Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI In the Cable Carpool Lane

This is soooo pretty in the bottle, soooo streaky on the nail!

It's a deep red/burgundy- I wouldn't say oxblood, I consider oxblood to be a darker color, but a pretty deep red - but man, super streaky!!

This is 3 thin coats, still not great.

Some of what you see is lights reflecting off my nails, so I did a macro which shows the streakiness. 

You can see here the lighter spots- that's the streakiness. 

Oh well, you can't win them all. Pretty color, icky formula. 

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

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Nail Mail- Pahlish foils and more!!

Pahlish has come out with some new foils, their 6th anniversary polish, and a polish celebrating 1001 people in their Facebook fan group, Pahlish Lovers.  I enjoy Pahlish polishes, and there were some others I needed, lol.


First are the "special"polishes, 1001 Flowers and Gumdrop Mountain. 1001 Flowers was the polish made to celebrate the FB fan group, and Gumdrop Mountain celebrates their 6th anniversary.

Then we have Kawaii, on the left, which is a multichrome flakie polish, Phlox (an older foil), and French Lavender

Then we have 2 more foils, Black Forest and Honeysuckle

And 2 Bespoke Batch polishes!

Chocolate Bunny and Washing the Lions

Phew!! I do love Pahlish polishes, so I'm looking forward to wearing each and every one of these gorgeous polishes!!

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

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Try it Tuesday- Delush Polish Sting or be Stung (March 2018 Polish Pickup)

This polish was from the March Polish Pickup, based on the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's a black jelly polish with flakies and red and silver holo.

This is a pretty polish, but not ~exactly~ what my elusive perfect black jelly flakie polish should be. But it's still a great polish. I did 3 coats just for depth of the flakies. 

It wasn't too thick, it went on easily.


Here's a macro to try to show the flakies more.



I love black polishes of all kinds, so, though not perfect, it's pretty darn awesome!

If you haven't heard of Polish Pickup, and your an indie polish fan, check it out! The Facebook group is Polish Pickup Pack. Every month there's a theme, and there are tons of indie polish makers who make a polish (or other things- lotions, squishies, jewelry, and more!) around that specific theme. The shop is open the first weekend of every month, and that is the only time you can buy the polishes. They ship within 2-3 weeks after the sale, and it's such a fun package to get!!

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




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Mainstream Mani Monday- Revlon Untamed

This is a cool polish- it was all the rage on Makeup Alley a couple years ago, I think I found it at Walgreens or some drug store, and had it untried.

It was a little bit chunky, but good at 2 coats.  It wasn't hard to manipulate the formula, and it was easy to remove in my scrubby tub.

This picture is in the sunlight.

You can see it's a really pretty polish, if you're into wearing things seasonally, I'd say perfect for fall! I personally wear whatever I want whenever I feel like it, lol.




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

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Nail Mail Vapid- My Little Vapicorns

Vapid Lacquer did a spring collections called My Little Vapicorns. I got a couple, plus 2 thermals!

L-r   Fling-a hot pink to lighter pink thermal, Fizzlepop Berrytwist!, See, Now You're Thinking Like a Pony, and Clique, a purple to pink thermal.

The rest of the collection were gorgeous, too, another pink, a yellow and a green pastel- I may pick those up at some point too. You really can't go wrong with Vapid!

Vapicorns is what the FB fan group is called, if you love Vapid, come join the fun!


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Nail Mail- Colores de Carol Spring Thermals

I've recently hopped on the Colores de Carol bandwagon, not sure what took me so long! She has great polishes.

Thermals are big this year (the thermal craze will probably die down a bit in the summer, when heat will "kill" the thermal effect, these are best shipped in not hot months!), and Colores de Carol did a spring thermal collection. I ordered 2 of them, and then one more for good measure!

Left is the non spring collection one, S'mores with a Twist, it looks like such a pretty darker neutral. Then is Azalea, a beige (warm) to pink (cold, what you see in my picture) thermal, and Aviv, a pink (warm) to purple (what you see in the bottle) thermal.

I love thermals, I have enough free edge to really get a change and see the transition!

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

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Try it Tuesday- Tonic Helpless, my first magnetic polish!

Tonic Helpless is the first magnetic polish I've tried. It was pretty easy to work with, and I loved the effect!

