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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 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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 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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 Here I started with one perfect, gorgeously opaque and creamy coat of a StrangeBeautiful polish.  It's a stunning tomato red creme.  I don't know which volume this was from.  Ugh.  Sorry!  I don't even care anymore.  But if you must know, I can probably figure it out.

 Then I added two coats of China Glaze Love Marilyn.  Pardon my cuticle oil!

 I had so much fun wearing this.  It was like having jewels on my nails.

 I took some weird pictures indoors with early morning golden sun.  Behold!

 Blingtastic!  But everything is looking too golden.

 If you don't already have Love Marilyn, I highly recommend that you get it.

 Application was easy and the wear was pretty good, too.

Sorry I didn't get better pictures in natural light.  I think, I hope, you get the idea, though!

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 For this manicure, I started with three coats of Essie Blood Curdling.  It's from the Addams Family Morticia's Nails set.

 I really wanted Blood Curdling to be good in two coats, and it almost was, but I had a few spots that needed more polish.  It's got that awesome creme but almost jelly finish.

 Then I added two coats of Lynnderella One Nutty Fruitcake.

 While I think this combination is ultimately very interesting, I was definitely sad that all the awesome black glitter got a bit lost in the fray, what with the lack of contrast between it and my base color.

I'm thinking that the next time around I might try it over a pastel color.

Very shortly now, Lynnderella polishes will be more easily available through llarowe.

I am not affiliated with Lynnderella or llarowe.

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 I've been wearing this mani since Thanksgiving.  I hope that everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving Day, for those that observe it.  I enjoyed time with close family and super excellent and most delicious food!  Here I started with one coat of Cult Nails Time Traveler, seen in the bottle above and below.

 Time Traveler is wonderful!  Just be careful because clean up is not easy on this one.  It's uber pigmented and wants to stain everything it touches.

 Then I added two coats of Clairvoyant, the polish formerly known as (and the name I much prefer,) Unicorn Puke!

 What I failed to do in taking these hurried pictures before leaving the house for Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday is really capture that gorgeous yellowy-green ethereal glow that it takes on at just the right angles.

This is entirely magical.  My mother said that it's her favorite mani of all time!  I think that discredits quite a few awesome ones, but hey, I'll let her be.  Also, this slightly reminds me of a kamikaze flakie layering experiment I did quite a long time ago over a dark blue.  I used three or four different Nfu-Oh flakies and the result was somewhat similar!  They both remind me a lot of really cool, abstract stained glass.  And using Unicorn Puke...Clairvoyant...whichever, is much easier than many different separate polishes to get the same awesome result!

It also must be noted that I'm getting really good wear out of this mani.  I just put on a refresher top coat today (which I rarely ever use) because one corner started lifting a bit, but other than that, it looks perfect after three plus days.  Hooray!

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