Elegant glitter: Sally Hansen White Glitter

How are you guys doing today? I have some free time at work, and I'm staying late since I have a show in the city later, so I thought I'd give my blog a little love lol.


I love white glitter, and really any time of hex glitter that doesn't have bar glitter in it. I love custom made n/p, but a lot of them do contain bar glitter, and it automatically makes me wary. I don't really like it for some reason, unless it adds an extra oomph to the polish (I loooooved OPI Save Me) or Sassy Lacquer Uncle Sam. I don't really buy glitter with bar glitter unless it adds to the beauty and complexity of the polish. With that said, Sally Hansen White Veil was right up my alley, especially since it's so elegant looking. I love glitter, and I think elegant looking glitter is my favorite (stuff with milky bases like Nostalgic Nail Lacquer Duckie). It's white hex glitter with slightly bigger light gold hex pieces. It can definitely be worn on it's own since it's so opaque,  but I haven't tried it yet. 


This is one thick coat over OPI Royal Rajah Ruby, and then I mattified it. Sorry I couldn't get un-mattified pics! It looks cooler matte anyhow ;)


You can probably achieve the same opacity in two thin coats. It was pretty easy to apply for a glitter, and went on pretty evenly too. I didn't like how "cloudy" it looks on some of my nails, a consequence of trying to drag out the glitter from one spot as it was drying.

I don't know the name of this cat, but it sure is cute! It's a neighbor's cat, a very friendly one, who is absolutely adorable! I think it may be a mix between the tiger stripe cat and siamese cat (sorry, I don't know too much about cats and the different looks). I love to play with her, and she's just so frickin' adorable! I managed to snap a pic of her when she was rolling on the ground wanting to be played with, but it was still pretty hard because she's so feisty and wouldn't stand still!

Coco spam, just to balance out all the cat pictures. She's frickin' adorable too!

Claire's Lime Yours Review

Hi again! Second post of the day! 

I have for you Claire's Lime Yours. It's a really cool looking polish in the bottle, very neon. I don't classify it as a neon myself because I have high standards for a neon lol. Before I call any polish neon, it has to burn my retinas first! Otherwise it's just bright, or really really bright. Lime Yours is really, really, really bright. For others, it is neon. For me, it is simply BRIGHT!

It's a bright neon green color, unlike the other neon greens I own because it has more yellow in it than the others. It makes it pop more and look cooler! It looks pretty plastic too. I remember Orly had that Plastix collection, of satin/matte colors, but this is totally plastic. It's a weird jelly, plastic kind of color. I had to add a top coat to make it look shiny because it dried kind of satin, since it's so bright.

The application was a PITA. I wanted to hit the bottle, scream at it, and throw it across the room   and smile gleefully as it cried neon green tears as it dripped down the wall. But I restrained myself, because that behavior was not appropriate when watching Antiques Roadshow (three hours of it!!). 

It's a really hard polish to apply, even harder than some glitters I've tried, and glitters can be horrible, with all the dragging. This was worse, because it wouldn't even out, no matter now thick of a coat I put on my nail. It took about three hours (yes, I watched three hours of Antiques Roadshow on Saturday night, in fact I do that every Saturday night. I love it. Don't judge) and four coats to even out. It really didn't completely even out until I put on my Poshe quick dry topcoat (why does every use Seche? Poshe all the way!). THEN it looked fabulous. It was like, BLAM! In your face green. If you use very thin coats, and layer on 5-6 coats, it will still look like VNL crap nail polish from hell. You need to load it up on the horribly thin Claire's brush and just apply. And hope for the best. 

Despite its shortcomings, it photographs beautifully, and very brightly! Definitely eye-catching since it's pretty neon, especially in the shade. Wish the application was better. I'll keep this for now, but it will be a long time when I put this on, probably when "winter is coming" (haha just had to insert a Game of Thrones reference). 

Onto the photos!

Pics of LY in the shade, against the fern-plant things (took these in the parking lot of 24-Hour Fitness). It matches! 

Hope you guys have a great day!

Dandy Nails Come Out and Play Review

Hey guys! I've got some backlogged pictures on my camera, and on my photo file at home, so I'll be posting pretty often in the next couple of days!


Sandy (of Dandy Nails) had a restock and I managed to snag a couple of items, and I had my eye on this one. Shipping was pretty quick and I got my lovelies in my hands and was able to get Dandy Nails Come Out and Play!


Come Out and Play is such a cool looking polish. It is a squishy, neon purple jelly. Well, not quite neon, but it's bright. It's like a slightly darker, more jelly-ish Essie Perky Purple was mixed with lots of white glitter, this would be the result! I wish I wore it longer, but I did so much copying and heavy lifting (boxes) that I broke a nail, and took it off so I could file my nails to make them even :/

Anyways, I was able to get pics of it before I took it off! I highly recommend Dandy Nails, you can get her polishes here. Follow her on Facebook to get updates of her next restock!


