Blue Raspberry Taffy and a Million Sparkles

Hey Everyone! I think I have lost my mind. I just edited the pictures for this post then went back into the file and see that I have edited them at a previous time. I don't think I posted this polish as I did check in the Finger Paints label but I might just be crazy. I did just work out so I am still recovering but I am completely baffled. If this is a repeat we will blame the exercise and hunger. I am pretty hungry right now since I didn't have my regular banana snack after work. I am going to make this a quick one so I can get changed and eat dinner. 

This mani is from back when Finger Paints came out with their Spring collection Gumdrops and Lollipops. I bought this polish first, instead of Circus Peanuts, because I was being cheap that day and I can't resist a blue polish. We all know what happened when I went back for Circus Peanuts. I will say though that I do LOVE this color and am happy I bought it. I had also recently seen and snatched up a new Nicole By OPI polish that sparkled so much I couldn't resist. Since I couldn't decide between the two I did an accent nail with the glitter.

Finger Paints Blue Raspberry Taffy and Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles.

It was hard to get these pictures color accurate. This one is fairly accurate but not exact, it is somewhere between this picture and the one below it. The flash washed out the color in some of the pictures. It is a gorgeous BRIGHT blue that makes me want some taffy NOW. Did I mention I am hungry?

I used two coats of Blue Raspberry Taffy and one coat of A Million Sparkles. 

I think this may be the most accurate color wise. I did experience a bit of staining with this polish but nothing too crazy and nothing a new mani couldn't cover up.

I was having some cuticle issues as always but my nails were SO LONG! 

A Million Sparkles is quite the eye catcher. It has some bar glitter in there so those with strong feelings against the bars you will probably not enjoy that aspect of this one. It is super pretty though and really sparkly.

I loved this mani and I love both of these polishes. I am a total blue polish freak! I would like some taffy now I think. 

That's all for now :)

Stay Outta My Bismuth

Hey Everyone! I am tired tonight. I worked out for the first time in a bit so I am slightly tired. I also have to go stamp my nails so I am going to make this fast. I didn't sleep well at all and the puppy has made it a day from hell with his non house broken, destructive ways. I am ready for BED! 

Today I have one of the Limited Edition Wet N Wild polishes that are out and about now. It is a Chrome collection. The bottles are fairly small at 0.29 fl oz and a bit pricey at $3.49. I did end up grabbing a couple because I love chrome and I wanted to see how chrome like these were. Today I have the light blue one to show you.

They are wee little bottles. Wet N Wild Chrome Stay Outta My Bismuth.

This reminds me of a HUGE Lemming of mine Zoya Crystal. I obviously do not have that one, sadly, so I can't tell you if it is at all similar. It is a light foily blue with tons of coppery flecks loaded in it. 

I used two coats. I thought it would be a good stamping polish but my first attempt did not go well. I can't say for sure one way or another but I am leaning toward no.

I do absolutely LOVE this polish though. It is not a mirror like chrome like I hoped for but it is spectacular with that fleck throughout. It does sort of remind me of chrome in a certain way that I can't quite explain. The rough chippy chrome not the smooth metal looking chrome. It makes sense in my head anyway lol.

One of my Walgreens stores has two full displays and the store I bought mine from has a half full display so they are still floating around out there.

That is all for now :)

Cling On

Hey Everyone! I am quite confused but pleasantly surprised that blogger allowed me to upload these photos today without having to go through photobucket. I like the bucket and all but it is time consuming and annoying. I am not sure how long this will work but I am pretty excited about it! It would figure that the dinner bell just went off and I am not finished with this blog entry. I will make it quick.

This is the puppy Mr. Charleston after his surgery. He is doing well now. 

Today I have for you a magnetic polish from the China Glaze Magnetix collection.

This one is called Cling On. It was the first one I bought because it was the most unique color and I didn't have a similar shade in magnetic polish. 

It is a really pretty shimmery olive type color. It is way sheer though. I used three coats and you can still see some of the glitter peeking through the mani I had under it.  

