Quick NOTD - Zoya: Zuza

Happy Monday!

Oh, Zoya. I really don't give you enough credit. I have quite a lot of your polish, yet I never really fall head of heels for your collections. They all seem the same for the most part, and I really only buy from you when you have your awesome sales. I want to love you more, I really do. 

Polishes like Zuza help me to build the affection. I honestly forgot about this one too (I do that a lot. Happens when you have as much polish as us polish addicts do!) and when I came across it, it just HAD to get on my nails! A light, almost pastel teal polish with silver/white shimmer just scream spring/summer to me! Zoya either goes one of two ways with me: either they wear like iron or they chip within five minutes. This one chipped in ten. It's still a beautiful polish none the less. This is two coats.

Enjoy the beginning of your week!

<3Dana

Quick NOTD: L'Oreal - Sequins

Hello there!

I'm so happy it's Saturday. I'm off tomorrow, and I've decided to plant my little butt on the couch and watch FireFly and Star Trek: Voyager tonight. Oh, and eat Confetti Cake Pop Tarts. (If you haven't tried them yet, YOU HAVE TO!) Livin the dream, people. Livin. The. Dream.

ANYHOO, ONTO THE POLISH. A few months back (I think?) I found a few really awesome vintage L'Oreals on eBay and I completely forgot about them until I stumbled across them in my Helmer. Today I have Sequins to share with you! I only got two pictures before I fumbled the bottle and literally smudged every single nail. LAME. Sequins is just awesome! A deep plum polish loaded with silver shimmer and sparse silver glitter swimming within, giving it a really awesome metallic, molten feel. This polish is so unique. I LOVE THIS POLISH! If you see this one out there.... GRAB IT! This is two coats. 

Here's a closer look at Sequins, so you can see it in all its glory! 

Have a great weekend!

<3 Dana

Vintage Sally Hansen Hard As Nails: Shimmer

Happy hump day!

I'm so happy it's Wednesday, I'm off tomorrow! Woo hoo! I decided to spend this evening watching awesome corny 90's teen comedies (Can't Hardly Wait, anyone? anyone?) and swatching some pretty beauties. I actually had forgotten that I had this gem in my Sally Hansen drawer, I *think* I scored this from Dollar Tree a few years back! Isn't that just the BEST when you score vintage gems at the Dollar Tree? Doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's a goal mine! 

Shimmer is an awesome green glitter that actually got really, really opaque over a green creme polish with three coats. I love the vintage Sally's that had the great fine grain glitter, they apply really well and they have such a great sparkle to them. I love the vibrant green color as well, reminds me of Christmas! 

Have a great night!

<3 Dana

OPI: Cajun Shrimp

Good morning everyone!

We all know we have those go-to colors that we love, and for me one of my summer colors I always reach for is OPI Cajun Shrimp! I've loved this polish for years. It's one of the red/coral colors that looks amazing on all skin tones. I had to use flash to get the color to pop, so I promise you my skin isn't naturally really that ghost white! I absolutely adore the wide OPI brushes, and formula on this was of course great. Two coats.

Have a great day!

<3 Dana

TRUE BLOOD WEEKEND! Deborah Lippmann Clean Nude & Maybelline Gilded Rose

Happy weekend, everyone! HAPPY TRUE BLOOD WEEKEND THAT IS!

I'm a hard core True Blood fan. My heart is breaking that this is the last season. When the last episode airs, don't talk to me. I'll be balling my eyes out in a corner somewhere. I love the book series as well, if you haven't read those as well as watching the show, YOU MUST!

So, of course I wanted to use a polish from my Deborah Lippmann Forsaken trio. You know how sometimes you just really want a nude, delicate mani? Well I do. Most times all I want is green or blue or glitter, but today I really wanted something simple. Clean Nude is a really nice nuce polish with my skin tone, and I love that it's nice and sheer, it gives it that jelly feel. This is two coats.

Of course I had to add glitter. I'm too weak. Maybelline Gilded Rose is by far the BEST polish I've been Maybelline come out with lately! I LOVE rose gold, and this polish is so stunning! This is one coat on my accent finger. I love how this turned out!

HAPPY TRUE BLOOD WEEKEND!

<3 Dana

Quick NOTD: Finn The Human!

Good evening (or morning) everyone!

Today I have a quick polish to share, and it's a fun one! My husband and I love Adventure Time so much, so naturally he threw this amazing vibrant blue polish into my Christmas stocking over the holidays! It's so FLIPPING CUTE! Bright, amazing blue creme polish, Finn The Human cap, AND it came with a Jake the Dog nail file! YOU GO, HUBBY. I think he got this from Hot Topic he said? 

Let's talk formula - it was really awesome! This was two coats, nice and smooth! I really wish that I would have snagged up the rest of the bunch back when they were still around.

Sweet dreams!

<3 Dana

Vintage Bath & Body Works Color Drops: Wall Flower

Hello there and happy Tuesday!

When we were preteens, was anyone else obsessed with Bath and Body Works Art Stuff line and their Color Drops nail polishes?! I know I was, so of course I'm trying to recollect them all as an adult! Today I have one of the more recent ones I scored on eBay, and since it's very rare to find one that still has the charm attached, you can imagine my excitement when I found this one. I don't think the baseball mit exactly matches the bubblegum pink creme polish, I love and cherish it all the same! 

The formula on this was pretty awful. It wasn't thick or goopy, but the formula refused to dry evenly or dry at all. This is two or maybe three coats shown. This would be one of those polishes that I will love looking at in the bottle and not on the nail LOL! 

Have a great day!

<3 Dana