Pretty & Polished - Boy Bleu, swatch and layering

I've showed Boy Bleu several times before but not over pink before. The pictures are from early 2013 (lol emptying the archive again) but I've worn it layered over white, over brown and over red. My favorite combo is not over pink anyhow, brown and red are so far the favorites. Anyhow, this is my contribution to Blue Monday.

So I've talked about Boy Bleu before. It's black and bright blue hex glitter in 2 sizes and also tiny glitter in both colors, and some very occasional large semi matte white hexagons in a clear base. Those large white hexagons are so rare that they are unnecessary in my perspective.

Polishes used:
Paris Memories - #229
Pretty & Polished - Boy Bleu

What do you think about this combo? Do you have any proposals on more base colors for Boy Bleu?

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Paris memories - #293, swatch

What is your opinion about yellow shimmers? Like it or not, here I have some photos from last year with Paris memories - #293 (which actually is one of my moms polishes). I think this could have had high potential, being almost "honey colored" but the 4-5 coats makes me a bit negative towards it. However, considering the price it's not too bad even though I prefer creme yellows over shimmers.

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Prismatic glitter gradient over black

Hi! I've been gone for quite some time now, there has been work, personal life and just a lot of things going on, both negative and positive ones. Some fun nail polish related things is that I've been to Canada and I've done some fun polish shopping there and I've also done an awesome nail polish swap with my favorite Russian girl. :)

Today however I'll start with something simple from my archive. A prismatic glitter gradient over a black creme. The first photos are just regular small hex glitter and in the last one I actually added prismatic string glitter too. Hope you like it. :)

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12
Paris Memories (small prismatic glitter)
Kleancolor - Grand Finale (string glitter)

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Holo glitter gradient on pink

The title is fooling you a bit, it's not a "real holo", it's really prismatic or holographic glitter. I really wanted to join Holo Friday and I've wanted to change my manicure to a holo from Catherine Arley, because I got some pink holos from that brand untried, but to capture the "holoness" I definitely need sunlight and it's been cloudy for some days and yesterday it even started snowing(!) I'll post more today, and if were lucky there's going to be something more for United in Pink, otherwise this will do.

The base here is the lovely cerise (almost-glowing) neon Love's A Beach and then I've used two prismatic glitters in different sizes and colors. The first one is from Paris Memories, it has a number name which has disappeared from the bottle and the second glitter is Kleancolor - Holo Chrome. Holo Chrome is not that chrome and not even scattered holo, but glitter holo we could call it. This is that kind of nail art that you definitely would be noticed in, it's glitter packed and is crazy bright in the sun. :)

Polishes used:
Paris Memories (prismatic silver glitter)
Kleancolor - Holo Chrome
China Glaze - Love's A Beach

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