Digital Nails Ultimate Ginger; Glitter Gradient

Well, it's been a whole few days since I wore a Digital Nails polish. WHAT?! A few DAYS?! Insanity. Especially considering my love of Digital Nails. Moving on now. I used some birthday monies to get a whole heck of a lot of the Ladies of Who collection, including this one: Ultimate Ginger. Albeit, I finally made it to the episode that Ultimate Ginger refers to. I cried. Like a blubbery blubbery loon. There was snot. Anyway, the second that I got around to swatching and doing something with this polish I realized that yes, while I could wear it on it's own (it was opaque in two thicker coats for me) that I had the perfect undies. Now, readers - the quest for perfect undies for a jelly/crelly worshiped polish is incredibly hard and arduous. To have the perfect undies fall into my lap? NO WAY. As it turns out - OPI Can't Find My Czechbook (a gift for my birthday!) was absolutely perfect. And I love glitter gradients. So I did one. 

There is is ladies and gentlemen. Two coats of Ultimate Ginger on my ring finger. I used two coats of OPI Can't Find My Czechbook on the rest. Then I dabbed a thiiiiiin coat of Ultimate Ginger on those four babies halfway up my nail. Then, I dabbed another coat a quarter way up my nail. Add one coat of random clear polish and a layer of Poshe - TA DA! Done. The formula on both of these were great. No opacity issues AT ALL. No bubbling or balding either. And if you can't tell - the glitter pay off for Ultimate Ginger is siiiiiiickening. 

I should probably describe Ultimate Ginger for you, as is proper and appropriate in a review. It is a delicious light blue crelly with tiny turquoise sparkly glitter, matte marigold hexes in various sizes, shiny orange hexes, bigger matte white hexes, sparse emerald green hexes, and most likely there are still probably some I am missing. SO MUCH GLITTER!

Seriously - how perfect are these undies? 

So - when I got these it was made explicitly clear that I MUST MATTE ULTIMATE GINGER. If I didn't, the universe might implode. Or Matt Smith might shave his head. Oh wait - WE'RE TOO LATE FOR THAT. So I matted it. And oh man - it's gorgeous. 

CLOSE UP! 

It's the "lets matte that polish" trilobite! :D

Well - that's all she wrote! So what do you need to know? Where to get these? If you've read any of my other posts you should know by now that Ultimate Ginger is available on Digital Nails' Etsy site. And there is also a Facebook you should go like immediately.  

OPI Can't Find My Czechbook is available in retail stores such as Ulta for $9, my HEB for some reason for $7.98, certified dealers or whatnot for whatever they're selling them for, and online at Amazon.com.

A Mild Coral Obsession: OPI Jinx vs Zoya Destiny with guest star Digital Nails Super Temp

Some of you may be aware that I have a mild coral obsession. It recently came to light after I realized I needed to stop buying so many damn purples and get something for summer. I had the extreme good fortune to come across OPI Jinx at a nail supply place for DAMN CHEAP. Purchased. I also have a textured polish obsession. Zoya Destiny was a wonderful pressie from a fellow graduate student with a polish obsession and soon - will be soulless. No no no, she's a wonderful girl, it's just what graduate school does to a person. Finally, I bought Super Temp from Digital Nails. Because I love coral. Anyway, I realized one day while loading my nail polish into a lovely traveling ham container of mine that Destiny and Jinx were remarkably similar..... and Super Temp looked just as amazing but sans-texture. And then I decided to compare all three. PICTURES ARE IMMINENT!

Pretty awful bottle shot. Sorry guys. Stupid lighting. BUT YEAH they all look pretty close? Coral base with goldy-yellow sparkly bits?

BAM! There they are. Super Temp on the pointer, OPI Jinx on the middle, and Zoya Destiny on the ring. They look pretty close to each other. Here are the noticeable differences:

1) Super Temp is not textured. Fantastic alternative for those who are against the textured polish thing
2) Destiny appears to have a slightly. SLIGHTLY. HARDLY NOTICABLE. Pinker base.
3) OPI Jinx has slightly smaller glittery bits and is a finer-grit sandpaper finish. Zoya Destiny is definitely larger grit and rougher. 

And another comparison swatch. TA DA!

Here is another one. With LABELS! (oh my, so fancy!)

I really wish I could capture the shimmery color shifty bits of Super Temp better. GAH! SO SHIMMERY!

Well - here we go. 

Whoops. Forgot to mention important things like formula and application and stuff. What you see is two coats of each and a well - cropped out janky pinkie. All of them dried in reasonable time (Super Temp got Poshe-d) and I totally neglected to put on a base coat. All of them were lovely and sparkly and pretty. And even though OPI Jinx and Zoya Destiny are remarkably similar, I won't be getting rid of either because I think the textures are different enough to warrant keepsies. 

Anyway, if you want to buy them I've heard OPI Jinx is at Ulta for $9 a pop and Zoya Destiny is available on their website for also $9.

As always, you can find Digital Nails Super Temp on her Etsy! Also, it's based on Donna Noble, who I adore.