Happy Birthday to Me: The Good Stuff

I got some cute things from my mom, sister, and Jeremy's mom for my birthday. But onto the good stuff haha!!
Amber sent me these cute Sinful Color minis for my bday!

From left to right:

Sinful Colors This Is It - Shimmery gold with gold shimmer and tiny round holographic glitter

Gogo Girl - True red creme, but deeper. The pic makes it look more primary, but it's richer than that without being dark. 

Midnight Blue - Medium blue with blue shimmer and a slight metallic finish 

HD Nails - Medium-light fresh green with green shimmer and a slight metallic finish

Out of This World - Semi-sheer silver/white with silver and light blue shimmer

My favorite of these is the gold one. It must be the holo glitter :D. I tried and tried to capture it, and this is the best I could get. It is so much more eye-capturing in person.

Jeremy got me a pedicure for me a and a friend (which I haven't done yet), he's paying for my hibachi birthday dinner with friends, and.....he got me an Ulta gift card for $100!!!!

 Wahooo!!! So help me shop ladies!!! Definitely picking up Silver Shatter if I can find it, and maybe two from that collection....China Glaze Ruby Pumps is on my want list...Gosh what else? Heelpps!!

I Got the Greens - Flaky Gemma

I'm really on a St. Patty's Day green trip lately! A loyal fan asked me to swatch Sinful Colors Green Ocean over Zoya Gemma.
To the left is the lovely Gemma all by herself. She's a little lighter and more exciting in natural light.

This is 3 medium/thick coats because the fake nail I used was so huge. Below we have Gemma topped with one coat of the flakies. I did tap a couple in here and there to make sure it looked relatively even, so you could call it one careful coat.

The first on is actually in dimmer light, turned away from the light source. For some reason that really brings the flakies out. This is honestly more of what it looks like most of the time anyway. It doesn't have to catch the light just right for you to be able to see the flakies. The second picture is an example of what this combo looks like in pretty much the worst case scenario. Still gorgeous right? Right :D!

This is a pretty awesome St. Patty's Day combo, or for anytime!

St. Patty's Day Mani

So I noticed Color Club was having a nail art contest on their Facebook page (over now, winners announced on St. Patrick's Day). I thought I would spice up my Sheer Disguise and Sinful Colors Green Ocean mani with some St. Patrick's Day nail art!!

Here is a different angle where you can really see the flakies. I got the idea for the fun lines from this awesome picture someone posted on the Color Club page. Okay so mine look nothing like hers, a nd not even close to as good. Isn't her nail art amazing? Like wow.

I also added a little freehand shamrock to make it more festive. And just to make it pimp, I made the shamrock glow in the dark! I used Diamond Cosmetics Gloworm Green, which I love! You should check them out. As far as I know they are only sold online, but they're only $2.50 each. Even their closeout colors are pretty awesome, and they're only $1.00.
If you did a St. Patrick's Day mani, send me a pic/link. I'd love to see it!!

My First Flaky!

I finally found my very first flaky! Sinful Colors Green Ocean ($1.99)! It's apparently a LE polish that only comes out around St. Patrick's Day. I bought one for you for the giveaway, and another for myself!!

See tha flakies? :D :D :D
I knew it was going to be pretty sheer with a green tint, so I wanted to layer it. I just bought the Color Club Alter Ego set (the lighter one), so I layered it over Sheer Disguise.

Here is a sunlight pic (note the new sun symbol I've been using :D). It really does look like this pretty much all the time though, even indoors. It's just really hard to capture the look on camera. If you don't know what a flaky is, it's like a glitter, but cooler. It usually has some amount of glitter or shimmer to take up the spaces in between larger "flakes" of a similar material. It makes a really cool effect huh?

When there is very little light or it isn't hitting it right, the flakes look like this. They don't sparkle as much, but it still looks really cool like mosaic tiles on my nails.
Sinful Colors Green Ocean has loads of shimmer and flakes in a tinted apple green sheer base. The flakes and glitter flash bright green, gold, and light blue. The application was a little bit difficult, but still worth it. The jelly base was a tiny bit thick. It was a little bit difficult to get the flakes to lay right. Sometimes they would be hanging off the end of my nail or onto my cuticle, and sometimes they would stick up a bit. Even with this, it still was pretty good for application, and it is SO worth it!

Do you own any flakies? Do you like them?
I'm dying for the Nfu Oh ones!