Superficially Colorful: On Hilly Grounds - Swatches and Review

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Superficially Colorful

On Hilly Grounds

Today I have another beauty from Superficially Colorful's new collection called My Favorite Things. These polishes are all named from mostly funny moments from our group of friends and if I told you the story behind some of these names, well I might have to kill you! Here's how Jin described the names: A collection inspired by bits and pieces of stories, jokes and funny moments with my besties! So...let's just have a look at the beauty!

The entire My Favorite Things Collection is made up of glitter jellies that all have the same great formula. Full on glitter bombs that are smooth and opaque in two coats! No issues at all with formula or application. Glitters are suspended perfectly in the base, come out of the bottle easily and spread evenly on the nail. Blingtastic!

Today is On Hilly Grounds

Continued after the jump...

Nail of the Day: Nails Inc. Walton Street

Nothing to Disclose

*This product is Cruelty Free 

♥

Buenos Dias! Today I'm wearing Nails Inc. Walton Street as my NOTD.

It's a lovely pink/purple berry shade that right at that in between shade where I have a hard time describing it. It's a perfect creme - self-leveling, smooth formula. Typical Nails Inc. that I love!

Walton Street

Varying levels of artificial lighting... (as always, no flash and no color-adjusting...just closer to/farther from the lighting source.)

Of course Nails Inc. is a UK company and widely available there, but here in the US, with most Sephora stores not carrying it anymore, it's now supposed to be available at Ulta. I haven't been by there to check though.

One of my go-to brands!

Have a great day!

♥

If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to "like" it! Thanks!

.

Chanel Reflets D'ete Collection Summer 2014: Swatches and Review

Nothing to Disclose 

*These products may NOT be Cruelty Free 

♥

Chanel Reflets D'ete Collection

Summer 2014

The Chanel Reflets D'ete Collection for Summer 2014 is made up of 5 polishes - 4 brand new and one re-promote from 2012.

Eastern Light 613 - re-promote from 2012 - Limited Edition (white)
Sweet Lilac 615 - Limited Edition (lavender/lilac)
Pink Tonic 619 - Limited Edition (rose pink)
Tutti Frutti 621 - (coral)
Mirabella 623 - Limited Edition (orange)

Continued after the jump...

The Lacquer Legion: Glam - Half Moon Mani

Nothing to Disclose

♥

I'm excited to be participating in the Lacquer Legion challenges, put together by Chalkboard Nails,  Rebecca Likes Nails, The Nailasaurus, and Work/Play/Polish. This month, the theme is GLAM. If you want to participate, you can like The Lacquer Legion on Facebook and hashtag your posts on all social media with #LLGlam. Each month there will be a different theme and hashtag.

Glam has a different connotation for everyone and for me, it's the 30s and 40s when movie stars truly put forth a STAR image. So I chose a simple but elegant half-moon manicure. My nails aren't long enough yet to do the classic almond shape popular back then, but you get the idea.

I used Borghese Lira (gold) and Dior Diva. I free-handed the half moon and stamped on the accent finger.

Just check out Dior Diva close up! I love it!

Be sure and type in "#LLGlam" on all social media to check out all the other Lacquer Legion manis!

♥

If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to "like" it! Thanks!

.

Weekend Bits and Bobs: April 27, 2014 - Eye Shadow, Lipstick and Hermès, Oh My

Nothing to Disclose

♥

Howdy! Another week GONE. Sometimes it seems like they last forever and other times I feel like I blinked and missed the entire week. This week behaved more like Sheldon Cooper as the Flash.

Continued after the jump...

Superficially Colorful: Hot Italian Lady - Swatches and Reveiw

Press Sample 

*This product is Cruelty Free 

♥

Superficially Colorful Lacquer

Hot Italian Lady

This evening, I have another beauty from Superficially Colorful's new collection called My Favorite Things. These polishes are all named from mostly funny moments from our group of friends and if I told you the story behind some of these names, well I might have to kill you! Here's how Jin described the names: A collection inspired by bits and pieces of stories, jokes and funny moments with my besties! So...let's just have a look at the beauty!

