Ali's Nail News

Nerdlacquer Swatches and Review.

2012-01-17T08:12:00.000-08:00

Good morning! How are you today? I'm tired, and having a very lazy day....even though I shouldn't be. I took my dogs to the vet for baths, and it's the perfect day for me to clean the house....but I don't want to!!!! Ugh. I hate cleaning. I wish I was one of those women who actually liked to clean. Believe it or not, they are out there. ;-) However, I am NOT one of them. I suppose after I post this, I'll try to do something....or maybe I'll just go back to bed. LOL! ;-)

Today I have a couple of really awesome polishes to show you. It's from a rather new company on etsy called Nerdlacquer. There are lots of great polishes, and I want them alll!!! You can find the shop here...http://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdLacquer?section_id=10470264

The first polish I'm going to show you is called I Think You Call Me...Sexy. It's a royal blue with large silver hex glitters,small holo glitters, and red glitter. Application was absolutely wonderful! I wish every polish applied as well as this one. I used two coats.

Next up is Data Squirrel. It's a dusty red base with green,turquoise, silver, red, and copper glitters. Again, the application on this one was fantastic! I used two coats on this one as well.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you have a great day! :-)

New Icing Glitters....swatches and review...Part 1

2012-01-15T09:18:00.000-08:00

Good morning! Today's post is going to be a long one.....I have lots of pics. to show you. I was in Icing the other day, and found new glitters! They have so many good glitters there, it's crazy! I got several, and actually left some behind. I'm sure I'll get them eventually though. ;-) As always they were buy one get one 50% off. I don't think that ever changes, and I hope it never does! ;-) While I was there, the girl checking me out, happened to mention that they are getting Magnetic polishes within the next week! I'm so excited to try them out. I don't have any magnetics yet, but I've wanted some forever! I'll def. be grabbing them when I see them. ;-)

Okay, on to the pics! :-) (by the way, click on the pics. for a much better view of the glitters)

Written in the Stars-a clear base with a blueish tint, it has med. round holo pieces, and blue holo stars. Application was good, but you do kind of have to pick the stars out. They are a little hard to get, but not terrible. I've def. had worse, and this polish is so pretty, it's worth it. I layered it over another Icing polish. This polish doesn't have a name, and it came in a cube with four minis. It's a med. blue with lots of silver shimmer. Application was great. The formula was a bit on the thin side, so I used three coats.

Pics. of the two together.

Matted

The mini. blue polish without a name....I really wish it had a name, and a full sized bottle. I really love this polish!

Next is my fav. of them all....After Party. AP is made up of multi colored shreds of glitter. I def. don't have anything like it. At all. I was a little worried about how this one would apply. I was afraid it would stick up or be rough, like some bar glitters are. However, it applied wonderfully, and completely smooth. I was really surprised. I applied two coats over Finger Paints Black Expressionism.

Matted

Last, but not least, is Birthday Beyotch....ha,ha...love the name! ;-) BB is made up of multi colored, small and med. sized round glitters. I know we've all seen this one before, but I just can't seem to pass up a multi colored glitter....plus the name kinda rocks. ;-) I applied two coats of BB over Revlon Jelly. Jelly is a bright pink jelly. I think it might be my fav. pink jelly. Application was great, and I only needed two coats for it to be opaque.

Pics. of the two together first.

Matted

Revlon Jelly

Whew! That was a lot of pics. to post! What do you think about these new glitters? Do you plan to pick any of them up, or have you already? I'm really loving them...Icing does know how to make a good glitter polish. ;-) I will have Part 2 for you in the next few days or so.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a great Sunday! :-)

OPI La Boheme

2012-01-07T07:50:00.001-08:00

Good morning! Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We really don't have any plans this weekend, and after the crazy busy month I've had, I'm just fine with that. :-) Slept in,took my dogs for a walk, and now I'm having coffee and messing around online. It's so nice to not have a thing to do! :-) I'm going to go see my horse for awhile today. The weather has been super nice this winter. Especially for Kansas. It's usually freezing cold with ice and snow right now. It's been in the 50's and 60's for the past week! It's nice. I hope it stays like this the rest of winter. That would be awesome! :-)

Yesterday, I had to pick a few things up from a store I don't go to all that often. I found myself parked right in front of a nail salon. I'd been in once before, and at that time, they didn't sell their polish. I decided to try again, and am I ever glad I did! I got lucky! They now sell the polish, and I found two awesome hard to find OPI's. I got OPI La Boheme and OPI Sand-erella!! For a grand total of FIVE dollars! Crazy, right? The bottles are almost full. It was def. a good dusty haul. I have wanted both polishes for a LONG time.

I decided to try La Boheme out first. I've heard that layering it over a black creme really makes it pop, and it's true! I put two coats of La Boheme over one coat of Finger Paints Black Expressionism.

Do you have La Boheme?? I am so glad I FINALLY have it! ;-) Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you have a great Sat. :-)

Finger Paints Flakie Collection! Swatches and Review.

2012-01-03T06:54:00.000-08:00

Good morning! Back to the normal work week today. I have to admit, I have been ready for things to get back to normal for awhile now. I'm not sure why. I had lots of fun, and this is one of my fav. times of the year. However, I was just so busy this time around. Even though most of it was enjoyable, when you have too much it just starts to wear on you. Anyway, I'm glad to be back to normal. ;-) I know I've slacked greatly in blogging for the past month or so. Now that it's not so crazy busy around here, I plan to be back on a more normal basis. Yay! ;-)

Finger Paints has an awesome new flakie collection, sold at Sally's Beauty. They are around $4.49 each or $3.49 with a Sally's beauty card. There are five polishes in the collection. They were supposed to be put out on shelves on Jan. 1 but a lot of stores put them out early. I've had mine for a couple of weeks now. They are a limited collection, and are selling fast, so grab them while you can. ;-)

This is a pic. heavy post....I hope you don't mind. ;-)

I used one coat of Finger Paints Black Expressionism as a base coat for the flakies. BE is my absolute holy grail black creme. Seriously. Everything about it is awesome. One coater,doesn't chip,application is wonderful and it's pretty much perfect. ;-) I'll post a pic. of it at the end. Anyway, since there are five polishes, I swatched them at the same time.

L-R Flashy,Flecked,Twised and Motley

My thumb has Asylum on it.

Now I'm going to show you close up's of each one. First up is my fav. of the collection, Twisted. It has blue,purple,orange,green and yellow. It might be my fav. flakie polish ever. I really hope I can find more of it. I NEED back ups! :-)

Second is, Flashy. It's your typical orange/yellow/green flakie. It's the most dupeable of the bunch. It's similar to Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure and Essie Shine of the Times.

Third is, Flecked. It had green and blue flakes, with green being the most dominant color.

Fourth is, Motley. It has blue and purple flakies, with blue being the dominant color.

Last but def. not least, is Asylum. This is my second fav. of the bunch. It has Orange,blue and purple flakies, and in the right light it flashes green and yellow.

Here is another pic. of them all together. L-R Flashy,Flecked,Twised and Motley

I decided to layer all five flakies on each nail, and got a rainbow of flakies! I love it! This pic. doesn't do it justice.

Then I decided to see what they would look like matted, and used a coat of Essie Matte About You.

While I really did like the matte version okay, I decided I didn't like it quite enough to leave it. I ended up adding a coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast, to make it shinny again. I think these flakies were meant to shine. ;-)

Here is a pic. of Finger Paints Black Expressionism that I talked about above.

What do you think of the Finger Paints Flakies? Do you plan to pick any of them up? Or have you already? I'm really loving them, and hope to find more, so I can get a couple of back ups for Twisted for sure.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you all have a wonderful day! :-)

Happy New Year!!! My top 20 of 2011

2012-01-01T18:20:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year! I know I'm a day late showing my top 20 of 2011 but thought I'd go ahead and post them. Since this will be a long pic. post, I'll just let the pics. do the talking. ;-)

Not all of these were released in 2011, but they are my fav. 20 of the year. They are in no particular order.

1. Nabi-Purple Jumbo Glitter

2. Essie-Cocktail Bling

3. Make Up Store-Greta

4. China Glaze-Glittering Garland

5. Fing'rs Blue jelly with glitter (no name)

6. Lynnderella-Change

7. NYX-Gilded Glitter

8. Orly-Androgynie

9. Color Club-Abracadabra

10. OPI-Excuse Moi!

11. Kleancolor-Metallic Orange

12. Lynnderella-Connect the Dots

13. Wet 'n Wild-Correction Tape

14. Essie-Bonded

15. Revlon-Starry Pink

16. Hare-Pegasus

17. Hare-Bisbee

18. Orly-Sweet Peacock

19. Lynnderella-Shape Shifter

20. China Glaze-Ring in the Red

Whew! That was a lot of pics. to post! Did you do a top 20 this year? If so, do we have any of the same favs?

My New Year's Eve Mani....Lynnderella Change & CG Blue Year's Eve.

2011-12-31T19:23:00.000-08:00

Hey guys! Happy New Year's Eve! ;-) Did you have a good Christmas? Do you have any big plans for tonight? I'm getting ready to head out, but wanted to get my NYE mani. posted before the night is over. :-)

I started out using two coats of China Glaze Blue Year's Eve, which is from the CG Holiday 2011 collection. BYE is a deep blue glass fleck. Application was a little runny, but nothing too bad.

I then added two coats of Lynnderella Change. Changes is made up of different shades of gold,copper and red glitter. The glitter is multi shaped....squares,round and hex of different sizes.

First up, the finished mani.

China Glaze Blue Year's Eve on it's own.

Thanks for reading, and I hope whatever you are doing tonight, you have a fun and safe time! :-)

Lynnderella Happy Holo Daze and OPI Gift of Gold.

2011-12-25T07:44:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!!! I hope you all have a wonderful day day.....whether you celebrate Christmas or not. :-)

This is going to be another short one, but I wanted to get my Christmas mani. posted before the day is over. I used OPI Gift of Gold as my base. It's from last year's Ulta holiday exclusives. Gift of Gold is made up of mostly gold glitter. It also has some red and silver glitter throughout. Application was absolutely wonderful for a glitter. Seriously. It was a one coat glitter! That doesn't happen very often.

I put two coats of Lynnderella Happy Holo Daze on top. Happy Holo Daze in one word, is awesome!!! It's like a bottled Christmas party! :-) It has different sizes of red, and green square glitter, and round glitter. It also has red and green bar glitter, and silver holo hex glitter.

Pics. of the finished mani. first.

Close Up.

OPI Gift of Gold on it's own.

Close Up.

Thanks so much for reading!!! I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful day no matter what you do! :-)

Lynnderella One Nutty Fruitcake over Fashion Bug Boysenberry

2011-12-23T10:02:00.000-08:00

Good morning! I absolutely can't believe it's Friday already! This week has flown by so fast. I've been super busy! Actually, this month has gone fast for me. I feel like I have been going non stop since Dec. started. I can't believe it's Christmas in two days!

I have another Lynnderella holiday polish to show you today. It's called One Nutty Fruitcake, and like all Lynnderella's I LOVE it! :-) It's a multi colored and multi shaped glitter. I layered it over a polish I picked up at Fashion Bug, of all places. Did you know they carry polish now? They actually have some nice colors too. I picked up two of them. The one I have on today, is called Boysenberry. It's a med. purple foil, and application was really,really good. I only had to use ONE coat too! :-)

We went to see the Nutcracker last night, and I wore this as my mani. I really love how it turned out. The pics. don't do it justice. I don't know what the problem was yesterday, but I had to take so many pics. of this mani! I finally got a few okay. ones. I hope anyway. ;-)

First up, is the full mani. with Lynnderella One Nutty Fruitcake.

Fashion Bug Boysenberry on it's own.

