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Hey guys! Today I have a new-to-me brand to share. I Scream Nails is an Australian brand exclusive to their salons in Melbourne and Sydney. They do offer their polishes online, but they don't ship outside of Australia! (Well, they do ship PR stuff, but I'm not in on that!) I'm lucky enough to have a polish-minded mother in law who graciously agreed to go to the shop in Melbourne for me and send these over! Yippee! They do offer more colors than this, but they are pretty expensive (I think) for a smallish size so I kept my request at 6.    I Scream Nails

Hey guys! This is a long over due post since I stopped posting a blog for every mani, only swatches for the most part. I keep procrastinating this one for some reason! I will be posting these every few months to document my real-life manis and continue marking my untried polishes as "blogged"! It helps me when I want to thin the herd, haha. So these are the polishes I wore in November and December of 2015.     Loaded Lacquer Tiki Torched (untried). I can't remember if this was 2 or 3 coats, but I loved it!  Add caption Tiki Torched with Love Angeline A Twinkle in my Eye (untried)- after a day or so I broke out my vinyls and added a little accent of this rose gold glitter. I loved it! In November my town got our very own Ulta! Yippee! Before I was having to drive 25 whole minutes, and before those opened (all in the same year!) I had to go 45 min. I never wear orange but I had to to celebrate! I wore OPI Where Did Suzi's Man-go? and All ...

Hey guys! Today I have the House of Colour collection for spring from China Glaze! This collection has a good mix of different finishes and formulas, China Glaze is always really good about having variety in their collections! This collection is inspired by the fashion and music of the 70's. I feel like it's more summery than 70's-y but they are gorgeous anyway!  Girls Just Wanna Have Sun was the first one I swatched and it *killed* me to take it off, and in not even super into yellow nails! It's a bright but pastel yellow creme. The formula was a little tricky, thin but thick at the same time. I had a lot of pooling in my cuticles because it kept running down the wand. It took 3 coats and I took  more time than usual to dry between coats...I used that time to practice my clean up skills ;) I don't have any other yellows quite like this, it's very much worth the effort! Love! I also connect with the name of the polish on a very deep level #sunbunny ...

Hey guys! Today I have some more new Zoyas for you! For the past few years Zoya has been putting out these transitional collections, usually they are nude or berry toned neutrals. And I have loved them all! They went in a different direction this year with dusty pastel cremes. Let's get into it!  

Hey guys! Today I have some fun glitters from NYC which is one of the first brands I started collecting when I got into nail polish! They retail for around $1.99 and come in a billion colors. Does it dry in an actual minute? No, not really, but you can't beat the range for the price! The also have a small but flat brush with a nice even edge. They prove that even drugstore brands can have a decent brush.....I'm looking at you, Sally Hansen. A few words about my absence from blogging for those that don't follow me elsewhere...I had bronchitis for most of December and then the kids were out of school for the holidays, then as soon as they went back to school I came down with pneumonia! Just on one side but I've never had it before. I'm finally about over it but I'm still coughing a little-I'm SO. SICK. OF. COUGHING. Anyhow, I'm hoping to finally get back into my blogging schedule! This is not my job or a source of income for me, I do it in my free time...