Blue Pirates!

  Hello peoples viewing this webpage!!  To let you know now, I do not remember which polish I used for this manicure.  It was either OPI or $OPI...  Hmm...
  But this year was my first summer working at a day camp and for Color War I was on the blue team.  So I decked myself out COMPLETELY in blue.  Ta-da!!

My blue day outfit,  sideways

Our photographer wanted me to pose with my blue nails, how ironic!

  As you can see, my ring finger here is MEGA HUGE because I had a rip which I attempted to fix with an Orly Nail Repair kit, which worked except I broke it completely later that week.  Ooh I miss my long nails :(:(:(:(:(:(:(.

Happy camping,

Em1

Wet n Wild Black Creme Etc.

  Ello guys!  As I get ready for my brothers graduation, please enjoy this random post.

  What I used was Wet n Wild Black Creme with Essie Shine of the Times and OPI Crown Me Already!  on top of it.  I wanted something... random.  So here is random!!

  So like I said, my brother's graduation from high school is tonight so I'm going to start getting ready for that in a bit (I have to play in the band).  It is outside on the football field and it is supposed to be nearly 90 degrees tonight.  It's going to be hot and sticky and blech but I'm happy for him.  I did my nails to match our school colors/my dress.

Happy graduating,

Em

Zoya Ali and Love and Beauty Pink Speckled Glitter and Pure ICE Don't You Wish

  Hello peoples!  I am sorry to photobomb you later in this post but I couldn't choose many good pictures so I just included a ton of them :P.
  While I was shopping at a random mall last weekend, I came across this at the huge Forever 21 that they have there.  Like my local one is big, but this one is like four times the size of mine.  Mega.  And in there I found THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  In real life, it looks like OPI I Lily Love You, or this if you see it.  It looks rediculously close to it, but the Love and Beauty one has less flakies and more iridescent glitter.  But it is still close!  I only got it because I was so angry that I missed out on the OPI one.  This was a nice, (so much) cheap(-er) alternitive.  But my bottle is THICKKKKKKK and I wish I had known that.  The brush was all wonky too but I could still deal with it.
  I didn't want to go all amazing that fast so I started out layering it over Zoya Ali, a medium-ish neon-ish pink.  A pink that I can kiiiiinda deal with.
  And as an accent nail, I put two layers of Pure ICE Don't You Wish (which is the same concept as CG Fairy Dust but not the same thing (bigger glitter in DYW, more colorful, smaller and more holo in FD)).
  So onto the pictures!

L to R: flakies, flakies, Pure ICE glitter, flakies.

There's my flakies!

Flash

Blurred

Flash

Flash, not NEARLY color accurate

To show the differene

Probably the most color accurate one but not quite right...

Too dark

  It is a solid mani.  I did this on Saturday and as of today, Wednesday, I still have it almost perfect.  Just a few chips on the edges of nails and my left pointer finger's one completely popped off.  But it LASTS!!!!

  Again, sorry to photobomb you.  Just had to do it.

  Oh, and while I was at that mall, I also picked up Icing Pre Game (this is Icing After Party but in my eyes it looks like the same thing, my bottle must have been mislabled cuz I have never seen Icing Pre Game), Icing Rockstar From Mars (to complete my Charlie Sheen collection), and Icing Birthday Beyotch (another DL similar thingy).

Happy flakie-ing,

Em

$OPI Slushied and OPI Funky Dunkey

  I went college touring along parts of the east coast with my brother during spring break, so I needed a cute, solid manicure to last me the week.  It didn't last me, but it was still cute and solid.  I used Sephora by OPI Slushied (arguably my favorite blue creme) and OPI Funky Dunkey.  I love love love them both.

  It was a pretty nice accent mani if I do say so myself.  The blue and purple looked pretty good together.

  3 coats of each, decent application.  My usual base + top coats.  Niice!

Happy accenting,

Em

OPI Swimsuit... Nailed It! and OPI Sit Under the Apple Tree

  The result of randomly choosing two polishes from my stash.

Still love this.  Gotta love this.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh...

:-/

Note to self: layer!

Double accent manicure.

  Blue = win.  Greenish-yellow = not so much.  All I can really say.  I need to do something with SUTAP or else I will hate it.  Aka like here!  P.S. original Swimsuit... Nailed It! post here! (even though it looks better here anyway)

Happy accenting,

Em

OPI It's My Year

  I am going to appologize in advance for the seemingly terrible, chipped photos.

After I matted it.

Beautiful shimmer.

I didn't really like it much though.

FREAKING SHIMMER!

Agh chips!

  Like I said, not too happy with this manicure either.  It was a nice color that I didn't really like itself.  I matted it then liked it for a while, then it was meh again.  Pictures taken in the beautiful sun of these past few weeks.  It was literally like summer weather :D.

  I got this through a giveaway and the original post can be found here!
  Have fun with the bad weather again!

Happy matting,
Em

I Love Experimenting on Mel...

  We got reaally bored reaally fast...  So this is what we came up with on our... Jenga day...
  Be ready for picture overload.  And they are out of order...

Right hand

Claire's Blacklight with Essie Shine of the Times

Sephora by OPI Slushied with Pure Ice Oh Baby!

Sephora by OPI Slushied with Revlon Blue Mosaic

Hot Topic Neon Green with Essie Shine of the Times

China Glaze Mega Bite with Funky Fingers Baby Baby Baby

Left Hand

Delia's Neon Orange and Essie Shine of the Times

(green nail) Pure Ice First Time

Claire's Blacklight with OPI Silver Shatter

Claire's Blacklight with 2012 Jesus Christ Superstar

China Glaze Mega Bite with China Glaze White Cap

Clair'es Blacklight with Revlon Blue Mosaic

  So basically, it was a sans cleanup layering fest.  I just wanted to try random things out.  She actually hated the Blacklight/Jesus Christ Superstar combo so much that she removed it and put some other neon on instead.

  Hope you like the randomness!

Happy randoming,

Em