Flakie Friday! BG Cosmetics Flake My Day

Hello lovelies! Happy Friday! I'm really hoping that this will be my last day of late posting, but my son is deep in the terrible two's (at almost 3) and accomplishing anything without help is almost impossible. It's taken me 5 hours to shoot pics (not all that great, but the best I could do under the circumstances), crop and watermark photos, and write this post. Crazy, right? I love being a mom but I could use some downtime.

But...since there is literally no rest for the wicked, I will be launching another giveaway within the next few days! I'm celebrating 300 FB likes, and want to say thank you to everyone that follows me here and on FB. If you have yet to follow in either place, you may want to do so now - it will save you a step when the giveaway goes live. Also, as an added bonus, if KLK on FB hits 500 likes during the giveaway, I will launch another, simultaneous yet different giveaway along side this one. So spread the word! 
For today's Flakie Friday I have another awesome Indie Flakie to share with you all. You all know about my love affair with BG Cosmetics - in fact I have a ton of BG polishes that I plan on sharing with you ASAP. Ketlyn is a polish genius, and her creations are so unique and fabulous. When I saw that she had released a flakie, I had to have it right away.
Flake My Day (if you don't get the reference here, I will be disappointed!) is a blue/teal/green color shifting flakie in a sheer base.  One of my fave flakie color combos!

Ketlyn and I decided it would be fitting to show this beauty on my stilettos, and despite being kind of lame at photographing my right hand, I love my stilettos so much that I can't help but show them off.

I chose to use Flake My Day a bit differently than usual - I layered one coat of FMD over OPI Yoga-Ta Get This Blue, then topped that with a coat of Zoya Frida from the Gloss Collection. I love Zoya's Gloss polishes for layering, and Frida gave this mani the added depth I was looking for. I did add a coat of Gelous since FMD is a chunky flakie (of course my Gelous bubbled....thankfully my Glitter Food is on the way!). Any and all bubbles are entirely the fault of the evil Gelous.

*Sigh* Beautiful!! I really love how FMD looks over Yoga-ta Get This Blue, but it really looks awesome with a coat of Frida over the top!

Flake My Day's formula is on the thick side for a flakie, but this means that you get a ton of flakies in every brush stroke. I needed just one coat for full coverage. Application was easy peasy, due to the thicker formula. No fishing for flakies and no need to hand place the flakes. FMD does dry textured, so I recommed a coat of Glitter Food (Gelous has been bubbling like mad no matter what I do lately, so I'm saying buh-bye and going strictly to Glitter Food. I have 2 bottles on the way!) before top coating.

All BG Cosmetics products are 3-free, cruelty free, and lovingly handmade. You can grab your very own bottle of Flake My Day by visiting BG Cosmetics on Etsy. A 15 ml bottle is only $8.50, and you can save 15% by using code "kimberskorner" at checkout! Ketlyn also realeased her brand new "Party Like A Rockstar" Collection today as well. You do not wanna miss this one, guys! It's really cool! Hopefully I'll have swatches soon!

What do you think of Flake My Day? Have you grabbed any BG Cosmetics beauties yet?

I'll be back tomorrow with more awesome Indies! In the meantime, be sure to head on over to The Subtle Shimmer to check out Susan's awesome Nfu-Oh flakie!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

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