Okay!  Here is my quick and dirty comparison of Laura Mercier Twilight.  I used two coats of each polish shown (although, admittedly, Neeka very well could have been a one coater).  They are all quite similar in color and tone - with just color they looked really similar in my bathroom lighting.

 Paradoxal is maybe a hair more brown than the others and Neeka is definitely just a little more blue-toned than the others.

I've included this awful, blurry flash picture because it reveals the differences a little better than just the fluoro shots alone.  I hope this helps someone!  Here is a link back to my original Twilight post.

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 This is what I'm currently wearing:  Zoya Ali with Lynnderella Connect the Dots.

 I used two coats of each polish and then followed it with Gelous and Seche Vite.

 I have to apologize because these pictures are terribly color inaccurate!  Ali is a tricky beast.  She is more pink than what it appears here, although not a true straight-up neon pink.  I'd call her neon salmon pink.  Almost coral, but not quite.

 The polish actuals appears more like what you see in the bottle above, in real life.

 I love this picture above (and below!) for showing more of the magnificent micro shimmer that is in the otherwise clear base of Connect the Dots.

 Yesterday at work, a more mature woman surprised me by telling me that she liked my nails.  :)

Heck yeah!  I love this.  I kind of have to restrain myself from wanting to use Connect the Dots over everything.  It's that good.

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 Here I have started with two coats of Zoya Noel.

 Noel applied well and dried relatively fast.

 Next, I added a coat of OPI Gone Gonzo!  It's my first time wearing one of my Muppets polishes.  Hooray!

 My friend at work, Megan, helped me to get the Muppets polishes.  It was quite the fiasco, too!  Thanks SO MUCH Megan!  :)

What's not to love about  blue glittery goodness?  This mani does remind me a bit of this one, from around a year ago.  Don't ya think?

I have to say that I am one happy glittery gal this year.  There are just so many ridicumazing (yeah, I just tried to make a new word there) glitter polishes available!!  Long live the glittah!!

On the business end, I have decided to accept an invitation to join the BlogHer network.  You may have noticed the new advertising.  I hope that this will be a move in the right direction for me and I do want to again thank all of you, my dear readers, for even making this a possibility!  I am ever grateful to each of you for coming to DizzyNails and supporting my passion and hard work.  Thanks a million!!

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 I've had OPI Yokohama Twilight (from Japan) for a while and have wanted to try it but never got around to it until now!

 I layered one coat of Yokohama Twilight over two coats of Zoya Caitlin, which proved to be a really great pairing.

 Caitlin is just lovely on her own and the application was most excellent.

 I was worried that Yokohama Twilight would be too sheer for me on its own.

 I have to say that I'm really happy with how these pictures turned out - all 800 of them (just kidding).

 Also, dare I say, this mani was even more beautiful in person!?

 The duochrome shift is nicely visible from blue, to purple, to pink.

 And the shimmer in the sun is just mesmerizing!

 I'm pretty sure Yokohama Twilight is fairly hard to find these days.  I ordered mine from Doll Up Nails, which is also where I got all my glitterbomb Estessimo TiNS from.

 At first I wasn't feeling this combo for some reason.  It felt dated and grandmother-ish to me!  Then, I really grew to love it and was very sad to see it go.

 I'm trying to capture the pink shift in the horribly awkward photo above.  It's more easily seen in real life.  Gosh, my fingers look mutant!

 I ended up cracking it after a day (or was it two?).  I used 2012 Prayer, which I got at a local Walgreens.  I've only seen those Crackles at a few Walgreens - definitely not all of them.  They have a ton of great colors that all seem to have Christian themed names.

Prayer cracked really well and applied very easily.  I love that shade of purple!

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Here I started with two coats of Zoya Envy.  

 I added one, that's right, just one, coat of Lynnderella's She Lived in a Swamp.

 I used a coat of Lynnderella's Glitter Tamer after, followed by two coats of Poshe.

 This one is quite the oddity in my experience because it has pieces of bar-like glitter that are actually curly.  They have a curve to them!  It made the application a little tricky and is also why I needed three coats of something afterword so I didn't feel the little curved bits sticking out.

 Well worth any difficulty, though!  I do love this and have already received numerous compliments and inquiries as to what is on my nails.

 They are quite thick looking, although glassy smooth.  I don't enjoy the thick look personally, but I'm learning to deal with it.  :)

If you don't know anything about Lynnderella's polish, please feel free to check out her blog here.  She is a very talented person who occasionally sells her polish to normally less talented people like myself!  The only downside is that you can't just buy her polish whenever you feel like it (that I know of) - she has to be in production with it and you'd be best to stalk her blog for more info.

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I'm being a big nerd here, but it's nearly time for True Blood! Of course, I am wearing Zoya Sooki.

Sooki pretty much blew me away. It applied perfectly and was opaque in just one coat! I did go ahead and do a second coat, though, just to be sure. On me, it's a neutral-leaning-warm classic bright red creme.

I was kind of scared to wear it on its own, so I added a layer of KleanColor V.I.P., which seemed fitting.

I have to say, I love these pictures very much, but actually wearing it in real life, it's kind of freaking me out. I just don't think I like red on my long-ish nails.

V.I.P. reminds me of Revlon Slipper. Remember that one?

So who else is wearing Sooki right now? 'Fess up! :)

Let's hope it's a great first show for season four!

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Faye sounds kind of like a Granny name to me. If your name is Faye and you are not a Granny I will go ahead and apologize for my generalization.

This is three coats of Zoya Faye.

I really love this polish.

It's so sparkly and shiny and just unbelievably beautiful.

Application was great although my wear wasn't the best ever. I don't think Zoyas ever give me really great wear. They're not officially crappy on me, just, I wish they were better. Maybe I need to find the magical combination of the right base and top for me, for this particular brand.

In any case, I love Zoya's great colors! They continue to please me with new and pretty colors that I want.

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Here is Zoya Marley. I only needed two coats.

It was a bit tricky applying - thick and almost streaky. I do like how it turned out, though, and feel the trouble was worth it!

It reminds me of Easter eggs and Jordan almonds.

It's also surprisingly neutral. When I was wearing all black and gray today, it looked like a soft silvery gray.

I know I said I was going to use Poshe with my Zoyas in the future...but I did not. ;) I used Seche Vite again, here. Let me explain!! The texture was looking problematic and I feel that SV is the only quick drying top coat I have that actually really addresses and even corrects such issues (lumps and bubbles, for example). AND...I had no problems this time. *knock on wood*

What can I say? I do what I want.

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