MAC Formidable!

This is one of the 2 MAC polishes I own. I got this when i was in Canada over the summer, and I absolutely adore it. My mother even loved this polish, and she normally tries to talk me out of buying it!

Formidable! is a dark purple based with duochrome glass flecks in it. The flecks range from fuschia to a turquoise blue, and the transition here is very obvious on the nail. I believe this was two coats, maybe three. It applies very smooth for such a complex polish, and I always get compliments on this when I wear it. The base almost has a tiny bit of earthy brown to it, making it all that more complex. I've never tried this over black because the base itself is dark, but I may try it to preserve the rest of this expensive nail varnish.

I believe this was around $22 CAD, not sure what it is in the states/ if it is available here. This was the first time I had ever seen or heard of the polish, so it may have been a Canada release only. Let me know if any of you guys have this or if you know more about it!

Luv y'all

News!

Only a polish freak would be so seriously excited about this.

I have successfully ordered Clarins 230! Yes! Unicorn pee is en route to my house! I found a seller on eBay (let me know if you'd like their link) and I bit the *expensive* bullet! I decided to go on a huge no-buy, and this was my last splurge before this (ok, I might have to invest in Revlon's Royal). Many many swatches will be coming soon!

So ya.... I was happy and I wanted to tell some one who cared. I have no friends like this, so I told me other group of best friends- you guys! I'll see you guys in the later post!

All the Past Manis.....

Helloh!

So I'm a terrible blogger. I just procrastinate and procrastinate... I'm sorry.


Anyways....

This is 3 polishes layered :) So, the above manicure includes:

Wet n' Wild Blue Moon
CND Nail Effects Turquoise Sparkle
Essie Shine of the Times

I quite liked this! Every polish in this is duochromey so it looked AWESOME in sunlight. I reccommend if you have these to try out the combo!

I also tried this matte:

By the way I'm loving my new camera, the macro is pretty good... except for the fact that if I move my hands in the SLIGHTEST WAY it just blurs out on me D:

This is also Wet n' Wild Blue Moon, with an accent nail of a franken I made. It has some holo glitter in there... I honestly forget half the stuff i put in there, but it's really pretty over blues. I'm starting to realize that all these manicures pretty much resemble each other... Blue/ glittery topcoat phase? I think so :)

Annnnd another franken! Haha i really need to start writing down the recipes for these... Anyways this is a base of a GOSH polish that doesn't have a name on it... It's a typical darkened teal though, so you can find dupes easily enough. The accent nail is, predictably, a franken. I love this one though, I use it all the time.

This last one is Sinful Colors Nail Junkie. An oldie but goodie, I added about 17 drops of thinner to this xD But still as beautiful as ever! A teal jelly base with small and larger hex iridescent glitters.

So that's all for now! Thanks for not hating me as much as you could have!

Luv y'all!

Let's Catch Up Shall We?

So after that long blogging break, I had a lot of new polishes, and a lot of new manicures. However, I only remembered to actually take pictures of 3 of them. So, in an attempt to catch you guys up, here we go!

This lovely one is Milani's Dude Blue, with an accent nail topped in Essie's Shine of the Times. I really love flakies.... and I've actually really been loving this blue- I think I've worn it twice in the past month. Which is.... exceptional. Really great application with it, and it's darn near perfect in 2 coats. I really recommend this!

This is the Milani swatched all by itself. I got this for my birthday in August (thanks Emily!)

This is Color Club's Untamed Luxury. This is STUNNING on the nail! I'm sure you've seen a thousand swatches of this by now, but it's a teal blue green jelly, with BEAUTIFUL glitter. It's really multi-dimensional for a fairly simple polish.

How I love new collections. Especially by drugstore brands. This, my lovely readers, is L'oreal's The Temptress' Power. Wow. I really love this one. It's a smooth warm-toned gold with a bright green flash. You can see that really well in the bottle shot below. In very certain lights, there's a little blue around the edges. I really like it. It's also surprisingly opaque- I believe this was 2 to 3 coats.

