I'm really back this time! New China Glaze,Icing,and Girly Bits.

Hi guys! Long time, not talk....again. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to bail on you all. At all. I really appreciate you sticking with me. More than I can say. Life just got pretty busy for me. Some good, some not so good things. I have really missed blogging though, and am back for good. I have so much polish, and so many manis. to show you guys it's crazy. I may not have been blogging for awhile, but I was still doing manis, and taking pics. of all of them. So, I'm kind of backlogged. I guess that's kind of a good thing? That just means I have a lot more to blog about, huh? ;-)

I hope all of you in the United States, had a happy 4th of July! Those of you not living here, I hope you had a great day! ;-) I ate entirely too much! We had a BBQ with just tons of food, and desserts. It's been extremely hot here this summer, so there has been a burn ban on fireworks. Our city still had the fireworks display tonight, so we went to that.

It's 1:30 in the morning here so technically, it's not July 4th anymore. However, I'm going to show you my July 4th mani. I hope that's alright. ;-)

I started out using Star Spangled from Girly Bits. It's a blue jelly, with red and blue glitter. It also has red bar glitter in it. I absolutely LOVE this polish. It's pretty much perfection in a bottle. It applied like a dream. I had absolutely no problems with application at all. I used two coats. I then applied a new polish from Icing called Patriotic Princess. PP has holo stars, and round medium sized red and blue glitter in a clear base. I was prepared for the stars to be hard to get out, but they weren't! I think this might be the first polish, that has stars in it, that they were actually easy to get out. That I own anyway. I just used one coat over SS.







Girly Bits Star Spangled on it's own.







You can find Girly Bits at the following links:

http://www.shop.llarowe.com/Girly-Bits_c24.htm
http://girlybits.bigcartel.com/
http://www.harlowandco.org/collections/girly-bits


I have one more mani. to show you today. I wore this one yesterday....well, the day before the 4th. ;-) I keep forgetting that it's actually the 5th now, since it's so late.

Anyway, I started out using China Glaze Adventure Red-Y which is a great red creme from the new Safari collection. I found it at Sally's Beauty Supply. I was surprised to see the collection out already. Adventure Red-Y applied pretty well. It was just a little sloppy, but I'm not sure if that was the actual polish, or just myself being in a hurry. I used two coats, but you could def. get away with only one! I layered one coat of Meteorites Moonshot on top. Moonshot is has red,silver, and blue bar glitters in a clear base. I don't know too much about this brand, except they make quite a few really great bar combos. You can find most of them on ebay, which is where I got mine.





China Glaze Adventure Red-Y on it's own.





I'm off to bed now, as it's almost 2am! Thanks so much for reading! It's good to be back! :-)

Lynnderella Happy Holo Daze and OPI Gift of Gold.

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! :-)

Orly Rock Solid and my kitty.

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! :-)

Happy 4th of July! :-)

Happy 4th of July! If you don't celebrate the 4th happy Mon! Ha, ha....yeah, I know but I do hope you have happy day. :-)

Do you have any big plans today? Are you going to watch fireworks? Or shoot off your own? We're having a big BBQ with family, and then watching fireworks.

For my mani. today I used China Glaze Hey Sailor,OPI Alpine Snow,OPI Dating a Royal,Meteorites Moonshot and Joby nail stickers.

CG Hey Sailor is a bright red,OPI Alpine Snow is a pure white,OPI Dating a Royal is a royal blue color and Meteorites Moonshot is red,white and silver bar glitter.

The first three pics. are of the finished mani.







Without the stickers.




Just the base colors.



July 4th cupcakes!!!



Thanks for looking, and I hope you are all having a wonderful day! :-)

Multi Shapes Glitter Mani.

