Zoya Pixie Dust

Happy Halloween! I wasn't much in the Halloween mood so I went with a textured mani instead. I absolutely love the Zoya Pixiedust polishes. They're beautiful, sparkly but matte. I can't remember where I saw my inspiration for this particular look...probably on Pinterest. 

I decided to go with 4 colors, Zoya Destiny, Zoya Liberty, Zoya Chita, and Zoya Carter. I painted on color each on my thumb, index, middle, and pinkie. I put a base of Sinful Colors Gold Medal on my ring finger. 

Here are the individual finger swatches. 

Zoya Carter

Zoya Destiny

Zoya Liberty

Zoya Chita. 

All four of the colors were great, though Chita wins on opacity. It only took one coat compared to two all the others took. 

I didn't get a shot of my ring finger with Gold Medal alone. 

Once I had that piece done, I got out my striping tape and made a patchwork pattern on my ring fingers. I made it into four sections, and then filled one color in per section. Once I carefully peeled the tape off, you could see the gold between the textures and I am quite happy with the way it turned out!

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:)