tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71369763406035136792024-03-04T23:04:18.177-06:00Paint Those Piggies!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-57833613200318562682017-11-05T21:15:00.000-06:002017-11-05T21:15:34.145-06:00Weekly Mani's-November 4, 2017<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi my fellow polish friends,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have some swatches of the nails that I wore during the week ending in November 4, 2017. I've been doing these videos on my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmpTmuAYHHdzNxH4ZK4hSgQ?view_as=subscriber">YouTube channel</a>, when I got the idea to post them here as well. I can't promise that I will post full collection reviews, although I'm not ruling that out either! Let's get into the nails!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Friday 10/27-Sunday 10/29</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Polka Dots Nails-Essie Petal Pushers (a dusty grey lavender cream) with OPI Manicurist of Seville (plum cream)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OPI Krona-logical Order (greyed out brown cream, OPI Iceland Collection, great formula, 2 coats)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tuesday 10/31-Halloween</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Zoya Storm (black cream with scattered holographic, great formula, 2 coats)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wednesday 11/1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OPI Parlez-vous OPI? (dusty lavender grey cream, great formula, 2 coats)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thursday 11/2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Essie Angora Cardi (mauve raisin cream, 2 coats, good formula)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Friday 11/3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Essie Be Cherry! (cherry red cream, cool-toned red, Essie Holiday 2017 Collection, 1 one)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Until next week!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-19951610381554064362017-09-04T20:49:00.000-05:002017-09-04T20:49:19.103-05:00OPI Less is Norse<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi friends. Long time no talk. I'll be honest, this year has been a little rough for me. I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I don't know myself anymore. I'm struggling with this, knowing who I am, knowing what I like, where I think I should be at 30. It's been hard for me, and I'm not really sure how to get over it. There's one thing I do know though...I love polish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today I have a quick and simple swatch of a new polish by OPI for Fall 2017. OPI Less is Norse is considered the star shade of the new Fall collection, it's what the ads have been focusing on...and for good reason. Less is Norse is a really interesting shade. To me, it's a dusty denim blue cream. I thought it would be darker but it's not too dark that you can't tell that it's blue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I wanted to take a picture again my dark jeans so you can really tell the blue in the polish. The formula was fantastic, two easy coats. One thing that I noticed was how shiny the finish was. Even without topcoat it was incredibly shiny. With topcoat above, you can see my camera reflection in it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I do have a really glittery polish up next, I'm super excited about it. Nice talking with you, I am super tempted to just buy every OPI Fall shade :) Did you pick any up?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-5625546993849132112017-03-10T22:16:00.000-06:002017-03-10T22:16:58.489-06:00New Favorite Pink-OPI Let's Be Friends<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi everyone. It's been quite a week around here. Work's been busy and it was the hubby's birthday on Wednesday. I'm also in week 4 of bronchitis, which I've never had, but has really been wearing me down. Although today I realized that I'm finally starting to get my sense of smell back....after a month. I'll take it though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today I have a new polish to me, that has become an instant favorite. I've had it for awhile but never tried it...it'll be a regular from now on. I'm talking about OPI Let's Be Friends from the Hello Kitty Collection. I picked up almost all of the polishes from this collection but few were standouts to me. Let's Be Friends is a pale, pale baby pink; almost like a white with a few drops of pink in it. Now normally pastels are known for bad formulas and chipping badly, but I'm happy to report that this was neither.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Above is a picture in natural light. The formula was surprisingly good, needing only two coats for full opacity. It was really easy to work with! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Overall I'm very pleased with this polish. It held up really well, especially for a pastel. Definitely a new favorite for me! Have you tried this polish, what did you think of it?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-21364017026904398112017-03-06T19:43:00.003-06:002017-03-07T10:25:54.443-06:00Week in Review: Glam Pink Princess<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Planning has really become my current creative outlet. I've been into
