The Show Must Go On!

Hi all! Today I have a very quickly done mani for you - I had to paint my nails before I played with hair dye, and you know me - I can't just leave it at clear coat. I went with OPI The Show Must Go On, from the Burlesque collection - one of my favorites that was, unfortunately, before my love affair with nail polish, so they've been tough to track down. I received this lovely in a swap! Shown is two coats - the first coat went on VERY streaky and patchy, but luckily, the second evened things out. TSMGO is a lovely duochrome glitter that's almost metallic - I get flashes of red and gold, depending on the light. I topped it off with a coat of Poshe.

On my middle fingers and thumb, I added a thin coat of Max Factor Fantasy Fire. The purple made those nails look slightly darker, but the multichrome goodness of FF was mostly lost in the flashiness of TSMGO. In super low lights, though, I could see the green shimmer - I just couldn't catch it on camera.

No cleanup here - I didn't expect the mani to last through my hair dye ordeal, but it did (and so did some of the unwanted hair color). Off I go to fix it - Thanks for reading!

An introduction.

Hi everyone! I'm Sam, or Waddle Dee, and this is my shot at making a nail polish blog.

A little bit about me: I'm 24 and just recently graduated with a meteorology/geography degree. I am an avid storm chaser (don't be surprised if I post about any storms), love swimming and rock climbing, and am just getting into makeup and clothes. My nail polish obsession started on a message board called Something Awful, where reading the nail care thread and seeing gorgeous pictures made me stop biting my nails and has brought my collection from nonexistant to almost 200 bottles!

I will begin posting regularly soon. My nails are naked now, but for the moment, I'll leave this picture of what I had on at commencement: Zoya Rory as a base, with a lightning bolt of Orly Halley's Comet and a silver line from a striping polish I bought at Sally's. It's my first attempt at art using tape, it's a bit messier than I'd like up close, but far away it looked good..this is also so I can track my own skill progression with nail art.

Thanks for reading! Leave me a comment if you stop by, I'd like to get to know my readers - if you have a blog, let me know - also, you may follow my personal twitter (@weatherbamf), and poke me to remind me to get better at using it :)