Color Club, Ash Brown
Color Club, Take the Stage

Latest 8ty8 haul has kept me busy this week!
Ash Brown is a very plum-y brown, known as being a dupe for Essie’s Smokin Hot.
I love it.

OPI, Pepe’s Purple Passion.
Ugh, it looked so good in the bottle.
If you too are tempted, just put it down.

Good. Now walk away and don’t look back.

Free-handed so it’s a little shaky, but I’m quite happy with it =]
Inspired by Summersaurus’ LDR mani

Sally Hansen, Cafe au Lait
Sally Hansen, Gilty Pleasure
Striper 

Ginger Snaps
Usually I don’t like full-nail glitter, but the holidays can always use a little extra sparkle!

Rimmel, Hot Cocoa
Sally Hansen, Strobe Light 

China Glaze, Secret Peri-wink-le
China Glaze, Liquid leather
Nubar, Violet Sparkle 

Franken #2

Loveeeee. 
I’m so upset I only made a mini bottle of this one, I’ve only got one or two applications worth of polish left, so sad.
I tried to capture the shimmer in this but it just wasn’t happening.
Whaatever - love how this turned out, more now than before XD

China Glaze, Far Out 

I had a bunch of mini-polishes and half-empty bottles I wanted to get rid/make use of. 
I made a few different frankens out of the lot and I’m actually really happy with the results! Some more than others, but maybe you can let me know which you like best?


And for a better look….
Made of at least 12 polishes.
This was a mutt I gave up on until I pulled something off this weekend =]

Made of 3 polishes. The original dark plum, a light pink and small glitter.
makes the shimmer very subtle.

This is probably the best transformation.
Ardene’s confetti glitter + 1/2 bottle of pre-franken dark plum.
Confetti glitter was unwearable, too brash & silvery. Now I loveee it. 

Purple + small dose of Revlon, Silver Dollar

Dark purple shimmer + few drops of blue creme
Hard to photograph, it’s more purple IRL. 

recipe & better pic seen here

 Favourite!
Dark Green Shimmer + Light blue creme

 Yellow + light blue 
Most useful: I didn’t have any light/lime green in my collection until now!

So what do you think? 
Would you wear any of these? Which one’s your favourite? 

Snakeskin

Essie, Sew Psyched
Nubar, 2010

Franken #1

Wet & Wild, FuchsiaRama  
H&M Orange
Ardene, Confetti Glitter
Claire’s, Bedazzled 

I’ll probably be using this more for layering, and I might adjust the glitter levels over time.. but I’m still happy with it =] 
Jellyyyyyy 

Stainless Steel

Revlon, Steel-her Heart
Revlon, Silver Dollar
Silver Striper

Same mani, better lighting.
I realized how boldly orange Peachy Keen looked in this picture, so I thought I’d just put this up here. 
It’s a much lighter orange - not quite a pastel but pretty close =]
x 

Plaid!
China Glaze, Peachy Keen 

*better lighting here
**paint-edited background =P