Nail Mail- April FTLOP box

I rarely buy these type of boxes, as I usually don't want all the colors. But I wanted all of these!!  This box is called For the Love of Polish (FTLOP), and it's a monthly box (you can subscribe and get it every month, or just buy the box that month).

The theme this month (this is April 2018), was Dragons.

Pahlish Madame Mim, Polished for Days Dragon Breath, Tonic Polish Draccus

You can buy this box each monthon the Polished for Days website. you can actually subscribe, or you can order it any individual month you want-and that way you can always throw in some additional gorgeous Polished for Days polishes while you're there!! LOL

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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- Kiko 480 Pearly Brass

I got a bunch of Kiko polishes ages ago (like 2015) when they had a sale, and they were only $1!  I have only worn one of them, and I wasn't a fan of the formula- it totally chipped on me, which never happens-  so I hadn't tried one for awhile until I tried this.  And this one was great!

This was 2 coats. And I thought this particular color didn't make my hands look like lobster hands, which golds and yellows can definitely do!

I like the pearly finish of this, and though I'm not into the more neutral colors, I did like this one.

 The only thing I don't love about Kiko is they name their polishes numbers, and you have to look online to see what the actual name is. But oh well, lol

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




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Try it Tuesday- Picture Polish Jewels

I got a couple of Picture Polish polishes from color4nails, and finally wore one! This is Jewels, when I saw Jessface90 on YouTube swatch this, I knew I'd found a Picture Polish I had to have (this one and London).

Here is Jessface90's video, I highly recommend subscribing to her channel if you don't already (she also is the maker of Nine Zero Lacquer).

This was a super easy 2 coats, which I was surprised at- sometimes polishes like this need 3 coats, but not this one!

This picture was in the sun, you can see the sparkle!

And here's one more picture. I didn't do a close up of this, I guess, but it isn't too silver flakey if you know what I mean- sometimes polishes are pretty, but you see the silver flakes almost too much- but this isn't like that at all. It really does glow!

I now own a few Picture Polishes, the 2 I got from color4nails, and then I found a couple from destashes. They are on the expensive side for a polish, so I'm not going to collect them all, but so far, so good!

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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- Sally Hansen Pinch of Punch

I got a bunch of polishes from a neighborhood Facebook page, and this was one of them. I love a good pink polish, and this was really good!

It's just a basic medium pink cream, but the formula was really great on this! Easy 2 coats.

In the close up, you see a couple bubbles- that was me shaking my top coat before putting it on, lol, not the polish.

One more for good luck! LOL

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

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Nail Mail - Starrily

I made a random order from Starrily- they had a 15% off code, and so I thought what the heck, lol. They made a really black polish they named Vantablack. This is what Vantablack really is (from Wikipedia).

Vantablack is the trademarked name for a chemical substance made of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays and is the darkest artificial substance known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum.

I hear that Vantablack is a one-coater, but haven't tried it. The other is a magnetic polish, Andromeda, that I'm excited to try too!


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

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Try it Tuesday- Tonic Lemons and Cream

I am not usually a fan of yellow polishes, but I saw this in their Secrets and Soulmates collection that came out in November 2017 and I just had to have it!

This is a gorgeous polish! This is under my lights, it looks super bright here.

I did 3 coats and still could see a little vnl (visible nail line), and I didn't think adding another coat would help, and it was really minimal anyways.

These two pictures are under my lights.







I love that in some lights you can really catch the reddish shimmer in the polish. Here's a macro.





Here are a couple pictures in the sunlight.  It looks a little lighter under the sun.

And one more. It really is a cool polish, and I just kept looking at my nails!

I did get a lot of compliments.

 

Watch out, this is a stainer. I always wear Nailtiques 2, and Orly Bonder as a base coat, and it still stained. I don't really care about that, but if you care, then be forewarned!

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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- Covergirl Bombshell

I found this in a destash- I'd seen it on someone and put it on my lemming list, and then one day I saw it and pounced on it!

It's a super hot pink kind of a glass fleck polish, it's really pretty.

Here it is a little closer up.

I did 3 thin coats to deepen up the color. It was easy to apply, and easy to do thin coats.











