I decided to add CND Sparkle Effects in Sapphire to my day old Drift Away Mani. Sadly, I did find that this Diamond Cosmetics polish did show tip wear rather quickly :( I got so many compliments on this mani after I added the sparkle to it. People loved it! A couple customers asked me specificly what polish it was.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Friday, July 16, 2010
OPI Wing It! over Red My Fortune Cookie
I wore Red My Fortune Cookie for about 2 or 3 days and then decided to put 2 coats of Wing It! over it. I love it! This combo has sparkle and duochrmatic colors. It pulls red, orange, and pink. Grogeous!
Diamond Cosmetics Drift Away
Awesome formula! Easy to work with, opaque in 2 coats. Has a dusty look. Greyed out plum perhaps? Hard to describe.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Polished Blogs: I love the power of the web! You can search every...
Polished Blogs: I love the power of the web! You can search every...: "So, I have been playing around with gadgets & gathering blog links. I just figured out that I can add a search tool to this blog and enable..."
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Polished Blogs: Let's get this party started!
Please come see the blog aggregator I have created for nail polish blogs! I am going to announce a contest to follow the aggregator some time in the next week, so keep checking back!
Polished Blogs: Let's get this party started!: "I'm really excited to share with you the reality of an idea I've had for sometime. I have wanted to put together a nail polish blog aggregat..."
Polished Blogs: Let's get this party started!: "I'm really excited to share with you the reality of an idea I've had for sometime. I have wanted to put together a nail polish blog aggregat..."
Also Known As...: July Giveaway!
Also Known As...: July Giveaway!: "i've got a hankerin' to be generous right now or somethin' so let's do another giveaway shall we?? this one is a tad smaller than that last ..."
Friday, July 9, 2010
Nails Beautiqued: *GIVEAWAY*...Win It Wednesday...BB Couture!!
Nails Beautiqued: *GIVEAWAY*...Win It Wednesday...BB Couture!!
Check out this cool new blog I found! I've been lemming BB Couture Intake Valve. If I don't win, I hope you do. Good luck!
Check out this cool new blog I found! I've been lemming BB Couture Intake Valve. If I don't win, I hope you do. Good luck!
China Glaze Dorothy Who? over Essence Pool Party
This is another must have! Are you noticing a theme? Yea, I really like blue. I think I might have tweaked my Dorothy Who? a little. I remember adding some dark blue China Glaze to it... might have been Calypso Blue. It turned out awesome!
China Glaze Caribbean Blue
Glass flecked goodness! Yummers. I love this polish. I wish China Glaze had more of these glass flecked polishes available.
OPI Catch Me In Your Net
Another of the summer's must haves! I love this polish! I bought a back up! This is 2 coats over Essence Pool Party.
Orly Royal Navy
I had no idea how awesome this polish was going to be. Only after I got it in my hot little hands did I realize it has green micro glitter! None of the pictures I saw showed the aqua green glittery goodness! You need this polish! Its one of my all time favorites this summer.
New York Summer Amaranth
I had heard rumours about this polish for a long time, but it was always out of stock! So when I saw it back in stock I grabbed 2. It did not disappoint. I love it! Its so glassy and smooth. It cured my lemming for Ilamasqua Rampage and Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Blackboard.
Mani Lab
I like to keep my base coats, top coats, and thinners out within reach. I keep all my polishes in my 2 Helmers.
Manicure Central
I thought I'd show you my manicure lab! I had the brillant idea to create this vanity nook when I was building my house. The other side of the wall is my shower, so I sacrificed a gigantic shower for a large shower and this nook.
The black binder next to my Helmer holds my Konad plates. The blue topped Sterilite box holds a jumble of nail wheels. The magnet on my helmer is a Twilight magnet of Rosalie and Emmet that was given to me by a friend at her Twlight Party.
Zoya Sari
This polish is such a pretty color and has that squishy jelly look. Unfortunately this is about 4 coats, which never really dried in the humidity. The next morning it was smudge city. When the weather gets nicer I'll try it again.
Zoya Gaia over white
This a manicure inspired by that white paint color you often see on expensive SUVs. I used Orly White Out and regreted it. Its streaky and gloppy. Next time I think I'll try OPI Alpine Snow or SH Xtreme's white.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Weapon Of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Christopher Walken is a formally trained dancer, and shows it off in this video. Love Walken!
