Orly La La Land for Spring 2017 Collection!

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Happy New Year!! Wow.. just wow!

Today I have a SPRING collection! Wow. I am totally okay with Spring because I'm not a winter person but it seems like each season, products start releasing faster and faster!

This is the Orly Spring collection, called La La Land. I really love Orly polishes and have been enjoying the collections they've released in the past few years. And I LOVE the 6 piece collections. Can we just stop with the 12 or 18 piece collections? It's so overwhelming! Anyway, let's get to these polishes!

Head In The Clouds is a pastel pink. I should mention that all of these polishes are pastel and all are quite sheer on the first coat; I would almost venture to call these crelly polishes. This was 3 coats.

Cool in California is a pastel peach. Again, this was 3 coats.

As Seen On TV is pastel purple. This is the only polish that covered in 2 coats.

Forget Me Not is a pale sky blue. Another one that needed 3 coats.

Big City Dreams is a mint green. And yep, 3 coats.

Anything Goes is a an iridescent sheer polish with pink circle glitter and blue star glitter.  You definitely have to place the shaped glitter but it's fairly easy to swirl the brush around and pick up pieces of glitter. I used one coat over each of the polishes, with glitter placement.

To be very honest, I was a tad disappointed with the opacity in these polishes, even though pastels are typically 3 coats. I just thought there were still a few streaks and uneven marks at 3 coats :-/ I do love the colors, however and I always love seeing mainstream polishes using circle glitter!!!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired by the Weather

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We've been having some seriously gorgeous weather lately and I saw the most beautiful sunset last week and was inspired to do a gradient for this prompt. And it just so happened that I had three Pretty Serious polishes sitting in my acrylic rack that were perfect for this sunset!

I started with a white base and then sponged Pookie (blue), Honey Puff (yellow), and Peachie Poo (peach) onto my nails until I reached the desired opacity and then topped it off with topcoat. I thought about trying to draw some trees but you know how awful I am drawing trees so I decided to leave it as is, lol!

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Amanda

Nvr Enuff Polish Swatches

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Today I have 3 polishes from Nvr Enuff Polish to share with you! These are my first experience with this brand, so let's see how they turned out!


Universary is a blurple (blueish purple) polish loaded with silver flakies and holo microglitter. This was easy to apply, and was opaque in two coats, plus topcoat.

 Interstellar is a...well, I actually don't know how to describe this. It is sort of a foil but not really. It looks to be made of a ton of micro micro micro flakies? I'm really not sure, lol. It's pretty, whatever its composition! This was 3 thin coats, plus topcoat. Easy to apply, with a nice formula.

Eat My Unicorn Dust is a mauvey peach scattered holo. This was 2 coats, plus topcoat. Easy to apply, nice formula.

Have you tried Nvr Enuff Polish before? What are your faves??

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Amanda

Stardust Polish Week: Goldilocks Zone & Peach Blossom

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Stardust Polish Week continues with two more beauties from Drema.

Goldilocks Zone is a deep gold linear holo. This was perfect in two coats and had a really nice formula. I really love this color, it's so rich and cozy!

Peach Blossom is a peach linear holo. This was opaque in two coats which was really surprising for such a light color. Very pretty! The holo effect isn't as strong in this polish but it is still a really lovely color.

You can purchase Stardust Polish here. Be sure to follow her on Facebook and Instagram for sneak peeks are upcoming restocks and new releases!

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Amanda

Bestie Twin Nails with The Little Canvas + A Giveaway!

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Well folks, it's been a whole year since Alaina at The Little Canvas and I started our monthly Bestie Twin Nails series. I have really enjoyed these posts; it's getting me out of my comfort zone. Now we need to convince Alaina to branch out a bit and try some GLITTER PLACEMENT, AMIRIGHT?! :-p

For this look, we were inspired by Sensationails4U on Instagram. Alaina suggested we do butterflies because my daughter is not the best at saying "butterflies" and used to call them "guggafliesszzhhzh" (it was basically unintelligible, lol).

As always, I used the same brand for my manicure and grabbed some China Glaze polishes for the gradient: Fade Into Hue, Pack Lightly, and Lemon Fizz (purple, peach, yellow). I did an angled gradient and then added a coat of Fairy Dust and then drew my black butterfly lines with WnW Black Creme. The white dots are Salon Perfect Sugar Cube.

Now for the giveaway! There will be two winners, one from my blog and one from Alaina's! Prize number one is from Alaina and it's a mixture of Sally Hansen polishes.

Prize 2 is from me and consists of 2 KBShimmer holos, Men are from Marsala and Up & Cunning, both gorgeous holos. I'm also including an OPI Gwen Stefani 3 pack. You must be 18 years old, US only, and NO GIVEAWAY ACCOUNTS.

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Amanda

Potion Polish Dreaming Of The Islands Collection

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There's a new indie brand on the block and their name is Potion Polish! They opened in the beginning of June and I am pleased to say that I was their first sale! Whoo! LOL!

I bought the Dreaming of the Islands collection because 1) neon and 2) holo. So duh. There are 7 polishes in the collection so let's get to it. All of the polishes have a strong scattered holograph and were three coats with an easy formula.

Papaya Sunrise is peachy orange crelly.

This picture is a comparison of Papaya Sunrise (index and middle finger) and Electric Bikini (ring and pinky finger), as they are very similar. Unless you were buying the complete set, you probably wouldn't need both, although they are both lovely.

Electric Bikini is a red leaning coral crelly.

Beach Bunny Pink is a Barbie crelly.

Rainbow Orchid is an orchid purple jelly. This color was one of my favorites, it was 2 coats and so beautiful.

Sunlit Palms is a green crelly. I had to really adjust my camera settings for this so that's why my fingers look really orange, lol.

Sparkle Cay is a beautiful aqua jelly. This was another favorite; the color was just beautiful. This was a little sheer after two coats, as you can still see my nail line a bit.

Cerulean Skies is a cerulean blue jelly and let's just be honest: this is my favorite, as if you didn't know :-p This was 2 coats.

I am pretty impressed with this collection, especially for a first collection! The formula's were all very nice and I like that this is a neon collection without being just a neon collection, ya know? Not that I would ever complain about too many neons :-p.

You can check out Potion Polish on their website and follow them on Instagram for sneak peaks of upcoming collections!

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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.

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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Mattify!

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For today's prompt, we are mattifying a manicure. I decided to recreate this manicure using my new Orly Color Blast Belle themed polishes.

OPI MBSW was my base color and then I dotted Positively Primeval Gaston and then added a white dot to the center. Then dotted Nose In A Book and Crazy Old Maurice around the flowers, topped it off with Essie's Matte About You topcoat. Dasss cuteeeee, right? (By the way, that's how my 2 year old says "that's cute" lol. I need to get out more o.O)

Go check out the other twinsiessssss!

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Lisa at The Polish Playground

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Amanda at Amandalandish

Alaina at The Little Canvas

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Amanda

China Glaze Road Trip for Spring 2015: My Picks!

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I have 10 of the 12 polishes from the China Glaze Road Trip collection for spring 2015. Is anyone else gleefully excited for spring? I am never a fan of winter and I think each year I loathe it more and more. Come onnnnn spring!!

This collection is made up of pastels and brights and shimmers and cremes.

Pack Lightly is a peach shimmer. The formula on this was a bit patchy and at three coats, the patches were still visible. However, I have a rule about not doing more than three coats of a polish because I think that's just ridiculous for a creme. This was a gorgeous color though and the subtle shimmer was really pretty!

Sun's Up Top Down is a yellow with very subtle shimmer. In the light, the shimmer is visible but not so much otherwise. This was a bit streaky on the first coat but surprisingly, covered in 2 coats! 

More to Explore is the coral peach creme of the bunch and the formula on this was decent, as it covered in two coats. However, this took forever to dry. I completely ruined my manicure after waiting 40 minutes to touch anything!

Uhmm yikes!

Boho Blues is a lovely periwinkle blue creme polish. The formula on this was good, this was two coats with top coat.

Dashboard Dreamer is a light blue with an orangey pinky shimmer. This was very patchy, even at three coats. Wahh.

Wanderlust is a pale pink with some golden shimmer. This was also pretty patchy at three coats, as shown below.

Pinking Out The Window is a coral pink creme. This had an okay formula, I used 2 coats.

Trip of a Lime Time is one of those ugly greens that you will either love or hate. I am leaning more towards not loving this color, lol. This was 2 coats.

License & Registration Pls is a cobalt blue almost jelly polish. This was one of my favorites, no surprise there, I'm sure. This was 2 thin coats.

Even though the colors were lovely, this wasn't my favorite collection in terms of formula. Womp womp.

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Amanda

NYC Peach Sparkle and Golden Glam

Hey guys! Happy Wednesday! WHOOHOO! I love Wednesdays, lol.

How is everyone's week going so far? I feel very organize-y and de-cluttery this week... I've been cleaning and organizing at work and coming home and cleaning and organizing! It feels so good to get rid of stuff that we just don't need/use/want anymore. Aaahhhh. Except for nail polish, of course :-p

Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and blame Nouveau Cheap for me buying these :-p

These two new NYC polishes are quite lovely. Golden Glam is up first!

Golden Glam is a lovely rosey coral color with golden shimmah. It's quite duochrome-y. This was 3 thin coats, no top coat. 

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Peach Sparkle is a... wait for it... peach creme with golden shimmah! This was  the same as the Golden Glam, 3 thin coast, easy to apply. No top coat.

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NYC is super cheap, around $0.99 and these might have even been on sale so it was totally worth it :-)

What do you think? Too plain? Too pink? Too shimmery? WHAT'S YER DEAL, MAN?! (I swear, I'm okay. I don't even drink caffeine anymore, I don't know what's wrong with me today! Haha!)

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Amanda