Bettina — Sand Blast

Here's the base to the post I posted yesterday.

Bettina Sand Blast is a part of their Jeans collection. This is a light grey creme. 

Below under artificial light, no flash.

Application was good. I used two medium coats and at first I thought I'd need a third, but the second coat leveled itself out. This is a bit on the thick side but it's not hard to work with and nothing a little thinner can't fix.

This is such a great neutral color. It made my nails look SOOO much longer than they actually are. Lol. I wore this for close to 5 days and have just some tip wear. It wore really well. :)

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~ :)

Icing — Epic Winning

Here is a suuuper old post I'm reposting here from my original nail tumblr.

"Icing Epic Winning revisited!

I layered it over Haunting, Goth, & Starry Night (since I did this after I did my comparison swatches). The black bases definitely make the glitter pop much more than over grey. I did this to go out in New Orleans and my sparkly holo nails were fab! I wanted something super blingy and this definitely lived up to that.

This was two layers of Epic Winning over my black/silver bases. Pictures don’t really do holos justice. This was more rainbowy and sparkly in person."

My nails were so much shorter than they are now! Lol. This was a gorgeous manicure though. I wore this for my friend's bachelorette party and the entire night I just kept staring at my nails. Lol.


Epic Winning is a sheer navy based polish with silver holographic particles. It's gorgeous in person.

Until next time my lovelies~ :)

Essie — Navigate Her

Today I have an oldie, but still a goodie. Well it's not that old.

Essie Navigate Her from the Navigate Her Spring 2012 collection.

Navigate Her is an avocado green creme. Formula on this was a bit thin and runny but it really wasn't hard to work with. Below is 1 thin coat and 1 thick-ish coat of Navigate Her, so 2 coats total with a top coat of NYC; all taken outdoors.

Ignore the mess on my ring finger, please. I didn't even realize that I had polish on my finger until after I took these. Lol.

I don't LOVE it like I thought I would, but I don't hate it either. These colors don't look very good on me but I still wear them anyway. Hehe.

Essie Navigate Her can be found at many retailers such as CVS, Walgreens, Target, etc. and they retail for $8 USD each.

Until next time~ :)

Lacquistry — Fluff Nugget (Custom)

Happy Sunday everyone! 

I have something that I am VERY VERY excited to share with you guys today! I had been wanting to get a custom polish made for a while, but everyone was busy, then Jenna at Lacquistry announced on her Facebook that she was opening up for custom orders. As soon as I saw that, I flew over there to message her. :D

As you all may or may not know, I have a Sun Conure named Sunny who has been with me for 16 years. He is my baby and basically the love of my life. Lol. I wanted to get a polish to represent him and Jenna did just that! I couldn't be more happy with what she came up with.

So I present you my custom Lacquistry polish Fluff Nugget! :D

Here's me trying to model with the inspiration. He wasn't too happy about it. Lol.

I layered 1 coat of Fluff Nugget over 2 coats of China Glaze Sunshine Pop. I'm kind of glad I had a yellow on hand that is as loud and obnoxious as he is. :)

Fluff Nugget is a clear base with a mixture of fine/micro orange glitter, larger pieces of reds, golden holo yellow, holo green, and holo baby blue/royal blue mini-hexs.

I am so so so so happy with this polish you have no idea! Jenna is amazing and such a sweetheart. You can order a custom polish from her for $10 ea. Not sure if she's still taking customs right now, but you can always check out her Facebook for more information!

And if you guys want to see some bottle spam, click the jump! :D

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~ :)

Whimsical Ideas by Pam — Seuss

Hello hello! Today I have another fantastic indie polish from Whimsical Ideas by Pam!

Seuss is a semi-sheer blue base with blue small and micro-glitter, small red hex glitter, and larger silver hex glitter. It is an awesome interpretation of Dr. Seuss and really reminds me of Thing 1 and Thing 2!

This is 2 coats of Seuss on top of Bettina Vintage. It can probably be layered on it's own but I wanted to layer it in case it was super sheer. I could have probably worn this with 3 coats on its own though!

I wore this for 3 days with just a little tip wear and one chip where a glitter was sticking out o my top coat and chipped a bit off my nail, but other than that, wear was really good!

You can purchase Whimsical Ideas polishes from Pam's Facebook page. Her polishes are $10 USD each and you just shoot her an email with the polishes you want and she'll invoice you and ship them out!

Until next time~ :)