2017 Wrap Up! This is a long post, lol

Wow! 2017 is finished!!!!  Here's the wrap up of what I did manicure wise this year.

Number of manicures- 95. Not quite 2 a week, gotta get better in 2018, lol!

Here's how I determined my favorites- when I put them on and I just hated to take them off! Whether indies or mainstream! I ended up with 14 favorite indies, and 6 mainstream polishes.

Next year my goal is to wear more mainstream polishes and to do 104 manis!!!

Favorite Indie polishes

ILNP Madison Ave. Not only is my dd's name Madison, but this is a beautiful polish!









Also ILNP Velvet Rope- I love this color!

Tonic Angelfish. This and Rainbowfish were my first Tonics, that I bought on Etsy! I haven't worn Rainbowfish, that will need to change. Angelfish is GORGEOUS!

Powder Perfect Utopia. I saw this on Instagram and HAD to have it. It is gorgeous! I think this polish is what started my love for flakies. I don't have a picture of this, but it's so gorgeous!


Pretty Serious Princess Plutonium- this is a top 5 polish of mine, I love it so much! Also no picture, don't know where they went! But you need this polish!

Supermoon Lacquer Galactic Halo. This polish just glows.











Glam A Place Called Wonderland. Glam is an amazing polish, and this

color! Right up my alley.

Nine Zero Lacquer A Night with the Cats. First, the name. Second, a fun crelly with shredded purple and red glitter- totally unique to my collection!


Elevation Shinjuki Golden Gai. I saw this in a destash and had to have it. It's a gorgeous orange with

a pink shimmer, and it just is so glowy and vibrant!




Supermoon Lacquer A Boy's Best Friend, September Polish Pickup- my second Supermoon on the list! It's a gorgeous color, and another unique color to me.

Different Dimension Create Beautiful Moments. Wow. I wish I had been able to capture just how

absolutely gorgeous this color is.




Lacquester Poppy Like it's Hot. This took AGES to get to me, but was totally worth the wait! This was a Hella Holo Custom polish in August, and I wore it as soon as I got in at the end of November (I told you it took ages, lol). I didn't post their website- I HIGHLY recommend buying them from a stockist (Color4nails has them) just because of the shipping issues (Lacquester is in the Netherlands).

Emily de Molly Quest for Immortality- I love how much this polish has going on in it, and it's a

gorgeous color.








Supernatural Lacquer Como se Llamacorn?, October Polish Pickup. I love Supernatural polishes, and this one is so pretty- the color and flakies are amazing. 

Favorite Mainstream polishes

Orly Miss Conduct- this is a polish from a 2012 collection. I love the color and the holo-ness of it! 

China Glaze Snow Way, from their Holiday 2016 collection. I am a sucker for these white glowy polishes. This is a dupe for OPI Oh My Majesty, but with a better formula.

OPI A-rose By Dawn...Broke by Noon from the 2003 Las Vegas collection (though I got this much

later, lol). This is a glowy pink- I thought it would be brush-strokey, but it really wasn't, and it's so pretty!










Color Club Bell Bottom Babe is a beautiful blue polish with a pink shimmer! It's a super easy formula and really a super gorgeous polish.

OPI Every Month is Oktoberfest from their 2012 Germany collection is so pretty and vampy! It's a

deep rich blueish burgundy, though that sounds weird! It's gorgeous.










OPI DS Indulgence is a red-orange shimmery gorgeous polish. I don't

usually gravitate towards oranges, but I gravitate towards this for sure!




So that is my wrap up of 2017! I bought way more polish than I intended to, but I sure enjoyed it!





Live your life with love in your heart and glitter on your nails!

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ILNP Black Friday 2017 haul

I got a small ILNP haul- I was so fortunate to win their entire Fall Collection (both of them!), so I already have so so many of these polishes, but their winter collection had some gorgeous ones that I had to have- and since it was a new collection they were discounted (and ILNP is a super reasonable price point anyways!), and her Black Friday deal was free shipping, so I went for 3 of them.

