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Way Out Fuscia

So last week I picked up a new nail polish that I had never heard of at our local Rite Aid.  I thought they were having a sale on nail polishes, but of course I was wrong and the sale was the week prior.  But that didn't stop me from picking a few goodies :)  To continue with the Breast Cancer Awareness, I wanted to get a new and exciting pink.  I saw this polish and I knew that I had a winner.

The polish is called Hedy's ma.nish.ma holographic nail color.  It bit of a mouthful.  The color is called Way Out Fuscia.  Now don't get to excited because this polish isn't really holographic but its more of a duochrome.  Either way, its very pretty.  The polish itself is extremely sheer so instead of doing millions of layers I decided that I would just do 2 coats over Petites Pink Aura.  Sadly, I didn't get any pictures of the base color alone, but its a very pretty coral-ish pink color. 

Unfortunately, the weather last week was awful and I was forced to take pictures inside, and lets just say that the lighting in our apartment leaves something to be desired.  So I ended up taking close to 20 photos and none of them are amazing, but they are what I have and I do want to share it with you.
These were taken in our bathroom.  Its about the best place for light in the apartment.  This was with the flash.

This color is very pretty and I actually liked it better not in direct light.

Trying to show you that there is some orange and purple in there :)

This one shows the purple color the best.  Sorry its blurry.
Has anyone ever heard of this nail polish?  There were a few other colors at the store, purple, silver, and either green or blue (I can't remember right now.)  Also, sorry for being MIA for the past couple of days.  It seems like all weekends are crazy busy anymore.

Also, don't forget to enter our 25 Followers Giveaway!  It ends this Friday :)

~Nailed by Brittany~
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Heading Out of Town

So for this Labor Day weekend Ericka, Jen, and I are all heading to the remote hills of West Virginia to camp with Jen's family.  This means that we unfortunately will be without internet connection and since we have all been crazy busy this week, we were unable to setup posts for the weekend.  So please don't think that we have left you....I promise we will be back :)

The nails that I'm showing you today are from this past weekend.  I felt like I wanted to be crazy and wear really bright colors, because I feel like its not really acceptable at work.  So I did just that.  I used Ericka's new set of Poptastic Color Club polishes.  I'm being lazy and still have lots to do to get ready for our trip, so I'm not going to list the colors.  If you would like to know the names just leave a comment :)  I did 2 coats of each color, and then added Hard Candy's Matte-ly In Love.  To add an extra pop I made a dot flower with China Glaze Seduce Me and Petites Black Diamond.  Unfortunately, the matte top coat smeared the flower :(  I decided to photograph these nails with the lemon again, because my dad said that he liked it and I didn't know which bottle to pick. 
I used blue, green, yellow, pink, and purple.

Also, I'm sorry that I haven't been adding pictures from the set of the Avengers.  At the beginning of this week they were filming on the street right beside me.  I was lucky enough to see a few shoots get filmed, but sadly I was not quick enough to get video.  I promise that I will add the few pictures that I was able to take from my office next week.  Work has gotten crazy due to the extended tax deadline....yuck!  Anyways,  we all hope that everyone enjoys this holiday weekend!

~Nailed by Brittany~
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Peach's Double Lightning Bolt

So after seeing all of the amazing nail art designs at Nailside I had to try one of the designs.  I chose to attempt the double lightning bolt.  I replicated the "Cute double lightning bolt".  I really loved the colors of these nails and decided that I would try to match them with my nail polishes.  I titled this post Peach's Double Lightning Bolt, because these colors remind me of Peach from Super Mario, and I think that if she had painted nails they would be done like these :)

Jen picked me up a set of the OPI Nice Stems sample polishes last Friday from her big haul, so I decided to test them out. I stated with 2 coats of OPI Play the Peonies.  This was my first time using these tiny bottles and I completely love them.  I love small, tiny products :)  I think that it may be because I'm only 5ft tall, so I believe that small things are cute. Next, I cut what seemed to be millions of pieces of tape, but in reality it was only 20 triangle and 20 strips of tape.  You need 2 triangles and 2 strips per nail.  I tried to make all the triangles similar, but I definitely didn't :)

Once the base coat dried I taped off the first bolt design and painted it using Petites Sand Dune.  This is a lovely coppery-gold color.  This polish dried super quick, which was perfect for this manicure. The second bolt color is OPI Come to Poppy.  I topped the whole thing with a coat of SV.
OPI Play the Peonies, Petities Sand Dune, & OPI Come to Poppy

Left Hand

Right Hand
So I totally love my nails!  I know that they aren't perfect and that some of the bolts are a little messed up but from a distance you can't really tell.  I think I did pretty good for it being my first attempt.  I will definitely be trying this design in the future with different color combinations.  What do you think?

Also I wanted to show you how I dressed up my nails from Tuesday.  I really loved the color from Fly Away, so I decided to add a layer of OPI Black Shatter.  I have had this polish for quite awhile and have only really used it once before, so I figured it was about time.  I also added a top coat of SV.  I was a little nervous at first about adding the shiny top coat over the matte top coat, but it turned out just fine.  I really liked the effect of the Nubar 2010 peaking out from under the crackle.
OPI Black Shatter, Sinful Colors Fly Away, Nubar 2010, Sech Vite
~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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