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

Mrs Claus, Red or maybe Pink?

Im starting to think the sun might not come back out til the spring.. lots of overcast days.. or more like nothing but overcast days... I love winter but hate to many overcast days. blah..

But with Christmas around the corner and all the holiday polish colors out, its a great brightener of the overcast days..

Today Im showing you guys a polish that perplexes me very much. China Glaze's Mrs. Claus from the holiday collection. When I got this I could have swore it was a red glitter polish with a pink tinge but once I put it on It was very very pink with a lil reddish tinge. Somehow I dont feel like pink glitter is very "christmasy" but it's still really pretty and sparkley.

 

Above is the bottle looking very reddish.

 Here's a close up of it layered over American Apparel's Berry Polish.

 This is 2 coats of Berry and 2 coats of Mrs Claus, notice that each bottle pic really looks very red.

But the Glitter is bright shiny pinks, light pink and fuchsia.

Im on the fence about this polish, I love that it's very eyecacthingly Shiny but otherwise its just ok.

What do you think? Somewhat unique?

That's it for now, 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

NOTD in a backlog way

A few weeks ago when I first cut my nails down I had this beautiful NOTD that I ended up not getting around to posting, But the polish was a lemming of mine for quite a while so I just have to post it :)

Nicole by OPI's I Stop for Nicole, its a sparkly duo chrome amazingness that these pics just wont do justice.

It's a beautiful pink/red and even though the Nicole bottles are the uglyst bottles ever I saw this as a NOTD on the MUA boards (makeupalley.com) and it was instant love even though Im not a huge lover of reds or pinks in polish.. I think my polish addiction is curing me of my did taste of most colors.. colors Ive always hated are yellow,brown,pink and red and I have quite a few of each of those colors in polish. ha

Well there ya go a NOTD from weeks ago that I felt just had to go up since it was a fulfilled lemming.
That's all for today, see you guys tomorrow for Franken Friday 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

and then there was Maryland Crabcake

I have been a lifelong anti pink kinda girl and as ive gotten older ive mellowed out and come to understand that pick has its charms but never have I loved pink... until OPI Maryland Crabcake.
This is bar none my fave pink polish, its got a lil hint of orange in it and its well it's the bee's knees..lol
I did this nail look with it the other day and it was my first time using it, I got it in a big haul from the flea market and umm yeah I love it.
This one is super old/old school as you can see on the bottom label, but even with its age it applied like a dream.
On my thumbs I used China Glaze Skin Tight for the polka dots,and some random ebay nail art gems/bow etc.

I also added a glittery top coat, so the glitz you see isnt from Maryland Crabcake, its from a China Glaze called Starfish Wish and its also super old school.. but I thought it looked nice over the OPI.The camera really picked up the orange tones to this, its quite the beauty in person. I do believe its been discontinued but its worth hunting down.
I'll still say that im not a huge fan of pink but this pretty pink will always have a spot in my heart heh.

Thats all for today
Thanks for reading guys
-ilectra