wonderland for my mother, who saw it last time we were in and said she'd like it for Mother's Day. After wandering around the store and deciding to buy one Zoya and some Rimmel eye shadow, I made it to the BL display... and promptly grabbed Knackered, Tart With a Heart, and The Black Knight. THEN I decided that I just HAD to splurge and get the Too Faced palette that I'd been drooling over the last time I was at the store. I'm off to see Wicked next week with my mother, and I have a fancy dress, so I needed fancy makeup to go with! Right? Right?
I was really surprised to not love Knackered when I put it on, at least alone. I've been drooling over the swatches and I adore it in the bottle, but when I put it on it just wasn't working. It took four coats to get it the way I wanted it (no pictures since it was evening when I did it), though it went on nicely. I just need something a little more... bold on my nails. Something that draws my gaze when I see it out of the corner of my eye. I may not have liked it on me by itself, but you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands--it's going to look great layered over other things. I don't regret the purchase at all.
