Red-Y and Willing swatch

I won my first ever give away! The autumn nights collection from china glaze. First swatch is Red-Y and Willing. Probably my favorite from the set.

Found the battery to my camera! Yay! Comparison request.

Finally found the battery to my camera! YAY!

So I had a request to compare to sinful color shades that upon first looking are a LOT alike but after further inspection....

Well they're similar, that's for sure. But they're not the exact match my friend thought they might be. I still think they're both pretty. :)

Sinful Colors: Sinfulshine SLICK

I have a terrible time getting any purple polish to photograph right with my camera. I spent about 20 minutes playing with the setting, and finally found a combination of settings that almost capture the truly bright purple that this polish is. As a result my skin looks real yellow lol. I also learned that in this process, the display picture on my camera might have a blue tint, but when the pictures are uploaded, they're actually purple. Anyhow...Here's Sinfulshine's Slick. I love this color! Accent nail is a no name glitter topper I found at Dots.
If you go over to Jen's Wonderland she has much better swatch photos HERE. It's cloudy and rainy outside today, maybe my pictures would have been better outside, lol.


These 2 pics are what it looked like during setting checks. Still a pretty color (i think) but not true to the polish.

Here's the rest, think I figured it out. I tried taking a few pics with flash to get the brightness of this color, but no matter what setting I tried it looked blue through the lens. :(

Oh Brother... My custom present polish from the lovely Lynda...

As most of you have realized, I am in the review group/council for Creations By Lynda LLC. She was generous enough to give us presents! Our own custom polishes! I spent days trying to figure out what I wanted. Including possible dupes for the Forces Trio by Emily De Molly that I never got :(.
Then on September 30th, my older brother unexpectedly passed away. After that it was pretty easy for me to decide what I wanted. A custom polish, inspired by him. He loved basketball, the UK Wildcats specifically. Their colors, blue and white.
So, I contacted Lynda with my ideas, and she with her polish mastery brought it to life. I called it "Oh Brother".
White frost polish with every blue/holographic circle/dot glitter she had, and a few black dots. I love it! I took a LOT of pictures attempting to catch all the prettiness. I think it gives a glimpse of his personality and love.
As with all of Lynda's creations, application was flawless. The glitters sank a bit but that's to be expected. Sit it upside down for a few minutes, and BAM! Glitter loveliness! 

My Big Bro, Chris. RIP Brother, I love you.

Be sure to check out Lynda's pages, FACEBOOK or her shop's page, HERE. She does custom polishes! You could get your own! :)

Messy Vampire Bite

The title pretty much describes what I was going for :) 2 coats of My Vampire is Buff, and some red and black. :) I broke 3 nails this morning in rapid succession, so I filed the rest of them down too. I'm thinking maybe I should just keep them short-ish. Anytime my nails get any real length to them they start breaking, or peeling. Or like today, both...

Robin Moses is my hero

I have watched so many tutorials by Robin Moses and I am amazed every time. She just does the most amazing stuff. She has inspired several of my manis, most of which I never post. I don't like using other people's ideas...not too often anyway :) But here is my latest mani, thanks to THIS. Now my version isn't as wonderfully detailed as hers, but I did try. :) Again, I don't use acrylic paints, so it was all done with random polishes in the colors I needed.

Dungeon Walls

AHHH! Halloween is almost here! YAY! I started this with 2 coats of OPI's Don't Pretzel My Buttons, and then sponged on some red/brown polish, mixed a dark red and black to create the color for the bloody scratches on the wall, and black polish and made something that's supposed to look like chains lol I think if I do this again, I'm going to try to make the "wall" brick....didn't clean up after...oops lol