12-12-12 Sales

This will be the only time in ANY of our lifetimes that we'll see numbers like this!

12-12-12 12:12pm

Don't miss it! You could make a major wish :).

There are some good sales going on today too!

Barielle

Their color sets are going for $20 and free shipping. That's $4 each! I recommend Dazzling Diamonds, New York Style, and Some Like it Hot!

They're also doing the buy one get one 50%, so add on your favorite lemmings!

Apothica

22% off kits, 20% off store wide
I actually put some stuff in my cart and tried it out - The kits are already discounted, so the 20% off comes off of them too!!

This deal applies on all their sites - Apothica, SkincareRX, and Skin Botanica.

Find anymore? Let me know!!

Lavish Lacquer Polished Universe Collection

 A really good friend of mine started her own nail polish line! It's so awesome to see someone's dream come true like this! If you want it, you can make it happen ladies!
Meet Lavish Lacquer!

 This is her Polished Universe collection! I thought this was a fun idea for a collection. It's nice to see an indie do something other than all chunky glitters. I totally forgot to topcoat any of these though - sorry!

Starlight Galaxy is a charcoal polish that's holo in three different ways! It has a light linear holo, holo glitter, and scattered holo. I think the linear holo would be stronger, but the other stuff in it cuts up the lines of rainbows. It's super fun that it's all three though!


This was two coats, and was honestly one of my favorites!

Along the Milky Way is a super glittery purple polish with small purpley pink hexes, holo shimmer, and shimmer that flashes silver, gold, yellow green, and even blue in dimmer light!

This is two coats. I love the way the pink hexes stand out, and you can really see the blue flash here! That makes it really unique!


Alien Party makes me giggle lol! It's a sheer super bright neon green polish with lime green shimmer. This is two coats over white, Barielle Central Park, black, and China Glaze Gaga for Green.

It almost hurts my eyes over white, so I deem it a neon. Seriously my camera even had trouble with it! I like how this can be a versatile polish! The shimmer is really nice. I should have tried it over something totally different like purple! It is very sheer and looks like shimmery highlighter without undies :P.


Holo lovers delight! Neptune's Rings is an electric blue scattered holo polish.

This is two coats and it went on great!

Life on Mars is a hot pink leaning a bit more red with pink and gold shimmer.

This is a smooth one! All of her polishes were very smooth except the two more glittery ones, which I'm sure would only need a standard top coat even though I forgot one!

I like her polishes! I have to say I especially like the glittery ones, but Alien Party is one of my favs too. I love how it changes depending on what you layer it over. I absolutely adore her labels! I love anything naturey and viney.
She also has a super awesome cosmetic grade linear holo top coat and pigment, and an awesome new purple/blue glass fleck polish I really want!!

Check out Lavish Lacquers Etsy shop and Facebook page!
Her polishes are $8.50 for a regular size and $5.50 for a mini. 

Lacquer Lust Miss Fortune

 I discovered another awesome indie brand lately: Lacquer Lust! She has some truly gorgeous polishes. This is honestly now one of my favorite polishes.
Lacquer Lust Miss Fortune is a lovely peachy pink scattered holo. This was two coats and the formula was great.

I swear this polish is as close to a duochrome as it can get without actually being one. I still can't decide. Sometimes I kind of see a flash of gold and fuschia! It isn't very strong, but it makes it that much more awesome!

 Check out Lacquer Lust's polish shop here, and her Facebook page!
Her polishes sell for $7.50 each, which is think is really reasonable for an indie!

This product was sent to me for my unbiased review.

Oh Christmas Moose, Oh Christmas Moose!

Please vote for me in the contest by clicking on this link and choosing my name on the ballot!! I'm #11!!

Another nail art contest! This week the theme is "trim the tree (holiday decorations)"! It just so happens I put up my tree only a few days ago! I decided to paint some of my favorite ornaments on my nails!

 I used KB Shimmer All Decked Out as a base. I did six ornaments, with Christmas lights on the rest of the nails. I used so many different polishes and mixes of polishes that I'm not even going to bother to list them unless you're curious about a particular one.

 I actually made this fish from clay in high school. I still love it so much!!

 I love this little walnut and pompom turtle haha! Isn't he adorable!?

 Here is a collage of each nail art I did.

 Here are my very favorite ornaments on my tree that I used as inspiration. I love birds, so the tiny cardinal is just too cute...an intricate glitter snowflake, turtle doves, the santa fish I made, a super fat penguin that was our ornament last year (we always pick one out every year but haven't gotten around to it for this year yet), and the random little walnut turtle lol!!