One more just because hot pink polishes are so gorgeous!

A blurry macro to ~ kind of ~ show the glass fleck-ness of it.

I have no idea how old this- at least 2014, if not earlier. Another thing I love about nail polish- it lasts forever (usually!!!). 

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

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Nail Mail - April Polish Pickup

So for April's Polish Pickup I went a ~leeeeetle bit~ crazy. I placed 3 orders, because I talked myself into more things (like that was hard, lol).

The theme for April was Space, and there were some cool polishes to be had!

Here are the polishes I got

L-r Illyrian War Stars, KB Shimmer Hubbled Together, Necessary Evil I am Starstuff, Polished for Days Solar Flare, Emily de Molly Created by Man, Quixotic Polish To the Moon and Back, and Vibrant Vinyls Galactic Unicorn Fast Dry top coat (not pictured). 

I also got Lilly Anne's Garden lotion, it's super thick, and I really like it!

So far the only thing I've tried besides the lotion is the top coat from Vibrant Vinyls- I liked it just fine. I will say, that the scent stays with you for days (and unfortunately I don't love the scent of this, but I don't hate it, either).

I also gave DS10 the Use the Force Sphere I got from Turtle Tootsie- it is a soap ball with a little Star Wars figurine inside. I don't have a picture of it as he's already using it! Anything to get him to use actual soap in the shower!

If you don't know what Polish Pickup is, you should stop reading right now because it is amazing and you will need ALL THE POLISH! And you will have NONE OF THE MONIES! LOL

Basically, the first weekend of every month (though they're taking July off), lots of indie polish makers (like 50+????) make amazing polishes and other things (hand care, jewelry, in April there was even an eye shadow and colored lip balm) based around a theme. You buy them from the website, shipping in the US is $3, and if you make multiple orders, they refund the additional shipping (meaning, no matter how many orders you place, you only pay $3 shipping!)

June's theme is Video Games, and you can be sure there are a ton of cool polishes (there always are!). This is the Facebook group, too, Polish Pickup Pack where you can see all the sneak peeks and blogger info.

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

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Try it Tuesday- Cupcake Polish Eleanor

I love black polishes, and I picked up this one from a destash, I think. It's Cupcake Polish Eleanor.

It's a pretty basic black holo. The formula was a little thick, but not unmanageable.

Here's a sunlight picture, I tried to capture the holo, but it's actually a pretty subtle holo, which is fine, you can't have all in your face rainbows all the time! LOL

Here's one more picture, it's just a good basic black subtle holo polish.

I did do 2 coats just for full coverage.




I like Cupcake Polish polishes, I did get Berry Good Looking in 2016 when that was the top polish of that year and love that. This one I like, it's not my fave, but I love black polish in all ways!

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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- unnamed orange Color Club

Once time I got a bunch of polishes just off a neighborhood Facebook page, and there was this random orange Color Club with no name.

It's a super bright jelly polish- it really needs thinning, which I did a little bit of, but not a lot. It was a little clumpy, but I worked with it. The weird spot on my pointer finger is a reflection from my lights.

This is a fun squishy polish, great for summer!

I like Color Club polishes, especially their Halo Hues, and though this was chunky, and a little weird, it still was a fun polish!

Here's a close up- you can see kind of the squishiness and the shininess of this!

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

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Nail Mail Powder Perfect

Okay, we obviously know I have a ~problem~ with nail polish, and it's a problem I LOVE! LOL.

So Powder Perfect had one more sale before closing up for a little while due to a maternity leave (I love that! Such a fun reason to not be working!!), so of course I had to support a fellow mom, and I made one last order!

As a reminder, Powder Perfect makes one of my most favorite polishes of all time, Utopia.

So I had to get some more! I was putting in my order, and kind of balked at the shipping (it was $11 or something like that), but the sale was so good it waaaay more than made up for it. So I placed my order, and then a day or so later I got a shipping refund to my PayPal, so my shipping was only like $6.  And shipping was sooo fast for all my Powder Perfect orders!

Okay, here's the order.....

