DizzyNails

 Here are a couple of Holiday manis I've worn recently.  I've been in the mood for Christmas colors!

 This is two coats of Rainbow Honey Annual Emotion.  I used a coat of Lynnderella Happy Holo-Daze! for the accent.  Pardon my application because I didn't clean up one bit and I did this very late at night.  I also skipped my base coat - I can't remember the last time I've done that.

 Next is three fingers of Zoya Logan!  I snapped these pictures right as I was taking it off to change it.  I had already removed my pinky finger.  :)

 This was two coats of Logan.  It's very similar to Ivanka, but a deeper green and definitely feels more like Christmas to me.

 I was so excited about how well the Sephora X mani wore on me that I decided to do an experiment using just Sephora X base coat and top coat with another polish brand.  I chose Zoya.

 This is three coats of Ivanka.  I used one coat of Sephora X base underneath and one coat of Sephora X top coat over top.

 Ivanka is so unbelievably sparkly and dimensional in person and I'm sad I didn't get pictures of her in the sun.  Application was easy.

 I needed a clean and simple mani the other night, so I chose Zoya Kristen.  I used two coats here, followed by Essie Good to Go.

 Kristen is always going to remind me a time not too long ago when I painted my nails with it, then dropped a bunch of cashews into the crack of my couch cushions, reached in after them, and immediately regretted it as my nails were not nearly dry enough to perform that kind of maneuver!!  That was a sad, late mani night for me.  But I can look back and laugh.  :)

 Now I'm wearing it for real, and I love this color.  It's so clean and serene.  Which brings me to the more important question:  what top coat do you like to use with Zoyas?!  I feel like I'm always asking and wondering this.  I'm yet to find the perfect one.  I used to use Poshe but I think it was not giving me the wear time I desire.  I've tried Seche Vite with mixed results.  Years ago I tried the Zoya Color Lock system (which was brutally slow on me).  I've done Out the Door, Orly In a Snap, and now Essie Good to Go.  I think I've only tried my beloved Butter London top coat with a Zoya once now, and have had bad results (on only one nail, oddly enough).  There might be others I'm forgetting.

 In this post you are getting two ways to wear Lynnderella Glass Houses!

 The first way I wore it was with Zoya Sloane underneath.  I used two coats of Sloane.

 Sloane is a deep vampy plum color and I love it for reminding me of Ferris Bueller!!

 Let's see, I believe I did two coats of Glass Houses over top.

 The look reminds me a lot of Fall leaves and Halloween candy all at the same time!

 Next is Glass Houses all by itself!

 I don't really imagine that Glass Houses is meant to be worn by itself (not that there are rules in nail polish), but I got the crazy idea to try it anyway!  I'm glad I did.

 I used four coats of it, the last two of which I used a combination of dabbing and painting motions.

 It was not perfectly opaque, but darn near close enough for me.  After I did this mani, I was unsure about it, but it did grow on me very quickly and I quite love it now!

 On top, I used a coat of Gelous, a coat of Pro FX top coat (that was very random of me and I remember why I don't prefer it because the brush is too big and the formula a little gloopy), and another coat of Gelous the following morning.

 It wore well for me for just about three days, which is terrific, and then everything popped off in complete pieces, which is a little disturbing but also good I suppose as I did not have to deal with regular removal, which I'm sure would have been a hassle.

 I wonder if it popped off that way because of my putting another coat of Gelous over everything later on after the Pro FX had dried.  But still, it held on like an iron champ for most of the three days!

 I have a lot to say about this mani!  I used two coats of Zoya Lotus as well as Lynnderella Forget You Not for the accent (index finger on my other hand).

 I'm always looking for the best top coat to use with my Zoyas.  They give me trouble.  This time around I used Out the Door (and a coat of Gelous over the glitter before OtD).

 Out the Door is nice and thin.  I don't love the brush, but it does okay.  It didn't dry super fast for me - in fact, while it did dry to the touch pretty quickly, it took many hours to completely dry.

 Also, it's not a thick top coat - and not the shiniest, in my opinion (though shiny enough).  However, I had zero shrinking or inkling of shrinking and I got REALLY good wear (for me).  Three days, if I recall.  That is quite unusual for me!  There were many times I banged my fingers into things or bent them in ways that I cringed knowing that for sure I would have had a huge chip but no.  Only some tip wear.  It was kind of crazy cool!  And I have to say that I was really hard on my nails in those three days.

 This is such a pretty gray!!!  It's two coats of Zoya Carey.

 I love this because it's not just gray.  At times it looks blue, then lavender, and even almost mauve tinted.  Hard to explain or believe until you wear it and see for yourself!

 This is two coats of Zoya Bevin topped with one coat of Lynnderella Shape Shifter.

 I had a few more bubbles than I care for with this mani.  Thankfully, it wasn't too noticeable in person.

 I love Bevin and Shape Shifter is pretty amazing, so I thought they made a good pair.

 Check out Zoya Sienna!

 *wolf whistle*

 This is three delicious coats topped with two coats of Poshe.

 It doesn't need to be smoothed, if you are wondering - the only reason I used a second coat of top coat is because I was trying desperately to speed up the drying process before getting ready and going to work.

 Thank goodness these pictures turned out lovely!

 I did have some bubbling (boo) and it took somewhere around 8 hours for this to fully and 100% completely dry.  Bonkers.

 Also, after it had finally dried all the way, I noticed some shrink near a few of my cuticles (but it didn't seem to happen at the tips).  Ughs!  I took these pictures immediately after finishing the mani, which is why you don't see any sad, sad shrink.

 This is what I'm currently wearing:  Zoya Ali with Lynnderella Connect the Dots.

 I used two coats of each polish and then followed it with Gelous and Seche Vite.

 I have to apologize because these pictures are terribly color inaccurate!  Ali is a tricky beast.  She is more pink than what it appears here, although not a true straight-up neon pink.  I'd call her neon salmon pink.  Almost coral, but not quite.

 The polish actuals appears more like what you see in the bottle above, in real life.

 I love this picture above (and below!) for showing more of the magnificent micro shimmer that is in the otherwise clear base of Connect the Dots.

 Yesterday at work, a more mature woman surprised me by telling me that she liked my nails.  :)