Holotastic Dots

The sun is shining, the weather is nice, it's perfect conditions for some holographic polish.

For the my base I'm using OPI My Vampire is Buff.  I then used alternating rows of dots in the following colors: Color Club Eternal Beauty (purple), Color Club Miss Bliss (pink), Color Club Cosmic Fate (orange), Color Club Kismet (yellow), Color Club Angel Kiss (green), and Color Club Over the Moon (blue). For my accent nail I'm used Color Club Miss Bliss.

Leopard Accent

I was feeling frisky and decided that the perfect way to display that would be for a bright blue leopard accent.  I color coordinate almost all my manicures, so the perfect outfit accompaniment for me was was bright blue top paired with a black cardigan.

For my blue I used two coats of China Glaze Blue Year's Eve.  For my accent nail I used three coats of OPI My Vampire is Buff, then used a dotting tool to create the leopard print using Blue Year's Eve and Sally Hansen Black Out.

Lime Crime Peaches Cream

I wear a lot of nude polishes to work and this summer I wanted to find a nude neon polish.  Many scoffed at my original query in Polish-aholics Anonymous but a few people suggested I check out Lime Crime Peaches <3 Cream.

Shown here is three coats of Lime Crime Peaches <3 Cream, topped with 2 mm square silver studs.  While Peaches <3 Cream is very bright, it's remarkably close to being a nude polish.

OPI Solitaire

I love the clean, fresh look of this white textured polish from OPI.  This is a textured polish from the summer OPI Bond Girls collection.

Pictured is two three coats of OPI Solitaire.  A soft white scattered with silver glitter, Solitaire is a great palette cleansing color.

NerdLacquer Götterdämmerung

Continuing the opera series is the last of the four operas from Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).  This last opera is full of love, despair, betrayal, and death.  So much drama in one opera.

Pictured is three coats of NerdLacquer Götterdämmerung.  NerdLacquer describes Götterdämmerung as:

a deep twilight blue-purple duochrome with royal, violet, periwinkle, and plum glitter.  As deep and sparkling as the evening sky. DRAMA.  

When I first saw this polish I had heart palpitations.  I love it.

Love!

NerdLacquer Walküre

I like operas.  They're deep, full of complex sounds, and generally involve pretty fantastic musical scores with great parts for the percussion section.  Once upon a time, I used to play percussion, stopping only once I graduated from college.  Because of my joy for music I was pleasantly surprised to see that a new collection from NerdLacquer was inspired by an opera from composer Richard Wagner.  Music from Wagner was the stuff I would play when I was angry or depressed in high school.  It was great.

Wagner composed a series of epic operas that was known as Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).  The first opera is Das Rheingold and NerdLacquer based off this polish but I failed to buy it (oops).  The next opera is Die Walküre which includes a piece that never fails to remind me of the Imperial March (you know, from Star Wars).  Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) features the warrior-goddess Brünnhilde as she defends Siegmund in his battle with Hunding.

Pictured is three coats of NerdLacquer Walküre.  NerdLacquer describes Walküre as:

demi-matted steel armor grey with white and gold microshimmer, plus gold and charcoal glitter.  Complex, fearless, and equally fabulous with a glossy top coat.  Perfect shade for your fiercest warrior-goddess mood. 

Believe NerdLacquer's description, I felt invincible every time I wore this to strength training.

NerdLacquer Shiny

When something is Shiny, something is great. That's how the term is used in one of the greatest television shows ever, Firefly.  This term is used a lot by my favorite character on the show, Kaylee.  Kaylee is pretty awesome because not only is she adorable, sweet, and positive, but she's the ships mechanic.  I can appreciate a woman who serves as a positive role model for women in STEM fields.

Shown here is three coats of NerdLacquer Shiny.  Shiny is a light blue based polish which contains silver, white, and light blue pieces of square and octagonal glitter.

Shiny is one of my recent Nerds.  Its been a lemming for a while so I was thrilled when I managed to capture it during a restock of NerdLacquer polish in June.