Butter London — Wallis

Decided to redo my nails and am being hopeful that fall will come around sooner rather than later (living in Louisiana that's really not likely). 

So today we have Butter London's Wallis. Wallis is a gorgeous golden olive green shimmer. Two coats to full coverage but there was a bit of patchiness in some places that thankfully isn't noticeable.

I do wish my nails would grow and when I put topcoat on it wouldn't cause shrinkage but no matter what I use it happens, so oh well.

Hope you guys are good!

♥ nailbrite

Dollish Polish — Toad-ally Awesome

Very long time no update.

Just decided to pop in here because I actually painted my nails today. After getting a manicure while on vacation, my polish lasted a whole 2 days so I decided I wanted to get rid of it and do a fun mani!

This is an oldie but a goodie. Dollish Polish Toad-ally Awesome is a jam packed glitter in a clear base. There is large and small white glitter, square blue glitter, gold glitter, red glitter, and micro blue glitter. This is from her 2012 Super Mario Bros. collection.

The glitter has settled so I had a little issue trying to fish out the bigger glitter, otherwise this goes on awesome. I used Toad-ally Awesome over an unlabeled Color Club blue. Two thin coats and I had perfect coverage.

L-R: Toad-ally Awesome by Dollish Polish, Unnamed Color Club blue.

Candy Lacquer — Sea Nymph

Today I have something a little new for you guys. At least it's from a brand I've never posted before. Hehe.


Candy Lacquer Sea Nymph is a gorgeous gold and sea green glitter polish. It also has a few bits of larger holographic teal glitter scattered throughout it.

This was 2 coats of Sea Nymph and coverage is really good. I wore this on its own but I think next time I'm going to layer this over something because it chipped same day as is the case with a lot of glitter polishes. -_-


Overall I loved this because it was so sparkly and I love SPARKLY! Lol. I just wish it would have lasted more than a few hours.


You can purchase Candy Lacquer polishes from her Etsy shop for $8 USD for a full sized bottle (.5 oz./15 ml).


Until next time~ :)

CrowsToes — Cheshire

Today I have something that's really exciting for me to share with you guys today!

CrowsToes is another indie brand that makes some fantastic glitter polishes. When I saw a few of their polishes reviewed on some other blogs, I fell in love with them! So finally when I saw that Llarowe had stocked them, I had to jump on that. Unfortunately I only managed to get 1 out of the 3 that I really want, but small victories, eh?

"Cheshire is a combination of purple, magenta, & chartreuse glitters in a clear base, combined with a little crazy cat magic just for good measure. :)"

Alice in Wonderland is one of my all time favorite stories, so I was just over the top when I saw this polish.

(Please ignore my nubby pointer finger, I broke my nail at work. -_-)

Look at that sparkle! And them giant glitters in there! I didn't realize they were in there and had no problem getting them on the brush and on the nail.

This is 2 coats of CrowsToes Cheshire on top of OPI Road House Blues. I did have to use a bit of the dabbing method because there is SO MUCH glitter in this bottle, but otherwise application was really easy. I did use 2 coats of Gelous and 1 coat of Seche Vite to smooth it all down.

Now I really must get my hands on Absolum — your potions master!

You can purchase CrowsToes at OverallBeauty.com, Llarowe, and her BigCartel shop.

Until next time~ :)

Nerd Lacquer — Home of the Untempered Schism

Happy Monday! I hope you guys had a great weekend. :)

Despite all the controversy surrounding polish these days, I'm still going to post polishes from my stash that I haven't posted yet even if they are no longer available.

So with that, here is my last Nerd Lacquer Home of the Untempered Schism. HotUS is a bronze shimmer base packed with multi colored and sized glitters. There's red, gold, black, blue holo, and green holo glitter. It's really quite an interesting color.

I had to use 3 coats of Home of the Untempered Schism to get full coverage. It was really easy to work with despite how packed with glitter this is. There's no fishing with this polish.

Unfortunately Nerd Lacquer is no longer available, but if you really want to get your hands on some you can check out ebay or swaps, but be prepared to spend an awful amount of money on these.

Until next time~ :)

Lacquistry — Autumn Flurries

Long time no post. I have been so so so busy. I'm trying to go to California this weekend and have been having a lot of issues with flights and all. It's been a hectic time and I don't really have anything prepared for the coming days so I hope this post can hold you all over for a while.


Today I have another great Lacquistry polish called Autumn Flurries. Now my bottle is really orange but the description and pictures on Jenna's Etsy page made this look a lot more red. (It's like a reddish orange but definitely pulls more orange than red.)


