Lynnderella Sweets to the Sweet over CG Lemon Fizz

Good evening! I know I'm a few days late, but I'm going to show you my Easter mani. I started out using China Glaze Lemon Fizz, which is one of my fav. pastel yellow's. I'm not the biggest fan of pastel's. Well, I guess that's not entirely true. I do like them color wise. I just don't like working with pastel polish. I don't like the chalkiness it leaves behind, if it gets on your skin. I do have my favs. of each color though, and for yellow it's CG Lemon Fizz. It's not terribly hard to work with. I used two coats of LF and two coats of Lynnderella Sweets to the Sweet. I LOVE Sweets to the Sweet! For some reason it just reminds me of jelly beans, or jelly candy. It has a milky white base, that's pretty thin. The glitter is made of multi colored squares and hex, with some white square glitter thrown in.







Here is a pic. of China Glaze Lemon Fizz on it's own.



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

Finger Paints Flakie Collection! Swatches and Review.

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! :-)

Zoya Kimmy & Kleancolor Chunky Holo Poppy

Good morning, and happy Sat! :-) I am up entirely too early for a Sat. morning! Especially since I didn't get to sleep until 2am! I def. think a nap is in order for today. ;-) My dogs woke me up really early today. I'm not sure why, but they were all excited, and ready to go. I on the other hand, was not. LOL! Do you have any plans this weekend? I'm not quite sure what I'm doing.....besides that nap later today. LOL!

I hope you aren't sick of seeing Kleancolor yet, because I have another new one to show you today. I also have Zoya Kimmy to show you. It's part of the new Sunshine collection, and I love,love,LOVE it! It's such a great red. It's a really bright red with gold sparkle. Application was great, and I used two coats. I could have def. gotten away with only one on this one though.

I then topped it off with a coat of Kleancolor Chunky Holo Poppy. CHP is an orange base with lots of gold,orange, and yellow glitter.

First up is Zoya Kimmy.







Zoya Kimmy and Kleancolor Chunky Holo Poppy

Click on these next two pics. to get a much better look at the glitter. ;-)





Close Up.



As always, thanks for looking, and have a GREAT Sat! :-)

My Easter Mani. and Happy 13th Birthday to my Morris Cat!

HAPPY EASTER! I hope you've all had a wonderful day. Did you do anything special today? I went to church with my family and then we all had a nice yummy lunch. My parents still give me an Easter basket so I got a basket full of awesome Easter candy. I absolutely LOVE Easter candy. It's my fav. :-) I've been relaxing pretty much the rest of the day. My husband and I, ended up with our beagle at the ER vet yesterday, for five hours. He's fine now thank goodness. I was so worried about him. Anytime one of my fur kids gets sick, I worry so much. They are my babies. All is well now though.

I did a skittle mani. for Easter. I used two of the new Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes. Blue-Away which is a pale baby blue and Pink Blink. PB is a light baby pink. I was really surprised by how well they applied. I was all ready for them to be streaky since they are pastels. However, they weren't at all. I also LOVE the brushes on the Insta-Dries. They cover my nail in almost one swipe. I could have def. gotten away with one coat of these, but I did my usual two.

I also used two polishes from the Elf spring collection. Blue Mist, which is def. not blue, but a mint green color, and Lilac which is pastel purple. Both of these also applied well, and I used two coats each.

The last color I used is China Glaze Lemon Fizz. A yellow pastel. Application was a little streaky, but really not too bad at all. I used two coats.

I then used one coat of Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure over top of them all.

Pics!







Without Hidden Treasure.





Close Up's with HT.







Also, today is my Morris cat's 13th birthday! I found him 12 years ago (he was one when I found him) in a dark park, took him home, and fell in love with him.♥♥♥♥

HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY MORRIS!!! (and MANY more to come!) :-)



Thanks for looking and Happy Easter! :-)

Swatches of the new Revlon Summer 2011 Collection.

Yay!! It's Friday! :-) I meant to post this review yesterday, but time just got away from me. I have the new Revlon summer collection to show you today. There are three colors. Tangerine, a great summer orange with gold shimmer. Blue Lagoon, a pale blue with silver shimmer, and my fav. of the bunch. The third one is Sunshine Sparkle, I want to say, it has glass flecks in it.

I really love the colors with my fav. being Blue Lagoon, followed by Tangerine, and then Sunshine Sparkle. The application is another story. I think Revlon polish hates me for some reason. I almost always get bubbles with Revlon. I did BL twice because of bubbles. Blue Lagoon and Sunshine Sparkle were pretty streaky. Tangerine def. applied the best of the three. I used three coats on all of them.

Bottle Pics. Tangerine,Blue Lagoon and Sunshine Sparkle.



Blue Lagoon







Close Up.



Tangerine





Close Up.



Sunshine Sparkle







Do you plan on getting any of these? Or have you already? If so, which ones? Thanks for looking, and I hope you are all having a wonderful Friday! :-)

Rock Chalk Mani #2...China Glaze Ruby Pumps,Dorothy Who and Lighthouse.

Happy Sunday! :-) Are you having a relaxing day? I'm trying to, but I am nervous!! I posted Fri. about my basketball team, the Kansas Jayhawks playing in the sweet sixteen. Well, they won! It was a fantastic game. Today, they are playing in the Elite Eight for a spot to the Final Four!!! It would be awesome to win it all like we did in 2008 but I just want them to get there! :-) Have I mentioned how much I love March Madness? LOL!

I'm taking another break from the purple today, and did a Jayhawk mani. I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps,Dorothy Who? and Lighthouse. All three were great to work with. I used two coats of Ruby Pumps and Dorothy Who, and three coats of Lighthouse.
















Thanks fo looking, and ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK....GO KU!!! ;-) I already warned my husband, that if we lose today, I will be in a bad mood! LOL! ;-)