NOTD: playing with flakies and duo chrome polishes

I did this NOTD a while ago, and it is one of my favorites ever.
I was bored, and I decided to try layering a few different polishes, to achieve a really cool finish.
I used a duo chrome base, added flakies and then added a sheer multi chrome glitter on top.

Here is what I used:

- 2 coats Rimmel night before (deep violet blue with slight gold/pink duo chrome)
- 1 coat Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure (rainbow flakies)
- 1 coat Nicole OPI count on me (iridescent pink/gold/blue/purple multi chrome)

The result:

check out the gold/green flakies in this light:

The Nicole polish brought out the red and blue flakes in Hidden Treasure:

This combo was awesome to look at. I had it on for at least a week.
I got lots of compliments too.

I plan to play around more with layering polishes, especially flakies. They take on a whole new look when you put a sheer polish over them.

What do you think? Any ideas for layering?

NOTD Nicole by OPI scandals, secrets and sparkle

This is one of the first Nicole polishes to really intrigue me. It's different than your usual silver nail polish.
The glitter particles are quite big and dense, and they are suspended in a milky grey base.

It's a pretty eye catching color, it really dazzles in the light.
Great for the holidays!

Surprisingly it wore really well, I had it on for 2 days without any chipping.
This color is limited edition, and was released with Nicole's gossip girl collection summer 2010.

NOTD Nicole by OPI positive energy matte swatches

Nicole has put out some interesting nail polishes lately. There are about 5 different colors in the limited edition matte series. I really want to try the black one but they were sold out :(
Positive energy is really more like a suede finish, it's not overly matte. It has a ton of shimmer in it that gives it a tin foil effect, it's pretty cool!

One thing I found about matte colors is that they show any flaws on your nails : /

you can see my one nail here is indented, thanks to a cheese grater accident - ouch!

It was really hard to capture the matte effect on camera, since all the shimmer reflects so much light!