Try it Tuesday- KB Shimmer Pink Tourmaline

Oooooh- I absolutely love the KB Shimmer Birthstone Polishes (they came out in January 2016). They are birthstone colored foiled types of polishes- easy in 2 coats. This one is Pink Tourmaline. I don't know why it took me so long to try this, I love pink polish!

I wore this on vacation at the beach- because these wear like iron, too!  And I got a ton of compliments on it. It looked especially good when I had a little bit of a tan.

KB Shimmer was one of the first indie brands (along with ILNP) that I tried, and down the rabbit hole I went, lol. I really recommend the brand, and they're really reasonably priced.

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Fun Halloween Polishes!!!

Most brands put out some sort of Halloween collection. Many Indie polish makers do, China Glaze usually does- OPI has in the past, but I think it's been awhile! So here are some fun polishes I have for Halloween.

First up is Nine Zero. I have Swamp Thing, a gorgeous murky green with gold shimmer,

and Spooky Lights, which is a holo base with purple, green, and orange glitters. This is 3 coats.

Then I there's China Glaze. This is I Love Your Guts- it's a lumpy textured polish, lol, so if you hate those, don't search for this! This first picture is with no top coat- it dries matte.

Then I put a top coat on it.











This is China Glaze's Zombie Zest- this is hard to find (htf), but I got this in a destash for only like

$3! Another murky green, but much more murky than Nine Zero Swamp Thing above.

This one is Different Dimension Once Upon a Midnight Dreary- it was from their 2016 Halloween collection. This is a jelly- I love these squishy polishes with glitters.

And here is Vapid Angels and Demons- a cool thermal polish. The weird holo blob is supposed to be

a cat- it looked better irl, lol.

This one shows the shift. It is a really neat polish!

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Nail Mail- Bees Knees Nail Lacquer

This is a new brand for me, Bees Knees Lacquer. I had looked at their Instagram and they have a bunch of cool "pourn" videos of their polishes, and then the swatches started coming and they looked pretty.

So I went to the website and was going to order, but felt like shipping was a ~little~ high. Then they had a $5 off code to make shipping free, so I decided to get two. I got House on Haunted Chill and Un-teal We Sleep (the October 2017 Color of the Month).

I can't wait to try the polishes, but can we talk about the adorable packaging?? They came in these cute little bags, with candy and little erasers. So so so cute!!!  I swatched them on my nails (I have nekkid nails today!), and they look great, can't wait to wear them.

I love finding new brands! Thanks to Real Polish Fanatic (who has an amazing blog that you should check out!) for introducing me to this brand!!

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

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Try it Tuesday- Lacquester Gilded Boa

Have you tried Lacquester polishes? I really really like their polishes! I get them mostly at Color4nails, as they are in the Netherlands and it's a shipping nightmare to get them from there (I'm still waiting for the Hella Holo customs from August, but I did kind of expect that).

This is Lacquester's Gilded Boa. It was a Holomaniacs Facebook custom polish, and it is so pretty!

It was an easy polish to work with, 2 coats and it was fully opaque. I really enjoy this color! I love purples, and this has a lot going on in it that makes it interesting.

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

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Try it Tuesday- Celestial Cosmetics Too Glam to Give a Damn

I like Celestial Cosmetics and have (as of this writing) 21 of them- and I got this polish because it is a coraly red color, and I didn't have anything that color in my collection, and it is so so pretty!
                                                                     Here it is in my light box

This just under my light, to show the holo rainbows! You can see how cool it looks.

This is in the sunlight


It was good in 3 coats-I did fairly thin coats, you could probably get this opaque in 2 thicker coats with no problem.


I really like this color! It's not too orange of a coral  on me, definitely leans more to the red side, and it has a strong holo to it, which I love in the sun.



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

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Nail Polish Facebook Groups You Should Join! Part 1- the ones you can buy custom polishes from!

I have three kinds of Facebook groups I'm in- the first kind is the best kind, the kind where you buy cool polish!!!!

Facebook is a super fun way to grow your indie nail polish collection. Each month (usually), these groups have members submit inspiration photos, then vote on the photos, then the makers (and it's different makers each month) do custom polishes you can purchase, and often there is a discount for other polishes from that maker- or at least they combine shipping. You can get some really cool polishes, and try new brands of indie polishes! Here are the ones I really like, that I belong to.
These groups are closed groups, you need to request to join.

Hella Holo Customs - each month they have people submit pictures, everyone votes, and then 2 makers do 2 polishes each based off the pictures. I've gotten some really cool polishes! This is Glam Polish's Sole Fantasy, which was a custom in December 2016.

