NOTD: Mildly Valentine

Since im not a huge fan of Valentines I didnt do alot of Val themed nails this month, but I did do this mildly Valentine one.. and it was my NOTD up until about a hour ago... So it counts.. so heres nail spamage:

 Lovely Blurple color by OPI called Sapphire in the Snow and Essie Jamaica Me Crazy, Im in utter love with both of these colors. 

 Pardon my tip wear! doh! lol

The bluple looks soooo purple indoors and soo blue in sunlight so thats kinda fun, like 2 mani's in one.
Thats it for now,thanks for reading and have a Happy Valentines -ilectra

Autumn Cold and Halloween Nails

So what have I learned this month?? Having Jason Vorhees kill you and shove you into the lake will give you one hell of a cold, so ive been battling a monster cold but now that it's passing I wanted to share with you my nails, I have been doing halloween nails since my last post and even sick Ive been taking pics for you guys.


Today Im sharing the mani I have on right now, I'll call it Danger, Hot Lava. (All pics can be enlarged by clicking)

 I used one coat of Sally Hansen Salon, Pat on the Black and is a blackened plum. Then down the middle I stripped each nail with Hard Candy's Lava I topped it all with a quick dry top coat ans then when back over the Pat on the black with Essie matte and I finished it all off with a Halloween decal on each ring finger.

Close up of the matte/shiny and decal, the red/orange Lava looks like red foil when it catches the light over the top of this darker color.
Im really loving the Halloween season cause it's inspiring me to do more nail art rather then just plain polishing, I enjoy trying to be creative and that brings me to my final thing to share today,above I mentioned how I managed to get a cold and Im sure a few of you were like huh???
Well Im one of 3 members of a comedy troupe on youtube , we are all good friends and we do comedy silly videos for fun so one of our videos for halloween the one that gave me the lovely cold I thought I would share with you guys.. we are no pro's be we do love what we do.
Crystal Lake Water
Ok that's about all for this blog post, the cold is going and the nails are lookin cute, hope you check out and enjoy me and my friends silly video.
Thanks for reading -ilectra

Flakie Week: Cover Girl.. really??

Thursday brings us to a polish that just about all of you can get but people never really think of it as a flakie but it is indeed and it's cheap and beautiful sooo what more could ya want.. lol

It's Cover Girl's boundless polish in Pink Twinkle, I layered it over Essie's Lapis of Luxury.

 One thing I wasnt quite able to catch in pics was that the pink layered over the blue made a soft lavender kinda magic in doors and in shade. But in the pics with the sun on it looks much more blue and the Essie shines through.

First I thought Id show a close up of it on the nail just in case there are any doubt that this polish is indeed flakie.

Granted the classic color shift of flakie's is very minimal in this one but it's still super stunning.

I really like the subtly of this one, this is with 1 coat over 2 coats of the Essie. 

For me this has been a real must have polish, its so sparkly without being over powering and so easy to get, atleast in my area.
It's almost the end of flakie week sadly, tomorrow will be franken friday and so it'll be a flakie franken and so I wanted to comment that I yes we did a flakie week without Nfu Oh polish and yes I know thats kinda weird but I simply dont own any yet and they aren't as easy to get ahold atleast not the super amazing ones lol.
So hey maybe another flakie week will have to happen in the future, but tell me what do you think of today's polish? have you seen it while out and about? 
Thats all for today see ya tomorrow, thanks for reading -ilectra

First Franken Friday

Hey hey guys, so My best bud D and I have been doing alot of frankening sooo since the last franken I posted did well all thru fall I will be doing a Franken Friday every other Friday and a Fashion Friday in between. Fashion Fridays are only bi weekly and only during the fall season so for straight up nail fans no worries I wold overload the blog with stuff other then nail stuff..

Ok ok with all that said lets get to the good stuff, Welcome to the first franken friday..
I have been featuring alot of dark colors and alot of fall colors so I thought I needed to start with a light color.

This is called Grandma's Girl Pink, It was maid with Essie's crazy sheer color called yes we can pink and jessies girl loose shadow called Sunlite Cactus I believe and I added a splash of a mystery Borghese that I have that is bright red with gold flecks/tones.

 

This is it in bright sunlight..It's a dusky old lady pink with a golden shimmer.

  

In light with no flash^

 

In shade with Flash

 

In Shade with no Flash

This polish only took 2 coats to be very opaque and was alot of fun to make but it is honestly a lil to boring for my taste, my soon to be hubby and D both really like it but I really just dont, It really reminds me of my grandma and those old women that only buy 80 shade of hard as nails pink.. ok that sounded more negative then I meant it ha.. It may grow on me if i dont give it away first.

Sooo next time what would you prefer to see my attempt at OPI My Private Jet or My attempt at Essie's Starry Starry Night or just something random?

Well that's it for this weeks franken friday, thanks for reading

-ilectra

Hues of Green

Ive been noticing that im in a bit of a polish rut, Ive been buying and swapping on MUA for Light mint greens so last night i pulled a few of them out along with My new dark hunter green from the American Apparel Polish collection and did a sponge paint gradient and just for a little pop I added NUBAR's 2010 just to the tips on top on the dark hunter green.

I plan to do a video and blog post with a compare of the Nubar and the Sally Hanson's Hidden Treasure since its so hard to find now.So for this I used AA Office, Essie Turquoise & Caicos, LA Colors Disco Collection in Turntable, China Glaze Four leaf Clover and AA Hunter, with the Nubar 2010 just on the tips.


The Nubar tips reflect Yellow's Orange's and Green's as the light moves over it.



This my first time trying the sponge technique, im going to have to work on it for sure.
But still I think it came out quite nice, looks great in person and ive have quite a few people ask about them today.

Doing my nails is my zen, so I enjoy sharing .
Thanks for reading
-ilectra