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

[makeitup305]

@RGbrown I haven’t. Their shipping is hard to swallow. I’ve only ordered shadows from them before and that was only 1x. I was tempted since it was their sale but ended up passing. I saw that hey had one or two shades available now on PPU but I’ve never ordered from there either. Another brand I was interested in trying was Holo Taco but idk I think her shades are boring compare to the ones I’ve bought from ILNP and Mooncat.  

[RGbrown]

@makeitup305 

PPU is a blast, definitely give them a gander at some point (previews for the event opening Friday are up, so now's a great time)! Shipping is never free, but it has always been reasonable, much better than Clionadh's direct rates, and the ability to look though soooo many brands for one shipping fee is really nice.

I've never bought from Holo Taco either. I picked up 3 used ones in a destash sale, and they are fine, but overall her catalog looks to me a lot like it does to you...it's pretty basic. I'm sure she wanted to build a good selection of the simpler polishes, but I keep waiting for her to do something a bit more unique, and it never materializes. One of her LE polishes (a birthday polish maybe, I don't recall the occasion now), Existential Crisis, is complex and simply stunning, and I so wish she'd do more like that, but nope, just more of the same for the most part. I'm happy she's doing well, but there's not much there for me. And that's ok too...not everything has to be all about me and what I want 😂

I would eventually like to get Everything Taco, but I'm not paying $7 shipping for one $13 polish, so maybe I'll luck out and find it in another destash sale down the road...it's not like I'm hurting for other toppers in the mean time lol

[makeitup305]

@RGbrown It seems so weird to me that HT is so basic. Christine’s collection is humongous and she has so many different indie polish brands. I wish it was more of a trendsetting brand. I wanted to try her peel off base coat and I was looking for enough products to interest me for free shipping and the most I got was a clean up brush and the polish mat. I ended up skipping it. 

[CookieGirl1]

@RGbrown I'm happy to hear of someone else who placed an order last night somewhere!  I, uh, fell asleep laying in bed with my phone in my hand last night and woke up to find a polish order confirmation.  Funny how that happened...

[RGbrown]

@CookieGirl1 

That's some serious muscle memory there; sleep shopping sounds dangerous! 🤣🤣

[CookieGirl1]

@RGbrown I guess there are worse things, lol.

[Saradestin]

Why @RGbrown , why?????? 🙈 I might have slipped and fallen on my keyboard right now and placed an order at Whats Up..... 😄 🤦🏻‍♀️

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

Yikes, slips and falls are no joke, this seems to be a bad day for them! 🤣🤣🤣 I hope the damage wasn't too brutal 😋

[Saradestin]

No @RGbrown , it was just 4 stamping plates so it was nit even $20 with shipping and taxes. But now for sure I have everything I want for a looooooong time!

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

Oh, four plates isn't bad at all, yay for restraint! I hope you love them! ❣️

[Saradestin]

I’m sure I will @RGbrown ! 

[bownarrow]

 

[itsfi]

Beautiful mani @bownarrow. Love how the polish glimmers in the sunlight. 🤩

[CynthieLu]

🤩 those are lovely nails @bownarrow 

[CookieGirl1]

Very classic, @bownarrow, and I like your nail shape.

[RGbrown]

@bownarrow 

Lovely! I love the subtle color with a hint of shine ✨

[makeitup305]

Gorgeous mani @bownarrow ! Super trendy with the pearly finish!

[Titian06]

Beautiful mani, @bownarrow ! 💖💖💖

[Saradestin]

Gorgeous nails @bownarrow ! 😍

[Saradestin]

It seems that today is “nail day”, with so many new manis in this thread! 😁 And of course, I couldn’t be less, and after ruining my polish rough-gardening (even with globes), I didn’t have other choice. But with so many new options to play with, I was not mad at it either. 

I went for a simple but beautiful mani using three coats of Mooncat Smokescreen, a gorgeous magnetic blueish gray polish with pink magnetic particles that shift to copper to green. These were unexpected shifts that I really like. 

In the shade, the blueish gray turns more greenish. 

I find the pictures of this polish posted in their website quite accurate.

Direct sunDirect sun. This is my favorite shift.Direct sun, yellow coppery shiftDirect sun green shiftHere the shift is almost peachyInterior shade, looking more greenishInterior flash

[itsfi]

Ahhh!!! The shifts are mesmerizing @Saradestin! They all look fantastic against that petty base color. 😍