For this mani, I started with two coats of SpaRitual's Sacred Ground.

 You've probably all seen this one before.  It's super popular and for a good reason!

 Sacred Ground is a beautiful gray shimmer polish that has the most enchanting multi-colors hiding in the shimmer.

 Mostly you'll notice bluish-purple, gold, and then silver.

 It's very lovely and I enjoyed the formula as well.

 I think this is my first time wearing a SpaRitual polish!

 Later in the same day, I added two coats of TiNS The Starlets.

 The Starlets is disco ball style silver holo hex glitter suspended in a clear base.

 I really love the effect as the glitter twinkles and nearly lights up!  It's so twinkly it looks like lights anyway.  :)

I realize that the TiNS glitter totally killed the subtlety of the shimmah in Sacred Ground...and I'm completely okay with that!

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 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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 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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 This is the beginning of one of my New Year's Eve manis from yesterday.

 I used three coats of Estessimo TiNS Precious Diamond.

 Okay, why does my bottle look so frackin' empty in the photo above?!  I've only ever swatched this on a nail wheel before (just one "nail")!

 Anyway, no top coat here.  It's my underwear for things yet to come.

 Precious Diamond reminds me a lot of China Glaze Sexagon, which I've apparently never worn (or at least not in a really long time and I never took pictures wearing it), yet it's one of my favorites!

 Here I've layered a careful coat of Lynnderella Mercury's Rainbow on top.

Mercury's Rainbow is pretty dang awesome!

 It's like holo rainbow meets steely gray with a hint of blue.  Am I crazy?  I saw a hint of blue. 

The sad news here is that I experienced some majorly annoying tip shrink about ten minutes after I took these pictures (which was immediately after application was complete).  It was only on two of my nails, but the result was a big exposed looking chunk of my white tip!  I just couldn't stomach it.  So I took it straight off.  :(

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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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