Empire State Blue...

I put on NYC Empire State Blue and then I matted it with Butter London's matting top coat.

Milo wants to know why I wanted to take pictures of my nails instead of him.

My new ring, on my middle finger, I'd seen this one years and years ago, but it was only in size 12, but I just found it again and in my size and I was so excited.

Found it on ebay, I love you ebay.

I Only Eat Matte Salads...

- This is Spoiled's I Only Eat Salads, but then I used the Hard Candy matte top coat on it.  I've been feeling mattes lately.

It's sort of an ugly pretty, but I always like those.

Simply Sweet...

 - You may remember these Simply Sweet polishes from my haul post the other day, they were in a set of four for 4.99.  They're unnamed which I hate.  They were a runnier polish, and flooded my cuticals.   Then for fun the next day I added Hard Candy's "Fabuluxe" to my thumb and ring finger.  Then I used my matte polish by Hard Candy on my thumb and I took a picture of them next to each other to compare.  I liked it both ways.

Matte Is The Word...

 - This was done using China Glaze "Turned Up Turquoise" and "Flying Dragon", I thought it was interesting I picked two new polishes and they both dry matte.

I also did the random design on my thumb just playing with my new dotting tools.

And then on my left hand I tried the Expressions nail polish, it's a glow in the dark one, I didn't notice any color change, but it was slightly like a top coat so it added shine and brought out the shimmer and glitter in the "Flying Dragon".   Sorry I didn't get any pictures of it glowing but for being a cheapo polish I felt it did glow pretty well, and specially since I only did one coat.

And for being pretty much matte polishes they held up really well, I never put a top coat on my right hand (which is my dominate hand), and they stayed intact - well until I dug through a box of books at the dollar store.  I ruined my manicure shopping.  Shopping is dangerous work people.

Avon Matte.

- I have such a love/hate with matte nail polishes.  They always remind me of like primer paint on a car or something.  But this was one I bought on a demo to try it out.  There's something about it I really like, probably how it looks nearly perfect going on, and it dries insanely fast.  It does chip but it's easy enough to fix with how quick is dries.

The bottom picture is where I did a french tip on my pinky just to try it out.  I used a Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in a purple lilac shade, can't recall the title atm.