OPI Suzi Says Da! and Pure Ice Meet Me In Monaco

OPI Suzi Says Da! and Pure Ice Meet Me In Monaco, Get ready for Decembers posts! I've got a few gems coming up that I think you're really going to like. For those of you who know me personally, you know that I have been doing some serious hauling of nail polish in the last couple of months So much so that I had to put MYSELF on restriction and made a vow not to buy another single bottle of polish until the New Year. That's not that long, but during the holiday season with all the sales going on...that's a big deal for this nail polish addict. Anywho! For the rest of the month you will see posts on some of the new polishes I've acquired and I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
First up is OPI Suzi Says Da! (old) and Pure Ice Meet Me in Monaco (new). I was disappointed in Suzi Says Da! because it's so dark it looks black in most lighting but should be a dark chocolate. Pure Ice Meet Me in Monaco was great though. I scored with this one and only $1.99 at my local Walmart. It has multi sized cooper glitter in a black jelly, and is easily opaque in 2 coats. The glitter was not too chunky and spread evenly with ease. Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI, Pure Ice

Saturday, September 13, 2014 | tamil | Beri Komentar

Fall Inspired Dots

Fall Inspired Dots , My husband was saying to me: Sweetie you have so many fall colors you haven't used, why don't you wear more Fall colors in the Fall? So I dug deep for a couple old Fall colors I had never worn and came up with American Apparel McArther Park and Risk (with no name).
McArthur Park is like a perfect avocado color and the formula is so awesome. American Apparel makes great creme opaque colors that go on with 2 easy coats, and this was no exception. I could have been fine with 1 coat but I wanted to be sure I didn't have any bald spots. I added dots with Essie Structured, China Glaze Kalahari Kiss and Risk (with no name) for a little pizzazz. I'm happy with how the accent name came out but not so much with the other nails. You'll notice tip wear on the other nails and that's because the formula of Risk (with no name) was so thin. It reminds me of Essie nail polish, and even with two coats I barely was able to cover the way I wanted. I left it that way because I was tired when I did my nails that day and I liked the color I have since given Risk (with no name) away to a coworker who loved it. Here it is. Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Nail Polish Anise Love Elixir

Nail Polish Anise Love Elixir, There is a line of nail polish that I can only find in DSW and I have not seen it carried in any other store in my area. It's called Anise and the colors are gorgeous! I have a lot from this line but I haven't used them in a long time. So going back in to my Fall drawer I took out this beauty called Love Elixir. A beautiful purple with slight silver shimmer, and a hint of frost. I decided to mattify it and gloss the tips like I did in this manicure. The formula as most all Anise colors was just right, with easy consistent application. No complaints here. What you see is 2 coats of Love Elixir 2 coats of Butter London Matte Top coat and 1 coat of Seche Vete on the tips. Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : Anise, Nail Art, Nail Polish

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Nail Polish Pahlish Sitting In a Tin Can

Nail Polish Pahlish Sitting In a Tin Can, On Black Friday I did not partake in the mayhem that many people in this country do for the sake of a good deal. I was however planning my Cyber Monday shopping with the various Indie polish companies that had great deals. One of the companies who was having a sale was Pahlish and from them I purchased Sitting In a Tin Can and Dark Parades. Their polishes are sold on Etsy and are between $7-$9 per bottle.
Sitting In a Tin Can is a grey (barely) jelly base with a chock load of multi-shaped white, black and holo glitter. My favorite parts of the polish were the color and the diamond shaped glitter. This polish was fun to apply because with every single swipe there was a lot of glitter that came out. I hate fishing for the cool pieces in a bottle of glitter and this was not the case with this polish. I used 3 coats because I wanted an opaque layered look. I enjoy building the glitter and making some of them look like they're buried or peeking out from under the base. The only thing with this polish, as with many glitter heavy polishes, is that it got very thick after the second coat. Over all it's a great polish and I would repurchase from them since the shipping was fast and I had no major problems with the application as I have with other Indie polishes. Stay tuned for Dark Parades in a future post. Thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : Nail Art, Nail Polish, Pahlish

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Nail Polish My Ten Friends Dirtball

Nail Polish My Ten Friends Dirtball, The second company I purchased from during Cyber Week was My Ten Friends. I heard about them from Chalkboard Nails and I fell in love with Dirtball. The color was so unique and I love the combination of brown and turquiose which are two of my favorite colors. With Dirtball I also purchased: Carbon Based Life, Pew!Pew!Pew! and Clusterfrak. The owner of the shop contacted me before shipping my order to let me know there was a problem with the XL hexes in 2 of the colors that I order and was nice enough to give me the choice of what I wanted to do with those two polishes.
Good thing for me Dirtball was not affected. Because of the excellent communication and customer service I would definitely repurchase and to say nothing of the polishes, they are truly must haves. Dirtball made me gasp, and I don't do that with many polishes. Application was a dream and I could not get over how GORGEOUS the combination of glitter with the light brown base was against my skin. I could not stop staring at my nails and I almost put on a third coat but you really don't need too. I enjoyed this polish thoroughly and can easily say it is one of my top 5 fav of all time. It's the turquoise hex glitter with the silver and copper glitter together in the brown base that make this so special. I'm so happy to have it and I hope you'll like it too. Thoughts?Feelings? Concerns?

Label : MyTenFriends, Nail Art, Nail Polish

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Nail Polish Christmas Triple French

Nail Polish Christmas Triple French, Merry Belated Christmas! Your Nail Polish Therapist has been hard at work and doing some festive manicures. The collection is expanding and thanks to my wonderful husband I have another Helmer to grow into. He's so thoughtful and knows just what I need. It's probably my favorite gift of all the ones I received. This first manicure I created for my love of the french. I don't do it as much as I used to and figured it would be a good time to come up with a Christmas version of this classic nail design. The base color is Love & Beauty Vanilla, the gold stripe is LA Colors Art Deco 24K Glitter, then Pure Ice: All Nighter and the last stripe is Pure Ice: Femme Fatale (from the suede collection). I used these colors because together they looked vintage to me like an old Christmas ornament. I was pretty happy with how neat it came out. What do are your thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : LA Colors, Love Beauty, Nail Art, Nail Polish, Pure Ice

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Nail Polish Vintage yet Modern

Nail Polish Vintage yet Modern , This year my husband and I decorated the house in lights, and put up some fuss in the house in the way of decorations. Unfortunately we didn't get to partake in so many Christmas parties as we'd hoped. Our neighbors invited us over for a viewing in their backyard of It's a Wonderful Life. It was our first time going there for a social event and I wanted to make a good impression. So I set out to make a vintage yet modern Christmas tree art. I used Julep: Glen for most of the nails and then Cynthia Crowley for the accent nails. Both of these colors are absolutely glorious. The formula was great and dried super fast. My only complaint was that the Cynthia Crowley (green color with no name) was HORRIBLE to take off. Stained my nails something awful. The other colors I used on the tree and snow were: American Apparel Galaxy, OPI Golden Eye, Milani Black Sketch, Revlon Calla Lily. The shape of the tree was modern to me and the overall look with the OPI Golden Eye added a vintage touch. What are your thoughts? Feelings? Concerns?

Label : American Apparel, Cynthia Crowley, Julep, Milani, Nail Art, Nail Polish, OPI, Revlon

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