Sweet Baby Octopolish!

Still plenty of time to fit in more Halloween manis all week! outdoor, overcast daylight I wanted to go in a completely different direction from my former Halloween look, so went with a monochromatic grey color scheme.  The base here is Native War Paints Jessica, which like most NWP I have shows some pretty serious UBS and pigment settling, but shook right up with no trouble and was a smooth almost one-coater.  This stone grey has a warm coppery red contrasting shimmer, so I took my color scheme for the rest of the mani from that.  Splatter images are from Dixie Plates Halloween 2017 stamped with El Corazon Kaleidoscope white and true red, and my trusty NanaCoco Love Black.  The cheeky ghost from MoYou London Geek 13 (who obviously has made all this mess) is reverse-stamped in the same colors. indoor, CF lighting As with all my MYL plates, I had zero issues lifting this image on the first try.  The cartoony, thickly lined images on this plate are ide...

The intermittent warming up of things means it's occasionally time for thermal weather, and we all know we gotta try these out ASAP before they fade! indoor, bright CF lighting The Shimmer Me box was a project hosted by Native War Paints with monthly guests; the project appears to have been on hiatus for a few months now.  As per usual with boxes, I don't often have a hankering for everything on offer, and try to pick up the ones I do like solo from someone splitting things out. window-filtered daylight A Cold Day in Texas was part of January 2018's box, and suckerpunched me with both the Texas thing (sing the song of my homeland!) and the lovely denim blue cold color. outdoors, overcast daylight In the cold state, Cold Day is absolutely well worn denim.  It's a lovely blue with a nice shimmer - par for the box's theme - that theoretically has matching blue microflake scattered throughout that only becomes apparent when the color transitions into ...

For a good while now, I've lemming'd Sinful Colors Zeus - a cool lavender-grey with a fiery shimmer - though they've sadly never brought it back again like they sometimes do with LEs from older collections.  You can imagine, then, how quickly I snapped up Native War Paints Jessica the moment I saw it. indoor, bright CF lighting Jessica is a shifty crème, and I never 100% concretely decided what color it actually was: smoky taupe?  Lavender?  Blued grey?  In any case, the coppery red-pink shimmer adds its own veil to the overall color, making it a little more taupe-to-lavender in shade, and shining beautifully in bright light. shady, early morning daylight - totally looks like warm taupe here, right? bright afternoon sunlight - totally looks blued/concrete grey with a fiery overlay here, right? The formula was a little thick but very workable, leveling nicely in 2 coats.   <3 that shimmer! It also wore rather like iron, meaning it g...