Harry Potter asks...are you a Slytherin or a Gryffindor?

So lately the buzz is all about Harry Potter...i gotta say the last movie is AH-MAZING~ if you havent watched it yet then you really should go see it..and in 3d if possible...you wont regret it... anyways onto the manicure ^_^ on a sad note one of my nails (my pointer finger) chipped last week..so I ended up clipping it to a shorter length and since I couldn't stand only one nail of my right hand being shorter then the rest I had to cut all of them to a shorter length on that hand so I apologize in advance for the nubbly fingers >.<  so like my title suggests I couldn't decide whether to go Slytherin or Gryffindor so I ended up doing both...

This mani was ridiculously easy to do as long as you have the shatter polishes that seem to be all the craze now...

I started with 2 coats (it doesn't really have to be neat except for the finger you plan on leaving with out shatter) of this No Miss polish in Hutchinson Hunter that I bought from Down to Earth... It was the perfect deep Slytherin green color that I wanted...

then after it was all dried I put on a layer of OPI's Silver shatter on all my nails except my pointer finger which I left plain...

then on my pointer finger I added 3 silver rhinestones....

then I used 2 coats of this Eleanor polish in ENP039 that my friend bought for me from Sasa in Hong Kong...I felt that this was the perfect red for the Gryffindor style..

then I used Sephora by OPI's new gold shatter polish for the rest of my nails except my pointer finger....

on a quick sidenote.. I think its so funny that OPI used Shatter, China Glaze used Crackle, Color Club used Fractured and thus since most of the other verbs were taken SOPI was stuck using Blasted....*sigh* so many verbs that mean all the same...

and then I used 3 gold rhinestones for the pointer finger...

Voila!~Pin It

Swatches of my new polishes...

Now that spring break is over and school is back on track I feel like I may have less time to play with my nail.. >.< so sad... we'll see though.. anyways a few days ago I posted about the new polishes I bought...

and I swatched one finger of each color but I didnt post those pictures..

First was this No Miss polish.. personally I've never heard of this brand before but I was shopping around at my local Down to Earth store and these polishes were on sale and the gorgeous blue-purpley shimmer in the bottle caught my eye. It's so pretty!

 Next was China Glaze- Candie... this was 2 coats on the nail..it still looks good but I think I'd use this over another base color to give it more oomph.. *the pink glitter is ah-mazing....its a totally different glitter then the OPI/Katy Perry- Teenage Dream..

Then came Nubar- Prize... this is the 3nd bottle of Nubar I have..but the first that I could use as a color on its own...I have Nubar 2010 and another Nubar that is more of a glittery coat that I use as a top coat instead of just polish...I think this color is nice but it doesn't really compliment my skin tone that well..I think I'll end up using this for when I do nail art...

Then came Essie-Sew Psyched.... I've been lusting after this polish for the longest time ev-er! Living here in Hawaii there's not many places that sells Essie or even if they do, I dont have a wide array of colors to choose from..I found this little baby on Amazon for 5.99 plush 1.50 shipping I think...waaay worth it...I'm soo glad I bought this!

And finally OPI Designer Series-Radiance.. This silver is so reflective...its pretty stunning...there's not much I can say about it ;)

Then before I took off everything I tried a coat of Candie over the DS-Radiance...the peachey Candie over the Reflective silver gave this an overall milky white/grey color...very interesting combo.... and then over the No Miss polish it subdued the hot pink color a bit and gave it some glittery-ness...

From then to now I'm happy/sad to say I bought some more to my collection. I'll be swatching and taking pictures of them soon ;) ciao~Pin It

New to my Collection

This past month or so I added some polishes to my collection...they arent exactly "new" to their respective brand but they're new to me...

Essie-Sew Psyched     No Miss Polish- Pembroke Petunia

China Glaze- Candie, Nubar- Prize

OPI- DS Radiance, OPI- I juggle...Men

i swatched them only on one finger but i'll post those pics up tomorrow.Pin It