Hello lovelies!  You're getting double bang for your buck today, because as well as my guest post over at Sparkly Vernis you get to see Lynnderella here!

Today's Valentine themed mani is the beautiful Matter of the Heart.  I put this on late last night because I thought it would be a quick mani to do before bed.  I guess it was relatively quick to do, but waiting for layers to dry slowed me down a bit, plus the painstaking glitter placement slowed me a lot.

Matter of the Heart has red, fuchsia, pink and silver holographic multi-sized hexagons and squares in a sheer milky pink base with subtle pink shimmer.  There is also scattered holographic hearts in the bottle but I wasn't lucky enough to get any on my nails for this mani.

Because I missed out on getting a heart from the bottle, I grabbed my bottle of NYC Heart Throb which has red and silver hearts and placed a single red heart on my ring finger.  You'll notice that some of the silver string glitter form Heart Throb also made it onto my nail.

For the base I started with one coat of Ulta 3 Natural Spring. I then put on a polish that I never thought I would wear again, the sorriest holo to ever be called a holo, Ozotic 527.  But I tell you the undie colour was perfect and just what I wanted.  Who would have thunk it, right? 

I the did two very carefully placed coats of Matter of the Heart.  Finished with one coat of glitter tamer and one of Seche Vite.

Till tomorrow lovelies!

Today I wore this beautiful polish from Glitter Gal.  This is Lavender Sparkle. You don't see the Glitter Gal sparkle polishes getting much love around blogs, and after wearing this I just don't know why.  

Looking at the bottle I was worried it was going to be a watery sheer mess, but to my surprise it was opaque in just two coats.  The sparkle in this polish is not holographic glitter like other GG Sparkle polishes I have.  This has an amazing shimmer that almost makes you nails look like they are covered in frost.  Its generally a silver shimmer, but when you look closely at it you can see fine pink and blue sparks coming through.

This polish was the perfect pink to base for some more Valentine stamping.  I know these aren't very fancy Valentine nails, but I was happy with the final look.

Sorry, spot the stupid cat hair!

I'm working on some fancy designs using water decal paper, but I really need the weekend to put some time into them.  One reason I really do love stamping is because it's a quick and easy way to add nail art, especially when you've got home from work, got dinner on the table, bathed the littlies, got them to bed, edited your photos from that morning and done a blog post.  Then it's finally time to change you mani and it's already 10pm.  But just add some stamping and you have nail art that never fails to impress muggles!

I had so much fun doing my week of Aussie manis a few weeks back I've decided to do a week of Valentine's mani's in the lead up to Valentine's Day.

Here is the first design I came up with.  For this design I wanted to do something that wasn't pink and didn't include hearts.

I settled for an accent finger stamped using the diamond stamp from  Bundle Monster plate BM09, using Sally Hansen Canary Diamond Chrome, over Ozotic 621.  On the other fingers I wore Layla Mercury Twilight as the base, stamped with an ebay purchased plate with a rose, that I double painted in red and green for the roses.

For the record folks, Layla Mercury Twilight holo does lose some of it's holo effect with Seche Vite top coat.  Not as much as these photos would lead you to believe though, there was no sun and I took these photos outside.

That's all folks, I'll be back tomorrow with another Valentine mani.

Yesterday I was looking at the magnetic polish I was wearing (Layla Magneffect Deep Violet) and thought "I wonder what it would look like if I added a matching french tip striped the other way".

So I grabbed the polish, tried to do a neat swipe across the tip and quickly applied the magnet in the other direction.

Here is the result.  As usual, some nails are better than others. I quite liked the ring finger.

So what do you think? Too weird?  It certainly got noticed anyway.

In all your purple loving nail polish dreams, have you ever seen such a beautiful purple glitter as is this.  Lynnderella Love Potion No 99.

This is one coat of Lynnderella Love Potion No 99 over one coat of Kleancolor Metallic purple. Then one coat of glitter tamer and one of Seche Vite.  This polish has purple, violet and fuchsia hexagons and squares in multiple size, as well as violet holographic micro glitter.  All an a very light tinted purple base.

I did notice the Kleancolor Metallic Purple seemed to change colour when I applied Love Potion No 99 over the top, but I have a feeling that this polish normally changes colour with a top coat anyway.

Even at just one coat of Love Potion No 99, there is still so much depth to this polish with glitter pieces overlapping each other.

It appears that Love Potion No 99 has done it's work on me, cause I really have fallen in love with this.

You know when you've wanted a polish (or polishes) for so long and you've seen amazing photos on blogs that make you feel like you will never own such a beauty.  

Then finally you get the said polish(s) and you look at them and think 'Really, is it all that great? Does it live up to what I thought it would be".  

Well let me just say that is so NOT the feeling I had when I opened my first ever Lynnderella polishes.  I had been dreaming of my coming Lynnderellas for so long and when I opened the package I squeeeed in delight and stared in amazement at the magical combination of colours before my eyes.  Thank you Lynn and Donna for bringing my dream to life.

Truly, my photos do this polish no justice. In fact, no ones photos do this polish any justice.  It is just too amazing.  This is one coat of Lynnderella Ruby Red Ruby over one coat of Ulta 3 Pepper Pot, one coat of glitter tamer and a coat of Seche Vite.

I took my son to the dentist today and the technician looked at my nails and couldn't believe how amazing they were.  She actually grabbed my hand on two separate occasions to get a closer look.  Then she asked how I got the gems in there and commented how smooth it was.  Then she asked if someone did them for me and was amazed to hear I did them myself.  Finally she asked what polish it was and I had to tell her that the bottles are pretty much rarer than real rubies and are hand made by genius polish creator.

And now this next photo seems totally unrelated in this post, but I figured I would share it here as I was wearing an Ulta3 polish beneath Ruby Red Ruby.  This here is a gift my sister in law grabbed for my mum.  Sure it's a little late for Christmas now, but how freaking cool is this nail polish candy cane!  It held 10 full sized bottles of Ulta3!

I have many more Lynnderella's so show, and a special surprise coming up for my followers where you will get the chance to have some Lynnderella's of your own.

My bottle mainly comprised of gold and green. I only had a tiny amount of the red and blue flakies, so they don't show up much in this polish, but the red flakes look more pink and purple in my photos. The blue ones are clearly blue, but there aren't many in my bottle.

I was so excited to try these out mainly because until now, I have not been able to locate any raw flakie that you can add to polish and it didn't lose it's colour.  I know MK over at Polish and Pigments has done a huge amount of research on this too.

Anyway, I told Kaila that they should definitly still stock these, even though they are not as bright.  Mainly because there still isn't anything else available as a flake.  I will be getting some more because  they will certainly make an interesting addition to my frankening supplies.

I think these same flakies are also now available from You Mix Cosmetics and Frankenpolish Shop.  I have no experience yet with either of these companies, although I have recently ordered from You Mix Cosmetics so will know in the future.  

TKB Trading now have these in stock and my experiences with them has always been excellent.