Wet-n-Wild "Blue Wants to be a Millionaire"

Milani 3D Holographic in "Cyberspace"

 This is two coats of each over a layer of navy blue.

 Index and Ring: Cyberspace (definitely more opaque than the WnW)
Middle and Pinky: Blue Wants to be a Millionaire
The Wet n Wild is really thin, but more holo. Cyberspace is more blue-silver, denser but less holo.

Verdict: Not dupes
If I had to get rid of one: Brace yourselves folks, I'd probably get rid of both! What!? Shocking right? But, neither of them are as holo as I NEED them to be.

Christmas Party Mani

Emerald Sparkle with a coating of Milani Gems

Just Awesome

I loved this mani so much, I have no other words for it other than "Awesome!"

I'm going to have to do it again really soon!

The stars of the show:

a polish I picked up at Fashion bug simply called "red multi" and Milani "gems" which I actually managed to find at the 2nd CVS I went to in search of it!

That sparkly goodness at the tips, is all Gems.

After initially thinking it was hideous, I kind of wanted Happy Birthday from Lippman. One of things I didn't like about it (besides the $18 price tag) was how sparse all the cool glitter was.
Gems, looks very similar to Happy Birthday, but it's very dense glitter. It applies so well.

Bling! Bling!

"Red Multi" was also a very dense glitter. I didn't expect it to be so thick and glittery, but this "gradient" I was attempting only has 1 or 2 swipes of "red multi". I had not been in fashion bug in years, but for some reason stopped in one day. I found nail polish at the register and was almost ready to dismiss it when a little twinkle caught my eye. I picked up the last bottle of this, then set it down, then picked it up as a manicure using this and Gems started to formulate in my brain. These sell for $3.99 at Fashion Bug.

My husband chose the blue base. I couldn't decide between red, gold or blue as the bottom color. I really liked how these looked together!

And, a close-up. Winter is coming so my daylight hours have been pretty crappy and overcast for photographing.

Holo Goodness!

Milani's 3D Holographic in Cyberspace, is a really pretty silvery blue scattered holo. It's kind of flat in low light, like most holos, but pretty in the sunlight.

Of course, nothing compares to China Glaze holos!

Sexagon.

Milani - Molten Rock

I found this at CVS by accident. I wasn't even looking for nail polish - I swear!

It's metallic and teal-blue. Really gorgeous! It applies a little strangely. This was two coats. It's extremely durable, which was nice. A lot of metallics I have tried tend to be chippy.

P.S. If you were wondering, YES I broke my nails again and had to clip them down. Not so much broke, as I get these tears (?) very low on the nail on the sides. I have been trying to use Orly nail rescue which helps for a few days, but I gave up and went short, which always sucks because I am terrible at filing my nails and they end up being uneven for a few a little while. Poo.

Milani 3D Gold

I searched high and low for these for weeks. I kept hearing about people seeing them and buying them early, but they took forever to be released here. Then when I saw them in person, I wasn't all that excited. So, I bought the gold, because the only other gold holo I have is fyi and that is very subtle. Where this is a little more yellow gold. It's prettier on the nail and a little more "3D" in person than I was able to capture on film. At $4.49 a bottle for these, you're probably better off trying to locate the kaliedascopes or OMG holographic polishes from China Glaze.

Here I topped it with a layer of OPI "What's Dune" and the result was pretty cool!

I love Blues!!!

Above we have Thumb to Pinky: Zoya Yummy, Zoya Jo, Zoya Kototi, Ring finger is Sinful "What's Your Name" because with the first coat of Kotori I thought they were very similar, but as you can see after three coats, side by side, they are quite different, pinky is Kotori layered over Yummy.

Below we have from Thumb to Pinky: Nubar Peacock Feathers CC Naughtycal Navy, Lippman Devil in a BLue Dress, SH In the Navy Sinful Midnight Blue

Index finger is Color Club Naughtycal Navy, Middle finger is Lippman Collection "Devil in a Blue Dress" They are wicked close!

Thumb to Pinky: Milani Antique, Essie Sag Harbor, Essie St. Barth's Blue, SH Gunmetal, Zoya Jo

Of course the day after I swatched these I got Orly's Bombay Saphire in the mail! Now I have to compare it to Naughtycal Navy and Devil in a Blue Dress!!

Drugstore Finds

Sakky Hansen Xtreme Wear - 50% off at CVS made some nice Konad designs this color is "Flirt"

This is the one I am most excited about! NYC "Chinatown" it's a deep purple/grey color with a lot of depth and shimmer. It's on my index finger here. And there it is super-close up below. The other colors are Sinful -"What's your name" and "daddy's girl" and on pinky is Milani "Timeless".

NYC "Chinatown"

Pretty, right!?

Milani "Antique" with flash

This one was hard to capture indoors. It's a little more periwinkle than baby blue on. This is three coats. It's really gorgeous on and has a deep secret shimmer to it, barely noticable but really gorgeous!

Milani "Antique" with no flash