Lumina Lacquer The Snow King and Colors by Llarowe Woman from Tokyo

Good evening dears!  I have a lovely mani to share and just didn't want to wait!  It still has a holiday feel but it's not red, green, white or blue - GASP!  It's all about the purple, silver, gold and HOLO!  I quite like how it turned out.  I used some of my favorite brands for this mani - ones you've seen plenty of before on my blog so I'll skip introductions and jump into the online links.

Lumina Lacquer: Shop, Facebook, Instagram

Colors by Llarowe: Shop, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

China Glaze: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

I started this with 2 coats of China Glaze Gothic Lolita.  Gothic Lolita is from the 2012 Electropop collection and is a very lovely medium purple with some gorgeous shimmer.  It had a fabulous formula and great application.  I topped it with Lumina Lacquer The Snow King.  I love this glitter mix.  It's full of gold, silver and 2 shades of purple holo glitter in fun shapes - circles, snowflakes, stars, hearts and snowmen.  Sadly I didn't get any snowmen out this time.  But the nice thing is you can avoid pulling those glitter shapes out and this can be a year round color!  The Snow King had great formula and application.  Loads of glitter came out with each brush dip and it the glitter laid nice and flat on my nails.  I finished this with Colors by Llarowe Woman From Tokyo, a deep purple linear holo.  It's a very pretty color and it had a fantastic formula.  Application was a breeze.  I used 2 coats for full coverage.  I only used topcoat on my glitter nails.

China Glaze Gothic Lolita + Lynnderella Sugared Violet

My purple fascination continues with a very pretty combo.  I saw this China Glaze in my beauty supply store well before Christmas, but I was on a no buy in December.  So I looked at it longingly, lovingly, knowing it would be mine in the very near future.  Lo and behold I broke the no buy a few days after Christmas and China Glaze Gothic Lolita was one that made a new home in my helmer.  I don't know why I had never noticed Gothic Lolita before, the collection was from the Spring 2012.  For the last couple months I have been gung ho for purple, blue, periwinkle, lavender, cornflower, etc, etc.  But I digress, Gothic Lolita is a very beautiful grape-y purple with a red shimmer.  And it applied very well, nice a creamy.  There were no application problems and it was opaque in 2 coats.  

I then layered Lynnderella Sugared Violet over Gothic Lolita.  Sugared Violet is from the new Groundhog Day collection.  Here is Lynn's description of Sugared Violet, it "has assorted lavender, periwinkle and white glitters in a purple-sparkled clear base.  Lavender and white hearts with violet microglitter and pinpoint blue iridescence are scattered in the mix."  I definitely got alot of shards, so if you don't like those glitters this won't be for you.  But I think it's very pretty and unique.  I did have a hard time getting any hearts out, but I also didn't try the upside down method.   I really liked the iridescent glitters, they really made the mani sparkle in the sunlight.  I finished this off with a layer of topcoat and my nails were smooth to the touch.

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