Oi Vey! Okie dokie. For this manicure, I started with one coat of OPI’s Natural Nail Base Coat, one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black and one coat of Icing’s Blackout.

For the thumb, I used Icing’s Envy for the grass, China Glaze’s Emerald Fitzgerald for the telesecope tube (my telescope is a green 8″ reflector if you were wondering, hence the green tube here), OPI DS Radiance for the silver details on the telescope, Sally Hansen’s Lavender Cloud with Sinful Colors Black on Black for the moon.

For the index finger, I used, Milani’s Flashlight, Sally Hansen’s Lavender Cloud, Sally Hansen’s Lightning, Sally Hansen’s Rapid Red and OPI’s Chop-Sticking to My Story for Jupiter.

For the middle finger, I used Nfu- Oh’s 61, Sally Hansen’s Lavender Cloud, OPI’s the It Color and Sally Hansen’s Rapid Red for Halley’s Comet.

For the ring finger, I used Milani’s Cyberspace, Milani’s Hi Tech, and Finger Paints Easel-y Entertained for The Lagoon Nebula.

For the pinkie, I used Misa’s Haute Hippie, Sally Hansen’s Rapid Red, and Sinful Colors Pearl Harbor for the random nebula for which I can’t find a name on google.

I then topped everything off with two coats Seche Vite, and on Jupiter, after the Seche Vite dried, two coats of China Glaze’s Matte Magic.

The Colors:

Since this post is so long, and so many colors were used in such tiny amounts, I’ll only cover one big one here and leave the rest for when I use them more substantially.

Icing’s Blackout is an amazing black jelly with holographic glitter imbeded within the polish. Rumor has it that it’s a dupe for Nfu- Oh GS14, which is a hard to find and more expensive color. To be honest, I am in absolute love with this color even when just layered over black because it has such a great star quality. I love simple constellation manicures, and if you do too, this one is for you. I wore it five days once without chippage, which is rare for an icing polish, but it looked great even then! I usually layer over black, not because of its sheerness, but because I don’t want to waste such a beautiful polish on layering.ALSO:I’ve been lemming an emerald green holo, which OPI says that they’ll try to get working on *lets hope so* but I decided to franken my own in the meantime. I don’t have a name for it, but I was thinking of Emerald Eyes, whatta ya think?

I mixed five drops of China Glaze’s Emerald Fitzgerald with two drops of Nicole by OPI’s Lemon Lime Twist, and two drops of Nfu Oh’s 61. The thumb, which is a tidge lighter, had only 3 drops of Emerald Fitz but I darkened it for the rest of the fingers. I would have loved a pure emerald, but this color is nice too, more of a jade I think….

Also, my mom made Rafik an amazing birthday present, which I have to put up here because its so gosh darn amazing looking. Steal these pictures, and I will hunt you down. No, really… I will. Our apartment doesn’t have great light, so there’s one picture that’s with a flash so you can see the detail, but it blocks out the lion in the clouds, so I put a blurry, non flash picture up so you can see the cool lion in the sky. Rafik likes lions, and my mom likes cross stitching. She’s a crafting genius and there will be more of her projects on here soon. In fact, I’ll be using her beaded ornaments (to die for) as a nail design in the near future.