Here is three coats of Diamond Cosmetics Moonsand.

 It's a lovely gray-silver-blue foil polish.

 It totally feels moon inspired to me!  Friday I was wearing my Dior Moonlight quint eyeshadows and felt all kinds of moon-ish.

 I'm currently on day four of this mani and despite a little tip wear and two small chips, it's holding up pretty well!

Later this afternoon I'm going to change the toes and tips, though.  The toes need it so very badly!  I hope everyone is having a good Sunday.

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I've been having a little bit of trouble with my Glitter Gal holos. They don't seem to enjoy being worn alone, at least on me. I find that they are a thick and like to bubble. Solution? Matching underwear!

Above is two supremely easy coats of OPI Swimsuit, Nailed It! It's the perfect underwear for Glitter Gal Marine Blue holo.

I used a coat of Seche Vite over Swimsuit, Nailed It! Then, I painted on a coat of Marine Blue.

I was very pleased with the results! Also, it wore extremely well on me.

Swimsuit, Nailed It! is an absolutely gorgeous color on its own, I have to say. It glows from within and is such a looker! Sadly, it does stain the nails and skin, so you'd want to use a good base coat and be particular about your removal method.

I'm not ruling out any future Glitter Gal purchases, but for now, I much prefer the formula of Ozotic holos.

If you've missed me over the past couple of weeks, thanks! I've missed you, too! I was busy taking a much needed vacation and also turning *gulp* the big 3-Oh. Yup. Can't believe it's true.

From my adventures I can say that Sanibel Island and Siesta Key are fabulous and gorgeous! I just love the Gulf of Mexico. Also, I really enjoyed getting to go to Discovery Cove yesterday. It's a really fun place filled with lots of beautiful animals and fish.

The nails have been taking quite a beating with all the sun, sand, salt water, and chlorine, but they are looking well now with a little filing and a fresh coat of Poshe. I've been wearing Sephora nail patches for the past six days (the cute new metallic leopard ones). They are holding out pretty well, I have to say!

Over my birthday, I wore Del Sol Trick or Treat polish that glitters and changes from orange to black. I didn't take any pictures of it...but it's such a cool polish! I'll have to swatch it for pictures and/or just wear it again soon. :)

That's all for now! I'll be back to regular posts. I hope you are all doing well!

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This is one of the snowman polishes my friend got for me. It's a blue foil. I love it! I started with two coats.

Next, I added a coat of Anise Electric Attraction. I found Anise polish at Whole Foods Market recently. It appears to be a local brand, out of Miami. They have a few really pretty glitters with teeny tiny multi-colored glitter.

Check it out! So hawt! I wish I had more pictures for you, but I think you get the idea.

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Well, folks, I survived a fairly uneventful New Year's Eve at my house, doing mostly nothing. :) Oh - I did do MY NAILS. Here they are!

It's two coats of OPI DS Radiance (basic silver foil) with two coats of Milani Jewel FX Silver. I got the Milani off Cherry Culture. I haven't seen it anywhere in person.

I've seen some others do a similar variation with the gold glitter version and it has looked way more smooth and perfect and amazing. I ask myself why?

I think they must have used a toothpick to place some of the glitter pieces, because mine certainly didn't want to smoothly, evenly, perfectly coat the nail.

In any case, for a lazy application with no tricks or fuss, it still looks pretty sweet! When I look down at it, it kind of reminds me of a hammered metal effect. Very cool!

I used two top coats over it all and it's actually not too bumpy feeling. It's by no means glass smooth, but it's smoother than you'd think by just looking at it.

I'm starting to think I might need another short break from glitter after this one. ;)

I hope you all have a good day and aren't too messed up from last night. :)

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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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Time for a silver blinged out look! I started with two coats of China Glaze Cheers to You, from their Holiday collection. It's a standard silver chrome finish. It applied well.

I added a coat of Anna Sui 082, which is a clear base filled with silver chunky holographic glitter

Rose-scented silver blingtasticness!

I love glitters on top of metals, but I also find that they look odd or "off" somehow.

I wore this mani to my family's early Thanksgiving dinner that we had the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

My Mom was kind enough to have an early Thanksgiving dinner/get-together for us because she and my father were headed off to Tennessee to be with other family and my brother and sister-in-law, who also live in town here, were going to be going off to Michigan to be with other family.

That left Sid and I alone for actual Thanksgiving. Needless to say, our before Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was fabulous and delicious!!

I was thinking my manicure might blind or otherwise catch someone's attention at dinner, but alas, it did not!

Maybe everyone was busy thinking about how yummy the food was.

I do love a good silver polish, and Cheers to You is no exception.

The Anna Sui glitter is terrific as well. It has a big brush that makes it applying very easy. I say that, and I am not a fan of all big brushes. With this one, it works well.

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This mani turned out pretty strange, texturally! I still like it.

I started with two coats of OPI DS Radiance, a flawless silver foil.

Next, I added a coat of Nicole by OPI Such a Go-Glitter.

I got that one at Target and even though it's not opaque on its own (at least, it wouldn't be very easily), I still love it! It has blue, black, and holographic glitter bits.

It was hard to tell from the bottle exactly what to expect.

I think foils are probably more fun on their own or stamped, but this was a fun little deviation for me.

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First off, let me say that I'm going to do my very best to keep my camera lens cleaned from now on. Hopefully you will never have to suffer through a string of smudgy posts again!

Secondly, I'd like to thank my followers for being awesome and supportive. Never, in my wildest dreams, could I have imagined that over 200 people would choose to read my little blog. It blows my mind and humbles me, very much. Thank you.

I just read a post on another blog, Bright Lights, Big Color, which got me thinking about several recent comments on my blog. I don't want anyone to follow my blog unless they want to. Don't follow unless you enjoy my pictures, reviews, small talk, etc. Ya know? It's pretty simple.

While I appreciate that it can be hard to get followers and that at times as a baby blogger (which I absolutely and completely still consider myself to be) you can feel like you need a gazillion followers to be cool, respected, or important, I also think you need to just relax and let things happen as they will. That's my attitude about it, at any rate. I do enjoy seeing other great blogs, although I don't spend a whole lot of time reading/viewing other nail blogs - not nearly as much time as I used to before I started my own!

All of that being said, I want you all to feel free to comment as you wish. I read all the comments and enjoy your shared thoughts and feelings. If you don't feel like sharing, that's fine, too. I don't comment on other peoples' blogs very much but still enjoy looking at them when I can. I would prefer if you not ask me to check out your blog, or leave a link, or tell me that you'll follow me if I follow you. It just makes me uncomfortable and I don't want this to be the direction for my blog to go in. I'm not trying to be snobby or pretentious or anything else annoying...I just wanted to share my thoughts on the matter. I most certainly reserve the right to change my thoughts on this at any point in time, but for now, this is where I'm at.

The manicure, my gosh, was two coats of NYX Girls Sunday Afternoon with a coat of NYX Girls Mushroom Glitter. I of course did this one on a Sunday afternoon, being the occasional cheese-ball that I am. :) I absolutely loved it and I really can't say enough about how great NYX Girls nail polishes are. They are cheap, they always apply fantastically, they have a great color range, and the names are often interesting or quirky. LOVE! If you don't have any, and you are at all able to get some, you really should!! I buy mine from Cherry Culture.

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