Doctor Who Layering!

Hello Ninjas!

Sorry for the late post, I didn't get a chance to edit my photos earlier in the day so I had to do it after work and tomorrow's manicure. Tomorrow is Graduation and it is also the LAST DAY of my Blue Belt Giveaway! Don't forget to enter if you're in the US or Canada, there are three awesome prizes to be won that you can check out in the original giveaway post here.

Tonight's manicure is one that started as a layering experiment and ended up being a nerdy tribute to the7th  season premier of Doctor Who 2005. I started with three coats of SpaRitual Blue Moon which is a sheer ultraviolet jelly base with both purple and blue glitter throughout. On top of that I did one coat of Max Factor Fantasy Fire that I swapped for. FF is the purple jelly based multichrome effect polish that is hailed as the twin of Clarins 230 aka Unicorn Pee. After wearing that awesome combo for FOUR whole days with no chips, I did a little nail art that made my index finger and thumb into a Dalek which is The Doctor's number one nemesis!

Egg egg egg eggsterminate, EXTERMINATE!

I think my Dalek turned out pretty good, this is sort of what I was going for:

http://pics.livejournal.com/irreparable/pic/004rwdw7

Blue Moon purchased with a gift certificate from my sponsor SkinCareRx.com

SpaRitual Sacred Ground

Hello Ninjas!

I've been watching the show Smash recently on Hulu and I'm addicted! I'm about to finish what's already posted though and I can't wait to see how it ends. Oh the suspense and drama of making a musical. Watching Smash has made me even more excited to be visiting NYC in July! Hubby and I will be celebrating our one year anniversary back in NYC where we spent out honeymoon; how awesome is that?

Today's color is Sacred Ground from SpaRitual. I've heard that SpaRitual is the grown up version of Orly polishes with their lovely rounded bottles and rubberized caps. I can totally see where they have a production team in common. Sacred ground is described as "Sacred Ground is a silver-gray color with multi-colored sparkles." Which is pretty accurate. The sparkles are mostly purple and a light gold color which make a lovely combination in the dark grey jelly-ish base. This is two coats with Seche topcoat.  Because of all the glitter in this, SG was a little onthe hungry side. Two coats of topcoat probably would have given this a lovely glassy finish but only one coat gets eaten and isn't as perfectly smooth as I'd like.

Sacred Ground purchased with a gift certificate from sponsor SkinCareRx.com.