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Heartbreaker...You Got the Best of Me

Although I love painting my nails, it usually takes a super long time. I'm really indecisive or get great ideas in my head that do not translate well into real life. I also struggle coming up with titles for my posts. Some days, I spend more time naming it than I do typing the words! (this is sad, I know). However, today, thanks to Mariah Carey and her catchy 1999 hit "Heartbreaker", I had a little help naming this one :)

For my weekend mani, I decided to use one of the lovely colors from the Color Club Poptastic collection. I layered on 2 coats of Twiggie. (I used Twiggie before in my Green with Envy post.) I wanted to add something else to this so I put a layer of Hard Candy - Break Up. The end result was a bit too flashy for me so I finished off the mani with a matte top coat (also from Hard Candy).
Outside in the shade

Sunlight

Sunlight

I hope you enjoyed the link to Mariah's music video. I only hope it gets stuck in your head as well today so I'm not the only one out there singing out a hit from 1999 :)

Have a great weekend!
~ Nailed by Ericka ~
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Fly Away Blue

So for today's manicure I wanted to play with the matte top coat again.  The way that I came up with this one was by accident.  When I get ready to paint my nails I generally test out all the colors on a piece of paper.  I know that the colors are not going to be completely color accurate, but I still like to see the color combinations before painting my nails.  So last weekend when I was trying to come up with the nail design for my mom's nails, I tested out my new polish from Sinful Colors-Fly Away.  It looked beautiful on the paper, so I added a little bit of Nubar- 2010 and the effect that it had was just too good to pass up.

I started with 2 coats of Fly Away.  The formula was good and it would have been fine with one coat, but I did 2 for good measure.  I took photos of the color alone, but due to the lack of a/c in the apartment and my inability to clean up my nails well, I'm too embarrassed to even post them.  Next, I added one coat of Nubar 2010 (I truly love this polish....LOVE!).  To really bring out the flaky goodness I added a coat of Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love.
This photo shows the color of Fly Away the best.  This was taken inside with the flash.

The rainbow flakes are just so pretty.  I had a hard time not staring at my nails all day.
So here is a little funny story.  So did my nails last night, but didn't realize until I got to work this morning that I hadn't added the matte top coat to my middle finger on my right hand.  I just couldn't believe that I had completely missed a nail.  Thankfully I spend most of my day sitting in my office...alone, so there wasn't even anyone to notice.

~Nailed by Brittany~
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Britney & Nicki

So on Tuesday, Jen and I went to the Britney Spears/Nicki Minaj Concert!  Yay!  It was amazing :)  Here are a few pics:
Nicki :)

Britney!
So of course, Jen and I had beautiful nails for the show. For Jen, she used a base coat of Wet n Wild Silvivor and stamped it with ORLY Passion Fruit using plate m78.  I love the silver with bright pink on top.

A little zebra & cheetah print mixture....love!

For my nails, I used Jen's China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy.  This is a bright pinkish orange color.  I was painting my nails inside around 6-7 p.m. and it didn't look that bright, but as soon as we stepped outside it became 20x brighter.  Regardless, it was pretty in artificial and natural light. I added Ultra Pro Opal Elegance to the top for a touch of glitter.  I loved this look.  However, working in a more professional setting, I decided to add the Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love top coat.  Unfortunately, I was unable to get a clear picture of it.  However, the really cool thing about this nail polish was that in the black lights at the concert it GLOWED!  It was so pretty!
 
~Nailed by Jen & Brittany~
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Matte-ly Busted on Park Ave.

So I just couldn't wait to try out the new matte top coat that I picked up yesterday.  Last night I decided to try out three of the new polishes that I accidentally purchased yesterday :)  I started with 2 coats of NYC- Park Ave. This is lovely taupey, putty color.  I really liked the color alone, but I keep getting bubbles on my nails.  I think its due to the climate conditions in  my apartment. 
Taken inside with flash
After letting that dry (while as much as it would because our apartment doesn't have central air, and our little wall unit can only do so much) I applied 1 layer of Pure Ice-Busted.  This polish looks purple in the bottle with a duochrome shimmer (greenish-pinkish).  Its really pretty looking in the bottle, and equally pretty on the nail.  I was a little surprised by how sheer it was, but it made it great for layering.  Here is a picture of it over top of Park Ave.
I really struggled to get a picture of this polish and all of its glory.  This was also late last night, taken in my kitchen with a flash.  I tried a couple of pictures, but none were truly successful.  I figured that this picture did give a sense of the shimmer and multi-colorfulness. 

To complete the look, I topped it off with a coat of Hard Candy-Matte-Ly In Love.  I really liked the way that it came out.  While working today, I just keep staring at my nails.  It was fun to watch the different colors come out depending on the light and way I was moving my hands.  There is a beautiful purplish-pink shimmer color that shows up, but I just couldn't get a good picture of it.  I'm adding a few photos to show off this manicure, but nothing truly did it justice.
Probably the best photo to give you the true effect of the matte and duochrome.  This is taken with natural light on my windowsill.

Taken in the shade outside.  You can see the duochrome effect.

Direct sunlight.  It has a silver shimmery look here.
Overall, I really loved this and will hopefully wear it again, but considering I just bought lots of other equally pretty polishes, I will play fair and try out another new one tonight :)

~Nailed by Brittany~
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So I may have gone a little overboard...Oops!

So I'm all alone this week.  Ericka and Jen have chosen the hottest week of 2011to go camping.  I'm kinda glad that I'm not roughing it right now.  But the bad thing about them camping, is that leaves me with time to buy things, and by things I mean nail polish.  And that's exactly what I did tonight. 

I hadn't planned on getting a lot.  I really just wanted to go checkout the new Big Lots that just opened by us.  They ended up having a set of 5 E.L.F polishes, so I had to get those!  And there were also some multiple nail art paints, and since we currently only own 1, I thought 'Why not?'  So I ended up getting 9 bottles in total :)
L to R: Purple Pleaser, Mango Madness, Blue Mist, Fuchsia, & Lilac


While at Big Lots, I was thinking about how much I would like to find a matte top coat.  So I decided that I would head to Walmart, just to see if there were any there.  Thankfully there was a Hard Candy Matte Top Coat.  But I also found some other goodies :)  After almost falling not once, but two times in the store (Do you ever slip all over when wearing flip flops on shiny floors?  Well I do!) I ended up getting 2 NYC polishes, 2 Petites, and 1 Pure Ice.
Empire State Blue & Park Ave
Mystical & Black Diamond (so excited for this black holo)
Matte-ly In Love & Busted

I also decided that I just couldn't wait to see how they all look, so I decided to just paint all of my fingers. I didn't remove my old polish first, so I'm sure they will look a little different once they are on a naked nail, but I'm definitely excited for quite a few of these! I took photos, but they did not look pretty at all, and I just can't do that to your eyes.  But here is a picture of all the new goodies!
Sorry for posting this so late, but I'm working on the next post.  And I'm excited :)

~Nailed by Brittany~
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