Thanks for looking, and have a great Friday! :-)

Essie Cocktail Bling & Essie Pure Pearlfection

2011-12-21T10:35:00.000-08:00

Good afternoon! I have to post and run again, but wanted to at least post something today. I have to meet our horse vet at the stables in 30 min. Shortcake, my horse has to have her winter check up and shots. She's going to be just thrilled! ;-)

Today, I'm going to show you two of the Holiday polishes from Essie. First up is Essie Cocktail Bling. It's a med. gray creme, that I just adore! The color is great,application was great, and I used two coats. I wore this for three days, and on the second day, I decided to bling it up just a little. I added one coat of Essie Pure Pearlfection. PP is a white shimmer with mint green and pinkish sparkles through out. It's really pretty, and I can't wait to try it over multiple colors I picked both of these colors up at Walgreens.

Essie Cocktail Bling on it's own.

With Essie Pure Pearlfection.

Thanks so much for looking, and have a great day! :-)

The Make Up Store's Greta.

2011-12-19T10:47:00.001-08:00

Good afternoon! This is going to be a short one, as I'm about to run out the door. My busy,BUSY week starts now. lol....Thankfully, I am feeling much better. Today, I have on one of the awesome holos from the Make Up Store. I have no idea why I'm just now wearing this, as I got it over the summer. We made a stop at the store in Denver, on our way to Steamboat Springs CO. so that I could get polish!

Greta is a silver holo. I can honestly say, that it is the best holo I have ever worn...so far. ;-) Application was great, and I used two coats.

Thanks so much for looking, and have a great day! :-)

Fing'rs Blue Jelly Glitter....Essie Starry Starry Night Dupe?

2011-12-17T11:51:00.000-08:00

Happy Saturday! How has your day been so far? It's still been super busy around here, and it's not letting up anytime soon. My week next week, is jam packed! To top it off, I've not been feeling the greatest. I've spent the last two days laying around sleeping. I feel better today, but not 100% I so can't afford to be sick right now. :-(

Anyway, I did still manage to do my nails. ;-) Today, I have a really pretty blue jelly glitter to show you. It's made by Fing'rs and it comes in a cute little bear bottle. It doesn't have a name on it though. I got it on ebay. It looks like a close dupe to Essie's Starry Starry Night! SSN has been my biggest lemming forever. This has actually curbed that a bit. It's a gorgeous deep blue jelly, with silver glitter through out. I used three coats, and application was actually really good. I think it's an older bottle, so I wasn't sure how it would be. I love it! I think you can still find it on ebay from time to time.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!! :-)

Christmas themed mani. using Lynderella's and Wet 'n Wild.

2011-12-13T12:53:00.000-08:00

Good afternoon! How is your day going? It's cold and dreary here, but DH and I have plans to got out tonight. I'm hoping the bad weather will hold off for a few hours. We are going to the Kansas City Country Club Plaza to see the Christmas lights, and eat at the Melting Pot. It's a fondue restaurant, so lots of yummy cheese and chocolate dips. This will be my first time there, and I'm excited! :-) I've wanted to eat there forever!

Anyway, I decided to do Christmas nails today. I started out with Wet 'n Wild Rockin' Rubies, which is part of the Ice Baby Holiday collection. It has fine red glitter with round, hex glitter. The polish was a bit on the thick side, but nothing too bad. I used three coats for full coverage. I had planned on just wearing this color, but then I started messing around with my Lynnderella polishes. I added a coat of Lynnderella I Can Afford It, which is made of of bright green glitter in different shapes and sizes. It also has a few gold and purple glitter pieces through out. I added a bit too much green, and decided it needed more red. So I grabbed another Lynnderella....Ruby Red Ruby. RRR is made up of all red glitter in different shapes and sizes. I am loving this combo, but dreading taking it off! I have on NINE coats of polish! That's including my treatment,base and topcoats.

Here are pics. of the finished mani.

Wet 'n Wild Rockin' Rubies

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you are having a great day! :-)

Nabi Jumbo Purple Glitter over Finger Paints Black Expressionsim.

2011-12-08T08:05:00.000-08:00

Well. Here I am yet AGAIN, apologizing for being MIA. I am sorry, and I really appreciate you all sticking with me. I fully expected to log on and see that I'd lost followers. Not only did I not lost any, but I gained a couple. So thank you to all who have stayed, and welcome to the new comers. :-) I really appreciate ALL of you. :-)

I didn't expect this week to be so busy. It all started on Fri. evening when I got a call from my mom, telling me that President Obama was going to be in my hometown, speaking at the high school I graduated from. I seriously thought she was joking. I'm from a very small town in Kansas, called Osawatomie. There are around 4,500 people who live there. I have no idea why Obama chose us, but he did. I had to go. This was a HUGE deal for my little town. There were only 400 tickets to give away. So, on Sun. morning, my husband and I drove down and stood in line for tickets. We got in line at 6am and stood there until noon. It was absolutely freezing cold. It was well worth it though, because we got our tickets! Obama spoke on Tues. and it was really amazing to be a part of it. My dad, who has been a history teacher at the high school for almost 50 years got to sit right down in front. Pretty cool! The entire thing still feels so surreal. You would not believe the amount of cops,swat team,secret service,bomb dogs etc...that were all around the town. Anyway, that's where I've been the past few days. Something I will never forget. :-)

Okay...on to the nail news. ;-) My nails are slowly getting longer after my nail catastrophe, and I think I finally found my perfect black creme. It's Finger Paints Black Expressionsim. It's what I've been looking for, forever! It's not runny,not too thick,doesn't chip and it's a ONE coater. It's smooth, and applies like a dream. I applied Nabi Purple Jumbo glitter over it. Purple Jumbo Glitter is pretty amazing! It's made of small and med. orange glitter,large orange hex glitter,large orange square glitter,and round purple glitter. I am loving it over black! I also tested over purple and it looked great too.

Close Up..

Close up of the bottle.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day! :-)

Essie Luxeffects Shine of the Times

2011-12-01T09:08:00.001-08:00

Good morning! How has your week been going? Mine continues to be crazy busy! I'm ready for the weekend!

I had a nail catastrophe over the weekend, and now my nubbins have nubbins. :-( Ugh. I am so annoyed by this, but what can I do? It's been a long time since I had to file my nails this short. The timing sucks too. I have lots of good Holiday manis. planned, and now my nails are short. Hopefully they will grow fast. If any of you have any tips to get fast growing nails, please share! ;-)

I finally found the Essie Luxeffects collection at Walgreens. I grabbed two of them, but am thinking about going back for the rest. I have a lot of free points to use before Jan. so I think I might be able to get them for free!

The one I'm going to show you today is the flakie. It's called Shine of the Times, and it's a mostly orange flakie, but there are some green flakes in it too. I layered it over Sally Hansen Forbidden Fudge. FF is a dark brown, and it has some gold sparkle to it. I used two coats of it, and application was pretty good. It was just a little runny, but nothing too bad.

Sally Hansen Forbidden Fudge...these aren't the best pics. but I think you can get an idea of what it looks like. It really is a pretty polish, and looks much better in person. ;-)

Thanks so much for looking! Have a great day! :-)

OPI Ulta Holiday Exclusive Speak For Your-Elf!

2011-11-27T12:10:00.000-08:00

Good afternoon! I have to apologize for not posting much in the last week. It's been really busy around my house, and I've hardly had a chance to sit down! We've had company,been shopping(lots)decorating for Christmas,cooking etc...I'm tired! I don't think I'm going to do much today. I'm ready for a lazy day! ;-) It is my stepson's birthday today, but he doesn't want to do much. We are having an awesome cake, and he wants take in, so it's an easy day.

This year Ulta has three Holiday exclusives again. Two of the three, are just renamed. One of them is an exact dupe to one of the Muppet polishes, and the other is a dupe for a Nicole by OPI. I picked up the red one, which is called Speak For Your-Elf! It's a gorgeous jelly red glitter, and I know it's a dupe to something, but it was so pretty, I had to get it. Also, being the red lover that I am, I kinda had to get it. ;-) It's very similar to China Glaze Ruby Pumps. However, I actually think I like this new OPI better! I know! Crazy! I never,ever thought I'd like something better than Ruby Pumps. ;-) I used two coats, and application was wonderful.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you are having a great Sunday! :-)

My Turkey Day Mani! Happy Thanksgiving! :-)

2011-11-24T11:51:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Are you having lots of good food today? This is going to be a short entry, as we have family coming within the hour to eat. We have SO much food. We'll be eating turkey for a month! LOL! I wanted to get my mani. posted before the day was over. I used Finger Paints Cordur-Orange. It's the perfect pumpkin colored orange. It reminds me of pumpkin pie. I used two coats, and application was great. I then added one coat, of NYX Gilded Glitter on top, and added Joby Thanksgiving stickers to each nail.

First up, the completed mani.

Without the stickers.

Finger Paints Cordur-Orange on it's own.

Thanks for reading! I hope you are having a wonderful day, with lots of yummy food! If you aren't celebrating Thanksgiving today, I still how you are having a wonderful day! ;-)

Avon Holiday Glitters!!

2011-11-21T06:35:00.000-08:00

Good morning! Happy Monday! ;-) How was your weekend? Mine was busy,busy,busy! I'm so sorry for not blogging for a few days. I swear, I go from having nothing to do, to being crazy busy for days straight. We're having Thanksgiving at our house this year, so we've had a lot to do to get ready for that.

I stopped in the Avon store last week, to grab some perfume for my mom. While I was in there, I spotted new holiday glitters! Of course, I had to get them. One did come in a set, and I almost didn't get it. However, I ended up liking everything in the set, so I went back to get it. :-)

The polish that that comes in the set, is called Sequined Turquoise. It's a really petty turquoise and silver glitter. Application was great, and I used two coats.

Here is a pic. of the set it comes in. It has a cute clutch,a eyeshadow quad and a lip gloss. I will wear three of the four shadows, and I'm in LOVE with the lip gloss. It was on sale too, so I grabbed it while I could.

It is available online here....http://shop.avon.com/shop/product.aspx?src_page=product_list.aspx&level1_id=300&level2_id=718&pdept_id=719&dept_id=0&pf_id=43130

The second polish that I got, that is available on it's own, is called Violetta Sparkle. It's a grape colored jelly, with gold glitter. It also applied great, and I used two coats. This one is only $2.50 and is also on the website....http://shop.avon.com/shop/product.aspx?pf_id=43319 For some reason it's $2.99 on the site, but it was $5.00 so it's still a good deal. ;-)

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a great Monday! :-)

Piggy Polish Moonlight & Mistletoe

2011-11-16T18:53:00.000-08:00

Good evening! I have a new holiday polish from Piggy Polish to show you tonight. It's called Moonlight & Mistletoe. It's a really pretty deep violet/purple color with pink and blue shimmer. I don't have too many colors from this brand, but they have been coming out with some great colors lately. As far as I know, the only place that sells them is Ulta. Or you can buy them directly from their website here....https://www.piggypolish.com/order/

Application was pretty good. It was a little on the runny side, but nothing too bad. I used two coats.

Do you have any Piggy Polishes? If so, which ones?

Best purple jelly ever, and NYX Gilded Glitter!

2011-11-14T08:18:00.001-08:00

Good morning! Did you have a good weekend? Mine was pretty good. Was super busy, and that's why I didn't get a blog posted until today. I hope yours was good. :-)

I decided to take a break with the Sally Hansen Gem Crush collection. As much as I LOVE them, for some reason, they brought back the peeler in me! Not good. At all. I used to be horrible about peeling my polish off. I got better about it, and haven't done it ages. For some reason, the SH Gems polishes made me want to peel again. I did it FIVE times last week. So bad for my nails, and now I'm back to nubbins again. Ugh.

I am wearing a gorgeous purple jelly by Ruby Kisses. It's called Bold and the Beautiful. Seriously the best purple jelly I've ever used. It's a deep, grape purple jelly goodness. :-) Application was great, and I used two coats. I'm in love with this polish! It was only $1.99 too!

