30 Days of Blues for Autism Awareness - Deborah Lippmann I Know What Boys Like with KleanColor Chunky Purple Holo

Today is Day 27 in my "30 Days of Blues".  If you remember me lamenting over Julep Taylor, you may know that I was trying to find my perfect periwinkle blue nail polish.  I thought that Taylor was much too purple, so after I removed it, I started searching for just the right shade.  And I think I may have found it in I Know What Boys Like...

It is just the perfect dusty shade of periwinkle.  Unfortunately, I had topcoat bubbles (which make me stabby), so I had to slap some glitter on it to mask them.  I chose KleanColor Chunky Purple Holo, which is a clear, light purple base loaded with multi-chrome glitter (it's not a holo).  

This 3 coats of I Know What Boys Like, and 2 coats of Chunky Purple Holo.  Best part?  I know have  the song by The Waitresses running though my head.  :P  And now you may have it, too.  LOL.

30 Days of Blues for Autism Awareness - Blue Glitter Layering

Sorry I'm so late on this one for today.  I've actually done 3-4 blue manicures over the course of 24 hours and I haven't been satisfied with any of them.  This one was the last one, so I figured I might as well take pictures of it.  LOL.

Sorry for not putting the color information on the picture this time.  I tried, but by the time I listed all of the colors I used, it took up the entire picture.  Also, I asked my husband and he said this was blue, so I went with it, even though I may actually be in greenville.  :P

For this manicure, I layered a bunch of different blue and blue/green glitters.  In order, I used...

3 coats of Color Club Sexy Siren

1 coat of Color Club Untamed Luxury

1 coat of Color Club Sexy Siren

1 coat of KleanColor Chunky Holo Glitter Teal

1 coat of Nubar Dewdrop

I also used a coat of CND Stickey as my base coat and a coat of Diamont TC.  Unfortunately, even after hours, I could still peel it off.  It wasn't gooey and it probably could have stayed for a little longer, but it felt thick on my nails (probably because I used 95 coats :P) and as I wasn't in love with it... it had to go.

Still, I love the concept of glitter layering, even if this one was a bit of a fail.  You can come up with so many combinations.

Thank you again for reading my "30 Days of Blues" posts for Autism Awareness month.  If you are a participating blogger or if you know of a blog that is participating, please let me know by replying in this post or by shooting me an email to megan@apolishproblem.com.

Today's Nails - Zoya Lolly

This manicure was inspired by a comment in one of my recent posts.  Diana suggested topping a hot pink with gold glitter.  I thought that was a perfect idea, though, just like all my ideas of late, it didn't work out exactly as planned.

I applied a version of this manicure last night using Illamasqua Collide and Lippmann Boom Boom Pow.  Unfortunately, my bad luck with Collide continues and I could not get it to set.  It was still wet when I was ready to go to sleep, so rather than deal with sheet marks, I removed it.

Today, I wanted to reapply the look, but I was still wary of Collide.  I tried to find another hot pink, Julep Samantha, but it seems to be missing at the moment, so I went with Zoya Lolly, from their 2011 Mod Matte collection.  But the base color alone didn't quite work for me (it's not as neon as Collide), so I added 2 thin coats of Klean Color Chunky Candy Holo (bottle pic).  Chunky Candy Holo is such a unique glitter top coat.    It is small mutli-chrome glitter that shift from pink to orange to gold in a bright pink sheer base.  I then added a coat of my favorite glitter top coat, Lippmann Boom Boom Pow and topped the whole thing with Nubar Diamont.

Zoya Lolly is available from Zoya.com (and currently they have a B3G3 promotion with code SPRING3).

Yesterday's Nails: Crazy Navy

I wanted to preface this by saying that I am not normally one to show a gazillion pictures of the same manicure, but for this one, I felt that several pictures were necessary to show just how pretty this was.  This is 2 coats of OPI Russian Navy and 1 coat of Klean Color Chunky Holo Bluebell...

I had been wanting to dig Russian Navy out of the depths of my storage container for a few days.  Russian Navy is one of those colors that it took me several uses to like it.  When I first got it, right after the OPI Russia collection came out, I loved it in the bottle, but hated it on the nail.  At the time, I had acrylics, and I thought it just was too much on the long nails.  However, once I tried it on shorter nails, I liked it much more.  Unfortunately, right after I applied my manicure, I got tip wear (grrr), so I decided to apply something over top.  My first thought was to do glitter tips and then I saw Klean Color Chunky Holo Bluebell in my glitter/holo drawer.  I adore these Klean Color Chunky Holos.  Bluebell is a slightly blue base with random-sized multi-chrome (green, gold, red) glitter.  I think this is a fabulous combo.