Born Pretty Studs and Straight Nail Vinyl Nail Art

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Hello again! Today I have a little bit of nail art for you all. I’m really quite happy with how this whole thing turned out. Vary rarely do I think of a particular design then have it actually translate the way I pictured it in my mind onto the nail. 

Kerry, Va Va Voom, Solange

Ninja Polish "Shillelagh"

Gifted To Me

Heeeeeeey! How is everyone? Good I hope. I missed last weeks TIOT but today I have a most epic polish to try and make up for it! Before we get into the sparkly goodness of this lovely lacquer I want to give an update on the state of our TIOT Facebook photo album. Last week I tried to rearrange a photo that was out of place, once I did that it scrambled a lot of the photos. I have been unable to place them in the right order ever since. I have contacted Facebook 5 times and haven't gotten so much as an "F YOU we won't help" from them, therefore I will be creating a brand new Album for TIOT. I was thinking maybe starting a new album every month; just in case something like this happens again so I won't have to redo them all again. Any thoughts? Ok that's enough talk, now on to the polish! 

Mish Mash Challenge: Metallic

Purchased By Me/Gifted To Me

Hello loves, happy Wednesday! I have another really quick Mish Mash Challenge post today, I promise that I will take my time on these posts soon. I'm still playing catch up on review posts and still a bit under the weather so I'm still just kind of zipping through the Mish Mash posts, but hey it's on time this week! 

I was looking forward to doing this day in the challenge and had a specific mani in mind. When I came down to it I wound up doing something completely different! LOL

Alanna Renee Cosmetics "Dementor", "Chocolate Frog" & "Drink of Despair"

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Hello loves!!! A couple of months back I did a review of some amazing Alanna Renee polishes! I fell hard and fast for this Aussie Indie brand even before I had reviewed any of the polishes, especially because I saw that there was a whole line of Harry Potter themed polishes...the Magical World collection. I was immediately heartbroken when when I realized that I was unable to get these Australian pretties on my American digits! Then about a week or so after I reviewed my first Alanna Renee's Sisi from Color4Nails announced that she would be carrying the entire Magical World collection!! Be Still My Beating Heart! Sisi has sent me these 3 beauties to show you all today! I am slowing ordering the rest of the collection because lets face it, I NEED THEM ALL!!

Femme Fatale Cosmetics "Eventide"

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Hi loves!! Today I have another beauty from Femme Fatale Cosmetics to show you. I have to say I am really diggin' the Aussie Indies right now and Femme Fatale is easily one of my favorites! I have a pretty good sized FFC wishlist that just keeps growing with each new polish that's released...which keeps happening lately! LOL 

Rainbow Honey Fab Summer Set

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Today I have the Fab Summer Set by Rainbow Honey to show you! When I first saw these colors I felt kinda meh about them, then I wore them. WOW!! These are absolutely stunning shades and really need to be seen on the nail to be truly appreciated! Let's jump into the swatches, shall we? 

Mix-N-Match Mani - Guest Post by LOZLOSA!

Today's Guest post is brought to us by Lisa of  LOZLOSA a mother daughter duo who share a passion for polish. I love that these 2 ladies have such an awesome thing to bond over! Lisa is probably one of the friendliest and genuine ladies I have ever come across in the blogging world! She is also so well worded that she can make me giggle with her humorous posts and her encouraging comments! I only wish I could spin a phrase the way Lisa can, her posts are always entertaining along with her beautiful nails! I will now turn this post over to our guest poster, I know you will just love this beautiful mani!  ♥

Zoya Summer 2013 Irresistible Collection (Picture Heavy)

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Happy Monday!! I hope everyone had a great weekend, I know I did! The weather has been so amazing and feels so summer like, I just love it! Summer like weather calls for beautiful summer nails, wouldn't you agree? Zoya has come out with some really amazing summer collections this year (if you haven't seen the Summer PixieDust Collection click here to see my swatches) and today I have the Irresistible collection to show you.  This collection contains 6 foil metallic polishes that all have a a hint of gold flakes. Each of these had a great formula making application fairly easy. No dragging or balding and they all went on pretty smooth, with the exception of one (keep reading below) All of the photos are shown as 3 coats, unless otherwise stated, and all are topped with Sally Hansen Diamond Flash. I want to note that with the length of my nails I usually use one more coat than would be used on shorter/average length nails.

Zoya Summer 2013 PixieDust (Picture Heavy!)

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Hello girls and boys, I hope you all had a great weekend! I had a pretty productive weekend myself. I managed to get quite a few swatches done, the Zoya summer PixieDust collection being some of those swatches! I was so excited when Zoya announced that they were doing another set of these textured polishes! 

Wing Dust Collections: Cody Cat & Moonlight Sonata

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How is everyone on this lovely Tuesday afternoon? I will have a Try it On Tuesday post up later today, for now I have 2 more beauties from Wing Dust Collections new Spring line! 

