A Scandalous Apple Berry Smoothie

Hey Everyone! What a day. I have the kids at work with me today. That is always fun. I think I may be allergic to work. lol Not the actual work but my place of work. When we got here this morning my son had a huge sneezing fit and runny nose crazy episode. Over the past few days my cough/congestion garbage has been acting up really bad too. I was already thinking that I seem to have less problems on the weekends when I am home but the fact that my son started sneezing and such within minutes of being here is making me think. I might have to try and do a DEEP cleaning of my office and hope that it doesn't kill me in the process lol

Have you ever not been overly impressed with a polish but then put it on and smack yourself with a shoe for not realizing how awesome it was in the first place? THAT is what happened to me with this polish. OMG. I love Cult Nails and have been a fan since the brand launched. Around the time I started getting into the nail scene on the internet and found out about the nail boards and such is about the same time Maria launched Cult Nails. I didn't know her from the boards or anything but found her blog and followed her through the launching of the brand and I have been a fan ever since. I haven't been able to get all of the polishes they have put out (darn you lack of money lol) but I do have a nice collection and I am always looking to get the ones I am missing. Recently I found a couple on a blog sale and jumped on the opportunity to bring them home.

Cult Nails Scandalous is from the 2012 Divas and Drama collection. This was one of the collections I missed out on but because Maria puts out so many awesome polishes it kinda got pushed down the list by newer polishes that I covet. THANK GOODNESS I jumped on it when I saw it listed on the blog sale because it is GORGEOUS!!!

I had a picture of just Scandalous but I had taken it inside before doing the nail art and the lighting was awful. I will definitely do another mani with this color soon because it is so awesome. Scandalous is a coral dream of a polish that has that squishy jelly look that I am in love with. It pulls more orange on me and totally reminds me of a juicy candy.

I used Rimmel Apple Berry Smoothie from the Cocktail Colour Collection that has been popping up in stores. The Cocktail polishes are gorgeous foily, glass fleck, shimmery polishes. There are five polishes in the collection but the bottles are on the small side. I believe they are 6 or 7ml and my Walgreens has them for $2.49 a bottle. Due to size and price this one was the only one I actually purchased and only because I had a coupon.

I started with a base of Scandalous which is sooo yummy. I didn't want to do nail art on all the nails because I didn't want to cover Scandalous up.

I used striping tape that I bought on ebay to tape off the designs. I was actually going to make my index finger match my middle finger but then decided one nail had to be plain.

I was attempting this mani and rushed so I ended up messing up a bit. I tried to hide it on this hand by making the pinky a little different. It didn't work but still looks pretty cool.

I love both of these polishes and actually really liked them together. I need to do manis with each of them alone though because they are both such pretty polishes.

That's all for now :)

Random Sunday Night Spam

Today I have a bunch of random bottle spam. It's been a hectic weekend and the mani I was going to show you was ruined before I was able to take pictures. I went out to the kennel Saturday which is murder on my manis. I had chips within a couple of hours. After getting cleaned up we went to see the Hangover 2. It was a funny movie and I think those guys have great chemistry together. The first one was better but it was not a waste of my time and money. We then had to pick my parents up from the airport and go out to dinner. By the time I was home it was pretty late and I was missing most of four nails worth of polish. Sadly I went back to the kennel today with that monstrosity on still. I will have mani pictures tomorrow but between the busy weekend and the cat who is trying to attack my hands while I type this is the best I have for now.

These are some of the polishes in my over flow bin. My helmer is already full (YIKES) and I haven't quite figured out what to do in regards to more storage.

Essie Sand Tropes, Essie Nice is Nice.

A franken I made with some eye shadow.

Finger Paints Holly Good Times, Essie Going Incognito and Turquoise and Caicos, Spa Ritual I Felt the Earth Move.

Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud, Orly Ginger Lily and Sally Hansen High Def.

Sally Hansen Lickety Split Lime and Grape Pop and the other one I don't remember the name for.

Borghese Mezzanorte Blue and Rimmel Midnight Blue

Nubar Hot Blue and Night Sparkle.

OPI Spark de Triomphe

Confetti Tiara, Sally Hansen Deeply Violet and Three D, Maybelline Summer Splash and Orly Space Cadet.

OPI What's with the Cattitude I HAD to get this one since I have Mr. Bruce Kittlee Master Ninja Warrior now. I still have it on my toes from the pedi I had gotten. Oddly though it seems to be fading the closer it gets to my cuticles. I have never noticed this happen before and I always have my toes painted with something. I haven't figured out why it did this yet...

That's all for now :)

Dollar Tree prism

 Friday night I decided to organize and put all of my polishes on a spreadsheet while the boys played video games. My nail polish area was a complete disaster and I figured I would still be hanging out with them while cleaning. Well four hours later it was 2am and I had cataloged all the polish and did a mani while the boys took over the world or whatever they were playing. I was shocked to get the final count on my polishes. 370! WOW! How did they multiply like that? No wonder 7 plastic shoe boxes are overflowing. I think it is definitely time to look into alternate storage.

I have so many untrieds and it was already after 1am so I decided to use Random.org to pick my next polish. It picked #270 Which is Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Purple Diamond. I picked this up in North Florida at the Dollar Tree. I didn't want to use it alone so I picked out another untried Rimmel Lasting Finish Pro Black Satin to use under it. I picked it up at Target on clearance. I wasn't sure how it would look but at 1:30 I was feeling adventurous.

I started with one coat of Black Satin. I was not prepared for the huge brush on this one since I don't have any other Rimmel polishes. It is quite wide and I think it made application a pain in the booty. The polish was a one coater but the brush made my life difficult. I then put a coat of Purple Diamond on top. I used a thick coat but apparently the lighting in my room isn't that great because when I looked at it the next morning I could see streaks and unevenness. I thought one coat would be enough but I should have gone with two.

You can see I also had a little cleanup issue on my middle finger. I think the brush got a little too enthusiastic about cleaning up that nail.

In  the light you can see the prisim-ness of this polish. It is actually really pretty but my camera didn't want to cooperate.

You can see it a little better in these two pictures but not much. My bf asked me why I was taking pictures of my hand while I should be driving. For the record we were at a red light. Usually I just take the pictures when I am parked in front of work or my house but this light was one of those lights to leave a shopping center parking lot and was taking FOREVER.

I ordered my BOGO Zoya polishes Monday and on Tuesday used my bf's account (he had gotten me one of the promotions once as a surprise) to order a couple for my friend in Holland who can't take part in the Zoya promotions any other way. She picked out Breezi and Phoebe. I was surprised when her two polishes arrived yesterday but I am assuming since it was a smaller order it was easier for them to get out. I expect mine to arrive next week.

They are very pretty and I was dying to try them out. I can't wait for the ones I ordered to come in.

Yikes that will push my collection closer to 400.

That's all for now :)