Mint nails for Talia Joy

Recently Talia Joy passed away from cancer, last Friday everyone was meant to post mint coloured nails. I didn't have time this weekend to do it because my aunt was visiting.

I have also lost two of my grandparents to cancer, and one of my aunts struggles with skin cancer. Last month I lost an uncle to cancer that had moved to his brain, so I felt like this was something I really wanted to take part in.

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I used GOSH Venus on my pointer, and Layla Platinum Sky for my ring finger. They were my two non-mint coloured nails, but I felt like they went really well with the two mints I had picked out. I ended up stamping wings on them both, because it felt fitting.

The two mints I used are GOSH Miss Minty, and Maybelline Mint Mist. My pinkie is Mint mist with Miss minty dotted on top and the other one is the opposite.

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I finished a bottle of my normal topcoat and like an idiot thought "oh I should use up my Sache before I start on the next one", annnd it wrinkled my thumb and ring finger polish. 

That is all for today.

- Anna

Hannibals Office.

Since Fandom Cosmetics released a Hannibal themed polish. (Lets be honest I have been looking for one since April.) I got excited and did Hannibal themed nails, except I based it off the colours in his office. 

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I did my accent nails with one coat of OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys, and GOSH Nero stamped over top to give it a wooden look. I wanted to do something woody to match his desk and the book shelves in the office. Since they are a darker wood I thought the was a fairly good match.

I couldn't really find any good pictures of the office,

but you can see the wooden things here.

For the rest of my fingers I did two coats of OPI Alpine Snow, and then one coat of OPI My Pointe Exactly to try and get the grey look of his curtains. I then used a little brush to add streaks of darker grey which didn't really show up lots in the pictures. After I tore some tape to get uneven strips and used them to cover while I sponged on a mix of OPI I'm Suzi & I'm A Chocoholic, and OPI Kennebunk-Port.

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Please don't judge the show form this picture, 

it was the best I could find of the curtains.

Anyway, I am not 100% sure if I will get the collection or not, I probably will, but I hope the swatches are just not as pretty as real life.

- Anna

Ps. Yes I broke two nails before I did this, and had to file them down so that is why they are much shorter now.

Baby Deer Inspired Nails

I have my pictures and all is right in the world again. I got a lot of inspiration from my vacation and I was chomping at the bit to do these nails after seeing a fluffy little baby black-tailed deer.

It was all cute and spotty so I couldn't help myself! I used two coats of China Glaze Desert Sun, which is a rather nice polish. It went on nicely, and as always I liked the China Glaze brush. I thought The colour was perfect for a baby deer and I am actually really happy with it. 

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I used OPI My Vampire Is Buff for the baby spots and the tips. I did the tips the way I did because the black tailed deer have the bottom white and then a strip of black and brown on top - so it just felt right. 

He's so fluffy it pains me

I used a brush and GOSH Nero to make the 'fluffy' lines. It went alright.

I got a free mini top and base coat with on of the Quo polishes I got, so I figured I would try it as a topcoat. Not sure if it was because it was a mini, but it went pretty horrible. I got bubbles in the topcoat as well as it softened the polish too much so even though it had been half an hour since I did my nails I got a black drag on my ring finger. This is why I shouldn't mess with a good thing.

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I did the spots with a dotting tool before I put my top coat on, My Vampire Is Buff is opaque enough that I didn't have to double up on the dots which I was very glad for.

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Over all I am really glad with Desert Sun, it is a lovely colour and really nice to put on too. I feel the need to buy more browns after this.

- Anna




- PS *personal* if anyone wants to see what the Olympic Peninsula looks like I made a small imgur thing of some of the places.

http://imgur.com/a/Ky9Ip

Fish scales, with Quo by ORLY Green Meadow

This is a quick filler I did last week before my vacation, because I forgot my camera at a friends so I can't get my newest nail pics off it. I will get it back ASAP but in the mean time, enjoy .

I decided to have some fun with my stamping plate and nail brushes. I love scales of all types so I decided to use the few greens I had at the time (I got three greens while I was in the US) and do scales.

I used a base of two coats of Green Meadow, and then stamped GOSH Nero over it. I wanted to just mess around so I painted GOSH Holographic Hero at the top to give it a super shine and at the bottom I did a little swipe of  Ruby Wing Green Peace.

