Blue & Silver Christmas Crackle Spam

I couldn't decide what kind of Christmas mani I wanted to do, and I wanted to play with some of my new crackle polishes to try them out.  I totally forgot to take pics of the silver polish, but I showed the blue yesterday.

First up, we have 2 coats of OPI Your Royal Shine-ness with OPI Navy Shatter.  I had the same flooding/bleeding issue with YRS as I did with the KC Metallic's.  THis was my first time using Navy Shatter and I loved it.

Then I had to try out Silver Shatter over KC Metallic Sapphire..

This was also my first time using Silver Shatter(that I can remember), so I'm not sure why it looks so weird and actually like a blue silver.  I did use a quick dry top coat between so the base was completely dry.  I still like the way it looks though. 

*Football Friday* LA Tech with Amanda

Hi Y'all! Amanda here filling in on FOOTBALL FRIDAY! cause Harri is sick *sadface*

I wanted to stay neutral this week with a crazy out of left field mani! My Alma Mater: Louisiana Tech!
Just a few quick facts about LaTech!

1. Tech is located in teeny tiny Ruston, Louisiana; Home of Karl Malone (I met him once at a chinese food buffet!)
       Ruston also has some of the best peaches I've ever had in my life!
2. Tech is in the WAC: Western Athletic Conference, which includes teams like Hawaii (?!??!) Boise, and Fresno
       Our colors are red and blue and we are the BULLDOGS!
3. Louisiana Tech became the first IN THE WORLD to award a degree in NanoSystems Engineering 2007 (the year i graduated!)
4. When you graduate from Tech you get an engraved brick that goes into a huge walkway recognizing every graduate from Louisiana Tech University.
       as of May 2011 the bricks go up to the graduation year 2000

For this mani I used OPI Alpine Snow and OPI Red and Blue shatter. For the logo I used Zoya Sooki and China Glaze First Mate.

even tho our team tends to flub up a lot, I'm still a proud supporter!
GO DAWGS!

*NOTE from Harri*
Thank you Amanda for doing this for me, I really appreciate you staying up late to get this done for me and showing a Dawg of a different color. ;)  For those of you who ask "Who is Amanda?", she's a non-blogging polish freak that I met through one of my FB polish groups.  I'll be meeting her for the first time & dragging her with me shopping on Black Friday as long as she doesn't have to work that morning.  She did an awesome Steve Jobs tribute mani recently, I think she needs to start blogging!

I was feeling better yesterday and took pics for part of my next review, but I woke up this morning feeling the crud again.  SO, I'll try to get that done this weekend for y'all.  AND, I have to get my giveaway prizes mailed out as all the winners have replied. 

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!

*Fail Friday* - Holo Glitter Shatter Fail

My last 2 posts have shown my steps up to this fail.

I recently used some of the $3.50 off $10 purchase coupons at Ulta and got OPI Silver & Turquoise shatters along with 4 Ulta polishes on clearance.  Each transaction was $7.40 which is less than just getting the shatters at regular price. 

I now have all but the blue shatter by OPI and well the Pink when it comes out in Oct/Sept.  I swatched these on a wheel first & used the same method as I would with Black Shatter.  Very thin coat on dry polish.  WELL, I didn't do these thin and it shows.

So, this is my Holo Glitter Shatter Fail.

Silver on my left hand under the lamp.

Silver in the sun.

Turquoise on my right hand in the sun.

Turquoise on my right hand in the sun.

I'll have to use these again & make sure I use a thin coat!

TOODLES Y'ALL!!!