Orly Passion Fruit, Lynnderella S.W.A.K. + Sea Lore Arista

I know I did a huge post full of beautiful Valentine's polish, but I thought I'd share what I actually wore out that night.  I decided I wanted something bright, neon, pink, glittery, in your face.  So the world would know I LOVE love!  So I chose the following polishes.  Orly Passion Fruit, Lynnderella S.W.A.K. and Sea Lore Arista.  

I started with 2 coats of Orly Passion Fruit.  I picked this polish up at Sally's during the "spend $3, get a free Orly" deal.  Passion Fruit is a super bright neon pink-salmon hybrid color.  The formula was nice to work with, no application problems.  It was slightly sheer and dried to a a rubber-esque finish.  I then used Sea Lore Arista on my accent nail so as to make one nail a slightly different color than the rest.  Arista is a beautiful red and magenta glitter polish.  The glitter came out easily and in abundance.  All the glitter layed flat on my nail.  I then used 2 coats of Lynnderella S.W.A.K. on all my nails.  S.W.A.K. is a very busy polish full of hearts, diamonds, squares and hexs.  There is also a very strong pink shimmer.  I was able to get a great variety of glitter out of the bottle with no digging.  All the glitter layed flat on my nails.  I used 1 layer of topcoat to smooth it all out.

In real life my nails were much brighter neon.  What do you think of my date night Valentine nails?  Orly is available at just about every beauty supply store, Lynnderella is available on ebay, and Sea Lore is available at Sealore.net.  

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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.

You can purchase Lynnderellas on ebay.  There is also Love Lynnderella on Facebook and the Lynnderella blog.

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