I got (l-r) Zoe, Salem and Rogue. Salem is such a cool looking color!! And I know I will love them, I love all my ILNPs!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Try it Tuesday Nine Zero Lacquer Golden Lights

Nine Zero Golden Lights- I got this in my little Black Friday haul. I have the original Twinkle Lights, which is the silver holo version. She also has a Halloween polish called Spooky Lights.

It reminded me a little of OPI's Pineapples Have Peelings Too- but not lumpy and ugly, lol. Like, a good version!

This is an easy polish to work with- I did 3 thin coats to build up opacity and layer the little red and green circles. I don't love it on my skin tone, but it's festive!

Here's a close up, you can see the red and green circles in it. 

Twinkle Lights is just like this, but a silver base. Spooky Lights is a silver base with purple, green, and orange circles.

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Tonic Black Friday 2017 haul

So this isn't exactly a Black Friday haul, it's the haul from the release they did just after Black Friday.

Tonic has gorgeous polishes. I did get a non-magnetic Becoming (word on the FB page is that it's a mislabeled Dorothy from their Multichrome Madness FB custom polishes). I also ordered          Extra-ORD-inary, and got #Chibound instead. I emailed them about the issues, and they're rectifying it asap- their customer service is amazing. I knew I wouldn't have any problems.

So L-R is Zeppo (magnetic), Becoming (supposed to be magnetic, lol), in front of those is the neodymium magnet you use with magnetic polishes. Then Novitiate, Superstar (Superstar, Becoming and the magnet came in a set, I don't know why I separated them in the picture!), then Hush and #Chibound.

Shipping was amazingly fast! Tonic polishes have great formulas, and the colors are amazing. Their polish Angelfish is one of my all time favorites (I bought that when Tonic was still sold on Etsy!). I now have 20 Tonics, and will continue to add to my Tonic collection! I'll post the other 2 when they come.

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!


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Supernatural Black Friday 2017 Haul

Supernatural Lacquer is a great brand- I'm a huge fan of the show (so is the maker of Supernatural, hence the name, lol).

L-r is What's This (this was a mystery I bought- it's from the Night Before Christmas duo Supernatural did with LE Polish, I was super excited to get it!), Demon Blood Junkie 2.0, Chromosphere, Photosphere, and Snow Queen (the Black Friday polish if you spent $35). 

You can't see it well, but behind Demon Blood Junkie 2.0 there's a cuticle oil rollerball in the scent Snow Cakes (yum!), and there's a vinyl in the shape of a star that says, "I tried." LOL. 

I now have 23 Supernatural polishes, and I really love their formulas and colors!

Let me leave you with a funny Supernatural blooper (I'm officially Team Dean!)

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Nine Zero Lacquer Black Friday 2017 Haul

Nine Zero Lacquer is by Jessface90 from YouTube, I highly recommend her channel and her polishes!

I wasn't planning on buying anything, but she put out a Holiday 2017 collection, and her sale was on that collection too. So I got (l-r)

Golden Lights (the gold version of Twinkle Lights), Pink Christmas and Party Dress- this is from the newest collection.

So gorgeous!! I love her formulas, they are always so easy to work with- she actually does live swatches of her collections on YouTube as they come out, and that always makes me want more, lol.

Live life with love in your heart and glitter on your nails!!

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Try it Tuesday- Different Dimension Collect Beautiful Moments

This is Different Dimension Collect Beautiful Moments. This is such a glowy beautiful purple- it was really hard to capture on camera. I put this down for one of my favorite indie polishes for 2017.

It was opaque in 3 coats, and it was just so gorgeous! A super easy formula, too.  I went to a couple of soccer games this weekend, and couldn't stop looking at my nails.

It was really hard to capture the truly glowing nature of this polish. If you love purples, you NEED this, lol. Different Dimension is a great brand. One of the fun things they do is when you get an order, they include a scratch off card that has various discounts on it- like 20% off an order, or free shipping.

