Pink and Blue Needle Marble

 

This is s needle marble technique done with Rimmel Pro Posh Pink and Sinful Colors Aquamarine.  I finished with NYC Matte Me Crazy.  To do the needle marble, you need to start with a base polish that will cover in about one coat.  Add a coat, a bit thick if necessary.  Add drops of your 2nd (and maybe 3rd) color.  Drag a needle (I used a dotting tool with a pointed end.) through the second color to marble the polish.  You may want to drag the needle starting from the base color into the second color as well.  I preferred  the nails where I added less of the 2nd color.  I tried several different designs.  I forgot that when I added the matte top coat the second day the polish underneath would soften up.  That is how the nails in the first pic got smudged. 

Pink Dots

This is Essie Super Bossa Nova, an old white polish, and NYC Matte Me Crazy.  I used a dotting tool to do pink/white, white/pink, matte/shiny, and shiny/matte dots.  Meh.  It's O.K.  I probably wont do it this design again. 

OPI Two Plums Up

With Pro FX Quick Dry Top Coat

With NYC Matte Me Crazy

This is OPI Two Plums Up.  The second pic is with a matte top coat.  I think this shade is nice enough.  I don't love it, but it is good. OPI just wears O.K. on me, 4-5 days.  I can get 6-7 out of a few other brands.

Essie Shine of the Times Gradient

This is Sinful Colors Let's Talk with an Essie Shine of the Times gradient.  Let's talk is true purple in real life.  In the second pic I added a coat of NYC Matte Me Crazy.  I'm not much of a glitter or flakie glitter person,  but I find I like glitters and flakies if I wear them in a gradient.  Until I saw it done on Pinterest, it never occurred to me to do a flakie gradient. 

Wet 'n Wild Megalast Under Your Spell

With Pro FX Quick Dry High Gloss Top Coat

With NYC Matte Me Crazy

I bought a set of Wet N Wild mini polishes on sale at CVS last week.  This one is Under Your Spell.  It is a really weird polish.  In the bottle it looks dark red/maroon initially.  On further inspection, you see it is black with red shimmer in it.  On the nails it is a blackened brown with subtle dark red shimmer.  When I added a matte top coat, the shimmer seemed even more subtle.  I prefer this polish matte.  I like this color, I'm not in love with it.