Memorial Day Mani!

Good afternoon!  As most of us Americans are getting ready to enjoy a day off of work and school, firing up the BBQ's and drinking a few cold ones let's remember the real reason behind this holiday.  Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and gratefulness to those men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country.  To uphold the rights and freedom that we enjoy every day.  Today Americans remember the fallen soldiers who have served our great country.  I am very grateful for all the US soldiers, alive and passed on.  Thank you so much for your dedication to the USA.    
For today I chose to go patriotic with my mani, but I needed to stay true to myself so I started out with 3 amazing holos!  Smitten Polish The First Lobster (red), Glitter Gal Light As A Feather (white) and Ninja Polish Glamorous (blue).  I topped them with a reverse glitter gradient of Lumina Lacquer Young Americans.  I seriously adore this red, white and blue glitter polish with all it's hearts, stars and circles!  I am very pleased with how my mani turned out.   

Fall Mani with Nubar Go Native, Take Off the Mask, Ninja Polish Color Changing Garnet & China Glaze Light As A Feather

Good morning and happy Sunday!  I hope this weekend has treated you well so far.  I've been a busy bee with soccer and festivals and birthday parties.  I find that I am always out and about on the weekends!  I was rocking a new Fall themed mani too and it's so pretty!  I love how it turned out!  So let's get into the details shall we?

I found some new Nubar collections at my beauty supply store and I just couldn't pass up a few of them!  I started this mani with 2 layers of Go Native (thumb, ring and pinky).  This shimmery rusty colored orange has my heart all aflutter!  It has definitely jumped to the front of my favorite orange list.  It's reading much more orange-red in the pictures than it really is.  I then used Take Off the Mask - a deep chocolaty brown with a hint of red and beautiful shimmer.  I used 2 coats of TotM on my index, middle and sponged it onto the tip of my ring finger nail.  Both of these Nubars had fabulous formula and applied so nicely.  If you come across the Wild West collection I definitely suggest you pick these 2 (or any) up!  On my index and middle I used 1 layer of Ninja Polish Color Changing Garnet to have some pretty shifty color changing - and it worked great because my nails were flashing a deep garnet, gold and olive green!  Perfect Fall colors!  I loved CCG and I will definitely use it again soon.  Finally I drew inspiration from this mani by my friend Michelle at Ehmkay Nails and dabbed China Glaze Light As A Feather over the middle section of my ring finger nail (covering the gradient point).  I picked this bar glitter because it was black, pastel orange, white and yellow glitters and those colors seemed Halloweenish to me.  I finished it all off with a layer of topcoat.  

*shade

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*indoors

Glitter Gal Light As A Feather & OPI My Private Jet

Alright….this is not one of my favorite posts, it didn't come out quite the way I'd expected but I feel like it's important to show you successful manis as well as ones that aren't so great.  This one would have been great if I had just done the Glitter Gal alone.  I have nothing but great things to say for Light As A Feather.  It's the OPI that I'm not on board with.  So lets just jump in to the review.

I did all nails minus the accents with Glitter Gal Light As A Feather.  LAAF is a gorgeous white holo.  I've been lemming a white holo pretty hard and my awesome friend Rhonni sent me this as a birthday present.  It totally fulfilled the need in my life and stash.  LAAF is beautiful.  It's a delicate and dainty holo and I think it's appropriate for any time of the year and any setting.  I used 3 coats and the application was perfect!

OPI My Private Jet, why you so difficult??  I know MPJ is like the holy grail for some nail girls, but I truly don't love it.  And just for the record it doesn't mean I want to get rid of it, I just don't think it's all that fantastic.  It was thin and watery and streaky.  It pooled and dragged.  It's a hot mess.  But it does have an amazing holo effect and I do love holo.  Anyways, I used 3 coats and even still had a patch at the tip of my nail that wouldn't cover.  Boo.  I believe I have the brown holo version of this polish (there are several versions and the current one is a dud, meaning no holo effect).

You can purchase Glitter Gal polish at Ninja Polish.  Follow them on Facebook too!  Loads of amazing Ninja brand, indie and imported polishes are in stock over there on a daily basis!  My Private Jet is very hard to find now…check ebay or the Facebook sales groups for auctions.