Bite the Bullet

Hello girlies! First off, I want to say sorry for the sparsity of my posts. While the teabag and nail glue holding my torn nail together are still holding up nicely I don't want to push my luck until the nail grows out a bit more.

Still, I'm happy to post a new color swatch today. I'm sure you all know by now that my go to color is purple. Well, this purple is so pretty! It's a good deal lighter than my usual purples but still matched well with my skin tone. This is Wet n Wild, Bite the Bullet.



I tried something new with the pictures this time. While running them through my art program to resize them I also 'oilified' then blurred my skin. It gave it a really weird look!




I'm not exactly sure how to describe this shade. It has so many different 'looks'. In some lights it looks fairly dark, in others it's a beautiful cool purple, but there were times it had a hint of gray. This was completely opaque in two coats, but I'm sure if I went slightly thicker on the coats I could have gotten away with just one. I still adore the new ManiCurve Pro Brush. It gives me so much more control. This mani needed no clean-up! It was so perfect.


It also held up magnificently! I'm hard on my polish so if it lasts past day two I think of it as something of a miracle. Well, Bite the Bullet was on day four with only one or two small chips on the very tips of my fingers that could probably have been prevented with periodic re-coats of my top coat. Most of my nails still had the ends capped.

A lovely color that holds up well? What more could you ask for? Not much, in my opinion.

Blue/green water marble

I really like water marbled nails, but I don't do them as often as I would like as it takes some time and it's also quite messy. But the other day I decided that it was time to do some water marble nails again and this time I tried to a little different pattern. I think this turned out to be a quite nice mani, or what do you think?



So I used only China Glaze polishes for this marble. I started with White Out as my base for the water marble and used Custom Kicks, Re-Fresh Mint and again White Out for the actual water marbling. Then I also added a coat of Fairy Dust to make it sparkle. I really loved these colors together, they looked really clean and bright.


 Nail Tek Foundation II
China Glaze White Out one coat
China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint, Custom Kicks, White Out for water marble
China Glaze Fairy Dust one coat
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri