Lynnderella- I Can Afford It! Over ORLY Lucky Duck

Gosh I love a good green, and today I have two of them to share with you. Lynnderella- I can afford it! And ORLY Lucky Duck- which is actually more of a teal.
Lucky Duck is a gorgeous teal cream, with great application and nearly a one coater. It dries with a satin finish, but it actually looks great that way.

Then I topped that with Lynnderella I Can Afford It! which is a bright green jelly base, with a few different sizes and shapes of green glitter, and a random purple glitter in there as well. It's very sparkly, and gorgeous!

Ooooh I love close ups of Lynnderellas~ Look! there is even a copper glitter in there. Love it.

This is one from this collection that I would say is a must have, especially if you love greens.

Lynnderellas will be available very soon at Llarowe.

Llarowe also carries a wide variety of highly sought after polishes from all over the world, and she ships internationally. So now all those polishes you could never get, can now be in your hands. 

Leah Ann Larowe has amazing customer service as well, and I highly recommend checking out her site.

Thanks for looking!

♥Pam♥

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Orly Sapphire Silk, with a flower design

I had purchased Orly Sapphire Silk quite a while ago and for one reason or another never got around to wearing it. Well I pulled it out, and wow what a gorgeous polish! Beautiful application with a deep dusty blue teal colour. It looks similar to MAC Blue India, but a little brighter perhaps?
Anyway, true to Pam style, I popped some nail art on top, and I was really pleased with how the colours stood out.

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

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Showdown! The battle of the greens.

The fall collections this year are full of beautiful colours, and army green seems to be a trend among a lot of different brands. The first two I picked up were from China Glaze-Westside Warrior, and OPI- Uh Oh Roll down the Window. I have often heard the question asking how these two compare to each other. So today, I have compared them for you, along with two other greens from my collection.

The four we will be comparing today are-

OPI Uh Oh Roll down the window

China Glaze Westside Warrior

Orly Enchanted Forest

Joe Fresh Moss ( this is a dupe for Zoya Shawn)

On with the show!

First up is the comparison most requested. This is OPI and China Glaze.

From left to right I have China Glaze WsW on my index and ring fingers, and OPI UORDTW on my middle and pinky fingers.

While they both have smooth application with no streaking or drag, Westside is noticeably more opaque and perhaps a little thicker. It's actually a one coater, where as Uh Oh definitely requires two, or even three coats.

Westside is darker, and a little less murky and less yellow. 

I can't say that I necessarily prefer one colour over the other, and I would say they are different enough to own both.

Here are the same polishes, just another view.

Please ignore the little cotton fuzz that was hitchin' a ride.

Here we have Westside on the index and ring fingers still, and ORLY Enchanted Forest on the middle and pinky fingers.

The Orly is darker and pulls more blue than Westside Warrior. Definitely a two coater. The first coat looks a little streaky but it evens out easily with the second coat.

Same polish placement again, different angle.

This one is Joe Fresh Moss on the index and ring fingers, and OPI Uh Oh on the middle and pinky fingers. Moss is a deeper darker colour, with yellow undertones like Uh Oh, but dark like Enchanted Forest. Moss has great application, very smooth, very pigmented. Not at opaque as the China Glaze, but with careful application you could get away with one coat.

The following three photos are all four polishes side by side.

Index Finger-OPI UhOh roll down the window

Middle Finger-China Glaze Westside Warrior

Ring Finger-Orly Enchanted Forest

Pinky Joe Fresh Moss

I hope this helps you out some, and doesn't confuse you further.

They are all gorgeous polishes, and any of them will have you right on trend for fall.

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

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Nail art- Blue and white scalloped lace + a tutorial

Welcome Back!

I hope you had the chance to check out my guest post at Polish Fixation yesterday!

Sometimes when I sit down to do some nail art I have a vision. Some times I just start painting and hope for the best. Both of these methods have produced some mani's that I am proud of, and some that I am afraid to show my dog. This time I am liking it. Perhaps because the base is a lovely cheery vibrant blue, and perhaps because I just let my creative side lead the way. And my dog approves :)

This started off with Orly Snowcone. It is an amazing, smooth highly pigmented blue that is sure to cheer up the most dreary of days. It just makes me feel great!

And here is the finished look.

 If you scroll down there is a picture tutorial on how to achieve this look. And it's easier than you think. 

(just don't tell my dog because he think's I am the bee's knees)

After applying Snowcone, and waiting a few minutes for it to dry,

 I applied a diagonal swipe of Sinful Snow me White.

After the white, I used my largest dotting tool to apply dots in Snowcone right along the line where the white and blue meet, so it creates a scalloped effect. You can see the texture of the blue dots a little, but after you seal it all with top coat, it smooths out and you can't tell at all.

I also used a very thin striping brush and applied a thin line of snowcone right next to ( but not touching)  the blue dots I just did.

Next I applied a thin silver stripe next to the blue one. For this I used Claire's Two Way nail art pen. It has a striper brush when you unscrew the cap, and if you pull off the very tip of the cap instead, its a fine tip tool that created a dot with a little squeeze of the tube. 2 in 1. Pretty cool right?

Next I placed a row of dots using a smaller dotting tool and snowcone.

And finally I used the larger dotting tool again, but with less paint loaded on it and placed medium sized silver dots directly in top of the original blue ones so that some blue still shows around the curved edge. For this I used the silver from the Claire's nail art pen. I simply dabbed a little onto my palette that I use for nail art, and dipped my dotting tool in it.

Seal with your favourite top coat, and you're all done!

I used Seche Vite. It's my favourite because it's very fast drying and very shiny.

How do you like my superawesomemultibottleholding skills? 

haha

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

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Crackle-ackle-ackle

I wasn't completely sold on the crackle/shatter concept at first, but since I tried it I absolutely love it. For me personally it is all about colour combos. I picked up OPI black shatter first, and now I am the proud owner of several other shades and brands of shatters. The combos are endless.
Here is one of the first shatter/crackle mani's I ever did.

This is Orly Glitz, and China Glaze Broken Hearted.

My application and photo skills could have been better, but I was just trying out different colour combos, and I did like this one.

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