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Hey guys! I'm squeezing this in inbetween all the cooking and prepping for Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving is my superbowl of holiday cooking and I love it! I finally took a few minutes yesterday to take off my previous mani which was looking a hot mess after 5 days...ugh! I put on Loaded Lacquer "Coconut" which is a white jelly very similar to the nude one I wore last week! You can see the look I created with it here!  Last night after all the kids were in bed I added a little sparkle with some straight nail vinyls from Glam my Mani and Pipe Dream Polish "Cha-Ching!" I am totally in love with this! I wasn't really intending for this to be my Thanksgiving mani but a) I didn't want to wait any longer to use these and b) I am loving them so I don't care if they aren't Thanksgiving-y! I didn't get a chance to get any sun pics of the gold version but I did today...scroll to the end for those! Enough blabbing here are a crap ton of pics! I hope every...

Hey guys! Today I have a mani I did months ago for Nail It Mag! They ask for submissions months ahead of time so you find yourselves doing holiday manis in the summer! Crazy! One of the prompts was for "winter" so I new I wanted to redo my most-pinned mani from last year (it's getting close to 1,000 pins! That's a lot for little ol me!) And what do you know this is the one of mine they selected to be in the December issue! I didn't take any pictures or video when I did this but I am thinking of making a video tutorial for them, let me know if yall want to see one!  Polishes used: base: Zoya Dream white: OPI Alpine Snow White for snowman: OPI Solitare Orange for snowman: Zoya Beatrix black for snowman: OPI Emotions  This is last years version (2013). Not too completely terrible?? My nail shape and picture taking have improved dramatically so that makes for a huge difference in pics. I used almost all the same polishes though! 

Hey guys! This will be a short little blog..... I did a little experiment about a month ago with the Zoya Matte Velvets (which I'm still obsessed with!)  I've been hearing that people are hesitant about matte polish because it doesn't wear well/chips easily. I have such an enormous love for these particular polishes, not only for their quick dry time and amazing colors (although whyyyyyy isn't there a blueeeee) and I just want to keep on blabbing about them! I didn't take a picture of them when I first did them....what is wrong with me, haha! But this was sometime in the first 24 hours I had it on so that's gonna count. I wore a simple mani of Harlow (matte) with accent of Arabella (textured pixiedust) and took pics at the end of each day! note: I did wear a ridge filling basecoat with these. Zoya says to  not wear a basecoat or topcoat with the Matte Velvets, buuuuttttt I did anyway. I do think basecoat helps extend the wear time.  So nothing specia...

Hey guys! Happy Saturday! What is everyone up to?  I am starting my Thanksgiving grocery list! For the past several years I make a huge traditional meal and I love it! It's a ton of work but it's worth it! And the Mr. lives for the leftover turkey hoagie. LIVES I tell you. Haha! What is your fav leftover! I don't usually mix them up in weird ways, I will just make another plate of all the same things! These aren't very Thanksgiving-y but that's ok! These are another collab that I did last week...my friend Danele of Low Country Lacquer just passed her one year mark on Instagram so my fellow Glitter Gals and I decided to sneakily recreate HER recreation of her first mani! So fun! I didn't have the Essie she used so I reached for the closest thing I have...and one of my FAV polishes I have across all brands, OPI Can't Find My Czechbook. I am lucky this in the core line as of right now, if it ever gets discontinued I will be frantically hoarding them! And th...

And it is Friday, how about that! haha! Today I have an awesome "x" design ( yes, I am preeety sure that's the technical term  for this mani) with some of my favorite OPI's! I can't take any credit for this one, though. My good friend Gianna of Nailstorming.com  came up with this for our little collab today! I'll try to keep this short and sweet for today-no rambling haha! The bottle shown in the pic above is OPI Thank Glogg it's Friday, one of the polishes in their fall Nordic collection. I only have a few so farrrrrrr but they are awesome! Yall know I'm a sucker for a beautiful maroon (ok, it's not totally maroon but enough for me) . Other polishes I used are: nude base: OPI My Vampire is Buff orange: OPI Where did Suzy's Man-go gold accents: OPI My Favorite Ornament gold nail: Zoya Cosmo   I loved this mani so much I decided to wear it for the rest of the week...I'm still wearing it now! 

Howdy! Today I just have a few quick swatches. When we had our Tn meetup last month I purchased a buttload of polishes from April of Pipe Dream Polish! I've been so busy I've barely gotten to wear them. I wanted to test a few of them out when I had a moment last week! This is Rhythm and Blues, a blue jelly packed with blue glitter. Blue. I love it. Blue. (this is 2 coats plus topcoat)  Rhythm and Blues This is #mcinspiration, made in collaboration with Amy @mcpolish. It's a gray jelly with pink and black glitters, all things Amy loves! This is super opaque for a jelly, I only needed 2 coats plus topcoat! Yippee!  #Mcinspiration

Hey guys! Ok sooooooo  I'm venturing into the world of indie polishes...which honestly is not something I ever thought I would do! And boyyyyy is it a slippery slope! Now I want them all! So be prepared to be seeing a lot more of these! The base I used is Loaded Lacquer "No Shirt" which a nude super opaque jelly. It was gifted to me by a friend and I'm completely obsessed. It's part of a set of 3 called the "Nude Jiggles" and once I have them all I will do a separate blog on them! The gold is another of my new Pipe Dream Polishes called "Champagne Kisses". This is currently my favorite gold polish! I have another post coming up soon about more fun I had with it! I use nail vinyls for the chevrons and stripes and free handed the dots and cross. And then I took a bunch of pictures the end.     (this is the base color)  I wore this for several days and took a bunch of pics of all my matching sparkly things. I ...

Hey guys! Here's a mani I did last week for this go-around of submissions for Nail It! Mag, these  are for a "Foil" prompt for the March issue! I've never used foil before so I had no idea what I was doing, haha! But they turned out ok?  The foil I have is like one small sheet crumpled up in a little round tin. I  just used my scissors and tweezers to break off little bits of it and lay down on my polish while still tacky. There are lots of other ways to use the foil, most more exciting than this! But I love the combo of blue/gold.  I have no idea if these will get chosen or not, usually I don't post my submission mani's until the mag comes out but I wanted to share these now! Do yall have any tips to make using foils any easier? Because I was pretty much like a cat with scotch tape stuck to its paw. Take a minute for that visual. :) 

ZOMG guys. Look.  This polish was sent to me by a friend and is my first NCLA polish! It deserves it's own post ;) But look. How Amazing. It's a dark teal jelly with all kinds of shimmer running through it. I can't even describe it. It's super opaque, if you polish a little thick it could be a one coater. I mean. Gosh.  Super impressed with NCLA so far! hahaha! 

Hey Guys! I feel like its been forever since I've had a fresh post! I've still just been super busy around here and sick to boot. Hopefully I will be able to get caught up now that I have some energy back! This is a super long post so I'll try not to blab too much! (I always say that, haha!) This is the holiday collection from China Glaze for 2014! It consists of a mix of crèmes, shimmers, glitter polishes and glitter topcoats! There's a  little something for everyone. China Glaze is known for their super fine glitters around the holidays, they are so pretty! Thank you so much to China Glaze for sending these over to me for review :) This is also the first full collection I've swatched with my indoor lights. I've been working on getting decent pictures inside, boy, it is not easy! I prefer outdoor pictures BY FAR but it is so gray and yuck here for days and weeks on hand it's just not possible. I take all my pics with my iPhone 6, which takes really grea...