Taping fun

I used another Butter London for the first time today. I went with This Old Bill. Kind of jumped off the shelf at me when I was browsing my polishes. It's a great metallic-y bronze type color. It totally reminds me of brand new pennies. I think this would be a great stamping color. I used two coats, flawless formula as I've come to expect from butter London!

Then 10 hours later, I decided to jazz it up some. I love me some tape manicures... so I pulled out my striping tape and went to town. I taped on two or three stripes in random patterns on my nails, and painted on a coat of Kleancolor Pearl Jungle. Pearl Jungle is a nice green with a borderline metallic-frosty finish. I think it's more metallic than frosty personally.

I thought this played out pretty well all in all:) 

Sinful Colors Berry Charm

Anyone else love fall??  I've been looking forward to wearing this color for a few weeks, because it just felt so fall-ish.  Finally got around to it!  This is Berry Charm by Sinful Colors.  Sinful Colors is probably one of my favorite brands - and definitely the one I have the most of, thanks to all the wonderful Walgreen 99 cent sales! 

Berry Charm is just what it says - a beautiful berry-ish creme shade.  It reminds me of what my fingers look like after eating mulberries from the trees on my parents land!  I decided not to a straight manicure with this one, and went with a random tape pattern.  Butter London Trustfarian is the color underneath on the on the accent nail.

 Berry Charm flowed quite nicely onto the nail.  I did just one thick coat here since it was over a tape mani, and I didn't want to risk pulling the polish off with the tape.  If I were doing it on its own, I'd probably do two thinner coats, cause I'm kind of OCD about two coats (unless they're amazingly opaque).





I know an "accent" nail, when all the other nails are taped may seem a bit much  to be going on in a single manicure . . . but I needed a nail where I could stare at the rainbow happiness for a while.  Here's a quick pic of the beautifulness that is Trustfarian. 

This is my first truly holographic nail polish, and I'm totally in love.  I was over at my parents, and after I finished my nails, I ran outside, and drug my parents with me to show off the gloriousness.  They at least pretended to be impressed :)  Two coats, and no top coat, were used for the above pic.

Butter London, Alcopop

This is the second Butter London polish I tried. I probably could have gotten by with one coat, but I decided to go with two. My accent nail has Butter London's Tart With a Heart on top of the Alcopop. Love this color!

Butter London, Keks

This is the first Butter London color I tried. I am in love with it.. It's easily my favorite blue! It only took one coat to get it this opaque. The accent nail is Butter London's Scallywag. 

Butter London Disco Biscuit

Its been a busy couple of days!  I actually had these nails done on Friday, but just haven't had a chance to sit down and get them posted.  I used another Butter London color, called Disco Biscuit.  Its a bright pink jelly, with really pretty iridescent blue shimmer.Its super pretty in the bottle . . . unfortunately, I don't think it translated too well at least onto my nails.  I did 3 (or 4, I can't remember exactly) coats for this manicure.  The first picture was without a top coat . . . dried pretty matte, and didn't come close to the bottle color.

 

This is with a top coat of Seche Vite - much prettier, but some visible nail line. I loved the concept of the color, but the jelliness of this polish probably will lead me to layer it over another bright pink the next time I wear it. 

I apologize for my picture taking skills.  I obviously need some more practice . . or a different camera . . . or different lighting . . . or something.  Its pretty close to real life, but while you can see the shimmer, you can't really tell that its honestly a blue shimmer.  The formula on this one wasn't as good, I didn't think, as the formula on Tea and Toast - it wasn't terrible, just didn't flow onto the nail nearly as smoothly.  It probably has something to do with the amount of shimmer in the bottle - there's a ton.  I will say, if I can find the right layering pink for this, this will be STUNNING in the sunlight. 

Butter London Tea & Toast

And so it starts.  Actually, so it becomes public knowledge.  The nail polish obsession "started" a while ago, but us two cousins decided that it was probably time that we put all of our swatches, manicures, and ideas in a single spot.  And so a blog is born.

Today Jasmine and I finally split up the Butter London polishes we received from the Zulily sale a few weeks ago.  So of course, I had to use one of them right?

Butter London Tea and Toast
This color is fantastic.  Beautiful caramel, flowed onto the nail so smoothly, and was totally opaque in one coat.  One coaters are my favorite, seriously!

But me, being me, I couldn't leave well enough alone.  So I stamped on some animal print using Sinful Colors Black on Black.

Can't wait to try more of the Butter London polishes that came in the Zulily Diva Set!!