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

[Cissy63]

@Titian06  Oh your blue skittles are gorgeous 💙💙

[Titian06]

Thanks, @Cissy63 ! 💙💙💙

[CynthieLu]

Love these shades of teal skittles! @Titian06 💙🩵💚 

[Titian06]

Thanks, @CynthieLu ! 💙💚💙💚

[Saradestin]

Gorgeous teal skittle mani @Titian06 ! I love every shade and they work so perfectly together. Beautiful beautiful beautiful!!! 😍😍😍

[Titian06]

Thanks, @Saradestin !  I'm thinking about stamping tonight.  I'll have to see which plate(s) I want to try. 😁  

[Saradestin]

Yay! Looking forward to seeing what you create @Titian06 ! 😃🎉🎉🎉

[RGbrown]

White crellies have been a favorite of mine to collect lately, I've amassed 21 now, most of them over the last few months, so it's time to showcase a couple 🤍

Painted Polish Hellfire Club 4ever: white base with red, gold, and black flakies. The base was creamy enough to go down with just two coats, no streaks or patchiness whatsoever, easy peasy. 

Morgan Taylor Bronzed: perhaps not quite as yellow as I'd expect from gold, but still not as dark as what I think of when I think "bronze". In any case, it's a lovely glitter in a clear base. Three coater, but the third was easy, mostly just touching up a couple of thinner spots.

I decided to tie Bronzed into the white a bit more with a smattering of Jinsoon Polka Black, two sizes of black glitter in a clear base. 

Smith & Cult Seek Me Out: deep pink shimmer with a good formula and a terrible brush...three coater that would probably be two if the brush was easier to use. I hate cleaning brushes after doing my nails, but I may have to start sucking it up and using something other than the OG brush with these just to make application easier 😐

I topped S&C off with a bit of Jinsoon Polka Black as well because why not 🖤

Luna Lacquer White Christmas Mojito: sheerish white shimmer with a dusting of gold shimmer (that I think shifts green? It looks greenish in some lights) and flakies that shift from red to purple/fuchsia. My first polish from the brand and it was lovely! Three coater for full opacity, but they were easy. 

[ather]

@RGbrown  I love both of these look!! The hellfire is so fun. I like it with the bronze set best but the red brings out the red speckles! 

[RGbrown]

@ather 

Thanks so much! 💖

[itsfi]

Your white crellies look great, @RGbrown! Mine always come out looking so pasty and goopy, even with a top coat, but both of the white crellies here are beautiful. 😂 I am loving that Jinsoon topper big time! It adds just the right bit of jazz to every shade it tops. 😍 I like the color of S&C Seek Me Out but the addition of Polka Black really changes the look of it in a fabulous way. I love how it jazzed up MT Bronzed. 😎

[RGbrown]

@itsfi 

Oy, I hate it when a polish is pasty and goopy...I know white in particular is prone to it, which is why I talked myself out of all these white crellies for a long time, but I've been pretty fortunate that most (all?) of them have been surprisingly smooth and easy! 

I'm really liking the simplicity of Polka Black...sometimes it's more than enough to add a little something without going overboard. It came in white at one point too, though it's not on their site anymore. I'm realizing I don't have a plain white topper, so I might have to poke around for one some day...the wish list grows 😂

[Mellmars1185]

@RGbrown Beautiful mani and shades. I learned something new today. I did not know the whote polishes are called Crellies. 

[RGbrown]

@Mellmars1185 

Thanks so much! Crellies can be any color, but I've really been drawn to the white ones lately. Kinda surprising because I'm not usually a fan of white polish, but I'm loving all the fun variations of sparkles in them 🤍✨

[Cissy63]

@RGbrown  Oh I love your beautiful mani’s.  The Smith and Cult is a gorgeous deep pink. 🥰

[RGbrown]

@Cissy63 

Thanks so much! I am loving this pink 💖

[CynthieLu]

These are beautiful Manis on both your hands @RGbrown and the red and gold even compliment each other even on different hands ❤🤍💛

Crellies remind me of speckled eggs but in a cute way 🙂 is it shades with those flecks? 

[RGbrown]

@CynthieLu 

Thanks so much! 

Crelly really refers to opacity; on one end of the spectrum, you've got creams (fully opaque) and at the other end there are jellies (extremely sheer, generally won't get opaque at all)...anything in between would be a "crelly", short for cream + jelly. For the two I've used here, the white base for the Painted Polish is so opaque it might as well be a true cream, while the Luna one is quite sheer, definitely closer to the jelly end of the spectrum. 

Many many crellies are loaded with shimmer or glitter or flakies or some other additions, though plain ones are out there too. I'd argue that the three plain jellies that Orly released in the Kelli Marissa Halloween set are actually more like crellies because they've got a milky quality to them, and they will build up to nearly full opacity pretty quickly. 

If you like bird egg or stoneware type looks, Cirque has several speckled polishes in different colors that are super cute!

[CynthieLu]

Ooooh thank you for explaining that @RGbrown I appreciate it 💖 🙏

I am drawn to the speckles in your polishes, I think they look fabulous!

[Saradestin]

These are both stunning @RGbrown! I really like both white crellies, and the way you combined them resulted in perfection. In love! 😍

[RGbrown]

@Saradestin 

Thanks so much! 🤍✨