"Lacquistry's Autumn Flurries Nail Lacquer is some of fall in a bottle with red, golden orange glitters, and large red and gold hex glitters..."


You can see what I mean in my pictures.

I layered 2 thin coats of Autumn Flurries on top of China Glaze Make Some Noise, which is a coraly pink color. I wonder if I would have put this over a red if it would look more red but it may not have.

Formula was good on this. It's a thick glitter so getting the larger hexes on the nail is not difficult at all. I always love Jenna's polishes but I was a bit disappointed this came out to be  a lot more orange than what the Etsy listing shows.

You can purchase Jenna's polishes from her Etsy store. They're about $8 USD each and are all full size 15ml bottles. Her shop is currently sold out but you can check her out on Facebook for updates.

Until next time~ :)

AllThatGlitters — Very Peacock-ish

Here's an oldie that I thought I had posted already but apparently did not!

AllThatGlitters Very Peacock-ish. This is a blue-green sheer shimmer base packed with small blue and green glitters as well are medium black and large black/opal and gold hex glitters.

I layered 2 coats of Very Peacock-ish over 1 coat of Bettina Ocean. Formula on this was relatively good to work with. The glitters weren't that hard to get out the bottle but I did have to sort of put them where I wanted since they tended to want to go on the ends of my nails. I did notice that the large black / opal hexes were a bit curled up but it didn't hinder application. They did poke out a bit even after 2 coats of Gelous and 1 coat of Seche Vite though.

AllThatGlitters polishes can be purchased at her Etsy store for $8.00 USD for full-sized 15ml / .5oz bottles.

Until next time~ :)

OPI Serena Glam Slam Duo — Love Is A Racket

Hello lovelies! I have the second polish from the Serena Glam Slam Duo today.

Love Is A Racket is a gorgeous pinky-red with pink and blue shimmer and golden glassfleck sprinkled throughout. In the shade this even looks like it has a bit of a purple duochrome but I'm not sure if it's just something that I noticed when swatching this because I've never heard anyone say it was duochrome.


This is 3 coats of LIAR (haha!) without topcoat. It is a bit sheer so 3 coats is necessary, but you could maybe get away with doing 2 thicker coats.

Direct Sunlight.

Do you see the duochrome in the shade?

See the bits of shimmer?

I also layered 1 coat of Pros & Bronze on top of Love Is A Racket since these are a duo and I'm assuming they are meant to be.

Honestly, I never would normally choose this kind of color since I'm not much of a pink or red fan but this is a really pretty color.

Not sure if you can still find this anywhere but I managed to pick this up on sale at my local Marshalls.

Until next time~ :)

OPI Serena Glam Slam Duo — Pros & Bronze

Today I have the first polish of the OPI Serena Glam Slam Duo.

Pros & Bronze is a orangey bronze shimmer glitter. It's hard to explain. Lol. It reminds me of the bronze version of China Glaze White Cap, though P&B is opaque enough to be worn on its own.

Out of focus to show the pink / green shimmer.

This is 2 (or 3) coats of Pros & Bronze without topcoat. As you can see it has a bit of pink and green shimmer in the polish along with the lovely texture of the glitter / shimmer.

This is a super lovely color and is honestly the main reason why I picked up this duo. Heh. I bet this would also look gorgeous layered over a black or dark brown polish. It'd probably bring a wooden texture or something to it. I'll have to try it out!

Anyway, I'll have the other polish from this duo - Love Is A Racket - coming up in the next day or so! :)

Until next time~ :)

May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor — Hunger Games Nail Art!

Happy Friday! As you all probably know by now the Hunger Games movie is out! Unfortunately because I have to be a grown up and have a grown up job, I was not able to go see the midnight premiere like I normally would for a series I love. No worries though! My friends and I are going tonight.

So I did a special manicure to celebrate! :)

I tried to do a fire and ember manicure to represent Katniss as the Girl on Fire but I'm not sure how "firey" they actually turned out. Lol.  I used 4 polishes from the China Glaze Capitol Collection and 2 Zoya polishes to create this look. Everything is explained after the pictures! :)

Left hand.

Right hand.

Now, I actually like the flames on my right hand so much better than my left despite my left hand not being dominant so my "drawing" was not so good. Unfortunately since it was later when I finished this, I have no pictures in daylight. I'll have to come back and edit those into the post.

