You're a Witch!!

Happy Halloween!! I was too busy last night to post my Halloween mani :P. I was feeling something witchy.

Creepy trees, a pumpkin, and a flying witch!


I must say my right hand looks better, go figure!

I tried to double stamp the pumpkins with white then orange, but even that didn't show up. I just did the white first and painted over it carefully as a guideline.

I used Borghese Purple Confetti for the base, topped with Girly Bits Purple Potion (witch appropriate huh?) for some extra sparkle. I did gradient tips with Butter London Black Knight. The yellow is China Glaze Sunshine Pop with a little white swirled in for a cool moon. The orange is China Glaze Candy Corn. I added a coat of Lynderella When the Moon Was a Star to make a fun night sky behind my haunted house on my thumb. 

Borghese Purple Confetti surprised me so much with the mostly matte finish! Yea, it's a little gritty because of the glitter, but it was still a cool surprise!

 Here's what I wore for Halloween! I'm Pocahontas...or her albino cousin...

 I hung out with my friend Brittany, who dressed as a super cute witch. One of the kids came up to the door and said "YOU'RE A WITCH!" Lol! Well yea!

 NOM  NOM Milk duds!!!

What did you dress up as for Halloween? Link a picture in the comments!!

Haul: Custom Polish Jewelry, Barielle, Butter London

I've been having good nail mail days lately!
Today I got my three pieces of custom nail polish jewelry from To Polish or Not and I freaking LOVE them!

This pic isn't even in sunlight. She does awesome custom work and will put pretty much anything you have in your head into a piece of polish jewelry...as you can see :D.

I also got the two new Fall/Winter collections from Barielle: Runway Fever and New York Style.

I just reviewed Runway Fever (on the left) and am working my way through the second collection. Fun!

And I grabbed two Butter London polishes from the recent sale at Ulta: Knackered and Black Knight. This makes four total for me. Did you get any?

Who doesn't love getting pretty much any package, especially nail mail!?

Happy Birthday Marian

Today is my best friend Marian's birthday. I told you about her a few months ago in a blog post. We grew up together and were best friends. She died in a car accident May 7, 2011 at age 21. I think about her nearly every day, and more often lately when I remember that she won't be at my wedding. She would have been a beautiful bridesmaid.

Memories of her help me through so much. Even trying on wedding dresses, I looked down at my stomach and kept pushing it in, wishing it were smaller. Then I thought of her and how angry she'd be with me for worrying about something so petty and superficial. She dealt with serious self-image issues herself, but overcame them. To look down on myself would be a disgrace to her and the lessons she taught us. That's the biggest thing I have learned from losing her - Don't wait until it's too late to appreciate the people around you and learn from them, to tell them you love them, to wish you would have tried sooner to fix things. 

On the brighter side, I thought I would dedicate a manicure to her on her birthday. I chose a color I thought she'd like. It's Butter London Victoriana from my recent BL haul.

Victoriana is a lovely dusty steel blue with silver shimmer that also has a blue tint when it peeks through the base. She's slightly teal, but less than I expected.

The application was perfect and full coverage with two coats.

Close up of the shimmer

Moose seems to always be in my shots lol. Do your cats do this too?
Marian used to have the meanest cat named Jingles lol! The only person she'd ever tolerate was Marian.

Sharing this with you helps me through it, and makes me feel better that more people will think of her. Just remember what she taught me. Don't wait until it's too late.
"Never take your freedoms for granted and every chance you get let the ones you love know that they are indeed loved." ~Marian Curtner

No More Waity Katie!

I got Butter London No More Waity Katy in my recent Ulta sale haul!

NMWK is a lovely purple glitter. The base is a very dusty gray purple, with small round glitter that flashes bright purple, bluey purple, and silver metallic purple.

These are all two coats. I didn't layer it over anything like many people do. It was really quite opaque. If I felt particularly perfectionist I could have added a third coat. 

You can see the metallic side of the glitter in better light. And the depth of the glitter below. 

I'm really not sure why so many people are having issues with this polish. I have heard people say that it's thick, patchy, gritty, and hard to take off. I find that none of those are true and I really love it! Although I haven't tried taking it off yet lol. This polish is super cute and in style right now. 

<3

My First Butter Londons!

Do you remember the buy one get one free Butter London sale at Ulta about a week ago? My Ulta didn't have the two I wanted, and I only wanted these two, so my friend Lindsay picked them up for me!

What is that in the background, what is it sitting in, you ask? Why yes, it's a diaper. It's her signature care package touch haha. They work very well as polish padding :D.

I got the lovely No More Waity, Katie and Victoriana.

Butter Londons have this cute little bird on the inner cap (the big square one comes off). Cute!

Did any of you get in on the sale? Which ones did you get?

How would you like to see NMWK and Victoriana?