APAW - 26/52 Elianto Grape Wine

Brand: Elianto
Color: Grape Wine
Coats: 3-4
Application: very nice
Finish: squishy jelly!
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: one day so far
Purchased From: swapped with happyberrynaiad.blogspot.com

APAW - 26/52

Brand: China Glaze
Color: Zombie Zest
Coats: 3
Application: a little sheer, but builds well
Finish: glass fleck
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: no comment, I only wore it for one day.
Purchased From: Admiral Beauty Supply

APAW - 26/52

(Indoors w/flash)

Brand: China Glaze
Color: Ick-a-bod-y
Coats: 2
Application: cuticle drag with first coat, second was all good.
Finish: glitter in a black jelly base
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: unknown - I've worn it one day and taking it off.
Purchased From: Admiral Beauty Supply

For Halloween week I'm going to try and do a different mani every day; so I won't be able to comment on the wear for these. I'm also only going to count all of these as one for my apaw goal, instead of 5.
I'm really diggin this whole Chg collection, which one to try next!?

APAW - 25/52

Brand: Essie
Color: Demure Vixen
Coats: 2
Application: smooooth! self leveling, no streaks = awesome! I like the brush too!
Finish: creamy, sheer, hint of purple shimmer
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: photo taken at 4 days, pretty good I'd say!
Purchased From: Ulta

APAW 24/52

Brand: Mac
Color: Bad Fairy
Coats: 3-4
Application: Quite sheer, otherwise wonderful. Love the brush!
Finish: Foil duhochrome
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: photo is 2 days
Purchased From: Dillard's

APAW 23/52

In the shade, this is usually what they look like, but in different lights as shown, I see green, red, gold and copper.

Brand: Nfu-Oh
Color: 51
Coats: 1 coat over black, accent nail is three coats no black.
Application: Awesome ap for a glitter :)
Finish: multi chormatic flakie glitter
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: Like freakin iron! 8 days no chips very little tipwear, amazing!
Purchased From: A gift from Jason for my birthday on 9/19.

APAW - 22/52

Brand: Pure Ice
Color: No Means No
Coats: 2
Application: Awesome, like butter :) self leveling and all.
Finish: rich purple shimmer with a glowy middle
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: 7 days no chips! Perfecto.
Purchased From: A gift from Sarah for my birthday on 9/19.

APAW 21/52

Brand: OPI
Color: Sparkle-icious
Coats: 4
Application: like any other glitter
Finish: glitter
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: really well so far! 5 days no chips. :)
Purchased From: Admiral Beauty Supply


This polish release date is late October or early November but I found the whole Burlesque collection at my local beauty supply. -angels singing- I had decided I wanted this one before I saw it in person, and I picked up another one called Show It and Glow It, its more pink/fucshia colored glitter like this one. I absolutely love it and have worn it all week. Very little tipwear and no chips. Wearing like iron!

I've been slacking on mani photo uploading. this one's a week late because I've been working 12 hour days. I'm exhausted when I get home and just couldn't bring myself to edit and upload the photo I took last Sunday, til now. So exhausted, and its time for me to find some dinner! (yep at 9pm, ugh)

Oh and bye bye long nails, hello nubbins! I cut them because they were just getting too long to type with. I think I cut them a bit shorter than usual so now I'm letting them grow out again. xD

APAW - 20/52

Brand: Nina Ultra Pro
Color: Unteal You (opi catch me in your net, accent nail)
Coats: 2
Application: like butter
Finish: shimmery
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: 7 days no chips, very little tip wear. Awesome polish!
Purchased From: Sally's Beauty Supply

Photo in full sun

APAW - 19/52

Brand: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear
Color: Mystic Lilac
Coats: 3-4
Application: sheer and uneven, but by coat three or four I had no vnl. Otherwise awesome :)
Finish: Green shimmer
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: 1 week
Purchased From: Ulta


I love this polish, its so unusual!

