New flakie polish

As you can probably tell, I have a bit of an obsession with nail polish. Although I have many polishes, I didn't have a flakie until now! A flakie is a nail polish with irregularly shaped flakes in it, which makes for some pretty cool effects.

This is the one I got, from essie. As you can see, the flakes are pretty light, but I love the look of a flakie over a dark color.

I used this Sinful Colors which is black with faint blue glitter in it.

I added the flakie, and it came to life!

The next step was to mattify it, with essie's matte about you. Here it is indoors,

and outdoors in direct sunlight!

Unique ring finger nails

Playing with the essie matte about you a little more and jumping on the unique ring finger bandwagon :)

Although the matte finish is great (and velvety to the touch), it doesn't actually work that well as a topcoat. My nails chipped within a day or two. Also, it doesn't stay matte for long. It picks up all of the moisture from any water or lotion that touches your hands and eventually turns kind of satin-y but not in a good way. Still fun for a bit though :)

Matte topcoat

Finally got my essie matte about you! I really love the look on dark nails.

For this look I used a basecoat and two coats of OPI Russian Navy.

Then I added a coat of matte about you. The colors aren't really accurate (they are more navy blue than as black as they show up in the photos), but you get the idea. I love the look!