SinfulColors Holiday 2014 Swatches

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Hello all! I have a few of the SinfulColors Holiday shades to show you tonight. There are actually quite a few in this "holiday" collection but some of them are favorites that are usually available all year long and there are quite a few that were brought back from last year as well. These are a few that I don't actually already own, it's so hard for me to find new ones sometimes since I have sooooo many Sinfuls! It is my absolute favorite drugstore brand after all! 

SinfulColors "Silk + Satin" & "Full Throttle" Summer 2014 Collections *Press Release*

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SINFULCOLORS INTRODUCES SILK + SATIN & FULL THROTTLE FOR SUMMER 2014

SinfullColors "Top Me Off" & "Girl's Best Friend" from the Sheer Lustre Top Coats Collection

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Hello loves! How has everyone been handling this crazy cold and snow so far? I am without internet for a while so getting out to get reviews posted is going to be a challenge since none of this frickin snow seems to be melting! Today I have some more SinfulColors to show you from the Sheer Lustre Top Coats collection. 

SinfulColors: "Cold as Ice" & "Spiked Ice" from the Holiday Tinsel Collection

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Good morning loves! Today I have a couple of polishes to show you from one of the SinfulColors Holiday collections to show you. Now if you have been following me for a while you probably already know that SinfulColors is my favorite drug store brand of nail polish! Actually it is the brand I own the most of by far! Don’t get me wrong I love being able to splurge on a high end lacquer here and there but 9 times out of 10 I am going to reach for my Sinfuls! They have a massive selection of shades and finishes and the quality is just as good as any high end brand I own. Plus they stay up to date on all the latest trends and all for the low price of $1.99! This is why I have 100+ SinfulColors shades to choose from! 

Today’s polishes are glitter toppers from the Holiday Tinsel collection. They contain thin bar glitters in a clear base to make your manicure look like it‘s been covered in, you guessed it, tinsel! 

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 

Femme Fatale Cosmetics "Tricky Treats" & "Sparkleshell"

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I am so excited about today's post! I have recently dipped my fingers into the world of Aussie Indies and I am hooked! One of the names I had been dying to try for a long time has been Femme Fatale Cosmetics. Every single swatch I have seen has been pure awesomeness, so when I was given the opportunity to review for FFC I was ecstatic! Today I have 2 very beautiful polishes to show you.

Mudflap Nails with KKCenterHK Sexy Girl Glitters

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When KKCenterHK asked me to pick a couple of items to review I saw these little glitters and I had a very specific mani in mind. The problem with my very specific ideas is that they never really translate very well when I try to execute them. :/ Originally I intended on using black as the base color for this but there is no way the brown would have shown up over the black. So I started off with 2 coats of Sinful Colors Snow Me White

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! 

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! 

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.

Kiss Me I'm Irish Giveaway! *CLOSED*

Hello loves, happy Friday! Very recently I have reached some great numbers on my Instagram and as well on my Facebook page so I decided to put together a mini giveaway! It's nothing too fancy, I'm saving that for my blogiversary. I just wanted to do a little something to show my appreciation because without my readers I'd just be some crazy polish lady who talks to herself on a daily basis! LOL 

Ooh La Lacquer Review: Beware of the Plastics & Pink Wednesday

Happy Sunday all! Before I get to the review I want to remind you all of the exciting things to start Monday with my new schedule. Here is a refresher: Mon, Wed, Fri are review days. Tuesdays are Try It On Tuesdays (TIOT). Thursday is Nail Art, and every other weekend is set aside for stamping. I will soon be participating in a very relaxed challenge with some of my buddies that were in the 31 day challenge! We will be doing the ABC challenge, pretty easy since it's just using a polish that the name or brand starts with whichever letter we are on and we are doing it weekly instead of daily! So if any of you are down with the challenge please head over to Kimber's Lacquer Korner and leave her a comment on that post letting her know your URL so she can add you to the list! You can do it! Once a week is super relaxed! 

Ok, I'm finished rambling now! So on to the polish...

Ugly Christmas Nails!