I painted 1 thin coat, didn't do the magnet, then a thick second coat and held the magnet at an angle for 10-15 seconds. I top coated with Seche Vite, and held the magnet over it again since I heard that the top coat can kind of re-liquify the polish and smoosh out the magnetic effect.

This is so cool! I love the darker blue contrasted with the lighter blue line!

I got one of those gray art erasers and used it as a handle for the magnet, so I could get it as close to it as possible. I did use the magnet I bought from Tonic, one of the strong neodymium magnets that make the cool lines. It was $2.

The formula was easy to work with- it was easy to do a thin first coat, and the thicker second coat wasn't hard to control. This also didn't stain my nails (I do use Nailtiques 2 and then Orly Bonder as a base coat).                                           

Here's a close up of one of my nails. 

Of course Tonic is super hyped, but I do think it's deserved- they have a quality product, and their customer service is amazing.

If you're not part of the Tonic Facebook group, you should join if you're into that sort of thing, there's heads up on new releases and sneak peaks.






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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- Nicole by OPI Back to Reality....TV

This is an oldie but a goodie! I can't remember where I found it, but I know I didn't buy this in 2012, since I wasn't into polish back them like I am now! LOL

This is a Kardashian Kolors CVS exclusive from 2012. I really really like this color!

It has a reddish shift to it, you can kind of see it in the above picture at the bottom of the bottle.

This picture is in direct sunlight. It's a pretty gray color, and I think I like it so much because of that shimmer (which is impossible to capture with my limited photography skills). 

One more picture







Oh, here's a macro- you can ~kind of~ see the reddish  shimmer I'm talking about.

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

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Nail Mail- Supernatural Lacquer Mysteries!

Supernatural had a Spring Cleaning sale, and she had listings for mystery overpours of her Polish Pickup polishes, and mystery overpours of some box exclusive polishes, along with other polishes. She also had a sale on her cuticle oil rollerballs, which I love! So this is what I got.

L-r Fifth Dimension, the March Polish Pickup polish. I'm so glad I got this, I debated in March and ultimately decided not to purchase it while PP was going, and then regretted it!  So glad I have this! Then next is What's This- this was from a Nightmare Before Christmas duo by Supernatural Lacquer and Le Polish. I already have this, though I can't remember when I got it- maybe a mystery for Black Friday? So I'll give this to a polish buddy, and then last but not least is Oops batch G.

Love Supernatural Lacquer, I have 30 of them (not counting the second What's This, lol). I love them all!

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


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Nail Mail- well, Polish from Sally's!!

I went to Sally's the other day to pick up another Orly Nail Rescue. I LOVE this stuff! But I keep needing more of the nail glue, and they only sell it in the kit. I've tried other glues, but like this one the best.

Anyway, I digress. Of course they know me in my local Sally's, and the manager pointed out some polishes that were 49¢! So I got 4. Of course I did.

L-r       Glamcore, Lookin' Gore-geous, Street Style Princess and Sun-set the Mood.

You know what? For 49¢, I'll buy anything I don't already have, lol.

I love China Glaze polishes, I'm sure I'll love these!

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

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Try it Tuesday- Vapid Disambiguation (on a Wednesday because I forgot yesterday!)

I work in Career Services in a University, and yesterday and today were big career fairs, and I forgot to post because I was running around!!!

I like thermal polishes, and since my nails are medium length, I get a nice transition usually!

Vapid does great thermals, so I knew this would be a good one, and it's super pretty! Teal (warm) to purple (cool) thermal. It seemed very sensitive to temperature change on me, which I like.

It also has a gorgeous shimmer throughout it, which adds to how pretty it is! I did 3 coats, but I really think you could get away with 2.

These first two pictures I forced a transition with hot water- it was so so cold where I do my nails! It's March in North Carolina, and it's freezing (like, literally 32 degrees last night!!!).











This picture shows a not forced transition- it looks like a gradient!

Here's another with a more natural transition.

Oh, and while you're shopping for polish on their website, check out their face and body products (and nail sauce!). Their body stick (like a stick lotion) has done wonders for my dry icky heels!!!


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



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Mainstream Mani Monday- China Glaze UV Meant to Be

This is China Glaze UV Meant to Be, a lighter, bright blue cream from the 2015 Summer Electric Nights collection.

It's a great color, and I didn't have any staining.

It was a weird formula, kind of watery almost on first coat, but it evened out nicely on the second coat (I wasn't sure it would, tbh!). Creams are scary to me, lol, but this one was really easy to work with. Since it was runny, I did have to watch it didn't pool on the side of my nail.

