Twinsie Tuesday & Go-to Polishes

Time for Twinsie Tuesdayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy :D This week's theme is go-to polish/mani, and while I don't have a go-to polish in particular, I definitely gravitate towards one type of polish..... GLITTERRRRRR. So I figured I'd show you what I have on right now: 2 coats of NYX Girls' Alaskan Wild and 1 coat of Lynnderella's All Hallow's Eve. Green and glitter have been my default polish for the past... 5 months-ish now? So I think this accurately depicts my go-to haha.

I'm really interested in seeing what the other Twinsies have today, I feel like this week is a really cool challenge :]

Amanda at Amandalandish

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Ashley at Art Evolve

Brandi at The Collegiate Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...

Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...

Katherine at Haul of Fame

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

May the odds be EVER in your favor!

HI HUNGER GAMES IS TONIGHT AND I'M SO EXCITED I THINK I'M GONNA DIE.



...okay. I'm a huge Hunger Games fangirl and I've read the books probably 5 or 6 times through and I'm sooooo excited to see the movie tonight. Anyway, here's my sad story about this mani: I can't do nail art. Like.. at all. so instead, I layer, and franken, and layer some more, and sometimes do some different techniques. I was going to do a layering mani for the movie [surprise, surprise haha], so I tried out 1 coat Sally Hansen Red Carpet [a CG Ruby Pumps dupe], with 1 coat of Milani Red Sparkle [new version], and 1 coat of NYX Gilded Glitter and it was really pretty, but screamed RED a little too much. So I decided to go with a little something different for me.

Here's 1 coat of China Glaze's Smoke and Ashes [from the HG Collection], and then a reverse gradient with NYX Gilded Giltter, Milani Red Sparkle, and 1 more time through with GG.

I actually really like this a lot. It reminds me of a fire and ashes flickering into the night sky. I'll be doing my housemate's nails for the movie, too:] So maybe I'll show you those soon!

What do you think of my Hunger Games nails? There are some AMAZING nail art manis out there to check out, wayyyy better than mine haha.

Also, guys, I've been reading your entries for my giveaway, and seriously, your custom franken ideas are AMAZING!! Love them so much!! A tiny few aren't do-able for me, but the rest seem so pretty and inspired and wonderful:] I'm thinking about doing a second place just so I can see more of your beautiful franken ideas come to life! Just thought you should all know haha.

Tara's Tree Topper

Hello!! How's everyone's week going? I'm finally done with my semester!! It was my favorite semester so far, but those finals were soooo stressful. Ahh well!

So today, I have a special Christmas franken:] Tara, the winner of the my giveaway, wanted a surprise franken, but she told me she liked green and glitter. Well, I liked it so much, I made myself a bottle!! I called it Tara's Tree Topper:] Here it is at 3 coats:

This is a LOT of different kinds of glitter. There's NYX Enchanted Forest and some iridescent glitter from Sally's and Love and Beauty Red and probably some other stuff... So what do you think??:]

Layering with flakies, or how I never want to take this mani off.

I interrupt the OPF series to bring you one of my all time favorite manis ever:

it doesn't translate super well to pictures, but Chuva is a dark blue flakie [with sparse copper flakes mixed in] in a light yellow sheer base.

blurry to show the effect

Finger on the left glossy, the 2 on the right w/ Essie Matte About You

close up of the nail: glossy

close up of the nail: matte

LOOK AT THAT. Dyinggggg. This was absolutely one my my most favorite manis ever. & it was an accident!:] So I got my order from Llarowe in, but I didn't have enough time to change my polish completely, so I put on 2 coats of Ludurana's Chuva [Portuguese for "rain"] on top of my existing mani of one coat BB Couture's Napa Valley Red, with 2 coats of NYX Dorothy. I can't even tell you how pretty this was IRL.

Couple of notes about the Ludurana flakie: it's a polish from Brazil that I got from Llarowe. Okay, completely serious, I cannot believe how AMAZING the customer service at Llarowe is. An amazingly nice woman named Leah Ann runs it all, & she is so incredibly considerate of her customers. Also, shipping is dirt cheap, & I ordered on Friday, it shipped Saturday, I got the polishes in my mailbox by Monday. Plus, Leah Ann was nice enough to contact me via email about certain orders. she's also really active on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Llarowe/126027514153022 . I can't recommend her enough!!