Hi! It's me again! Yes 2 posts in 1 day! Crazy right!? I really wanted to do some nail art and I feel like all I have been doing is review swatches lately. Don't get me wrong, I love reviewing, but sometimes it's nice to just do something goofy! I still have a few things I need to do to finish up my 31 day challenge album...I know it's been over for a long time now but I will have all 31 days in that album if it kills me! So for today's post I decided to go with the Holiday theme and do something silly. So here are my ugly Christmas nails! 

Day 28 Inspired by a Flag

Hello loves! Today is day 28! Yes, 28!!! I can't believe it's almost over! To be honest there were times I was like "IS THIS EVER GOING TO END!?!?!" LOL But I have had a lot of  fun doing this! It's really helped me expand as a blogger and it has allowed me to find some great gals that I now call friends! So If you are a new blogger or thinking about blogging  join a challenge, it really gives you the sense of community that you hear so much about from us crazy polish junkies! Thank you to all of you great gals that comment all the time and show so much love, thank you to all of you that follow and enjoy watching me grow in my obsession and hopefully talent! Thank you to my new friends, who help encourage me when I feel like I don't want to keep going! You all are frickin amazing! Now on to the challenge!

Day 17 "Glitter"

Yes I am a day late on my day 17 post, but I have a good excuse! My wedding anniversary is on the 15th and my hubby surprised me Saturday with a few things, one of them was tickets to the Cardinals 1st game of the NLDS against the Washington Nationals!! Hubby wanted me to do Red October nails for the game, so he bought me Orly Rockets Red Glare (along with some other goodies) to make it happen!

 

I decided to do a red and white gradient then then add glitter to it.

 

 

Then with white acrylic paint I added the STL logo and my favorite players jersey number, 4 for Yadier Molina the best catcher in baseball!!

 

 

Colors used left to right:

Orly Dayglow

Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Orly Rockets Red Glare

 

So those are my glitter/Red October nails! I was so happy to go to the game I just wish we would have won, especially since we froze our asses off! Oh well they're kickin but right now so far!

 

Well ladies I'm going to go make a pumpkin roll for the the hubby then work on a few review manis!  Don't forget to check out the other ladies, who were probably on time with their glitter manis!

 

 

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles

 

 

Happy NAIL-AWEEN Day 1

Hello everyone! Last week I told you guys I was going to be starting a Halloween themed challenge, hosted by datyorkLOVES. It's a 10 day challenge, that is work as you please, which is great for me because I'm still working on my 31 day challenge and between the 2 and a couple of reviews I am going to do this month is extremely full! Anyway, here is my water marble for Day 1!

Colors used left to right:

Nail Pattern Boldness Bitches Brew

LA Colors Shock

Sinful Colors Citrine

Nicole by OPI Gilda's Dream II

Finger Paints Black Expressionism

I'm really happy with how this turned out. I've only done water marble nails 2 times before this and they weren't the best. This one isn't perfect but it is much better than my previous attempts. Also, since I am kind of a glitter junkie, I had to have a glitter accent nail! =) I can't help it, am just so in love with Bitches Brew! If you are too make sure to enter my giveaway, there is a bottle of Bitches Brew up for grabs for 1 lucky winner, plus other goodies! 

Here is what challenges are ahead! Make sure to visit the blogs and facebook pages of the other ladies in the challenge to see what water marble mani's they have come up with! 

datyorkLOVES

Erica's Nails and More

DreamyMM Nails & Make Up

Tes Did It Nails
Nicole gets Nailed
glitznglammer
Finger Food
Wicked Tips
Fancy Schmancy Nails
Delight In Nails
Polish Groupie
My Nail Journey
Get Polished Up!
Just A Girl and Her Polish
Spellbound Nails
Le nail's corner d'Alex
Hello.Lacquer
Countess Nails
Color the world with polish
Nail Crime Nail Art
Coat of Mani Colors
Cutie Cuticles (nail art by Laraib)
Wacky Laki
Nail-Aween Nail Art Challenge October 1-31st, 2012
GLAMOROUS NAILS
Over The Topcoat
Polish Gone Crazy
tragedystipsandtreats

Blood Splatter Nails

I know I didn't post my flower mani for day 14, I really had every intention of doing it but I just lacked the motivation to do it. I've  had a few things in my head that I wanted to do and post for this weekend as well but I spent most of Saturday night painting nails just not mine.

