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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 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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 This is three coats of TiNS The Gear-Top Traveller.  I am not wearing a top coat here.

 This was meant for a layered mani, but polish tragedy struck, and it did not turn out good at all!  Needless to say, I'm glad that I snapped these progress pictures.

This is one of the more sheer TiNS I've tried, but it still worked out nicely after the third coat.  It's full of rich, golden glitter and magical little blue and holo bits.  I love it!

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This is three coats of Estessimo TiNS The Relax Mint.

The Relax Mint is a beautiful minty aqua golden shimmer loaded with holographic glitter.

Did you get all that? Minty aqua. Golden shimmer (tons!). Lots of holographic and silver glitter. It's crazy!!

I needed a little bit of extra magic the other day, so I felt it was only appropriate to bust out a TiNS polish. TiNS do not disappoint, my friend.

This last picture is one I took just after painting them. I was holding a bottle of OPI Suzi Takes the Wheel.

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Last night I was debating what green to put on. I have a couple of new Nicole greens that are nice. I have lots of lovely Illamasqua greens. OPI. I thought it would be nice to wear TiNS again, though.

And it is nice. So nice. I heart TiNS!!!!!

This is The Holiday Cheer. Only two coats!

It's wearing great on me so far, as I've come to expect it to do. :) I should be able to get at least another day or two out of it.

Anyone else rocking out green and glitter right now?

SO PRETTY!

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I finally got my wheel swatched with the remaining Estessimo TiNS polishes. :) Sorry that it took me so long!

As you can see, they are all three coats. No top coat.

Here's all of them again, just held at a slightly different angle.

I hope you enjoyed them all! For those that didn't read my first post regarding TiNS, I ordered these all from a site called Doll Up Nails. I am not affiliated with the site, but did have a great experience and would recommend them highly.

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Here is the polish I'm wearing right now, TiNS The Summer Night Rules.

I used three coats. It's a dark gray jelly filled with tiny silver glitter.

It reminds me a little of OPI My Private Jet, although I realize there are distinct differences.

The brush was just a bit wonky, but nothing major.

I think I originally expected this one to be a true black, but it's definitely gray.

I still haven't taken the time to swatch wheels with the rest of my TiNS! :(

Hopefully I can get it done soon.

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This is the most spectacular Estessimo TiNS The Mercury. I used two coats here but I have to tell you that it was nearly perfect in only one coat!

This is a dark blue packed with chunky and smaller holo glitter.

My brush was every so slightly wonky, which made application just a tad tricky.

I finished with two coats of Seche Vite, which is pretty abnormal for me. I don't usually use SV, but went for it this time because I wanted it to dry as quick as possible.

I was a little surprised that the mani was not totally smooth after it dried, though. I feel like it would have been smoother had I gone with Poshe. Ah well. No big deal.

It did wear awesomely, though, so that is terrific. I wore it for nearly four days, which is practically unheard of in my world.

I have to attribute the majority of the awesome wear to my new favorite base coat. I cannot say enough about how freaking awesome it is!!

Dying to know what it is? Palladio Fuse. I got it at Sally Beauty Supply.

A friend of a friend recommended it to me and oh man, I am so grateful! Thanks, Amy, and thanks to your friend!

This base coat actually greatly assists in adhering the polish to the nail. I cannot say I've experienced that with any other base coats I've used before (and I've tried probably a good dozen or more now).

So, instead of the corners of the polish lifting and/or chipping off within 1-2 days, I can now go twice that long! Even when The Mercury started chipping at the corners ever so slightly, it chipped off in a layer that left a layer of polish still behind on the nail, so that it didn't even look terrible. How cool is that?!

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