The entire My Favorite Things Collection is made up of glitter jellies that all have the same great formula. Full on glitter bombs that are smooth and opaque in two coats! No issues at all with formula or application. Glitters are suspended perfectly in the base, come out of the bottle easily and spread evenly on the nail. Blingtastic!

Continued after the jump...

Superficially Colorful: Picklefarts - Swatches and Review

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Superficially Colorful Lacquer

Picklefarts

Today I have another beauty from Superficially Colorful's new collection called My Favorite Things. These polishes are all named from mostly funny moments from our group of friends and if I told you the story behind some of these names, well I might have to kill you! Here's how Jin described the names: A collection inspired by bits and pieces of stories, jokes and funny moments with my besties! So...let's just have a look at the beauty!

The entire My Favorite Things Collection is made up of glitter jellies that all have the same great formula. Full on glitter bombs that are smooth and opaque in two coats! No issues at all with formula or application. Glitters are suspended perfectly in the base, come out of the bottle easily and spread evenly on the nail. Blingtastic!

Continued after the jump...

Jindie Nails and Dollish Polish Famous Couple Throughout History Duo Featuring Marilyn and JFK

Press Sample 

*These Products are Cruelty Free

♥

LAUNCHES MAY 15-20, 2014

See Jindie Nails and Dollish Polish FB pages for exact date

Happy Friday! Today I have a preview of another Famous Couples Throughout History Duo from Jindie Nails and Dollish Polish featuring Ms. Monroe and Mr. President! This is part of an ongoing series of Duos from these two makers.

Jindie Nails Dollish Polish Duo

Ms. Monroe and Mr. President

And WHAT A COUPLE they chose this time!

Continued after the jump...

6 Hart Polish: Bad Bad Lulu Brown and Mountain Nights - Swatches and Review

Press Sample 

*This product is Cruelty Free 

♥

6 Harts Polish

Bad Bad Lulu Brown & Mountain Nights

Tonight I'm especially happy to be showing you two polishes I got to see manifest from pea-sized ideas to fruition and I have to say they both turned out better than I expected. And I know Courtney and was expecting bottles of gorgeous already. She really outdid herself on these two.

Bad Bad Lulu Brown was made for a mutual friend and brown-lover and Mountain Nights was inspired by a photograph of Courtney's beautiful Montana sky. I think she captured it perfectly.

Continued after the jump...

Dior Junon #494 - Nail of the Day

Nothing to Disclose

*This product may NOT be Cruelty Free 

♥

Just a quick Nail of the Day post - I'm going to drop and run!

Dior Junon #494

Junon is one of the new "gel-effect" polishes from Dior. I didn't initially grab this one because I thought it was more blue than grey. I did pick up five others though. If you missed that post click the link in the photo caption below.

Dior GelShine Spring 2014

But when my friend Alison assured me it was MY color - more grey than blue, I decided to order it (from Nordies) yesterday. Yes, YESTERDAY. And it came in today! Free shipping and so FAST? Yeah, I've loved Nordstrom for a long time, but they really impressed me this time.

Continued after the jump...

Glam Polish: Heart of Darkness Collection - Swatches and Review

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Glam Polish

Heart of Darkness Collection

Tonight I have Glam Polish's newest collection to show you called the Heart of Darkness Collection! This is a 6 polish collection inspired by the bad girls of literature/cinema/TV and they are in the new screen-printed bottles - same great square shape.

Continued after the jump...

