Great Lakes Lacquer August Limited Edition Polishes!

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Today I have both of the Great Lakes Lacquer monthly limited edition polishes.

First is The Waters of Torch Lake, a gorgeous aqua blue with blue shimmer. This was two coats and had a great formula. Maybe slightly a bit thick, but I love thicker formulas. I added a topcoat, by the way!

Next is I Left My Heart At Houghton, a completely beautiful periwinkle with small silver flakies. This was 2 coats and topcoat and OMG I love this so much.

The August polishes will be available through August so be sure to make your way over to Great Lakes Lacquer and pick these up before the month is over!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

OPI I'm Sooo Swamped Dotticure

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Another quickie post today but this one contains a little nail art, if you consider only dots nail art lol!

OPI's I'm Sooo Swamped from the New Orleans collection is a beautiful grass green creme. This had a great formula and was opaque in 2 coats, plus topcoat.

Then I added Show Us Your Tips from the same collection in random dots on all nails. The colors didn't pop quite as much as I would have liked but I really liked this combination.

What's your favorite dotticure combination?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Negative Space

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Today we are doing negative space manis and I always love the look of these manicures on others but it's one that I don't really love on me, for whatever reason.

So I did a simple accent nail for this manicure, using Painted Polish by Lexi Sweet & Serene, a GORGEOUS periwinkle holo with silver holographic glitter. This was two coats, plus topcoat. And I used a nail vinyl from..... eeek... I think Twinkled T? Anyway, that is what I used for the spiral heart accent nail.

                                                                   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

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

Amber at NailsLikeLace

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Nine Zero Lacquer February 2016

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Press Sample

It's a new month and that means a new polish from Nine Zero Lacquer. How do you feel about Polish of the Month situations? I kind of love them because I don't always want a new collection all of the time but a single polish is enough to tide me over for a bit, lol!

February 2016 is a gorgeous periwinkle, almost cornflower blue linear holo. As I've come to expect from Nine Zero, it has a perfect formula and was opaque in two coats. I added one coat of Love, Angeline Topped with Love topcoat.

This is available for purchase now at ninezerolacquer.com for $11 and will be available only for the month of February!

Talk to you soon!
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.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Rimmel Mind The Gap, Victoria

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Today's polish is brought to you by Rimmel, via Walgreens, and then my wallet, ha. I saw a new Rimmel display a few weeks back and this periwinkle blue color just called out to me!

Mind The Gap, Victoria is a periwinkle blue creme polish and isn't it just so springy?? I love it! I used 2 coats.

I don't usually talk about wear time with polish because every polish is different on every person but this wore really well on me and usually polishes chip on me within a day. I wore this for 4 days with minimal chips! Color me impressed!!

Are you ready for spring colors??

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Pond Manicure

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I hope everyone had a great holiday season and New Year! We are dealing with a lot of stuff right now; if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you will know that I asked for prayers for my family as my future SIL was in a severe car accident. There is still a lot going on with that but I can't do anything but wait and pray so I am trying to keep myself busy with nail polish. If you have been praying for her, we greatly appreciate it and please keep it up!

But now, onto the reason you are here...nails! And guess what?? I'm a Twinsie Tuesday Girl now! I'm so excited and nervous, lol! You guys know nail art is not my forte but I am hoping that this will help to develop any skill I might have in the nail art arena :-)

For this weeks prompt, the theme was Pond Manicure. I'll be really honest.... I had no idea what that meant. A quick google search indicated that it's basically a jelly sandwich but with some sort of nail art, rather than just glitter.

I decided to use one of my most favorite jellies evah, China Glaze Rainstorm and a gorgeous dark navy blue from the All Aboard collection, One Track Mind and some nail vinyls. Are nail vinyls cheating?? Oops! LOL

I used one coat of Rainstorm, let it dry and then used my starburst vinyls from GlitterDaze. Then I applied one coat of One Track Mind and holy moly was this super opaque. Then I let that dry and applied one and maybe two coats of Rainstorm. You can see on my index finger that I was a little heavy handed with the Rainstorm!

With Flash:

This was pretty fun! I liked the starburst and while it's not a groundbreaking design, I'M A NEWBIE, GUYS!

Have you ever done a pond manicure? What were your thoughts? Don't forget to check out the other Twinsie Tuesday girls and see what they came up with for a Pond Manicure!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Amber at Nails Like Lace
Beckie at Polished by Beckie

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Julep Nadia and Tracy

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I have two of the polishes from the July Maven box to share with you today! Where is the 3rd, you ask? That's a great question!! I'm not really sure where those pictures went :-/ Whoops.

Anyway, these were my favorite from the box so let's get to it!

First, Nadia. Julep calls this "a sun-kissed golden frost." I consider this more of a shimmer than a frost. I used 3 thin coats here.

Personally, I love yellows and am always excited to find a yellow polish that is so pretty. This is a soft yellow and that shimmer is pretty awesome!

Tracy is "a sparkling ocean sea salt" polish, which is what Julep calls their texture polishes. I'm really enjoying these texture polishes with the shimmer/glitter in the formula. I think it definitely adds to the polish!

I used 2 coats here. This dried relatively quickly. I will say that it had a little bit of a stronger smell than the other Juleps, a little more..... chemically? The texture polishes are still 4 Free, but maybe something in the texture adds to the smell. It wasn't offensive, just something worth mentioning.

What do you think of these colors? Are you on board with the texture polish trend? What are some of your favorite textures?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

China Glaze Fade Into Hue

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This is a polish from the spring China Glaze Avant Garden collection.

Fade Into Hue is a dusty periwinkle creme polish. It reminds me of the lavender flower, or even some lilacs. So pretty!

I used 2 easy coats here, no top coat.

One thing I will mention is that this peeled off in sheets the next day. That was probably my base coat (I'm still trying to find the perfect replacement to Nail Envy) but I thought I would mention it just to be safe :-)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

December Untrieds: Zoya Jo with Candy Lacquer Rarity

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 Welcome to another edition of December Untrieds with Amanda and Madeline.

Zoya Jo is a beautiful periwinkle polish, with fabulous shimmer. This was two perfect coats, as per usual with Zoya :-)

I added 2 coats of Candy Lacquer Rarity over Jo. Rarity is full of white and purple glitter and looks fantastic over Jo! 

What do you guys think? Have you tried any Candy Lacquer or Zoya polishes? What are your favorites?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Essie Smooth Sailing and Black Cat Lacquer

Hey guys! Today is the last day of my 3 day weekend. Blllah. Oh well. I'm going to the fair tonight to get some carnie food... mmm, carnie food!


Essie Smooth Sailing... I honestly didn't expect to like this color. My friend Jamie offered to pick up some polishes that were on sale and I asked her to pick up this and a few others. When I got the bottle, I was a little bit "wahh..." on the color but I'm glad that I was wrong in my initial judgement: it's lovely!

Smooth Sailing is a periwinkle creme with glassfleck shimmer. This was a nice consistency, no pooling or dragging. Love that in an Essie!

This is 2 coats, no top coat.

Did you think I was going to leave well enough alone? Nope. I added one coat of Black Cat Lacquer Let Them Eat Cake. 

You can purchase Black Cat Lacquer from her etsy shop.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda