Rimmel Round and Round In Circles

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Another new spring polish from Rimmel is Round and Round in Circles, a pale yellow creme polish. As with all yellows ever, it seems, this had a sort of streaky formula and required 3 careful coats.

This first picture is in direct light.

This picture is in indirect light and you can really see the streaks here. Such a shame, because this color is so fun and happy!

I found my Rimmel polishes at Walgreens and I believe they were about $1.79.

Have you tried the new Rimmel pastels for spring yet?
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Amanda

Sally Hansen Goldi-Flecks and CSM Over The Rainblue

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Sally Hansen Big Glitter Top Coat in Goldi-Flecks is a white and gold glitter topper in a clear base. The shapes and sizes of the glitter are assorted, so this is the perfect glitter topper for a lot of different looks. I used one coat over CND Mint Convertible and I loved the gold and white with the mint!

Macro!

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Over The Rain-blue is a blue and silver bar glitter topper. Bar glitter isn't my most favorite glitter, just because it usually ends up peeling up and then I pick at it and it's a mess. Or the pieces hang off of the edge of the nail and I cannot handle that situation. These bar glitters aren't as densely packed so the blue glitter is what you primarily see and that's okay with me :-) I used one coat and then dabbed a little bit more to fill in some areas. My base color is OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls. This was sort of a perfect Detroit Lions manicure, too ;-)

You can purchase Sally Hansen polishes basically errywhere, so go get you some!

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Amanda

DailyLook LBD Dream Date Style Challenge!

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When I told about the Little Black Dress Challenge for the DailyLook website, I was initially thinking of a nail art look. While I love fashion, I am pretty basic with my attire so I was glad that the 'assignment' turned out to be a virtual style set, lol!

Every woman knows what a LBD is: the Little Black Dress. I think it's safe to say that pretty much every woman owns a little black dress of some sort. That is, everyone except for me! Yep. That's right. As basic as I am with my wardrobe, I love color so I never gravitate towards the basic black or white colors for clothing. Blue, green, and purple make up the vast majority of my wardrobe, which I'm sure you're not surprised about if you have been a reader for a while.

Since I am in a transition phase of my wardrobe/weight right now, I'm not running out to buy any new clothes so picking out a virtual wardrobe was much more appealing to me! I picked something that I would actually wear or buy; even though I would like to wear the super sparkly mini dresses... let's be real: I'm a mom now, lol.

So where would I wear this outfit? Well, like I said... I'm a mom, I have an 18 month old and I've been married for almost 10 years.... my husband and I don't have a lot of date nights! But let's say we did and let's say I needed to dress up for this date night, I would love to wear something like the following image.

Fashion Footing's LBD with DailyLook

I LOVE this midi dress, partially for the length and partially because it has pockets!! Dresses with pockets are my favorite thing ever and I don't know why it wasn't more common until recently!!

The shoes I selected were pretty simple; I originally had some super sparkly sequin heels but I thought I should tone it down a bit and I didn't really like how the shoes looked with the dress.

This statement necklace is divine, I want to own this right now. And I wanted to add some color with the bracelets and the mint bracelets are so pretty layered around the gunmetal leaf bracelet, I think! And then, duh. The clutch? Yeah, perfectly sparkly and lovely.

So making these Style Sets was so fun! I am going to make a bunch more and hopefully it will help me to not be such a schlub in my attire!! LOL!!

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Amanda

L'Oreal Masked Affair and Totally D'Accord

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 I managed to track down a bottle of L'Oreal's Masked Affair and I couldn't buy just one polish because they were BOGO 50% off so I also picked up Totally D'Accord. These polishes are based on or in relation to the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, which I'm not going to lie: I could not even sort care less about this movie and I can't wait until it comes to theaters so everyone can stop talking about it, lol!

ANYWAY, back to the polishes, lol! Masked Affair is a gorgeous polish. It's is a silver, almost purpley strong linear holographic polish. This was 2 coats and it had a great formula. I used 2 coats of Totally D'Accord on the ring finger, which is a dark dark teal color and slightly texturized. This picture is with topcoat on all of the nails and you can see how strong the holo effect is even after top coat!

And I couldn't leave any pictures out so you get three very similar pictures to look at ;-)

I am not sure if this collection is limited edition but I would hurry to find it, because people are sort of going crazy over Masked Affair and for good reason: it's gorgeous!

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Amanda

Glisten & Glow Young Wild & Polished Collab Polishes

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Are you ready for some macros? I'll begin here:

Ohh man. Today's post is all about Young Wild & Polished, aka Nicole. She has a YouTube channel and instagram account and she's basically crazy, but in the fun way. She recently collaborated with Glisten & Glow to release this fabulous YWP duo and I have it to share with you today!

First is Good Day, a vibrant purple linear holographic polish. This was 2 coats. Yep. Come to momma. I added 3 coats of Topaz to my ring finger.

Annnndddd now for more macros <3

So yeah these are beautiful and just head on over to Glisten & Glow and buy the duo or the polishes individually.


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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Monochromatic

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Today's Twinsie Tuesday prompt is monochromatic, which is all the same color or different tones of the same color.

Since I am on a quest to tackle Mount Polish, I am trying really hard to stick to using the polishes in my Monthly Untrieds Bins and I happened to have two polishes that I think can be considered monochromatic!

First, I used one coat of Bonita Starry Night, a gorgeous dark teal with shimmer. Again I say... one coat. Yeah. I think I need to acquire more Bonita polishes, because the few that I've used have been amazing. Acquiring polishes while purging and trying to use a mountain of untried polishes makes total sense, right?? Yikes.

Then I added two coats of Revlon Elusive on my ring finger. This is a black almost jelly with teal glitter. It dries to a matte finish so I did add top coat for this picture.

Kind of super simple but it was pretty. I really love this Bonita color!!

Don't forget to check out the other Twinsies to see their take on the Monochromatic look!

Alaina at The Little Canvas
Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kristine at Pink and Polished Nails

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

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Amanda

A Nail Fail: Sephora by OPI

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Today's post is a big fat nail polish fail. I was going to do a nude and purple glitter gradient and pulled out my Sephora By OPI Thyme For A Mani and well.... it did not go well.

Since I am going through my untrieds, I hadn't used this polish before. Imagine my surprise when this was the result! I used the same base coat that I always do and applied one coat of TFAM. Uhmm.. what is happening here?

I tried a second coat and it did the same thing! I have never had a polish do this, unless it was a crackle and this most certainly is not a crackle, lol. I had to laugh because it was such an epic fail!!

What was your biggest nail fail?

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Amanda