I did put a coat of NYX Gilded Glitter on top, and really liked the end result. I've had in on for the past couple of days. I'll probably change it today, after I clean. Ugh. I hate cleaning. I'm so putting it off right now. I put it off all weekend, so I have to do it today.

Anyway, enough about that. On to the pics! ;-)

Ruby Kisses Bold and the Beautiful on it's own.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you have a great day....even thought it is Monday. ;-)

More Sally Hansen Gems Crush Swatches!

2011-11-11T10:57:00.000-08:00

Happy Friday!!! :-) I'm ready for the weekend, how about you? I have two more of the Gems Crush polishes to show you today. I can't stress enough how much I love these! The next two I'm going to show you, are Big Money and Cha-Ching!

I'm wearing Cha-Ching! today, and it's a gorg. red glitter with round silver glitter. Application was again, great, and I used two coats. This one reminds me of OPI Muppets Gettin' Ms. Piggy With It,China Glaze Eye Candy Love Marylin. The difference is, that this one is opaque in two coats. Or one thick coat.

Big Money is a goldish tan color (does that even make sense?)with round lavender glitter. This one is pretty unique. I can't think of a color like it. As with all of these, application was great, and I used two coats.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you are having a wonderful Friday! :-)

New Sally Hansen Gems Crush swatches and review!

2011-11-09T16:37:00.000-08:00

Good evening! I have a great new Sally Hansen collection to tell you about. I had no idea there was going to be another SH collection out already. I found them at CVS. The collection is called Gem Crush. There are eight polishes, and they are all glitters! They look like a mix of the OPI Muppet collection and the China Glaze Eye Candy collection. I don't have any of the CG Eye Candy collection yet, but I do have all of the Muppets. I have to say, that I actually like the Sally Hansen collection better. The reason being is, they apply opaque in one thick coat, or two thinner coats. How great is that?! Also, they are fast drying, and they do dry very fast. I also love the brush. It covers most of my nail in one swipe. They are pretty much awesome all around. I have two of these to show you in this post, and will show you the rest in the next few days.

First, here is a pic. of all the bottles.

L-R Glitz Gal,Lady Luck,Big Money,Cha-Ching,Razzle Dazzler,Showgirl Chic,Be-Jeweled and Bling-tastic

I wore Showgirl Chic yesterday, and loved it! It's a silver glitter with blue hex glitter. It looks like a dupe to China Glaze Lorelei's Tiara. I used two coats, and application was wonderful.

Today, I have on Lady Luck which is a deep pink, with silver holo hex glitter. I used two coats, and application was great on this one too.

Bottom line.....if you are a glitter lover, you need to get these. :-) They are fantastic. This is one of my fav. collections in a while. I found them at CVS, and I think that's the only place they've been found so far. I'm not sure if it's a limited collection or now. Hopefully it's not, and that way they will be easier to find.

Thanks for reading, and have a great night. :-)

Lynnderella Bibbitty Bobbitty Boo Blue & OPI Roadhouse Blues

2011-11-07T10:33:00.000-08:00

Good morning! Are you having a good Mon. so far? The weekends sure do fly by, don't they? It's a gloomy looking day here, so that doesn't make Mon. any better. It's sure making me lazy! It's almost 1pm and I'm still in my pajamas! I just cant get going today. I feel like crawling back under the covers and having a nice long nap. Maybe, I'll just do that. ;-)

I have on another Lynnderella polish today, and it just might be my fav. one yet. It's called Bibbitty Bobbitty Boo Blue. It has lots of different shaped blue glitter,round purple glitter, and silver hex pieces here, and there. Some of the blue shapes are squares,hex and round. It's a gorgeous polish! I'm in love with it. Application was great. One thing, that I really love about these Lynnderella polishes, is that they are so easy to apply in just one coat. That's pretty unusual with glitters. I applied it over OPI Roadhouse Blues, which is another great polish. It's a dark navy blue color, and application was wonderful. I used two coats of Roadhouse Blues.

First up, are pics. of the two together.

Close Up

OPI Roadhouse Blues on it's own.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day! :-)

Color Club Santa's Cinnamon

2011-11-05T08:33:00.000-07:00

Good morning, and happy Sat!! :-) Do you have any fun weekend plans? I don't have anything planned, and it's nice. I've been super busy the last few weekends, and while it's all been fun, it's nice to have a free weekend.

Color Club has released an exclusive to Sally's Beauty holiday collection. There are six colors, and they are all scented. I'm excited that Sally's is starting to carry Color Club. Hopefully, they will continue to get new collections. I bought three of the holiday collection, and today I have on Santa's Cinnamon. First I have to say, that this polish smells really,really good. Seriously. I can't stop smelling my nails. People might star to think I have some kind of a problem! LOL! I caught myself sitting at a stop light yesterday, smelling my nails. If someone saw me doing that, they probably thought I was a little odd. ;-) This polish smells like red hots, or cinnamon gum.

Now, on to the actual polish. I love it! It's a red jelly with lots of red glitter. It's super pretty, and sparkly. A great polish to wear for the holidays. Application was great, and I have on two coats.

The first pic. is without a topcoat, and the rest are with.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful Sat! :-)

Orly Androgynie

2011-11-03T21:46:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! This is going to be a short entry as it's late here, and I need to get to bed soon. I wanted to get this posted first. :-)

I have on one of the new Orly 2011 Holiday polishes. It's called Androgynie. It's a black jelly with small silver glitter,gold glitter,blue,green and copper hex glitter. Application was good, and I used three coats. Two coats is absolutely fine, but I wanted to get more of the hex glitter on my nails than the two coats gave me. This is def. a unique polish, and the most popular of the holiday collection. If you want it, I'd grab it while you can. It's selling pretty fast around here. I picked it up at Sally's.

Thanks so much for reading! Have a great night! :-)

Barry M Pink Flamingo & BYS Kinky Pink

2011-11-02T13:12:00.000-07:00

Happy Wednesday! How is your day going? I'm having an extremely lazy day for some reason. It's a cold/rainy day, and it's making me not want to do a thing. We're even supposed to get snow tonight. I'm so not ready for that yet.

Since it's Wed. I'm wearing my pink. I haven't done a pink Wed. for awhile, so decided to today. I have a coupe of new to me polishes to show you. I got them in a swap with nail loopy, who is a fellow blogger. :-) She was very generous to me, and sent me lots of goodies. You will see them all soon. Today, I'm wearing two that she sent to me.

I have on my first Barry M polish, and I LOVE it! It's called Pink Flamingo, and is a medium pink creme color. The formula and application on this was fabulous! If all Barry M polishes are like this, I've been missing out! I did get a couple more that I'm excited to try as well. I used two coats of Pink Flamingo.

I added two coats of BYS Kinky Pink over Pink Flamingo. Kinky Pink is in a clear hot pink base, and it has small round holo glitter and big holo hex glitter.

First up, both colors together.

Barry M Pink Flamingo on it's own.

Thanks for reading, and have a great day! :-)

Happy Halloween!!! Here's my Halloween mani. :-)

2011-10-31T16:03:00.000-07:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Do you have anything fun going on tonight? We're just going to stay in, and hand out candy to the trick or treaters. We always have tons of kids coming by, and it's fun to see them all dressed up. Whatever you are doing tonight, I hope you have a good time. :-)

For my Halloween Mani. I used several polishes. I'm going to post the pics. first, and then I'll tell you what I used.

Left thumb.

Right thumb.

On my pointer finger, I used China Glaze Grape Pop, and Blue Cross Pumpkin moons/ silver glitter. On my middle finger, Orly Fresh and Blue Cross Pumpkin silver/black glitter. Ring finger is Blue Cross black creme pumpkin, and Love & Beauty Green glitter. Pinky is Sally Hansen Sun Kissed, and L.A. Girl Uninhibited. My thumbs are Orly Fresh and Blue Cross Pumpkin silver/black glitter. I used Joby Halloween nail stickers on each finger as well.

I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but I really like this mani. :-) I never know when I use stickers if they'll work well or not. They are usually hit or miss. I got lucky this time, and didn't have trouble with any of them.

Here are a few more pics.

With just the base colors on.

With the glitter added.

One more of the final mani.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful night! :-)

Flakie Halloween/Fall Mani. (For real this time!)

2011-10-30T08:34:00.000-07:00

UGH! I've been in the middle of typing this up three times now, and all of the sudden, it just posts. So annoying! Anyway, here we go again. LOL!

Good morning! How has your weekend been so far? Mine's been good. :-) Yesterday, we had family pics. taken with aunts,uncles,cousins,parents and my grandma. It was fun to get together for it. I took some yummy Halloween cupcakes and Apple Cider. The weather was nice, so we were able to have the pics. taken outside by the trees that have changed to the fall colors. I think they will turn out well. :-)

I have a fall/Halloween mani. to show you today. I started out with a black creme polish by Blue Cross. It was one of the cute little pumpkin polishes, which I will show you more of tomorrow. ;-) I then added a Colorama flakie by Maybelline, named Shimmer Girl. Now, I know there are several flakie polishes out there, and I have a few of them. However, I think that Shimmer Girl beats all of them. If only they still made it! It has the same orange/green/golden yellow flakes that the others have, but there is just something about this one that makes it better. In my opinion anyway. ;-) I just love it, and I so want to get my hands on another bottle or two.....or five. LOL! I was really lucky to find this one. I was in a dollar store, in an outlet mall and spotted this lone polish for only $1! I grabbed it up as fast as I could. ;-)

I also added pumpkin stickers by Joby to my ring fingers. Then, I decided to see what it looked like matte. I usually love matte flakies and glitter, but for this mani. I like it better shinny. I ended up putting topcoat over the matte, to make it shinny again.

Close Up.

Matted.

Close Up.

Pics. before I added the sticker.....these are my favs. ;-)

Close Up.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful Sunday! :-)

Halloween Manis!!

2011-10-28T07:31:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday!!! Wow, has this week flown by for me! I've been a bad blogger, and only posted ONE blog this week. :-( I'm really sorry. Thanks for sticking with me though. This week has been very unexpectedly busy for me. I've had things going on every single day/night that just sorta came up. So that's why I've been sorta MIA lately.

I do have lots of pics. to show you today though. :-) I'll start off with the simple one, and the one I loved. A couple of years ago, Color Club had a mini Halloween set. I really only wanted it for one color. Abracadabra. I finally got my hands on it, not too long ago, and it didn't let me down. ;-) Abracadabra is a gorgeous, squishy orange jelly with gold and orange glitter. I have nothing like it, and I LOVE it. I so wish they made this in a regular sized bottle. I'd probably hoard the stuff. LOL! Application was great, and I used three coats.

Of course, I had to try it with my Essie Matte About You. It turned out pretty cool. ;-)

Non Matte and Matte Close ups.

Now to the second Mani...This one turned out to be a kinda fail, kinda cool mani. If you know what I mean? I started out with two coats of China Glaze It's Alive, which is a really awesome polish. I will def. have to wear this on it's own sometime. It's Alive is a swampy green jelly with round and hex green glitter. I've heard that people have had some issues with this being a pain to apply, and that it was too thick. I didn't have either of those issues. It applied great, and wasn't thick at all. I used two coats. I then added a coat of OPI Black Shatter, and then a coat of China Glaze Ghoulish Glow to the top. The Ghoulish Glow was the fail. It didn't glow at all. I went in a very dark room, and it just didn't work. :-( The bottle glowed, but not my nails. I have no idea why. Maybe I needed to add another coat or something. Anyway, it did give the mani. more of an over all Halloween look to it. I also added a pumpkin sticker to my ring fingers.

I guess it turned out okay. Just not what I was expecting. So kinda fail, kinda not. ;-)

First up, here is China Glaze It's Alive on it's own.

Close Up.

With OPI Black Shatter

With China Glaze Ghoulish Glow and Pumpkin sticker.

Whew! That was a lot of pics! ;-) Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful Friday! :-)

Essie Bobbing for Baubles and Lynnderella Shape Shifter

2011-10-25T06:49:00.000-07:00

Good morning! I'm so sorry I haven't blogged in a few days. I guess I needed a tiny break. I'm back though! ;-) I hope you all had a good weekend. Did you do anything fun?

I have one of the new Essie winter polishes to show you today. It's called Bobbing for Baubles, and it's a smokey blue color. It leans more blue than grey, but the grey is def. there. It looks more blue in person, than it does in pics. You can def. see the grey in the pics. I took. Application was absolutely wonderful, and I really could have gotten away with one coat, but I still used two.

I got three more Lynnderella polishes last week, and decided to use one over Bobbing for Baubles. I used Shape Shifter. In one word, this polish is AWESOME! I love it! It's made up of lots of different silver glitter shapes and sizes. Some of the shapes are large holo hex glitter,med. hex,squares,bar glitter,stars,moons,flowers,diamonds,fine silver glitter,and I even found a butterfly shaped glitter in my bottle! It's basically a bottle of awesome! ;-) I used two coats of Shape Shifter over Bobbing for Baubles. I love this mani. so much that I still have it on, and I put it on, on Thurs. That's a long time for me, when I usually change my polish every day. :-)

First up, are pics. of both polishes together.

Essie Bobbing for Baubles

I found the Essie winter collection at Ulta, and I've also seen it at Target and Walgreens. I just bought this one polish from the collection, but I might go back for a couple more. ;-)

Have a great day! :-)

Butter London Holiday Polishes.....Swatches and review.

2011-10-20T17:13:00.000-07:00

Good evening! I have two, of the three Butter London 2011 Holiday polishes to show you. I wore Tart With a Heart yesterday. It's a gray/pink with blue,green,orange and clear iridescent glitter. It's really best used as a layering polish. Application was good, but the formula was a little on the thick side. I used one coat of Tart With a Heart over two coats of China Glaze Pelican Gray. It's a pretty polish, and I do like it. However, it is very dupeable. I don't think it's worth $14 for sure.

Today, I wore The Black Knight. It has a black base with fuchsia,blue,red, and silver glitter. Again, this one was on the thick side, but not too bad. I used two coats, and it did apply pretty well for it being a bit thick. I quite like this one a lot. While I do have other black polishes with multi glitter, I don't believe I have one with these certain colors only.

There is a third polish in the collection, that I didn't get. It's called Fairy Lights. It looks like a pinkish purple metallic to me, and I have plenty of those. I ordered from the Butter London website, and as of right now, they are all three still in stock.

First up, I'll show you the pics. of The Black Knight.

Close Up.

Tart With a Heart

Thanks so much for reading, and have a great night! :-)

Lynnderella Cauldron Drippings & NYC Pumpkin

2011-10-18T17:53:00.001-07:00

Good evening! This is going to be a short post, as I have to go out soon. I do have quite a few pics. though. :-)

I have on one of Lynnderella's Halloween polishes. It's called Cauldron Drippings and it's another awesome glitter. It has so many different shapes,sizes and colors of glitter, I can't begin to name them all! Here are just a few....small and large squares,bar glitter,round glitter and hex glitter. The dominant color is orange, but it has all colors too. It has greens,purples,reds,oranges,black,white and silver as well. It's best worn as a layering polish, and I used it over one of the fall NYC polishes named Pumpkin. Pumpkin is orange with a bit of a golden shimmer to it. Application with both polishes was great. I use two coats of NYC Pumpkin and two coats of Lynnderella Cauldron Drippings.

Close Up.

Matted using Essie Matte About You.

Close Up matted.

NYC Pumpkin

Thanks for looking, and I hope you are having a good night! :-)

Two Manis. today....Apples and Cats!

2011-10-17T08:48:00.000-07:00

Good morning! How was your weekend? Mine was really good, but I was so exhausted by yesterday afternoon, I could have gone to bed for the night! We went to a late football game Sat. night and didn't get home until 1am I didn't get to sleep until 3am and was up at 7! We got up yesterday, and went to a fall festival at a Cidermill. We had some yummy cider donuts and apple cider. I had an apple cider slush. Sooo good! :-) After that we went to a winery, did some wine tasting, and then enjoyed a bottle of apple wine,cheese and pumpkin fudge. By that time, I was ready for some sleep! I came home and had a nap, but it was not long enough. Needless to say, I slept well last night! LOL!

I actually did two manis. yesterday. I wanted to post them last night, but just couldn't stay awake. The first one I did, was an apple mani. to go alone with our activities of the day. :-) I used a Love & Beauty polish, from Forever 21. The name of it is just called Green. It is so much more than just green though. It's an apple green color with lots of gold shimmer. It's super pretty. Application was great. The formula is a little on the thin side, so I used three coats. I then added apple fimo's to each nail.

Close Up.

Love & Beauty Green on it's own.

Food/Drink Pics! Here's the awesome Apple Wine we had....

Apple Cider Slush and Apple Cider Donuts...

Now on to the second mani. that I did yesterday. As much as I loved the apple mani. I did, by the time we got home, a couple of the apples were falling off. I decided to do a cat mani. since yesterday was National Feral Cat Day. The color for NFCD is teal. I used a newer brand of polish that can be found at Ulta. It's called Pixel. The bottles are small...0.17 Fl.oz/5ml but they do have quite a few pretty colors. The one I wore yesterday is called Aqua-Escence It is a dark teal color with golden shimmer. Now application was not the best. I think because the bottle/brush is so small, I had to dip the brush in twice to cover my nail. Plus, buy this time, I was super tired. Who knows, it could have just been me. ;-) I used two thick coats, and added a Halloween cat nail sticker to my ring fingers.

Close Up.

Pixel Aqua-Escence on it's own.

Speaking of cats, here's a cute pic. I snapped of one of my cats, Morris yesterday. We had pizza last night, and he decided he wanted to sit on top of the boxes! Notice my beagle, Buster in the corner staring up at the pizza. LOL!

Thanks for reading! I hope you all had a good weekend, and are having a good Mon. :-)

OPI Animal-Istic

2011-10-15T14:41:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! What are you up to on this Sat? I just woke up from a quick nap, and will be getting ready to go to a football game shortly. :-)

I have on OPI Animal-Istic today, which is another polish from the Muppet collection. This is a great bright red, with a touch of orange. It also has glass flecks in it. It reminds me of China Glaze Cherry Pie and/or Raspberry Festival. Same kind of finish. I didn't have any application problems at all, and I used two coats. If you are a red lover like I am, this polish is for you. ;-)

Close Up.

Animal thanks you for reading! ;-) Have a great night! :-)

OPI Warm & Fozzie.

2011-10-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday!!! I'm SO glad it's the weekend! Do you have any fun plans? We have several fun fall things going on this weekend. Tomorrow night, we're going to a college football game. Then on Sunday, we're going to a fall festival at a Cider Mill. They make yummy cider donuts, and of course, apple cider. After that, we're going to another fall festival at a winery. They make a special apple wine for this time of the year. I'm also going to go see my horse sometime this weekend. :-)

Today I have on OPI Warm & Fozzie which is another polish from the Muppet collection. This one did not fail. :-) I know the Muppet collection is a Holiday/Winter collection, but it has quite a few great fall colors. Warm & Fozzie is one of them. I am loving this color. It's a brown/copper color with pink micro glitter. Application was great, and I used three coats.

Close Ups....these pics. remind me of a pile of leaves. :-)

Fozzie bear thanks you for looking! ;-)

A Holiday polish turns into a Halloween Mani....OPI Pepes Purple Passion, plus black glitter & moons.

2011-10-13T16:34:00.000-07:00

Okay....I'm going to try this for the fourth time. Ugh. I don't know what's going on, but I've typed this post four times, gotten to the end, and it just deletes completely. Sooo annoying.

I had my first Muppet fail today. :-( Ha, Ha....I guess that sound kinda funny, if you don't know what I'm talking about, doesn't it? I'm sure most of you know, I'm talking about the OPI Holiday collection. I had high hopes for this polish. It's super pretty in the bottle, and I love the name. It was an absolute mess to apply though. Somehow, it is thick, yet runny at the same time. I know that doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. It's like it's really thick half way down the brush, and then it gets runny. Really strange. I don't know if I just got a bad bottle or what.

Pepes Purple Passion is a deep purple with glass flecks. I used two coats, but should have used one, since the formula was so messy. I somehow thought using the second coat would help. It didn't. I decided I didn't want to take the polish off, so I added a coat of LA Girl Uninhibited, which is small, round black glitter, and black hex glitter. Then I added a polish I picked up in a three back at Marshall's. The brand is called Color Zone, and it's made my Bluecross Beauty. The same brand that makes the cute little pumpkin polishes. The polish I used, doesn't have a name. I LOVE it though. It has med. sized round holo glitter, and holo moon shapes. I could star at the bottle all day! LOL!

I'm going to show you the pics. of the finished mani. first, and then OPI Pepes Purple Passion.

A couple of close up's...

OPI Pepes Purple Passion

It really doesn't look so bad in the pics. I guess. It was just such a mess. Who knows, maybe I'll give it another chance sometime. ;-)

Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop

2011-10-12T18:22:00.000-07:00

Happy pink Wed! :-) I have one of the newer Lippmann glitters to show you. Well, I say it's newer, but I guess it's been out since July. I swear, it seems like the last few months have flown by! It doesn't seem very long ago that it was July....and 110 degrees outside! I'm sure glad it's not that hot now though.

Anyway, Candy Shop is pretty much Happy Birthday with a med. pink base. It has small multicolored glitter, and multicolored hex glitter. It really does remind me of candy....like jawbreakers or gumballs.

I didn't have any problems with application at all. Sometimes with glitter polishes like this, they tend to be thick and goopey. This one wasn't like that at all. It was opaque in two coats, and dried fairly quickly.

I love pink, and I love glitter, so I ended up taking quite a few pics. That seems to happen a lot lately. ;-)

A few close up's.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you are having a great night! :-)

OPI Designer...De Better! Plus LA Girl Flamboyant

2011-10-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Good evening! I have another polish from the OPI Muppet collection to show you. This one is called Designer...De Better! This polish is a metallic silver foil, with small copper and pink flecks. I have absolutely nothing like this in my collection at all. Not even close, so I'd say it's pretty unique. ;-) Application was great. I was really surprised, as some metallic finishes tend to have brush stroke issues. This one did not. It applied very smoothly. I used two thick coats.

You def. might want to click on these, to see the copper flecks better. ;-)

Here are a couple of close up's...The first one is in the sun, and the second in the shade.

I decided to put one coat of LA Girl Flamboyant over Designer...De Better. Flamboyant is a burnt orange glitter in a clear base. It has small pieces of glitter, and also hex glitter.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you are having a great night! :-)

OPI Excuse Moi!

2011-10-10T18:46:00.000-07:00

Good evening! How was your weekend? Mine was pretty good, and thankfully non eventual! LOL! I need some down time. I spent some time yesterday afternoon, decorating for Halloween. I sooo love this time of year! It's my fav. :-) I've also been working on a polish room, and worked on that yesterday. My husband even helped out with that for awhile. I can't wait until it's done. I'll have to post pics.

I ended up wearing Meep-Meep-Meep all weekend. I am loving the OPI Muppets collection. Today I'm wearing Excuse Moi! I LOVE this polish! I think I might need to get a back up. It's a pink base with teal,green,silver,gold,pink and orange glitter. This might be one of my favs. of the collection. Application was great, and I used two coats. I could have gotten away with one thick coat though.

It was a bit of a rainy day, so no true sun pics. but I think they came out pretty well. Hopefully. ;-)

Thanks for looking! I hope you are having a good night! I'm off to walk the dogs, and then bed. :-)

OPI Muppets....Meep-Meep-Meep!

2011-10-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

Happy Saturday!! Do you have any fun plans for the weekend? I'm not sure what we're going to do, but clean today. Fun, fun! LOL! I'm okay with that. It's been such a stressful, nerve wracking week for me. I just hope it's a uneventful weekend here.

I have the first of the OPI Muppet collection to show you today! I was at the mall Thurs. night, and as I was walking past JcPenny I spotted a full untouched Muppets display! I was so excited! LOL! I grabbed nine of them. I got a really good deal too. They were buy 2 get 1 free. Plus, I had two $10 off of $20 coupons to use. They let me use both! I actually had to get four one night, and go back yesterday to get the other five. For some odd reason, they won't sell you more than four polishes at a time. Isn't that odd? I found it to be really strange. Has anyone else run into that? If you have more than one form of payment you can two two different transactions. I don't know Just seems strange to me.

Today, I have on Meep-Meep-Meep which is a fuchsia pink with glass flecks throughout it. Application was awesome! It applied really well, and dried super fast. I used two coats. The Muppet collection is OPI's Holiday 2011 collection, which I'm sure most of you already know. ;-)

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you have a wonderful Saturday! :-)

Pink Jelly Sandwich & Good News About My Dog!

2011-10-06T12:37:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! I FINALLY have good news on Buster! Yay! :-) He had his ultrasound done yesterday, and it was clear! I can't begin to tell you how relieved I am. I have been such a nervous wreck for the past few days. He's still twitching, but we're pretty much ruled out anything terrible. It's most likely from the Pred. which we're just starting to wean him off. So hopefully, he will just get better and better. I feel like I keep saying it, but thanks again, to all of you for the good thoughts etc...It really did mean a lot to read them. :-)

Since yesterday was pretty much taken up with vet stuff, I did my pink mani. today. I started out using two coats of Revlon's Starry Pink. I already did swatches and a review on it here: http://alisnailnews.blogspot.com/2011/09/revlon-starry-pink.html I then, added two coats of Revlon Just Tinted in Victorian. Victorian is a sheer med pink jelly. With the two combined it looks like a bubblegum pink with silver hex glitters.

Close Up's.

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you are having a great day! :-)

Pumpkin Mani. and more news on my dog.

2011-10-04T18:16:00.000-07:00

Good evening! I finally got a call from my vet today. She was able to talk to the specialist, and got the okay to start reducing the Prednisone, which is great news. We're only going down to 15mg a day from 20mg but it's a start. Now, we just have to hope his blood levels stay up without the Pred. Also, they want me to bring him in for an ultrasound of his stomach tomorrow. They want to make sure the shaking/twitching is def. from the Pred. both our regular vet, and the specialist do think it's the Pred. but want to make certain of it. He did have x rays on Fri. that were clear. I'm of course quite nervous about the test, but hoping for the best. Our appointment is at 10:30 tomorrow morning, so if you could sent good thoughts,prayers etc..that everything turns out clear and good I'd really appreciate it....again. ;-)

I have another theme mani. to show you. Today, the theme was pumpkins. I started out using Kleancolor Metallic Orange. This is a gorgeous color! It practically glows. Application was wonderful, and I could have gotten away with one coat. I did two, but really didn't need to. I then added one coat of Love and Beauty Green Glitter. For the final part, I added some pumpkin sticker that I picked up from a local beauty store. I wasn't sure how this would turn out, but I really like it. :-)

Pics. of the finished mani.

Close Up.

Kleancolor Metallic Orange and Love&Beauty Green Glitter

Kleancolor Metallic Orange

Thanks so much for looking! :-) Hopefully, I will have a good update on Buster tomorrow. Have a great night!

Fallen Leaves Mani.

2011-10-03T19:09:00.000-07:00

Good evening! How has your Monday been? Mine's been quite good. Still no word from the vet though. Hopefully, we will have more news tomorrow. I belong to a couple of online nail forums, and one of them has themes from time to time. Today's theme was fallen leaves, and I decided to take part in it.

I started out using China Glaze Below Deck, which is from this year's summer collection. Below Deck is a taupe color with a creme finish. I then used several different colored glitters. I used a burnt orange glitter, by a brand I picked up at Marshall's called Color Zone. The green glitter is by Love & Beauty which you can find at Forever 21. It's just called green. How original, huh? :-D It's an exact dupe to LA Girl's Purge from the Glitter Addict collection. It has small green glitter, and medium sized round green glitter. I used Wet 'n Wild Prancer from last year's holiday collection. It's med. sized red glitter in a clear base. The gold glitter pieces are NYX Girls Gilded Glitter. Of course, I had to see what it looked like matte, so I used Essie Matte About You.

First up, are the pics. before I used the Matte top coat.

Matte

Close Up's.

China Glaze Below Deck on it's own.

Thanks for looking! :-)

CG in the City,CND Red Sparkle & small update on my dog.

2011-10-02T10:08:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! I want to thank you all so much for the good thoughts,prayers, etc. for my dog. We went to the vet on Fri. and he had x rays and blood work done. The x-rays were clean! Thank goodness! The blood work was a little off in some places, and better than it has been in other places.

A little bit of a background info. on Buster. (Feel free to skip to the bottom, if you just want to get to the nail pics. etc.)

About a year and a half ago we took him to the vet for his yearly shots etc...his white blood cell count was really low. He had tons of tests done and all were normal. We finally figured out that his own system was attacking itself. Why? No idea. The good thing, was that he showed absolutely no symptoms of being sick. We never would have known if he hadn't had his yearly check up. He was started on a cocktail of meds. with Prednisone being one of them. We went in every week for blood work, then every two weeks, and now every month. I have a love/hate relationship with the pred. I love that it helps his white blood cell count, but HATE what it does to my poor dog. It's caused him to gain so much weight, that he can't do things he used to love. Like going on long walks etc...He's still a happy dog, but it makes me so sad to see him like this. You aren't supposed to be on pred. for a long time. The problem is, it's the only thing that was working. He can't have a zero immune system either.

Well, turns out his twitching that started on Thurs. night is because of the Pred. I'm so thankful that it's not something worse, but it's not good either. He needs to get off the Pred. but what happens if his blood count goes down again?! It's so tough. Right now, his white blood cell count is FINALLY at a good level. Our vet is going to talk to the specialist tomorrow and see if we can slowly start to get him off the Pred. Hopefully, the answer will be yes, and hopefully Buster's blood levels will stay up where they should be. Without the Pred. He also has a gallstone. They are going to let us know what to to about that tomorrow as well. Our vet said that it's very common for a dog to have gallstones, so hopefully that won't involve anything too much. If you could continue to keep Buster in your thoughts and prayers etc....We would really,really appreciate it.

Those of you who've read this far, thank you! ;-) I will get on to my nails now. I have on one of the China Glaze fall polishes today. It's called CG in the City. It's a sheer glitter, but I got it to be opaque on it's own, in three coats. It has black,purple,copper,and silver glitter. Application was great. Even though I did use three coats, dry time was super fast. I love it on it's own, but decided to add just a bit more color to it. I added one coat of CND Effects Red Sparkle on top. RS is a fine red glitter in a clear base.

First up are pics. of the two together.

Close Up..

China Glaze CG in the City on it's own.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you are having a great Sunday. :-)

Wet 'n Wild Correction Tape over Barielle Daring Dahlia.

2011-09-30T11:11:00.000-07:00

Happy Friday! I hope it's going to be anyway. I am a basket case right now. :-( My poor little Beagle, Buster is having issues. Again. He keeps having muscle spasms and shaking in his back legs. I'm SO worried right now, I'm shaking myself. No joke. I have an appointment to take him to the vet at 2:40 still almost two hours away. I sure hope he's okay. I can't deal with losing him right now. I just can't. My husband says I need to stop freaking out, and calm down. Seriously?! I love the guy, but if I could calm down, I would! He thinks he's okay. I hope he's right. I really,really hope I'm wrong. I told him that he should record me saying that. LOL! Anyway, if you could please send good thoughts, and prayers his way I'd REALLY appreciate it.

I have on a polish from the On the Prowl Wet 'n Wild Halloween collection. It's an awesome glitter with black and purple square glitter,and blue and gold hex glitter. I really love the square glitter. It seems like it's not made much, so when it is, I always grab it.

I layered it over another new polish I got from Barielle, called Daring Dahlia. DD is a med. purple color with a pink undertone to it. It also has a blue flash. I used two coats, and application was fine. I used two coats of Wet 'n Wild Correction Tape over it.

First up, pics. of the two together.

I know this next pic. is a little dark, but I like the way the glitter looks in it.

Close up.

Barielle Daring Dahlia

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Here's my baby, Buster.

I'm such a mess. :-( Just looking at this pic. put me in tears. Please try to ignore my nervous chatter/typing. I truly am sorry. I just want him to be okay. I need him to be okay.

Thanks so much for reading, and I do hope you are having a good day. Hopefully, I will get good news at the vet, and then I can join you!

Lynnderella Connect the Dots over Cosmo. Wild Thing.

2011-09-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! I haven't done pink Wed. for a couple of weeks, so thought I'd get back to that today. I also really wanted to wear another of the Lynnderella polishes I got. The one I choose happens to look great over a bright pink. I'm wearing Lynnderella Connect the Dots, which just might be the most unique polish ever. It has multi shapes and sizes of black and white glitter. The glitter isn't a sparkly glitter. It's more of a matte glitter. I used it over Wild Thing, which is the polish that I got for free from Cosmo. I did a blog on it not too long ago. You can see pics. of it here: http://alisnailnews.blogspot.com/2011/08/pink-wed-and-kitty-update.html

Bottle Pic.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day! I'm off to take a nap with my dog. :-)

Lynnderella The Glittering Crowd.

2011-09-26T10:34:00.000-07:00

Good morning! How's your Monday going so far? Good, I hope. It's such a beautiful fall day here today. I want to be outside, but I need to clean the house/laundry today. Not so much fun. I wish I was one of those people who liked to clean. It would make it so much easier! LOL! I don't know very many who do like to clean, but they are out there. I have been procrastinating all morning, and now it's almost 1pm here. I wanted to get a blog out first. ;-)

Over the weekend, I wore another Lynnderella polish that I got in my recent order. I still have it on today. I love it so much, I couldn't bare to take it off yet. This one is called The Glittering Crowd, and it's amazing! Seriously, one of my fav. polishes ever, and that's saying something. ;-) The Glittering Crowd had 100 different shapes,sizes and colors of glitter. I can't begin to name 100 shapes, but here are a few that are in this polish.....Stars,hex,round,diamond,bar,square,fine,big hex, and pretty much any color you can think of. Hands down, this is the best glitter polish out there. Even application is wonderful. I only had to use one coat, and that's saying something for this kind of glitter. I added one coat over black. I wore it with a top coat on Sat. and Sun. I decided to see what it would look like matte. Love it both ways.

First up, are pics. with the top coat.

With Essie Matte About You on top.

Close up of the bottle....look at all of that glitter!

Do you like it with, or without the matte top coat best? I can't decide. I like it both ways!

Well, I suppose I had better get off of here, and start cleaning. Try not to be too jealous! ;-) Have a great day, and thanks for looking! :-)

Tony Moly Jupiter

2011-09-24T07:34:00.000-07:00

Happy Saturday!!! I have a great polish to show you today. It's a South Korean brand called Tony Moly. I found them on ebay. I bought two of them, but will def. be getting the rest of the collection soon. There are four or five of them, and they are all glitters.

The one I'm going to show you today is GT05 also known as Jupiter. It's a grape colored glitter, with flecks of blue,red,purple and pink throughout. It has med. sized round blue glitter, and small purple hex glitter. Once again, this is pretty unique polish, and I don't think I've seen another one like it. I used two coats. Application was on the thick side, but nothing too bad at all. I can let that pass on a polish this
awesome! ;-)

Close Up.