Erin Condren planners for a few years now but have finally reached
planner peace with the Erin Condren Horizontal Neutral. I've tried all
three setups, the vertical layout, horizontal layout, and hourly
layout. The horizontal layout just works for me. I would love to share
my spreads each week, for the week before, to show everything fully
completed and filled out, with much more detail than is shown in
Instagram.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This last week, February 27th through March 5th, is a super girly
planner week. I got this kit from The Glam Planner on etsy and
immediately used it. It's a pink princess theme with accents of black
in the dragons, crown, and castle. It does have accents of red, a color
that doesn't thrill me in the slightest, but pink definitely is the
overwhelming force in this spread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I stopped posting my filled out spreads on instagram for privacy
reasons, but this way works much better. This week wasn't too eventful,
but we did travel up to Chicago over the weekend for the hubby's
birthday. We got to spend time with his family on Saturday and had a
fun pizza party at this brother's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I like to think of each day in four sections, just like the vertical
layout without the separation. The left column is usually reserved for
work and one really important thing going on in the day. The second
column is reserved for my to-do list. I've really been drawn to simple
checklists instead of the checklist boxes. The third section is for
appointments or other semi-big things going on during the day and the
fourth section has the full boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clearly I like a good mix of white space although I've found that too
much white space also bothers me....because that makes some kind of
weird sense. I'll usually fill out too much white space with decorate
stickers if the day hasn't been too eventful.</span>
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Overall I really like the look of this spread. I can't predict if I'll
like the week until the end when everything is filled out. Glam Planner
kits are historically some of my favorite spreads, although she does
seem to use alot of red in her stickers, especially in the monthly
mystery kits. </span>
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What was your planner theme for last week? Did you like how it turned out?
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-43708018607412463082017-03-06T19:34:00.000-06:002017-03-06T19:34:10.109-06:00A Brand New Beginning<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Birthdays are about beginnings, so they say. It's relevant, I promise.
This year has been one of big changes for me. Some good, some bad, but
the major realization happened the other day, as my husband stood in
the living room and I was upset and frustrated. He said the truest
thing I had ever heard, but never realized. "You are a non-traditional
person," he said. In my 30 years on this Earth, not once had I ever
stopped to realize it. Since then, that phrase remains a daily reminder
for me. It means different things...that I need to stop and accept
myself for who I am, that I need to be positive in my life instead of
negative, and to stop giving in to what I think I should be doing and
instead doing things that I want to do. I'm living my life for me now,
so I'm going to pursue things that I want to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This weekend we celebrated my wise husband's birthday, even though it
isn't until next week. We visited his family in Chicago and had a
low-key party on Saturday night. As we ventured home I shut my eyes and
just started thinking. I want to be positive and creative in my life
and one thing that I've truly missed is writing. I laid in the car and thought about what my
new niche could be. And then I remembered....I'm non-traditional, so
I'm going to write about what I want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here's to new beginnings, new interests, and a new positive outlook.
