DizzyNails

 Oo.  Hey.  Sorry for the quick 'n nasty pictures here.  This is Color Club Halo Hues Beyond.

 I only used two coats here.  No base or top coat!  And it wore very nicely for about five days!!

 While it's not super holo or gorgeous in indirect light, it's still quite nice.  I love how quick and easy these are.  I wore Cherubic on a visit to see family, which made for a very easy mani change while away from home.  They apply great, dry quick, and last well.  Yay for Halo Hues!!!!

 Now this is my first time wearing a Jin Soon nail polish.  This is two coats of Azurite (with base and top coat).  It's a lovely deep blue with a relatively subtle holo effect.

 It's gorgeous!  I love it!

 This one didn't wear too great on me - I forget why.  I've been doing too much experimenting lately with various new-to-me top coats and even bases.  I think I just got some tip wear (bordering on a chip) that annoyed me, so I changed after a couple of days (that's not uncommon for me with very dark, saturated colors).

 For this mani I used Color Club Raspberry Rush and Essie Beyond Cozy.

 I did three coats of Raspberry Rush.  It's candy scented - slightly obnoxious but it did fade within about a day.  It's a super bright and cheery neon pink.

 For Beyond Cozy I only needed two coats, but I did top with Gelous before my top coat.

 I liked that this was kind of fun, summery, and a little unexpected for me.

 And here is another one for you!  Rainbow Honey Tessie.

 This is two coats of periwinkle perfection.  I cannot tell you how much I adore this color and it's pretty soft shimmer.  It's more purple in real life.  Think right between purple and blue.  These pictures make it look far too blue.

 Tessie just makes me happy.  It's such a soothing, comforting color for me.

 The formula was thick but easy to work with.  Check out the shimmer in the bottle below!

 It's glittah time!  Here I started with two coats of Eternal END-202.

 The Eternal glitter is sooooo pretty with pale gold and silver.  I wish I had taken a picture of it by itself for you!

 Next, I added a coat of Color Club Gingerbread, for a little extra gold and holo bling.

 Love it!

 And then two coats of Lynnderella Happy Holo-Daze!

 I needed a coat of Gelous after, as well as two coats of Poshe.  It still wasn't quite smooth, but close enough for me.

 My Happy Holo-Daze! is scented!  I know that sounds absolutely bonkers, but I swear to you it's true.

 The smell reminds me a little of Paul & Joe polishes, but not exactly. (I have a cold which does not help.)

I think the fact that mine is scented is likely a mistake and without a doubt SUPER COOL!  My Funny Money turned out to be not scented (and it is supposed to be), so all in all, I feel pretty content.

 I'm sitting here writing this with a tummy ache worthy of my having just gone to the Epcot Food and Wine Festival!  It's a perfect day and we really enjoyed a lot of great food.  :)

 This was actually my mani from a few days ago.  It's three coats of Color Club Nouveau Vintage.

 I got it in one of the value sets at Ross, so of course there's no actual label on the bottom of the bottle.  Speaking of the bottle, check out all of that green in there!!

 When I put this color on I was surprised at how much red is in the base.  The overall effect is a really lovely almost foily brown.

This definitely puts me in the mood for the Northern Fall, which I do so miss.  I also think I may trying wearing more browns this season!

 I've probably lost my glitter loving mind with this one.

 I started with four coats of China Glaze CG in the City.  I wanted it to be as opaque as possible.

 Then I added a generous coat of Color Club It's a Hit!

 CG in the City is a funky mix of different colored tiny glitters.  Purple seems to be dominant when I look at the bottle, but on the nail I noticed a ton of silver and black (I think?), which gave it an overall kind of grayish silver feel.

 It's a Hit! is mega chunky purple textured hex glitter.  It actually wasn't too hard to handle during application.  The hexes mostly went where I wanted them to go, with a little coaxing.

 I used Lynnderella's Glitter Tamer and Poshe over everything and it was in fact nearly smooth.  :)

For this mani, I started with two coats of Color Club's Wink, Wink, Twinkle. It's a neon purply fuchsia that has tons of holo glitter in it. I know it's holo glitter because as I was removing the polish I saw all that gorgeous holo hiding inside! On the nail it just looks sparkly and iridescent. Still very pretty and very loud.

Then, I added China Glaze Crackle Lightning Bolt and Anna Sui Dolly Girl 008 after that.

I think it turned out pretty cool.

This is three coats of Zoya Apple. I used Seche Vite as my top coat here and I don't think it agreed with Zoya's formula entirely.

I say that because I had some strange rippling/wrinkling on the middle finger and I swear I did not bump or disturb it. I'll be sticking with Poshe over my Zoyas in the future.

When I applied Apple I had a huge déjà vu moment and remembered Color Club Magic Elf.

In my mind, I figured they were dupes...but also wanted to do a comparison to find out for sure.

Above picture is a full on blazing sun pic - check out that awesome, blinding shimmer!

This was a mani I wore on Thursday and yesterday. I had hoped I would still be wearing it today, but I had a few chips last night, sadly. It's another combination with Clarins 230. I promise I have a palette-cleanser in store for you as my next post!

I started with three coats of Color Club Alias. Alias is not unlike Cetuem 224, but it's loaded with gorgeous chunky shimmer (I'm not positive, but believe it would be considered "glass-flecked").

Alias is mostly a lovely deep purple, but does have a bit of a duochrome flash to it with gray and green. It's a lovely polish and I wish I had pictures of it by itself to show you.

I added a coat of Clarins 230, the magic maker.

It added pinkish red shimmer with a twist.

I really love these two together. Really. Love.

I couldn't get much of a green flash (only the slightest hints), but it did flash orange nicely at times.

I wish that Alias had been a bit more opaque so I could have gone with two coats instead of three, but really, I can't complain much. Other than being a bit sheer, it applied well.

I love how 230 looks all glowy, lit-from-within, and alive in these pictures here (above and below).

The picture below is one of my favorites because you can kind of see hints of green around the base of the three nails on the left (mostly the index and middle). It reminds me of the green mist from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie. I know, I am a total dork.

Here is Georgia taking a sun bath yesterday. She's very pleased it's getting hot out again.