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Essie Demure Vixen + Girly Bits Shift Happens

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You wanna see a mani that looks freaking awesome in real life but not in photographs because I’m in desperate need of an equipment upgrade? Alright, here we go!

This is three coats of Essie Demure Vixen (a pink neutral shimmer) with two coats of Girly Bits Shift Happens on top (an even better replacement for OPI Movin’ Out). I love that Shift Happens looks amazing over everything. It’s like putting Sriracha over everything. Nom nom nom nom.

This is Demure Vixen on steroids. STEROIDS. I injected some sexy into my nails, is basically what happened. I wish it looked more than just pink and shimmery. I posted a Hipstamatic photo on my Facebook page showing the KA-POW! of shimmer a lot better (even though it was under my side table lamp and thus washes out all the pink). I can never win some days.

Oh nowwwwww the green decides to really come out and play.

In a last ditch effort to keep your interest, I’m going to leave you with the cutest video for Dan Deacon’s “Paddling Ghost” (which is a few years old but I don’t care!):

(PS he has a new single out which sounds FREAKING AWESOME and a new album and I CAN’T WAIT and he’s playing at The Crescent Ballroom which is near my place and WILL SOMEONE GO WITH ME PLS. Happy sigh.)

Thanks for reading, & have a great weekend!

Essie Marshmallow + DL Happy Birthday + Girly Bits January Morning

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I wish I was a baker. I would love to try to make confetti cake. I don’t think I’d do very well since I’m not a robot.

I also don’t think it’s very feasible now, considering I haven’t had a proper slice of bread in almost four weeks. I never knew how much I liked bread, cheese, and Trader Joe’s Brownie & Oat Bars until I started eating healthier. (Stop right there. Don’t laugh at me. You don’t know what you’re missing until you take a bite out of one of those.)

The next best thing to eating confetti cake is to put it on your nails. (Obvi adding some cute shimmer helps, too.)

This is three coats of Essie Marshmallow under one coat of DL Happy Birthday under a coat of Essie Marshmallow under a coat of Girly Bits January Morning. Phew! That was a mouthful. Now let me try to say that five times fast. (Just kidding.)

Essie Marshmallow is one of my most versatile polishes. I haven’t decided whether I’m replacing it with OPI Don’t Touch My Tutu or not. I can’t tell which one is, erm, less streaky. :) Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday was one of the first “high end” polishes I ever bought. I thought it was fun and exciting and, well, what’s not to like about multi-colored glitter? And Girly Bits January Morning is subtly beautiful.

Sigh…isn’t this a way rad combination? I still crave cake. And chocolate. And oat bars. Damn you, nail polish. This is all your fault!

Also I got 100 likes on my Facebook page! I love you guys! As always, thanks for reading & commenting & making my day!

Girly Bits January Morning

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I don’t have a red polish tonight for you all. I figured I’d wear something else as a “break” while the East finishes up their games (tonight, possibly) before the Conference Finals start. All I know is we’re playing the Kings, and it is going to be the most exciting series this playoffs.

HOWEVER, I do have a pretty Girly Bits for you. This was the third and final Girly Bits I bought during her recent shop opening (the one before last). It’s starting to get a little warmer out, and I am soooooo not ready for the heat. I wanted to wear something “cool” to take my mind off the rising temps, so I am wearing January Morning. Why yes, I would like January’s weather back!

A sheer sparkly white, with flashes of pink and blue. Like freshly fallen snow. This one is inspired by my Dad. You can read the story behind this polish by clicking here.

This is one coat of January Morning over two coats of OPI I Vant To Be A Lone-Star. It’s so elegant.

I layered this over other colors, but the pictures didn’t turn out well at all, so I cut them from this post. I really wanted to show you how this glorious polish looked over a light pink and a white. Alas. Maybe later? ;)

The blue is visible enough, but the pink a bit less so. I think it’s just my lighting, though. I have to be better at positioning my lamps better.

Of course I love this because I love subtle shimmer. I mean, it is a white shimmer that softens almost everything you put it on (maybe even black, who knows?), but that pink and blue just slay me every time I look at my nails!

Have you read the story behind the polish yet that I posted near the beginning? It is a tear-jerker, but a fantastic way for Pam to pay homage to her father. I don’t know if I’d be as creative when the time comes for me.