This picture on the left was outside, the rest were under my daylight lights- so hard to photograph!

I don't think this has UP (Unicorn Pee) in it, but is certainly glows and is truly a beautiful polish!!


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Vapid Nail Lacquer Black Friday 2017 haul

I was so excited for the Vapid Black Friday sale! I got some fluffy soap (some for gifts, one for me, lol), a couple of wax samples, and there was a little mix up with the listing of scents, so the maker threw in a super generous size of a whipped sugar scrub!!! Their Facebook fan page is Vapicorns, it's a great group.

The polishes I got were (l-r) Balam, Disambiguation (a thermal!!) and HFNY '17. I got the whipped soap in Let's Summon Demons and Candy Cloud scents.

These are gorgeous! I can't wait to try the polishes and use the fluffy soap!!!!

Live your life with love in your heats and glitter on your nails!


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Lollipop Posse Lacquer Black Friday 2017 Haul

The orders are rolling in from my Black Friday shopping!  These are in no particular order, lol.

First, I have my Lollipop Posse Lacquer order. I really like all the Lollipop Posse polishes I have. You  should join their Facebook page, Lollipop's Posse, too!

So I got a total of 6 polishes and 2 bath fizzy thingies.

From left to right, bath fizzy thing, Pull the Stars from the Sky, Cotton Candy Chaos, Midway Madness, Pixie Puke (this was the free Black Friday polish if you spent a certain amount), Some Sweet Gravity, This Cool Night Air and another bath fizzy thing (they smell soooo good!!).

Lollipop is a great brand, their formulas are really good, and her colors, wow!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Try it Tuesday- Bee's Knees Un-teal We Sleep

This is the very first Bee's Knees polish I've ever tried. I am usually a pink/purple polish girl when I'm trying new brands, but this was so so pretty!

It's a teal polish, obviously, lol, and the formula was super easy to work with. It was opaque in 2 coats and the color is so pretty! It's a really glowy teal.


I had no staining issues at all (I do always use first Nailtiques 2 and then Orly Bonder as a base coat before the polish, I think that helps).

This was in the sun- it really glows here.

And her packaging was super cute, each polish came in a little fabric bag, that I will definitely find a use for, they're adorable!

I really recommend this brand, and will definitely be buying more!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Polish Pickup November 2017- Fandoms!

Here is my Polish Pickup haul from November 2017. I got 3 polishes and 3 sets of lip balms (I only show one set in my picture).

This was a fun month- though I ended up buying polishes for the color, not for the fandoms I like.  I got....

L-r Harry Potter lip balms (Lemon Drops, Chocolate Frog and Butterscotch Beer), Contrary Polish The Juice Fiend, Lollipop Posse Spirit of the Kohaku River, and Baroness X Menage a Trois.

The fandom for the lip balms is obviously Harry Potter, the one for Contrary Polish was Arrested Development, Lollipop Posse's fandom was Spirited Away, and Baroness X is Star Trek.  And can you see the charm? Inspired by Harry Potter Sign of the Deathly Hallows. The first 100 get a charm free.

I have never seen Arrested Development or Spirited Away, and I have seen Star Trek, but I'm definitely not a Trekkie!

Here is the trailer for Spirited Away- apparently this is the most successful film in Japanese history, and won an Oscar for best animated film.

They had a Sherlock fandom polish (and I am a total Cumberbitch) but it wasn't unique enough. I like Spongebob, but didn't love the polish inspired by it. I really wanted to buy polish that was unique and that I loved.

Polish Pickup is so fun- both Contrary Polish and Baroness X are new brands for me, and I'm excited to try them!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Try it Tuesday- Lacquester Poppy Like it's Hot?