So that's that! I plan on posting all throughout the week, maybe even doing themes :)
Luv y'all!

Oh my!

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time no post guys!

Sorry I left you hanging for so long, junior year of high school was calling! Anyways, I wanted to throw up this little post to alert you that a super post shall be coming this week! catching you up on some of my past manis of course. Also, I got a new camera so prepare for more awesome pictures!

'Tis all for now lovelies! See you later on this week!

Love y'all!

London Olympics!

Well Hi Guys!

Long time no post... gah I can't keep up a blog break! It kills me to be away! I was so busy, and anytime I wanted to fit bloggin in life was all "Helllll nah!"

Anyways.

So my mom and I are total nerds for the Olympics. My dad said the other day that his favorite olympic event is watching us, because we get so overly excited over things that we have no expertise in. I think we all know people like that- you can magically become a gymnastics snob at Olympic time, and your brain immediately goes into know-it-all mode. It's just lovely and awesome in so many ways.

So, in honor of the home of the 30th Olympiad, I have some Union Jack nails for you today. I do wish I only did this as an accent nail though- all the nails is a little much for me, but I still love 'em! I'm ever so patriotic for a country I don't even live in :)

EEK blurry blurry!! Why is the last picture the only good one?? Soooo sorry 'bout that guys! In any case, here is my Union Jack. I'm happy with it :) I was rushing with this though, so my lines could have been much cleaner. Maybe I'll revisit these when I have more time to be careful...

God the blurries just get worse...

Ahhh that's better!! Thanks sol- you never disappoint. I don't know if you can tell from the pictures, but the red is actually the Art Deco striper in "Red Glitter". RG is really different from the other glitter stripers Art Deco sells, because it isn't pure glitter- it's this really interesting red jelly-leaning-to-crelly base with 2 differnt shapes of red glitters. Superfine and regular fine glitter. I really want to do a full mani in this, it's really unexpectedly complex. And for a Dollar Tree item, it's worth picking it up!

Well that's all for this post today! I will be leaving for Canada on the 3rd, (!!) so I'll be on another blogging hiatus for a week :( but I'll be back with a vengeance, I promise!

Luv y'all!

Help guys!

Ok. I know in the past I have posted telling you about my lemmings and such, but now is the time my readers NEED to help me. This is not just a lemming- I have an idea brewing with this one.

So I'm sure by now you've heard of OPI Black Spotted- that shatter-like concept that looks more like an oil spill on your nails? ya. that. Need. Not just because it looks cool as a product, but because I have a very specific idea I want to try with it.

Now I've debated whether or not I wanted to tell you guys what I've been thinking- did I want someone to steal my precious idea and do it themselves? Or did I want to wait long enough to get mine before mentioning it? Well, I have come to the decision I shall tell you, as it is unlikely I can get this and it's like I'm getting this on record as my idea xD But if you do use this idea, tell me how it went!! I'd love to know if it does :)

Ok. My idea is to franken with it. Now I don't mean using it to darken another color, hoping it'll still be spotty. People who own this have described it as the aforementioned "oil slick" effect. What I wanted to try was to make it even closer to that. TKB Trading has a pigment, which I own, call "Travel to Pluto". It's green, it's pink, it's so much duo-multi-chromeyness that I lovee. Now to those who may not know this method, if you add a duochrome pigment to a black polish, it makes a cool dark smokey duochrome- got to Dr. Frankenpolish's blog to see some examples there.

Now. If one were to put a rainbow-duochrome pigment in Black Spotted, it would have that duo-chrome, no? And it would still spot, provided you put in just the right amount of pigment. (I did something similar with glitter in black shatter that worked well) So not only would it be oil-slick spotty, it would also have that weird iridescent rainbow oil can have.

So that's that I suppose. If anyone could be so freakin awesome as to swap some Black Spotted with me, or if I could buy it off ya, I would love you forever.... and I'd be able to test my theory :D

So ya. Let's see how this goes then :)

Luv y'all!!