Stardust Beauty Cheers to 3 Years!

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Today I have Stardust Beauty Cheers to 3 Years, an anniversary polish from Stardust!

Cheers to 3 Years is a vibrant medium purple polish with subtle shimmer and holo. This was 2 perfectly lovely coats, plus topcoat. I really need to get a halogen light for my holos, because the light I'm using doesn't do them justice.

Drema is having a 30% off sale through 3/31 with the code 3YEAR! I love her polishes and her Absolute Zero is my favorite acetone additive for helping my acetone to not dry my nails out so much AND making it smell better! (Beautiful Day and Love Spell are my fave scents!)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Formula X Aphrodite

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I recently took a gander through the Sephora inside my JCPenney and picked up this new Formula X polish called Aphrodite. This is a silver, purple crazy linear holographic polish. There are 5 polishes in this line with this type of crazy holo effect and I am seriously thinking about going back to get the other 4!

This was 2 coats plus topcoat. It's a finely milled glitter so it's not chunky to apply or thick. It had a very nice formula and only needed one coat of topcoat to smooth everything out.

With flash:

Without Flash:

So beautiful! And in the sun... holy moly. Gorgeous!

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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Birds

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Today we are being inspired by birds and let me tell you: I cheated THE MOST this week, lol. I did not have time to come up with anything fun for birds at all so I checked my handy dandy spreadsheet for any polishes with "bird" in the title". I found a few and came up with this combination! I will have you know, this is the first time I'm using multiple brands for one manicure in FOREVER. I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't use all one brand!!

butter LONDON Ladybird (PR) is a bright orange red creme that borders on a jelly. I used two coats. Then I added Lac Attack T-Bird (WHERE ARE YOU LAC ATTACK, I MISS YOU!!!!), a gold and black and white glitter topper.

I know, I know. It's the least birdly manicure ever but there is just nothing that can be done about that fact, lol.

                                                                 Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

                                                                   Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Claire at Kerruticles

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes 

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Bite Beauty #AmuseBouche Lipsticks

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Today I have a quick recap on the Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche lipsticks that I received from Influenster!

I received 3 shades: Pepper, Gazpacho, and Beetroot.

A photo posted by Amanda (@fashionfooting) on Mar 8, 2016 at 5:42pm PST

These are incredibly comfortable lipsticks and I loved the lemony fresh scent. The pigmentation of these really impressed me; they are so creamy and smooth when you are applying! While these are not a matte lipstick, they do last for a good while. I would say that I got about 5 hours of wear with Pepper, and just a little under that for the other two colors.

One of my favorite things about these lipsticks is the way they wear away. They fade beautifully and you don't have the dreaded.... butthole mouth when the center has worn away! Also, they stain the lips, especially Beetroot!

Pepper:

Gazpacho:

Beetroot:

These retail for $26 and are available in 34 shades! I want to look into a bright pink or maybe even a purple. What do you think of these and have you tried this line yet? Or anything from Bite Beauty?

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Amanda

Orly Melrose for Spring 2016!

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Today I have the Spring 2016 Orly collection, called Melrose, to show you! I have been really loving Orly's collections this past year. They are concise (always 6 polishes) and I really like the colors and themes!

Beautifully Bizarre is just that: a beautifully bizarre color. A pale pink that leans almost lavender and has a beautiful blue flash that is much more apparent in person than it's photographing. This was also much more opaque than I was anticipating! This was two coats, plus topcoat.

Trendy is a neon coral pink with silver flecks... a beautiful color but kind of a dreadful formula. It was thick and chalky and also patchy AND it didn't level well. I had to redo a few nails twice before it looked acceptable. This was 3 coats plus topcoat.

Feel The Funk is a violet holographic polish. This was opaque in 2 thick coats plus topcoat and is so sparkly in person.

Window Shopping is a vibrant bright red toned pink. This had a great formula and was opaque in two coats, plus topcoat. It appears more pink in person than it is photographing but the bright color is throwing off my camera.

Vintage is a beautiful neon mint creme. This also had a bit of a tricky formula and needed 3 coats to level out properly. Plus topcoat.

Hip and Outlandish is a bright teal green. This is another that is too bright to capture accurately but very pretty. This formula was also good, two coats plus topcoat.

Aside from the bummer formula on Trendy and Vintage, I do still love this collection! It's springy but not pastel and I always love that because I just can't get into pastels for too long, lol.

What do you think of this collection?


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Amanda

New! Barielle ProSina Polishes

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Barielle has released a new formula of polish, called ProSina. Prosina is a specialized type of keratin that has the ability to strengthen, condition, and protect the nails. I have two shades from the line to share with you so let's take a look.

First is Gray Sky, a taupe gray with very subtle silver shimmer. This was quite opaque in one coat but it was just patchy enough to need a second coat. Plus topcoat.

Head of the Class Green is teal green that covers in two coats. This does dry a bit matte.

And with topcoat. Love this color!

I always enjoy the Barielle polishes that I wear and these were no exception. Both colors had great formulas and were easy to apply.

The Prosina line will feature both nail colors and treatments and will be available on the Barielle website beginning April 1st! All of the Barielle polishes are 5 free and pregnancy safe, for all of you sassy pregnant ladies out there.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired By Jewelry

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Today we are getting inspired by jewelry and not to pat myself on the back, but I recently made a rather lovely necklace for my Polished Findings shop (actually, for me lol) and I thought I would do a post on that piece.

I used China Glaze Westside Warrior, one of the most beautiful "ugly" colors I own. This is a murky, dark camo green and I love it. I used one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust over 2 coats of Westside Warrior and then added some silver circle holo glitter.

I forget how lovely Fairy Dust is and am reminded every single time I wear it. It's subtle enough to not be too obnoxious (which isn't actually a thing in my opinion, lol) but spectacular enough to really zazz up a manicure!

Alaina at The Little Canvas

  Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland

    Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Claire at Kerruticles

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes 

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Talk to you soon!
Amanda