L-R Darkness and Dragons, Berry and Bright, Rack and Ruin and Be without Fear

and

Black, red and silver stamping polish, Principessa, and Watchful Nights

I can't wait to wear these! They are all so pretty. And wishing the new mama all the best!!

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

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Try it Tuesday- Octopus Party Nail Lacquer- Stoneheart

I'd been wanting to try this brand because of the name, but hadn't seen anything in destashes that I had to have, and nothing on their Etsy page. Then it was announced in late 2017 that they (I believe it is actually a guy name Dave) were no longer going to be making polish. That is a bummer.

Then I found several OPNLs in destashes that I loved, and one of them was this one. This was from the Game of Thrones trio that was out in early 2017.

This is such a pretty polish! I love this color, and the formula was so easy. 2 pretty coats, and done! This picture and the next were done under my lights.

But then, BAM!! Sunlight really makes this polish come alive!

Do you see this gorgeousness? The sunlight really brings out the pink. 


The shimmer is subtle, but it really makes this polish something special.   Sorry for making this so big, but it's sooooooo pretty, I just had to! Here's another sunlight picture.

Sigh, this is gorgeous.  I don't know how hard this would be to find, but if you like this color, you'll love this polish!

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

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Mainstream Mani Monday- Sinful Shine Prosecco

I am not really a neutral lover, and this did not change my mind, lol.  It's an easy formula to work with, if I had a job interview or needed a neutral polish for some reason, this isn't a bad one....

...but it does give me lobster hands. Moreso in pictures than irl, but enough. This is why I'm not a super fan of neutrals, it's hard to find ones that don't make me look like I have lobster hands.

Another lobster hands example.

Here's a macro- you can see the little flakie things that give this polish the shimmer.

Again, formula nothing to complain about, 2 coats and done, and a good neutral neutral, lol.  I guess my polish personality is just more bright and glittery, not neutral! LOL

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


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MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU!!! Glam Polish 2017

Last year Glam Polish released a special May the 4th polish (May the Fourth be with you, get it? Star Wars?), and I'm pretty sure I snagged the last bottle of it. One of the ingredients in it was something that the maker couldn't get anymore, so no more bottles of it, so I was super glad to get it!

It arrived after May the 4th last year, so I waited almost a year to wear it!!

Here is this year. I did dd's hair like Rey, and ds wore his Stormtrooper costume from Halloween. I told him to smile, and he said, "Mom! Stormtroopers don't smile!!" He has a point.

And the obligatory fight scene...

I love this polish!! This is under my lights, and just like any holo flakie polish, it's suuuuper hard to show all the amazingness of it.

This was 2 easy coats, the flakies laid down nicely, and I did use a glossy top coat for extra gorgeousness.

Here is another picture in artificial light.

And then in the SUNSHINE!!! Isn't it amazing???? So much sparkle and beautifulness!! Exact same hand pose as the last picture, but WHAM!! 

And more pictures, because it's sooo beautiful!!     

Here's a macro, super hard to capture

One more picture because I love it!   

I am trying not to re-wear polishes until I've gone through all my untrieds, which will literally take years (like 1000 untried, no joke),  but this one will be worn for every May 4!!

And here was 2017's May the 4th kiddo picture, lol. Because I think they're adorable. 

May the 4th Be With You!! Live your life with love in your hearts and glitter on your nails!

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Try it Tuesday- Glam Polish Brittanica- plus stamping!

In honor of Glam coming back (she had a preemie baby, who is home now!), I wanted to wear a Glam! I saw this polish, and had to have it- it's soooo bright! And purple!!!

Here it is by itself, such a great color!  Easy 2 coat formula.

Another picture, because it's soooo pretty!!

Wait! Here's one more!! LOL

Then I added stamping. I used the Bundle Monster Ella and Ish place, and the Lantern and Wren clear jelly stamper that I got from the March Polish Pickup- but I think you can get it on their site.

It was a dream to stamp with the stamper, and the plate was great! I used Powder Perfect light pink stamping polish, though it is realllly light, so it looks white.






Here's a closer look at the stamping, because I did it, lol.

And a macro of the polish, I love seeing the polishes close up like this!

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


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