Everyone has magnetic polishes out these days. I had heard some bad reviews on the China Glaze magnet so I picked up the magnet set for the Gelish polish that Sally's carries. I mainly picked it up because it had a star magnet and I was convinced the magnets had to be good if they were intended for gel polish. I used those magnets on this mani instead of the ChG magnets.

The magnets were strong and they did very well. They had a line, chevron and star magnet in the set.

 This polish looks very close to gold sometimes. That is my only issue with the color.

Like the Layla magnetics the Cling On got a lot darker when it was magnetized. I really love that the polish shows that much contrast. Layla still makes my favorite magnetic polish to date but this one is pretty nice too, especially considering the cost is way less. 

I did manage to ding my middle nail on the magnet not once, but twice. I added an extra coat to try and do the magnet again and hit it both times so I just left it there. 

When I did this mani I threw it on over glitter which explains why you see glitter in some pictures. My main goal was really to just test out the Gelish magnets rather than wear the mani. I of course did leave my nails like this for a couple of days but when I started the mani I wasn't really intending to. I enjoyed Cling On and found the formula nice and easy to work with though it was pretty sheer. The Gelish magnets worked great and were really strong. They are a little big so getting the design centered in my nail was a little bit difficult but I am sure it just takes practice. I need to give the China Glaze magnet a whirl next time.

That's all for now :)

Neon Spots

Hey Everyone! I am so tired! I woke up early again today despite it being the weekend. I already need a nap too! I hope everyone is having a good weekend! We watched a couple movies and made pizza last night. We are having a nice relaxing weekend except I don't seem to be sleeping as much as I would like lol.

Today I have a mani I did last month. I used a variety of neon polishes to color in the spots I stamped with Konad plate M57. 

I loved this mani! It was super fun and bright.

I used two coats of Sinful Colors Snow me White as the base. The brush was weird and it didn't make application as easy as I would have liked.

Everyone that noticed my nails asked me if it was a sticker.

I had gone to get my hair done and my hairdresser had never heard of stamping. I tried to explain it to her and told her I would bring it to show her next time. She said it looks like it was too much work.

It really didn't take that long to do. 

I love neons and almost want to do this mani again now that I am looking at the pictures.

That's all for now :)

July 4th Mani

Hey Everyone! Happy 4th of July! I hope everyone has a safe holiday. I have just spent about an hour trying to get some photos I took with my brother's fancy pants camera to upload to photobucket. I don't know what is going on but they are too large I guess and photobucket rejects them. I tried compressing, resizing, bribing and threatening but nothing works. SO there are no furbaby pictures for you today. I will have to figure out what is going on when he gets here. 

I do have a festive mani to show you though! I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do. This is NOT it! I tried four or five different manis. I tried sponging, gradient, water marble and finally just decided on this one after all others ended in disaster. 

I used Zoya Trixie, Sinful Colors Sugar Sugar and China Glaze Ride the Waves.

I also used Bundle Monster plate BM20.

For some reason I got these photos uploaded NO PROBLEMO. I just realized that, not all of them but some of them were taken with the fancy pants camera, very odd.

I also used some square rhinestones I got off of the Ebay. 

It looks very Dr. Seuss like to me. 

My fingers are super shiny because I had just put cuticle oil on them.

I used two coats of Zoya Trixie as the base. It is probably my favorite silver polish.

I then stamped the image using my black striping polish by Sinful Colors. I find the striping polishes stamp very well.

I used a dotting tool to color in the stars and rockets. I am not sure if those are supposed to be arrows or rockets but for July 4th we will just say they are rockets.

The rhinestones were a bit of a pain. I used tweezers. I struggled with them too. I ended up totally trashing one of the nails so I just put another coat of Trixie on there and stuck the rhinestones to that. I went to the grocery store, Target, ate lunch and made an apple pie crumble and haven't lost a stone yet.

I was so flustered after my failures I wasn't thrilled with this mani however it has since grown on me and I really like it. I will keep it on for an extra day or two because I like it so much. We will see, once the stones start popping off I will redo it. 

