This mani is straight off of MUA's Nail Board. Nail Board rocks!!!

Two lovely girls (nrahman1993 and MeganChair) came up with this combination of polishes, so a huge shout out to them for their genius! :)

I started with a coat of the purplelicious jelly wonder that is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Purple Pizazz.

Then I added a coat of OPI Last Friday Night.

Next, another coat of Purple Pizazz.

Then, a coat of the magical Clarins 230.

I finished with two coats of Poshe (it wasn't drying fast enough with one).

I had, much to my relief and joy, NO VNL at the tips!!! Hooray!

I hate when the tips shrink back when I'm wearing jelly polishes. *shudder*

The picture above is one of my favorites, shown in a bit of shade outdoors.

I wasn't able to capture the uber cool green shimmer of Clarins 230, but it did show itself on special occasions for me.

If you don't own Clarins 230, don't despair! This combo looks really rad even just with Purple Pizazz and Last Friday Night - I promise!

I definitely think I'll be trying more jelly/shimmer/glitter combinations in the near future.

I really love how this looks and wearing it has made me so happy!

What has been one of your favorite manis or combinations you've worn lately? :)

I leave you with another favorite, last picture. ZOMG rainbow in my bottle!

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I recently had a request for swatches of Clarins 230 over white. Great idea!! I actually tried this on a finger the other day and gosh, it came out a streaky mess, so I couldn't bear to take pictures of it. However, I decided to try again with a wheel, and added a few bonus ideas as well.

From left to right: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Lavender Cloud, Zoya Ginessa, Illamasqua Scorch, and Essie Pretty Edgy. They are all shown at two coats.

I've added a coat of Clarins 230 to each. These pictures are indoors, under my desk lamp.

I had a very hard time getting the Clarins to apply evenly, as you can see. Streaks. :(

The streaks are most apparent over Lavender Cloud and Scorch.

Above, in outdoor, indirect light.

The orange sparklies over Pretty Edgy are so flippin' hot!

They are all super pretty. I just don't know if I could deal with the streakiness for a real manicure.

Perhaps if I thinned the 230 it would behave better over light colored polishes.

The shimmer in Ginessa hides nearly all the streaks, so that is good.

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This was a mani I wore on Thursday and yesterday. I had hoped I would still be wearing it today, but I had a few chips last night, sadly. It's another combination with Clarins 230. I promise I have a palette-cleanser in store for you as my next post!

I started with three coats of Color Club Alias. Alias is not unlike Cetuem 224, but it's loaded with gorgeous chunky shimmer (I'm not positive, but believe it would be considered "glass-flecked").

Alias is mostly a lovely deep purple, but does have a bit of a duochrome flash to it with gray and green. It's a lovely polish and I wish I had pictures of it by itself to show you.

I added a coat of Clarins 230, the magic maker.

It added pinkish red shimmer with a twist.

I really love these two together. Really. Love.

I couldn't get much of a green flash (only the slightest hints), but it did flash orange nicely at times.

I wish that Alias had been a bit more opaque so I could have gone with two coats instead of three, but really, I can't complain much. Other than being a bit sheer, it applied well.

I love how 230 looks all glowy, lit-from-within, and alive in these pictures here (above and below).

The picture below is one of my favorites because you can kind of see hints of green around the base of the three nails on the left (mostly the index and middle). It reminds me of the green mist from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie. I know, I am a total dork.

Here is Georgia taking a sun bath yesterday. She's very pleased it's getting hot out again.

This is her sleepy, lazy face. Gotta love all those "freckle" spots on her face. :)

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Alright Nation, I have come up with a ridiculously terrific combination using Clarins 230. I'm going to toot my horn, yes I am. This is smokin' crazy hawt!!

Inspired by one of my nail wheel experimental choices from last evening, I decided to go with Cetuem 224 as my "underwear." I used two coats.

Don't worry - I will still be posting wheel pics soon.

I added one coat of Clarins 230 on top of Cetuem 224.

SHAZAM! They are so meant for each other. And why wouldn't they be? Both are groovy rockin' multi-chromes.

If you missed my original swatch pic post with Cetuems, you can find it here.

I absolutely love the rainbow of colors that can be seen in this manicure.

It is the ultimate chameleon duo of polishes - at least, so far!

And the green flash (which you know is my favorite part), really picks up strongly with these two.

Hooray for green!

Sometimes it gives me a bit of a Space Cadet/Beetle vibe, too, only prettier.

Isn't it great?!

Someone at work today asked me what polish I was wearing. I almost felt bad telling her! I was like, "I am wearing two different polishes, both of which are quite hard to find." Then I proceeded to explain what and where and all that. She probably thought I was nuts. And I am - nuts for polish, oh yeah!

Alright, well I have a ton more pictures and not much left to say, so I'll just let you keep looking (and perhaps drooling).

Check out the crazy brown/orange action going on with my index and middle fingers here!

Also, I took more pictures of Zoya Roxy and 230 together, rather nicely showing off the green flash. I edited the original post from yesterday, so if you would like to see them, just give it a look. There are seven pictures added to the bottom of the post.

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