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Illamasqua Noble!
SO pretty!
I’m wearing the very glittery Butter London Bit Faker!
OPI I Saw…U Saw…We Saw… Warsaw & Which Is Witch? Looks like the night sky 🙂
Sounds like a lovely combo.
Vedrana – it’s my new favourite combo, absolutely love it SO SPARKLY!
bare
Shellac Grape Gum (gorgeous royal purple) 🙂
Sally Hansen Triple Strong (I needed to give my nails a break from color), but I’m thinking of going with Sinful Colors Genteel tonight.
OPI Mod About You
Butter London Fiver
On my toes: Essie Mint Candy Apple
On my hands: Urban Decay Toasted (from their naked set)
I never wear nail polish on my hands, but since I was procrastinating on a paper I decided to try it out. 😉
a Dior coral shade, with a gold glitter top coat
Barry M Blueberry.~
Illamasqua Boosh (glossy black). 🙂
China Glaze Four Leaf Clover
OPI Animal-istic
The best color ever Essie California Coral
OPI Miami Beat – love it!
I love OPI’s Miami Beet – I wore this one for my wedding! 🙂
Fingers – Nothing! I had been changing my polish weekly, and my nails were not happy. I’m taking a break, and then I’ll switch to polishless manis for awhile.
Toes – Orly in Green With Envy. Great color, but I don’t care for the formula.
China Glaze Nail Lacquer in Fade into Hue. I’ve had it on for a week now and it still looks immaculate. 🙂
I can’t keep mine on for a DAY, let alone a week! have to ask, what’s your nail-painting process? What kind of base and top coats do you use?
I second that question 🙂
I use Anchor (base) and Armor (top), I normally do two coats of each. 🙂
I don’t do much with my hands, I guess that can be a factor as well.
Forgot to mention that Anchor and Armor are from Zoya. Sorry, ladies. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
It’s important to start with a clean nail bed. Swipe your nails with your nail polish remover first. I love Zoya’s “Remove +” because it’s gentle on the nail, and the smell doesn’t knock you out.
I mostly only use a base coat (usually Zoya Anchor) if the polish is one that stains. Then I paint the first coat and let it dry. After I paint the 2nd coat I immediately apply Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat. It’s incredible stuff. Best I’ve ever used. Until I tried Seche, I’ve been using Zoya Armour, and then their “Fast Drops Polish Dryer”.
You need to reapply a top coat every few days, or a glitter coat to extend the wear. I can get up to about 10 days, and I’m not too careful about using my hands.
Hope this helps, and you get as good results as I do!
OPI “Honeymoon Sweet”, picky white with gold-y sheen and a couple of nails with a top coat of Zoya PixieDust formula “Godiva”.
On toes I am wearing Essie Hip-Anema 🙂
OPI a rose at dawn with Goldeneye at the sides
I don’t usually wear nail polish because I can’t paint my nails for the life of me and I become frustrated when I can’t use my nails as tools. XD
I wish I was better at nail painting, but having a hand tremor kind of impedes that.
Chanel – starlet 🙂
“That’s Berry Daring” by OPI(:
Zoya Neeka
I have jelly sandwich with OPI polka.com and OPI Callin’ me a lyre
Empire State Blue by N.Y.C.
Miss Sporty Fatal Black on my toes and Golden Rose Rich Color 44 on my fingers.
Fingers: OPI Ticke Me-Francey
Toes: OPI Cajun Shrimp
Those are both two of my faves!
Deborah Lippmann – My Old Flame!
The one and only, Revlon Vixen! <3
Two coats of Revlon Colorstay Pale Cashmere. Nice and soft and clean with a touch of transparency. I needed a break from bold colours, although I currently have three Rimmel Metal Rush polishes and Sally Hansen Midnight in NY on my desk tempting me!
OPI Hot & spicy on my toes and Essie Haute as Hello on my fingers.
Nothing. My nails are far too weak for polish. >:
Models Own- Raspberry Crush
I’m revisiting all my China Glaze Crackle right now.
On my nails: YSL Violet Baroque
On toes: Nars Koliakry!
A lot. There’s a striped mani with RBL 360 and LMdB Dream Maker on my left hand, and Jinsoon Charade and Poppy Blue on my right hand, alone with Nars Zulu, Deborah Lippmann’s Dream a Little Dream of Me, and one finger with Cirque XX.
On toes: Flower Beauty’s Thistle or That.
MAC Jade Dragon. So lovely in the bottle, but the shimmer fails to transfer to the nail. Boo!
essie’s hip-anema!
Fingers: JulieG Umbrella Drink
Toes: Essie First Timer
I am obsessed with mint and coral right now… can you tell? 🙂
Essie In the Cab-ana! 😀
Essie Tart Deco!
One of my favorite colors!
Herome Ridge filling base coat. I had a mani a few days a go and I like to go nail polish-free for about a week afterwards.
Bourjois So laque – Amande Defile
(light,light green)
China Glaze for Audrey!
