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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 Why hello, lovely Chameleon Mari Moon!  Aren't you pretty?!

 This is two coats swatched over clear base coat with no top coat.

 This one applied relatively well, despite the brush needing a nice little trim.

Stay tuned for more Mari Moon swatches!

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 Cool!  Yeah, that's the name.  Cool surprised me by being awesomely pigmented.

 These swatches are shown at two coats over a clear base and with no top coat.  I would definitely wear this as a mani with just two coats!

 This is probably my second favorite of the Mari Moons!  I really like the richness and depth.

Want to know my very favorite?  You'll have to wait a little longer!

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 Here's another lovely NerdLacquer polish that I imagine you'll like a bit more than the last one.  :)

 This is three coats of Webinarmy.  I topped it with a coat of Instant Artificials and then two coats of Seche Vite.

 This gorgeous green at times appears to have a blue undertone and then at other times just looks very bright and plain green.

 You can see that it does in fact look to be more blue-toned in the bottle as well.

 And then there is all of the blue glitter, of course!

This is too pretty!  You can find NerdLacquer here.

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 Another first at DizzyNails!  NerdLacquer!  Here is three coats of Purely Logical.

 This applied very well and nearly could have been a two coater.  Also, and I'm so excited about this, it wore really well!!  I got a good three days with only a tiny chip.  That is so awesome for me.  My tips were almost all still wrapped, too.

If you are interested in NerdLacquer, please check out the shop here.  Amanda has come up with some really spectacular colors and I gotta say that I'm super excited about this line!  :)

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 Check this one out!

 Two coats of Orly Rococo A-Go-Go (name, y u so silly?!).

 The formula was a bit too thick and almost tricky for me - I definitely should have just thinned it right away.

 Still, it's absolutely to die for, and it turned out just fine!

 The next day, I added a coat of Inglot 202 flakes.  Here are a few indoor pics first.

 YIKES!  SO BEAUTIFUL!

 As you will see in a moment, the flakes look mostly orange in the bottle, so I was pleasantly surprised to see so much green come out to play!

 It's rainbow-rific, that's for sure.

 Now for some outdoor pictures.

 Can you even stand it?!

 I definitely need to wear more flakes.  Definitely.

 I really like the Inglot flakies because they come out so dense and easily.  I just wish the bottle wasn't so tiny!

 What are your favorite flakes?

 It's nice to see so many companies jumping on the bandwagon now.

 Hopefully we won't be having any more flakie polish shortages in the near future.  :)

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

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 This was the final mani I ended up with for Saturday night.

 These first two pictures are taken in early morning light and I also tried to "auto-enhance" them, which is why they look a bit kooky.  Sorry for that!

 What is it, you ask?  I used a coat of Illamasqua Boosh as underwear.  Then I used two coats of Lynnderella (click on her name to go to her blog) Thank Blue! followed by a coat of Piggy Polish Sunshine on Snowflakes, one of my favorite holo toppers.

 I used a coat of Gelous and then Seche Vite at the end.  Everything turned out super smooth and just lovely.

 I was a little worried about putting anything over top of a Lynnderella polish (somehow seems sacrilegious or like overkill), but I'm glad I took the chance with SoS.  I love how it looks!

 This mani reminds me of a way less cool blue glitter look I did about a year ago, here.

I also get the slightest bit of a Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe vibe...but I gotta say that this takes the win for me.

Thank Blue!, Lynnderella, for this amazing blue glitter polish!  And a Happy Blue Year to all!  :P

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