Things won't always be perfect (see Happy Birthbay above), but that's
what makes it interesting.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So to come back, I'd like to show what my current nails look like. I have a different job now and it is really rough on my nails. I do have acrylics on, but eventually I would like to transition back to natural nails....it's just impossible right now with the amount of breakage and peeling that occurs at work. Even with the acrylics, I still paint my nails every few days. Here's what I'm sporting right now-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now I'm wearing a very spring-y combo of OPI Do You Lilac It? with ring and thumb accent nails with Nicole by OPI Be Awesome. Lilac It is a very cool-toned lilac purple. Normally I don't care for purples on my nails but this polish feels fresh, soft, and pretty. It applies in two easy coats. I used two coats of glitter which I really like. Be Awesome is a pastel combination of diamond shaped glitters, and it's one of my favorite glitters to add to many different polish colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clearly I'll need to get back on the cuticle oil bandwagon. Let's just see where this little blog goes. I might talk about different things that I'm loving right now, planners, crafting, etc. It feels good to be back.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-14673756178815842252015-08-28T18:47:00.000-05:002015-08-28T18:47:37.913-05:00Untried #1-Essie Sexy Divide<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Wow! Hello there. Clearly I haven't written anything in awhile and I haven't meant to but tonight I was just feeling it. Maybe it was because I had a terrible day at work and I was feeling chatty perhaps? Either way, I wanted to share my polish with you and I really like the idea of sharing untried polishes. Maybe it will only be every once and a while, we'll see. Let's get to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today's very first untried is Essie Sexy Divide. I have definitely not been into Summer polishes this year...it's pretty much just been nudes, metallics, and pastels for me. We had a nice week of 70's this week and I just went for the vampy polishes. I reached for Essie's Sexy Divide, which originally comes from the Winter 2008 collection. It's a dark, cool-toned shimmery purple, which is almost black and sometimes a bit blue looking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The formula was really great on this polish, I had zero formula problems. I used two easy coats with one coat of Seche Vite topcoat for my swatches, which are also taken after a full days wear of this polish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Overall I'm quite pleased with this vampy little number, although I know I'll have to keep the vampy nails to a minimum next week because we're going to be in the 90's...yikes! Do you own this polish? What do you think of it?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-32810309014817897762015-07-06T10:49:00.004-05:002015-07-06T10:49:36.770-05:00Video: June Polish Favorites & GIVEAWAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-45693554344502650922015-05-13T10:12:00.002-05:002015-05-13T10:12:52.485-05:00A Manicure For Your Next Cruise<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi polish friends. I hope everyone is doing well. Long time no write here but I've pretty much been doing daily videos on my YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1cpusfhYQVuRkx0afj2yQ">here</a>. A few days ago I was contacted by Royal Caribbean cruise lines because they wanted to use a swatch photo of mine. Well, I wanted to show it off and I thought the concept was really cool. They wrote an entire article about matching your manicures to your type of cruise. I've been on many of cruise, including a cruise to Alaska for my honeymoon. So I just wanted to share the article with you guys because I'm proud of it :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here's my picture below which was a swatch of Ciate Pool Party chosen for a cruise to Aruba. I have been to Aruba and I do love snorkeling, although scuba diving would be amazing as well! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you'd like to check out the full article, just click <a href="http://www.royalcaribbean.com/connect/the-perfect-manicure-for-your-next-cruise/">here</a>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-49886357419739603312015-03-27T17:24:00.004-05:002015-03-27T17:24:45.694-05:00A Question for You!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-17308063231760840372015-03-21T17:39:00.002-05:002015-03-21T17:39:22.852-05:00Video: Zoya Delight Collection-Swatches, Review, and Bottle Comparisons<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi there everyone! Boy am I glad it's starting to look like Spring. Come check out my thoughts on the Spring 2015 Zoya Delight collection down below.