This is such a unique and pretty polish by Lacquester! This was a Hella Holo Customs polish from August.  I bought this and Bingo Flamingo- and I'm still waiting for Bingo Flamingo (it's December 5, 2017 when I'm writing it- but it is on it's way finally!!).  Apparently they're having customs issues. I knew these would take awhile to get to me (Lacquester is in the Netherlands, so I knew shipping would be ages).

But this polish- wow, it was worth the wait! It is so pretty, and totally unique to my collection.  It's a dusty blue with red and gold glitters and flakies, and I really, really love this polish.

These pictures are under my daylight bulbs.

I did 3 coats for opacity, and I did put 2 coats of top coat (Seche Vite) on, just for smoothness- the glitters aren't super chunky or anything, though.

This is a macro- there is a LOT of stuff going on in this polish!

This is a sunlight picture.

So overall, I love this polish! I don't know if I'd order directly from the site again, just because of shipping time- but I truly am not holding that against them at all, I was prepared to wait. Color4nails stocks Lacquester, and that's where I'd gotten the others I had. This one was a Hella Holo Customs exclusive, so that was why I ordered the way I did.

I highly recommend the Hella Holo Customs FB group, if you're on Facebook. There are some fun and unique polishes!!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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And More Destash nail mail!

I am loving destashes, lol. What do they say- one man's trash is another man's treasure!!  I mentioned before, the FB groups No Trash Destash and the Nearly No Rules Nail Polish Sales are super fun ways to find lemmings, or just a cheap way to try out pretty nail polishes from different brands!

From L-R- Femme Fatale Baby Jabber Wocky, Glam Crystal Coture, Sorceress, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them.

These are already brands I'm a fan of, these were just polishes that caught my eye, for a great price.

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!!

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Try it Tuesday- Crowstoes ...need a light?

This is a polish from the October Polish Pickup. The theme was Monsters and Mythical Creatures. They used Godzilla as their inspiration- this picture isn't the exact picture that was used as inspiration, but it's similar. It shows the blue flame!

This is such a beautiful blue! It really glows in some lights. It was 3 coats to get opaque, but they were easy coats.  Those silver flakies do stick to the skin a little bit!


This was under a daylight bulb.

These pictures were in the sun.

This was in the car- I love how it glows in this picture.

Here is a macro, you can see all the flakies in the polish!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Thanksgiving Mani- Nine Zero Lacquer Stuffed!

This is Nine Zero Lacquer Stuffed- the perfect Thanksgiving mani! It's a full on glitter bomb, so it will hold up well to all the cooking I'm going to have to do tomorrow. Luckily, the kids will clean up! This is under a daylight bulb.

I did 3 coats for opacity. I did dab on glitter at the tips of my fingers, but there was some shrinkage- it's not at all noticeable in real life though- pictures capture everything, even the stray glitters that escaped my cleanup efforts!

I love this polish! It's a top coat eater, I put on a coat of Seche Vite, then a coat of Marvel Liquid Macro Top Coat (by SuperChic Lacquer), and I am going to add another today (I did this mani last night).

This is a sunlight picture.  I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I have so much to be thankful for- a wonderful husband and children, a job I like and co-workers I love, and a fun hobby that I enjoy so much!!

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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2017 Black Friday- all the information I know!

Hello fellow polish lovers! Here is all the Black Friday polish info I have! I will add more if I get more info!

Indie Brand Collective sale- Friday, November 24 at 12 am to Monday, November 27 at 11:59 pm. these brands are participating in this sale, use code IBCFRIDAY for % off (depending on the brand- so go to the individual brand sites and shop, then put in the code for the percent off). ***15% off brands are Beautometry, Nail Hoot, Rise and Shine. ***20% off brands are Vibrant Vinyls, Sassy Pants Polish, Paint it Pretty Polish, Noodles Nail Polish, O My Jewels, It Girl Nail Art, Anchor and Heart Lacquer, Baby Girl  Lacquer, Alter Ego Body Care Products. ***25% off brands are Black Dahlia Lacquer, Chaotic Glitz, Fair Maiden Polish, Fleur De Lis Polish, Leesha's Lacquer, Lemming Lacquer, Night Owl Lacquer, Stella Chroma. ***30% off brands are Turtle Tootsie Polishes, Shiny Nail Polish, Ms. Sparkle, MDJ Creations, Lavish Polish, Colores de Carol. ***35% off brands are Pretty Jelly, Bluebird Lacquer, Lantern & Wren, My Indie Polish, Polish my Life, Pretty Beautiful Unlimited. ***40% off brands are Tux Polish, Top Shelf Lacquer, My Stunning Nails, Cameo Colors, Bohemian Polish. ***50% off brand is Polish 'M


