I started with two coats of OPI Save Me.  Then I added a coat of Lynnderella Boy-Girl Party, because, why the heck not?!

 Well, let me go back...because after Save Me, I used a coat of Glitter Tamer and a coat of Poshe.

 Then, a coat of Boy-Girl Party, followed by another coat of Glitter Tamer and Poshe.  It was actually quite smooth!

 It reminds me of fireworks and New Year's, which is not very creative thinking on my part.  My friend at work told me that it reminded her of "unicorn-ness," or something like that.  I was thrilled and much prefer her idea!  We both reminisced about loving unicorns, Rainbow Brite, and Punky Brewster as little kids.

This last picture is probably my favorite.  I wore this for a just over two glorious days and I was sad to take it off last night (it started chipping).  And you know what else?  Removal with my beloved scrubby tub was shockingly NOT atrocious or hard!  Major win!

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 Here I have started with two coats of Zoya Noel.

 Noel applied well and dried relatively fast.

 Next, I added a coat of OPI Gone Gonzo!  It's my first time wearing one of my Muppets polishes.  Hooray!

 My friend at work, Megan, helped me to get the Muppets polishes.  It was quite the fiasco, too!  Thanks SO MUCH Megan!  :)

What's not to love about  blue glittery goodness?  This mani does remind me a bit of this one, from around a year ago.  Don't ya think?

I have to say that I am one happy glittery gal this year.  There are just so many ridicumazing (yeah, I just tried to make a new word there) glitter polishes available!!  Long live the glittah!!

On the business end, I have decided to accept an invitation to join the BlogHer network.  You may have noticed the new advertising.  I hope that this will be a move in the right direction for me and I do want to again thank all of you, my dear readers, for even making this a possibility!  I am ever grateful to each of you for coming to DizzyNails and supporting my passion and hard work.  Thanks a million!!

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 This post is full of many, many pictures, just so you know.

 I started my manicure journey yesterday with two coats of the ever lovely Milani Dot Com.

 Can I just state the obvious here?  This polish is STUNNING!

 It was very sheer and almost runny on the first coat, so I was quite surprised and pleased that everything pulled together so well with the second coat.

 No top coat here because I had plans to put Lynnderella Mercurial on top.

 Okay, so I don't even want to post these sad pictures because this combination gave me grief, Nation.

 But we're all here to live and learn, right?  Right.  Here I had added two coats of Lynnderella Mercurial (learn more about Lynnderella at her blog here), a coat of Lynnderella Glitter Tamer, and then a coat of Poshe.

 The problem, the thing that drove me nearly crazy yesterday, was that the Glitter Tamer gave me a meeeellion tiny bubbles.  I'm just not having great luck with it yet, for various boring reasons.

 You can't see the bubbles too much in the above picture, thankfully, but UGH, they are there.  Trust me if you can't see them in any of the pictures.  All eleventy billion of them were there mocking me.

 Also, I just wasn't happy with how the pictures turned out anyway.  Mercurial is maybe a bit hard to photograph!

 Okay, now here we are today.  The picture above is under my little Ikea lamp on my polish painting desk, thus the extreme gold tone of the lighting.  I was trying to show off the awesome and complicated shimmer in Mercurial.

 Here I have used two coats of OPI Lincoln Park After Dark, one well-worked coat of Lynnderella Mercurial, a coat of Gelous, a coat of Cult Nails' top coat, and finally a coat of Seche Vite.  (I used a base coat, too, of course).

 I love LPAD, and this is weirdly my first time ever wearing it.  It does remind me a lot of a-england Lancelot in the final effect, though, so maybe I could have just used that and saved a coat in the process!  LPAD leans ever so slightly more purple, though, where Lancelot looks mostly just black and has a teeny bit of red to it.

 I digress!  At any rate, this mani is a major success for me.  Hooray!

 Mercurial is still hard to capture in photographs, but hopefully you have an idea of its extreme and moody awesomeness.

 My favorite part?  On the thumb nail here.  It's really hard, if not impossible to see, but there is a ginormous black hex glitter near the middle, a little to the right, and a little toward the top.  LOVE IT!

 I love me some surprise crazy glittah.

 Oh!  And if you hadn't noticed, my nails are shorter today, yes.  I had a little break starting on one, so I just took them all back to nubs.

 I'm fine with the nubs.  I've actually come to really like them short now.

Thanks for reading all of this, if you have, and even if you have not, I thank you for taking a look!

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 This is two coats of OPI Visions of Sugarplum.

 It's a vampy, utterly delicious, deep purple with iridescent shimmer.

 I'd say it's glass-flecked shimmer; smaller particles than most, but still looks like it to me!

 This kind of color just plain makes me want to smile.  I'm so happy wearing it!!

 I was actually debating whether or not to layer something over it, but I couldn't bear to do it.  It's just too darn pretty on its own.

It's not actually duochrome, no, but I think the sky is reflecting in my nails above.  Still a cool picture!

Millie, you know I hope you get yours SOON!  And thanks so much for being the catalyst behind me getting this amazing polish!

I ordered this off of Amazon recently.

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 I've had OPI Yokohama Twilight (from Japan) for a while and have wanted to try it but never got around to it until now!

 I layered one coat of Yokohama Twilight over two coats of Zoya Caitlin, which proved to be a really great pairing.

 Caitlin is just lovely on her own and the application was most excellent.

 I was worried that Yokohama Twilight would be too sheer for me on its own.

 I have to say that I'm really happy with how these pictures turned out - all 800 of them (just kidding).

 Also, dare I say, this mani was even more beautiful in person!?

 The duochrome shift is nicely visible from blue, to purple, to pink.

 And the shimmer in the sun is just mesmerizing!

 I'm pretty sure Yokohama Twilight is fairly hard to find these days.  I ordered mine from Doll Up Nails, which is also where I got all my glitterbomb Estessimo TiNS from.

 At first I wasn't feeling this combo for some reason.  It felt dated and grandmother-ish to me!  Then, I really grew to love it and was very sad to see it go.

 I'm trying to capture the pink shift in the horribly awkward photo above.  It's more easily seen in real life.  Gosh, my fingers look mutant!

 I ended up cracking it after a day (or was it two?).  I used 2012 Prayer, which I got at a local Walgreens.  I've only seen those Crackles at a few Walgreens - definitely not all of them.  They have a ton of great colors that all seem to have Christian themed names.

Prayer cracked really well and applied very easily.  I love that shade of purple!

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