Royal Purple.

Aside from Luscious Green, I was also given '116 Royal Purple' for my birthday, also from the Nyx brand.

Unlike its green buddy, it was clear from the start this one was not going to be able to cover on its own, and thus would require some layering. I could have just used it over a similar purple as a base, but wanted to try something with a little more visual flair.

This simple combination of triangle-tape and striping-tape has YSL's  '141 White Gold' (which I guess is what the cool kids are calling silver these days) as a base.

Luscious Green.

Another polish given to me for my 23rd birthday - and it's green! One can never go wrong with green. Or have I mentioned that before?

Anywho, this lovely - or, if you will, luscious - shade of green was given to me by my best friend, who definitely has a good eye for what I like. It's by NYX and goes by the name of '133 Luscious Green'.

I was worried it wouldn't cover well, but it only took two decent layers for me to be satisfied with it. In the bottle it seemed to have a bit of a gold shimmer to it, but it doesn't show on the nail too much.