Illamasqua Raindrops – I ordered it 2 weeks ago after reading your review and finally caved! I love it and it’s lasted a full week on my nails with minor chipping. Nail polishes (OPI, Butter London, etc.) usually only last 3-4 days before chipping really badly.
Essie – Island Hopping 🙂
OPI Manicurist of Seville
That is one of my all time favorites! It’s hard to find really blue reds like that.
Sinful Colors in Hazard, a bright coral orange 🙂
Chanel Lilis, which I found IDENTICAL to Nicole by OPI Strike a Pose I wore last week!!
Essie Tomboy No More. Fitting name for me 🙂 It’s a beautiful deep jelly creme red. Perfect application and I am day 8 with minor tip wear!!
It was a LE shade from a few years ago but I have seen it on various online polish dealers. I need a backup, I am almost done, it’s THAT good!
These are always my favorite types of questions. (“What X are you wearing right now?”)
Revlon Powder Puff with two layers of Sinful Colors Nail Junkie on top on fingernails. Maybelline Shocking Seas on my toes.
Chanel Paparazzi. this is my first Chanel nail varnish and it’s so gorgeous. I can never have enough rosy mauve-y nail varnishes.
Guerlain Champs-Elysees – more than a week with very little chipping, which is no small feat on my nails!
OPI Heart Throb.
Fingers – Zoya Areej. I love this color for spring/summer
Toes – Zoya Kylie2. I had this on my nails last week, but since I bought some polishes from their Earth Day sale I wanted to try something new 🙂
Simone by Julep. I change my nails every two days lol.
On my toes is a dark red colour from Dior – one of their old shades I think.
My fingers are currently bare as I took off Apple by Zoya yesterday, and I like a day’s break to let my nails breathe. After I wash my hair tonight though I’m putting on Nothing Else Metals by Essie.
China Glaze – I’m With the Lifeguard
OPI Danke-shiny Red 🙂
Nail oil at the moment 😀
I had Butter London Thames, but I just removed it!
Illamasqua’s Jo’mina
Essie’s Buy Me a Cameo.
Chanel Bel-argus ! Sooo pretty I love it!
On
On toes: Color Club “Over the Moon” – LOVE!!
On fingernails: Revlon “Indigo Night”
inglot o2m 638
zoya yummy on 4 nails with an accent nail (ring finger) in zoya neely and polka dots of zoya neely on the thumb nail
On my hands: OPI an affair in red square
On my feet: OPI Russian navy
Love both colors, OPI nail polishes are my favorites, sadly they are pricey (16€ which is about 20$) here in Germany 🙁
L.A. Girl 3D Effects Hologram Nail Polish in Brilliant Blue
Rescue Beauty Lounge Halcyon. It’s an unusual sage green with cooler (greyish blue) undertone and tiny pink shimmers. It works like a neutral on my olive skin.
YSL Vert D’Orient!
China Glaze – Ring In The Red (I think).
Its a christmas color, but I totally dig it all year round
I have Illamasqua Harem on my nails…but they are extremely badly chipped right now *is sheepish*! I’ve ben doing spring cleaning and even with gloves, I’ve been very harsh on my nails this week. Re-doing them today 🙂 Thinking about China Glaze Periwinkle 🙂
OPI Don’t You Lilac it? with a mustache from Winstonia nail plate 109 stamped on my ring finger. It’s so cute!
Deborah Lippman Party Girl with Color Club Age of Aguarius on accent nails
I’m wearing Orly Sea Gurl
Chanel Taboo, absolutely loving it!
Essie mesmerize. I loveeeee this color so much!
OPI Skull and Glossbones!
fingers: OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston, probably will add accents (french tips? polka dots?) in one of the Essie chromes today.
toes: Essie Turquoise and Caicos. It’s not really sandal season yet, but I am prepared!
OPI La Paz-itively Hot which is my trademark hot pink. I really wanna try some of the Hare colors tho’, I hope they get stock soon.
Essie Absolutely Shore on my fingers and Essie Mint Candy Apple on my toes… I don’t like matching my toes and fingers but I LOVE using a similar color on both with a darker/brighter version on toes and a lighter/more muted version on fingers!
OPI You’re Such a Budapest with Rainbow Honey’s The Worst Possible Thing as a glitter topper on accent nails (reverse gradient!)
OCC’s Psycho 🙂
Julie G Crushed Candy – from the new gumdrops collection
Orly’s Galaxy Girl
Revlon Red
On my hands, Essie in Mademoiselle and on my feet, Butter London in Chancer.
Essie’s “Fiji.”
A rainbow of different colors on every finger! Hot pink on my left pinkie, then true red, red-orange, orange, and yellow on my left thumb. Mint green on my right thumb, then true green, teal, royal blue, and purple on my right pinkie.
So fun! Maybe my favorite nail art to date.
I love doing things like that, though not necessarily an ombre/rainbow effect like yours (which is really pretty!), but sometimes colors that I like and go well together.
