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! 

Zoya PixieDust 2013 Fall Collection

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Hello my polished pretties! I have been waiting to do this post since Zoya first announced back in May that they were releasing these Fall Pixies! I have fast become a textured junkie, I love all the textured polishes I have tried, but I will admit that I love the PixieDust textures the absolute best. They are the least coarse while still maintaining the the texture that I love so much. Plus all of the sparkle, they just dance in the light, better than any others I've tried. These didn't disappoint one bit.

All of the following photos are shown without using a base and top coats, just like Zoya recommends. All are shown as 2 coats with the exception of Tomoko, that one is shown as 3 coats since it was just a tad bit more sheer than the others. Application was amazingly easy, as always. Zoya recommends that you wait until each coat has fully dried, up to 10 minutes, other wise you can end up with a dragging, clumpy mess. Make sure you follow that for hassle free application, I usually wait more along the lines of 3-5 minutes. 

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!!

Love, Angeline Summer Rainbows Collection

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Good morning my polished pretties!! Did everyone have a good weekend?  Do anything fun for the holiday? I had tons of fun and wish it didn't end but all good things must end and now we are back to the everyday hustle and bustle! Today I am going to show you the Summer Rainbows collection by Love, Angeline! All of these are shown as 2 coats no top coat. The formula for each one was quite thick, so I wound up adding about 3 drops of thinner to each mini bottle to make application easier. I did have some bubbling when I tried to apply them without adding the thinner. These are all described as having a subtle shimmer but the finish, to me, is less shimmery and more foil like: they can appear a bit brush strokie. (um, is that a word? 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? 

Zoya Summer 2013 Stunning Collection (Picture Heavy)

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Hey hey hey! How is everyone this glorious Monday morning? Today I have the Stunning Collection to show you all. I have really been looking forward to swatching this collection. There isn't a single color that I dislike, they are all amazing and would look great on anyone! Formula and application for them were excellent. All but 1 of the shades are shown as 2 coats topped with SH Diamond Flash. I did have a little trouble from Darcy, so I used 3 coats topped with SH Diamond Flash.

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.

Wingin' It Lacquer: "Dark Energy" & " When Stars Collide"

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Hi all! I'm sorry I've been kind of M.I.A the past few days. Life happens and I have to deal with that first. I have a couple of glitter toppers from a brand new name in the Indie world to show you tonight! Crystal, owner and creator of Wingin' It Lacquers, had this to say about her polish:

" I started making polish because I was spending way too much money on polish, and I always had fun frankening. I decided to start from scratch and make what I like! I use a 3 free base for all of my polishes and are all hand mixed/poured by me."

The formula for both of these was really nice, not too thick, not too thin. Dry time was excellent, the glitters spread across the nail easily and lay pretty flat against the nail. Since there is so much glitter I would use a smoothing top coat like Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food, like I did, before your regular top coat.

SaS Cosmetics Nail Polish "Purpily Pink" & "Four Leaf Clover"

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Happy humpday everyone! I planned on having this post ready and up much earlier, but since today is supposed to be the last day the sun will make an appearance in the next 4 days (at the least) I decided to take advantage and swatch a couple of polishes that required sun shine! Also my Q mani is going to be very, very late, I had something in mind but gave up on the idea. LOL

A little while back SaS Cosmetics contacted me to review a couple of their polishes. Since I always like giving new brands a try to show all of my polish loving readers, I jumped on the opportunity! 

ABC Challenge: P Is For piCture pOlish Paradise by Liquid Jelly

Gifted To Me

I'm running way behind today, I was supposed to have this done as a scheduled post last night but I had the worst migraine and I was feeling sick to my stomach too, so I went to bed really early. I must have been tired because I slept for 14 hours! HOLY COW! So this ABC Challenge post is going to be a short one so I can get my second post up. (Kelara Lacquers holos...you have to come back to see them they are pretty!!!)