APAW - 18/52

Photo taken in full sun

Brand: Ulta Professionals
Color: Always A Bridesmaid
Coats: 3
Application: smooth and even, could have gotten away with two.
Finish: shimmer with a barely green flash
Base Coat: Jessica 2 in 1
Top Coat: Sally Hansen Insta Dry (red bottle)
Wear: 3 days, some tip wear so far.
Purchased From: Ulta

APAW - 17/52

Brand: Orly
Color: Space Cadet
Collection: Cosmic FX
Coats: 3
Application: Smooth and even
Finish: triochrome sparkly
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear:
Purchased From: Ulta

I love this polish! At front it sparkles purple and golden but the base is a teal green. Its so unusual and gorgeous!

APAW - 16/52

Brand: OPI
Color: My Private Jet (holographic version)
Coats: 3
Application: Very smooth, though a bit sheer
Finish: Holographic (charcoal version)
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: 1 day so far, so good
Purchased From: Thrift Beauty Supply

I thought I'd try doing square nail tips this time and though it took a little getting used to, I think I like them this way!

OPI MPJ Holo is a much sought, very hard to find polish. I have seen it priced over a hundred usd on ebay. I stumbled on mine at a local beauty supply, got both bottles they had in stock. Yay for unexpected finds!

APAW - 15/52

Brand: China Glaze
Color: DV8
Coats: 2
Application: awfully gloppy, but it self leveled.
Finish: holographic
Base Coat: Seche Clear
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: Started chipping a little at the sides on day 5. Touch up helped it last another two. ;)
Purchased From: Received in a swap

Savvy Femme Couture - Green with Envy

I added this green foil over my existing mani on Thursday night, and dubbed it Funky Friday the following day at work.
It was fun and spruced up my mani a little. As you can see, I had some tip wear from the base color, but other than that, it wore like iron!
I haven't decided whether I'm going to do a funky friday each week or not. We'll see!

APAW 14/52

Brand: Avon
Color: Olive Green
Coats: 2 (opaque in 1 though!)
Application: Awesome, could use a better brush
Finish: Cream
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: Applied last night
Purchased From: Avon online

APAW - 13/52

Full Sun

Brand: Chanel
Color: Paradoxal
Coats: 2
Application: A litle goopy
Finish: Barely there purple shimmer
Base Coat: Seche Clear and Essie Fill thte Gap
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: one teeny chip on day 7
Purchased From: Dillard's

I swore I wasn' t ever going to spend more than $10 on a bottle of polish but with this new release, I caved. I love this polish in the sun, as it really shows the shimmer off!

APAW 12/52

Photo taken in the sun

Brand: Sally Hansen
Color: Opulent Cloud
Coats: 2
Application: A little streaky at first, the second coat fixed that.
Finish: shimmery, A taupey smokey sometimes plum base with a flash of gold shimmer.
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Poshe which caused major shrinkage. So I did another coat of OC and added Barielle Manicure Extender.
Wear: 6 days no chips
Purchased From: Walgreen's

APAW - 11/52

Brand: Sinful Colors
Color: Rich In Heart
Coats: 2 (although one is enough for a quick mani)
Application: Gloopy, I think some thinner is in order.
Finish: Shimmer
Base Coat: Instant Artificials
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Wear: 5 days when photo was taken
Purchased From: Walgreen's

I saw Eclipse on Saturday morning last weekend so I chose this vampy color to suit. Its really a gorgeous deep color and looks nearly black indoors, but outdoors wow! I am loving SV topcoat, just look at those cloud reflections in my nails. ^.^

Happy 4th of July America! APAW 10/52

Brands and color names:
OPI Absolutely Alice (blue glitter)
Love My Nails French White (white)
Wet N Wild Kaleidoscope (iridescent glitter)
Orly Star Spangled (red jelly glitter)

Coats: Approximately 2 of each color
Top Coat: Seche Vite and Barielle Manicure Extender
Wear: 3 days so far :)
For this nail art I used painter's tape to get the straight lines. This is the first time I've done nail art, and although it was difficult and time consuming, I'm quite pleased with the results!

Mini haul!

Left to Right:
SH Opulent Cloud (x2)
Maybelline Jean Jacket
Maybelline Zip Fly
Ulta Always a Bridesmaid