Cult Nails & CrowsToes

I love this:

It's Cult Nails Manipulative, a gorgeous muted teal/robins egg blue with a hint of shimmer, as you can see in the shadowy photo to the right. I purchased this in a recent Cult Nails sale.

And I love this:

I have been LEMMING Absolum very hard and for a very long time. I was finally able to purchase it recently and so excited when it arrived in the mail a couple days ago.

So I decided to combine two loves to create something beautiful. Click "Read more" for swatches!

Cult Nails: Power Thief & Pahlish: Your Silver Lining Combo

As I've stated before, I really like Cult Nails. It's a great brand run by a great woman and they have a whole bunch of brown polishes, which are my new favorite color.

So today I have Cult Nails Power Thief. Power Thief has amazing little flecks of silver throughout that take a basic brown polish to a whole new level.

Check out the bottle macro. And no, Power Thief doesn't have any purple glitter in it, that's just my bad.

 And here are two coats of Power Thief with one coat of a random topcoat. <3

The silver in Power Thief lends to the polish appearing lighter or darker, depending on how the light hits it. Below shows Power Thief at the lightest I saw it:

 It's beautiful no matter what shade it's showing. 

So as you might have noticed since you are reading this blog and literate, I mentioned Pahlish Your Silver Lining in the title. Yet, I haven't shown Your Silver Lining yet. Well this was initially just supposed to be a post about Power Thief, but I apparently really like Cult Nails/Pahlish combos because I have another one.

Click "Read more" for swatches of Pahlish Your Silver Lining over Power Thief!

Cult Nails: Cruisin' Nude & Pahlish: Bixby Canyon Bridge

Today, I have my favorite nude polish and my favorite brown glitter polish -- together in one great mani!

First up is my absolute favorite nude polish: Cult Nails Cruisin' Nude. Cult Nails is a recently new-to-me brand and I love every polish that I've purchased. If you don't own any Cult Nails lacquers, they are a must for your collection.

What makes Cruisin' Nude so great is that it has the slightest shimmer, which you can see here:

While I love Cruisin' Nude on its own, I wanted to jazz it up a little bit and chose to do so with one coat of Pahlish's Bixby Canyon Bridge:

 This has beautiful gold holo hexes in it, along with brown and orange. LOVE.

And here is the end result. And no, I cannot explain why my index finger has a kind of weird brown smudge at the tip. I think it must have something to do with the shimmer in the polish and the glitter.

Click "Read more" for additional swatches and information on where to purchase Cult Nails and Pahlish!