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-48279686683212599112015-02-13T13:50:00.000-06:002015-02-13T13:50:22.187-06:00Valentine's Polish! Seche Vite Rendezvous Review from Live, Love, Polish<div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi everyone, happy Friday! I can't believe we are right in the middle of February already. Today I have the perfect Valentine's nail polish to share with you. If you are a long-time follower of my blog, you'll know that I am not a red lover whatsoever. So when Valentine's Day rolls around, I am all about the pink. I wear pink, I will usually be sporting some kind of rose gold makeup, and you know it's going to be about the pink polish. Today I have this bright pink number from <a href="http://www.livelovepolish.com/">Live, Love, Polish </a>to share with you that is the ultimate hot pink for the day of love tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.livelovepolish.com/collections/seche">Seche</a> is a brand that I've heard of before, mostly from the topcoat, but I was given the opportunity to try out a polish from the line. I of course went for a traditional cream (they always steal my heart...pun intended) and this one blew me away. <a href="http://www.livelovepolish.com/products/seche-rendezvous-nail-polish">Seche Rendezvous</a> is a hot pink cream and it applied like a dream! It was seriously a one coat wonder. I have absolutely no complaints. The color was stunning and the formula was a dream to work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm sure many of you have heard of the wonder that is <a href="http://www.livelovepolish.com/collections/seche/products/seche-seche-vite-dry-topcoat">Seche Vite Top Coat</a> but if you haven't, it's definitely one of the better topcoats out there. Seche Vite is high up on the list of my topcoats because it dries pretty much instantly and it has that mega-shine factor. It's also the only topcoat I use when topping nail art because it doesn't smear the designs. My only negative with this topcoat is that it doesn't really work with my body chemistry and tends to chip pretty quickly on me. That doesn't happen for everyone though. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Overall I was really impressed with my first try with Seche nail polish and Seche Vite continues to be my go-to topcoat for nail art. Have you tried Seche brand nail color before? You can find both products on the Live, Love, Polish website <a href="http://www.livelovepolish.com/">here</a>. Happy Valentine's Day :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So today I present some OPI holiday swatches I've been holding onto. I have the entire collection but it didn't thrill me so I haven't worn it all. I also want to not hold myself to some weird pressure standard so I'll just show you the swatches I have, if I get to the rest I get to them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Red Fingers & Mistletoes-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First up, is a red with gold shimmer. Normally I would hate this color of polish but for some reason I tried it out right away and LOVED it. For some reason it was so warm and cozy and I loved the look of the shimmer. The formula was good with two easy coats below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Next up, another red. I wasn't thrilled with the prospect of so many reds (even though this happens every year), but again, I really liked this one. This red to me was a little bit cooler and deeper than a traditional red, which I tend to not go for. The formula was really nice and covered evenly with two coats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last of this swatch trio is a silver foil. I was disappointed because we've seen this polish multiple times before from OPI, especially in the past year or two. There wasn't anything different about this one, just a standard silver foil. The formula was good in two easy coats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So overall, as surprising as it is, I really liked the two reds so far and I really could have skipped on another silver foil. What are your thoughts?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-71676304815148070822015-01-06T12:18:00.000-06:002015-01-06T12:18:47.752-06:00Twinsie Tuesday-Pond Manicure<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well well well, long time no see. I didn't mean for this to happen so let me explain (briefly, I promise). The weekend before the week of Christmas I got insanely sick, 103 degree fever, delirious for the entire weekend. I ended up having a really nasty strain of the flu also with a really bad strain of the stomach flu---at the same time! For nine days I didn't work, I couldn't keep down anything. I've never been more sick in my entire life. I didn't even think I was going up for the holidays. I lost a ton of weight, could barely stand, and was just surviving on small sips of water basically. So that's where I've been. Eventually I had to go to the doctor to get medicine just to keep from throwing up because every smell or commercial with food was making me sick. Even after all this time, my stomach is still healing, I had a little sickness relapse after Christmas. Like I said, I didn't mean for any of this to happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So today I have a very sad first offering. I had never done a pond manicure and it didn't turn out how I wanted. I started with three coats of OPI Do You Think I'm Tex-y? which is a jelly magenta pink. I wanted to go in the direction of Valentine's day so I created some freehand black hearts in a pattern. I think the black was too dark to create the pond effect but it was my first try :/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'll slowly be coming back, even if it's just Tuesdays for now :) Welcome to our newest Twinsie members as well! Thanks for sticking with me everyone, you guys are the best :)</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-13732982603167744032014-12-12T08:15:00.000-06:002014-12-12T08:15:39.719-06:00OPI Don't Speak-Pure 18K Gold Topcoat<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi there everyone, welcome to Friday. I finally dragged myself out of bed and into work this morning. Basically it's Christmas party day at work and I didn't want to abandon my friend, otherwise I'm not so sure if I'd really be here. The stomach bug continues on! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have some swatches of OPI's special holiday topcoat that was recently released. I haven't really been painting my nails but when I have they stay on for five days usually. So, that means I'm slowly working my way through this ginormous collection :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OPI Don't Speak is a special 18K Gold topcoat with gold flakies and gold shimmer. It comes in a heavy duty box (see at the end of the post), which to me is much nicer than the last silver topcoat that came out in the Mariah Carey collection. This polish looks similar to OPI Man with the Golden Gun which came out in the James Bond collection but that was just a hair before my blogging started so I don't have it to compare to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For my swatches, I used one coat over OPI Red Fingers and Mistletoes, which is a shimmery red from the holiday collection. I loved how the flakies looked with the addition of the shimmer because it gave it extra dimension. Admittedly I wasn't a big fan of the last silver topcoat but I like this one much better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did really enjoy the look and the formula on this polish, the really big downside is the pricetag though. I believe this polish retails for $30 in stores, although a friend was kind enough to pick it up for me at a beauty supply for half the price. Even at that it still stung a little but I think the cost was worth it on this one. What do you guys think of this polish? Will you be splurging on it?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-4445926478827175972014-12-09T07:56:00.001-06:002014-12-09T07:56:30.987-06:00Most Requested Video-How to Shape Square Nails (plus removing glitter polish)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi there everyone, I hope the week is going well for you. I had another flare up of whatever stomach thing has been going around. Apparently it has been making its way around the office as well...gross! As promised, today I have my most request video, how I shape my square nails. It's the entire process from start to finish plus the two ways that I remove glitter polish. Hope you enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-48989998071610943482014-12-08T08:20:00.000-06:002014-12-08T08:20:55.179-06:00I'm Alive I Promise....<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hey guys, just a quick update. I was so excited this morning because I all set to finally be back and I had my most requested video set to go up....how I shape my nails. I go to publish it this morning and it was corrupted when it was uploading last night, of course. It will go up tomorrow now but I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last week I had the worst food poisoning/stomach flu of life. It was like a continuation or a second round of the one that took me out Thanksgiving week, except worse and my husband had it too. I made it through work on Wednesday and then Thursday and Friday we were both miserable at home. I have some catching up to do but that's life. It will also be a funny week because I'll only be working two days and then I'll be up in Chicago helping my family move Wednesday through Friday for their move to Iowa which I am all too bitter about. I guess it wouldn't be the holidays without some snags and craziness ;)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-65881982223884981822014-12-03T10:00:00.002-06:002014-12-03T10:00:40.952-06:00OPI Swatch Spam-Can You Tapas This? and Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi there polish friends. Hopefully the week is going well for you. Same old same old here. Today I have two more OPIs to share with you. I'm working on swatching a bunch of collections right now so I thought I'd throw in some random polishes I had on hand :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">First up is Can You Tapas This? This polish is one of my first polishes, even before starting my blog, and it remains one of my favorite colors. It's a maroon with a touch of brown, cream formula. I used two easy coats with topcoat below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Second is one of my favorite opaque neutrals, Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh, which is a cool-toned nude with almost a taupe hue to it. Again this one was easy to apply, two coats below with topcoat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So there's a look at two of my favorite polishes, do you own either of these?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-46888449406401073052014-12-02T08:44:00.000-06:002014-12-02T08:44:00.699-06:00Zoya Wishes Collection-Swatches and Review<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi there everyone, sorry for the long break. I've just had some weird stomach bug for a week now and it's really been getting me down. I'm trying my best though. I hope my American friends had a good Thanksgiving. My family and my in-laws had a combined dinner and day and it went very well. Friday we did some shopping and saw The Grinch in the play version in downtown Chicago. It's back to work now, which is bringing me down, but we must prevail haha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have a review of the Zoya Winter/Holiday collection featuring six polishes, three regular polishes and three of the chunkier pixiedusts. Keep in mind I'm not the biggest fan of textured polishes, so let's get started. Also the video review will be at the end if you prefer that, plus a very important question ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Haven-holiday plum liquid metal with a touch of orchid</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Haven really surprised me. Haven is a nice deep metallic purple without with brushstrokes and it's a gorgeous color. I wore it for four days straight and got a bunch of compliments on it. I think it's pretty unique to my collection and it had a great formula. I used two easy coats with topcoat below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Imogen-black crystal pixiedust with holo glitter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Imogen is a a black textured polish with very chunky silver and holo glitter. I didn't have any problems with application even with the amount of glitter. I used two coats below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nori-sapphire blue pixiedust </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nori was a little different because it was a little less glitter dense. It reminds me of Zoya Dream in pixiedust form. It was less dense in glitter but still really opaque in formula and covered well in two coats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Oh Prim, my very favorite from the collection. I know that Prim is polarizing because it is metallic and has brushstrokes but I think it's fantastic! I consider Prim a periwinkle metallic blue and I think it's gorgeous for Winter and even into Spring when it's still cold. The formula was perfect and I used two easy coats with topcoat below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thea-deep amethyst pixiedust</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thea is along the lines of the blue in that the glitter does get covered up by the colored base. This one reminds me of Zoya Aurora in pixiedust form, a warm purple in color. I had no problems with formula again, I used two coats below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last up is Willa which is a black cream. I thought it was a little bit on the thinner side meaning that there are more opaque blacks out there. It was good though, just not the greatest black polish of life. I used two coats with topcoat below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Overall it's not my favorite Zoya collection, it's just okay. I'm not the biggest fan of the combined regular and pixiedust polishes together in one collection and it's not the most unique in terms of color. My favorites are Prim and Haven. What do you think of this collection? Most importantly....did you order the Cyber Monday Zoya Mystery Box????? I caved and did! It was then weird to admit to my husband that I ordered a box of something that I had no idea what was in it ;) Leave me a comment with your thoughts!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today's Nailstalgia is OPI's Black Cherry Chutney. I had found this polish in a set in my local TJMaxx and it looked like a dark vampy beauty. To me it is a deep purple black cherry color. For my swatches I used two coats but it definitely could have used a quick third coat. Swatches are with topcoat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sorry for the express edition of Nailstalgia today but I'm off to go get ready :) Plus I just ate two HoHos and now I have a sugar rush! Black Cherry Chutney didn't live up to my expectations of being a vampy two coat shimmer but it is a pretty color. I think there are better colors out there in the OPI range though. Is this a color you have in your collection?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-89459219184057786012014-11-26T12:19:00.003-06:002014-11-26T12:19:56.261-06:00New Video-November Nail Polish Favorites<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi polish friends! Sorry for the slow week, I've been dealing with food poisoning since Sunday and am finally coming out of it today. I'll keep it short since a cat tail is making it very hard to type :) Today I have my November polish favorites with a few October favorites thrown in!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-29433418378615989242014-11-24T11:27:00.000-06:002014-11-24T11:27:00.625-06:00Julep Waleska-A Gorgeous Holiday Green!<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi there everyone, welcome to Monday. Well I was headed into work this morning but I had some stomach issues after dinner last night. I'm not sure if I overdid the junk food or if it was the shady Taco Bell we ate at but I am home today. Despite that, yesterday was a great day because we went to a giant craft fair with my mom. I did post a haul on my youtube channel if you are curious what we came home with :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have a stunning holiday polish to share with you. I was stuck the other night so I reached into a basket with untried polishes and pulled out Julep Waleska. Whoa baby is it gorgeous. I believe this is from August but to me it is totally holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Julep Waleska to me is a shimmery green with strong blue undertones and dense gold shimmer. It's such a good combination of green and teal that most of the time it was hard for me to tell which color it really was. The shimmer was really strong in this polish and it just makes it look that much more "holiday". The formula was really great and I used two easy coats with topcoat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Overall I'm in love with this polish! The color is gorgeous and shimmery and I'm already ready to wear it again :) Sadly I did cancel my Julep box a few days ago. I just was canceling it every month but I do still plan to hunt for good colors at my local TJMaxx. Do you have a favorite holiday polish?