Pink, sounds like fun to me.

The Crumpet is doing a challenge for small blogs and people without blogs, and the theme is pink. I thought this would be a great way to meet other people who are just starting out like me, so here is my pink.

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I used three coats of OPI Chic From Ears To Tail, and since I used thin coats the streaky-ness is not so bad, but still there a little. On top I taped it up and put one coat of OPI Solitaire from the bond collection. I taped up my accent nail to give it a quilted look and placed some rhinestone on the corners. 

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I wanted something fairly simple, and also I am obsessed with the colour of Chic From Ears To Tail. I like the shine on Solitaire I always feel like I have snow on my nails when I wear it, so I was happy with how they turned out together. 

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- Anna

Untried Polish Challenge - Number 15 Was a Gift.

Wow we are getting close to the end here! I felt this one was pretty hard because most the time when people give me a polish I feel the need to use it right away. These ones managed to get away from being tried just because they are glitter and I don't tend to wear lots of glitter.

My sister gave me a set of L.A. Colors - Color Craze High Impact Glitters. I have no clue on the colour names or anything like that as she had used them before she gave them to me, and the bottles don't say that I can find. I also looked online and I still can't find it I have never gotten L.A colors before though so maybe they are just unnamed.

Anyway since they don't have names I will call them Pink and Raindow (even though it's just pink, purple and blue)

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Since these are glitters they are sheer, so you can see my nail line. I didn't have any polish given to me that was opaque that I hadn't tried so I had nothing to throw under it.

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The pink was very pretty I adore that it has a faint pink tint to it, it is faint, and now I want to try it over a white. Even though they are mini bottles with mini brushes I didn't find it hard at all to apply. I used about 4 or 5 coats (I don't remember it dried pretty fast so I just went crazy on it.).  It has pretty opalescent glitter in it, although there isn't tons so you may want a few coats to get the coverage like what I have. 

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The rainbow is a sheer base with pink, purple and blue glitter in it, I dabbed it on pretty heavy on the tip, so you need a few coats if you weren't just sponging it on. Overall I am glad I have the pink and I probably won't really use the rainbow one again even though it is pretty.

These are the other awesome people who are doing the challenge.

Jonochi at Just Add Polish

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Sam at Polished Art

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Lizajane at Organic Neglect

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone FIles
Erica at Coat of Mani Colors 

Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish 

  If you would like to join in on this challenge check out Jonochi at Just Add Polish for all the rules and information.

- Anna

It's the first of the month so I treated myself and got OPI Chic From Ears To Tail!

And then I got home and binge bought a bunch of indie polishes. So I am looking forward to that later this month.

Chic From Ears To Tail is from the The Couture de Minnie line and is a lovely bright pink. It reminds me of bubblegum, and as I am a huge fan of pink I had to pick it up. Now that I am home I am wishing I got the rest!

I will say it has a creme finish, but there is a little bit of pink and silver shimmer hiding in there so well that 99.9% of the time you won't be seeing it. You can see it in the bottle, but once it's on you have to catch the right light for it to show.

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Since I was quickly losing light I took a picture outside with no cleanup so that you could see how lovely it is.   I used two coats, and the application was a little more streaky than I am used to from OPI, even with pastels. Although it did self correct for the most part so any parts that the streaky-ness (that's a word really!) effected ended up self correcting. I will do a proper swatch later on this week, I just was too excited right now to stop. 

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I goofed around with it after while watching the new Arrested Development, but it was too dark by the time I finished that I only got pre-cleanup pictures in natural light. I put You're A Pisa Work over top, and a few dots of GOSH Nero.

I do love the colour and the hidden shimmer that only sometimes comes out to play, which I think is really great about this polish. Although I might put some polish thinner in my bottle a little later to make it more manageable. It's pretty opaque, and really could use it. It may not be the best application, but I would still say it's worth getting if you don't have a pink like it!

- Anna

Untried Polish Challenge - Number 14 Ugliest

This was hard at first because I love every polish I have, but after looking at all my untried OPI My Pointe Exactly stood out for being ugly, I thought 'Ew grey and sheer, that is going to look horrible'. I'd even saw pictures before and thought it looked pretty bad.  

Also sorry about the pictures, it was either huge or weirdly stretched out. My blog is being mean.

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Although when I tried it, it really changed my mind, maybe it just looks better in person, but I love the way it looks just for when I want to give my nails a break.  It also looks so classy with the colour and the shine on it. 

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Because it was sheer, and I have had streaky sheers I was a little worried, but the application was flawless. I used four coats to make it at least fairly opaque, just because I wanted to hide most of my nail line.  This is without a top coat, so it is just that lovely and shiny without anything helping it.

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My Pointe Exactly is from the OPI NYC Ballet collection, and I personally think it is a nice pretty sheer grey. I am now really glad that I ended up getting it, and I will for sure use it for work, and for days when I want to give my nails a colour break.

These are the other awesome people who are doing the challenge.

Jonochi at Just Add Polish

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Sam at Polished Art

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Lizajane at Organic Neglect

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone FIles
Erica at Coat of Mani Colors 

Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish 

  If you would like to join in on this challenge check out Jonochi at Just Add Polish for all the rules and information.

- Anna

Untried Polish Challenge - Number 13 Most expensive

I am somehow behind now, so I am going to do a few in the next few days to catch up!