I started off with CND Stickey base coat then did 1 coat of China Glaze Smoke and Ashes, which is a black base polish with dark blue and green shimmer. It's a very pretty color! Then I added a layer of China Glaze Luxe & Lush to represent the embers of the fire. I then used a nail art brush and Zoya Sooki and painted on the shape of fire, went over that with Zoya Reva to add some bling, then added accent of China Glaze Riveting, then on top of that added a bit of China Glaze Electrify. Finished that off with a good coat of Seche Vite, and voila! "firey" nails. Hehe.

Overall I'm pretty happy with it! I wish I could have painted the flames on better but I'm proud of what I was able to do.

What about you guys? Did you go to the premiere? Are you going see it today or this weekend? Are you wearing anything special on your nails for the movie? Let me know!

Until next time, my dears~ :)

Pretty and Polished — Party On My Yacht

Monday is here already! Bleh. Lol. I am not fond of Mondays only because the weekend is over and it's back to work!

Today I have a lovely little polish from Pretty and Polished.  You've probably seen this polish posted on several nail blogs recently. And for good reason!

Party On My Yacht is a white based polish with green, gold, and purple micro glitter and it also has sparse blue holographic bar glitter. This reminds me of Mardi Gras but it also reminds me of vanilla icing with sprinkles! :)

This is 3 coats of POMY (haha). It says you can get full opacity with 2 coats but for whatever reason I couldn't. I think next time I'll layer this over a white base to save polish. This is a mini bottle so it's tiny!

Formula wise this is pretty good. It did get a bit stringy / gloopy when I was polishing my nails, but it does dry very fast so that's probably why!

I have two more of these babies to post and I'm excited about it! :)

Pretty and Polished polishes can be purchased from her Etsy shop. Mini bottles (7ml) go for $4.50 each and she has some full sized bottles (15ml) and those go for $8.00 each.

Until next time~ :)

All That Glitters — Don't Pinch Me

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here's my quick mani to celebrate.

I used Sally Hansen Golden-I as a base and layered the lovely All That Glitters Don't Pinch Me on top.

Don't Pinch Me is a sheer green base with small and large green glitter along with medium and bar gold glitter. I used 3 thin coats of Don't Pinch Me on top of 2 thin coats of Golden-I. I then added a coat of Gelous and topped that off with Seche Vite.

Pardon my poor pinky nail I knocked it twice while doing this manicure. Luck was obviously not with me! Lol.

What do you guys think of my St. Paddy's Day mani? I think it came out pretty good. :)

All That Glitters polishes can be purchased at her Etsy shop for $8.00USD each. She has a wide variety of beautiful glitter polishes!  And this is the first of 3 that I have from her.

Hope you guys have an awesome weekend!

Until next time~ :)

A England — Princess Sabra (Tristam's Eyes)

I have another A England polish for you guys today. These pictures are unfortunately not nearly as fantastic as my ones for Dragon were, but the polish itself is still gorgeous!

Today I have Princess Sabra (Tristam's Eyes) from the A England The Legends Collection.

This is a sort of nude / beige / golden / olive holographic polish. It's beautiful and its second name came from Adina's cat Tristam who has those beautiful golden-olive eyes.

 

Formula on this was like butter. 2 thin coats to full opacity. I thought I would need 3 but that second coat sealed it.

All of the A England polishes I've worn so far have done amazingly well for days with no chips. I haven't worn top coat with any of them either and I can go up to 4 days with only a bit of tip wear. Granted, I change my polish so often 4 days is a long time for me! Lol.

Anyway my dears, I have a couple more A Englands to post this week, so look forward to those!

Until next time~ :)

A England — Dragon

I honestly couldn't tell you what took so long for me to finally wear this amazing polish I'm posting today.

A England Dragon from the Legends collection.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves (not literally, of course).

Dragon is a mossy forest green with a slight golden duochrome and a bit of a scattered holographic effect. The holographic isn't as strong as I thought it would be but I also don't have direct sunlight to test this out with.

The colour and application is just amazing. This is two coats, if I were more careful (shaky hands today) I would have been able to do one good coat.. Adina does some amazing things with polish and I'm happy to be able to own a handful of these polishes.

You can purchase A England polishes directly from their website and from Llarowe.

Until next time, my lovelies~ :)

Nostalgic Lacquer — Duckie

 Hello lovelies! Today I have an absolutely fabulous polish for you today. 

Duckie from Nostalgic Lacquer! This is a part of the Bizarre Teenage Love Triangle collection. I did get all 3 in the collection but today I'm just showing you this one. The other two will be in their own posts. :)

Artificial light, no flash.

