Favorite Nail Polishes of 2015: Day 4!

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Welcome to Day 4 of Favorite Nail Polishes of 2015!

While indies have taken over my heart, I did have a few drugstore polishes for this list, lol. And this polish is too pretty to not include!

Orly's On The Edge is an indigo creme. This has a really great formula and covers easily in two coats. It dries a bit matte so I added topcoat.

I feel like this is such a 'me' color, lol. Probably because it's blue 🙊.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Round 14: Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas!

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We're back again with another BTN and this time, we are attempting the dreaded WATERMARBLE! DUN DUN DUN!!! I suck at watermarbling, regardless of how well the polish performs. I'm just bad at it. There is no reason other than... I'm just bad at it, lol. But I want to get better and that's partially what this Monthly BTN is for so let's get to it.

I used all Orly polishes for these except that I Salon Perfect Sugar Cube as my white base. I alternated Gumdrop and On the Edge and attempted a sad water marble design. Water marble masters: WHAT IS THE TRICK TO DESIGNS? Like, I don't get it. As quickly as I drop the polish, it crusts over and the toothpick or water marble tool doesn't make a line, it drags the polish??? Ugh. Anyway.

Then since I was already liquid latexing my nails, I figured that I might as well do all the nails and did a gradient using the same colors. I added a coat of Mirrorball because duh. It's Mirrorball.

My watermarble is just never going to be perfect but I thought this looking passable! My liquid latex messed up the marble on my middle finger when I took it off but whatever. I marbled. It happened, lol.

Now everyone go look at Alaina's nails and comment that she has to at least do one finger for a glitter placement manicure for an upcoming BTN! She's just being stubborn and difficult in this area. LOL.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Colores De Carol Happy Hour Collection

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Today I have the Happy Hour collection from Colores De Carol. As you might guess by the title, these are named after adult beverages and they all sound delicious and thirst quenching and I wanted all of them, lol.

Most of these were opaque in two coats but for the sake of continuity, I used three coats for all of the swatches, with no top coat. These are all holographic foil polishes, as well.

Pineapple Margarita (HOW DELICIOUS DOES THAT SOUND?!) is a beautiful yellow foil holographic. I love love love this color, it's so unique!

Papaya Sake is a coraly red. It looks like red peppers, doesn't it? So pretty.

Strawberry Bourbon Lemonade is a pinky red. Are we getting thirsty yet? I am.

Sour Grape Bellini is a dark purple, almost blue. I lurve this, no surprise.

Sea Mist Sunrise is a light teal blue.

Mint Mojito is a stinking gorgeous grass green!!

And then we have Silver Cloud Martini, a silver. This was basically amazing so you get two pictures of this polish, lol.

So yeah, these are beautiful and make me thirsty and are also just beautiful. So you should buy them.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Orly Adrenaline Rush

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Orly is becoming one of my favorite brands in the last year; they are just killing it and this summer collection is no different. I have 4 of the 6 polishes from the collection so let's take a look!

Push the Limit is a bright coral peachy neon that was basically perfection at 2 coats. I. Die.

Be Daring is a fuchsia purple, 2 coats.

Fireball is a bright coral pink with some shimmer. This was 2 coats.

On The Edge is a dark blurple THAT IS ONE FREAKING COAT OHHHHMAHHHH GOSH ARE YOU SERIOUS?! So amazing.

So yeah, I basically love these polishes and if Orly would just keep doing exactly this forever, I will be very excited. All of these polishes had a really great formula and On The Edge was freaking amazing.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Barielle Me Couture for Fall 2014!

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Barielle has released two new collections for fall and I have the Me Couture collection for you today!

The Me Couture collection is made of rich jewel tones, with a few neutral shades thrown in for balance. All of the formula's on these were very good, I used two coats for all of the swatches shown.

Taupe Notch is a dark gray taupe.

Berry Posh is a dark fuchsia berry color. This was a nice color to see in a fall collection to help brighten things up.

Moda Bleu is a dark navy, almost purple blue. I really liked this one but that should come as no surprise since I'm such a lover of blue.

Soho At Night is a grapey purple.

Boho Chic is a gorgeous dark teal green.

Vintage Gown is a rust color that has a hint of pink shimmer in the bottle. However, that doesn't translate to the nail. I tried direct sunlight, flash, you name it... Nope, just a rust colored polish. It's a lovely color, though and I used two easy coats.

 With flash. You can see the *tiniest* bit of shimmer with the flash but not at all without or in direct sunlight.

This was a lovely fall collection. I love jewel tones and while I probably have a similar color to most of the polishes in this collection, a normal person probably would not, lol, and it would make a great addition to your polish stash.

You can purchase Barielle polishes on their website.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

China Glaze Fancy Pants with Paris Sparkles Cobalt Surprise

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This is Fancy Pants from China Glaze's spring Avant Garden collection. Fun fact about me: I add 'pants' to a lot of words.... one of my nicknames is even Amandapants. So obviously I needed this polish, not only because it's an awesome blurple shimmer, but because it's called Fancy Pants. Even if it were ugly, I still might have purchased it. Luckily, it's definitely not ugly.

This is two glorious coats of Fancy Pants. FANCY PANTS!

Then, sticking with my double accent nails, I added 2 coats of Paris Sparkles Cobalt Surprise over Fancy Pants.  I like typing Fancy Pants, can you tell??

I LOVED these together. Blue? Check? Glitter? Check? Ya know what that equals? Amandapants' favorite things.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Orly Dark Shadows: My Picks And An Ozotic! (Picture Heavy)

 Hey guys! Did everyone have a nice 4th of July? I didn't even see any fireworks :-( I'm old and lame, lol.

I picked up two of the Orly Dark Shadows polishes when they were on super clearance from Sally's a few weeks ago. You know I grabbed the blurple, right? Obvy.

Mysterious Curse is a blurple polish. I think it's technically plum LOADED with blue shimmer, but it's so much blue shimmer that it looks blurple. 

I used 2 coats below. This was a little thin but not too bad. I feel like it's a pretty consistent Orly formula.... never too thick, never toooooo thin, but usually a little thinner than most. If that makes sense.

I decided to try one of my new Ozotics because I ordered the darn thing, I should use it and see what all the hype is about. I'm not gonna lie: I've never been a big fan of Ozotic swatches. I kind of figured that it was a "you need to see this in person" situation but holy crap.... YOU NEED TO SEE THIS IN PERSON! It's completely amazeballs. Now I will never use this polish again because they are being discontinued. So I will hoard it forever.

1 coat of Ozotic 532 over Orly Mysterious Curse.

Gaahhh.... droolllll......


Moving on to Buried Alive, which is such a completely morbid name but gorgeous color. I'm not into the whole vampires/zombies/walking dead thing.... but I love this color.

2 easy coats, no top coat. 

Did you pick up any polishes from this collection? What were your favorites?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda