butter LONDON EventFull Swatches!

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I purchased the 6 piece butter LONDON Eventfull set before Christmas and am just now getting around to swatching these. Since I'm not a fan of overly saturated posts with pictures, I broke this up into 2 posts, with 3 polishes in each post.

Warm Fuzzies is a taupe creme. This had a really nice formula, covering in 2 coats. All of these polishes did dry very shiny, as well! I've not tried the Patent Shine line before but they seem to live up to the "shine" name.

Mum's the Word is a peachy mauve. This covered in 2 coats, as well. This tone of color isn't my very favorite for my skin tone but otherwise the polish itself was fine.

Scrumptious is a berry creme. This needed 3 coats.

Stay tuned for the other half!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Superchic Lacquer Swatches!

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I have a couple of SuperChic Lacquer polishes to share with you today!

First up, No Rest for the Wicked, a cranberry holo. This had an amazing formula and was opaque in 1 coat. Yup. 1 coat! Plus topcoat.

And here is Wake Me Up, a beautiful emerald green holo. And yep, this was another one coat. Wow! Plus topcoat.

Have you tried SuperChic Lacquer yet?
Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Different Dimension Whatchu Talkin' Bout Willis

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I have another Polish Con polish to show you today! My friend Jess was kind enough to pick this up for me in September at PC and I'm sooooo lucky she did!

Different Dimension Whatchu Talkin' Bout Willis is a deep berry holo with holo glitter. I love the addition of holo glitter in holos that I'm seeing lately; it really adds something to the polish to make is sparkle even more!

This was 2 coats, plus topcoat.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired By A City

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For inspired by a city, I chose to attempt to recreate one of the gorgeous Michigan sunsets that are often photographed by the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinac Island (and if you are curious as to how to pronounce that, it's pronounced "mack-in-aw"). Mackinac Island is a Michigan treasure for several reasons, but one of the things that I love most about Mackinac Island is that there are no cars allowed on the island! The only vehicle is an ambulance. Everyone else uses horses and bicycles. Even the mail and UPS carriers! So be careful where you step, lol. The Island is beautiful and easy to walk or bike and let's not forget all of the delicious fudge shops. Seriously, there are probably about 30 and the island is only 9 miles in circumference! Anyway... this was the city that first came to mind for this prompt!

I googled Mackinac Bridge and this picture caught my eye. Immediately I knew this would be difficult for me to recreate for lots of reasons, primarily because this requires lots of small detail work but I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to try!

I grabbed some Pretty Serious Cosmetics polishes for this manicure! The polishes used were:

• Forbidden Fruit
• Generally Hazardous
• Cuddle Bunny
• Gloomy Kitty
• Yuletide of the Machines
• Morning Java

I started with Forbidden Fruit as my base color but you obviously can't see it since the gradient covered it up, lol. Then I used Forbidden Fruit, Generally Hazardous, Gloomy Kitty, and Cuddle Bunny for my gradient on a cosmetic sponge. One coat of topcoat and waiting... waiting.... Then I used Morning Java to draw the Mighty Mac and the suspension lines and then highlighted the golden parts of the bridge that represent the sun shining with Yuletide of the Machines.

And don't ask my why I decided to switch bottles in between pictures, lol!!

These are by no means perfect but I guess they aren't terrible? I am always on the look for the tiniest detail brush possible and I thought I was using one small enough but the lines still aren't small enough for me, lol. 

What is your favorite city??

Alaina at The Little Canvas

  Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

    Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Claire at Kerruticles

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes 

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Mix & Match

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 Today is Mix and Match day for Twinsie Tuesday and I didn't really know what I wanted to accomplish with this manicure so I just sort of started playing and this is what happened, lol.

I started with one coat (ONE COAT) of OPI Push & Shove, which I had somehow never used until tonight. Crazy silver chrome polish but I should have used a ridge filling base coat. Oh well, that's where OPI's Black Cherry Chutney came in. I used some various nail vinyls on my index and ring fingers and did a random dotticure on my middle finger. Then I painted one coat of Black Cherry Chutney on my pinky and went in with Push & Shove for a dry brush nail, another technique that I have never done but is so easy and cool and why am I wasting my time NOT doing this technique?!

Be sure to check out the other Twinsies Mix & Match manis!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

     Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

        Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Claire at Kerruticles

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes 

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Words

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I was completely stumped for what to do for a Words manicure because I didn't want to attempt to write anything on my nails; I have terrible handwriting. I didn't want to do newspaper nails because then I would have to buy a newspaper, lol. I think I came up with the ultimate cheat!

Nine Zero Lacquer is releasing monthly Limited Edition polishes this year, starting with this gorgeous berry holographic, aptly named January 2016. This covered beautifully in 2 perfect coats. It does dry a bit dull so a topcoat is helpful to really intensify the holo.

Get it? My words are Limited Edition! Haha. I thought it was really clever. I'm probably the only one, lol!!

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Lisa at The Polish Playground

Claire at Kerruticles

​ ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Amanda at Amandalandish

Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Mid West Lacquer I Have The Power!

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I received this polish as part of a giveaway prize!

This is my first Mid West Lacquer! I always love trying new brands, but sometimes it's overwhelming because there are so many indie brands! When I win a giveaway and there are multiple brands in the package, that makes me happy because I can try new brands all at once! :)

I Have the Power! is a dark berry colored jelly with gold flakes. This was pretty sheer and needed 4 coats plus topcoat. Even so, it has a nice formula and didn't look thick and clumpy at 4 coats. It's such a beautiful color, perfect for fall!

Have you tried Mid West Lacquer? Are there any colors I *must* try next??

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

NYC Midnight Beauty Collection!

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Today's post is a little bit different but something I'm excited about! I have some makeup to review today! New NYC makeup, to be exact! Whoo!

Now, if you follow me on Instagram, you might notice that I've become more and more into makeup recently. I've always loved the pretty packaging and colors but am finally getting more acquainted with wearing it! Great concept, right? Use the products you buy! So hopefully I will be reviewing makeup on the blog here and there. I will probably schedule those posts as weekend or Tuesday or Thursday posts and keep the nail posts MWF. Cool? Sweet!

Expert Last Lip Color ($1.99). I've never used NYC lipsticks before and THEY SMELL LIKE CHERRIES!!! WHY didn't anyone tell me this?! MMMMMMMM, so good!

Red or Alive, 1, 2, and 3 swipes (from right to left and yes, I know that's super backwards!)

Immortal Vixen - 1, 2, and 3 swipes, again right to left. This color terrified me a bit in the tube because it looks really dark but I was glad it was a little more sheer. It could definitely be built up to a more opaque color but it's nice to have the option to wear it a little more sheer, for those of us who want the beautiful color but maybe don't want to wear super vampy lips all of the time.

I wore this color one day and it was a little bit drying as it dries to a semi matte finish.

Individual Eyes Custom Compact in Hate The Night ($4.99)
These shadows are pretty basic colors, but staples that most women will want to own. I used the primer all over my eyes, let it set for about 30 seconds and then started applying shadows. I used the
All Over Lid, and lighter crease color on my eyes and the matte black crease color as an eyeliner and then the highlighter on my brow bone. They seemed quite pigmented to apply and there was almost zero fallout, which is awesome because eww fallout.

The shadows wore well throughout the day and didn't fade or blend away. I did notice some creasing by the end of the day. I have a hard time finding any eyeshadow primer that stays put as well as my Milani Eyeshadow Primer!

I do like that the plastic cover for this can be removed but also has notches in the plastic so you can easily replace it in the shadow pan when you are done using the eyeshadows. There's also a little groove for the sponge.

One swipe of each eyeshadow over the primer included in the palette.

Liquid Eyeliner ($2.99)
The applicator on this eyeliner was a brush and as someone who is not even remotely a liquid eyeliner professional, it was a little bit difficult to achieve a straight line. And the line was thicker than I would have liked.

The first line is the thinnest I could make it without wiping product off of the brush, the middle line is how it applied the most easily and the third line is after wiping product off of the brush. I did leave a swipe of this on my hand for about 5 minutes and it still smudged when I tried to wipe it off.

Okay, liquid eyeliner and I want to be friends. We do. But we're sort of frenemies right now. It's mainly my fault, I am not very patient.

You can purchase NYC Products basically everywhere... Target, Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens. They are very affordable and a great quality for the price! I'll be checking out some more lipsticks, for sure!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

SpaRitual Health, Wealth & Happiness and Shooting Star

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My lovely friend Arlyn sent me some polishes recently and here are two of the beauties she sent! 

SpaRitual Health, Wealth & Happiness is an indigo duochrome. This was 3 thin coats. 

Shooting Star is a dark purple shimmer with loads of pinky orange shimmer. This was 2 coats.

Neither of these polishes are recent but they are sooo so pretty! The thing I always find with SpaRitual is the polishes are so much prettier on the nail than in the bottle.

Talk to you soon!

Amanda

Cult Nails Iconic with Paris Sparkles Chataigne

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Cult Nails Iconic is a beautiful berry polish with orangey flakies. This was 2 easy coats, no top coat. 

I added 2 coats of Paris Sparkles Chataigne to the ring finger because I thought the brown would be lovely with this berry polish! I think I was right ;-P

I love these colors together. It's a little bit fall-ish but who cares? LOL

Talk to you soon!

Amanda

Zoya Ornate Collection, Swatches and Review!

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I finally have my post for the Zoya Ornate 2012 collection ready! Let's get right to the pictures, because there are quite a few!

First up, Storm, a black scattered holo! Yes! Zoya did holo's! I used two coats here. Oh my goodness, look at how beautiful!

Next, Aurora. Let me tell you that the pictures do this no justice. This is STUNNING! Again, 2 coats.

Next, Ziv. Ziv is a gold foil. Pretty seasonal color; this is 2 coats. 

Logan, a dark green foil-like polish. Again, 2 coats.

Electra over Logan. Electra is a silver holographic bar glitter. This is two coats.

Finally, Blaze.  Blaze is a berry toned creme, with scattered holographic dust. This was the least holographic of the holo polishes in this set, but it's a fabulous color. So squishy and pretty!

Overall, I think this is probably one of my favorite Zoya collections ever. As usual, the formula's were fantastic and I simply adore these types of colors. If there had been a holo blue in here, I would have probably pooed myself!

Yay Zoya!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda