NOTD: There are Pink Sparkles in my Ocean

I got these two colors last week and knew I needed to try them out together asap. Today I got the chance and I am so wowed by this combo. This is 2-3 coats China Glaze Shower Together with 1 coat CND/Creative Raspberry Sparkle. Shower Together photographs very blue so the color is a little off, its a bit more of a darker teal but still gorgeous.

NOTD: China Glaze Meteor Shower

I got this last night along with a bunch of other gorgeous colors that you'll see here soon enough. I had heard that China Glaze's Meteor Shower was hard to apply so I added some of Sally Beauty's np thinner before using it and it went on quite well. The first coat was a little blotchy but the second made it totally opaque and that was all I needed. Meteor Shower is a dark blue-black with blue, green, and orange glitter. It does dry quite bumpy, even with 2 top coats, but I think that goes with the character and name of the polish.

NOTD: Solar Lava

I dug out some of my older polishes and found Revlon's Solar, which I got a few years ago at the Dollar Tree. I also got two Nfu Oh polishes from http://www.fabuloustreet.com/ and used #51 (Nfu Oh has numbers instead of names) over Solar. Nfu Oh polishes run at $12.50 which is usally way beyond what I will spend for anything cosmetic related but they have amazing flakie polishes which are hard to find in any other brand. This was a late birthday splurge for me.

Unfortunately I had quite a few problems, though some were my fault. The polish was very thick and hard to spread evenly. I added some thinner so hopefully that will help next time I use it. The green one, #56, seemed to be thinner when I opened it but I didn't swatch it yet so I'm not sure. It also did a lot of shrinking (when your polish comes away from the edges, so you can see the tips of your nails) very quickly, this is due to Seche Vite's quick dry top coat but some polishes work better with it then others. I will have to experiment some more to see if I can prevent this. I also melted it on the tip of one finger when I was cooking dinner, that was totally my fault. And finally on one nail the entire sheet of nail polish started to slip off for a reason I don't know. All in all this hasn't been a good mani day so I'm going to take it off and try something else.

this is a discontinued color

#51 (left) #56 (right)

NOTD: Teal Treasure

This mani was amazing. I use Sinful Colors Whats That and Nail Junkie (this one is at Walgreens), two coats of each. Whats That is harder to find but you could use China Glaze's Sexy In The City, Sally Hansen's Fairy Teal, or any other shimmery teal with Nail Junkie.