This pic, and the other pics that show a red-purple are the most accurate representations of the color. The blue-purple is not the right color! It's definitely a violet color. My camera could not capture the depth or the true, bright color of it, but just try to imagine it much brighter! 

Picture of my nail polish against my bunny Coco's white fur. It's a pretty accurate color portrayal!

Gratuitous pictures of Coco, because I think she is so cute and a minority in the "pictures-of-my-pets" world! And don't worry, that is not a tumor under her chin, just her extra skin because she's getting older lol. I've had her for 6 years, and she already finished growing when I got her!

Isn't she adorable? Have a great day!

Nicole by OPI Holiday's Glaze and China Glaze Shaken Not Stirred

Third post of the day! I'm having a productive blogging day at work lol. I found a lot of old pics of manis on my flickr, and these pics are just the last of them.


This is Nicole by OPI Holiday's Glaze. It's a pink holo, and it's gorgeous, a linear holo that shines in even low light.





In case you're wondering, I'm holding Chanel Cristalline, a really, really old Chanel color that's similar to Chanel Intermezzo, just with more of a pearly pink finish.





This is China Glaze Shaken Not Stirred. These pics were taken before I knew how to work the macro function on my camera, so I apologize for the really crap pictures. It's a beautiful pink-tinged purple glass-fleck. You really can't see anything clearly, so you'll just have to refer to other bloggers' beautiful pictures of it to really appreciate the beauty of it.



I'm holding BB Couture Diamond Dust in the pictures. It's such a pretty topper for nail polish! I rarely layer nail polish, but this is one that I still need to try out!

Comparison post! Essie Da Bush vs. Sinful Colors Seaweed

Last summer, when Essie came out with Da Bush, I bought it immediately because I love these weird camo green colors. I love OPI Who the Shrek Are You (I've worn that 3 times, 2X to see Wicked, and once for St. Patrick's day in a patchwork, and it's rare for me to wear a polish twice!), and am dying to get Finger Paints Sexy Sundress! When I saw Sinful Colors Seaweed at Walgreens, I bought it immediately, but I had a feeling I'd seen it before. I dug out Essie Da Bush and found what had caused my deja vu! I didn't get Stranger Tides, so I couldn't say if they were dupes, but had I known that Sinful had pretty much duped the whole OPI Pirates of the Caribbean collection, I would have gotten all of them and not bought any of the OPI ones!


From left to right: Essie Da Bush, Sinful Colors Da Bush, Sinful Colors Adventure Island





Essie Da Bush is on the left, SC Seaweed on the right (sorry for the ugly nail wheel, I ran out and painted over other colors!):



A close up to show the differences, but they don't exist! They are complete dupes. I think the Sinful Colors collection that Seaweed was a part of was limited edition, so I don't think it is available anymore :/

Another 4th of July mani, One Year and a Day Late!

I had a niggling feeling that I had done an Independence Day patchwork mani before, and I found the pics of the one I had done last year for July 4th on my Flickr account! Here they are:

My left hand. I loved the flag I did, though it literally took almost an hour to do just one finger because I wanted the stripes to be perfectly straight. I didn't have striping tape, so I just stuck to using the Sinful Colors nail art polishes with the thin brush and went very slowly to make perfectly straight lines. It was such a pain in the butt that I resorted to doing my handy dandy signature patchwork because it was much easier to do and still was an eye-catcher! I can't remember the name of the blue, but it was the Sinful Colors bottle I was holding in my hand, and was on display for the 4th of July last year, along with the nail pens. The white was Rescue Beauty Lounge (RBL) Underwear, and the red creme was RBL Chinoise. The stars are a random cheapie n/p. I remember rushing to do this patchwork because it was late, and I had to go to sleep, so it isn't as sharp as I usually like (like the one I did for this year, in the post before this one).

My right hand. I am right-handed, so doing nail art on my right hand is a bit of a challenge sometimes, but I am getting better at writing with my left hand with so much practice! I was so tired I didn't even bother doing a patchwork, so I just resorted to a funky french, with RBL Chinoise for the red, and RBL Dead Calm for the blue.

At the county fair, I usually wander around alone because my dad is off at the horse races all day, so I'm left to myself. I try to read outside for a while, get bored and hot, and then walk around, seeking solace in the air-conditioned buildings. I really like looking at the mostly student artwork, some by adults, and this picture was one submitted by an adult! I was happily surprised to see a picture of nail polish. I think I identified the polish as China Glaze Atlantis (that's how I get people to believe I have over 1000, prob. 2000 n/p is by ID'ing what they are wearing!). It was so cool I took a picture of the picture lol.


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Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!