Polished Perfectionist Flamingo Inspired

These nails were another pinterest find. Inspired by these from The Polished Perfectionist.

I didn't have the exact same polishes, I used Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl for the light coral and a franken for the darker. Then the image is the same from BM214 & Konad Special White Polish. My highlight polish along the feathers was Sally Hansen HD Byte.

Just a sponged gradient but it looks awesome!

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Nail-Venturous Floam & A Dash of Princess

Amy of I'm Feeling Nail-Ventuous has recently created some amazing frankens. I was lucky enough to be able to buy two from her. She is not currently selling them, but keep an eye on her blog and you'll stay updated if that changes. ;) 

Floam is fantastic because it contains contains specks of ultra fine neon blue and neon yellow glitter in a clear base. It completely covers in just 2 coats! It's a dense glitter for sure! And yes, it's named after this Floam.

It is so interesting and changes colors depending on how far away you are. Up close the colors are very distinct. From a distance? It looks like a bright green or teal. It's really mind blowing.

I got lots of comments on it at work. All positive! It's a hit!

Next is A Dash of Princess. I love this combination of glitters! There are large hexes in white, opal, metallic pink, and an almost see through hot pink. There are medium hexes in white, and metallic hot pink. Then there are fine micro hot pink glitter pieces. It's all in a clear base, so the layering options are endless!

I wanted to stay with the pink theme and I layered 2 coats over Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Bubblegum Pink. The picture looks like there are medium black hexes, but those are the metallic pink ones that just catch the light funny.

On a swatch stick so you can see how it looks by itself. I saw a really interesting combo when Amy layered this over a medium blue. The almost see through pink pieces turned purple! So I'll try that out soon!

And she packaged them so cute! The came in a bubble mailer wrapped in this metallic tissue paper with a piece of ribbon and a cute felt owl sticker. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to purchase these beauties and I can't wait to see what else you have up your sleeve! ;)

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Pink Glitter Franken

This is a franken I made up recently. I was inspired to make something similar to Lippmann's Glitter in the Air & Candy Shop. The way the sheer polish melds with glitter. I love the pink polish of Essie Luxeffects A Cut Above, and I recently found a Forever 21 dupe. So for $2.80 a franken was born. Lol. I also had a large silver glitter polish from LA Colors that I've lost the name of (why don't they just pick a sticker on the bottle like the rest of the world?) I mixed 1/4 of each of these glitters and added Orly Pink Slip, which is a sheer pink french manicure polish.

This is 3 coats. I would like the larger glitters to show up more. I have enough room left in the bottle, so I'll tweak it a bit by adding more glitter. 

 What do you think? I really like it! 

A sheer pink with large pink and silver glitters and a scattering of fine silver and pink glitter.

Now it just needs a name. Any suggestions?

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Pocahontas

Focusing on another Disney Princess... Here is Pocahontas. Mainly her necklace and Flit the hummingbird.

Suggested by You're Late For Tea, and 2 anonymous followers.

I started by painting all of my nails with a nude franken I made.

Tutorial of how I painted the necklace.
These steps were all acrylic paint.

Then Flit:
Again, all acrylic paint.

Well? What do you think?

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