Spring Challenge - Dark & Twisted

Hi Goddesses

Today is April 1st, April Fools Day, so the theme for the Spring Challenge was to be as opposite to Spring as possible - a dark and twisty mani.

My "dark" is LA Girl Color Addict Intoxicate (which you can see here) and my "twisted" is ...... Finger Paints Twisted !!  Lol.

I have to say, I am getting a little flakied out.  I am bored with seeing the same orange / green colour shift, so I LOVE flakies like Twisted where the colour mix is so more intense and ... well, creative.

These 2 work really well together - flakies are always better against a darker base, aren't they.

I matted it for fun, and do you know what, it almost makes the flakiness better.  It pins the colours down, and you suddenly see how much rainbow was in just one bottle - orange, red, yellow, blue, green, pink.

Oh and finally, forgive the golden tinge to the photos - in the English deep mid-murky-weather, right next to my lamp was the only way I could get Twisted to play.   Bring on the sunshine!!!

Enjoy xx :)

LA Girl Color Addict INTOXICATE

Hi Goddesses  

I may be from the UK, but I love me some LA Girl.  They're inexpensive, and I have yet to have a bad experience.  I love their Glitter Addict range, I love LA Splash and most of all I LOVE the Color Addicts.

This little lady is called Intoxicate and came in the first part of the world's longest and windiest ever swap with Alyssa :)   As the name suggests, she's a vampy, devilish seducer, and she's exactly the sort of colour I love.

Half the photos on this post are in the nail room, and half are under the kitchen halogens.  I hate it when there's no natural light and you just can't get a true reflection of the colour.  In real life, Intoxicate is somewhere between the 2 shades you see - not as dark as the bright photos, not as warm as the halogen photos.

This is an aubergine deep wine, a cauldron of blood and blackcurrants, all interlaced with the finest gold shimmer.  She's truly beautiful, and intoxicating - she's the sort of wine you let dribble down you chin.

I'm a bit bummed I didn't write this when I was wearing her, cos this is really not giving her the rhapsody she deserves, but trust me when I say she's a stunner.  She also reminds me of about a dozen older OPI polishes - that Black Cherry Chutney style of polish.

So deep, devilish and dark.  Lush, lusty and illicit.  She's a dramatic vamp of a polish.

Enjoy xx :)