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-50559231538227996572014-11-23T08:35:00.000-06:002014-11-23T08:35:12.063-06:00Fall Glitter Combo and Zoya Tanzy Swatches<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hello there my polish friends. I hope the weekend is treating you well. It's been a great weekend so far as I sit here in my robe under my heated blanket :) Yesterday last minute we went to the Illinois/Penn State football game which was really fun. We didn't stay the entire time because it was freezing and my lips actually turned blue. Today we are going to a huge craft fair and my mom is driving down to meet us so you know I'm pumped about that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have my last Fall mani most likely. Fall is my favorite season and it did get swallowed up by my surgery but with the number of days of snow and ridiculously cold weather we've had it feels like Fall is gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This combination is one that I wore the other day because Zoya Tanzy is the most unflattering color for my skin tone haha! Once I combined these two colors it was like a Fall shimmer-bomb on the nails :) This combination is Zoya Tanzy as the base and one layer of OPI Orange You Fantastic over top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Below is Zoya Tanzy. I saw this polish in stores and fell in love with it so eventually I ordered it on Zoya's website. Zoya describes it as a bright tangerine orange with yellow gold metallic sparkle. It's a beautiful warm metallic and I thought it would be amazing for Fall. When I applied it I discovered one thing...this is probably the most unflattering polish I could have ever picked for my skin tone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well there it is for Fall this year. I am sad to see it go but I figured it was over when I spent 15 minutes getting my car door open the other morning. </span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-23561270663157143402014-11-21T08:34:00.000-06:002014-11-21T08:34:09.183-06:00New Video-Urban Decay Ten Eyeliner Set: Swatches and Review<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi Friday polish peeps! I am so excited that it's Friday :) It's been a long, drawn-out week at work! But, there is an exciting weekend ahead so I just need to get through the next seven and a half hours :) Tonight we are going to our friends house for dinner and video games. Our friend actually took the day off of work to go to the midnight release last night of the Wii U Super Smash Bros game so we will definitely be playing that. Tomorrow we've got some errands to run and then the hubby and I are going to a HUGE Christmas craft fair with over 350 vendors. Can you tell I'm excited?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have my very first makeup review video. I did pre-film this back in September pre-surgery so I was a little flat because my zombie gallbladder was hurting me, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. I think it's something I might keep up with in the form of videos. Let me know what you think. Have a great day everyone!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7136976340603513679.post-64904483005188606342014-11-20T09:09:00.000-06:002014-11-20T09:09:10.630-06:00Formula X Alchemy-Swatches and Review<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi there polish friends, welcome to Thursday. Last night I was definitely in lump mode. It's just too darn cold here and my hormones were just all over the place. I was happy because I had cheese with dinner, then mad because I ate all the chocolate yesterday, then crying for no reason #justgirlythings Does anyone else hate those #justgirlythings on pinterest? Haha, I do! I couldn't hold in the crazy last night. Then right before bed I got the brilliant idea to convince my husband we should switch around our spare rooms (just convince him, not actually do it). Somehow through all that I did manage to fall asleep right away, too much crazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today I have a polish I couldn't wait to show. I know I'm behind on swatching collections, my hands are like lizard dry. I've been slathering them with lotions and oils and wearing the dorky gloves when I sleep but nothing is helping. Anyone have any suggestions for a really strong hand cream? I do promise to catch up this weekend, dry hands or not!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Formula X Alchemy is a polish I picked up during the Sephora VIB sale when it was 20% off. I saw it in the catalog of holiday gifts and although I don't normally buy these polishes because they are pricy, I thought it was too pretty to pass up. I think it's sold out online but I would check in-store if you are looking for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This polish is a loaded dusty platinum antique gold shimmer with multi-colored shimmers. It does look different in different lighting, sometimes it looks gold, sometimes a little bronze, and sometimes even a touch purple. The array of shimmers is beautiful and really sold me on it. I see gold, blue, purple, and copper. The formula is really great and opaque, I used two easy coats with topcoat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm in love with this polish. It's nothing like I've ever seen before and just so unique and sparkly! It is limited edition so if you want it I would try to find it as soon as you can. What do you think of this polish, will you be buying it?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5