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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I stalked this polish for a while. I wanted it so bad! It's Orly Fowl Play.

I finally found it at an Ulta store (one far from my home) yesterday. Hooray!

Here it is at three coats. I absolutely love it. So much.

It has tiny silver glitter pieces, bigger blue glitter pieces, as well as gorgeous orange flakies.

And the base is a purple jelly! It's love. It applied perfectly.

I do have OPI Merry Midnight, but I wanted this one as well. I haven't compared them side by side myself, but I've heard that they are slightly different. I wish there were more polishes like this in other colors!!

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I started with two coats of OPI Roadhouse Blues. This was flippin' opaque and amazing in one.

These pictures here are shown without topcoat. The application and formula are perfection.

I was not expecting this polish to steal my heart, but it has!

My original plan was to put purple glitter over it...but I changed my mind.

I decided to take OPI I Lily Love You out for a spin!

Here it is at one coat over Roadhouse Blues.

I topped it with a coat of Gelous and then a coat of Nails Inc. Kensington Caviar top coat.

There were a few rogue flakies that I needed to gently convince to lay down flat, even with all that top coat goodness over.

The end result is glassy smoothness, near to perfect.

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Okay, so this was a really rad idea in my head. I'll put Rococo Gold Leaf Lacquer over Zoya Crystal! WOOOO!

Hmmm....doesn't quite look like it did in my head.

Hmmmm....gold leaves look like splattered egg yolks. Everything looks so textured!!

I did three coats of Crystal and one coat of Gold Leaf Lacquer.

I also had some bubbling from using Barielle Manicure Extender under my top coat. I keep having this problem with it, whenever I choose to use it, so I'm thinking to myself, "Self, ya might want to lay off of that one!"

In any case, it wasn't as bad as I initially thought it was. It kind of looks like an old map or a space view of planet Earth!

Weird, funky, and crazy.

Oh! And if you didn't already know this, Rococo Gold Leaf Lacquer stinks to HIGH HEAVENS!! There is nothing else comparable to the unique and pungent stench of it. Mmmmm....stinky gold leaves!!

I know I didn't get hardly any decent pictures of my last use of Gold Leaf, with Illamasqua Nudge, but it looked way awesome. Maybe it just looks better over smooth, sexy cremes?

I still want to try it over a plain black (Boosh, of course), maybe over a vampy red, dark purple creme, and maybe a navy? Ooo and a deep hunter green or like Rampage!! I have many ideas...probably should stick to the ones that I know will be amazing. :)

I also want a back-up of Gold Leaf Lacquer!! I don't want to run out.

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