Inspired By...Pinterest

Hey guys!

I didn't intend to do another manicure inspired by Pshiiit, but I was browsing my Pinterest boards and saw this manicure and it happened to be. So there :-p

I started with a base of Bondi New York Brick Road (review of that coming soon), then painted some white with OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and finished with a custom Zoya FabFitFun! Topped it off with Wicked Fast and voila! 

I think it kind of looks like flowers and I am very okay with that ;-)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Chaos & Crocodiles Fireside Nights

Hey guys!


If you follow me on Twitter at all, you might have noticed that I've become obsessed with circle glitter. Not like "oh, I really like circle glitter". No. More like "I NEED ALL THE CIRCLE GLITTER!!!!!" So when I saw this on The PolishAholic's page a few weeks back... well, obviously I had to buy it.

Chaos & Crocodiles is a new to me brand on Etsy, but they had fantastic and fast shipping! I think I ordered this on a Saturday and received it the following Monday! Wow!

Anyway, Fireside Nights is a clear based glitter with red and yellow CIRCLE GLITTER, and red and yellow various other glitters. I layered 1.5 (maybe just 1) coats over a black creme.

Let's start with the macro.

NOMNOMNOM!! 

Guys... this is like a sickness. I NEED ALL THE CIRCLE GLITTER!

What are your favorite glitter shapes and DO YOU KNOW OF MORE CIRCLE GLITTER!?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Review: Polish Addict Speckled Eggs and Pretty Little Glitters

Hey guys!

**Products Provided for My Honest Review** 

You guys are actually seeing my NOTD today... this never happens. This means you'll be seeing my awkward right hand since I'm wearing both polishes :-p

Laura of Polish Addict was kind enough to send me a bottle of Speckled Eggs to review when she sent me a replacement Pretty Little Glitters, which I will get to later.

For both of these polishes, I used one coat of Gelous and one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top for the topcoats. 

Speckled Eggs is a sheer gray base with blue, green, purple, and pink hex holographic and square glitter. I layered 2 coats over OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls.

Formula wise, this was the tiniest bit thick but I would rather have a thick glitter than a thin glitter.  I didn't have to fish for any of the glitter pieces at all.

I've reviewed Pretty Little Glitters before but I now have the new reformulated version! WHOO!

Pretty Little Glitters is loaded with purple, blue, green, pink hex glitter with micro glitter in a white base. This was 2 coats over MBSW. Yeah yeah... my right hand is very awkward.. I know ;-p

I'm sooo glad Laura reformulated PLG... this is super awesome!

Do you have any Polish Addict polishes? What are your favorites?
Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Essie Bobbing for Baubles and Cult Nails Seduction

Hey guys!

Essie Bobbing for Baubles is one of those polishes I always picked up and always put back down, for some reason. I finally bought this from a blog sale and I'm really glad that I did. Ya'll know I love blue!

This is one of those perfect Essie cremes... no cuticle pooling, dragging, etc. This was 2 coats.

Then I FINALLY used my Cult Nails Seduction flakies. Mmmmmm flakies. This was one coat.  I couldn't narrow down the pictures so you get 4, haha. Beautiful orange, blue, purple, and green color shifts. Mm. Saxy! (That's my word for sassy and sexy, in case you were wondering.)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

butter LONDON Bluey with I Love Nail Polish Babes In Toyland

Hey guys! Happy Wednesday! Yay the week is almost over! LOL


butter LONDON Bluey is a beautiful rich blue shimmer. I used 2 coats here, no issues and a lovely formula. No top coat. 

I added one coat of I Love Nail Polish Babes In Toyland over Bluey. I love this glitter over the blue base! And I LOVE the rubberized cap on the ILNP bottles.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Kiko # 336 with China Glaze Scattered and Tattered

Hey guys!

So normally today would be Untrieds Day but I think Amanda and I are going to take it down to one day a week for challenges. This month we will be do Glequins/Glitter/Nail Arty things so twice a week will be a lot for both of us, I know!! 

Remember when I showed you the super awesome Catrice Dirty Berry and said I had another awesome polish to show you? Well here it is! Kiko #336 is the most VIBRANT HOLY CRAP THIS BLUE IS AWESOME blue creme polish. Aaahhhh! So bright! So shiny! LOVE!

I used 2 coats here, no dragging or pooling. Cuticle pooling is my least favorite thing ever. I will get rid of a polish if it pools in my cutes. For real. Anyway.. this was perfection. 

I added one coat of China Glaze Scattered and Tattered over the blue and I really really like the black, red, and blue combination! What do you think? 

Mmmmmm this blue... It's so pretty, it makes me hungry!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Inspired By... Simple Little Pleasures

Hey guys! 

Today's post is inspired by a YouTube video that Sarah from Chalkboard Nails tweeted a few weeks back. If you know me at all, you know I have a love/hate relationship with water marbling. I absolutely love the look of it but I don't often pull off a successful water marble.

So when I saw this video, I literally gasped. It was beautiful. I had to try it.



I decided to try it using many of the same colors as Colette did because obviously that will make me better at water marbling :-p  The only thing that I should have done was use a black base; I used a white base.

I used Color Club Beyond, Kismet, and Eternal Beauty. My toothpick drawing skills in the water marble are rather abysmal... that is probably the most challenging part for me, lol. But This turned out pretty well, at least for my usual marbling standards.

 Definitely not as pretty as the manicure it was modeled after but I'm still calling it a success!

Go check out Amanda's blog to see what she came up with for this week's Pinterest Inspired Post!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda