Secret Story

Secret Story by essie is a gorgeous bright pink jelly!  I did 3 coats of Secret Story, there was still VNL, but it wasn't too bad. 

I knew I wanted to do a gradient with this color, so I chose Strobe Light and I like how it turned out.

 Secret Story on it's own.

Pic taken indoors with flash.



Jamaica me Crazy

Ooooh it's my first Essie polish! My girls each got me an Essie polish for Christmas!  This is Jamaica me Crazy, and I loooove it.  Great formula and it dried super fast, love that.

In the sunlight



Under a lamp

I'm sure this will be the first of many Essie polish's!

violetta sparkle

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!  We are so excited : )

I was so happy when my Avon lady called me yesturday and told me that my polish's were in!  I bought 2 Violetta Sparkles, one for me, and one for one of you!  I have a couple other polish's I'd like to include in my little giveaway.  More on that after Christmas : )

I am loooving the gold flakes in this polish.

I love everything about this polish, except how long it took to dry!

Under a lamp



Merry Christmas everyone, hope your holiday is magical!

Celeb City

A festive silver foil for Christmas.  I think this is my first foil polish, I didn't really like them before, but they are definately growing on me.

This is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Celeb City.  The formula was great, a perfect one coat.  A few streaks, but nothing major.



And this is my little Loralai's matching fingies with mine (she's 8)!  She just had her first mani-pedi at a birthday party she went to.  Can't wait to go with her next time!

bunch o' random

Hello Lovelies!  Christmas is getting so close!  My girls and I are counting down the days, I love this time of year.

This is my first gradient.  I really liked it, and it looked way better IRL, you couldn't see so many mistakes!  W&W Black Cream, and Milani Gold Glitz.

This is an Avon color I bought a few years ago, Jade.  It's a mint cream, a little runny, takes a few coats to even out.  I could've used a 4th here.

 And here she is mattified.

I mixed some black into my W&W Party of Five glitter.  My camera didn't capture how cool this looked on my nails.



And here is Park Ave.  This is a lovely tuape/grey/purple cream by NYC

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Oreo Blizzard

This mani reminds me of an Oreo Blizzard.  And I could really go for one of those right now on this lazy Sunday afternoon.

I used Sally Hansen Whirlwind as my base (2 coats) and LA Girl Glitter Uninhibited (1 coat) on top.  Could've used a top coat for some extra shine.

Addict

LA Girl Rockstar in Addict is soooo hot, I'm totally in love with this polish.  I found it really hard to capture how awesome it is on the nail.  All those pretty little glass flecks and flakes are incredible!  Again, I can't stop staring!  Where's my manners?

Do you have a favorite LA Girl Rockstar polish?

I was given another award from Chelsea of Nailed: A Nail Polish Blog.  It's a Liebster Blog award for bloggers with under 200 followers.  Thanks Chelsea!  So I'd like to pass this on to:
Sarah of See Sarah Swatch
Rach of Stuff I Swatched





Glitter in my veins badge!

I got this fun glitter badge award from Sarah of See Sarah Swatch   Thanks girlie!

She was awarded it from Amanda of Amandalandish who started the badge award. Such a fun idea.

So here is a franken I made using some Revlon glitter (limited edition) and I threw in a whole mix-o-stuff,  I still think it needs some chunkier glitter.

So now I'm tagging 4 'glitterati' peeps:

Kristy of The Polish Haven

Goose's Glitter

Chelsea of Nailed: A nail polish blog

Mabe of ficadik, por Mabe

Black Cream Colada Fizz!

OK, so I'm a little obsessed with my Revlon Colada Fizz!  Oh and my new W&W Black Creme! 

Cherries in the Snow

Revlon's Cherries in the Snow, is a shiny, cream red.  It looks more pink in the bottle, but mostly shows red on the nail.

I bought Essie's Matte about You when I was on holidays, and I love how this polish makes you feel like all your old polish's are new again!  Can't wait to mattify all my old polishes!

Milani Gold Glitz

Ooooh I am all over this polish!  Gold Glitz is a GORGEOUS gold glitter, and man this stuff is jam packed with glitter.  I needed 2 coats of SV to make this relatively smooth.

I wore this to a Christmas party that I went to, so pretty for the holidays.  I couldn't stop staring at my nails all night!



Pop Apricot

This is an oldie but a goodie.  Rimmel Pop Apricot is a lovely cream/jelly hybrid with just the perfect splattering of silvery gold glass flecks.  This is 3 coats.

In the shade.

In the sun.



And this is Pop Apricot with a layer of Revlon's Colada Fizz on top.



Milani Jewel FX Gold

I was super stoked to find Milani Jewel FX Gold at my local Superstore! And I finally bought W&W Black Cream as my base.  And it is as fabulous as everyone says, perfect with one coat.  But man oh man do I need to work on my 'clean-up line', black really shows that up!  Oh and macro : )

I found Jewel FX kinda hard to work with, the hex glitter kept grouping together, as you can clearly see on my middle finger especially!  Still love how it all looks though, and am super happy to now own it!

I finished my mani with a layer of SV and it was super smooth and glass glossy!