My First Polishes From NailNation 3000!

Guys! I am seriously so stoked that I FINALLY own some polishes from NailNation 3000. I recently joined a facebook group for indie nailpolish fans, and Maria was kind enough to offer some of her older/discontinued polishes before she put them up for sale on her site. I decided it was my time to snag a couple, as I have admired them from afar for YEARS. Imagine my excitement when I actually got two polishes that were on my wishlist from years ago - Quitting Is Not An Option and Twinkle Twinkle. Hooray for holos and flakies! Check these babies out!

This is Twinkle Twinkle. It looks just like it sounds: beautiful iridescent flakies and holo goodness in one bottle. The flakies shift from green to blue, and the blue is just so bright and deep. I painted it over a navy polish, but for the life of me, I can't remember which one. I painted essie matte about you to see what it would look like mattified. I was hoping to be able to capture the flakie color shift a bit better while these were matte. You can see it a little better.

Here is what Quitting Is Not An Option looks like. It is a beautiful teal, linear holographic polish and only took two coats to become opaque. I pretty much LOVE it. The formula on both of these was perfect. No dragging, no clumping, just right. :) These first pics were taken in indirect lighting, so you can't see the holo as well, but I also took pics with flash and in the sun (below) so you can see it in all different types of lighting.

Here is what it looked like with the camera flash. Still beautiful haha. Look at those rainbows popping!

Here are the pics I took the next day in full sun! So pretty!

So, my thought on NailNation 3000 polish: um, yes please. I will take them all. :P Thank you so much for reading! I appreciate so much more than you know! <3

52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge - Music + Not Worn Enough

Good morning. Well, I had wanted to post this manicure last night, but unfortunately, I fell asleep. So, you are getting it a day late, but I am rested, so that is good. With this mani, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do at first. I was trying to think of a band's cover art to do, or something like that, but every time I started thinking about it, I wouldn't be able to come up with anything. Music makes me think of my sister, so I kept circling back to her. The girl literally lives for music. She loves it. It is her passion. So, I decided to go another direction and just let her inspire my musical nails. Now, when I think of my sister, I think of natural beauty. She gravitates toward neutral and earthy colors, and seriously is just effortlessly beautiful. So, I was digging through my messy drawer of untrieds and came across China Glaze Lug Your Designer Baggage. It is an neutral brown base with gold flakies, and instantly made me think of my sister (color-wise I mean, the name is basically the exact opposite of my sister haha). I came up with the rest pretty quickly.

So after painting my nails with CGLYDB, I found a few stamping plates from the sets I received at Christmas, and added some musical stamps using PUEEN47 and Bundle Monster plate BM-411 with Wet n Wild Wet Cement.

Here is CGLYDB by itself. It's a brown crelly with loads of little gold flakies that builds up to opacity quickly in just two coats. This is a color that I bought just because it looks interesting and different, and I really don't wear brown  much unless it fits my nail art, so I figured this color would fit well with the "not worn enough" prompt.

Thank you so much for stopping by on this lovely Easter Sunday. Have a great day everyone!

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Laid-Back NEW31DC Day 28 - Inspired By Your Favourite Colour

I can't choose a favorite color. I think they are all beautiful. I am, however, quite partial to green, blue, purple, and pink.  :) Since I have been doing and awful lot of manis with those first three colors, I decided to do a nice pink manicure - with glitter. If glitter were a color, it would be my favorite. I wore this mani for my birthday, which was way back on 4/19. Anyway - here it is!

I started off this manicure with Wet n Wild Think Pink!. It is a great hot pink cream and is ages old. I'm not sure if they make it anymore. I think I've had it for 10+ years. I then taped off a couple sections to added three different pink glitters. The flakie is Zoya Chloe, the holo glitter is Wet n Wild Hannah Pinktana, and the bright pink iridescent glitter is Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter. I had to wait a days to get some sun. Unfortunately that meant I managed to get a bit of tip wear and chipping, but it's not too bad.

Here is Think Pink! all by itself - an oldie but a goodie!

There you have it - be sure to take a look at what the other girls did for this one!

Laid-Back NEW31DC Day 7 - Ombre or Skittle

For this challenge, I have decided to do a skittle mani, since I have never done one before. I was really excited to try this out and spent quite a while trying to come up with a nice design. Take a look!

I started out with Julep Eva, then added silver & glitter accents.On my thumb, I used a pretty flakie - Zoya Chloe, and for my index finger, I used Julep Harley to stamp from BM19. On my middle finger, I did a gradient with Eva and Pure Ice Beware, then on my ring finger, I used a dotting tool to add dots, then did stamping using BM20 on my pinkie using Julep Harley again for both.

Here's a pic of my thumb when the sun randomly peeked out. Pardon the dry skin - I couldn't pass up the opportunity for sunshine for a lack of moisturizer! LOVE these flakies!

Thanks for looking and be sure to check out what everyone else did.