Valentine's Day Layering Fun! Zoya Elisa & Sally Hansen Hard As Nails 14 Karat

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

I hope you all have a much more romantic day/night planned then me, Jeffrey and I are both working tonight. Ah well, we had our big dinner date a few nights back. <3 Today I wanted to show off a bright and Valentine's Day-esque manicure. 

Elisa is one of the three Zoya's I recently got during there last promotion. I freaking LOVE this red! It's so in-your-face vibrant - just like Pretty Serious Santa's Sunburn actually! (Sorry Zoya, PS is still my fave. The gold shimmer wins all.) Formula was great, this is two smooth coats. As much as I love Zoya's formula, their polishes tend to chip almost instantly on me. Sucks. On my accent nail I have two coats of vintage Sally Hansen Hard As Nails 14 Karat, a FABULOUS recent Dollar Store find. 

HAVE A GREAT VALENTINE'S DAY! <3 <3 <3

Pretty Serious Cosmetics - Seasonal Sunset

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Today I have my final polish I purchased from Pretty Serious's Christmas Without Snow collection - Seasonal Sunset. Hummina hummina hummina! WOWZA, BABY! I knew this was on my must-have list and I'm so glad I was proved right! If there's two three things that Pretty Serious knocks out of the ball park, it's red, green, and glitter. They remain the tops in my stash and true loves of polish!

Seasonal Sunset is a rusty red jelly based polish just BURSTING with copper and red irregular glitter. It burns from within! What an amazing polish with an equally amazing name! It's ON FIRE! I think this is a perfect holiday polish with a splash of sass! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE! Formula, as we've all come to know and love from Pretty Serious, was perfection. This is three thin coats. 

Knocked me off my seat!

Pretty Serious Cosmetics - Santa's Sunburn AKA MY NEW FAVORITE POLISH EVER!

I almost don't know how to give this polish the introduction it deserves.

I own more polish than I can count. (really. I don't know how many I have! I started a spread sheet but never finished it!) I have many polishes that make my heart flutter, and for the longest time my all-time favorite polish was RBL Bikini Bottom. Everything I though I knew changed when I got this bad boy in the mail from Pretty Serious Cosmetics. My mind was blown in ways I didn't know were possible. I love red polish SO SO SO SO much! I used to despise it, but the more I got into polish the more I realized the sexiness of a great red. Santa's sunburn is everything I ever wanted a red polish to be. My photos don't do the brightness of this polish justice, it just blows you away! Add the sparkling shimmer?! When I got this on my nails I ran all over my apartment to see it in different lights giggling like a little school girl. This is a one-coater too! ONE-COATER! Formula was smooth as butter. Wore like iron. Yep, my favorite polish ever, people. And that's a crazy claim to make. <3

What's your favorite polish?!

Ulta3 Glitters - Part 1

Why hello there!

I've got something really awesome and special to share with you this weekend - Ulta3 glitters that I just got all the way from Australia from my lovely and generous pal Lauren! I knew I wanted them from the moment they started popping up on blogs and I'm so grateful I can now call them mine! THANKS AGAIN MY LOVE! *hugs polishes to my chest* I decided to break them up into two posts, today I have the first three to share.

First up I have Pot Of Gold. This is one of my favorites of the bunch! All of these glitters are clear-based and are a little on the stinky side. There's various sizes of gold glitter in the mix, and some of them have a nice, slight holo finish to them. This was one of the ones that applied the best after one coat. This is two coats over Hard Candy Normal. SO PRETTY. 

Next up I have Disco Fever, a red multi sized glitter. I love red glitters so much. I think my obsession and love for all things Christmas just brings it out in me. This is two coats over Calvin Klein Tutu.

Last but not least for today I have New Years Eve. MAN I wish I had had this one to wear a few nights ago LOL! Another one of my faves, I love the lightness yet brightness of this blue multi sized glitter and I love it over silver! This is two coats over Illamasqua Glory.