Check out the Kia's version on Polish Insomniac
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Sweet Sugar Blog Giveaway
Ayuu, blog owner of Sweet Sugar lives in Belgium. So she has access to all those cool European polishes we dream about here in the USA, especially Essence! She is doing a giveaway, that includes some of the Essence Surfer Babe polishes, to celebrate 100 followers. So go on over and become a follower and enter to win her awesome giveaway!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Two of my favorite polish companies start with O's
Unfortunately, one of those companies is a great big bully! So I just might not be purchasing as many of theirs as the other company's.
Orly just doesn't get enough love out there. Most of their polishes have applied and worn fabulously! Major exception that comes to mind is Polo Princess. I'll likely be sending that one to Zoya for the awesome exchange this month and the next.
Plum Noir is one of my favorite Orlys. Its vampy, its purple, its oh so shiny! These photos are under an Ott lamp. It is slightly more reddish and a bit darker than here.
Recently, I got one of my lemmings fulfilled. I am a sucker for blue flash, especially with pinks. OPI La-Paz-atively Hot is very hot! Its bright, but not neon. I love it!
So, as you might know, Trans Design is being sued by OPI for copyright infringement. TD is liquidating their OPI stock, so I felt I needed a few things, some of which I'd probably not find anywhere else again.
Orly just doesn't get enough love out there. Most of their polishes have applied and worn fabulously! Major exception that comes to mind is Polo Princess. I'll likely be sending that one to Zoya for the awesome exchange this month and the next.
Plum Noir is one of my favorite Orlys. Its vampy, its purple, its oh so shiny! These photos are under an Ott lamp. It is slightly more reddish and a bit darker than here.
Recently, I got one of my lemmings fulfilled. I am a sucker for blue flash, especially with pinks. OPI La-Paz-atively Hot is very hot! Its bright, but not neon. I love it!
So, as you might know, Trans Design is being sued by OPI for copyright infringement. TD is liquidating their OPI stock, so I felt I needed a few things, some of which I'd probably not find anywhere else again.
New York Summer Amaranth Green is back in stock, so I grabbed 2. Then the OPIs are:
Have You Seen My Limo?, What's With the Cattitude?, Fiercely Fiona, Ogre-the-Top Blue, Funky Donkey, Miami Beet, Florentine Fuchsia, That's Berry Darling, Red My Fortune Cookie, In My Back Pocket, A Grape Fit, I Pink I Love You, Isn't It Romantic?, Otherwise Engaged, Bare It In Trafalgar Square, At First Sight, Time-less is More
Monday, April 26, 2010
Random NOTDs
I've been away for a bit. My dad is really ill right now. He has Guillain Barre and has been in the ICU since April 3rd. It looks like he is on the slow road back to health, but it will take months of rehab to just be able to walk. Right now were just looking forward to the day he can breath on his own, talk, and feed himself. He keeps asking when he can go home, eat real food, and drink a beer. Its the saddest thing ever to see him like this. He's never been helpless in my lifetime.
Here we goes with NOTDs!
I wanted a red like a sports car. I used to have a '96 Honda Prelude and it was this color. This is a jelly. Its so shiny, it looks like glass. 3 coats here.
Here we goes with NOTDs!
I wanted a red like a sports car. I used to have a '96 Honda Prelude and it was this color. This is a jelly. Its so shiny, it looks like glass. 3 coats here.
I have had OPI Mad as a Hatter for some time now, yet had never worn it until this mani. I like glitter, but I try not to wear it too often, because removal of it isn't kind to your nails. Now that my peeling nails seem to have lessened, I might start indulging in glitter more. The accent nail is one coat of MAAH over the Misa WOAS. Please forgive my tip wear.. I had been wearing this a day or 2 before the picture.
You know, I love Misa. I wish they put out more collections regularly. They just apply so nicely. I am waiting on a big Misa haul right now. I didn't order any new collections, just things I've been lemming for a while now.
This is my first Claire's mani. This polish has a strange consistency... sort of plasticky. It dried matte and looked like vinyl before I applied Seche Vitae. After the SV, it looks amazing! Its really quite green in real life... looks nothing like blue to me. I think the name doesn't really fit. 
This is holo goodness! I had been out of the world of polish for a couple decades until last summer I saw a picture of OMG. I thought the name was quite appropriate! I had never seen holo's before and had no idea nail polish could do this! I decided to start collecting immediately! Now I probably have close to 500 polishes.
You know, I'm not even sure I ever wore a full mani of OMG before this mani. I pulled it out a couple weeks ago and it was like "OMG!" all over again.
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