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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 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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 I recently ordered some of Pam's Girly Bits polishes from here.

 Stormy Skies is the first of hers that I have used.  I only needed two coats and it applied very easily.  It also dried quite fast.  I used two coats of top coat because those adorable little micro glitters are kind of bumpy.

 The base of the polish is a squishy yummy blue-gray jelly.  I picked this polish yesterday morning because it was indeed a stormy, gloomy, ucky day.  I felt so proud of myself for matching my polish to the weather!!  :)

I honestly didn't expect to love this so much.  I wasn't even sure I was going to order it.  I am super happy I did, though!  I really, really love it.  You hit it out of the park, Pam!

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 Webinarmy wore for an awesome four days for me, just so y'all know!  I decided it was time for another Lynnderella mani next, so that is what you see here.

 I began with two coats of Misa Working Hard or Hardly Working, a really pretty slightly blue-toned light gray.

 I added two coats of Mysterious Ways, followed by Glitter Tamer, Barielle Manicure Extender, and Seche Vite.  My favorite "piece" of this mani is the diamond you see on my thumb above!

In this last picture you can really see the cool iridescent blue shimmer in Mysterious Ways!

Sadly, I did have a few large and obnoxious bubbles (only on my left hand, though).  You can see them in the first few pictures if you didn't catch them already.  It wasn't so much noticeable in real life, though, so no big deal.  Also, I was lazy and didn't wrap my tips with Mysterious Ways, which I totally should have, because you can see how it kind of shrank back at the tips.

I absolutely loved this gorgeous and glittery periwinkle mani!  I only wish it had stayed on me better.  In less than 24 hours I found myself easily peeling it off in huge pieces.  :/  Ruh roh.

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 This is two coats of Laura Mercier Twilight.

 It applied really nicely and I didn't have any problems with the brush, despite it being in the clunky square cap.

 This color reminds me of Chanel Paradoxal (I haven't even worn mine yet!) and also Zoya Neeka (another untried!).  Edit:  link to my later comparison post.

 These sunny pictures really wash out the color and bring out the smoky gray tones more.

 It actually looks even more shimmery in person!

I really like this color and am glad that I went to the trouble to hunt it down.

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 There are four new $OPI "Jewelry" glitter top coats.  Here are some bottle pictures first.

 I was so excited about I Found a Pot of Gold!  Something about those diamonds.

 Here are the swatches, shown over black and with top coat over everything.

 I used one coat of the glitters for each nail.  The coat used on my pinky was pretty thick.

 Indi-go With the Flow (middle finger) is more purple and less blue than in these pictures (you can see how it looks more purple in the bottle shot from above).

And, it should be said that I was a little disappointed by I Found a Pot of Gold! because when I put the coat on my nail no diamonds appeared!  I had to fish one out and I plopped it on just for representation!

 Diamonds are fun.  I wish they had put more in it.

Overall, I think these are pretty fun and I definitely do like them.  I really love how To the Glitter End! turned out.

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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 Dior's limited edition Silver Lake polish.

 I honestly only needed two coats, but did the third because I was feeling worried about one potential bald spot on a pinky nail.

 Silver Lake has really great multi-colored shimmer buried in it, not unlike Chanel's Graphite.  It's pretty hard to see in my pictures, though, and also in real life (you can see it a bit in the bottle below).  I like knowing that it's there, though!  Graphite is more golden toned, in case you were wondering.  I'm going to try and do a comparison before I change this mani.

 I kind of hate Dior's newer big, bushy, uneven brush.  It does work freakishly well on my ring fingers, though, which have more of a curve along the cuticle.

I like how it's kind of salt and peppered looking!  As far as I know, you can only get this one through Dior's website here.

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