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

Quick NOTD : Striped and loving it

Its been one heck of a weekend plus Monday since it was a holiday. Hope you all had a nice Labor Day weekend.
I am super tired and not feelin super great sooo It's gonna be a quick nail of the day from the weekend... yay

Striped mani with a Gray base and the help of two sinful colors and one LA colors nail art polishes. The thin brushes make this fun high impact mani so easy its a crime.

 

I have to admit im not the best with keeping the lines straight but that doesn't take away from this mani's fun appeal.

 

This is a coat of gray polish, single coat lines of color and seche vite.

 

I got a bunch of compliments on this one simply because its eye catching. I only ended up wearing this for one day on sat because I was working on a craft project and discovered FabriTac fabric glue eats nail polish, I never would have guessed that one and so the glue ate thru the top coat and all but it was pretty while it lasted and again its super easy, mildly time consuming but easy enough to do..

Soooo just for fun wanna see what I was working on that cost me my cute mani?

  

I took a mini dress form art metal piece and covered it in heirloom batting and then covered it with a beautiful fleece fabric, added a ribbon to cinch and accentuate the waist. Why?? Well I collect cute vintage brooches and wanted a cool , unique and cheap way to display them that wouldn't take up to much room..

In the mirror you can see there are pins on the back too, PS ignore the junk vanity and the polish sittin there. I plan to feature those here in a few days as they are to close to exact not to show the dupe-y goodness.

Ok well that's all for today, keep your cute mani's away from fabric glue and thanks for reading - ilectra

NOTD Orly's It's not rocket science

You guys have prolly seen the Orly Cosmix's on every blog you follow but never to much of a good thing I always say ha :)
So out of the full Cosmix Collection I got 3 of them, Space Cadet, Galaxy Girl and It's not Rocket Science. I am a sucker for the color green and green nail polish is my obsession so as you can imagine It's not rocket science sttod out to me the most in this collection and is my fave of them all.. Below with flash:

When light hits this color it hits back, it has a strong gold flash that really sparkles.
The above pic is in mid day low light and is the truest rep of how this color looks in most lighting.
The above is with no flash and is two coats with poshe topcoat
Here's this beauty up close, in low day light with no flash, so sparkly and you can really see the yellow/gold flash.

Ok now to the good and the bad news:

The Good : This polish dries pretty quickly and even though its sparkly it dries smooth. It applied well and was perfect in 2 coats. Also i seriously love the Orly bottles because of the rubber tops, its so easy to grip.

The Bad: Because of the process it took to make the cosmix polishes they cost almost double a normal Orly polish. Each one of these are selling for $10 most places and that would be ok if it weren't for the next bit of bad. The tip wear you see in those pics is only after 12 hours of wear and in less then 24 hours I had bad tip wear and 3 chips.. that BTW never happens to me.. I can normally go up to 6 days without a chip.. So being chiptastic is not cool for a $10 polish.

But overall I love this one for simply being beautiful,I had 3 people comment on this color in about 2 hours while i was out today so it is indeed eye catching.

Thats all for today
Thanks for reading
-ilectra