Dusty Leopard.

I finally won a contest!! And in the cutest way possible!  Thank you to Diana from Painted Lady Fingers and her ferret Cybele for choosing me as the winner of the Smooth and Polished Giveaway!  I can't wait to try the goods out when they arrive. :D

On to my NOTD.

Wet N Wild - 207, Broken Hearted with konad m57 in OPI - No Spain, No Gain.

The shopping hiatus is officially over! I rushed to the store to pick up No Spain, No Gain yesterday. I did a mani with just No Spain, but I was in a horrible hurry and it looked it.  So today I removed it and started from scratch.  I'd been wanting to use the leopard print for a while and this polish is SO pigmented that it was perfect to stamp with.  So smooth, so opaque.  Honestly the only thing I don't like about it is the pro wide brush, lol. I guess I'm just so used to the size of the China Glaze brushes that anything bigger is hard for me to control.

I will definitely be rocking this mani over the weekend.

A Hatter that's gone mad.

OPI - Mad As A Hatter over Color Club - Revvvolution, although you can't tell.

Bit of a lazy post today.  I wore this polish last week right after I broke my nails.  I forgot to take pictures of Revvvolution, but I just want to emphasize the perfection that is this polish.  It was opaque in one coat and complete shimmery holographic heaven.  I had Mad As A Hatter sitting out on my computer desk this and the next thing I know I'm putting it on. Haha. It just had some kind of power over me.

It is pretty cool, but I have to say that I love Alice more.  Honestly, I might even be able to do without this in my collection at all. *shrugs*  Maybe I should see what it looks like over other colors but I think, even with all it's colors, that it's sort of one note.  Then again I am one who loves colors that POP.

Custard Pie.

China Glaze - Lemon Fizz, Konad m79 with OPI - Jade is the New Black.

So, in trying to match my outfit again, I painted my nails another shade of yellow! ..And this was one of those manicures that you're so frustrated with by the time you're through that you're ready to take it the hell off, but you don't out of spite for the time you've already committed to it.

For instance, the lines were supposed to go straight across the nail, but the first one went on crooked, so I just went with it.  Not to mention that I repainted the middle finger three times!

This is what it looks like from my POV. I put top coat on the pinky and it completely changed the color of the stamp, so I just left the rest without a top coat.

Came home today to find this in the mail!!!!

Get ready for some neons, ladies!!! Right when I finish this post I am going to embark on the obligatory skittles mani!! So excited!

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Grocery Store Wonderland.

I went to the grocery store after work yesterday to pick something up for dinner.  You know, the normal.  Just happened to wander down the polish aisle. You know.. the normal. :)  I was casually glancing over a rack of OPIs and -- BAM -- there they were! No display, no warnings, no $12 price tag, no nothing!

Ohhh how I have been dreaming of owning you.  I never thought I would see these out in the real world, you know?  And for $6.99 at THAT.  I immediately came home and put on Absolutely Alice.

I don't know if you've heard, but pictures just don't do this polish justice!

So I took a few. :)  This one is in the sunlight from my window. :)

And this is with a flash! Also.. I have no idea what is on my finger in this one. Hmm.

Oh! And I was already wearing this beautiful blue Revlon polish, Midnight Affair.  It was the perfect base for Alice to glimmer and shine all over the place!

And I am content with the world. :D

Holographic like woah.

I've had this OPI in my collection for a while now and I've just never gotten around to using it.  That's because every other time I paint my nails it seems like I'm painting them blue.  Oh well!  I love blue. Haha.

Oh, and in sad news, I had to cut my nails because I'm learning how to play guitar and they were too long to push the strings down on the frets. :( 

And with that I present to you:

Two coats of OPI - See Ya Later, Sailor! Over two coats of black.  This picture (sadly) isn't very good.. This polish REALLY sparkles.  Especially over black.

But this one's better!  This is plate m57 in China Glaze - OMG (!!!!!!) over top. Love this manicure.

 One more because it can't get better than glittery blue. 

Also, a lesson.  Do not jump up and cook dinner five minutes after you paint your nails.  I don't care if you do use Seche Vite. :\

It's true, I have an addiction.

Maybelline Colorama Top Coats- 25 - Shimmer Girl (This is probably 5 years old by now, lol!) and OPI - Jade Is The New Black



I am in love with these two together.  I've had this on since St. Patty's Day and as you can see it still looks perfect.  Base: Rimmel, Top Coat: Seche Vite.

Click to see the wonderful flakes of glitter up close!  I am so happy to have discovered this treasure hiding in the bottom of my polish box!  I would say the colors are accurate.  With Jade Is The New Black, the actual polish dries darker than the color in the bottle.  This is my first time using OPI (I know, right?) and I found that it went on a little streaky.  Is it my base coat, the color, or do all OPIs go on like this?

Also!  I figured out that my camera has a close-up function, ftw!



Pure Ice - Wild Thing (Creme).  Another polish that I've had for years.



This picture, however, was taken before I figured out the close-up function.  I loved this look, but this was the most difficult manicure to maintain ever.



Another picture so you could get a clear shot of the pinky. I used Seche Base Coat here, and it was the weirdest thing but entire nails of polish would pop off!  First it was just one finger on the second day, but by the end of the third three whole nails of polish had popped off.  They were easy enough to put back on, but once they popped off they just kept coming off!! I don't think it was the polish as I had just used it's pink-sister in a mani a few weeks ago and hadn't had the problem - so I figured it was the base coat.  Have any of you had this problem with Seche base coat?  I'm afraid to use it again until I know! Haha.

I did two more green manicures between these looks, but unfortunately I didn't get pictures.  And I'm too sick of green (haha, I know I'm not the only one!) to do them again for a long time to come.  Needless to say I will never attempt to freehand four leaf clovers with a toothpick ever again.  :D

Happy Polishing!