So, do you have any big plans for the weekend? I really have no idea what we're going to do. There's a fall festival going on near by, that I'd like to go to at sometime over the weekend. I LOVE fall, and pretty much everything that has to do with it. :-)

Whatever you do, I hope you have a fabulous weekend! :-)

Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire & Wet 'n Wild Buy Me a Drink.

2011-09-22T15:18:00.000-07:00

Good evening! Today, I have one very awesome polish to show you. I'm sure some of you have heard of Lynnderella, and the wonderful polishes she makes. If you are a glitter lover, you will LOVE her polishes! They are really fun and unique. She just recently started selling them, and I was lucky to get in on her last sale. I got five of them, and Very Pretty Vampire is the first one I decided to wear. I layered it over one of the new Wet 'n Wild polishes from the Halloween collection, On the Prowl. I FINALLY found them at CVS the other day. I used Buy Me a Drink with Very Pretty Vampire.

Buy Me a Drink is a deep wine color, with slight red and purple shimmer. I have to say application on this one was awful :-( The brush was bad and flared out on the end. The formula was on the thick side, and I got a little annoyed more than once while applying it. It's still a really pretty color though, and I will wear it again. I used two coats, and after cleaning it up as best I could, it looked okay.

I used one coat of Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire on top. VPV has multiple shapes and sizes of wine,red and black colored glitter.

You def. want to click on these to get a better look at Very Pretty Vampire. ;-)

With Essie Matte About You

Wet 'n Wild Buy Me a Drink on it's own.

Close up of Buy Me a Drink

Thanks for looking, and have a great night! :-)

Revlon Starry Pink.

2011-09-21T11:54:00.000-07:00

Happy Wed! Goodness, I've let a few days go by AGAIN without blogging. I'm really sorry. :-( I should be back to normal now. ;-) This time, I had terrible computer problems. I got a new computer! Yay! ;-) So I've been getting used to it, and getting everything transferred from my old computer to the new one. I love having a new computer, but it does take some getting used to that's for sure!

Since it's Wed. I have on pink today. I have on one of the new fall colors from Revlon. It's called Starry Pink, and I LOVE it! It's unique, and not like anything I own. I'm not even sure if I've seen a polish like it before. It's a light pink with small silver glitter, and silver hex glitter. Application was pretty good. It was a little thin, but I can forgive that. I used three coats.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a great evening. I WILL be back tomorrow. ;-)

Confetti Tazmanian Devil & Tip Toe Holiday Vacances.

2011-09-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! Wow, it's been awhile since I last posted. I'm really sorry about that. Where as last week went by slow for me, this one is flying past, and I've been super busy. Thanks for sticking with me. I'm always afraid everyone will stop following me, if I miss a few days. Is that silly?

Today, I have two new polishes to show you. I found a new to me brand last weekend, at of all places, Old Navy. I had no idea they sold polish. They didn't have very many different colors, and I just got one of them. The brand is called Tip Toe. The one I got is named Holiday Vacances. It's a gorgeous deep berry red jelly, with tons of gold shimmer particles through out. It reminds me of a much darker version of OPI Smitten with Mittens. Application was actually really good, and I used two coats.

I also picked up a new polish from Confetti. It's called Tazmanian Devil, and it's a multi colored glitter. It has different colored hex glitter and multi colored, small round glitter. What makes this multi glitter stand out from all the rest, is that it also has very fine, silver glitter in it. I really,really like it. In fact, it might just be my fav. of these types of glitter. It's only $1.99 too!

First up are pics. of the the two together. I used two coats of Tazmanian Devil over Holiday Vacances.

Here's Tip Toe Holiday Vacances on it's own.

Close up's of both.

HV

TD

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you have a wonderful Thursday! :-)

Revlon Devil's Candy and Kleancolor Red Hot.

2011-09-12T09:12:00.001-07:00

Good morning! Did you have a good weekend? I was FINALLY feeling better, so I decided to go to a football game Sat. night. I had a great time, but it poured down rain for about 15 min. and guess what? I woke up Sun. morning with a raging sore throat. Again. Ugh. I'm sooo sick of being sick. :-( It's making me a little bit grumpy. Just ask my husband. ;-)

I am back to nubs. Again. It seems like everytime, I get my nails to a longer length that I like, I brake a nail. Or two. Which is what happened on Fri.

I wore this mani. on Sat. I used Revlon Devil's Candy first. Devil's Candy is a great red jelly. It's almost worth getting for the name alone. ;-) I have so many reds, but I just couldn't pass this one up. I did at first. Two or three times. Finally, I just had to get it. Application was pretty good. It was just a little runny, but nothing too major. I used two coats. I put a coat of Kleancolor Red Hot on top. Red Hot, is a red tinted base with red hex glitter.

Here is Devil's Candy alone.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a happy Monday! :-)

L'Oreal Owl's Night and NYX Girls Gilded Glitter.

2011-09-09T10:55:00.000-07:00

Happy,happy Friday!!! Is it just me, or does it seem like it was a long week? Even though it was a short work week? Maybe it's because I've been sick half the week. I don't know. It just seems like it's been a long one. I FINALLY feel better today! Not 100% but I can breathe again, which is always good! LOL!

Last night, while I was in Walgreen's picking up some meds. I came across a new L'Oreal fall display. I grabbed a couple of them, and am wearing one today. It's called Owl's Night. It's a murky green, almost black base. It also has lots of gold flecks in it. Application was great, and I used two coats. I probably could have gotten away with only one, but I had a couple of nails that I did too thinly the first time.

I also messed up my left hand, so I decided to add a coat of NYX Girls Gilded glitter over top to save it. I didn't feel like taking it off, to redo it. Gilded glitter is one of my fav. layering polishes. LOVE it! It's made up of gold glitter pieces in a clear base. I wish they would make this in all different colors. That would be awesome! ;-)

First up, are pics. of the completed mani. (don't forget to click) ;-)

Owl's Night on it's own.

I almost forgot to add a pic. of it matted. I used Essie's Matte About You.

Thanks so much for looking, and have a great Friday! :-)

Missha Crystal Pink Glitter.

2011-09-07T17:43:00.000-07:00

Good evening! I'm a little late to this post, as Wed. is almost over, but I did wear pink today for Pink Wed. I've been sleeping on and off all day. Still sick. :-( I think I'm going to have to go to the doctor tomorrow. I was hoping whatever I have, would just go away, and I wouldn't have to go. It's still hanging around though. Going to the doctor ranks up there with one of my very least favorite things to do. Ah well, guess I'll suck it up and go. Unless I wake up and feel good tomorrow. That would be nice. :-)

Today I have on a Missha crystal polish. It doesn't have a name. The number on the back is #GPK01 It's a pink glitter polish. It has dusty pink glitter, and fuchsia glitter mixed in. Application was absolutely wonderful! It has a fairly thick brush, and I was able to cover my nail with one swipe. Awesome! It also dried almost instantly, which was nice. I used two coats or it to be opaque. I almost forgot, this polish smells like roses! Have you ever smelled Tea Rose perfume? If you have, it smells jut like that, on the nails.

Thanks for looking, and have a great night! :-)

China Glaze Grape Pop & Kleancolor Born To the Purple.

2011-09-06T11:33:00.000-07:00

Today, I have the purple version of the mani. I posted on Sun. I used China Glaze Grape Pop, which is my all time fav. purple creme. I love it. It's def. my go to purple. Application is great, and I only have to use one coat. I put a coat of Kleancolor Born To the Purple, which is a clear purple base with purple hex glitter.

Here is China Glaze Grape Pop on it's own.

I apologize for being so short and to the point today, but I am not feeling very well at all. I think I'm getting sick. :-( Terrible sore throat,cold,achy etc...Ugh. I don't want to be sick, and I have so much to do! Isn't that how it always works? Anyway, thanks for looking, and I hope you are having a great day.

End of Summer Mani.. and Dolphin Glitter!

2011-09-05T12:33:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! Since it's labor day, that pretty much means the end of summer to me. We are having gorgeous fall like weather here, and I LOVE it! Fall is my absolute fav. time of year. I love pretty much everything about it. The odd thing? This year, I'm sorta sad to see the summer go. I'm not sure why, but it just seems like it really flew by this year. I decided to do an end of summer mani. It's okay, but I had such better visions of it in my mind. Do you ever do that? Have a great mani. planned in your head, but then you actually do it, and don't really like it? Hate that! That's kind of what happened with my mani. today.

I wanted to do a beach theme, but the sand color I used, turned out to look more like really went sand, and the stickers I used, don't want to stick so well. The glitter I used covered some of my dolphin glitters, and I guess I really just want to take it off. LOL! I'm going to try to be patient, and leave it on though. Until tomorrow. If I can stand it. ;-)

I used Lise Watier Blue-Tiful,Lise Watier Ile Deserte,PA AA01, and Joby nail stickers. Blue-Tiful is a pretty blue glass fleck shimmer and application was great. I did use three coats to get it opaque. Ile Deserte is a carmel color with gold and copper glitter. Application was great, and I used two coats. PA AA01 one is a really cool glitter. It has dolphin and star glitter pieces, mixed in with small blue glitter and med. sized silver glitter.

Let me know what you think of it. I kinda like it, but like I said it's not what I wanted it to look like. Kinda looks like a hot mess on my nails! LOL!

Click to see the dolphin glitter....it's the best part of the mani. ;-)

Here are the two Lise Watier polishes before the stickers and glitter.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you are having a great Labor Day! :-)

OPI Dating a Royal & Kleancolor Blue-Eyed Girl.

2011-09-04T11:21:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! How has your long weekend been so far? Mine's been pretty good. I had a rough few days this week. As most of you know, my kitty, Morris had to have two teeth removed on Thursday. Well everything went really well, but that night he was really sick. All night long. He was hurting too. He kept throwing up, and was really restless. I finally ended up calling the vet at 11pm as I was starting to worry. Turns out, he just has a reaction to the anesthesia. That's what was making him sick. I took him in, and he got a anti nausea shot. That really helped, and I also have been giving him pain meds. He's pretty much back to his normal kitty self. :-) I didn't feel so hot myself for a couple of days, and I think it's due to lack of sleep. I'm going to go have a nap as soon as I'm done here. :-) Thanks to all of you for the kind messages,thoughts,prayers etc...for Morris. I really appreciate it. :-)

Anyway, that's why I've been kind of slow on posting lately. I have a great combo. to show you today. I used OPI Dating a Royal, which is a royal blue jelly. Application was great, and I used two coats. I was surprised it was opaque in two, as it was on the sheer side. I then added a coat of Kleancolor Blue-Eyed Girl. BEG is a clear blue tinted base, with large pieces of blue hex glitter, and small glitter pieces. I really like how this combo turned out. :-) It's very squishy looking.

Here are a couple of pics. of OPI Dating a Royal on it's own.

This is my Morris cat the day he came home from his surgery. I love the cute robot scarf they put on him. He, however did not. LOL! It didn't last very long on him. ;-)

Thanks for looking, and I hope you are having a great weekend! I'm off to nap. ;-)

Cosmo. Wild Thing,New York Summer Glitter,and Kitty Update!

2011-08-31T10:39:00.000-07:00

Happy Wed! First of all, I want to think all of you who sent good wishes for my Morris cat. They worked! :-) We got good news Mon. at the vet. He had no signs of heart disease, and the slight murmur he has, is a benign condition. He really needs to have a tooth out, as it has a hole in it. It's red and swollen, and most likely causing him some pain. Since his Cardiac exam was so good, the vet said he is at no more risk than a normal cat. So tomorrow morning, he will be having his dental, with a tooth removal. Even though we got the good news, and the go ahead, I'm still a little nervous. I always am when one of my pets has to be under. Hopefully everything will go just fine. I'm sure he will not be a very happy cat, until he's home and comfy. ;-)

Today, for pink Wed. I have on a polish from Cosmopolitan magazine. It was free polish, I got for sending some kind of a text message. I had heard about it on MUA so I tried it, forgot about it, and got it the other day. A couple months later. It's actually a pretty nice polish. It's called Wild Thing, and it's a very hot pink color. The formula was a bit think, but nothing too awful. It was free, so I'm not complaining. ;-) I used two coats, and this is one bright color! It was so bright it was hard to get great pics. but they are pretty close to accurate.

