Matte-ly Busted on Park Ave.

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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~

So I may have gone a little overboard...Oops!

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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~