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Green Peace is a colour changing polish that changes light when it comes in contact with sunlight, which is pretty cool because the scales looked different depending on if I was outside or not (I didn't get any pictures of the dark green it turns, because I took the picture right away as soon as I got outside and it didn't have time to change. Oops). I enjoyed that a lot. Also I did it once on a friends nail and with two coats it has great coverage and is rather smooth, it has nice formula. 

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On my thumb I used GOSH Miss Minty and a few strokes of Green Meadow with Nero just to try something different, I am still undecided on it. I also have no clue why none of these are shiny, they are not matte topcoat.

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I really do love Green Meadow even if it can be a tiny bit streaky, but not so streaky that you really notice. Overall I was happy with the look and how all the polishes reacted.

- Anna

Fun with OPI deutsch you want me baby and GOSH Galaxy

Okay ,so I went on vacation and forgot to post here, so I am in the hotel and posting what I did to my nails last week while my niece was here. She had never seen striping tape before so I decided to show her using OPI deutsch you want me baby (which I bought purely because my grampy is German, and it reminded me of when we spoke in German together when I was young, so I have never worn it since I bought it) and GOSH Galaxy, because SPACE!

I wasn't sure that they went good together, but sometimes I just like to try things to see how it will end up.

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It was weird, but I liked it. Although my thumb finally caught on something and I had to cut it down to nothing when it tore in half.

OPI deutsch you want me baby is actually wonderful, sometimes with OPI shimmers you get a really streaky look, but this didn't have that at all, it just went on and was a lovely bright shiny orange. I know the picture doesn't look orange, but it is really. I used two coats, but I only needed that because I did them really thin. The formula was great in this one, and now I want to use it again.

Shade 

I wanted to add in a shade picture because I think Galaxy is amazing and I wanted to show just how different it looks when it is shining to when it isn't. It's an almost bronze base with tons of glitter in it. Mostly you will see the gold, silver and blue in it, but there is green, pink and purple in there too. It is an amazing mix of colours that manages to pull it all off when put together.

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I feel like this one matches the real life colour the best, I found it grew on me a lot in the two days I wore it, and I feel that these are both lovely polishes.

Okay back to relaxing for me, I will post my vacation nails when I get back!

- Anna

Fanchromatic Nails - Rebel Heart

This is another one of the polishes I bought from Fanchromatics nails, it's name is Rebel Heart. It is one of the best glitter polishes I have ever seen. I am already in love with Fanchromatics after trying two polishes.

Rebel heart is an amazing red-orange shimmer, it had both gold and red micro-flakes, and two sizes of gold hexes and mini gold circles.

I did no cleanup before taking pictures so don't let that take away from the pure love that is Rebel Heart.

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When I first saw pictures online I thought it just looked okay and bought it purely because it was Star Trek themed. I have never been so wrong about a polish.

On my thumb and ring I put it over OPI Kennebunk-Port, because I thought it would need something under it. I think it is a good idea, just so that you can use only one or two coats of Rebel Heart, but I honestly don't really see that much of Kennebunk-Port under it, since it is a very cherry red colour.

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I dabbed Rebel Heart over GOSH Nero on the rest of my fingers, just to test how it would cover on black. I Think it worked wonderfully, although I ended up liking it better on the second test when I did a much thinner coat. 

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Rebel Heart is named after the Star Trek character Kira Nerys who fought as a rebel during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. She was later a Major on DS9 where she worked as the first officer with a Federation Commander. She has strength, and so much passion to fight for what she believes in, I think this polish fits her better than anything.

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This is just a test to see how smooth other polishes would go over and just to see what a thin back coat looks like. I really like it both ways, the polish applies super easy just like the other one I got. 100% would recommend, and I already personally regret that I only got a mini-bottle. I will for sure buy a full bottle when this runs out. 

- Anna

The Ravenstag is burning. Hannibal Finale

Okay so it's Thursday and that means that I have Hannibal themed nails. Yup, there is no pretending anymore, class has ended for the summer so my life is spiralling out of control from boredom, I only teach on Wednesdays now. We had a very emotional closing today, I think my students did a great job.

Since last week the Ravenstag was on fire, and the show just started with a lovely fire filled murder, I decided to do a bloody red with fire sparkles over top and two horns from the Ravenstag.