If you see this at Sally's, or somewhere where it's cheap, I highly recommend picking it up!

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

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Nail Mail The Holo Hookup Box for February

I always said if I loved all the colors from the Holo Hookup Box, then I would buy it. The February 2017 box did it for me. The Cupcake was the first one that caught my eye, even though those gorgeous silvery colors don't look good on me, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame. This one has a pink shift, so it may not be as bad, lol. Then the other colors- oooooh. I knew it had to be mine.

It was rainy and cloudy, so the picture is with a flash. They are all holos, and the Cupcake has flakies in it. These are my first beyond the nail polish (I believe they're a Canadian brand), and my first Glisten and Glow polish (though I love their quick-dry top coat, used to be called HK girl, now it's just top coat, lol). I have a few Cupcake polishes (this makes 5), and with this one I now have 22 Different Dimensions.

These are perfect colors for Valentine's Day - or anti-Valentines Day, lol. Or all year. I really like that the pink isn't a super cool toned pink, and I think the Glisten and Glow will be a gorgeous red. And oh those flakies in the Cupcake!!!!! As I said, those slivery colors aren't always the best with my skin tone, but I am such a sucker for those kind of polishes.


I did buy the December 2016 box, I really wanted the shade Vivien, after Vivien Leigh, who is one of my all time favorite actresses (from my all time favorite movie, Gone with the Wind!), I kept Vivien and Audrey (the Different Dimension), and my friend who got me into nail polish took Grace (the Cupcake polish), and Mae (the Glisten and Glow).

Here is Vivien Leigh, so so beautiful.

And here is the box, just so you can see, picture/swatch by Lakkomlakkom (she has BEAUTIFUL nails!!! #goals!!!). That Different Dimension pink is a cool pink, so not the best for me, but I still love it, lol.

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

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Try it Tuesday- Ever After Colors of the Wind

I was kind of stuck on what to wear, and the Makeup Alley Nail Board theme for the week was bronze, so I went to my app, Nail Polish Rack and searched for polishes by color. One of the suggestions was Ever After Polish Colors of the Wind.  Here's the Facebook group for that brand, Polished Princesses, and Ever After fan group. 

Bronze? No. Gold, yes. But still pretty, so I went with it!  It was good in 3 thinner coats, and the formula was easy.

See? Still gold!





I like Ever After polishes, but haven't bought any for awhile, nothing tempting. But when I use one, I always like it!




And one more because it's a pretty polish!

Recently the two women who made Ever After Polishes parted ways, this was from the FB announcement "After 4 wonderful years together, Miranda and I will be parting ways, business-wise. As many of you know, about a year ago I was offered and amazing career opportunity in Phoenix, Arizona. While this move has offered some great life changes, it has also made it very difficult for us to be able to operate efficiently. The time difference, distance, and scheduling conflicts have made it so we feel we cannot offer you our best. As a result, the coming restock on 3/26 will be our last restock as one brand."


Miranda will continue to run Ever After, and Rachel will start a brand called Rogue Lacquer.  So still more pretties to be had!

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

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Nail Mail- Hella Handmade Creations Tonics!

I was lucky enough to snag these 3 Tonics in the Hella Handmade Creations March 2018 Inventory Sale. These were going to be super limited, but Lindsey of Tonic Polish agreed to release these in May, so if you missed out on this, you'll be able to get them in May!


So of course, these are gorgeous.  L-r Maholoversary, The Best is Yet to Come, and Go Shawty, It's Sherbert Day

Tonic is a great brand, and if you like these then join their FB group Tonic Nail Polish, for updates on when they go on sale in May.

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


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Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Wild West Wild Berry

I have no idea where this polish came from and why I have it! This is OPIs Wild West Wild Berry, from their 1999 Wild West collection.  I had to add a bunch of thinner to it, so the formula was kind of lumpy in the beginning, lol.

It's a pretty mid tone pink with shimmer- but not frosty at all. It's a nice color, and I like it on my skin tone.

It did bring out some ridges in my nails I didn't know I had, lol. I think that was really just the formula.


It was good in 2 coats, and the top coat brought out the shimmer in the polish.





Here's an up close shot where you can really see the ridges, that I swear don't exist irl!

I doubt you can find this polish in the wild- I did find it on ebay for $12.99.

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


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