Wing Dust Collections: Spring Has Sprung & Day On the Lake

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It's Friday!!! Yay! Who's excited? Me that's who! I get to go to my first Cardinals game of the season! This makes me a happy happy girl, almost as much as polish makes me! Well, confession time, it makes me just as happy! I can't help it, I love baseball and I LOVE the Cardinals! Anyway, I'll stop blabbing about baseball. I have a couple more super awesome polishes from Wing Dust Collections to show you today! 

Jindie Nails: I'm A Star Dot Com, Princess Bubblegum & Rave

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Jen from Jindie Nails just announced that she will be restocking next week. As most of you already know the Jindie restocks could be a bit challenging and I know some have all but given up on getting your hands on some of Jen's creations. Well there will be some changes! Here is what Jen had to say about her future restocks:

"After a little advice from a *VERY* successful indie that has been doing this WAY longer than I...I have decided that the way I will be doing restocks will go something like this:

The next restock will be sometime next week between Monday-April 15 through Friday-April 20th. I will not be announcing the exact day or time for the restock. However, I will announce just after the restock takes place. I haven't decided if I'll announce just before or not and I'll "play it by ear." I will restock the website spaced a few hours apart, two times per day and I'll be splitting up inventory between the two restocks so that everyone will have the chance at what they wanted. I plan to keep my website open all the times and you'll be able to see all polishes there, even when they sell out. I'll be restocking the sold out polishes about 6-8 polishes at a time. I'll restock those sold out polishes about 2-3 times per month, a few at a time. This is how the upcoming restock will be and all future restocks if this goes well. I think everyone will like this much better!

A list of everything included in the restocks will be listed on the website blog tab before the restock. The Google doc will always have all shades available as well, along with blogger review links for each color."

I have been holding on to this review for a while, I wanted to have some more restock info for you all before I posted it. So in light of Jen's recent announcement, here it finally is! 

Cameo Colours Lacquers: Pele & Ishtar

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I'm back!!! Internet was all fixed when I got back home from the trip so I decided to write up a quick post. I'm pretty beat since I had virtually no sleep in the last 48 hours, so I'm going to be short, sweet and to the point. I have the final 2 polishes to show you from the Divine Collection, if you missed the previous reviews I posted on the other 4 shades from the Divine Collection by Cameo Colours Lacquers ← just click that link! 

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! 

Happy Easter!

Purchased By Me

No reviews or long worded posts tonight! I just wanted to show you what I wore on my nails today! 

BG Cosmetics: LSD & Methematician

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Second post today!! Aren't you all proud of me? LOL I decided to recycle my manis from my previous post of the day, I just wanted to put those gorgeous Hard Candy's to good use! These next 2 polishes are from BG Cosmetics' Party Like a Rockstar collection.

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.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A few weeks ago my lovely niece, Nani, asked me if I was planning on doing any St Patrick's Day nails. I normally plan an art mani out and then get so busy with my reviews I just end up sayin fudge it and scrap the whole idea. This time was different since Nani requested that I turn her concept into art on my nails. She is probably one of the most artistic people I will ever meet. This little girl, (young woman? Nah she's still my baby! LOL) can turn some of the most random pieces of scrap into a work of art. Paintings or jewelry, full outfits made of paper to building her own doll house from scratch, that the cat now sleeps in by the way, she is a true artist, in mind, eye and attitude  I only hope that as she grows up that creativity grows with her and she won't let adolescence take away that artistic side! So this mani is for my Nani Bear! (She's going to kill me for writing that!)

All the pretty colors I used!

*EDIT* Frankenstain Nail Polish: Venus In The Sea, Kassandra & Sleep Deprived

Today's TIOT post is going to be a late one. I am going to try to have double posts up on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for a little while. I have a TON of reviews to get done and with all the extra things going on around the house and my TIOT and ABC posts taking those days away I am having a hard time keeping up. Today I have the final 3 of my  Frankenstain Nail Polish reviews.

Jindie Nails: Bells & Whistles, Princess Breath and Taste Like Snozberries Swatches and Review

Hi girls and boys. Today I have 3 lovely polishes from Jindie Nails. I'm just going to jump right on into the review now, I hope you enjoy!