Franken Feature: Liquid Glitz

Tara over at Tough As Nails, Twice As Pretty creates some pretty awesome frankens! Her brand is called Liquid Glitz. I had been eyeing one of her collections for quite a while and finally asked her if they were available for purchase! She is super nice and kind and ended up offering them for me to review!

Collection: The Glitters

This collection is pure GLITTER! If you can't tell by now, glitter is my favorite, next to holographic of course.

The Glitters collection consists of 6 gorgeous glitters.

Raspberry Rap, Nebulus Rock, Blueberry Pop, Apple Jazz, Slate Fusion, and Mermaid's Hymn.

Raspberry Rap is a gorgeous pink based glitter with a hint of blue. Nebulus Rock is a black based mini glitter polish with larger holographic glitters as well as a hint of magenta glitter. Blueberry Pop is an electrifying blue and black glitter.

Apple Jazz is a great apple green glitter with a slight green base to it. Slate Fusion is a silver glitter with larger holographic glitter. Mermaid's Hymn is a combination of blue, turquoise, purple, pink, green, and holographic glitter.

 I decided to do a skittle mani with the glitters. I am going to do a full mani with Mermaid's Hymn soon.

 First is one coat of the glitters. One thing I have always loved about glitters is that they tend to dry fast.

 1 coat in the shade

1 coat

 Next is two coats of the glitters.

2 coats shade

2 coats indoor light

 Lastly, to reach semi-full opacity is three coats of the glitters.

3 coats indoor light

3 coats sunlight

3 coats sunlight

3 coats natural light

Macro shot of Nebulus Rock

What I really loved about this collection is the fact that you can either use it as a top coat, layer it with other colors, or use it for full on glitter mani's! The formula was really great on these and the glitter dispersed wonderfully.


Tara will be opening up her very own etsy shop soon, but for now if you are interested in these you can email her at:
tarasnailblog@gmail.com

Nail-Venturous Forever Taylor

Forever Taylor

Today, I have another franken by Amy at I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous. We are in a nail polish group together and I had asked if any of the frankeners could create a black glitter nail polish for me since I had never seen one before.

Forever Taylor is a gorgeous black glitter nail polish with holo glitter. It has many different sized glitter in it to create depth and a more glittery look. I really love what she did with my idea, she made it come to life!!

indoor natural light

indoor flash

 outdoor shade

sunlight

I really love this and I am so glad that Amy offered to create this for me, she really is a sweetheart!! 

What really is interesting about this nail polish is the unexpected larger hex glitters, it really adds to the polish making it unique and pretty! I wanted something that could be chic, yet girly and pretty, not just a plain black nail polish. She really hit it out of the park with this one!

What do you think? Would it be something that you would purchase?

Nail-Venturous Laquers: VooDoo Doll

VooDoo Doll

VooDoo Doll is another great franken that was created by the awesome Amy at I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous. I think she needs to stop before she dominates the nail polish world too much ;)

VooDoo Doll is an awesome black and white glitter nail polish. It has a very jelly-sheer black base with multiple sized and shaped black and white glitters. What probably catches your eye the most is the large white hex ones!

I really love how layered this polish looks! Its so neat and unique that I just can't stop staring at my nails today! I can totally see the direction Amy was going when naming this VooDoo Doll, you get stuck in a trance just looking at it! To me it reminds me of a flip flopped version of cookies and cream ice cream, yum!

BEST NAIL MAIL EVER!!! Nail-Venturous Lacquers

Today I had the best nail mail ever! I received my frankens from Amy at I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous.

Here's a closer look!

LtoR: Rustic Remains, Pinkerbell, & Floam

LtoR: VooDoo Doll, Mosaic Wonder, & Forever Taylor's

Please feel free to click on the pictures to enlarge them and really get a feel of all the little details!

Rustic Remains

Rustic Remains is a gorgeous rusty flakie nail polish with a multicolor shimmer. It's BEAUTIFUL!

