Girly-Girl Challenge Day 1 - Think Pink :)

This is the first mani for my first challenge (see previous post for details)
The idea for today is Think Pink - wear your favourite pink polish and nail art. I only own 2 pink polishes so that was an easy choice, I had to go with Illamasqua Obsess. Its a gorgeous shade of pink all on its own but I decided to glitz it up a little and added Nostalgic Nail Lacquer Magic Dance on top (I think she is restocking today, weird coincidence)

I then used Barry M Lilac Foil to stamp my ring finger

But I liked it so much I decided to do them all :)

Polished Components

I had about 20 nail polishes turn up in the post today so it was tough to decide where to start :)
So I went with the ones that came in the cutest packaging :) My 3 mini's from Ashley - Polished Components, I love her nyan cat collection http://www.etsy.com/listing/91144892/nyan-cat-collection, I might get that next. She also does super cute jewellery. I'm really enjoying the choice of "home-made" nail varnishes you can get now and want to add more to my collection. I used camelot from A-England as a base, its a perfect black, one coat.

The first one I tried, my favourite of the bunch was Water's Night, its a blue to purple duochrome with holographic glitter, looks navy blue in some lights and a lovely bright blue in others. And the purple is so pretty but very hard to capture. Absolutely perfect for doing galaxy nails I think.

Second I tried Earth's Night, Its a green/yellow to awesome dusky pink duochrome, with the holographic glitter.

And last was Fire's Night, this looked the strongest in darker lighter conditions. A beautiful shade of pink, and not forgetting the colour shift to a sort of red-coppery glow. Not forgetting the holographic glitter of course.

These are amazing topcoats and I cant wait to try some different layering options :) The application was perfect, they smell a little strong but I expect that from home-made stuff. Ashley does a great job and her shipping is very reasonable.

Lynnderella Layering Experiment

I'm sure most of you will have heard of Lynnderella, if you havent, where have you been?!? :)
She makes the most beautiful glittery nail polishes ever, they happen to be difficult to get hold of because she makes them herself but they are worth being patient for. Her blog is here so you can check if she is open for business or purchase them from Llarowe when they are available.

Here it is in the bottle:

I decided I wanted to layer it over something a little different and I tried so many different combinations, there were a couple I really liked, it looks very pretty over gold, but only one that I loved. I used Essie Smooth Sailing as a base. Its the only Essie polish I own and I think its great, such a beautiful colour and nice application. On top of smooth sailing I put Max Factors Max Effects Fantasy Fire (it is out of stock at the moment but you can sign up for availability updates) which is pretty similar to clarins 230, it shimmers from red to bronze, blue to green and has a purple base.

Here is a picture taken with flash so the blue really shines from under the fantasy fire:

And a second pic which shows the colour in normal light:

Now on top of this I put the Lynnderella Love Potion no 99, I only used a small amount partly because its like gold dust lol and partly because I wanted the fantasy fire to still be visible.

Without flash it is the most beautiful dark blue/purple with different shades of chunky purple glitter and a little rainbow glitter too:

With the flash the blue really pops and you can see the colour shift from the fantasy fire along with all the glittery loveliness of the love potion:

So I'm just going to sit and look at my nails for the rest of the day now :)