Sally Hansen Byte + Essie Sexy Divide

Hello everyone!  Yay, I finally have time to post!  My Thanksgiving break officially starts tomorrow, but I turned in my last assignment yesterday.  So, I get an extra day off.  Woot!

I wanted to show you another layering experiment from awhile back that I never posted - Sally Hansen Byte over Essie Sexy Divide.  Byte is a bright pink jelly base loaded with duochrome flakes that shift between pink and blue. Sexy Divide is a dark purple shimmer with some blue and red sparks here and there, but in certain light it looks like a dark plum.

This combination was so pretty and I could NOT stop staring at my nails.  They looked different in every light and I just love polishes like that.

Warning - pic heavy post ahead.  Enjoy!

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Thanks for stopping by!  See you again soon! :)

Pure Ice Meet Me In Monaco

Hello everyone!  Today I want to show you one of the new Pure Ice colors - Meet Me In Monaco. 

Meet Me In Monaco is a glitter bomb suspended in a dark, brownish-black jelly base.  There are 2 colors of glitter - champagne and dark copper.  There are large and small hexes, plus tiny squares in both colors.  The formula was somewhat thick, but easy to work with.  I needed two medium-thick coats for opacity.  Like many glitters, this one was a top coat eater and I needed 3 coats of top coat to even it all out.

I am so in love with this polish!  It's perfect for fall.

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Have you purchased any of the new Pure Ice polishes?  Which ones did you get?

Thanks for reading! :)

OPI You Only Live Twice (Skyfall Collection)

Hello everyone!  I have another polish from the OPI Skyfall collection to show you - You Only Live Twice.  This is such a pretty polish, and I love the color for this time of year.  I don't have anything like it in my collection, so I am happy I purchased it. 

You Only Live Twice is a deep magenta with tiny color-shifting flakes dispersed throughout.  They are primarily pinkish-red but in certain light they shift to gold.  The formula was great and I had complete coverage in two coats.  Shown with top coat.

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You can see the gold in this one:

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Thanks for reading! :)

OPI The Living Daylights (Skyfall Collection)

Good morning lovely readers!  I am super excited today because I found the entire OPI Skyfall collection practically untouched at my local beauty supply store.  Usually everything is picked over when I get there, but apparently they've only had the collection for a week ... !!  I think most of the collection is pretty, but I already have something similar to most of them, so I only purchased two: The Living Daylights and You Only Live Twice.

Today I want to show you The Living Daylights, a gorgeous glitter bomb consisting of silver, pale gold, copper, and teal glitters suspended in a clear base.  All of the glitters are the same size and it's densely packed in there!  I wasn't expecting it to be so dense, so I was sort of globbing in on the nail and then trying to push this huge mass of glitter around.  Next time I'll have to get less on the brush.  Yeah.

Anyway, I love this polish!  I love the color combination for fall and I feel like it could layer beautifully over a wide variety of colors.  I chose Sally Hansen Gilty Pleasure as my base. This is one coat of The Living Daylights.  Then, I matted it with NYC Matte Me Crazy.

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 What do you think of the Skyfall Collection? Which ones do you want to buy?

Thanks for reading! :)