Superficially Colorful Lacquer: All The Purple in the World and I've Never Been Ginger

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Superficially Colorful Lacquer

All the Purple in the World and I've Never Been Ginger

Today I have 2 beauties from Superficially Colorful's new collection called My Favorite Things. These polishes are all named from mostly funny moments from our group of friends and if I told you the story behind some of these names, well I might have to kill you! Here's how Jin described the names: A collection inspired by bits and pieces of stories, jokes and funny moments with my besties! So...let's just have a look at the beauty!

The entire My Favorite Things Collection is made up of glitter jellies that all have the same great formula. Full on glitter bombs that are smooth and opaque in two coats! No issues at all with formula or application. Glitters are suspended perfectly in the base, come out of the bottle easily and spread evenly on the nail. Blingtastic!


Continued after the jump...

NailNation 3000: Limited Edition Polishes - Swatches and Review Part 2

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Today I get to show you the remaining four of the Black Box LEs from NailNation 3000 polishes that I have from the teaser pic! 

Two of the ones I'll be showing you today (Shine On Me and City of Ember) are available individually for $22.00 and $15.00, respectively. Three of these four (Shine On Me, Walk of Fame and Board Walk Empire) are also available in the MTV Movie Awards Gift Trio. "The fun filled trio pack given to the celebs and press at the 2014 MTV Movie awards in the Beauty Lounge! By our friends at THE ARTISAN GROUP! Packed in a beautiful Organza trio flower and all BLACK BOXES! Thanks so much to TAG * The Artisan group! You will receive 24k double gold leaf and amazing micro fine gold glitters top coat (Shine On Me) and a special shade of Blue Color Tint Mega Holo Topcoat (Walk of Fame) **Made for the celebs!* and a bottle of the EXCLUSIVE Mega Holo Rich blue linear holo (Board Walk Empire)!! ** the Blue TC and Boardwalk Empire are ONLY available in this set! very LIMITED AVAILABILITY! Act fast! This will NOT be available again!"

NailNation 3000

Black Box LEs

Continued after the jump...

Weekend Bits and Bobs: April 20, 2014 - Gambling, Yorkshire Pudding, Texture Week and Dogs

Nothing to Disclose

♥

Hi! Long time, no see! What a week it's been. The Spring Crud came to visit me. And me, being the generous, kind-hearted person I am, I passed it on to Mister. Yeah, he was ever so grateful.

Made it through what would have been my dad's birth anniversary, my brother's death anniversary and my mom's birth anniversary on the 16th, 17th and 18th. Three hard days in a row. Went gambling (where I picked up The Crud, I suspect) and didn't win.

Continued after the jump...

Oopsie Daisies Dionysus: Swatches and Wear Test

Press Sample 

*This product is Cruelty Free 

♥

So...remember a while back when I showed you the SUPER GORGEOUS Oopsie Daisies Secret Admirer?

Well, today I have another Oopsie Daisies polish to show you...with a wear test.

Okay fine, I didn't get photos when I first put it on. So you get a wear test by default. But I'm really glad it happened this way now. *grin*

Oopsie Daisies

Dionysus

Continued after the jump...

NailNation 3000: Limited Edition Polishes - Swatches and Review

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Tonight I begin showing you some real beauties from NailNation 3000! I have eight "black box" limited edition polishes and we're going to start with four tonight. What a great way to start showing swatches again after the "spring crud" nearly did me in! *cough cough* (Insert much whining and gnashing of teeth here.)

Teaser pic of all 8 Black Box LEs I'll be showing you

The ones I'll be showing you tonight are available individually for $15.00 AND as a special Mother's Day Set (4 full-sized polishes and comes complete with minis of the NailNation 3000 base and top coats) for $60.00.

Continued after the jump...

The Digit-al Dozen Does Texture - Day 5: Toothpick Marble

Nothing to Disclose

♥

Yep, you read that right! I'm joining the lovely ladies of The Digit-al Dozen! I secretly think it's some sort of evil initiation that my first month is TEXTURE! I'm a creme lover through and through. But I shall persevere!

