♥ NYC Skittles - west Village *NEW* Pier 17 and Skin Tight Denim ♥

L to R - NYC West Village, NYC Pier 17, NYC Skin Tight Denim, NYC Pier 17

West Village and Skin Tight Denim are 2 coats with 1 coat of T.C.

Pier 17 is 3 coats with 1 coat of T.C.

Here is a quick skittles I did using 3 of N.Y.C.'s rich beautiful blue polish's that are currently available in North America. The new NYC polish Pier 17 is the lightest of the bunch. This is 3 coats on my thumb, middle and pinky finger. It applied perfectly and dried just like all NYC polish's = fast. It is a bright glowey blue. I love love love it!

I have modeled West Village and Skin Tight Denim ... (this is HOT too! ) before. I have been very happy with NYC polish's and plan to own each one... even the boring bland colours. They apply well and dry fast. They are available in Canada at walmart, Superstore ( Loblaws. Fortinos.... whatever it's called in your Provence ) and other department stores ( not shoppers drug mart and other drug stores though... for some bizarre reason ). They are priced at $1.87 at walmart and vary in price at different stores. They are only 9.9 ml.... which is a big difference with most other polish brands being 12 to 15 ml.

most of my photos are under cloudy skies.....I am doing a full mani with NYC Pier 17 - but wanted to get swatches up with comparisons as soon as I could.

 L to R West Village, Pier 17, Skin Tight Denim

 L to R West Village, Pier 17, Skin Tight Denim

 L to R West Village, Pier 17, Skin Tight Denim

NO Top Coat!!!! Clock wise - Pier 17, west Village, Pier 17, Skin Tight Denim, Pier 17

with top coat & Flash = Clock wise - Pier 17, West Village, Pier 17, Skin Tight Denim, Pier 17

also; I'm not sure if I ever posted these. I found these at one of my favorite stores which has since closed down. I am not sure how old these are But I think they are awesome! Those are water decals and those artificial nails are sooooo curved!.

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♥ Nail Fetish 'Grape Going' & Nail Fetish Skittles ♥

 4 thin coats of Nail Fetish Grape Going and 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat.

Frosts with glitter in them go together like nuts and gum - WHY????? Why do NP companies do this? The base colour on this is extremely pretty, so its forgivable. Who thought that frosty-ness plus glitter would work well together?...... there are too many competing elements that sorta diminish the beauty of these three things and each is beautiful on their own..... just not together. The base colour, though - wow! I would love to have a 'real' polish just like it; minus the frost and glitter of course.

I did a skittles of all 5 Nail Fetish polish's I found at 'A Buck Or Two' dollar store in my town. I remember these when they were readily available in stores ( Shoppers Drug Mart ) they also had quite an assortment of coloured false nails in cool shades like vampy purples and hunter greens.....

Indoor fluorescent

Indoor fluorescent

Shade with Flash

Indoor fluorescent

Shade

Sun

Shade with Flash

L to R - Grape Going, Lizard, Gravy Train, Gothic

L to R - Gothic, Gravy Train, Lizard, Grape Going

Thumb is Crush a sparse holo glitter, layered over Lizard

L to R - Gothic, Gravy Train, Lizard, Grape Going, Crush

Cloud cover

Sunshine

Sade with Flash

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♥ Layering with S.H. 'Blackberry' ♥

Just for fun here is some layering skittles, I started with a base of Sally Hansen Blackberry - 2 coats with no T.C. then layered various polish's.

THUMB- just Sally Hansen 'Black Berry' 2 coats

INDEX- Billie 'Hot to Trot'

MIDDLE- Billie 'Electric Blue'

RING- Wet n' Wild 'Sparkling Diamond'

PINKY- Indulge 'Red Flakie' ( would not dry!!!!)

and then finished off with a coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat. The Indulge polish on my pinky nail would not dry- but in this red jelly polish is really neat blue iridescent flecks..

 'Hot to Trot' & 'Electric Blue'

'Hot to Trot'

'Electric Blue'

Below- Sally Hansen 'Black Berry' 2 coats

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♥ Fingr's "Red" Layered over black & white ♥

I love these types of reds, ones that are just sheer enough that when layered they create a beautiful deep red. I had recently seen this on Strych's blog 'Pretty in Dayton' and had to copy immediately. I usually wear my red's like this anyways, but thought it would be fun to do a comparison/ tutorial.

