Pretty & Polished 3 Golden Rules

I love gold/olive colored polish.  And this beauty is a gorgeous mixture of dark, rustic gold, almost an olive color with gold glitter and a very fine gold shimmer throughout.  Chels from Pretty & Polished was kind enough to do a full size bottle for me, since only minis were available!!  You can find her shop HERE, but she is currently closed to work through orders.  She should be opening again soon!  I noticed her items are selling out a lot quicker now, so a nice feature for Etsy is the "notify me by e-mail", so you'll keep up to date on if she's open or not!

I love the formula Pretty & Polished uses.  All of the ones I've tried from her apply like a dream.  She has quickly become one of my favorite frankeners.  I have many more on my list to order from her!!  I used 2 coats for the pictures below with Wicked Fast top coat.  On to all the pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

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Overall, this color may not flatter me the *best*, but I am SO in love with it, it does not matter. LOL  Maybe with a little summer tan, it will look better ;-) 

As we all keep finding new frankenistas, I know it will be hard for them to keep in stock to please everyone.  I have a couple other brands coming my way, and am so excited to share them with you.  Hopefully there will be something for everyone out there.  I can't help but wonder how the big companies are doing!!  I know a lot of us are out buying the frankens, are any of you still buying all the big brands too?  I actually haven't in a while.  I start to pick one up and think, "hmmm, for this price, I could get a really unique franken, plus someone actually took the time to make it, write the label, wrap it, and send it to me."  I think that's what I find the most fun.  I've gotten tired seeing the same old, so this has been a great explosion of change. 

It's quite funny too, because my racks are filling quickly too.  I'm trying to keep brands together, but it's getting tighter and tighter...almost time for a helmer?!  The hubby said another row of racks - LOL I think he's crazy~!! I'd probably need a stool to reach them all ;-)  And I'm quite tall! hehe  I have to admit though, he was totally right about getting 6 racks - I sit here at night sometimes and just look at everything.  It's extremely soothing!!  I will have to get some updated pictures soon with all the new ones that have been coming in ;-)

I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful day! 

Much Love,

Crystal

butter LONDON Wallis

I am a sucker for colors like this one.  butter LONDON Wallis is absolutely stunning in person.  It is like a gold shimmer/foil with hints of black and even has somewhat of an olive tone to it.  It's very differently from anything I have in my collection.  Honestly, the pictures do the talking here!  I did use 3 coats to make sure I had maximum coverage.  I felt like 2 left me with a few bald spots where you could see the dark color base.  The great thing about BL is that they have quick drying time!

I love their bottles.  Right now I have them on my shelf facing out, but if I get enough (I'm sure the day is coming where I run out of room), I can possibly turn them the other way so they're on the side.  Either way, they have a unique bottle!  The cap comes off so you can use a smaller round cap for painting.  I think before it used to only be the square!  I'd probably drop it! LOL  So I'm glad they added that little innovation! hehe

Not too much to talk about today!  I hope you enjoyed the pictures!  Enjoy your Friday and have a great weekend!!  I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow!  This week has drained me! lol

Much Love,

Crystal

OPI Save Me and Metallic 4 Life

OPI Save Me - Mr. CC

So I of course have been seeing lots of posts on the new Nicki Minaj collection from OPI. I knew I loved Metallic 4 Life from pictures and actually it's even better in person! My hubby was the one that requested Save Me since he's a huge bar glitter fan!!  Oh and yes!  That is him showing it off above!  I told him how some of the bloggers refer to their husbands as Mr. and their blog name.  He now calls himself Mr. CC, so I'm sure you'll see him spotlighted from time to time!  I personally love it - that he is SO supportive and that he can have fun with it too!

Bear

Here's a picture of my fur baby, Bear. He's helping me as I write this post in bed on my phone. Ok, really he's just wanting to cuddle, but he's cute, so I'll let him. His favorite thing to do is lay directly on top of me, making me his human pillow!! lol ;-)  Ok...on to polish haha

Anyway! Yesterday I wanted to do a Save Me mani! I took A-England Galahad as my base and put Save Me over it. I did have a problem with it flaking off through the day. I have no idea if it was Save Me, Galahad, or the Wicked Fast Cult Nails top coat. Or it was a mixture that caused it? I'm assuming it wasn't the TC since it hasn't given me problems before. I will wear Galahad and Save me individually soon to test it out!  I think it was just the glitter.  I maybe should have thrown some SV on it to make it less brittle.

A-England Galahad

Save Me is a clear base with silver round glitter pieces and holographic bar glitter.  Depending how the light catches it, the bar glitter can either look holographic or a mix of a teal color with some bars a pink color.

Galahad with Save Me

Metallic 4 Life is extra special!! Marisa from Polish Obsession (you can find her here: MarijoNails) and I did an exchange!! I am SO thrilled to have M4L!! It is awesome!! So a big thank you to her!!

Metallic 4 Life over A-England Avalon

Metallic 4 Life is a black jelly with foil, silver glitter. There are larger hexagons, smaller hexagons, and then very tiny little squares. I personally love to layer, so I immediately did some random colors to see how they looked!!  Also, it layers flatter on the nail than Save Me does.  I only used one coat of Wicked Fast by Cult Nails and my nails are pretty smooth!

LtoR: Zoya Kiki, Cult Nails Let Me Fly, Cult Nails In A Trance, and a-England Avalon
Then with Metallic 4 Life over each

I then decided I wanted to do a full mani with A-England Avalon and M4L. I really love the way it turned out!! Unfortunately my pictures turn the color more of a bluish that the true purple that it is!! Sorry!!

A-England Avalon

It's not nearly as blue as this is coming across - much more of a true purple.  It does really glow in person though.  It is a magical color.

This shows the color a smidge better, but please please please ignore my skin color!! ;-)

A-England Avalon with Metallic 4 Life

I personally like 1 coat of M4L, as it keeps it looking somewhat subtle and also let's the bit of color show through. Part of why I like the layering is that it brings each color to a bit of a murkier version. There are so many colors to layer this over!! So versatile!!!

I will touch more on a-England soon!! It's my hubby's favorite brand and I can't wait to show you why!!

Thanks for reading!! Hope you're enjoying so far! ;-)

Much Love,
Crystal