Sally Hansen Firefly

Good evening Ninjas,

How was your week? Mine was a little hectic but fun so that was good. Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, are there any places around you participating?

Tonight's manicure is two coats of Sally Hansen Firefly. This polish was actually much more multichromatic in person and these pictures don't do it any justice. While wearing it, I was able to see gold, orange,  pink, green, and the occasional blue flash on my nails.

Orange, some pink flash on the pinky.

Gold with slight green tinting around edges.

CQ Rustic Dream

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I finally went for a run tonight after a week off from running to recover. It wasn't my fastest run but I felt pretty good afterwards so that's a step in the right direction. Next week is stripe week at work and I'm hoping to get my second stripe on my blue-black belt which will put me only one stripe away from Fire!

Tonight's manicure is actually a pretty firey one. This is three coats of CQ Rustic Dream. This is a really pretty multichrome polish with a base color of metallic orange that flashes bright golden yellow as well as light pink. It was very difficult to get a picture of the pink using my lightbox so there is one really icky bright flash picture to try and show you that color.

Awesome purple layering

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Monday was crazy, not only did we have the big Grand Opening but I was sick so it was quite a handful! It was great to see so many new people and celebrate this new beginning with our Jiu Jitsu guys :)

 This is a manicure that was incredibly simple to do and looked awesome. This is exactly TWO coats of polish! One coat of the fantastic dark plum purple by Essie, No More Film, covered evenly and was completely opaque on the first try, I was quite impressed. The second coat was one of the pretty translucent purple with pink/gold/purple shifting glass flecks by Pure Ice, Busted. I cannot express how much I loved this manicure and it was soooo easy to do!

Layering and Stamping!

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Today is a glorious day :) I got to sleep in and it's the first day in two weeks that I've been off from work. Not that I don't love my job but I need a little recuperative me time at least once a week. Right now I'm listening to some fantastic music, surfing the web and sharing this neat manicure with you!

This is a continuation of the last manicure I posted. On top of the two coats of Chic Reloaded by Essence, I added a super pretty iridescent polish by Pure Ice called Oh Baby! This polish is a really awesome purple/pink/blue glass fleck multichrome. THEN on top of that, I stamped a full coverage flower design from MASH plate m61 with Sally Hansen Delphinium. This was not the easiest manicure to photograph and I actually had better stamping on my right hand but here are the pictures!

Essence Chic Reloaded

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It's stripe week again at the dojo so Hubby and I got our first stripe on our blue belts. I also had a lot of fun in my first official Mon Jin (Black Belt Club) class last night. It's a cool opportunity to work with so many belt levels on those nights because it's open to anyone with a black uniform! That ranges from a Blue-White belt to a Fifth Degree Black belt!

Tonight's manicure is two smooth coats of Chic Reloaded from Essence. This is one of their new colors with the new bottle design. Chic Reloaded is a fantastic multi-chrom polish that flashes purple, teal, and gold in the right lights. This has a slightly metallic finish and the base color is a really nice charcoal grey. There are some funky hand angles in this picture in my attempt to capture the colors to the best of my ability.

Scherer Chameleon Corona

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Tonight Hubby and I will be finishing up Spartacus Vengeance so we thought it would be a great idea to go to a local restaurant also called Spartacus. It was a great dinner with flaming cheese and fantastic Gyros.

This manicure is two coats of Scherer Chameleon Corona over two coats of Zoya Farah. Knowing that Corona would be a sheer polish, I wanted to make a great blank slate to highlight it. Crorona is a pink glass fleck polish with light teal and hot pink shifts in the right light.

Farah provided by Zoya PR for honest review.

Adventures in Duochromes: Sherer Chameleon

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Today will be my first day back at work since last Saturday! Holy cow, it's been a while. Now that I'm back in town, you can expect more regular posting from me again. I picked up four polishes on my trip to NYC, two of which were holo's from the Face Shop in Koreatown. I'm sort of excited about those because I didn't even know they existed!

Today's manicure is from about a week before my trip. This started off at two coats of OPI Here today Aragon tomorrow which is a blackened green jelly polish. By itself, it just wasn't standing out to me so I added a more recent find of mine from Rite Aid, Chameleon Nucleus. Nucleus is an amazing duo/multichromatic polish that seems to have a rusty red base color with very strong blue-green shift. There are moments when there is a little purple and a little crimson in the shift which make me think of it as a multichrome. This is two very thin coats over the OPI base color.

Wet n Wild Jewels for your Highness

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I'm having a blast here in NYC. Since I've got my nights off to relax, I actually meant to post yesterday but I ended up crashing right to sleep. Ah well! I went to an awesome restaurant called Ninja New York tonight with servers dressed like ninja and flaming food; totally awesome place for dinner. Tomorrow is the 4th and I'm sure I'll get to see a ton of fireworks, we're hoping to see Cirque du Soleil too.

Here's a quick look at Wet n Wild's Jewels for your Highness from their Coloricon Be Jeweled collection. I passed the China Glaze versions of these polishes up because I didn't think they were really my style. I picked this and one other color from the collection up a while back and just confirmed my dis-inclination towards these pretty duochromes with too many rainbow hexes. I think this is three coats, this was a very sheer polish to work with. 

Glitters and Bubbles: Pegasus Poop

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Ok, so I know the title of this post makes little to no sense at all but soon you'll understand! The wonderful Amanda over at Glitters and Bubbles has created an absolutely amazing Franken-Polish. This polish is a multi-chrome and a LINEAR HOLOGRAPHIC! After asking for suggestions, Ms. Amanda named her beautiful creation Pegasus Poop, probably along the lines of many of the famous polishes in the lacquer world being named after Unicorn... excretions. 

Since it is a franken, Amanda isn't going to be making this color in bulk, I'm glad to own one of the bottles from the very first batch of PP! I've heard that there will be no more than 50 bottles of this released into the wild world of polish so get yours while you can! Here is the glory of Pegasus Poop in two coats over one coat of Zoya Raven:

Sorry for the picture spam but it's super hard to catch all of the colors in this polish AND get a good picture of the linear holo without having direct sunlight.

AEngland Dragon

Hello wondrous Ninjas!

Tonight I have the highly sought after Dragon from AEngland's Legend collection. This is a gorgeous lush green that flashes with not only gold duochrome but a wonderful scattered holographic effect. When I first started collection AEngland polishes, I wanted nothing more that a green in the same style as Lady of the Lake and Tristam. Now that I have Dragon (And the soon to be worn St. George) I feel like my dream has come true! This is two easy and glossy coats of Dragon that lasted me 4 days with minimal tip wear and no chipping. I have never tried an AEngland polish that I didn't like. Adina is a genius <3

AEngland Princess Tears

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Today I've got another one of Adina's amazing creations from the Legend: Princess Tears. This polish is not only a pale lilac holographic but a duochrome that shifts from purple/silver and occasionally, in the right light, green! I couldn't capture the multi-chrome effect on film but I got a lovely shot of the gorgeous holo patterns. This one has a stronger holographic effect than Bridal Veil but it's still not a true linear polish. Despite being hard to get pictures of, I have a lot of them in an attempt to show you the beauty that is Princess Tears!

Opal Nails

Hello darling ninjas,

Today I've got the outcome at my attempt to make my nails look like fire opals. I started with a base of 4 coats of Sally Hansen Brilliant blush which I wore by itself for two days. It's a pretty translucent pearl with amazing multichrome flashes of red, pink, and orange. On top of that I added a coat of Essie Shine of the Times to be the silica inclusions that make opal so pretty. It wasn't exactly what I wanted but it was still very pretty!