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 This is about 2 and a half coats of Nails Inc. Hatton Garden.
 You can see my turquoise t-shirt reflecting in the bottle cap!
 I did not end up wearing this mani for long at all - something about it just bugged me.  Mostly it was that little sliver of white nail end showing on the right side of my ring finger nail (see below).  Grrr.
 I believe I used two coats of Shimmer Glass under my Sephora X top coat.
I will have to give this one another try because it's really fun and pretty to look at!

 This is Nails Inc. Porchester Square.  I used three coats, although I likely could have gotten away with just two.  It applied so nicely that I think I kind of wanted to just keep going!
 This was my accidental New Year's Eve and New Year's mani!  I was planning to replace it on New Year's Eve, but life got in the way, and it still looked good, thankfully.
 I got so many compliments wearing this one.  I think the general public really enjoys a good nude!  Porchester Square looks very different on me depending on what lighting I'm in.  At times it looks very mauvey-purplish!  My pics here do not show that at all.
I also find that this shade flatters pretty much every skin tone.  It's a winner!  I was lucky enough to get the crystal cap version on sale at Sephora a while back.

 I decided to be lazy and swatch Starlight and Sparkles polishes Unicorn and Phoenix together, alternating fingers.
 For these swatches, I have used base coat, one coat of Nails Inc. Black Taxi, and a coat of either Unicorn or Phoenix.
 Unicorn is on the index and ring fingers while Phoenix is on the middle and pinky.
 It was getting ready to storm, but I actually think that this type of light brings out the shift very well in these polishes!
 Unicorn shifts from green to blue and Phoenix shifts from red to gold.
 These polishes applied easily and with no trouble at all.
 I was so pleased at how bright and lovely they are!
 These pictures show the red to gold shift in Phoenix quite nicely!

 Now, I hardly ever use my flash.  I kind of hate it and I'm not very talented with the camera.  But check out what it did to the colors!!
 Cool!
You can find Starlight and Sparkles polishes here.  These polishes were provided to me for review.

 I can never seem to remember the name of this one - I'm not sure why!  Sugar House Lane.
 I wore this for about three days.  I used two coats, no clean up needed, and followed with two coats of Instant Artificials and two coats of $OPI quick dry top coat.  Not entirely smooth, but close enough!
 This has a pretty taupe base that is a bit gray and a bit purpley as well.  The glitters look to be white and black, but after removing it last night, I'm going to authoritatively say that they are in fact black and silver!
This is definitely the odd one in the bunch.  After I put it on, I wished that it smelled like chocolate cupcakes.  I do like it!  And I wish they had made twice as many Sprinkles polishes (purple, green, pink and brown, etc.).

 This will be a short post with only a few sad pictures!  It's been a tiring, long week.  Thank goodness it's over.  Here I wore two coats of Nails Inc. Sweets Way.
 Do you like my bizarre cropping and angles?!  I had an epic hangnail and I couldn't bear to subject you all to the nasty sight of it.  We'll just pretend it's not there, how about that?  :)
These Sprinkles polishes are extremely hungry glitters, folks!  Brace yourselves and get the good, thick top coats out and ready!  It's worth it, though.  Here I used two coats of Instant Artificials, a coat of Sephora by OPI quick dry top coat, and a final desperate coat of Poshe.  I regret the combination, ultimately, because of bubbles.  I hate bubbles.  But it was pretty near awesomely smooth after ALL OF THAT.

 I am SO VERY excited to now own the Nails Inc. Sprinkles polishes.  This is two coats of Pudding Lane.  No clean up required.  
 It's so freaking awesome.  I love it so much.  What more can I say?!
I used OPI DS top coat followed by two coats of $OPI quick dry top coat and it was still quite bumpy.  I didn't care, though, honestly.  It looked so fabulous and I loved wearing it, despite not being glassy smooth.  I did not go for Gelous (my go-to glitter smoother-outer) this time around since I have a suspicion that it lessens my overall wear time.  Pudding Lane lasted nearly three days for me, which is pretty decent in my lame world.  :)

 This is two coats of Nails Inc. Belgrave Place.  I topped it with a coat of OPI Designer Series top coat and then Seche Vite (which so far, is proving to be quite a winning combination for me!).
 You know how I'm always trying to find a magical top coat or combination that gives me long wear with little to no bubbles or streaks as well as a decently quick dry time.  I'm not holding my breath or anything, but this might be the best so far!  I'm on day five with only some tip wear on the right hand.  I'm sure it helps, too, that my nails are pretty short right now.
Belgrave Place is awesome, as I knew it would be.  It did dry darker than it looks in the bottle, and also I find it to be more blue/navy than I expected.  In real life, it appears slightly more purple in the bottle than what you see in my pictures.  It looks almost black on the nails, but you can still tell it's blue, which I love.  And it definitely has that pinch of purple, which makes it much more special than ordinary navy.  This color rocks!

 For this glittery goodness, I started with a coat of Nails Inc. Black Taxi.  It was thick for my liking.  I shall have to thin it before using it again.
 Next, I carefully added a coat of $OPI Sparkling Personality (from the Betsey Johnson collection).  No, it is not scented.  :)  It's got lots of tiny silver glitter and then also pink and blue, it seems.
 I didn't imagine it would be so opaque!  I also added a coat of my $OPI It's Real 18K Gold top coat, just for kicks.
 The overall effect reminds me just a little of Chanel Graphite.  I wasn't sure I liked my combination the first night I had it on, but it quite grew on me and I like it a lot!
I used the $OPI quick dry top coat again, here, and while I love how it gives me longer wear time, I struggle with bubbles and streaks.  Fortunately for this mani, I can actually tolerate the bubbles pretty well (since you can barely ever see or notice them).

 This is three coats of Nails Inc. Cheyne Walk.
 Let's talk about this, shall we?  The clever sticker on the cap promises me that this is some new magic called "Mirror Metallic."
 Was I wrong for thinking that this would be, erm, more metallic?  Or more mirrory?  :)
 As soon as I pushed the first brush stroke onto my nail, I instantly knew that what I had on my hands was a DUOCHROME.
 Your average, run of the mill, abso-frickin-lutely gorgeous, duochrome.
 I feel silly for even bringing this up, but I was a little disappointed by the misleading marketing.
 I'll need to see if I have an exact dupe for this - my initial thought is that I might.
 In any case, it is VERY pretty and I'm never sad to see duo.
I got Stratford, as well, which is a copper/gold/pink.  Do you have or will you be getting either of these?

 This is two luscious coats of Nails Inc. Baker Street.  It's an insanely vivid, bright, rich, cobalt blue.
 Initially, I decided to do something different (for me) and go for thumb accents using Dollish Polish Random Dancing (one thick coat).  It looked super cool.
 But......but.....I had issues.  I accidentally used my top coat as my base coat (WHAT?!), and by the time I realized it, I was also mad about my top coat leaving tiny bubble-like (not really bubbles, but just yuck) texture over my mani.  I couldn't handle it.  So, I took it all off and just quickly redid everything with only Baker Street.  Take two pictures are below.
 It's sort of deeper in real life, the color.  Amazing formula, application, and good wear time (almost three days).
 Silly enough, I didn't realize that Saturday was St. Patrick's Day, so this ended up unintentionally being my St. Patrick's Day mani.  I'm not really Irish, or not much anyway, so that's fine I suppose.  :)  It's an amazing color to be wearing!
I'm telling myself that this is a dupe for Dior's LE Electric Blue.  I hope it is.  I'm not gonna get the Dior.

Also, my favorite English teacher ever's name is Mr. Baker.  Somehow that makes me love this polish all the more!


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