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I used two coats of OPI I'm Suzi & I'm A Chocoholic which I think is a fantastic dried blood colour as my base for these, not chocolate coloured at all. Unless your chocolate is made of dried blood. It is a lovely polish, the application is a dream, and you really only need one coat. I wear this polish all the time because of that. It just looks so lovely on it's own or with black. 

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I used OPI Oy- Another Polish Joke, and OPI Deutsch You Want Me Baby, for the flames, which worked out really cool because the glitter only showed up in the light so it looked like the flames were moving. 

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Miss Mole from GOSH made the horns, mixed with GOSH nero of course, to give it shading. 

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My left hand is just flames, but I thought I would post it anyway, because I like how the flames look on this hand more.  Anyways I am going to roll into a ball of stress while I rewatch the Hannibal Finale.

- Anna

GOSH Berry Me

Since I still had a little swelling in my wrist I decided to do one colour, I picked Berry Me, which makes me think 'Bury Me' instead every time I see it.

This is from the GOSH Winter Collection, and I am very happy with it. I had heard that this polish stains so I used two base coats under and  I had no staining after two days.  (yes I normally post a day or two after I put a polish on to see if there is an issue with the wear.)

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I used two coats, but one would be okay if you don't mind a faint nail line. Like most GOSH polish it awesomely opaque. The formula was really nice on this, and way happy to smooth on.

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I really liked this polish colour too, it reminds me of grape punch. The colour in the sun picture is pretty much the right colour (on my computer anyway), but I feel like it's a little prettier in real life. 

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I really like this polish, I like the creme finish and just having the lovely colour on my nails.

- Anna

GOSH Holographic Hero

Yea I love it too much so I tried it on a slightly more sunny day, although it still wasn't that sunny. So I did two coats of it this time, since that really is enough. It went on just as nice, I really love this polish.

I figured I should show you all how lovely it is when it isn't being covered by another polish.

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I tried to get the shine to really go, so that it would look like the awesome holo it is, but it just wasn't that sunny since we had cloud coverage over half the sun. That is the problem with living on the wet coast.

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I put a topcoat on my ring finger, can you tell? 

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You get the idea, it is well worth picking up if you can find it. If all polishes acted like this I would change polish way more often because it's so easy to work with. Are all holos like this? 

- Anna

Gosh - Holographic Hero fun!

I have been looking for GOSH Holographic Hero everywhere. It never came to my town when it came out so I missed it, and when I started hunting it down it was always all out. It was my big lemming, which is a little weird because I don't really like holos, but I didn't want to get it off ebay because I have a lack of trust in what I will get. I had been to about 27 different stores in different towns (as only Shoppers carries it in Canada) and I have never seen a trace of it.

Just as I was saddling up to buy it of ebay, I already put money on my credit card I had to go away for a day to a small town nearby when I went into the shoppers I auto checked out the GOSH polish and there it was. Not only was it there, but it was on sale for 3$. I almost cried I was so excited so I bought both bottles they had and went to the only other shoppers in that town and picked up the last bottle there as well.

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I had to put it on right away, I just used it with GOSH Nero, and I adore it. I used three coats, but it was fine with two, I just couldn't stop putting it on to watch it look non-holo and then go all holo. It was flawless to put on, the best application maybe ever, I am in love with this polish. I think the dots ended up looking like a ton of little googly eyes looking at me, so I really like it! It also dried really fast, which was nice.

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I just free handed the strips and used my dotting tool to make the dots, on my accent nails I just used tape and my dotting tools.  I have been chopping my fingers up lately, I even got a paper cut on my thumb so sorry that they are looking a little rough.

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I had too much fun with this. I love the colours, but it wasn't the brightest day so the pictures aren't showing it in it's true glory. I am content and am going to roll around in joy for a while, I wanted this so bad and it lived up to every dream I had for it.

- Anna

Hannibal nail fail, and maybe a little win.

Because it's Thursday I have now gotten into a habit where I do Hannibal nails, lol maybe I just shouldn't try and paint tiny pictures on my nails, but I am still going to do it even though it didn't work out 100%.

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I giggle every time I see my thumb, but I am pretty okay with the rest of the nails. I did a water marble where I tried to make it look like the bloody swirl in the intro on my nail. I really like how it turned out. 

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I cut my finger and nail while I was  making dinner so I have a red spot from where my skin yelled at me for soaking it to get the other polish off.

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- Anna