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I only have indoor pictures of this beautiful combo, but they still showcase the greatness of two new polishes. I layered CND Effects in Ice Blue Shimmer over OPI Sapphire in the Snow.

The shimmer is very tiny and almost looks like pearl. It turned the blurpleness of Sapphire in the Snow into full on gawgeous deep blue.

I'm glad a nail polish company decided to embrace a concept that I've been championing for years! Yay layers!

This was my first sort of Holiday inspired mani of this season. I'm not ready for Christmas, winter, Thanksgiving, any of it really! It doesn't help that down here in Florida nothing remotely feels like Christmas or winter. I grew up in Michigan, so I'm used to cold and snow and I have to say that I miss it, especially when it comes to thinking of the Holidays. Anyway, this is Finger Paints Evergreen Dream topped with Sinful All About You.

It's Christmassy, no?

I didn't get around to taking any pictures of this outdoors in natural light, but I still wanted to share the glittery goodness with you. :) This mani lasted me a crazy long time, too! Nearly a week, if I recall. Wowza!

This season has brought several terrific ambiguous purply gray colors. Hooray, I say!! These are some big favorites for me. Not only do they look great with my skin tone, but they meet my need for a chic, unique purply color. Yes, I love my purples!

Here is Dior's Silver Purple. Clever name, right? It's soooo beautiful!

It's got a gunmetal gray base with a hint of purple and shimmer.

I finally decided to use some of the decals I've been collecting. Smart! I started with Claire's Pink Rose polish. It has an awesome, subtle golden holo shimmah! In some lights it almost looks like a lime green shimmah. Then I used decals from Fing'rs Edge, the Royal Punk set.

I apologize that some of the pictures are blurry - my zoom had a mind of its own that night!

I was impatient in putting on the decals so I didn't wait until my polish was totally dry. I think it might have turned out a little better if I had waited, but then I had the dilemma of not wanting to put a layer of quick dry top coat on top of a basically dry mani (and risking peeling and shrinking).

This was lots of fun and lasted a few days for me (which is good), so I'll definitely be using more decals in the future! :D

Happy Saturday!! I'm sorry I haven't posted much this week. Here are pictures of My Private Dud - erm, OPI My Private Jet version 3 of 4 (so I'm told). I thought I had the original super holo version but alas, no, I have the sporadically holo shimmah version that is referred to on the MUA Nail Board as "the dud." How could I not know?! I think I have been in denial.

It's three coats. It's nice, don't get me wrong, I'm just massively disappointed that I now have two versions of MPJ, neither of which I really wanted (when compared to the awesomeness of versions 1 and 2). *sigh*

I have to say that it's unendingly annoying when companies release several versions of the same name polish. I feel like it could even be some oblivious stupid mistake, but that almost makes it worse! No, I take that back - it is worse if they knowingly do it and don't tell us. :(

I was so excited to get this polish! It's Sephora by OPI Absinthe Makes the Heart from their Holiday collection. I did three coats here.

It's a very dark grayish murky green with various colored little shimmer bits.

It reminds me of shimmery crocodile skin! Not a normal "me" color, but I quite love it!