This is two coats of Nails Inc. St. John's Wood. I seriously could have done with just one coat.

The application was great and I even thought I might have seen some glints of secret shimmer while applying...although it was late at night and I was quite tired, so I very well could have been hallucinating that part. :) I hope you'll pardon the scuffs as this is my second day wearing it and I'm sure I gave it a bit of a beating at work yesterday.

It's in the periwinkle family, which is beloved because it combines two of my favorite colors: purple and blue. It also reminds me of Eeyore, which makes me happy as well.

I took three rounds of pictures of this one because I simply cannot get pictures that accurately reflect what I see when I look down at them. I see purple. PURPLE.

At times it leans blue, but over all the color reminds me a little bit of OPI Funkey Dunkey, to give you an idea of what I'm dealing with here!

This last picture is perhaps the closest to being accurate, only imagine it leaning a little more purple. At any rate, no matter what color St. John's Wood is or should be, I do love it. Glad to have it!

And can you believe that I'm wearing just a creme mani with no shimmer, glitter, flakes, or stamps?!

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I am so happy to say that I now own Nails Inc. polishes! I've waited a long time to have these.

I couldn't quite decide what to wear for my first Nails Inc. mani, so I picked two different 3D glitters to put on over black. I alternated every other nail with Bloomsbury Square and Connaught Square.

Connaught Square is the blue, green, and purple. Bloomsbury Square is the pink and purple. Each is shown at one coat over two coats of Illamasqua Boosh.

I used the Kensington Caviar base and top coats (two coats of top coat because these glitters at top coat eaters!). The wear was pretty good for me with some chipping on the third day (yes, sadly that is pretty good for me). I do feel the top coat dries a bit slow for my taste, but to be fair I will try it again and report back.

In the future with these 3D glitters, I will definitely do a coat of Gelous after the glitter and before my quick-dry top coat.

The whole "3D glitter" thing cracks me up because how are they 3D? But I do love them anyway and think that they are all pretty unique in my vast collection of glitters.

I got these two and several more Nails Inc. polishes at Sephora. Only certain Sephora stores will be stocking them and not all of those stores have them out on display yet (they are not visible to the public yet at my Sephora store). I'm really happy that they are available more easily now in the U.S.!

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