 Moose is LOVING the Christmas tree! He plays with it and sits under it all the time. <3
Jeremy was singing "Oh Christmas Moose, oh Christmas Moose!" lol!!

 We had to don our jingly bell matching antlers while we decorated the tree :D

What are your favorite ornaments on your tree?

Please vote for me in the nail art contest!!

Family Nail Diaries 1: A Lesson in Cleanup

I do nails with my family all the time - my sister, mum, MIL, even my husband! I thought it would be fun to start a feature for all of my family posts like this: Family Nail Diaries :D. I'll be posting new and old posts about my family and nails and the like!

Let's kick off with a recent one! This is me and my sister on Thanksgiving. I taught her how to do cleanup on her nails with polish remover and a brush. I made a fun little collage/comic with us cleaning up lol!

 Lol she's going to kill me for these pics, but I think they rock!

 I finally convinced her to try something other than subtle pink/nude/grey polish! This is two coats of Barielle Erica's Pencil Skirt with nail art in China Glaze I Herd That. She never wears glitter either, so this was a huge deal!

 She wore it for days, even over to her in-laws house. I'm so proud of her for branching out :D. She's much more into nail fashion lately and even keeps up with my blog! She told me she wanted me to bring an "oxblood" color when I came down for Thanksgiving, so I picked this one.




Here she is cleaning up with my brush. Now she wants one for Christmas! What have I started!?!?

It's great that my family enjoys nail stuff too! I love my sister's nails, don't you?!

Sea Lore Wintry Friends Collection!

Today I have swatches of the new Sea Lore Wintry Friends collection for you! I love how it was all inspired by arctic animals!
 

Arctic Otter is a medium brown polish packed with bronzey gold shimmer and bronze glitter in squares and small rectangles, small silver hexes, and medium brown hexes.

This was two coats and topcoat and the formula was great.


See the rectangular one? I love unique glitters like these!

Snowy Seal is a metallic greyed silver polish with large hexes in silver and black, small hexes in black and white, and very fine multi-colored shimmer.


This is two coats with topcoat. The formula was great, but it's a top coat muncher.

  It really does look like a spotted baby seal!!

Glacial Grayling is a dark grey blue polish filled with rainbow microglitter and shimmer and medium squares in all sorts of colors!

This is two coats. Great formula, but a top coat muncher. 

I lluuurrvvee the squares! This is my favorite polish in the collection.

 Wintry Whale is a blue jelly polish with blue/purple/silver shimmer, medium white squares, small white rectangles, and small pale blue hexes.

This is two coats. I love the jellyness of it. It's only a bit of a topcoat muncher.

Love all the different glitter shapes!!

Beluga Blizzard is a topcoat with multi-colored shimmer, small white hexes, and tiny white hexes.

This is one coat of Beluga Blizzard over China Glaze Adventure Red-y. It gives such a Christmas flair and a frosty finish with that shimmer!

Here is Beluga Blizzard with two coats by itself, one coat over Wintry Whale, over Glacial Grayling, and over China Glaze Adventure-Redy.

Love her polishes? Check out Sea Lore's Facebook and browse her shop!
Her full size polishes are $10 and her larger minis are $5.50. I also lloovvee her polish rings, and she makes earrings now too!

These products have been provided to me for my unbiased review.

Baby All I Want for Christmas

 ....is YOU! No seriously, you guys rock :D.

Please vote for me in this nail art contest!! I'm number 26!!

I did this for another nail art contest, for which the theme is Christmas gifts/presents/what you want for Christmas. I wanted to put my whole family on my nails...but that was too hard and not that pretty lol. So I was looking for ideas, and Subtle Shimmer says, well what do you really want for Christmas!?! I was like umm that would look dumb...a crockpot, some new jeans, this Columbia jacket, an Urban Decay Naked Basics palette. She says do the palette. DUH! So I did :D. 
SHABAM!
I picked out four of the colors, and did the front of the palette too so people could tell what it was lol. 

Here is the palette. 6 nude matte shades...mmmm!!

 I used two coats of Zoya Shay for the palette. It kind of has a shimmer to it like the palette compared to the matte shadoes. W.O.S is Zoya Farah, Naked 2 is OPI Barefoot in Barcelona, Faint is Barefoot in Barcelona with a little China Glaze Call of the Wild mixed in. Crave is Zoya Noot. I used this awesome nail art pen my MIL got me as an early Christmas present for all the black lines. Even then I couldn't get it perfect, but I could get SO much more detailed than with my brush!

Fun fun!!
Don't forget to vote for me in the nail art contest!!

What do YOU want for Christmas? :D