OPI Tickle My France-y

I have discovered a love for neutral polishes.  I still love my reds and blacks and sparkles, but sometimes I just want something different.  Here I have OPI's Tickle My France-y.  It's a kind of taupey pink or lavender color, depending on what light you are in.  It's a cream, and I do love cream polishes.  Unfortunately, I have some ridges and depressions in my nails, particularly at the sides.  I need a good ridge-filling base coat.  Anyone have any suggestions?  I have Zoya's, but I'm not really happy with it.  I also need to pick up some orange sticks.  I need to start cleaning as I go - I still get polish on my cuticles!

This was taken with a flash indoors.  All pictures are 3 coats of Tickle My France-y with kbShimmer's Basic Training base coat and Clearly on Top top coat.  Love this stuff!

This one was outside, but there was no sun.

 I really love this color polish and I can't wait to try more of the neutrals in my stash.

OPI Liquid Sand

I love OPI polish.  I've been trying a lot of indies lately, but I always go back to OPI.  I never have any trouble with application, it wears well, I love their brush and they have a zillion colors.  The other day at Ulta I picked up Stay The Night (Because it is black and I was intrigued by the finish).  ANd I have to say, I love it.

My pictures aren't the greatest, but it reminds me of gravel, with sparkly bits.  The first coat was patchy, but it evened out nicely with two more coats.  I was kind of leary of no top coat, it just seemed wrong to me, but I went with it.  I had some tipwear after the first day, so I added another coat and sealed my nail edges this time and this stuff wears like iron.  I've had no chips or anything.  I wonder how hard it will be to get off.

You can see the sparkles better in these pictures.  this is a base coat and four coats of the polish.  I did use drying drops on it and it did not seem to affect the matte finish or the sparkles in any way.

Now I want the other colors. :)

Random Nails

I found some old pictures I took back when my nails were long and lovely and not short little stubs like they are now.  I can't wait for them to grow out - when they are this short I get tipware almost immediately and it's very noticeable in the pictures and I hate it.

Here is the manicure I did yesterday, and yes, I already have tipware.  Blah!  But the color is pretty, not exactly what I was expecting but still nice.  This is Zoya Meadow - 3 coats with a topcoat of Seche Vite:

 

 

It looks more pink in the picture than it does on my nails.  But it does have nice gold shimmer, applied nicely and dried quickly.  I really didn't need three coats, but I seem to be a 3 coat girl.

 

 



Next up is an older photo.  Here i used OPI's Jade is the New Black with a topcoat of Nubar's White Polka Dot.  I loved how this turned out:

 

 

 

This one I managed to turn the bottle right side up:

 

 

 

 

The last one is OPI's I'm not really a waitress.  This is one of my favorite reds ever:

 

 

 

 

 

There's my nail spam for the day.  Have a good one!