Try it Tuesday- Blush Lacquer Not Your Average Seahorse

This is a standout polish from October 2017 Polish Pickup. The theme for that month was Monsters & Mythical Creatures. This polish is called Not Your Average Seahorse by Blush Lacquers. This was the inspiration picture.

This is the polish.  Of course, it's way more gorgeous in real life!

This is the polish in sunlight- you can see the grey/blue base- in some pictures it looks almost black, but it's not a black base.

This picture to the right was taken under my daylight bulbs.








Here's a macro so you can see all the beautiful goodness in this polish!



I know that people who missed out on this polish are hunting it down, because it's a beaut!  I really enjoy the Blush Lacquers formula, and the brush is one of those wide brushes curved at the bottom, I do like that too!

For those who don't know what Polish Pickup is, it's a website where once a month (the first weekend of every month, Friday at 11 am through Monday at I'm not sure what time, lol) you can buy polish from different makers- centered around a particular theme. Like the theme for this polish was Monsters & Mythical Creatures (October 2017). There is a Facebook page, too, Polish Pickup Pack, you can join. I love it because these makers are so creative, they do amazing polishes, and every order is shipped for $3 in the US and $5 in Canada- even for multiple orders. So if you order on Friday, you are charged $3 shipping. Then you decide you MUST have more polish, and you order on Sunday, you'll be charged $3 shipping, but they'll refund that shipping once they start shipping and combine multiple orders.

Phew! It's awesome, trust me, LOL.


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



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Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Apartment for Two

I shy away from cream polishes because of my application issues, lol. I stress about formula too. But this was amazing! It's a gorgeous 2 coat cream!!!

I had an almost jelly like formula, super shiny and squishy feeling- and so easy to apply. Very nearly opaque in 1 coat, but it does need the second coat.

And it's a beautiful pink, not too warm, not too cool, and didn't give me lobster hands, so that was nice.

You can see the squishyness here, lol- and it didn't have the weird part by the cuticle where the polish coats don't line up (that's my application issue, lol).

OPI can be hit or miss with creams for me (really, every brand, so it's not like it's an OPI thing), but this is a total hit- gorgeous!

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

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Nail Mail - Tonic customer appreciation sale!

Tonic Polish had a customer appreciation sale, I was able to get a couple. I didn't get a couple I wanted but oh well, I planned on that.  Luckily, Tonic is so so good at bringing things back, so I'll get you eventually, Toxic! LOL


I picked up Lagniappe from their Secrets and Soulmates collection, and Endless Shrimp from their Spring 2017 collection.

Tonic has great polishes, and excellent customer service. You can join their Facebook fan page, Tonic Nail Polish, and see videos and swatches of upcoming collections.

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

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Try it Tuesday- Femme Fatale Love Bug

I waited a long time to wear this- I got it last year, it was a Hella Holo Customs Facebook exclusive, and it is perfect.

I LOVE this color pink! It's so beautiful! It's not too cool, not too warm, perfect. Perfect. Here's another picture.  I really enjoy Femme Fatale polishes, I have 14 of them, and I recommend them!

Here's another picture, lol, because it's so beautiful.
It's just a holo (just! but Gorgeous!!!)

Here's a macro so you can see it up close!



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

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Mainstream Mani Monday Zoya Rayne

I really like Zoya polishes, according to my Nail Polish Rack app, I own 57 Zoyas. They frequently have really great sales, and I always pick up a few.

Zoya Rayne is a gorgeous light blue shimmer that was opaque in 3 easy coats.

I feel like this would be a great base for a spring/Easter mani!


I really like that Zoya has many different types of polishes- textured, shimmer, holo, cream (and 1 coaters, too!). This is a great example of how great their shimmers are. Even though it's a little sheer, and I did 3 coats, they are easy coats and the formula is awesome.

And this is a light blue that doesn't give me lobster hands! Yay!


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

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Valentine's Day Mani!

I saw this Colores de Carol polish and had to have it. HAD TO HAVE IT! It's called Free Love. It was part of a duo (the other polish is a super gorgeous purple called Spoiled. I may have to have that one too.......a low buy is hard, not gonna lie).

This is a light pink crelly with teeny tiny red metallic glitter, red hex glitters, white square glitters- tons of cool stuff.

So light pink polishes make me look like I have lobster hands, as evidenced clearly in this picture, but I truly didn't care, because I love this polish.


This was opaque in 2 coats, and it was super easy to work with. I have a love/hate relationship with crellies, as often they just are so freaking sheer (I'm looking at you, KB Shimmer Neon Me- 4 coats!!! Really!!!).

This wasn't streaky or patchy, just two easy coats and I got tons of glitter and great coverage. It wasn't even lumpy, like some can be- I did 1 coat of Glisten and Glow top coat. Here's a macro, you can see all the cool stuff this polish has in it!

Excuse the bubble of top coat, lol.


So then I stamped over it- and that was an adventure, let me tell you. I haven't stamped in a long while!

I first tried to do a heart and dot pattern, using a purple mini Mundo de Unas stamping polish (Undo de Munas is a Mexican brand of stamping polish, and the stamping polishes smell like car paint, be warned, but they work great!), and my Born Pretty Store clear stamper. I don't know if it was the polish, the plate or the stamper, but it did not work. At all. So I had to take everything off, re-polish my nail, then wait to stamp, lol. I didn't wait long enough, and I stamped too soon and smooshed it, and had to re-paint again.  While waiting for my nails to dry, I tried out my red Mundo de Unas polish, and a different image (same stamping plate). I couldn't use a different stamper, this is my only clear stamper, and I needed that to line up my image.

