Showing posts with label northern lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label northern lights. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

China Glaze Peri-Wink-Le

I had this polish in my hand at the store so many times and always decided to put it back.  I finally just went in with the sole intention of buying this particular color, and I'm glad that I did.

We had zero sun yesterday, so I got pictures in daylight but without direct sun.  You work with what ya got right?  Surprisingly, these  pictures came out more true to actual color than most of my sun pictures, go figure.

outside, overcast

This is a base of Poshe and Essie Beam Up and 2 coats of Peri-Wink-Le no top coat, admire that shiny.  This is a periwinkle cream, no shimmer, no glitter, just a straight up cream.  I don't know whether to call this a bluish lavender, or a lavenderish blue, both descriptions would be accurate, but I guess looking at it on my nails I would have to say it is a bluish medium lavender.  The formula was good, not too thick but not so thin it was running into my cuticles, it went where I wanted it to.  The first coat was a little streaky, but the second coat self-leveled nicely and solved the streaky problem.

inside, flash
The picture with the flash really sort of completely washed the lavender out of this polish and made it look sky blue, it definitely has more purple than this in it.  The outside picture above is the closest to actual color.

I really like this color, and am so glad that I finally just buckled down and bought it.  It's good for every season of the year, it's a good staple color to have in your collection.  It also makes a good background for many different types of nail art.  I put a coat of inm Northern Light on top of this and then a coat of Seche Vite.  There was no sun so I took a picture inside with my flash.

click to make larger and to see the sparklies
That is all I have for today, thanks for stopping by, until next time.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

I knew it was the glitters fault

Ha, I got in-focus pictures of my mani today, it just required being overcast.  So here we go.

stupid french nail guides, put them too high on my nail

This is Orly Royal Navy, which is a royal blue jelly polish with microglitter, it's so micro that it's almost unnoticeable once on the nail.  Ring finger is one coat of Sinful Colors Out Of This World (not to be confused with Orly Out of This World), and then I did a Scotch tape mani a la Chloe's Nails, and put 2 coats of Royal Navy over it.  Still wasn't enough bling for me.  I added inm Northern Lights silver on the tips and all over the ring finger.  Can I just say Northern Lights is a-maze-ing, the glitter is so micro and seems to really spread out on the nail, but the colors it throws off...I find myself staring at my nails while slowly moving them up and down and side-to-side.  there seems to be every color in the rainbow in there.

The shinies, they distract me.

I put a coat of China Glaze Love Letters on the french nails before putting on the Northern Lights, everything has a Seche Vite top coat.

Here are some blurry pictures of the sparkle.

I see red, orange, blue, yellow-ish
green, pink-ish
Peanut came out to help take pics today and to roll in whatever dirt he could find on the deck
Maybe I will take a short video of it in the sun tomorrow, hmmm.

That's all I have for today, next mani will be my GLBT Pride one, but it's going to be so sad to take this one off.