Franken Friday #2!

Today's franken, as promised, is totally boring, except... I like it a lot! I totally didn't expect to... but then I realized, I've never seen anything like it, so... without further ado, may I present to you: Royal Terracotta!

It's a really lovely caramel/terracotta/leather color, somewhat lighter & less red than shown here. Ring finger is pretty accurate... but you know me, this happened...

Shine of the Times looks GORGEOUS over it. I love it so hard... it's so glowy & autumn & I'm totally jonesing for a caramel latte now. Good thing there's one in my future! ;-)

NYX Moonwalk

Decided to randomly pick a polish out of my box of untried polishes... babam!

It's a slightly lilac toned silver foil type polish. I love it, but... you know. I gotta glitz my shit up, yo! Enter the dragons:

'scuse my nubbined middle finger... it had been growing back nicely after it got torn off at work one day... & then last night while on the way to meet up with a friend, my phone decided to not work. So I planned on doing a hard restart by taking the battery out, but it's SUCH a pain in the ass to get the case off, that I tore it again. I'm pretty sure I muttered obscenities for about 3 blocks after that, despite the fact that the phone suddenly decided to work again.

Tomorrow is Franken Friday #2! I've got a totally boring color for you, hahaha. I bet you can't wait...

Sally Hansen Lustre Shine: Lava

Dude. DUUUUUUUUDEEE. If you ONLY get ONE polish from this collection, let this be it. It's so shimmery, silky, redyelloworangegoldpink gorgeous, I can't even. Pictures could never do it justice.

Do it, get it! I love this polish sooooooo much, I might need a back up bottle...

Quick Swatch: Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Plume

Nothing terribly groundbreaking... it's a lot like OPI Just Spotted The Lizard, except the color in the bottle is much closer to what you get on your nails as opposed to JSTL, which seduces you with the promise of blue... *sigh* Formula was dreamy and silky, but this was a lot sheerer than the other two I've tried. Two coats here. Tomorrow  will be the last swatch from the collection, Lava...  unless I decided to be a very bad girl sometime in the future & pick up more...

Sally Hansen Lustre Shine, Copperhead

First of all... welcome to my new followers *waves* I love you guys! Teehee. If you're *not* following, but you've been checking me out repeatedly, well, what in tunket are you waiting for? Get on that shizzle, yo!

er... yeah. So, onto the polish!

My ring & middle are covered by a coat of Shine of the Times. I know, I'm so predictable ;-)

You can probably tell from my pointer and pinky that this polish has a base of copper that shifts purple in different lights. It's quite fascinating, really...  I don't own anything like it and I've never seen anything like it! What's even stranger is that there are clearly veins of a verdigris-like green in the bottle... yet they don't come out in the polish at all! Shown here is one coat- much like Scarab, it's very opaque, & the formula is a superstar. I love this polish so hard, & I'm looking forward to doing Plume tomorrow. Or later tonight, if I'm feeling restless enough. So far,  I totally recommend this collection, between the formula & the gorgeous colors. If you can find it, get your hands on it quick! Something tells me it's going to be a quick seller...

Sally Hansen Lustre Shine, Scarab

First of all, I gotta gush about the concert on Saturday. Korpiklaani was pure folk metal ecstasy, not to mention Metsatoll, an Estonian band also on the bill. Dude... the bagpiper played like, 10 different instruments, & even played the bagpipes BEHIND his head. Somewhere, Jimi Hendrix is slack jawed. The place was super packed... & at a few points during Korpiklaani's set, THE WHOLE CROWD turned into a mosh pit. It was divine <3.

So, onto the nail polish! I love this polish so hard, it's a dream to apply & it's way more duochromey than you can see from my photos. The blue is just a magnificent peacock blue... & I'm not even a fan of green/blue/teal polishes in general, but this is stunning! I highly recommend you buy this. Two coats, although only one was needed for opacity.

Obligatory knitting shot... I'm knitting a seafoam stitch scarf in Tahki Flower, if anyone's interested ;-) I'm knitting two actually, in different colorways, but one is at the fella's place as my weekend project.

More Lustre Shines to come... I've also got Copperhead & Plume to review. Stay tuned!

Korpiklaani Nails!

I'm so excited, I get to go see Korpiklaani today with mah fella! I've had this mani planned for a while. First, it was this, Owl's Night from L'Oreal:

Sorry for the shitty picture, ahem. While I love Owl's Night & always will, I was pretty underwhelmed by it.
So... what does one do when one is underwhelmed?

You whip out some Shine of the Times & go crazy, whoo hoo!

I've got to rush into a shower & get ready to go as we're having dinner first, but before I do, if you don't know Korpiklaani, you should. Who DOESN'T love Finnish folk metal?!