What a Flake

As the weather is finally cooling down, I've been pulling out some deeper colors to get ready for fall. 

Today is Essie Merino Cool, a really beautiful pale purple, covered with two flashy coats of Cult Nails Seduction. Seduction is a multi colored flake suspended in a purple jelly that gave a lot of depth to this manicure. 

Two coats of each, and a sealing coat of Wicked Fast, and I was out the door!

Can You Call Them Indies Anymore?

A-England and Cult Nails, the few that I have of each, have absolutely blown me away each and every time. The formulas are impeccable, the colors/glitters are incredibly well thought out and well placed, and the packaging is adorable.

A-England Saint George is a really gorgeous deep emerald color with a very fine holographic glitter fleck inside.  Incredible depth and so many greens in one green makes this such a stunning shade

Hey there, pretty.

You can see the depth of green in the middle of my middle and ring fingers.  So perfect.

I have a really bad habit of leaving the polishes I've worked with that week on the kitchen counter.

(Stay with me.)

So every time I walk by, I glance down to see what's out, and if something interests me, I'll swab it over whatever color is on my hands.  I spied the round black top of a Cult Nails bottle, and brought up Doppelganger, which I have used before.  It's this great milky shimmery bomb of color that I thought would look just fabulous on top of ol' George.

I was right.

On the thumb nail you can see that Doppelganger doesn't completely remove the trace of your bottom color.
It lingers.

It's one of those "sunlight hits the emerald water just right" kind of looks.

I Got Distracted (oh so apropos)

Cult Nails really has their stuff together.  Today's gorgeous color mix comes direct from the shores of Florida, bringing a heaping ton of green circles and micro holo glitter all suspended in a thicker black jelly base.

I got opacity in two coats, that weren't even that careful, and loved the formula.  It dries pretty gritty, so you'll need two thick coats of topcoat if you're an even and shiny type.  I like the kind of grit texture, but the rainbows don't really flash until you get it glossy.  And if I have to pick between grit and glitter, I'm going glitter every single time.

Cult Nails I Got Distracted

And now for some sunlight perspective, so you can really see the glitter sparklebomb.

I Joined A Cult

I got my first order of Cult Nails, (http://www.cultnailsblog.com/), and I am a believer!  Praise to thee on lacquer highs!  I bring great offerings of basecoated nails looking for your help.

After I photographed this, I realized how much it looked like Butter London Big Smoke, but in a micro rainbow shimmer way.

This is one coat of Cult Nails Doppelganger over two coats of Zoya Ibiza.  I wanted to put this milky shade over something nice and dark so the chromatic glitters would really pop.

I faded out the light, and apparently the focus, so you could see it gives a milky dusty glow to your base.

Sunlight has the colors showing, and there's pink, green, blue, orange, everything!

Doppelganger was actually pretty thick, and you don't need very much.  I would swipe my brush inside the bottle to get everything visible off, and then paint what was left inside the bristles on.  It's definitely a different brush than I'm used to, but that's not a bad thing - just a different thing.

I loved it in the bottle, and I LOVE it on the nail.  Maria and Cult Nails are doing their thing, and I'm all in!