I added a coat of New York Summer Vegas Silver to it. VS has small silver glitter pieces and holo bar glitter. I'm not always a fan of bar glitter, but I quite like this one, a lot.

First up, are pics. of the finished mani. (you might want to click on the pics. to see the glitter much better)

Here is Wild Thing on it's own.

Thanks for looking, and if you could send good thoughts/wishes/prayers etc...to my Morris cat that things go really well for him tomorrow, we'd really appreciate it! :-) I'll update tomorrow after he's home.

Orly Rock Solid and my kitty.

2011-08-29T07:14:00.000-07:00

Happy, happy Monday! Ha, Ha! I know. ;-) I'm kinda nervous right now. I have to take my cat to see a kitty cardiologist. He has a slight heart murmur, and has had for about five years. It's mild and hasn't changed, which is great. However, he needs to have a dental, and a tooth removed. :-( Well, to make sure he's okay with being put under for the surgery, because of the heart murmur, I'm taking him to have an ultrasound this morning. Just to make sure. I'm nervous though. He's my baby, and he's 13 years old. He's in great health, and people (even the vets)can't believe he's 13. He just had his yearly with blood work etc...and everything came back great. So I'm hoping for the best.

Over the weekend, I wore another one of the new Orly polishes. From the Mineral FX collection. It's called Rock Solid, and it's a dark gray, almost black. It has lots of fine holographic glitter in it. It's crazy sparkly! I love it! :-) I had no problems with application, and I used two coats.

You def. want to click on these, for a much better look. ;-)

I put this mani. on Sat. morning, and was starting to have a little bit of tip wear. So last night I jazzed it up a bit, instead of changing my mani. altogether. I added a coat of New York Summer Vegas Silver, which has lots of silver glitter and holo bar glitter.

The next couple of pics. aren't the best, as it was getting kinda dark when I took them. Also, try to ignore the nice drop of red polish on my first nail. I was swatching on nail wheels on and off all day yesterday. I manged to get some on my nail, of course. lol!

Matted with Essie Matte About You.

Here is a pic. of my Morris cat. :-)

Wish us luck for good news! :-)

Orly Emberstone and Kleancolor Chunky Holo Poppy.

2011-08-28T08:46:00.000-07:00

Good morning! How is your weekend going? I was FINALLY able to get some sleep! It was so nice not waking up at 7am to men pounding on the roof. :-) I started working on a huge nail polish purge last night. I will be working on it quite a bit today. It was finally time. I'm weeding out the dupes, and colors I just won't wear. Once I'm done, I will be having my first blog sale! It won't be for a couple of weeks though. I have a lot of polish to go through and swatch. I've only just made it through my reds, and that took a couple of hours! Seriously!

Today I have Orly Emberstone to show you. It's from the new Orly Mineral FX collection. It should be hitting Sally's soon, if not already. I believe the release date is Sept. 1 but some stores already have them out.

Emberstone is a gorgeous firey red/orange. It has pink and gold flecks in it too! Application was great, and I used two coats.

I decided to see what it would like, with Kleancolor Chunky Holo Poppy on top. It reminds me of goldfish! ;-)

I of course, had to try it matte and used Essie Matte About You.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a great Sunday! :-) I'm off to go purge and swatch polish. ;-)

Revlon Royal Cloak

2011-08-27T06:19:00.000-07:00

Good morning! Yay for it being Sat. but boo for me being up already! LOL! They are STILL working on our roof, and started in bright and early, at 7am. Hopefully they will be done today. I'm ready for some quiet! We are finally having cooler weather now, so maybe I'll find something to do outside today. Last night it felt like fall. I'm so ready for the fall. It's my absolute fav. time of year. I love everything about it. The food,smells,colors,weather,Halloween etc....Speaking of fall, I have a new Revlon polish to show you. It's from one of their fall collections. They have three new collections out right now! Crazy! This polish is from the Masquerade collection, which can be found at Walgreens. There are eight colors, but I only got this one. Can you believe it?! LOL! They all look like nice colors, but most are pretty dupeable (is that even a word?!)so I just grabbed Royal Cloak. RC is a medium purple with small flakies! Sometimes I have trouble with Revlon's formula, but I had none this time. It applied like a dream, and I used two coats.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a wonderful Saturday! :-)

Hare Polish Swatches....Bisbee,A Positive & Pegasus.

2011-08-24T15:20:00.000-07:00

Good evening! It has once again, been a few days since I last posted. I'm sorry about that. :-( Things have been a little crazy around here. We're in the middle of having our roof done,a screened in porch built,the city is working on the streets in front of our house, and I've had a few vet appointments. There have been so many people in and around our house, not to mention the noise! I'm so ready for it to be over! I will be back to posting on a regular basis, hopefully now. I come with some awesome polish though! Three of them. A fellow MUA nail boarder, and blogger has set up a shop on etsy to sell her polish. They are really pretty and unique polishes. I love them! You can find her shop at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/HAREpolish She doesn't have anything for sale right now, but keep an eye out. When they are for sale, you have to be quick, as they sell out super fast! I def. recommend them though.

First up, here are a few bottle pics......they are super cute! L-R A Positive,Bisbee and Pegasus.

Look at all of that awesome hex glitter! :-)

Application was great with all three. I had no problems with any of them. I used two thick coats, and one thin.

Bisbee is a teal jelly base with lots of golden hex glitter.

Bisbee Matted

A Positive is a gorgeous, berry red based jelly, with tons of silver hex glitter.

A Positive Matted. (I used Essie Matte About You for all the Matte pics.)

Last, but def. not least is Pegasus. I have this one on today, and love it! Pegasus is a lilac base with lots o silver/white hex glitter.

Pegasus Matted

So....what do you think? Do you like them matted, or on their own the best? I have to say, I love them all both ways. LOL! I can't choose! There is still one polish that I don't have yet. It's a navy jelly with copper hex glitter, and I must have it! LOL! I'm hoping to snag one next time they are up. If you love hex glitter and jellies, you will love these! ;-)

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you all have a great night! :-)

Maybelline Cool Couture for fall.

2011-08-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

Happy Saturday! :-) I can't believe it's the weekend again! The past week kinda flew by for me. I'm sorry I haven't posted since Wed. So, do you have any fun plans for the weekend? I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing yet. I def. think I'm going to have a nice, long nap today. I tried to sleep in, but the city is working on our street. I guess they decided that it would be fun to start up at 6am on a Sat. morning! Ugh.

Today, I have one of the new Maybelline polishes from their fall collection to show you. Normally, I don't pick up Maybelline. For some reason the colors never excite me, but they really stepped it up on this collection. I got five of them! I found them at Bed Bath and Beyond, and they were $2.99 each.

The first one I'm going to show you, is called Cool Couture. It's a smoky gray cream with lots of blue shimmer! The blue shimmer makes this a pretty unique polish. I don't have anything like it. I have grays and blue shimmers. Just not together. Application was pretty good. It polish was a little runny, but the color is so nice, that I can def. overlook that part. I used two coats.

I def. recommend clicking on these pics. to get a good look at the blue shimmer. Especially the second pic. ;-)

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a wonderful Sat! :-)

NYX Girls Maui Sunrise

2011-08-17T10:08:00.001-07:00

It's Wed. which means hump day, and Pink Wed. :-) Well, I managed to get my cleaning done last night. I ended up procrastinating just a bit longer. ;-) It's done though! Today is a lazy day, and I might do a little shopping. It's FINALLY starting to cool down here. It actually feels like fall today. I love this kind of weather. I can def. do without the 115 degree days!

Today I have on a NYX Girls polish called Maui Sunrise. This is a gorgeous polish! I absolutely love it. I'm a sucker for pinks with gold shimmer, and that's what this is. It's a deep pinkish orange with lots of gold shimmer. It leans much more pink than orange. Application was great, and I used two coats. The difference between this pink with gold shimmer, and all the rest I've tried? This one is actually opaque in the two coats I used. It seems like all the others, I've tried always leave at least a little visible nail line. This does not, and I really like that. :-)

Click the pics. to see the great gold shimmer. ;-)

Thanks for reading, and have a happy Wed. :-)

Orly Sea Gurl and Pure Ice Heartbreaker

2011-08-16T12:52:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! How is your day going? I'm procrastinating big time today! I need to clean the house and do laundry, and so far I've done everything but either of those! LOL! I hate cleaning! Ugh. I suppose I'll start on it, when I'm finished with this. Today, I have the last of the Orly Birds of a Feather collection that I got. I didn't end up getting two of them. Peachy Parrot is just way to frosty for my liking. Lucky Duck is a really pretty green, but it's pretty close to OPI Jade is the new Black. I'm trying to stay away from getting to many dupes. Anyway, the last one I have to show you is Sea Gurl. It's a dark gray base with lots of silver shimmer. It dries to a bit of a metallic look. This color reminds me of pencil lead! LOL! Silly, but it does. I could have gotten away with one coat, but I had a bit of an issue with brush strokes, so I used two. It's a nice color, but it's my least fav. out of the four I got.

Sorry these pics. are the greatest. It was a rainy day when I took these, yesterday.

I decided to jazz it up a bit, by putting a coat of Pure Ice Heartbreaker on top. It gave it a pretty green shimmer.

Well, I guess I will go get started on the cleaning. Try not to be too jealous! LOL! ;-)

Orly Sweet Peacock.

2011-08-14T09:14:00.000-07:00

Good morning! How is your weekend going? Mine's going pretty well. Yesterday, I shopped so long, that by the time I got home, my feet were killing me!! Something awful! I went to a Bath and Body Works event, and then I went to a store named Charming Charlies. Have you heard of it? Let me tell you, I was in there for over two hours! They have shoes,tons of jewelry,purses and a few clothes. It's mainly an accessory store. Love it there! We also just had an Anthropology and a Trader Joe's just open, so I stopped in both places. Complete madhouse at both places! I was exhausted when I got home. I told my husband it was hard work shopping! LOL! He just rolled his eyes at me. LOL! Today, I meeting my parents for lunch at a Jose Peppers. A really yummy mexican place.

Anyway, today I have on another polish from Orly fall. It's called Sweet Peacock. It's a med. blue shimmer, with silver shimmer as well. It really does look like a Peacocks blue. ;-) It dries to a metallic finish, it's really pretty. My pics. don't really do it justice. It was a ONE coater!!! Yay! I love one coaters! ;-) Application was a little on the thick side, but nothing terrible. I've def. seen worse.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a wonderful Sunday! :-)

Orly Nite Owl

2011-08-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

Happy,happy Friday!!! :-) This is going to be a short post, as I have an appointment to get to soon. I wanted to show you the second polish I have on from the Orly fall collection. It's called Nite Owl. I love the name, and the polish! I'm a nite owl myself! ;-)

Nite Owl is a taupe base with lots of silver shimmer. It reminds me quite a bit of Essie Mochachino. It's a great neutral color that pretty much can be worn for any occasion. It's a great work color without being too boring. Application was great, and I used two coats.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you are having a great Friday! :-)

Orly Fowl Play

2011-08-11T11:27:00.001-07:00

Good afternoon! Today, I have a polish from Orly's new fall line to show you. It's called Fowl Play, and it's full of win! :-) It's pretty much a dupe to OPI Merry Midnight, which is pretty hard to find now days. So, if you've been looking for MM I'd def. pick up Fowl Play. There are a few differences. Fowl Play is a deeper purple color, and it also has small flakies that flash blue. Fowl Play also seems to be a bit more jellish than MM. Overall though, they are pretty similar.