Thanks for reading! <3

Girly Bits Stormy Skies

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Hi everyone! This is the most Easter-y set of nails I could muster, hahaha! This is another gorgeous polish from Girly Bits called Stormy Skies.

Stormy Skies is a medium grey that leans to the dusty teal side. It has a hint of micro-glitter that shows gold or green, depending on the skies.

This is three coats of Stormy Skies. Three coats really doesn’t feel thick at all. I believe it was opaque in two, but my hands haven’t been the steadiest lately so I had a few areas to level/cover up. I didn’t even need Gelous to smooth things over! Application was easy peasy.

While my photos make my fingers look “dirty” from the polish, it’s so not true! The lighting wasn’t great, so the polish gives my fingers this look like I just ran them through the dirt. (Not like I would do that anyway, because we don’t have real dirt here…)

The description mentions a gold or green microshimmer, which you can’t see at all on my photos. Instead, you can see the blue! Looking at my bottle, the shimmer shines mainly blue and green. The iridescent blue (which reminds me if Lynnderella Bride of Franken were to explode into a million smaller pieces) seems the most prominent on my nails. Maybe my lighting just wasn’t great. Damn. I wish I could show you how truly beautiful this is! I guess I’ll just have to wear this again. ;)

I hope Pam opens her shop up soon so you also can own this gorgeous polish! I will probably turn to this in the summer to call upon the yearly monsoon rains in July. Phoenix fortunately gets a respite from the blistering heat with quite a bit of rain, but sometimes Mother Nature needs a bit of coaxing! ;)

Thanks for reading, & I hope you all have a wonderful Easter weekend! <3

EDIT 04/08/12: Pam notified me last night that this bottle was part of a batch with more blue/purple shimmer with it, as her supplier sent her the incorrect glitter. While I would love the original bottle, I love this one just as much! It is so gorgeous and I don’t think I have anything like it in my stash!

Girly Bits Shift Happens

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Good evening everyone! Tonight I have one of a few polishes I purchased from Pam at Girly Bits. I was fortunate enough to order some full-sized polishes from her after the announcement of her Calendar Girls collection.

While Shift Happens isn’t a part of aforementioned collection, I wanted to purchase it anyway because I wanted to know how it compares to OPI Movin’ Out, which I currently own.

From the listing:

A sheer red based layering polish, with strong colour shifts from red to green to gold.
Layer Shift Happens over dark colours for the most dramatic effect.

I layered one coat of SH over a-england Camelot. This is a pretty basic red to green duochrome topcoat, but it’s also just that: pretty. You can see a little bit of the green on my index finger. I own red to green color-changing pigment, and what I’ve made doesn’t even compare to this. I don’t know what it is. I wonder if I add too much pigment and she doesn’t? Who knows. I have no time to figure it out. I will let the experts work their magic, and I will instead revel in their magic. (Or do my nails?)

Here’s some more green, by the way.

Honestly, I really like this instead of OPI Movin’ Out. It looks so much smoother & doesn’t look streaky. I don’t even think I paid attention to how thick I applied the polish. What’s nice is you only really need one coat, not because you need to preserve the pretty, but because that’s all you really need. So little effort for so much good on your nails!

In this photo, you can see both the green and the gold come out. It reminds me of the nebulas in space (and also in Mass Effect 3 on the galaxy map). Oh, that index finger…swoon! I’m a Mad Scientist, and that was my favorite finger on the Citadel.

The next two pictures are comparisons between Girly Bits Shift Happens and OPI Movin’ Out…on my left hand. With dry janky cutes. (I know. I’m sorry.)

L-R (index > pinky): Shift Happens, Movin’ Out, Shift Happens, Movin’ Out.

Girly Bits looks a lot prettier and melds in well with the black than the OPI. The OPI needed to be applied a little more carefully than the GB to prevent light streaking. The base color is also different; red as opposed to a purple. While the GB was only really red at one angle, you do see more than just purple shimmer with the OPI.

Here’s the shift. Again, the shimmer looks better with the GB than the OPI. You can also see this gray tint on the OPI, which looks…strange, I guess. I feel like it interferes with what’s going on. The GB glows better.

I haven’t tried layering Shift Happens over other colors, but when I do, expect some more posts featuring it. This has been a pleasant first experience with Girly Bits; I love that each polish has a story behind it (especially the ones in Calendar Girls), and I can’t wait to see more from the lovely Pam.

Thanks for reading!