DizzyNails

 Here are a few super sunny pics of Butter London Thames!  I am getting so uncreative with my post titles.  Sheesh.

 This was two easy coats.

 This is three coats of Two Fingered Salute.  I used the Sephora X base and top coats with it.  This color is really unique being a dusty sea foam sort of minty green with copper micro glitters.

 I did this manicure at my parents' house, in very poor lighting, with no clean up!  I was very worried about how it was going to turn out, but really, aside from my nails looking very ridged here, the actual manicure came out well.  :)  I couldn't even tell you if I needed that third coat of polish or not because of the dim lighting.  Ha!

 I'm tired of being back-logged on pictures and posts, so voila, here is a catch up post!  This first one is a dark grayish green StrangeBeautiful topped with OPI Simmer and Shimmer.  One coat of each.

 Below is Butter London Jack the Lad.  I believe it was just two coats, but don't quote me on that.

 Much prettier in the bottle, under the beaming lights at Nordstorm, but still lovely on the nail.

 Next up is Illamasqua Creator at two coats.  I freaking love this one, no surprise there.

 I'm not sure why I decided to include the above blurry picture, but we'll just move right along and get to some that are in focus.

 Creator has tiny silver particles that resemble flakes.  They are irregular in shape.  Also, there are very occasional holo glitters (see that one blue twinkle in the bottle above?) and medium sized silver hexes (I think).

 You can see a silver hex on the very edge of my middle finger below.  Great formula, as always.

 And now for the voting day nails!  I used a coat of RBL Teal and then topped it with a coat of Shimmer Polish Nicole.

 I really loved wearing this because it was so festive and pretty.  It wore well for a good three days, too.  Yeah, that's "good" for me.  Anything past two days is good in my book.

 I love the glitters in Nicole - the shapes, the colors, the ratios, the dispersion.  Love, love, love it!  I used a combination of dabbing and painting motions to apply it.  Shimmer polishes can be found here, although it appears the shop is closed until Nov. 26.

 I may have saved the best for last, which is Pahlish Toxic and Timeless!

 I used two coats and this mani also wore for a respectable three days.  I finished the mani with Gelous, Instant Artificials, and then Butter London's quick dry top coat.  It was perfectly smooth and glassy.

 I had more big yellow hexes on my right hand, probably because I didn't take the time to shake my bottle super thoroughly and it had settled some when I grabbed it to do my mani.  Nonetheless, I absolutely adore the result, the polish, and it lived up to my every grand expectation!

 'Twas a gloomy day when these pictures were taken!

 But look how the glitter twinkles, even in the gloom.  :)

 This is two coats of a-england Guinevere with a coat of Butter London Tart with a Heart.

 I got so many compliments on this mani - I was kind of surprised by that.

 Yes...it IS beautiful!  And what's not to love?  You just never know what people will say and when.

 Here is one of the spoils of the recent BOGO sale on Butter London polishes at Ulta from last week.

 It's two coats of Knees Up.  This polish applied perfectly and attracted plenty of attention!

 I always feel just a bit self-conscious wearing reds, so I wanted to add decals just to be different and for fun.  I have these Kitty decals from pa brand that someone sent me as an extra with a polish order.

 It's kitties, hearts, houses, and then one random little creature that looks like a mouse maybe?  He is so cute and special - I didn't use him yet.

 I did three accent nails.  Sometimes I just feel asymetrical...yeah.

 Black kitty and black heart on the right hand ring finger.

 The decals are pretty thick, so I used two coats of top coat over them to make sure they were secure.

 My right hand thumb had the white kitty, which I really like!

 My left hand thumb was jealous because I left it decal-less.

A couple of days ago I broke my right thumb nail. I panicked. So, naturally, Crackle was involved.

I trimmed and filed down the offending, broken thumb nail, then put China Glaze Tarnished Gold Crackle over everything. Somehow it eased the pain (not physical pain, thankfully)!

The base polish is Butter London Wallis.

Wallis is a Nordstrom exclusive color available now.

It's a beautiful blackened olive shimmer with striking gold accents.

I do not think this flatters my skin tone in any way, shape, or form, yet I could not care less. I'm very pleased with Wallis. It makes me think of antique brass or something.

Those crazy caps are so huge and reflective. See my entire patio, pool, and the lake out back in the picture above?

Sarah, if you are reading, here are some quick tips on how to wrap your tips when you have very short nubs! I apologize in advance because I do not have any demonstrative pictures for you. What I recommend it to carefully wrap your tips in at least the last coat of color as well as the top coat. You may not want to do all the layers (base and all the coats of polish) as it's hard to get much of anything on the ends when your nails are really short. Also, you are going to make at least a bit of mess - this is a given. Keep something handy for quick clean up. I like to use the Sephora nail polish corrector felt-tipped pen or just now I am getting into using a brush and acetone clean-up method with the ELF concealer brush. That way, when you splotch the polish onto your skin you can just tidy it up right away. Another tip that may help is to just be purposeful in how much polish you have on the brush when you go to wrap the tip. Try doing it with just what is left over from after you painted the main part of your nail. Then, hopefully there won't be so much on there that you are prone to getting as much on your skin.

Let me know if this is helpful at all. I will make a point to try and do a more thorough tutorial with pictures the next time I'm rocking short nubs. :)

Hiya!  I hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend.  I'm getting over some icky cold thing, so Sunday was pretty yuck-o but today I'm finally feeling a little better.  Hopefully it's all downhill from here!  I'm noticing that whenever I'm sick with a bad cold I have almost zero motivation to change my polish and I also have the hardest time deciding on colors.  

My numero uno bud, who we shall call Kup, selected the following manicure colors.  Two coats of smooooooth as buttah Butter London HRH (which apparently stands for "Her Royal Highness").  Can you believe how pretty it is?!

I had a little shrink back from Poshe.  Boo!  I think I need to thin it a bit.  Hopefully that will help.  If I've said this before then welcome to the world that we shall call Dizzy haz brain damage!  Ha.  I joke about myself because my memory is just awful.

Kup wanted me to put "a new China Glaze glitter" on it, so I selected Cleopatra.  I put one coat on top, ONE!  It's so crazy thick and packed full of glittahs.

This is my second ever Butter London mani and I gotta say I have nothing but love for Butter London as of yet.  It applied beautifully.  I had no problems with the wacky old cap (they are using a new system now).  And you can see how poifect it looks!  And how much do we love China Glaze for coming out with a ton of amazing new colors and glitters!?  I can't wait to see all of them (and get my grubby hands on 'em, too!).