"Duckie is a combination of chartreuse, holographic teal, and pastel green glitters in varying sizes floating in a semi-sheer pastel teal base."

I did kind of have to mess around with some colour correcting to show the true colour but it's still not perfect. The above picture is a bit more green than this polish is in person but I was just having a time of it trying to capture the colour. It's a lovely teal/minty green though. It was a dream to work with. 3 thin layers over ORLY Gumdrop. I really didn't have any problems with the large glitters either. I didn't have to fish them out like a lot of polishes do.

And here is a picture of ORLY Gumdrop on it's own. Again the colour is not TTL, but it's close (excuse the weird skintone if you notice it).

 

Nostalgic Lacquer retails $9 USD each. These are full .5 fl oz bottles so no minis here. I think they are definitely well worth it. :D She's actually moving from Etsy and going to be setting up shop elsewhere, but you can check out her blog for updates.

Until next time~ :)

TonyMoly ­­­­‒ Mars

Another quick post. Mardi Gras is over and thankfully I did not completely destroy my nails when I rode on Fat Tuesday. I did file them down so they aren't as long as they were, but I know if I would have kept them long I would have broken every single one of them on the ride.


Anyway! Today I have a lovely Korean brand polish from Tony Moly called GT03 Mars. It's from their Galaxy Collection. If you don't know me, I happen to love Korea and pretty much everything associated with that country and culture. I listen to Kpop, watch dramas, follow the music shows, and boybands, etc.; I even tried studying the language for a while. It is a dream of mine to be able to visit Seoul in the distant future. (How distant, that's another story.) I digress! 


I came across this brand in the lovely nail blogsphere. I don't remember where I first saw these but it may have been Michelle at ALU. Of course I wanted the entire collection this is from but my wallet does not always agree with my hoarding. Hehe.


Mars is a brown base packed with copper, brown, orange/amber glitter. And maybe a few other colours in there. It's hard to tell but this is a gorgeous colour. It definitely eats top coat like crazy so you might want to add a coat of Gelous and then use a quick-dry top coat like SecheVite but that's all up to you!

Indirect sunlight from window.

Barielle —Gelt Me to the Party

Here's just a quick post because I am so so busy with Mardi Gras and work right now.

Barielle Gelt Me to the Party is a lovely deep yellow gold metallic with bits of pink and green shimmer hidden away.


Application on this is a bit tricky because it is a metallic. But if you're careful you can get this to not have too many brush stroke lines. I got full opacity with two coats and coverage is wonderful.


This is a part of the 2010 Holiday Hustle Winter collection from Barielle so I'm not sure how readily available it is. I purchased this on a Hautelook sale they had several weeks back.


Until next time~

Valentine's Day Manicure!

Happy Valentine's Day! Whether you celebrate it or not, every day is a day that you should express love to your significant other and/or family and friends. :) I have a little manicure that I did in celebration of this day of love. It didn't come out exactly as I wanted it to but I liked it well enough.

My original intention was to do all my nails with the little hearts wallpaper that rebecca likes nails posted. Unfortunately, I freaked out thinking I'd need to do 5 coats of the light pink Revlon polish and decided to go with China Glaze Strawberry Fields as my main colour. My luck was that Strawberry Fields needed 3 coats too to hide VNL. -_-;;

So I went a little crazy and did some things and didn't like them and then changed them up again. But this was the final result!

It definitely doesn't have as much going on as I wanted it too. I just think they came out too plain.

Honestly, I'll probably just paint them a solid colour tonight before I go out with my boyfriend but for the day before and day of Valentine's Day this worked for me. I just wish my skills for nail art were much better than they actually are. I just have to keep practicing!

All colours used:

Revlon Pink Chiffon

China Glaze Strawberry Fields

A England Princess Tears

Now I know my pictures are not very good this time around. I am quite sad to say that I think after 7 years my beloved DSLR Holmes is finally kicking the bucket. I am having more errors with it than ever after my vacation incident  — a squall came while we were on a cruise and my bag got soaked because it was left outside with the rest of our party while I went to grab food. My camera didn't even seem to get wet at all but ever since it's been acting insane. :(((

I've been trying to save up for a new camera but DSLRs don't come cheap and I definitely want to upgrade to something more prosumer than consumer. Enough camera babbling!

I'm hoping to have another post up this week, but with how crazy things are with Mardi Gras, I'm not sure I will. Thanks for reading!

Until next time~ :)