YSL Jade Imperial with Butter London Matte top coat. It changes the look of and makes my nails look like camo nails.
For the first time in more than a year my finger nails are completely bare! I decided to give them a two week break to get rid of the yellow stain. I plan on painting them again tonight, I haven’t decided on the polish yet, but I’m pretty sure it will be a blue or purple pastel with a cream finish.
In honor of the last Queen’s day here in the Netherlands (at least for a while)…OPI’s “A Roll in the Hague”, which is incredibly orange — and the title is very fitting, since the palace is there 🙂
OPI my chihuahua bites
♥
Essie Mint Candy Apple, though I’m taking it off tonight (I’ve had it on for over a week). I’m thinking I’ll do Maybelline Color Show in Sapphire Siren.
Right now I have Chanel Peridot 🙂 .
Essie Ole Caliente!
Nothing…except for one finger with Dior nail glow from when I went to sephora two days ago.
Pink petal by Essie and in my ring fingers 882 angel nails by Max Factor..
On my toes I have You don’t know Jacques by OPI
China Glaze I’m With The Lifeguard on fingers and China Glaze Blue Years Eve on toes!
OPI Gelcolor, Strawberry Margarita!
Color Club Kismet! I’m loving how it looks in the bright sunlight. I bought it and Beyond on the advice of your review, and would never have heard of this polish without your blog. Thank you so much, Christine!
Zoya Rory on fingers, and Zoya Anaka on toes. I was in a girly pink mood inspired by spring’s newly flowering trees.
BTW, I usually use Zoya’s topcoat and base coat too, but due to hearing about how great Seche Vite Dry Fast topcoat for so long, I finally caved, and decided to try it. OMG – it is truly is amazing! I put it on right after the 2nd coat of polish, and it dries almost instantly to a shiny and very hard/protective finish. It’s made my manicures last longer than ever, so if you don’t like to change your polish often (I can’t because it’s just too hard on my genetically weak-ish fingernails – even using Zoya’s fabulous polish remover), you have to try this. I reapply the topcoat if I start to show a hint of tip wear.
I’ve already worn this manicure over a week with one re-application of Seche, and I can easily go 10 days. By then I just have to do new colors anyway 😉
Another thing I do sometimes to extend my manicure without getting bored, is to add a glitter, or color-changing topcoat, or add dots or stripes or something to change it up and be creative.
A pale pale pink OPI with black french tip that has sparkle in it.
Chanel Peridot. I’m about to change it this evening to Butter Kerfluffle for the base and OPI Gargantuan Green Grape for the tips. Or vice versa, or a combo 🙂
I LOVE Chanel Peridot! Probably my 2nd favorite polish after Zoya Charla (glittery mermaid blue-green).
Bare. Love the colors available, but polish ruins my nails.
OPI Cajun Shrimp
Eeek! I’ve been craving this color likebmad! So pretty.
Fingers: Essie Aruba Blue
Toes: A neon pink from Sinful Colors (not sure the name)
On fingernails – China Glaze Heart of Africa
On toes – OPI Yucatan If You Want
I have Rimmell’s new “Pink A BOO” 60 seconds nail color on my fingernails right now. It’s a gorgeous bright pink! At $1.50 a bottle it is more than beautiful–the price is also just right. I love it!
Oh, and on my toes I have OPI’s I’m Not really a Waitress. It’s one of my all time faves for my toes!
I’m wearing black by wet n wild…I usually only wear it during winter, but I thought I’d wear it.
Chanel Taboo!!! :))
CND Shellac in an empty moon mani – I don’t know the colour names, but it’s 2 coats of a bright orange creme topped with a sparkly orange.
Base coat
On all fingers: Nicole By OPI in Totally In The Dark (2 coats)
Cling film mani on all nails but left hand ring finger and right hand index finger: Nicole By OPI in Back To Reality …TV
Left hand ring finger and right hand index finger: Nicole By OPI in Gone Wishin’ (1 coat)
Top coat
China Glaze Surreal Appeal, a bright, fun coral
Color Club Miss Bliss. These are wonderful holos, really powerful. Best I’ve used.
opi the thrill of brazil. Gorgeous!!
Chanel Azuré
zoya’s vespa pixie dust. love this sage green!
Illamasqua Mottle, the green one from the I’mperfection collection. It’s a really pretty shade, but for this brand and this price it’s disappointingly thick and streaky.
I am wearing Aristocrat gel polish by Mally Beauty.
Essie Off the shoulder. Classic hot pink 🙂
Chanel Frenzy!!!
I am wearing China Glaze Japanese Koi with Lynnderella Change as a ring finger accent. Japanese Koi is sooo BRIGHT! Like traffic cones on my fingers, except not really because my nails broke and are nubs, but you know what I mean, right?! LOL Loving the neons for spring/summer.
I absolutely enjoy your site. I’m a long time lurker, but just wanted to say thanks for creating such a super engaging and informative make-up forum/community on this site. It’s truly appreciated by all of us! *hugs*
China Glaze Westside Warrior <3