Show Me Your Nails 2.0

[Tamara76]

Due to some technical glitches with the original Show Me Your Nails Thread, I am starting a new thread with @vegchililover78's blessing (She says "hello," by the way!).

Please share your nail looks, nail art and manicures!

...And don't forget to check out @Beadshopgirl's Nail Stamping Thread for stamping inspiration! ❤️  

https://community.sephora.com/t5/Nailed-It/The-Nail-Stamping-Thread/m-p/3328865

[Titian06]

Nice colors, @Saradestin ! 💚💙🖤💜  Looking forward to seeing you model them!

[Saradestin]

I can’t wait to try them @Titian06 !! 😃😃😃

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

Oh yay, they're gorgeous! Can't wait to see them!! 😍

[Saradestin]

And there is another one in the way @RGbrown , the one I ordered and they didn’t include, sending other instead. 🎉🎉🎉

[Saradestin]

Today I went green all over! I used ILNP polish in Limelight. One coat is enough to provide good opacity. I applied two to get the full reflective metallic holographic effect. So beautiful! As always, the pictures don’t make it justice.

[Cissy63]

I am really loving this color.  Such a fun polish 🎉🎉💚💚 @Saradestin !

[Saradestin]

Thank you @Cissy63 ! It is really beautiful! 💚

[itsfi]

Oh wow @Saradestin! The green is gorgeous and just look at that holo effect! 😍

[Saradestin]

Isn’t it beautiful @itsfi? 💚💚💚 I love it! 

[Mellmars1185]

@Saradestin Love the green sparkles!

[Saradestin]

Thank you @Mellmars1185 ! The photo cannot capture how sparkly it is! 

[Titian06]

Great color and sparkle, @Saradestin ! 💚🌠  It goes so well with your bold green eye look from the weekly challenge thread! 😁

[Saradestin]

Thank you @Titian06 ! Yes, I went all green! 💚💚

[Skunk12puzzola]

@Titian06 I was thinking the same 😂💚 matchy matchy.

[Saradestin]

Green is my color @Skunk12puzzola 💚💚😁

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

Such a pretty shade of green, and of course, holo is always a welcome addition! 💚✨

[Saradestin]

Thank you @RGbrown ! It is simple but so beautiful! 💚💚

[ather]

@Saradestin  The green and the sparkles are the best!!!

[Saradestin]

It looks very reflective @ather, but the picture can not capture it. It is really beautiful!

[WinglessOne]

Went for reds 3 days ago: 

Indirect overcast daylight through a window to show some of BMR's pink flakes.

Thumb: Zoya Sooki (1 coat) topped with Night Owl Lacquer The Blood Moon Rises (1 coat). Sooki is a newer red for me; it’s not the one I normally wear under Blood Moon Rises. But I like how Sooki tweaks BMR to a slightly cooler toned red: 

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Index: ILNP Eclipse (2 coats). I've already talked a lot about this old favorite. 🙂 

Middle: ILNP Eclipse (1 coat) topped with Night Owl Lacquer The Blood Moon Rises (1 coat). I used just 1 coat of Eclipse to see how a much subtler base color shift would look. A single coat of both polishes wasn't enough to get full coverage: there were a couple of bare patches that are noticeable in the photo up in that spoiler tag. I definitely prefer 2 coats of Eclipse beneath BMR. 

Ring: Cupcake Polish Keratoconus Awareness (3 coats). Reds seemed like a good excuse to wear this shade again. I love its gold-red-berry-purple shift. There’s also some green shimmer that becomes very apparent when this shade’s used as a topper. 

Pinky: Night Owl Lacquer The Blood Moon Rises (3 coats). Someone wanted to see how this shade looks on its own, so… tada! 

After 2 days of staring at my ring fingers, I decided I needed Cupcake's Keratoconus Awareness on my other 8 nails. Rather than strip those nails bare and start over, I topped ‘em off with that shade and a layer of top coat: 

Trying to remember how many coats of Keratoconus Awareness I applied to each nail (except my ring finger, which I didn’t mess with this time)… I think it’s 1 coat on index and middle nails, and 2 coats on my thumb and pinky nails.

On my pinky, I intentionally put a wide stripe down the center without covering the sides to get a skinny border of Blood Moon Rises. The green shimmer in Keratoconus Awareness comes across strongly on my index and middle nails, since those have Eclipse as a base. And now that I've seen Eclipse + KA, I'll definitely use that combo several times in the future. 

Really though, Eclipse is one of of my favorite polishes to use as a base color because it gives other polishes a beautiful black color shift—and a red shift, depending on the top color. Did I ever mention how much I love duo/multichromes? When I have a lackluster but buildable polish, my usual first thought is "let's throw it over Eclipse and see if that saves it!" 🖤❤️ I need a blue multichrome equivalent of Eclipse to use as base for cool toned polishes when I don't want red to interfere. I have plenty of blues but not one as deep-colorshifty as Eclipse. And I think I just made up an excuse to shop for more nail polish. 🤦‍♀️ 

[makeitup305]

Those are some really cool shades @WinglessOne