Glam Polish is going to be 11/23 at 12 pm (noon)- 10 to 50% off select shades (already marked down, no code needed). There will be a free mystery limited edition polish to the first 100 people who spend $60 (before shipping, etc.).

Vapid - polish launch is midnight 11/24/17 CST (so 1 am EST!), up to 30% off. They have some beautiful shades coming back, and some new things (the new polishes will not be discounted)!  Then on 11 am on 11/24 is the bath& body and wax launch.

Pahlish  Polishes on the site are marked down, no codes needed. Free polish (Tangled Tinsel) with a $75 order

Cupcake Polish- 30% off, code THANKFULFORPOLISH, 11/22/17 at 12:01 am CST to 11/27/17  11:59 pm CST. Also some customer favorites brought back for $10, no code needed.

Zoya- 50% off entire order and free shipping - coupon code is FRIYAY- this is actually live now!


Illyrian- Store will open 11/23 at 11 pm central. The store will be 25%-30% off, no codes needed. Limit is 2 bottles per color, per order. Shipping and processing will be 2-3 weeks.


Glisten and Glow- 30% the entire brand, code is BFANDBEYOND. 11/23/17 pm EST- 11/27/17 11:59 est

Supermoon Lacquer 30% off older polishes (I named Green Goddess, in case you need that one, lol).

Bliss Polish- sale starts 11/24 at 10 am pst to 11/27 at midnight pst, save 30% on the entire site, no minimum, code is BLACK FRIDAY. Some new releases and Black Friday limited edition polishes.

Supernatural Lacquer- they will be doing a Small Business Saturday sale on November 25. - everything is 20% to 55% off, no codes needed. Most things will be pre-order, so no worries about things running out! They are doing a free gift with purchase polish called Snow Queen- it will be free with a $35 order, and you DO have to add it as an item to your cart.

Lynbdesigns- 50% entire order midnight on November 22 through the 29th. Gifts with purchase for $25, $50, $75 and $100 purchases post coupon. Also, Cyber Monday the first 25 orders who use the code CYBER for 50% off will get a special gift with purchase.

Moonshine Mani- midnight eastern 11/22/17 (Wednesday!). Prices reflect 30% sale price- no codes needed. All of last year's holiday collection, Elfing Around, will also be back. There will also be a Black Friday mystery polish that you'll get if you order over $30.


Lollipop Posse starts 11/23/17 11 pm EST, some $5 Black Friday polishes, some single batch polishes.

Bee's Knees Lacquer- starts at 12:01 11/24. Everything but the new Justice League will be discounted 25%- 40%, no codes needed. There will be some limited edition releases too.

Ever After- shop will open at 11:59 November 23. They have a new Wonderfully Awful Grinch trio!

Different Dimension- the entire shop will be 30% off (code THANKFULFORYOU), starting Thursday, November 23 at 9 pm EST through Monday, November 27 at 11:59 pm EST. There will be some limited quantity doorbusters priced at $8. They will also have some random Flash Sales on their different social media channels throughout the weekend.

Emily de Molly- 30% off orders over $30- code is BF30. Going on now!

Native War Paints 30% off with code NWPBLACK, some exculsions. Some gifts with purchase too!

***Please Note! I am just compiling info I find on the interwebz. Brands and makers can change things at any time! This list is not comprehensive!!***

Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!


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