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

[RGbrown]

@Shosh85 

Thanks so much!

I feel like I'm going colorblind or something (or maybe it's just that this polish looks drastically different on my nails than it does in the bottle)...in my last pic, behind my middle finger, that's the bottle. Blue to you there, or still green? That's the color I see in my head, so while I see it's a bit different between the bottle and my nails, blue is still where my mind goes first, but y'all saying green has me seeing it on my hands in a whole new light. I might be losing my mind lololol 🤣 ( @Titian06 too, since you called out green first, and/or anyone else with an opinion on the matter!)

[Titian06]

@RGbrown @Shosh85 - It looks teal in the bottle and green on your nails.  I looked it up on Orly's website and it's the same:  teal in the bottle and green on the model's nails.  It's also green in the "puddle" pictures too.  BTW, it shows how much I paid attention to your written description! 😄  I didn't even remember you calling it blue when I wrote my post.

[Shosh85]

@RGbrown  Hmmm, interesting. The color of the nail polish bottle does look a little different than your nails - I can see the blue more in the bottle, but still looks more blue/green to me. In the first picture I can also see more of the blue coming out, but it still looks more green to me. 🤷‍♀️

[CookieGirl1]

@RGbrown the Orly color is interesting!  It's...gorgeous grunge?

[RGbrown]

@CookieGirl1 

Yup, I'd say that fits pretty well! It's pretty spectacular, IMHO, subtle with flair 💖

[Saradestin]

Those shades are very beautiful and look amazing together @RGbrown ! You have gorgeous polishes! 😍

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

Thanks so much! 

A complete lack of self control is all it takes to build a ridiculous hoard like this 😂

[Titian06]

Both of these colors are gorgeous, @RGbrown !  I love purple and green together! 💜💚💜💚

[RGbrown]

@Titian06 

That Orly shade has been blue blue blue to me in my head ever since I first saw it, but now that you call it green, green is all I can see 😂 💚💙💜

[itsfi]

Gorgeous fall feels with these two beauties @RGbrown! I'm with you on preferring a shiny finish but the matte on this one is nice.

P.S. Love the peek at the other polishes in the background. So many pretties!

[RGbrown]

@itsfi 

Ha, I meant to crop that last pic like I normally do, but forgot, whoops. It's just a little preview of some other polishes I've got lined up to use soon 👀👀

[itsfi]

Loving the preview @RGbrown! There are some pretty polishes in that group.

[Saradestin]

Just in case you are interested, Mooncat is having a sale starting tomorrow November 4 to the 13 at Mooncat dot com. You need to use the code LUNAR20. It excludes gift cards and Hocus Pocus 2 collection items.

I have not tried this brand (mainly because it is quite expensive) but I am curious about their polishes and I will be buying a few to test them out. They seem to have just two sales a year, so if you wanted to try this brand, this may be the time! 

[Titian06]

Thanks for sharing, @Saradestin ! 💖💖💖

[Saradestin]

You are welcome @Titian06 ! My order is being processed 😁

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

I've seen several mentions of some polishes not looking as vibrant IRL as they do in the swatch shots on the site, so if you do decide to purchase, definitely spend a little time looking up customer shots of the ones you are considering.

I've got a few Live Love Polishes (before they changed names), and the formula is perfectly fine on the ones I have, they make lovely stuff. The brushes were awful back then, but they've swapped over to paddle brushes now, so they should be much better. Aside from grousing about some of the swatch shots, I've seen tons of rave reviews for the brand, as there are several addicts over on Reddit lol. @WinglessOne has a few too, both LLP and Mooncat, that I seem to recall she likes.

[WinglessOne]

@RGbrown @Saradestin  Yeah, I suspect Mooncat boosts vibrance and saturation during digital photo editing. They're certainly not the only beauty brand to do that, but it's kinda frustrating when it comes to nail polish. I also assume their polishes are applied over a white or black base color to amp up pigmentation in their photos. Always a good idea to look for other people's photos, especially natural daylight photos. 

I do have a few polishes from Mooncat and several from their previous Live Love Polish brand. I was so happy to see the brush update, I almost repurchased all my old LLPs (well, the ones available with the rebrand) just to get a wide paddle brush and a cap I can actually hold and maneuver well. 🤣 LLP's brush + cap = 100% terrible. Nearly any other brush would be an improvement, so Mooncat's brush is a huge upgrade. 

My favorite LLP shade that's available from Mooncat is Vaporize. My 2 favorite Mooncats are Mercury's Tears and Rue Morgue. But really, each shade I own is a good performer—though Ultrahot needs more building up than the others (or a black or white base color). I might order a couple other polishes from the current sale. In fact, maybe I'll finally grab Access Denied. Might as well add Millennia too. 

Can't wait to see what you pick up! 

[Saradestin]

Thank you for your always valuable feedback @WinglessOne. It is always great to know from someone who actually has some polishes from the brand. I a, glad to hear that you are overall happy with them, because I placed my order the minute the sale started just in case the shades I wanted run OOS 😅. I got Supervillain, Raven, Smokescreen and If Frogs Had Wings. And as I got a magnetic polish, they include the magnet for free! I know I had to skip buying one and keep using my “chapuza” tool 🤪 Your favorite Mooncat polishes look gorgeous! 

[WinglessOne]

@Saradestin  Hooray for free magnets! I was hoping you'd order a magnetic polish. 🙂 I'm very interested to see how Smokescreen looks, aside from Mooncat's photos. And hey, I ordered Raven too! (Because of course I placed an order. And went overboard.) You ordered a good variety of formulas/finishes. Hope you enjoy them! 

[Saradestin]

Yay! You placed your order as well @WinglessOne ! 😃🎉 I will be posting the manis with my new polishes once I get them. I am very curious about Smokescreen so it will probably be the first one, maybe even mixed with another polish if I feel they look beautiful together. Looking forward to see the ones you picked in action and with your always trustworthy thoughts.

[Saradestin]

Thank you so much for the info @RGbrown ! Yes, I read a lot regarding the swatches and people’s complaints that they were not looking like the real polish. In fact, I didn’t need to read the comments to suspect that the pictures were retouched; they were looking too vibrant. I have looked for swatches elsewhere of the ones I picked and they look beautiful, so let’s see how they look on my own nails! I am sure that I will like them more than the pictures I have seen, for some reason I always do. 😁