NOTD: Butter London Big Smoke + bm215

So, my first Butter London polish.  Gorgeous color, nice enough formula ... worth the price tag?  I'm still debating that.  I don't regret buying them, but I don't think I'd want to pay full price.

Big Smoke is the kind of dark blue that is extremely dark but still definitely blue.  Not one of those secretive vampy colors that only you know is not black.  I wore it on its own for day 1:

Then for day 2 I added some stamping with Bundle Monster image plate bm215 & China Glaze Cherish:

I wish Cherish looked a little greener (that's why I chose it over my actual silver chromes) but I liked this a lot & got a ton of complments too =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: The Evolution of Zoya Phoebe

You'd think, after all this time, that I'd have a better idea what I was doing, right?  Well, the evolution of this mani proves that in fact I do not LOL.

 

Zoya Phoebe is from their summer Mod Mattes collection - and is very pretty matte, although as you know that's not my favorite finish:

 

 

I had this thought that it would look good with OPI Silver Shatter (from my Ulta haul that I'll be posting tomorrow) on top, so I used some of that, with sort of a French tip kind of thing going on as accent nails on the ring & thumb fingers:

And I’m not sure why, but I kind of hated it. So I took off the shatter – there was a layer of topcoat between, because shatter didn't seem to work as well on the matte finish – and then another layer of Phoebe to even everything out, and then another layer of topcoat. And I felt better:

I wore it that way for a day, then I stamped it with one of my new Bundle Monster plates, bm215 & China Glaze LOL:

It didn't on the plate, but on the nail it reminds me of a giraffe pattern.  I also got turtle shell - might be fun to try in shades of green =)

Anyway, that's the completed life cycle =)  I suppose I could matte-ify it again for the weekend, but I probably won't.  Thanks for reading.

~Colette