Now You Sea Sparkly Pink!

Ah, layering. Why have just one color when you can have several, all at once? As much as I love the shade of L'Oreal Now You Sea Me, I couldn't resist adding one of my favorite shimmery duochrome-y polishes, simply named "Blue Multi" from Forever 21's line of polishes, Love & Beauty. Oh, *and* I put CND's Crimson Sparkle over that, just to give it a little more sparkly.

L'Oreal Now You Sea Me + Love & Beauty Blue Multi + CND Crimson Sparkle

So much duochromatic shimmering goodness! I am love.

But wait, there's more! I decided it also needed some pink glitter as a "subtle" accent.

+ Forever 21 Blossom

Mmm... glitter jelly sparkle sandwich!

My Favorite Hue, Robin's Egg Blue

I was excited to see the new colors L'Oreal recently released, and found a nice display of them at my local Walgreens. There is a wide range of colors, but none terribly unique, so I just picked up a lovely shade of dusty turquoise I had seen photos of on Noelie's blog, Now You Sea Me. At first glance I wondered if it might be very similar to Sally Hansen's Gray by Gray, but here you can see that is not the case:

Sally Hansen Gray by Gray, L'Oreal Now You Sea Me

Top to bottom: NYSM, GBG, NYSM, GBG

L'Oreal Now You Sea Me

I really love both of these shades, and am glad to be able to justify owning both as they're clearly very different blues. Now You Sea Me is such a striking color, and I think works well with my cool, pinky complexion. The formula was excellent and needed only two coats, and the texture almost has that "squishy" look, I think. Glad I picked this one up, and may grab one or two more if just for the great formula and pretty bottle!

Have you joined the Cult?

Talking of course about Cult Nails and her amazing colors! This one I picked up a few months back, and there are still a few others I would really love. Iconic is such a perfect combination of complementing colors-- berry red with bright fiery red flakes and a gold shimmer to top it off. Absolutely love. This is how it arrived, a little polish burrito:

And here it is on the nails!

I apologize for the somewhat washed-out color, my camera is very finicky about certain lighting.

My only complaint would be that, as you can see, I did experience tip wear rather quickly, but I'm also not very good at wrapping my tips (when I even remember to...) so that would probably help!

Every now and then Maria does specials on the polishes, so keep an eye out for those, but don't wait too long or the color you want may just sell out. This has such a beautiful base, and the flakes really pop and come alive in it! Definitely a unique, must-have color.

Sally Hansen - Gray by Gray + Shimmer & Sparkle and RAINBOWS

Since I can't just leave a pretty color alone, even the lovely Gray by Gray, a beautiful muted azure blue, I decided to sparkle it up with some CND Copper Shimmer. See below:

I wanted something similar to Rescue Beauty Lounge's Piu Mosso, but this is a much lighter and more muted blue. Don't they look lovely together? I love these complimenting colors! But, I still wanted to add more...

So naturally, I grabbed my favorite flakey: Nubar 2010.

The iridescent oranges and greens really pop!

I just love layering over cremes. It's so fun to take a somewhat plain color and see what you can transform it into!