Toma Snow Caps - Candy Cane

Happy Christmas Eve Day, dolls!

I can't believe the holidays are already here! It's sad that Jeffrey and I are going to be here away from our families, but it's nice to start our own traditions. Plus I volunteered to work Christmas for double time. :D MORE MONIES! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve!

Today I have a polish from a Secret Santa (Can't say who yet though, the exchange isn't over yet! :p) to share! I've never heard of the Snow Caps line from Toma, but I was so excited when I unwrapped this bad boy! Toma has so many hidden lines I've come to learn, and a Christmas themed one makes it all the more exciting! Candy Cane is a pearlized pale pink polish with pink micro-glitter and white flakies. It's delicate and winter feeling! It was pretty sheer, this is four coats.

Have a fantastic Christmas Eve!

Chanel - Luna

WHO IS READY FOR MY FIRST CHANEL POST?!?!

Sorry for yelling, but I'm really excited to show you today's polish and manicure! Up until recently I always overlooked Chanel due to the cost. (Even though I finally have Peridot on it's way. It was only a matter of time, LOL!) Now that my main focus has been to cut back on buying and only keeping my eyes open for rare gems - Luna was calling my name and I couldn't say no! :D No regrets here! Luna runs for about a hundred bucks on evil bay and I paid only thirty. (With blog sale money, might I add.) Luna is a very sheer pearly pink base (made only for layering IMO) with CRAZY blue shimmer! I layered two thin coats over Borghese's Stellare Notte. The way it glows is impossible to capture in picture, it must be seen in person. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I'm officially a Chanel girl! Cobra and Holographic, one day you WILL be mine.

Endless layering possibilities! 

What are your fave Chanels?

The Spooky Bones Company- Strange Polish - 7 of 9

ALLO!

Today is day two of The Spooky Bones Company's Star Trek polishes that I purchased. Star Trek: Voyager is hands down, bar-none my favorite Star Trek EVER! Seven of Nine is a charactor on the show that was born human, assimilated by and raised by the Borg until she was freed and joined the crew of Voyager. She's sexy and hilarious in my opinion. Do the damn thing, Jeri Ryan.  

Image credit : Sheryl's Star Trek Site

Onto the polish! 7 of 9 is an amazingly beautiful pain-in-my-butt polish. I think I need one more go with the polish to get it 100% right. Anyhoo, the bottle brush is really long and glops of polish keep creeping onto the nail. The base of the polish is a really gorgeous iridescent pearl shimmer. Added is micro-fine and small holo glitter, blue and white moons, and black, blue, and green stars. The moons and stars were hard to lay down so they just kind of stuck up. I say who cares when it looks so nice? It does glow it the dark but alas, I couldn't capture it in pictures. Two coats over two coats Revlon Dreamer.

Fun, right?

Anyone else a Trekie? :)

Retro Sunday Squared with Scholarly Nail - Vintage Urban Decay

It's that time again!

I can't believe it's already been a week since our first post, but Jacqui and are back with another addition of Retro Sunday Squared! We chose Urban Decay for today - you MUST go check out her blog post for the day - the sneak peak I got from her already has me drooling! I'm getting so excited just thinking about it LOL! The first polish I chose for today's post is Metropolitan - which was actually a gift from Jacqui herself! :) I was so extremely sad to take it off to keep swatching - this bad boy is going on a full mani ASAP! Take a look!

Just revisiting these swatches again is making me miss Metropolitan so much! It's AMAZING!!! Ahhhh.... *stares longingly at her bottle*..... onto business! This stunning beauty my friends is a deep magenta jelly packed with fine silver glitter. The effect is just drool-worthy - juicy yet sophisticated. I'm so in love. Thanks again, Jacqui! Metropolitan jumps to the top of my favorite polish list! This is two smooth coats. 

Oh yea.

Next up I have Florescent. What an odd name for a pearly white, right? Anyhoo, this is my newest addition to my Urban Decays from an eCrater seller that Kaz introduced me to. Terra has a wonderful range of polish and cosmetics and was a gem to buy from - check her out! Florescent is a very sheer polish, so I layered two coats over two coats of Revlon's Powder Puff. I love how it catches shades of pink. Pretty!

Have a relaxing Sunday! Make sure to check out Jacqui's blog for her amazing Urban Decay polishes!

Yu Xuan #11

Hello There!


Today I have my fourth and final Yu Xuan polish, #11. I had so much fun stocking up on foreign polishes at the dollar store, and am happy to find out that two of them ending being wonderful layering polishes! Here is two coats of #11 over two coats of black polish (On the Prowl's Inkwell). 

In the bottle, #11 looks like your average pearly white polish. Layered over black? It takes on a whole other life! Pink and white duochrome goodness! It really just glowed in the sun, I couldn't been happier to have discovered it's hidden powers! :P 

Seche Clear basecoat/ Revlon Quick Dry topcoat

Barry M Aqua Green & OPI Here Today Aragon Tomorrow

Hey girlies!

I am soooooo excited and proud to show you my new layering genius! I love the overwhelming surprise when you realize that what looked like a relatively pretty polish in the bottle turns out to be a drool worthy stunner! That's exactly what happened when I purchased a few polishes grouped together in a blog sale. I had never tried Barry M polishes before, and it was included with two Wet N Wild vintage polishes. I could tell the polish was older - everything on outside of the bottle was worn off - and there was a handwritten sticker on the bottom that simply stated "Aqua Green". Whether or not that's really this puppy's name - once I layered it over a dark polish, I couldn't believe my eyes!

I don't know where to start other than WOWZA!!! I mean, JUST LOOK AT IT! This pearl finished duochrome flashes from a seafoam green, bright lime green, and a light blue. In some light it even flashes purple! I tried my hardest to capture all the colors in different kinds of lights but pictures just don't do this baby justice! In person I couldn't stop staring at my nails. AMAZING! I was drooling! :P This was two coats.

Underneath all this is three coats of OPI's Here Today Aragon Tomorrow, a deep, dark green  creme/jelly polish. I'm a sucker for green polishes, they are amoung my favorites! Make it was vampy green polish and I'm all for it! After finally getting this lovely on my nails, I couldn't remember what took me so long to get it on my fingertips in the first place! :)

Essie All In One Base

Yu Xuan - #85

Happy Hump Day, dolls!

Today I have the first of many polishes I came across at an odd little dollar store at the mall here in Virginia Beach. Needless to say - I'm going back this weekend! :P The shelves were cluttered with odd brands I've never heard of - one of them was Yu Xuan, I grabbed three! I can't find any info online of this brand, so sorry for the lack of info! Here is #85! (No name)

I couldn't believe that I found this amazing beauty in the midst of all the polishes at this dollar tree! #85 flashes between a frosty, pearly white and a gold - the result over black polish is just STUNNING! I knew it would be gorgeous, but MAN was it rendered me speechless! I mean, JUST LOOK AT IT! It glows so bright! *drools* I think I'm going to back to try and find another bottle! Keep in mind though, these polishes are definitely at 3-free - very strong smell! Ventilation was necessary, but who cares with nails that look like this! :D

I switched it up today with Seche Clear base coat/ Sally Hansen Insta-Dri topcoat

OPI Muppets Fresh Frog of Bel Air with Revlon Spice It Up Snow Bunny

It's Saturday!!! I'm really excited because it's my weekend off! :) I haven't been feeling well lately, sore throat and head aches, so my goal to to swatch my little butt off today! So many beauties backed up it's scary to look at! Today I have a polish that I knew I had to have the moment I saw the promo pics - OPI's Muppets Fresh Frog of Bel Air!

Green is my favorite color AND, as we all know, I love glitter, so this polish BEGGED me to buy it! And of course - I caved. Like right away. Never looked back! ;P FFOBA is a clover green glitter with larger silver glitter - great for layering! I don't think I'd ever wear this baby by itself. I was thinking wearing it over red for a Christmas mani.....hmm.....

Now it's time for the pearly lovely underneath it all! It's the second polish I have to share from Revlon's Holiday 2011 Spice It Up collection - Snow Bunny! Lately I don't know what has changed, I have been so drawn to white shimmery polishes! I can't get enough! (Here's lookin at you, Au Champagne!) Snow Bunny took three coats to reach full opacity - and they were well worth it! I'm in love with Snow Bunny!

As always, I used my go-to Essie All in One Base and my new love - Poshe topcoat