I won’t lie to you. This manicure was a complete mistake. I’d painted my nails earlier in the week with OPI The World Is Not Enough. I really, really love this polish. I’m a huge fan of OPI in general, but lately haven’t been spending the dollars on it. Abby gave me this polish when I was visiting over the weekend. I tried (lazily) to take an iphone pic of it, but it just doesn’t capture well. You can kind of tell in the photo of the bottle that it’s very iridescent. It has flecks of gold, pink, purple, green etc while having an undertone of taupe. It’s just freaking gorgeous.
OPI polishes usually wear pretty great (at least on me). I can go a week or longer without any chips, etc. Except, I accidentally nicked myself with a huge knife (yeah, I know. Why did I even think it was okay to USE a huge knife). I ended up gauging out part of my index finger nail. Ew, right? Aside from the pain–it messed up my pretty polish.
I planned on taking real pics of my earlier mani and just using that for this week’s nail files (if you can’t tell–the blog is suffering from neglect thanks to my revisions). But when I messed up the mani, I figured I’d try to throw something together quickly. I really wasn’t in the mood to do my nails (are you guys gasping? I know. Even I don’t want to do my nails sometimes). I have that sinful colors pinky glitter. I picked it up while browsing my collecting thinking of what I could use it with. On a whim, I threw a quick coat over one of my nails just to see how it does as a top coat and holy cow I fell in love.
So all of that to say, I didn’t mean for this to be my manicure. But the glitter camouflages the gauge in my index finger and it adds a certain rose gold quality to the existing polish!!
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pretty!! i haven't done my nails yet. it's been so cold all winter so i'm waiting for the spring to bust out my new polish 🙂
-kathy
Vodka and Soda
If you saw the current state of my nails, you would indeed be grossed out. My annual spring is here mani/pedi is coming up in a few weeks! That color isorgeous, I love duo-chrome shades! Pretty pretty!
It's very pretty! And I need you to do my nails because mine are looking ROUGH right now! P.S. I should rarely use knives either, I'm very clumsy!
Sooooooo pretty!!!
But laziness for the win, right? It works!
I like it! Any mani that can hide nail imperfections is a good one in my book.
Glitter fixes everything. It's actual science.
It's like invisible ink suddenly coming up on the page! I LOVE when a top cot majestically color-shifts something. And I've only experienced that with Sinful Colors and Philly Loves Lacquer. YAY! It's gorgeous!
I just ordered that Seche Vite…I am so excited hopefully it well help with my complete inability to sit still long enough to dry!
~Amanda~ Meet @ the Barre
I love when things work out awesome on my nails unintentionally. That looks fabulous!
Your poor finger!! Neosporin to the rescue 😉 I love this combo – definitely gives the OPI polish a "rose gold" feel!
Bailey
aka Bailey
Pretty Colors. I love that Sinful colors pink.
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I LOVE this! Seriously, I have a gift card from Christmas I might have to bust out this weekend to get those polishes and copy.
Ohhhhh!!! I likey this!! Especially that OPI color, holy smokes.
Sometimes it's the unlikely polish combos that make for the most interesting looks!
Great save!! I'd never had known that you self-stabotaged your mani (Get it? STABotaged? Oh man, I'm super funny in the morning, haha). And I hear you with the blog negligence. Last week was awesome for revisions but bad for the rest of my life. Ha! Progress was made, though, so KEEP ON GOING, girl!! It's gonna be so nice when we're done! Or, at least, it'll be nice for the three seconds before we get all hopped up on a new idea for a new MS. 😉 *writer fist bump*
Joey, I love this mani!! A unique combination that turned out awesome!! I'm a huge fan of OPI too. I can't wait to find the peel off base coat for glitters, and the top coats that are just a wash of color. Yay!