Wait until day two tomorrow! :D

China Glaze - Ruby Pumps

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

I was trying to think of a festive, fun winter polish to show you today - and China Glaze Ruby Pumps just popped into my head! It's a cheery transition from Christmas to New Years indeed! **FYI** I don't know what's wrong with my camera. I haven't touched any of the settings, my lens isn't smudged, I need Jeff to look at it. I hate these blurry pics but they will just have to do for now! It's still a gorgeous polish! 

Now I used to the re-released core version of Ruby Pumps, but I sold it in my blog sale after finding this bad boy on eBay. I had a teeny little bidding war, but in the end I won. :) This bottle is from the original release of the Wizard Of Ooh Ahz Collection in 2001. There's so many polishes out there inspired by Dorothy's famous shoes, but this may very well be my favorite. This is three thin coats. 

HAPPY 2013!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! China Glaze - Party Hearty

MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

It's officially my favorite holiday of the year! I always get sad right before Christmas because I know it'll be over soon and I have to wait a whole year again. I'm such a dork. Jeffrey and I aren't going home for the holidays this year, I work (DOUBLE TIME, BABY!) till 3, then he's cooking me a fancy dinner and I think we might go see a movie. I can't wait! I'll miss my family and friends but it's nice coming up with my own traditions.

I tried to find the perfect holiday polish to use on Christmas, and while searching through my stash it dawned on me China Glaze Party Hearty will be PERFECT! Party Hearty came out in their Holiday 2010 Collection, 'Tis The Season To Be Naughty And Nice. Party Hearty is a fun, festive, chunky glitter that consists of different sizes of green, red, and gold glitter. It's HTF now, so I was happy so snag this from a blog sale for only eight bucks. This is three coats over Bonita Treasure Chest. 

MERRY, MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Cover Girl Boundless Colors - Red Revolution

Hey there lovelies!

I hope you all have a fun Saturday planned, Jeffrey and I are going to the mall to spend the day together. I seriously can't remember the last time we did that together! 

Just a quick heads up, I'm back to little nubbins right now. Sometime I get a little tired of my nails being longer. Today I have my new favorite red to share! I first saw this gem on THIS POST from Kaz. Right after reading it, I immediately ran to eBay (the the virtual sense LOL!) and bought it for less then six bucks with shipping! If you look at Kaz's swatches, her color is much more true to reality then mine. I don't like the way it photographed. :( Ah well, it needs to be seen in person! Nothing makes me feel sexier then a good red creme polish. I can't believe I went so long never really wearing them! This is two buttery smooth coats. 

Have a great weekend!

Nina Nail Enamel - Fruitcake

Hey there!

Anyone done with Christmas shopping? It's my day off today, I have an eye appointment then it's time for some shopping for my fiance! 

Today I have a really fun vintage polish to share that a lovely Instagram/Twitter friend sent me. This Nina polish I *believe* is the old version of Nina Ultra Pro polishes at Sally's. What really makes this polish cool is that I don't remember seeing any other holiday polishes from that line! I'm such a Christmas whore that I love a polish line a million times more if I knew they threw out festive polishes. Fruitcake is a clear-based polish with small glitter is red, green, and gold. They layering possibilities are seriously endless! This is two (maybe three? It's been a few days....) coats over China Glaze Ultamate Holiday.  

Has anyone else ever seen this old Nina line?

Revlon - Very Currant

Happy Saturday! 

I love Revlons. I love vintage. I love reds. Roll em all up and what do ya get? Today's polish - Revlon's Very Currant! This gem was sent to me by my lovely pal Lani in one of our swaps, I love this girl so much and I love our swaps just as much! <3

Very Currant is a warm-toned cherry red polish with a slight gold tone to it. AKA a GREAT Christmas red! Not your usual cheery, bright red - but more of a warm and cozy red! One thing Revlon nailed back in the day was reds and this is proof! This is two coats.

Have a great weekend!