Now I am off to make some cookies with the kids. Hope your day is great! 

That's all for now :)

Lovely Lilacs

Hey Everyone! Today was such a slow day at work we were able to leave early. I was so super excited. I ended up coming home and starting my nails early for tomorrow's July 4th mani. What a headache! The nails look cool but omg I had issues. We have a sick kid here and I believe I might be getting sick too. I am not thrilled. Hopefully I can avoid it but my throat feels scratchy and icky. 

Today I have a polish for you from the Indie polish brand SmittenPolish created by the lovely Noelie. This was the first Smitten Polish I wore. I must note that this baby is gorgeous but I could not for the life of me to get the pictures completely color accurate. It is much deeper purple than the pictures show. I apologize for that but no matter what I tried I could not get it where I wanted it.

Smitten Poilsh Lovely Lilacs.

Excuse the chip but this was one of the closest pictures as far as color. It is a deep purple jelly! Very pretty and packed with tons of glitter.

This polish sparkles like crazy!

I can't remember if this was two or three coats. Please smack me with a shoe. I am totally having a moment.

I wore this mani twice but only took pictures of one of them. It has been crazy lately and I totally forgot to take pictures the first time I wore it. 

There are tons of pink and purple glitter in there and some holo too. Can you see all that glitter?

I can't find a happy medium here. When I wear holos there is NO SUN and when I don't care about the sun so much it is blazing and washing out my photos. I can't win.

You however CAN win by going over to Noelie's shop and picking this baby up. You won't regret it! It was definitely distracting while I was driving. 

That's all for now :)

It has been a Circus

Hey Everyone! Long time no post. My blog is finally cleared from the malware warning it was getting, thank goodness. I was starting to freak out and couldn't get it figured out so I almost shelved the blog. Luckily I had some awesome people help me out and google got me scanned and cleared. I think I will keep my blogroll down for awhile just to be safe. 

It has been kinda hectic around here and quite frankly circus like. I picked this mani from the stash of pictures I have waiting to be posted for the reason. It has been stressful and crazy and at least things seem to be settling down a bit. I am working on a couple big crochet projects which is taking some time to deal with as well. 

On the animal front the puppy got his surgery and is doing very well. He keeps climbing the stairs which he isn't supposed to do. He is not house broken and he is in the puppy chewing stage so it is quite hectic. I have very sad news about the kittens. The little guy had a couple of seizures two weeks ago. They were really bad and he didn't come out of the last one. We rushed him to the emergency vet but had to make the difficult decision to let him go. They both had a disease that I can't even begin to pronounce and the little guy had worse effects from it. I was heartbroken and am still sad but he is in a better place and not in pain or discomfort any more. The other little guy is doing well and our vet named him Neil. He is getting bigger and is quite the character. 

Ok on to the POLISH!!!

This polish is from the 2012 Spring Finger Paints Gumdrops and Lollipops collection. I saw this polish in the store but passed on it thinking I would come back later and get it. I figured it wouldn't be a popular color but I was incredibly wrong. I never found it again and had several wonderful ladies keeping an eye out for it for me. One of them was sweet enough to find it and RAOK it to me and I am so thankful to her for that. I LOVE this polish and am so happy I was finally able to get it! 

Finger Paints Circus Peanuts!!!

I also went on the hunt for real circus peanuts. They were not easy to find but I ended up snagging them at Walgreens. I think I went through two bags before I had some to take pictures with. They didn't last too long. Everyone loves circus peanuts!

Real circus peanuts!

If you didn't have the candy nearby the color seemed to be pretty color accurate from memory. Once I had the candy in front of me though I realized the color wasn't as close as I thought.

It was a pinky, coral like orange color. Very unique and very pretty.

There were times when it looked light and kinda like a weird skin color on me. I didn't mind it though. Mostly in the bright sunlight. 

I love this color. I liked most of the collection and ended up getting most of them on clearance at Sally's. I may actually catch up with swatching one day.

That's all for now :)