Nail'd It — Dragon Scales

What is this? A second post?! Yeah, I know. Things have been crazy so that's why I've only been having one post a week. Between work, my social life, and my mom having major surgery a couple of weeks ago, things have been crazy.  It's starting to get a little better but getting back into the swing of doing swatches or just having the time to take pictures of my manis has been really limited.

The past couple of months I have been really bad with buying polish. I keep seeing all these awesome indie brands being featured on blogs and of course have to take advantage of them, because you never know when they're going to blow up or disappear.

So when Amy from I'm Feeling Nail-venturous posted about Nail'd It polishes, I just FELL in love and bought a few of the ones that jumped out at me.  This is the first of the three that I ended up buying.

Dragon Scales is a multi colored mix of matte glitter in a clear base. It's fantastic!

This is 1 coat of Dragon Scales layered over 2-3 thin coats of Bettina Orchidea. I absolutely love this combination. I honestly think this is one of my favorite manicures ever. Wear on this was fantastic. The formula on Dragon Scales is really great, the glitter was easy to go on and there wasn't any pushing or globbing it on at all.

As much as the indie glitter polish scene is starting to get a bit old for me, I'm definitely going to keep an eye on Nail'd It's polishes.

You can purchase them from her Etsy store for $8.50 ea for a full 15ml bottle.

Until next time~ :)

Pretty & Polished — Toy With Me

Happy Friday!


I have another little Pretty & Polished for you today.


This is Toy With Me which is a sheer, shimmery, color shifting, textured, matte polish. TWM has a pink sheen to it that shifts to green (which I couldn't catch) and has a bit of a salt/pepper texture with bits of green micro-glitter. It's really quite gorgeous.

I layered 2 coats of Toy With Me on top of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, which is a grey-white polish. To wear this on its own you'd probably have to wear close to 4 coats to get this fully opaque and since I have a mini bottle, I'd rather save as much as possible. Hehe.


You can purchase Pretty & Polished on Etsy and now on Llarowe.


Until next time~ :)

Nailventurous — Floam

Happy Friday!

Today I have another fantastic indie polish from Nailventurous Lacquers! I was actually really lucky about getting one of these from Ninja Polish when it was restocked. There was a cart / check-out snafu and the girls at Ninja Polish were awesome about helping me out.

I'm sure you've already seen this everywhere, but that's not going to stop me from sharing mine! Hehe.

Floam is a clear based polished packed with matte neon yellow-green and blue micro-glitters.  It is SO awesome and dead on for that lovely childhood concoction. Lol.

This is two coats of Floam over Bettina Sand Blast. I don't remember if I used top coat or not but you do need it otherwise this does dry a bit bumpy.

Application was great. I just used two thin-medium coats and was good to go. :)

You can try your hand at picking up Floam from Amy's Etsy when she restocks (not for a while) or Ninja Polish. It goes fast as lightning though.

Until next time~ :)

The Hungry Asian — Sneeze Breeze

I'm feeling lazy today so I won't go into too much detail with this post. Lol.

Sneeze Breeze is the second polish I received in my trio from The Hungry Asian. This is a clear base with fine matte blue and black glitter.

The below photos are 2 coats of Sneeze Breeze over 1 coat of China Glaze Shower Together.

No topcoat.

No topcoat.

2 coats of Gelous and 1 coat of Seche Vite.

This polish goes on great. It dries fast and covers well even without a base color to hide naked nail. It is VERY topcoat hungry though. Even though I did 2 coats of Gelous and 1 coat of Seche Vite, later on in the day / the next day the surface was a bit bumpy again. It wasn't anything seriously bad but there was texture when the day of it was smooth.

This is the mani I did right before we ate crawfish so it did not survive, unfortunately. I may have done it too fast and didn't let my base coat dry all the way because later the next day it started peeling near my cuticles. I'll definitely have to try wearing this one again in the future!

The Hungry Asian polishes can be purchased from her Etsy shop for $9.25-4.50 depending on size and how new it is.

Until next time~ :)

The Hungry Asian — Sea Creature

So I have something entirely new for you guys today! I have another awesome indie polish by the name of The Hungry Asian. I recently bought a mini trio from her Etsy store to try out. I had been stalking her shop for a while and really wanted to get Strawberry, but when I saw she had this trio set, I jumped on it and got 3 lovely little minis! :D

First up is Sea Creature.  This is 2 coats of Sea Creature over A England Saint George topped with Essie Matte About You topcoat.

Sea Creature has medium holographic bright blue hexagon glitter, small black glitter with fuchsia and green superfine glitter in a lightly blackened base. (description from Etsy)

The blue, green, and fuchsia reminds me of the Rainbow Fish. This is just an absolutely beautiful glitter polish.

You can purchase The Hungry Asian polishes on Etsy for $9.25-4.50 depending on size and how new the polish is.

Until next time~ :)