So I did hearts- and in my hurry to finish up the nail I had to re-do, I stamped my hearts the opposite way I did the other nail. Oh well!!!

I'm going to try to get better at stamping!!

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



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Try it Tuesday- Different Dimension Grace

I saw this polish on the Different Dimension website and made sure I got it when I placed my order. I do think their shipping is kind of high, but I was lucky enough to be gifted a free shipping code, and so I bought several.

I like this polish well enough, it was great at 2 coats and no formula issues, but I do think the color is different than what I saw on the website- or the shift is. I didn't really see the magenta on my own nails like in their pictures, I'll show you what I mean.

This is the website picture.

Here are some of my pictures- mine almost looks more brown and orange, vs. magenta red and orange.

Here's another shot in sunlight - the red showed more in the sun, but it isn't the magenta-y red I was hoping for.  Again, it's not like I don't like the polish, but.....

Here's another picture in the sun


And another in the shade

And a macro, because I took one so you need to see it, lol.

I just wish it were more pink instead of brown/rust/whatever.  It really reminds me of Sitting Fireside by ILNP.

Oh well, I hope the other polish I bought from this collection, Alexandria, looks like I want it too, lol.



I do love Different Dimension polishes, and think they do beautiful things.

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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- Essie Bell-Bottom Blues

I rarely wear Essie polishes- they're just not my thing, I only own 14 out of more than 1000 polishes.  I don't know if I've ever even worn an Essie? Maybe Brides No Grooms? Yes, I think I did wear that a couple years ago.

So I pulled out this glowy blue polish and I love it. I loved the formula, I even loved the little narrow brush- the formula made it super easy to work with.

This is so pretty! I keep looking at my nails, admiring the polish, lol. Glowy really is just the perfect word for it, it's such a great shimmery deep blue.

So of course, a lesson to learn is don't judge an entire brand by a couple crappy colors. Also don't judge a brush by what others think of it. I am finding more and more I don't mind a thinner brush, like with China Glaze or Essie, if the formula is easy to work with. Certainly practice is making me so much better at painting my nails!!

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

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Nail Mail- Vapid Purge 2017

My Vapid purge order came!! You do have to be a member of their FB group, Vapicorns,  to participate, and you definitely need ninja fingers.  I was cart jacked on several things, but I went into it knowing that would happen, so was happy with what I did end up with!! They did also combine shipping, so what you're seeing is 3 separate orders combined, lol.

Basically they put all their stock of polish and body/nail products (soap, lotions, nail sauce, etc.) for sale super cheap ($5 for nail polish, $3-4 for body and nail stuff). I don't do wax, but they also sell wax and apparently it's awesome.

So I got 9 polishes and 3 body lotion sticks, a fluffy soap and a big nail sauce.

This is Insipid, Hard Candy, Milky Way Dirty Holo XXX, and Much Muchier

This one is Witching Hour 1-off, Nonsense, Krampus 1-off, Ruffian and Magellanic Cloud (1-offs are slightly "wrong" from what the finished product ended up to be).

The body and nail stuff - the sticks are body lotion sticks, this will be my first time trying them, then the big tub is fluffy soap, and the smaller tub is nail sauce.

I did get cart jacked for several things, but I expected that, lol. I'm excited for these polishes- and these body bars are AMAZING! I've used them on my heels, it's so easy to apply, not gooey at all, and then I sleep in socks and my heels are so so soft! Like, I wish you really knew me and my icky dry feet, so you could really appreciate how great these body bars are, lol. 

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

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Try it Tuesday- Pretty Serious Purple Monkey Dishwasher

This is Pretty Serious Purple Monkey Dishwasher. I have had this polish for awhile- I couldn't resist it. First, it's purple, second, the name is hilarious.  I discovered it's a Simpson's reference, after word "gets around" and is distorted, like with rumors, they just stuck on the phrase "purple monkey dishwasher".

Here's a video, lol.

And here's the polish!!!

It was different than I expected it to be from the bottle- it's almost like a super fine purple and red glitter in a purple jelly base. Here's a macro so you can see kind of what I mean.

This is 3 thickish coats, just for opacity. It was so easy to apply.





I love Pretty Serious polishes, their polish An Uzi From Daddy is a top 5 polish for me, and Princess Plutonium is a top 10. So pick up one (or 10, no judging here!!), you won't regret it!  They have free shipping over $40, so that's amazing, too. It's not hard to find $40 worth of Pretty Serious polishes you NEED, lol.



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Mainstream Mani Monday- Zoya Ginni

This was one of the most weird polish experiences I've ever had, lol. Zoya Ginni is an older polish, from their summer 2014 Magical Pixie Dust polishes. I don't remember when I bought it, but it was later than 2014.

So I put this on, knowing it would be chunky. It was, the macro below shows all the glitter that is in this polish.  There's a lot going on!!

 I did 2 pretty thick coats.  I then did a coat of Seche Vite, followed by a coat of Superchic Liquid Macro quick-dry top coat. The Liquid Macro is a thick top coat that I especially like for textured polishes.

And it never dried. Both top coats are quick dry, so I am ~pretty~ sure it's Ginni that never dried. I'll have to test out the Liquid Macro. But it wasn't even a smudge it's not dried kid of situation, it was a full on sticky, strings of polish when I touched it kind of not dry.  Oh well, into the purge pile (that will probably never be purged because I may someday need a glitter texture polish that doesn't dry, lol).

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

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