Zoya Cassi

My sister is the lovely hand model for today :P. I painted her nails when I visited for Thanksgiving. 

This is two coats of Zoya Cassi. She's a lovely pink/orange coral with silver microglitter. 

I was showing my sister how to pose. How cute!

I bought Cassi because I thought she'd be the coral I'm looking for for my wedding colors. I was SO worried when I got the bottle and she looked like a soft baby pink. When you put her on the nails though, the orange really shows up in that pink. She put her fingernails next to my polish togo bag so you can see how nicely it matches with the pink and orange on it. 

Here is a bottle pic. Cassi went hiking in the jungle lol. It's my mum's house plant haha!!

I love her just as much as I thought. The bottle color really worried me, but she turned out perfect. She really does have plenty of orange in there to make her coral. 

That Bitch!

Remember this?

 She's my first franken ever :D. There are more swatches here. I've been thinking and thinking on a name and told my friends again "I still haven't named that bitch" with a pic of the polish. Well apparently "That Bitch" stuck hahaha, so now that is my first franken's name. 

Here she is for my current pedi:

Ahh coral shimmer fabulousness...I love it! Super success! 

Next I need to try one of these jelly glitter frankens people are making!

How do you like That Bitch? :D

My First Franken!

So I finally jumped on the Franken bandwagon. I started with a shitty old polish in a mini bottle and cleaned it out with acetone. It actually took quite a while to get it all the way clean since I couldn't really reach the inside. Using a pipe cleaner really helped get the polish gunk off the inside of the bottle.

I used a total of 14 polishes, kind of a ton lol. I wanted to make coral, but didn't want to start with a coral base. It felt like cheating :P.

Pretty gold shimmer

Pretty!

See the glass flecks?

Then I crackled them just for fun!

Here is a cellphone pics that shows the more orangey side.

Like it? Like to franken?

The Skittle of Indecision

Looking at my pretty new Zoyas from the buy one get one promo they did recently, I just couldn't decide which to use first. I got Rica, Reva, Faye, Keiko, Breezi, and Areej. 3 from each collection, not counting the ModMattes. I love me some shimmers, so I knew my first had to be from the Sunshine Collection (Reva, Rica, Kimmy, Tanzy, Faye, Apple). Reva was my favorite from the swatches I had looked at before ordering, but Rica was calling my name too. So I did my first skittle and used both!!

I'm not really happy with my nails right now. They're breaking so much I can't keep them square, so they're kind of in between. I just started taking nail vitamins and using Orly Nailtrition though, so we'll see how this works!

Here you can see which is which. Reva is more red, and Rica is more pink. I put Rica against my baby pink pajamas so you could see her coloring compared to a normal pink.

Rica is a glass flecked shimmer that is mostly pink with some coral/orange/copper flavor. It's hard to describe, but she is much more than your average pink - very soft and pretty.

Reva is a rich berry red glass flecked shimmer. I expected her to be a little more berryish with a hint of red violet (see above swatch link), but I'm still very happy with her. She definitely has a lot more character than a plain red and has a lovely deep color to her without being dark.

Here is an indoor pic for you so you can see the difference. No matter the light, these girls are always gorgeous. I got some compliments from the elderly ladies I work with!

Here is an outdoor and indoor bottle comparison. Gorgeous in the bottle and on the nail! The best of both worlds!!