Sweet Baby Octopolish!

 We've had a lot of overcast dreary weather here, and while that's blah and not at all helping with my wishes for springtime, it is ideal to show off the shift of a good multichrome. indoor, CF lighting Great Lakes Lacquer released The Scorpion, the Serpent, the Phoenix with last January's "written in the stars" PPU as a tribute to the maker's own sign of Scorpio.  Now, I'm convinced I have a version of every multichrome under the sun, but when I saw the swatch pics it looked very unique, and I still don't know exactly what's going on here. indoor, bright CF lighting This polish is quite shifty and changes a lot with a tilt of your hand or while walking through different rooms in the house (you know, where the window goes from this angle to that one, and the lights are lamps instead of overhead).  In some lighting, this polish is intensely emerald green (above) while in other's it's a soft, cool, silvery grey (pinky nail in the top pic) - t

 For Valentine's Day, I go either one of two ways - jaded and "screw this greeting card holiday stuff" or else as cute as possible.  This year has been tough on everyone, and the man and I have gone above and beyond in taking care of each other, so there's just no way I can be jaded about love right now.  outdoor, overcast daylight for both These little tablets of sugar were universal for our childhood, and I'm still known to munch a few if they come my way this time of year.  I've done candy hearts before , and I swear it's the cutest, most instantly identifiable as Valentine's look possible for the holiday.  This time, I picked up a fantastic new plate called Let's Converse from Lantern & Wren that contains a huge variety of sayings (plus an alphabet if you want to make your own!), and little hearts that are ideally sized for most anyone's nails.  I started with 2 coats of Cameo Colours Victims Aren't We All (ok, I can't be all sw

After wearing such a complex polish as CrowsToes Betelgeuse, a neutral was in order to change things up. indoor, CF lighting Yet another polish left to languish untried for far too long, Pretty Serious released The Night Before... with their Holiday 2015 collection.  It's a deep, dark, not-quite-black filled to the brim with silver metallic microflake shimmer, resulting in an overall foil look. indoor, bright CF lighting This went on perfectly smooth and perfectly opaque in 2 coats.  It's definitely not the most flashy or complex polish in my stash, but wow is it an incredible base for nail art.  Speaking of which... outdoor, overcast daylight Because we were getting our first heavy snowstorm of winter around here, the man said it obviously called for a snowflake look.  Who am I to refuse an inspiration that direct?  This is of course the lovely assortment of individual snowflakes from HeHe Fairy Tale 03 - I've used this plate for similar looks before and probably will agai