Fowl Play is a deep purple jelly with big orange flakes and small blue flakes. Application was pretty good. It was a little on the thick side, but not so bad that it was hard to work with. I used two coats.

Thanks so much for looking! I hope you are having a wonderful Thursday! :-)

OPI Absolutely Alice

2011-08-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

Good morning! Today, I have OPI Absolutely Alice to show you. I'm sure you've all seen this hundreds of times, but would you believe, this is the first time I've ever worn it?! I know! Crazy, right?! I've even had it since the day it came out. I could have sworn I bought the full size bottle, but I did not. :-( I did get the mini set of this collection and a full size Mad As A Hatter. I could kick myself for not getting the full size Alice though. It's pretty hard to find. Guess I'm going on a dusty hunt soon. I had an absolute awful day yesterday. Just an all around bad day. I was up late, and I'm kinda tired today. Every have one of those days, where you feel hung over from life the next day? Yeah...that's how I'm feeling today. :-/ However, my cousin who I'm really close with is in Topeka for work, and I'm only a little over an hour away from Topeka. I'm going to drive there to meet her for dinner and drinks tonight. Some good girl fun! I SOO need it! I wanted a happy mani. today, so I finally pulled out Absolutely Alice. This polish is so full of win. :-) It's a bright blue and gold glitter, and application was good in only two coats. That's pretty good for a glitter. It dried super fast too.

Before I post pics. I have to say, I have nubbins again. :-( They aren't too bad, but they are the shortest they've been in a year. A bit of advice....never file your nails when your upset. It usually doesn't turn out too well. Lesson learned.

Okay, on to the pics. Please click to see how great this glitter is. ;-)

Close up.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day! :-)

China Glaze Snowglobe & OPI Guy Meets Gal-Veston....A glitter and jelly sandwich! ;-)

2011-08-06T07:39:00.000-07:00

Good morning, and happy Saturday!! Do you plans for today? I want to go back to bed! I so wasn't ready to get up this morning, but my dog decided that it was time to get up and go outside. I tried to go back to sleep, but he just wasn't having it. ;-) Anyway, it feels like it's been forever since I last posted. I know it's only been a couple of days, but I'm sorry for not blogging as much this past week or so.

Today, I have another glitter and jelly sandwich to show you. I started out using two coats of OPI Guy Meets Gal-Veston which is a med. red jelly. I then added one coat of China Glaze Snowglobe,one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust, and then one more coat of Guy Meets Gal-Veston.

Don't forget to click! ;-)

Here are a couple of pics. with just CG Snowglobe...I forgot how pretty Snowglobe is.

Pic. with Fairy Dust added.

And here are a couple of close up's.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a wonderful Saturday! :-)

Color Club Space Case and CC Starry Temptress Topcoat

2011-08-03T10:03:00.000-07:00

Happy Pink Wed! Are you wearing pink today?? I have on a color from one of Color Club's summer collections. It's from th Starry Temptress collection. Space Case is bright bubble gum pink with glitter. It's not the normal shinny glitter though. It's a duller non shiny glitter. I know some really don't care for this kind of glitter, but I kinda like it. I'm always open for something new and different, and this polish is def. that, because of this glitter. The collection also comes with a shinny glitter topcoat called Starry Temptress. So, if you don't like the duller glitter, you can still make it shine. ;-) I have pics. of both to show you. Application was great, and I used two coats of Space Case and one coat of the Starry Temptress topcoat.

The first three pics. are of Space Case alone, and the last three pics. are with the Starry Temptress topcoat.

You def. need to click to see the bigger pics. ;-) You can see the glitter MUCH better.

With sparkle topcoat.

So, which do you like better, with or without the topcoat? I have a feeling most of you will like it with the topcoat. ;-) I like it both ways. I do like it without the topcoat for something different, but it's really pretty and sparkly with the topcoat. I like both.

Thanks for reading and have a great Wed. :-)

Brash Electric Sky

2011-07-31T09:52:00.000-07:00

Good morning! I hope you are having a fabulous weekend! :-) Today, I have another polish from Brash to show you. Brash is found at Payless Shoe store for only $2.99 The one I have on today, is called Electric Sky. It's a medium sky blue with silver shimmer. Just like Sargent Khaki, application was absolutely wonderful. I did need two coats this time, but that's really no biggie. I hardly ever just use one, so that was very unusual for me. ;-) I'm very impressed with Brash polishes. I can't think of one thing I don't like about them. Electric Sky reminds me a lot of Butter London's Victoriana. Just a bit more bluer and maybe slightly darker. I'm going to have to do a comparison post on them. Can you imagine if you could get a dupe to Victoriana for only $2.99 instead of paying $14.00?! That would be pretty good! :-)

Thanks for looking, and I hope you have a great Sunday! :-)

Blog Awards!

2011-07-30T12:41:00.000-07:00

I have recently been given several awards! Both Nail Loopy (http://nail-loopy.blogspot.com/2011/07/yaay-my-first-award.html) and Veronica (http://chicandshiny.blogspot.com/) tagged me with The Best Blog Award! Thank you so much! :-) I truly appreciate you thinking of me. It means a lot! :-)

Rules:
- Link back to the person who passed you the award
- Complete the form below
- Award 10 blogs
- Drop them a line and tell them about it

- Share 7 random things about yourself

Name your favourite colour :
Red and Pink

Name your favourite song :
Don't Let the Sun Go Down by Elton John

Name your favourite dessert :
Oh dear. I am a complete dessert aholic!! I LOVE sweets. My biggest weakness is ice cream. I love too many to pick a fav!

What makes you mad?
Hand's down, animal abuse, and liars.

When you're upset you ... :
Usually get anxious, which makes me grumpy and angry. Sometimes I cry, and sometimes I snap at people over nothing.

You're favourite pet?
All of them!! I love animals!

Black or White?
Both are good in different situations.

You're biggest fear is ?
Losing my pets,family and friends. Being told I have a bad disease.

Your best feature is?
My naturally curly hair.....though I fight with it lots! LOL

Everyday attitude:
I usually wake up thinking it's going to be a good day. Then my attitude changes depending on how the day unfolds. Sometimes good, sometimes no so much. ;-)

What is perfection?
It doesn't exist.

Guilty Pleasure:
Ha, Ha...nail polish?! And ice cream!

7 random things about me:

1 - I still sleep with my baby blanket. I never wash it, and LOVE the way it smells. I've had it since the day I was born (35 years ago!) and never not slept with it for one night!
2- I was a dancer and gymnast for 14 years, and miss it every single day.
3- I am an only child.
4- I have a seizure disorder, and didn't have it until I was 22 years old.
5- I have two dogs,two cats and one horse. I love them with everything that I am. They are my babies.
6- I love my alone time. More than most. If I don't get it often enough, I get kinda grumpy.
7- I love to read. As long as I have a good book with me, I will never be board.

Veronica (http://chicandshiny.blogspot.com/) also tagged me for the Sunshine Award 2011 and the One Lovely Blog award! Wow, Veronica! Thank you SOOO much for all the awards! That's so kind of you,and I'm glad you enjoy my blog. :-)

The Rules
Thank the person who gave you the award.
Write a post about it. Answer the questions below.
Pass this award on to 10 other bloggers and send them a message to let them know.

Questions

A) Fave color-Red and Pink.
B) Fave animal-All of them! I love animals! :-)
C) Fave number-7
D) Perfume I am wearing-Pink Sugar.
E) Something that identifies me-My love for animals...that's what I'm known for. ;-)
F) What is my passion? Animals.
G) Would you rather get or give presents-Give them.....can I be honest and say both?! LOL
H) What was the last eyeshadow you wore-Hmm...I actually can't remember!
I) Favorite day of the week- Friday.
J) Are your nails painted now? Yes! Always! ;-)

The Rules
Link to the person you got it from.
Tell seven things about yourself.
Give the award to ten bloggers.

Seven Facts
1. I want to visit Africa and Russia.
2. My favorite sport is Gymnastics.
3. I love food. LOL!
4. I like to read true crime.
5. My pets are my kids...I treat them that way too!
6. I love the fall.
7. I love to sleep, and could nap every day if it was possible.

I tag....

I tag....

1. Maria from http://pinkbeautylove4ever.blogspot.com/
2. jaybird from http://polishedpirate.blogspot.com/
3. ABOP from http://anotherbottleofpolish.blogspot.com/
4. Nailderella from http://nailderellanails.blogspot.com/
5. persnicketypolish from http://persnicketypolish.blogspot.com/
6. Amy from http://imfeelingnail-venturous.blogspot.com/
7. Ice Queen from http://icynails.blogspot.com/
8. Beauty Behaved from http://beautybehaved.blogspot.com/
9. Polish Amor from http://polishamor.blogspot.com/
10. Angie from http://glitterandunicorns-angiebee.blogspot.com/

Brash Sergeant Khaki....New polish line!

2011-07-29T12:08:00.000-07:00

It's FINALLY Friday! I was starting to think it would never get here this week. ;-) Do you have any plans for the weekend? I'm not sure what I'm doing, but whatever it is, it will be inside! Last night, at 6:30pm it was still 105 degrees outside. Isn't that insane?! We are under yet another heat warning until, get this....next Wed! More craziness!! I'm really,really,REALLY ready for fall weather. This heat and I do NOT mix well. Blah.

Anyways, I have a new nail polish brand to tell you about. It's called by Brash Cosmetics, and it's only sold at Payless Shoe stores. This line is much better than the line of polish they carried last year. Brash polishes all have awesome sparkles to them! They either have glitter,shimmer or glass fleck. I only bought four out of maybe twelve of them. I will def. be going back for more. They are $2.99 each.

The one I have to show you today is called Sergeant Khaki. It's a mossy green with tons of silver shimmer. It's odd, but in some lights the shimmer looks gold, but it's really silver. This is pretty unique polish, and I don't believe I have any other like it. Speaking of fall, it would make a great fall color. Application on this was a dream! Absolutely perfect, AND only ONE coat! Yes, really! I have absolutely zero complaints about this polish. :-)

Have you seen, or hear of this brand yet? If so, what are your thoughts?

I hope you are having a wonderful Friday! :-)

A Jelly/Glitter Sandwich! OPI,Pure Ice and Ruby Kisses.

2011-07-28T10:41:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon! Is it just me, or does it feel like Friday, today?! I've been thinking that all day today. I have an AWESOME mani. to show you today. I can't take credit for it though. ;-) I'm sure some of you remember MeganChair. She used to be a nail blogger, but decided to take a break. She does still post on Make up Alley, on the nail board, and last night she posted a mani. I just had to try myself. For this mani. I used two coats of Ruby Kisses navy blue jelly. It doesn't have a name on it, but it does have a number. It's RNP142 if that helps anyone. This is a great polish! It's a deep navy jelly,application is great, and it's only $1.49! After using it, I added one coat of OPI Last Friday Night,then one more coat of the Ruby Kisses. Finally I added one coat of Pure Ice Heart Breaker. HB is also an awesome polish, and it too is cheap at only $2.00. HB is best used as a layering polish. It is has a clear/turquoise base with tons of green shimmer, which makes the polish so great.

First up are the finished mani. pics. (be sure to click on them, so you can see the awesome green shimmer!) ;-)

Close Up.

Ruby Kisses Navy Jelly on it's own.

Ruby Kisses Navy Jelly with OPI Last Friday Night

RK Navy Jelly,OPI Last Friday Night, and one coat of RK Navy Jelly over top.

RK Navy Jelly,OPI Last Friday Night,RK Navy Jelly, and Pure Ice Heart Breaker....one more pic. of the finished mani.

Thanks for looking, and have a great day! :-)