No Power? PAINT YOUR NAILS!!

We all know what I do when the electricity goes out... paint my nails!  And then break my nails!!!! Opinions needed at the end of this post!    

So, long and short of it is, I was on Skype with E, making dinner, and picking out polish when all of a sudden the power goes out.  First I quietly cursed wondering if I had forgotten to pay the bill, but after some thought I knew that wasn't the case.  I go outside and notice that all the neighborhood kids are outside playing.  That could only mean one thing... ALL THE GAME SYSTEMS HAD SHUT OFF AT ONCE!!!  NO ELECTRICITY!!!  Well that certainly put a hold on all my evening plans (sad face). So I sat at the table and made the best of it. I had a little light coming thru the windows so I started painting.  Hope you like what I came up with!

Nice little gradient... I'm gonna call it my "NO ELECTRIC" mani!  

Not too bad for a play job done in the dark!

The polish used in this mani: Ulta - Purple Haze; Ulta - Alter Ego; Ulta - Indigo-Go Girl and China Glaze - Polarized

Now... for the BREAK heard round the world! My thumb nail got severely hacked off accidentally! I asked E to give me her opinion and now I will ask for yours.  Do you think I should cut them all down?  I am really sad about this but if I gotta, then I gotta!

NAIL MAIL!! and an EPIC FAIL :/

Today was an epic day!! Why you might ask? Well I received my first ever Indie nail mail! While I've been an avid spectator in the war that is indie polish shopping, I finally entered the fray! About 2 weeks or so ago Dolly from Dollish Polish announced an opening time for her shop and I made it my mission to be ready and waiting. It felt like Black Friday waiting except without all the weirdos trying to slyly get in front of me. The anticipation was killing me but I was NOT going to miss this. Of course this particular shopping day caught me at a low fundage point so I knew I had to be decisive...

Such awesome packaging! Seriously bubble wrapped, in a bag then in a cute teal drawstring bag!

Now... lets be real here. Trying to pick between one of a kind works of art is like choosing a favorite child! It's impossible! All of them are amazing and for equally fantabulous reasons! I am a glitter-holic to the core. I have a seriously short attention span if anything shiny catches my eye... so truly how could I choose? But when that time came and a simple click refreshed and loaded an actual page front to her Etsy store with available product, I started furiously clicking. Would it be this one? That one? Oooh, what about... um. The decisions were so hard! I wanted them all, however I knew I couldn't have them all, nor was time on my side (remember there were tons of others anxiously refreshing too!).

How did I do it? I stopped, took a deep breath and decided I would go towards what pulled me. I am an 80's baby through and through so of course I felt pulled toward three of my all time favorite movies, The Breakfast Club "Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?", When Harry Met Sally "I'll have what she's having" and Ghostbusters "He slimed me!". Now, I know there are others I plan to buy but these were the ones that tugged at me. Not just because of their epic and aptly applied monikers but because they are amazing and beautiful! To round out my purchase I knew I needed (and I mean that literally!) the ridiculously blazing hot red sparkly beauty named "I wanna do bad things to you" which is from the TV show True Blood.

Well... then there's my epic fail.

After checking out and floating on a big fluffy cloud of elation and a goofy "Hail the conquering hero" playing in my head I went about my day. A week went by and I did a Skittles mani thinking about the amazing "Putting on the Ritz" from Dollish Polish that I had on it's way! *insert screeching noise* (wait for it... waaaaiiiittt for it...)

But I DIDN'T!!!!!!!!!!!! >.< WTF how could I have done that to myself?! I had forgotten the ONE polish I KNEW I wanted and had decided to get before the shop even opened. What did I tell you? I have the shortest attention span when something shiny shiny hits my eyes... and that was the iceberg that sunk my Titanic that day. So what now? Now the shop is closed while it is moved to a new (hopefully better for Dolly) shop. I'm literally stuck like chuck. Such an epic fail. I'm totally heartbroken too. At least I'll have my four other pretties to console me while I wait and hope for an opening to pick up Ritz.

aren't they PRETTY!!

Welp, stay tuned for my review... I would've written that first but tonight family time sort of sucked up swatching time lol.

Green with Envy

Hello all you nail polish lovers!  

Something about the Spring time this year has changed me into a color freak!  I have been buying some of the most out of character colors and it has been so fun!  I recently went on a mad hunt for a green that spoke to me.  I really wanted a true green, a green that you can go outside and see budding all around!  E calls it a kelly green and so that is what I searched for.  I ended up with several green colors that didn't quite do the job.  The colors were either too dark or too light or shimmery or just all together the wrong green.

I finally found what I was looking for one day at Sally's!  China Glaze - Four Leaf Clover. It is amazing and depending on the light, looks like two completely different colors!  

No Flash Natural Light

Once I found the base color you know I had to do something fun!  So on the same trip to Sally's I bought Finger Paints - Art You Wondering?  Art is a really cool turquoise glitter with green bits as well.  I LOVE it!  When I bought Art I really didn't know what I had in mind for it.  I saw the "two tone" quality of Four Leaf Clover and knew immediately that I wanted to put a layer of Art on top!  

No Flash

It was nice but, of course, it just wasn't enough!  I finally got the look I was going for by adding a nice layer of China Glaze - Fairy Dust.  AND BOY OH FREAKIN BOY!!!!!  The heavens opened and the angels sang!  I finally had the look I was hoping for!  

The final look was amazing!  So much so that I had a hard time taking it off when I was ready to try something new!  Long and short of it ... I love this mani and it doesn't have to be St. Patrick's Day to rock a hot green mani!

Let me know what you think!