Kelara Lacquers "Teacher's Little Helper 2.0" & "Pluto"

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Hi all! Sorry for the late post today! The day just kind of got away from me, one minute I was doing a little bit of house work and the next thing I know my husband is home from work and I needed to make dinner. Needles to say things just got pushed back. Tonight I am showing you a couple of polishes from Kelara Lacquers. If you have been following me for a while you may have seen the review and swatches from the end of last year already but if you need a refresher or you're new to my blog just click on the link above! 

TIOT: Hard Candy Bity Blue & Piece of Papaya

Purchased By Me

Welcome to week 12 of my Try It On Tuesday posts! Today I have the final 2 of the new Hard Candy polishes I picked up a couple weeks back. 

Me.Lissa Nail Lacquer: Green Light On The Dock, Ain't No Party Like A Gatsby Party & Beautiful Little Fool

*Free product for review

Tonight I am going to show you some glitter polishes from a very new Indie brand that opened shop up in January. Here is a little background on Melissa, the creator of Me.Lissa Nail Lacquer...

"As a science major and pre-med student, there isn't much room for creativity during my day job. I love nail polish, and have always used it as my creative outlet. I started out doing some nail art and then moved on to some small frankening experiments. Now I decided to launch my own brand as a creative escape in between school and work. I named it Me.Lissa because I really want it to represent the color combinations I love and find fun to wear." 

The following polishes are from Me.Lissa's Gatsby collection and are LE so when they are gone they are gone for good! All Me.Lissa Lacquers are 3 Free.

TIOT: Hard Candy Little Hottie & WindDust Dancing Queen

Just a quick post, I know it's a late one but I wanted to try out one of my new Itzy Glitzy Hard Candy polishes! So why not use one for my TIOT, yes I know it's not Tuesday anymore,

Laquerlicious "Day At The Beach" Review & Swatches

Hello all! Happy Saturday! I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far. I have a real quick review post here for you all, before I get into all of my craziness for the weekend! I'll show you all on Monday exactly what I have going on with the house renovations this weekend! I also want to apologize for my lack of posting this week. I have been having a hard time keeping up not because I'm overwhelmed but I am just so tired lately. I don't know what the reason is, but I am so exhausted I feel like I could sleep for a week straight and on top of that I have been getting the WORST headaches ever. If it keeps up I guess I'm going to have to make a doctors appointment. Boo! Anyway, I am sorry and I will try to get back on a regular schedule. Now on to the polish! 

H is for Hard Candy

Welcome to the H day of Kimber's ABC Challenge! I know, another late post today! What's new, right? I had a completely different mani planned out for this day of the challenge, but since I had planned on doing some cool stuff with my Color Club Holo Hues it just wasn't going to happen. I woke up to snow and not a ray of sunshine! Boo! Mother Nature must have missed the memo that I'm ready for spring! Anyhow, since there was no sun I opted for using 2 of the only 3 Hard Candy polishes I own. I had been looking for Hard Candy polishes for what seems to be an eternity. The Walmart by me got rid of the display for the polishes so When I go to a different Walmart, which isn't often, I looked for Beetle like crazy! When I was in Indiana back in January I found the last bottle of Beetle! 

TIOT: Wing Dust Collections "A Day Without Rain"

Hi all! I have tons of swatching to do today so I have a quick post for Try It On Tuesday! I wanted to try out a beauty from one of my favorite Indie brands, Wing Dust Collections! I have several of these in my untried list that I have been wanting to show you all but with all of the review polishes, the challenge days and all of my personal things going on I haven't had time to get to them as quickly as I'd hoped, which is why I love, Love, LOVE Try It On Tuesday! 

White Owl Lacquers: After All This Time Collection Review & Swatches

Hi everyone, happy Monday  I hope everyone had a great weekend! Sorry I was MIA for the past few days, I had a lot going on. My hubby and I are currently in the process of doing some renovations to the house, and we had a lot of price comparisons to do on Friday. Then we had my nieces birthday party on Saturday and I had some work to do on Sunday so there was just no time for posting.

Today I am going to show you 3 colors from White Owl Lacquers After All This Time collection. This collection was inspired by Harry Potter! I am a huge Potter Head so anything HP makes me giddy! 

Love, Angeline *New Indie* Love Always Collection Review

Hi Everyone! Hope you all are having a great day so far! I have a review post for you today! Love, Angeline is a brand new Indie in the nail world, the shop has just opened today! 

Laquerlicious: St. Patrick's Lucky Day Review

Hi everyone! How was your weekend? Mine was unexpectedly busy. I had quite a few plans for manis that I wanted to post but life happened and prevented me from doing so. Oh well, I like getting out of the house and my niece, mom AND dad surprised me and my hubs by driving out and taking us out for lunch yesterday! That's huge since my mom and dad have been divorced since I was a teenager. They crack me up with how well they get along now, I guess sometimes you just gotta love divorce! Ok that's enough of my rambling, let's get on with the show...

I received a surprise package last week from Michelle of Laquerlicious with some beauties to review for you all, and since everyone is promoting and swatching Valentine's Day collections (I have reviewed quite a few in the past several weeks) I decided to break up the "love fest" and swatch Michelle's gorgeous St. Patrick's Day polish for you all!