Holo-maniacs- they do custom polishes as well- not sure exactly how it works, I just check out the page often to see what the offerings are, lol. As you can tell by the name, they focus on holo polishes.

Shimmahs - they are like holo-maniacs but with shimmer polishes :)


Fantasmic Flakies= like holo-maniacs and shimmahs- but with flakie polishes!!! Sense a theme, lol???     This is Andromeda, my first Darling Diva, courtesy of this group!

Indies Outside the Box - this is a quarterly box of 4 polishes- Lollipop Posse and Top Shelf Lacquer are always in the box, and they have 2 guest makers. The brands submit inspiration pictures that the group votes on, then polishes are made! The next box is in August, 2017.

Polish Pickup Pack- this one is fun- first you vote for themes, then a bunch of makers make polishes around the theme, and you can buy as many as you want from the shop (but it's ~very~ limited selling on the shop, like only for the first Friday through Monday of each month). Another nice thing- shipping is only $3 no matter how many polishes you buy! If you make an order, and decide that you need more, they combine your orders! I love that!

Do you have groups you belong to that I need to belong to???
Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Try it Tuesday - ILNP Rosewater

ILNP Rosewater is one of their Color Kissed Ultra Holos- and it is GORGEOUS!!! I am definitely going to pick up a couple more of these!

I did 3 coats to get this fully opaque, and I think you can use this as a topper- I don't love to do

toppers, I like polishes that you just use as polish, lol, so I was glad that it was able to be opaque. I don't mind 3 coats at all- but draw the line at 4 coats!

You can see how cool this polish is in the macro!

As I mention all the time, ILNP is one of my favorite brands, and I highly recommend their polishes.

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

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Native War Paints Labyrinth Collection (some of them!)

So Native War Paints put out a Labyrinth collection last year (2016), and I completely fell in love with some of them. I purchased You Have No Power Over Me, Bog of Eternal Stench, Chilly Down with the Fire gang and  Dance Magic - Dance Magic is more Purple.

Chilly Down with the Fire Gang is more pink

Bog of Eternal Stench is a yellowy gold

You Have No Power Over Me is a silvery ethereal color- I thought I had a picture, but I can't find it! So here is a picture from Kellie Gonzo (I wish she were still blogging!!) that shows what a gorgeous polish this one is!

All applied seamlessly, with 2-3 coats to opacity and no formula issues. I usually wait until Native War Paints has some sort of deal going, as I feel like their shipping is high compared to other makers. I also bought a few of their minis, and have noticed some UBS (ugly bottle syndrome, that usually doesn't affect application) with those, but I have not worn them yet. I bought those back when I thought minis might be the way to go, but I have found I don't love minis, but still will try them some time!!

I think that only Chilly Down with the Fire Gang and Dance Magic are available in the discontinued section of their website.

There has been some drama with the brand- the name offends some (I think I heard that the owner has some Native American blood? Or something?). Anyway, that doesn't offend me. The other issue is with the polishes themselves, they can have some big lumps of unmixed pigments. So far the ones I have tried have been fine!

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

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Polish Funnies!

Sometimes you just gotta laugh. I've been "collecting" funny memes to share!  And a funny story- the other day my dh, kids and I were discussing hoarding, and dh said something like, "yeah, like mom with her nail polish! You must have like 500 bottles!!" Um.....more like 900.  I did not say that out loud.  But it's not hoarding if you use them, right???

I am now totally going back to school to get my doctorate in nail polish!! Then everyone will have to take my obsession seriously.

This is how I feel when I say I'm going on a no-buy- like, who am I kidding, right?
















So we had a hurricane warning- the first thing I did was run upstairs to where my nail polish is and take pictures of all of it for insurance purposes! Of course, then my dh would know just how many polishes I actually have...

This one is so funny to me- I ~always~ read it as polish, not Polish (even when capitalized). I have several times had to re-read something so it would make sense to me.

I went to get a pedi recently- I love doing my nails, hate doing my toes- and just went to a local salon that a friend recommended. I probably have 4x more polish than they have!!! I did pick a color

that I actually don't own (OPIs Pamplona Purple).




Um, yeah- don't mess with my polish!
 

And this is how I feel about polish-

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Try it Tuesday- ILNP Lights Out

I wanted to wear this one first from the ILNP fall collection. I almost bought this, but held off, then I won the entire ILNP Fall Collection!  Yay! So I jumped on it.

It was beautiful in 3 coats- I wanted it deep and rich. It is very shifty- I went to my DS9's soccer game, and was staring at my nails- red, greenish, bronze, golden, just a beautiful polish.

ILNP has great polishes, and Lights Out was no exception! I highly recommend this brand.

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

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