Taking amazing and accurate pictures of Girly Bits Cosmic Ocean was HARD.

 And I promise you that none of my pictures here are even remotely as stunning and beautiful as Cosmic Ocean is in person!  Not a bit!

 Here I've used one coat of black (a-england Camelot) and one coat of Cosmic Ocean over it.

 Cosmic Ocean sparkles and shines so much in the sun!  In indoor lighting it absolutely glows and looks like it's alive from within.

 It shifts rather dramatically from green to blue and then at times to an even deeper, royal blurple.

 It instantly made me think of peacock feathers!!

It's like having some sort of insane and glorious interpretation of peacock feathers on your nails.  I completely 100% heart it.

 These pictures here were taken indoors, and show more vivid and interesting shifts, I think.

 Still, SO MUCH BETTER in person.

 I'm wearing Girly Bits Street Magic as my pedi right now (over Diamond Cosmetics Under the Willow Tree - a dark teal sort of green) and I feel all decked out in color morphing pigment awesomeness!  Street Magic shifts from green to bronze to gold to olive to rust.  If you haven't heard about Pam's Girly Bits nail polishes yet,*you can learn more at her blog here.

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 Saturday night I had yet another painful round of manicure failures (two failures and then this success).  Yuuuuggggh!  I don't know what's going on with me lately.

 I'm glad I ended up with this, though.  It is SO lovely!

 I used one easy coat of a-england Camelot and then added a carefully worked coat of Lynnderella's Change.

 Change is an instant favorite for me.  I absolutely love the combination of colors and shapes.

 The sporadic red and lime bits really make this one superb!

 I had a little bit of smooshing on the ends of my middle and ring fingers (from my sheets!), but it was so barely noticeable.  This is good.  While I love Nails Inc. Kensington Caviar top coat for its shine and  durability, this just reminds me that it doesn't quite dry fast enough for what I would like.

Folks, I matted one nail before taking this off this morning, and while I was lame and did not take a picture, I can assure you that it looked really freaking cool!

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 Dear Ozotic 532, I love you with all my heart!!

 Get prepared for gobs of pictures.

 In this first group, I'm wearing two coats over black and I had used Sally Hansen Diamond Flash as my topcoat - such a sad choice actually, because it totally dulled the holo and took forever and a day to fully dry.

 Still, these pictures in the morning sun turned out pretty sweet!

 The main colors in 532 are blue, green, and purple.  Pink comes in to play after that.

 I had noticed that when I just had one coat of 532 over the black, the overall look was much more teal.

 Now these pictures are from a different application.  Here I still have two coats on over black, but topped it with SV and I'm happy to report no holo dulling and acceptable dry time!!

 This is in evening sun.  Also glorious!

 The holo effect in sun is just absolutely ridiculous.

 I don't know why I waited so long to wear this!  I don't ever want to take it off.

 I also have the other three holo-duo Ozotic polishes to try.  Which one should I do next?

 This mani definitely grabbed some attention.  My one coworker told me that it looked super amazing from far away (and that was indoors in bad lighting, too).

 I know it's hard to tell what's going on here just from all the different looking pictures.

 Let me just say this - unequivocally, you NEED this in your life!!

 At this moment, I'm having a wicked debate over what to change my nails to for New Year's.

 I have so many groovy ideas!

 What are you wearing?

 Oh!  I was going to tell you that 532 totally makes me think of the Northern Lights!

 I've never had the privilege of seeing them in person, and I hope some day that I can, but doesn't it just conjure a vision of shifting beautiful swirls of magical colors in the sky?  *sigh*  So dreamy!

 Only a few more pictures.  I'll shut up now.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a safe and happy New Year's Eve!

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This started with one coat of a-england Camelot, a black creme.

Then, I added a coat of Lynnderella I Can Afford It!, which is a glorious green glitter.

And next I added a coat of Lynnderella Ruby Red Ruby, a very chunky red glitter.

 To smooth it out, I used a coat of my new and improved, officially awesome Glitter Tamer, followed by two coats of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

 I wore this on Thursday and Friday.  It was perfectly Christmassy.

I hope everyone had really terrific holidays!  I had a great time with family and friends.  :)

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 This blessed manicure wore for three wonderful days!

 I used two coats of a-england Galahad and then two coats of Lynnderella Connect the Dots.

 I think I had a some tiny bubbles, but honestly I didn't even care because they blended in with the delicate shimmer particles.

 I really adore how this turned out.

 I know I stole the base color idea from a friend on the nail board (I can't remember exactly who, so speak up if it's you!).  I saw it a long time ago and it stuck out in my head as awesome.

 Also, I've been wanting to use this Lynnderella polish for some time now but was feeling unsure of exactly what to put under it.  I think probably everything would look good under it, but I wanted it to be nothing short of spectacular.

 Here's how my right hand turned out.  I think I may like it a little better, but both looked great really.  Check out the black glitter over the white glitter on my middle finger!  That's my favorite part.  :)

If you haven't heard of Lynnderella polishes, you can check out her blog here.

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