As you can see in the photos above and below, the black base makes a huge difference with this polish, while the white brightens it up just a tad. Hope my pic's are self explanatory, but;

PINKY- 2 coats fing'rs 'Red'

RING- 2  coats white - 2 coats fing'rs 'Red'

MIDDLE- 2 coats fing'rs 'Red'

INDEX- 2  coats black - 2 coats fing'rs 'Red'

THUMB- 2 coats fing'rs 'Red'

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♥ Dollar tree skittles ♥

I found these cute mini polish at The Dollar Tree in Grand Forks USA in summer... they are very nice colors - but the polish is very, very strong smelling. One of the has some weird coagulation at the bottom of the bottle which did not transfer onto the nail. The polish on my middle nail stained my false nail badly. 

anyhoo heres a bunch of pics.

THUMB, INDEX, MIDDLE, RING, PINKY

EWWWWE wtf?

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♥ SKITTLES - Sally Hansen & Pure Ice layering ♥

( oops I totally though I posted this along time ago! )

Just a quickie layering skittles. I picked up this beautiful Sally Hansen New Lengths 'Soft Satin' at  another bargain store in my town. This is sooooooo beautiful over black, I have this on my list for a future mani as soon as I can!!!!  I already did a full mani with Sally Hansen "Iris Opal", and Pure Ice 'Oh Baby' is a polish that I have used before as well HERE.  I know I have alot of dark purple polish's in my collection, but there is something soooo beautiful about these multi-chromes, duo-chromes and shimmery polish's over black that is absolutely mesmerizing. I used 1 coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong top coat for each nail.

 

 'Iris Opal' over Black & Billie 'French Buff'

Sally Hansen 'Soft Satin' over Black & Billie 'French Buff'

 pinky & ring S.H. Soft Satin, Mid & Index 'Iris Opal', thumb Pure Ice 'Oh Baby'

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♥ Nat Robbins Nail Polish Goodies ♥

 

Woo Hoo - Bargain store goodies - These are apparently some long discontinued nail polish that may be coming to a discount store near you. Nat Robbins is a brand I had seen on eBay, like 2 yrs ago. I do not recall this brand in Canada at any time, Was it in the USA? I love this square bottle and found that these do not smell bad, and dry fast for a bargain brand. I found these polish at a local bargain store for $1.50 each. 

EDIT; I found these at "A Buck or Two" at the town Center in Brandon Manitoba. These types of dollar stores like "A buck or Two"  = are franchised stores and so they will purchase like 100,000 of a specific item and split them up between all their franchise-eees to send a case of whatever the item is to each store .  I saw these in a ' wants to swap list' from someone from British Columbia on Make-up Alley; and I am sure that they have "A buck or Two" dollar stores there as  well.  Do they have these types of store in Ontario? anyone know?

They must have just gotten a shipment in becuase there was like 40 of this pretty "Midnight Hour" Polish in the bin. I do not have Naturistic's "Crystal Blue Pearl" to compare this to, but form all the photos I have seen it's pretty close. Why is there so few polish's like this out there on the market?   I had found the Milani glitters released in fall-time, and the Claire's holiday LE jelly glitters way too overpriced for the quality and volume ( for the Claire's jelly-ish-glitters it was $ 18.50 CAD - Thats ridiculous!!!! )

The blue polish "Midnight Hour" is very, very, very close to Naturistic's Crystal Blue Pearl. It is a jellyish polish with the tinyest bits of silver. I think it needs 3 to 4 coats to look it's best. The green "Greed" is a lovely vibrant green with alot of shimmer. The brownish color "phantom" has a neat pinkish shimmer. Really un-expected in a chocolaty brown polish. On my Thumb & Pinky is Sally Hansen Insta Dri in "Teal Takeoff" I had to give this another try - I was really heavy handed and got some serious bubbles with this polish!

All three of these Nat Robbin's polish's were incredibly shiny on their own, but I added a coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong  to speed up drying time. I just finished putting on the T.C. and the sun went down! But- I got some outdoor photos finally - it is ridiculously cold out. Does anyone else remember seeing these polish's in the store before they were discontinued? apparently they had a whole line of cosmetics.

  

Outdoors 3 coats with 1 coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat

 

@ 2 coats no T.C.  = pre clean-up

BOTTLE SHOTS indoors under florescent lighting 

 

 

Nat Robbins #111 Phantom

 

Nat Robbins #134 Midnight Hour 

 

Nat Robbins #136 Greed

 

3 coats outdoors with T.C.

 

3 coats outdoors with T.C.

 

@1 coat

  

@ 2 coats - pre clean-up = no  T.C. 

 

@ 3 coats with Top Coat 

 

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