LtoR: over OPI That's Hot! Pink, ChG Crimson, nothing, half white & black, & OPI HTAT

blurred to see the goods!

Here is a closeup of Rustic Remains over OPI Here Today Aragon Tomorrow! Its so pretty!

 Pinkerbell

Pinkerbell is a gorgeous neon glitter! It's a light pink base with neon pink, green, and blue glitter. I have never seen anything like it before!

LtoR: Pinkerbell 2 coats, Pinkerbell over white and black

LtoR: Pinkerbell over OPI Pink Friday, OPI Fly, & OPI Did It On 'Em. The one on the right is Floam.

Floam

Floam is also a neon glitter. Floam is a neon blue/teal and green glitter. The name comes from the 90's toy Floam that looked exactly like this!

LtoR: 2 coats of Floam, Floam over:white&black, OPI Fly, OPI Did It On 'Em, OPI Pink Friday, and OPI That's Hot! Pink

closeup

VooDoo Doll

VooDoo Doll is a gorgeous black and white glitter polish. The base is a lovely black jelly polish and it has various size black and white glitter. The layering effect is really neat with this one.

LtoR: 2 coats VooDoo Doll, VooDoo Doll over white & black

 Mosaic Wonder

Mosaic Wonder is a really unique and awesome nail polish! This is definitely a top coat that you can add to any color. The base is a holographic glitter and it has larger mosaic like glitter throughout. The effect is really neat and it looks like stained glass!

LtoR: 2 coats alone, 2 coats over white & black

LtoR: OPI Road House Blues, Orly Frisky, OPI That's Hot! Pink

 Forever Taylor's

This one is my personal favorite! Why you ask? Well she named this one after me! I had been looking for a black glitter polish for a while and brought up the idea. Amy said that she would be willing to make one for me! Isn't she just the BEST! This is basically like the WnW Ice Ice Baby glitter, but BLACK! Totally me and GORGEOUS! Thank you again, Amy!

LtoR: 2 coats, 2 coats over white & black

How wonderful and unique are these!! I seriously am still in awe and can't decide what to wear first! These are all so unique and different from any nail polish I have ever seen! What do you think? Which ones are your favorite from my bunch?

Please feel free to check out Amy's most recent post regarding these as well as a GIVEAWAY for a chance to win some!

Brown and Black Holo Comparison

I'mmmm baaaack! My nails are finally starting to look better and grow nicer! I will have my post of the experience using Nailtique.

Today I have a comparison post to show you.

I will be comparing:

OPI My Private Jet (brown holo)

OPI My Private Jet (charcoal-brown holo)

HITS Zeus

Glitter Gal 10 to Midnight

Glitter Gal Black

Direct Sunlight

LtoR: OPI MPJ(brn holo), OPI MPJ(charcoal holo), HITS Zeus, 

GG 10 to Midnight, & GG Black holo

Indoor Natural Light

As you can see, the closest ones are HITS Zeus and GG 10 to Midnight. The only difference is that the GG has more of a metallic finish in the sun. After swatching this, I'm not too sure I'm in love with my brown holo MPJ! Don't call me crazy now!

If you would like I can also compare two of the newer versions of MPJ and my black holo franken. Just let me know :)

OPI Mad As A Hatter

Recently I received the highly sought after and discontinued OPI Mad As A Hatter!! I was super lucky that my friend Kara had two and wanted to swap! Im really loving swaps lately!! 


When I first started drooling over this color I came across a picture that I knew I had to try immediately whenever I got Mad As A Hatter. Its OPI MAAH over a black creme, I used OPI Black Onyx.

the original photo can be found here. Thank you LeeAnnStoner :)

I love this glitter and will definitely be using it more!! Its so pretty!!!

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Zombie Mani

Ok so continuing on with the Halloween nail art for the month of October I chose a Zombie mani!! When I think of Zombies I think of blood and pale green skin, but I just had to add some sparkle to make it a little more girly than gross!

 Don't they look gross!!! This look was really simple and easy to do. This mani was a complement to my other hand shown below.