I feel like this one is misleading since I always use ones that cost me a lot right away. So I picked two OPI that I bought in the town I live in, since it's a small town and it's 11.50$ a bottle here. Which is why I normally get them in the city that is actually very nearby for between 5$ and 7.50$. But at the time both of these I loved so much I had to get them right away. I used Kennebunk-Port as the bright red under, which is way more red than it looks in the bottle, and Royal Rajah Ruby for the darker red.

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I didn't have huge plans for this, I did one coat of  Kennebunk-Port and man is it a pretty red, I was going to throw on a few gems and be done, but it was actually so much brighter than in the bottle that I felt I needed to darken it down a little for when I'm in class. The formula was amazing and I felt pretty good about my nails with one thick coat. I ended up using the other red that I could actually remember paying full price for which was Royal Rajah Ruby to cover most of it though. 

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Royal Rajah Ruby is wayyyy more pretty than in the bottle, the red is so deep, and it has a shimmer that you don't really notice that much when you aren't looking at close pictures of it. 95% of the time it looked like the top picture, but when the light catches it you can see that pretty shimmer. I really like gold so I threw a few gems on top just to give it a little extra.

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See that awesome shimmer?!? I loved both of these polishes, even if Kennebunk-Port did turn out to be a really vampy red. That means I will just use it on days off rather than on days I am teaching class. I would recommend both of these colours if you like reds, they both treated me so nice.

These are the other awesome people who are doing the challenge.

Jonochi at Just Add Polish

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Sam at Polished Art

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Lizajane at Organic Neglect

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone FIles
Erica at Coat of Mani Colors 

Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish 

  If you would like to join in on this challenge check out Jonochi at Just Add Polish for all the rules and information.

- Anna

Untried Polish Challenge - Number 12 Glitter

I actually ended up doing this early because I am going to be out of town, and so I can post it on the day without having to worry about typing it all up and taking pictures while I am not at home. So this mani is like 3 days ago.

I saw Glitter and I knew I wanted to do Orion Syndicate nails as my last Star Trek nails. I wanted green to match Orion skin, so I picked Green Meadow from Quo by ORLY which is such a pretty green. I then picked Greed by GOSH as my gold pressed latinum sparkles. 

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I did two coats of Green Meadow and I was pretty impressed by how lovely it was. The brush is nice and thick and it's short enough that it is super easy to apply. The formula was also really nice, it was thick and fairly opaque. One coat you can see though, but two coats were good although I did do them pretty thick. I also adore this colour.  

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Over Green Meadow I put one very thin coat of Greed, trying to avoid getting too much glitter in the first coat. I really like greed because it is large gold hexes, medium gold hexes, small gold circle glitter and small rainbow glitter in clear base with gold shimmer. It's very pretty. 

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To get more glitter at the top I put a swipe on a sponge and sponged it on to the polish. I also placed the rhinestones on the accent nails and I ended up really really liking this look. 

 Close up so you can see the glitter

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After I hung out with my sister and I couldn't resist taking a picture with our hands together. I love baby hands.

Me and my sisters baby 

one normal coat of Greed (I was careful not to get much glitter at the top)

You can really see the gold shimmer in Greed here I and how it looks when light is catching it, and when it isn't. Both polishes were awesome, and easy to work with. I have had this polish on for the last three days now and I don't even want to take it off. That never happens to me, I can't stop looking at my hands.

These are the other awesome people who are doing the challenge.

Jonochi at Just Add Polish

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Sam at Polished Art

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Lizajane at Organic Neglect

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails
Uni at Acetone FIles
Erica at Coat of Mani Colors 

Isabel at Little Fairy

Raux at Raux Polish 

  If you would like to join in on this challenge check out Jonochi at Just Add Polish for all the rules and information.

- Anna

I am obsessed with Hannibal lately, so I did a Hannibal theme on my nails!

I have been horribly obsessed with the Hannibal TV show since it came out, I pretty much just watch the show right away and then re watch it until the new show comes out. Since today is Thursday and it's on today, I decided to do my nails with the theme. Even though it puts a break in my startrek inspired nails, I just had to!

OPI Alpine Snow, GOSH Nero, GOSH Miss Mole, GOSH With a Twist, 

Zoya Trixie, Sally Hansen Wine Allusion

My thumb was the antlers from the first episode when the hunter was hanging the girls on the deer horns. I used Miss Mole mixed with Nero to make the brown for the antlers, and used a small nail brush to paint the mixed polish onto Alpine Snow. Once I was finished I used a brush to add a 'blood' affect to the nail.

My pointer is based off the latest episode in which Hannibal starts collecting body parts for a dinner party and it shows the lungs on the breadboard. So I used Wine Allusion mixed with alpine snow in different amounts to draw a mini lung on my pointer. 

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 For my middle finger I drew mushrooms growing on top of each other, like the mushrooms that were growing from the murder victims in the show titled 'Amuse-Bouche'. I used Miss Mole and With a Twist both alone and mixed with different amounts of Alpine snow to get the colours, although it ended up mostly covered by the blood splatter on top.

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On my ring finger I did the Hannibal mask from the movie. I did this by  starting with one coat of Nero, and then used With a twist to draw the mask. On top I used Miss Mole to add the darker shades  to the mask and another mix of Miss mole and Alpine Snow to do the lighter parts. I used Zoya Trixie and a fine brush to add the bars to the mask, used my dotting tool with Nero to add the holes in the mask in the right spots.

My pinky is just a blood spatter using two different brushes.

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Anyway, I really had fun with this, even though they aren't 'pretty' nails. I just hope that this show gets another season!

- Anna