Enchantingly Enchanted by L.A. Girl Nail Polish

I wanted to sit down and do a few entries that I will upload over the course of the week.

I think this is the best way to do it, I'm taking four classes that require a bunch of reading. My cuticles are a mess, it's dry out, then it rains, and I'm just having a little whine!

Products I like, so far:
Earth Therapeutics makes a little butter thing. I found it at Ross, it's amazing stuff! I also have some nearly identical formulated Sally Hansen foot butter. Both have shea butter in them. I hope this will help my cuticles. They are a fright.

This manicure is courtesy of L.A. Girl.
I am not really 100% familiar with this line.
They have some polishes that are in round bottles and some in funky shaped bottles. These are different lines like "Rock Star" and "Disco". So the one I have here is from their regular line, perhaps these are in salons. (Actually I've seen a Sally Beauty one that had the same bottle and identical formula to the round one, but with another name. So there's another case of confusion, too)

First we have the standard manicure shot:

This has been worn, and there is some chippage on the one finger. Lately I've been dinging my fingers right after I've done a manicure. I need to slow down.

Here's a comparison of the bottles:

Orly Fantasea and L.A. Girl Enchanting.

I think they are duplicates. Which of which, I don't know

 

It's a beautiful blue-ish purple base and this metallic pinkish copper below. The crazy thing is that when it's on it's a bit sheer, which might be the L.A. Girl formula, or just the nature of it, so you add layers. When you add layers you get this metal-under-glass look to the polish, with a bit of duochrome.

I do love it!

Thanks for browsing by!

Revlon Bronze Ablaze and a layer....or two

Revlon's Bronze Ablaze, as I mentioned, was a slow to dry, and then schmootzed quite quickly. In fact I had to do a rescue on it.

Here is the original photo:

I love the copper penny shine, it needed some clean up, and I am just figuring out how to do that, I usually rely on application skills - such as they are - to prevent major messes.
I think, it is obvious that I have small hands. Small pudgy hands. No hand model am I! No long, thin nail beds and strong curved nails for me! When they get long and wet they tend to go flat, it's just the way it is. So be it. Move on.

I wear an XS riding glove, but not all the time, because my hands are not thin I really have to look for a good glove. I found some at Dressage Extensions. On sale, to boot! Score! Most of the time I wear children's gloves, since women's gloves are so narrow.

After I killed the Bronze Ablaze I decided to try the Sally Hansen "Strobe Light" glitter. It's loaded with medium pink glitter and some different sizes in holo glitter. I kind of love it, the dark rosey pink fit perfectly with the bronzy copper, and though I could never photograph it, it really was a nice fit:

The top coat was WetnWild Quick Dry Ultra Gloss.

Of course it has shrunk back nearly a whole millimeter, but I've abused it for the last few days and it's been chip proof. I have hay cubes I break up for my birds, so it take a beating on that front.