Theme: Rockstar

This weeks Monday Theme was... Rockstar!  I went for a sort of glam metal look. I mainly just wanted to use one of my new polishes, OPI DS Coronation.  Yep, a silver cap bottle!  I think it's totally underrated. Everyone loves, like, OPI DS Original but this is so gorgeous too! Mine is super holographic.

shade

sun

 indoor lighting

thumb: OPI "DS Coronation + CC "Revvvolution" + Sassy Girl glitter pen

pointer: CG "Liquid Leather" + stickers

middle: OPI "DS Coronation"

ring: CC "Revvvolution" + gem from Sassy Girl glitter pen

pinky: CQ "Liquid Leather" + Sassy Girl glitter pen

The Designer Series polishes go for $12.50 but no way did I pay that. haha The most I have ever spend on a bottle of nail polish is $6 but generally my limit is $4.  Yep. Well, it was when I was buying a lot of polish. I have slowed down but haven't spent much so far.  I ordered this polish along with 5 others for $57 + $1 shipping. However, I used a $50 gift certificate from savemore.com which was $25 but I only paid $1 for it because I had credit in my account from people using my referral link. So yeah... I only paid $3 and some change for $58 worth or stuff!  So amazing.  The site is aveyou.com. My stuff arrived within just a couple days!  Impressive.  They have a good selection of OPI and Essie. Normally I'm too cheap to buy them so it worked out. I also got OPI "DS Extravagance", Essie "Sew Psyched", Essie "Alligator Purse", OPI "Jade is the New Black" and OPI "Samoan Sands".   All fairly well known colours but I thought long and hard over it! They're all unique to my collection.

revvvolution

After all these girly manicures, I wanted to go with something darker. I decided to go with Color Club "Revvvolution" because the sun would show off the holo factor. So pretty.  

I lucked out with the fact that my "Revvvolution" is holo because there are two versions of it, old and new. The old is holo but the new one isn't. I ordered online, not knowing this, but thankfully mine is holo. So, if you order just be aware! Scrangie has a nice holo pic of it. I might shake my bottle more before I use it next time. I think some of the holo pigment may have settled down to the bottom.

I added "gLORIous" (holo top coat) to my middle and ring fingers to compare. It is a stronger linear holo with it. It's gorgeous but it takes away from how unique "Revvvolution" is plus is lightens ups the grey. It is gorgeous though, of course!

Ultimately, I painted over the "gLORIous" and just wore "Revvolution" on its own. I think it's a gorgeous polish. I like how the holo is more scattered and very golden. I prefer it with out topcoat but I wanted to add this cute bow so I had to add it.

before top coat

after top coat (darkens the polish a bit)

 Here you can see the holo a bit better.

 Then I added CC "Covered in Diamonds" which has multicoloured flakes of various sizes. It's so pretty. It reminds me of stained glass.

I discovered the macro shot after these pics were taken. It makes a huge difference though so my nail pictures will be much better in the future now that I can get all up close and personal.  Here's one I took (I was in the middle of taking off this mani)

Oh a note on these bows. I had them on for three days but they weren't budging so I'm sure they would have stayed on for a long time. For application, I dabbed some clear polish onto my nail then pressed the ribbon down onto it. Then I covered it and the entire nail with a coat of clear polish.  I removed it with remover.  I can actually re-use them but the remover took off the gold colour so now they are just clear, hehe.