Mardi Gras Mani

Hey guys! It's Fat Tuesday! Yay! To celebrate, I went with a traditional purple, green and gold theme for my Mardi Gras mani.

I started with two coats of L'Oreal's Amazon Flash, a super sparkly yellow toned gold. I still had visible nail line after two coats, but I knew I was layering another glitter over it so I didn't let that bother me.

Then I topped that with two coats of China Glaze Marry a Millionaire, which is seriously Mardi Gras in a bottle. It has purple, green and gold bar glitter in a clear base. So perfect for the occasion! It does dry with a gritty finish so be prepared to use your favorite glitter taming combo. I used one coat of Gelous and then one coat of Pro-FX Quick Dry.

It's like Mardi Gras confetti in polish form! I love this! My family is Guyanese and we celebrate this day as Shrove Tuesday. I'm waiting for my mom to call me with her Shrove Tuesday pancake recipe and then I'll be all set!

I originally wanted to stamp a mask design over this, but the image was huge and didn't fit on my ring finger, so I just left it as is. Simple, but still very blingy and festive. I hope you guys enjoy your day. Did you do a festive mani? Tweet me some pics!

Pink Wednesday: L'Oreal Raven's Dream and Hits No Olimpo Hefesto

Happy Pink Wednesday! I went simple and subtle today.

I started with two coats of L'Oreal Raven's Dream--a milky pink creme--from their Project Runway collection. This polish is quite sheer so I used two coats of my ridge filling base coat by Nail Life as the base.

And no your eyes aren't deceiving you, I did pick up this pretty for $2.50. Sears had the Project Runway line and the Color of Hope collection on clearance.WINNING! If you follow me on Twitter then you know that I'm incapable of resisting clearance nail polish. You don't even want to know how many I actually picked up off that CVS Beauty Clearance list I posted yesterday.

Anyhow, while I did really like the softness of this color I had been itching to use my Hits Hefesto from the No Olimpo collection that I ordered on Llarowe. I slapped one coat of that baby on top and voila!

I'm in love--at least until my next manicure. LOL.

What do you guys think?

Can a Leopard Change Its Spots?

Sure, if you use an awesome duochrome nail polish to create them. Enter Models Own Aqua Violet from their Beetlejuice collection.

I started this mani with two coats of L'Oreal Mystery from their Color of Hope Fall 2011 collection.

It's such a gorgeous darkened teal and it has this wonderful "secret shimmer" running through it.

I stamped on the leopard print using Konad plate M57.

My only wish is that I could have captured the violet shift better. 

It really is a lot stronger than my picture shows.

Are you guys loving duochromes as much as I am? I'm totally in love.