Day 5 brings (dun dun DUN) a toothpick marble! I made it four days without falling back on one of my favorite techniques, but you KNOW I had to do one for my first Digit-al Dozen week!

For this one, I started with a base of my favorite shade - a violet orchid franken I made that you can see here.  Then I painted quick, heavy stripes using the polish brush down both sides with Nails Inc. Chalk Farm and Nails Inc. Southwark, ending with a stripe down the middle with the franken that I used as a base.

While it's still wet, I took a toothpick and drug it back and forth across the nail working from cuticle to tip.

I followed with a top coat.

One if the quickest and easiest nail art techniques for me and you can use any colors to match any possible wardrobe choice.

This week has been so much fun for me! I've had a rough week with illness and death and anniversaries of deaths and general crap so it was really nice to have something to do that's fun and takes my focus away from the negatives for a while.

Thanks so mush for joining me for my first ever Digit-al Dozen week!!! ♥

Be sure to check out the other great Digit-al Dozen manis in the links below!

An InLinkz Link-up

♥

If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to "like" it! Thanks!

.

Different Dimension Spring 2014 Collection Swatches and Review

Press Sample 

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

Tonight I have a lovely Spring collection from Different Dimension to show you! These went live in the Different Dimension Etsy shop on April 4, 2014.

Different Dimension 

Spring 2014 Collection

There are 9 new shades perfect for the season! I have EIGHT of them for you tonight.

Dewing It Right, Garden Goddess, Gasoline Rainbows, The Grass Isn't Always Greener,
Have a Grape Day, Orchid You  Not, Petal'd and That's Just Ducky

Continued after the jump...

The Digit-al Dozen Does Texture - Day 4: Textured Roses

Nothing to Disclose

♥

Yep, you read that right! I'm joining the lovely ladies of The Digit-al Dozen! I secretly think it's some sort of evil initiation that my first month is TEXTURE! I'm a creme lover through and through. But I shall persevere!

Day four brings textured roses. And rosebuds. *whispers Rosebud* (If you don't get the reference, google Orson Welles' Citizen Cane *wink*)

For this mani, I did a gradient as a base using China Glaze At Vase Value and Grass is Lime Greener and layered on Zoya Miranda and Vega textured polishes for the flowers and stems.

Hope you like them! Flowers aren't really "me" but they were fun and Spring-y and I got lots of compliments on them! Not as many as the 3-D Grid nails, but enough it makes me want to wear nail art out into the world more often LOL!

Be sure to check out the other great Digit-al Dozen manis in the links below and stay tuned for a new texture mani each day this week!

An InLinkz Link-up

♥

If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to "like" it! Thanks!

.

Zoya Magical Pixie Summer 2014 - Press Release

Press Release

*These products are Cruelty Free 

♥

And while I'm still squee-ing over the new Summer Tickled and Bubbly Collections, this happens!

Three brand new Magical Pixies from Zoya: Arlo, Ginni and Bar

These are available for pre-order starting TODAY, April 17, 2014 at Zoya.com and will begin shipping early May, 2014.

I don't know about you guys but Arlo is calling my name for sure. I'm not a huge texture fan, but that color is stunning! Can't wait to see them in person. Will you be getting these?

♥

If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to "like" it! Thanks!

.

The Digit-al Dozen Does Texture - Day Three: Whimsical Flowers

Nothing to Disclose

♥

Yep, you read that right! I'm joining the lovely ladies of The Digit-al Dozen! I secretly think it's some sort of evil initiation that my first month is TEXTURE! I'm a creme lover through and through. But I shall persevere!

Day three brings textured whimsical flowers.

I used a base of Kiko 331 with Zoya Chyna, Beatrix and Stevie for the textures and acrylic paint for the green and blue lines.

Simple and fun!

Be sure to check out the other great Digit-al Dozen manis in the links below and stay tuned for a new texture mani each day this week!

An InLinkz Link-up

♥

If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to "like" it! Thanks!

.