I went to my mom's house and we were going to have a manicures and wine night. There were 6 of us and I was under the impression that we were going to do  mani's on each other. WRONG! Lol It turned into me doing it all and I only got 1 glass of wine! O_o 

So Oooops! I failed please forgive me. I will have a new challenge post up tomorrow, I promise!

I do have some mani pix for you tonight, though! Tonight was the season premiere of Dexter so I had to do blood splatter nails. I was inspired by a mani Victoria at Manicurator did on her black and white day of her 31 day challenge.

For this look I used SH White On as the base color then SC Ruby Ruby in the spray bottle with a little bit of Orly thinner!

I was so happy to finally see my favorite serial killer again! I am so in love with Michael C Hall as Dexter! He's so friggin HOT! I know there is something wrong with me! LOL

In other news! I will be starting a new challenge that will run the full month of October!

This is a work at your own pace challenge with 10 different Halloween themed days. If you are interested in joining contact datyorkLOVES (Our awesome challenge host!) email her your blog name & link or FB page link, by Oct 10th! (E-mail: datyorkloves@gmail.com)

Also keep your eye on the blog, I will be posting some reviews in the next week or so featuring a couple of new Indies!

***Don't forget to enter my Giveaway!***



Grey's Anatomy

Just a quick late night post here! I had planned on getting this up much earlier but I got wrapped up in some house work and then the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy came on! I just wanted to do show you gals my Grey's Anatomy mani!

 

 

I applied 3 coats of Wet n Wild  Gray's Anatomy

 

I have seen this color in the store about a million times and never bothered getting it because it didn't really wow me. But while I was at CVS the other day the girl at check out said that there was a bin that had a bunch of polishes for $.20! Yes twenty cents! So I grabbed every color they had in that bin, and Gray's Anatomy was one of them!

 

I actually like this so much more than I originally thought! This just goes to show that you can't judge a bottle by its color! Swatches are so important! It looks way better on my hand than in the bottle.

 

I really like the how the color shifts from gray to lavender to green!

 

 

Then I drew some hearts with Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar on my middle finger and stamped the rest of the nails with Finger Paints Black Expressionism using my Mash plate M-38.

 

Did anyone else watch the Grey's Anatomy premier tonight? If so, did you cry like a GIANT baby? No? Well...um neither did I. LOL! Yes I'm a crier!

 



31 Day Challenge Day 12 "Stripes"

Happy Autumn everyone! I've been feeling like fall hit a while ago, since I received that message on my Starbucks App saying the Pumpkin Spice Latte and Salted Caramel Mocha were back, but today is the official first day of fall! I will tell you now I am not the follower of certain trends, one of those is that since it's fall I can't wear my neons or bright colors any more! I will try to sport more of the dark colors, since it really is hard to pull those off during summer months, but I refuse to be told I can't "shine" just because it's cold outside! ;)

So in honor of my rebellion and also to sort of say good bye to my favorite season I settled on a bright striped mani today!

*Note: If you are interested in a tutorial on how I created this mani please click here.*

For this mani I applied 2 coats of Sinful Colors Innocent. Then with my Kiss Nail Art Polishes I striped each of the following colors, in no particular order, leaving a bit of the base color showing. 

Beach Yellow, Orange, Beach Pink, Soft Purple, Soft Blue, Silver Glitter, White and Black

I know that's a lot of pix but I really liked how they turned out! LOL After all the bitching and complaining about the ugly pictures the other day I think I've come to the realization that it just takes patience and practice to get the right shot, it's not my camera it was a user error! LMAO

As always make sure to check out the other talented ladies participating in this challenge!

Next up is animal print! Yay!

*Also, I am only 20 likes away from hitting 100 on my Facebook Fan Page! The sooner I hit 100 the sooner I start the giveaway!*

-Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L
-Chameleon Stampede
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish
- Robin Sparkles