Good evening! Have you had a good weekend? Mine was pretty good. Yesterday, hubby took me to Dave and Buster's for my birthday. I had never been before, and had a great time. :-) I've pretty much done nothing today, and it's been quite nice. ;-)

The mani. I'm showing you tonight is the one I wore yesterday to D&B's. I used seven different polishes. I started out with one thick coat of Essie Marshmallow, a squishy white. I then added one coat of Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada, a multi colored/sized, glitter. Next, I used one coat of Love My Nails, All That, a purple,blue, and silver square glitter in a clear base. Then Sally Hansen In The Spotlight, a hologram bar glitter. After that, I added a few colored stars from Dear Laura pa AA03. Next, I added one coat of Love My Nails Pot O' Gold, diamond shaped glitter with regular gold glitter. Finally, I added a coat of Essie Matte About You, and I was done! I wasn't sure how this would turn out, but I ended up loving it! It was not thick at all for using so many polishes, which is what I was worried about.

First two pics. are with the matte top coat.





Close Up.



The next two pics. are without the matte top coat.





Polishes I used...from L-R Essie Marshmallow,Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada,Love My Nails All That,Sally Hansen In the Spotlight,Dear Laura pa AA03,Love My Nails Pot O' Gold and Essie Matte About You.



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

My Birthday Mani!

Hey guys! :-) How are you today? I'm having an absolutely wonderful birthday! :-) I got lots of great polishes to show you soon. Today, I want to show you my birthday nails. This is going to be short, as I need to get ready for my b-day dinner with my family. That, and my computer is being REALLY slow today for some reason. Anyway, I have lots of pics. for you. ;-) (imagine that!)

I used Essie Flirty Fuchsia as my base. FF is a great neon pink....it is not fuchsia. lol! It applied well, and I used two coats. I then added one coat of Kleancolor Chunky Holo Candy. It's in a pinkish/clear base with orange and pink glitter. I then added one coat of Lippmann Happy Birthday. I love this polish! I will never get tired of it. It's kinda funny though.....I didn't realize that it had square glitter in it. It has different colored hex glitter,small round multi colored gliter, and multi colored square glitter. Finally I added different birthday nail stickers. I'm loving this mani. It's bright,sparkly and fun. :-)

First, up is the final mani....as usual, click the pics. to get a much better view. ;-)







With just Happy Birthday...









Close Up



With just Kleancolor Chunky Holo Pink



Essie Flirty Fuchsia



Which version do you like best? Thanks for looking, and have a great evening! :-)

Party Nails Part 2 and Pink Wed.

Hey guys! How are you doing today? I'm driving myself CRAZY waiting on the vet's office to call me back with test results for both of my dogs. My regular vet (whom I love) isn't in today. So, one other the others is supposed to call me. I called around noon to see if the results were in yet, and they are. That was over three hours ago, and here I sit. Still waiting. I have to say, I'm a little annoyed. How hard is it to pick up the phone and call someone for 5 min?! My regular vet would have called me right away. Grr...I'm trying to stop myself from calling again. I'm just being impatient. I hate waiting on test results!

Anyway, now that I have that off my chest, lets get to my nails. After all, that's why you guys follow me. Sorry for the rant. ;-)

I have quite a few pics. to show you today. As I said in my last post, my birthday is tomorrow, and I decided to do "party nails" all week long. I'm only on my second mani. so I have a few more to go still. :-) Since it's Wed. I of course, had to add pink to the line up.

I started off using two coats of Essie French Affair from the spring collection. It's a pale pink. Application was a bit streaky, but ended up okay. I then added two coats of Ulta's Pinata-Yada-Yada which is a mixture of different sizes, and colors of glitter. Then I added a coat of Wet 'n Wild Fantasy Makers in rainbow bar glitter. It's named Black Magic which I think is an odd name from rainbow glitter. I didn't stop there. I decided to see what it would look like matte, so I added a coat of Essie Matte About You. Finally, I was done! lol!

Here's what it looks like with everything matted....You pretty much need to click on the pics. to really see what these manis. look like. I don't know why they didn't show up better. :-/





Here it is without the matte.







I know this is a dark pic. but I like how the glitter looks. If you click on it, you'll see what I mean. It looks like it's glowing. ;-)



Close Up.



The next two pics. are with just the Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada on top.





Last but not least, here is Essie French Affair on it's own.





Whew! That was quite a few pics. So, which mani. do you like the best?

Good news....the vet finally called, and for the most part, everything is okay. I feel exhausted from the wait! I need to get out of the house for awhile now. Think I'll run to Ulta and see if I can find any new polishes. ;-)