Classic Color: OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue and layering

I love blue nail polish. Hands down, blue is my very favorite color to wear, and even when it's not fabulous, it's never a fail. I have so many blues that it's always near impossible to pick one. So why it took me so long to pick up this beauty is beyond me.

Yoga-ta Get This Blue is the most awesome deep, shimmery blue with purple and teal micro-shimmer. I wouldn't quite call it a duochrome, but it certainly morphs a bit with different lighting. I love this color so much that I wore it for a bit without anything over it - no nail art, no layering, nothing. It's rare that I ever wear a polish alone for very long, but this polish is just so stunning that it certainly deserved its time in the spotlight.

Here it is in the lightbox (Sorry, lack of good sunlight these days, and shade does not do this color justice):

*swoons* I LOVE LOVE LOVE this polish! Not only is it the perfect shade of blue, but application was utterly flawless! Complete opacity in a single coat, but 2 coats is sheer, effortless perfection. I can't rave about this one enough. If you don't have it, you must get it!

However, being me, I realized this would be a fab base color for one of my older untrieds, Revlon's Blue Mosaic. I've had this glitter forever and a day, but have yet to actually wear it. It is gorgeous on it's own, but with glitters like this one I prefer to layer over a darker base. The lighter blue microglitter and silver, green and blue hex glitter is just lovely with the darker blue. My camera unfortunately hates any and all glitters, but hey, I tried! It does tend to overshadow the glowiness of Yoga-ta get this blue, but I didn't really expect the base color to show much with this kind of layering.

Yup! That's some stray glitter on my fingertips! I didn't really do any clean up after layering on the glitter since I didn't want to douse my cuticles in more acetone. Besides, it's festive, right? ;)

For pics of glitters like this, I really wish there was more sunlight here. But you get the jist, right? I also love darker colors on my nubbins (and it's almost time to start shaping those nubbins! I leave them rounder until I have enough length to square them off without losing length). They're starting to look better anyway, but the darker colors make them that much more tolerable. I did do my weekly cuticle maintenance last night, so they are a bit puffy and angry (sensitive cuticles do not like cutilcle remover, but they're happier after some overnight babying!), but hey! Theyre healing nicely and I'm much happier with them now than with the giant mess they were even a few weeks ago. It's easy to hide them in pics - lighting is everything - but in person angry, swollen, red, abused cuticles are just scary. I could rant about them all day long since I've always had icky cuticles, but why don't I just hush about it and we can watch them heal up and become normal over the next couple weeks instead. :)

Happy Thursday, I hope you all are having a fabulous morning! It's time for me to pick out my next polish - I'm thinking of letting the dog sniff around and pick one for me since I'm having so many issues settling on one. :)

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber