St. Patty's Day Skittles!

Happy Saturday!

I was feeling a bit festive, so I decided to do a St. Patrick's Day mani! I was going to do a water marble, but I was craving some sparkle, as always. I searched through my stash for almost every green and gold I own to figure out what I wanted to to. I ended up for four polishes, and all but one are untrieds! Yay me!

I don't think I've ever done a legit skittles mani before, but I think they're so fun! The polishes I used were A England- Dragon, butter LONDON- West End Wonderland, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear- Set the Stage, and Sephora By OPI- It's Real Top Coat. I used two coats of Dragon on all but my middle finger, which has three coats of West End Wonderland. My pointer and pinky are glitter gradiented with West End Wonderland; my ring finger has one coat of It's Real and one coat of Set the Stage. I'm in love with the end result! Green and glitter, what more could a girl want?! 

One coat of Gelous

One coat of Poshe

Are you doing anything fun for St. Patrick's Day?

butter LONDON- Fishwife

Hi Everyone!

Today I'm going to be showing you guys butter LONDON- Fishwife! I was so in love with Trustafarian that I had to pick up Fishwife. As far as I know, Fishwife is still only available in the US, and might still only be available online. Regardless, get it if you can because it's gorgeous!

Fishwife is a holographic polish that's sort of a turquoise, sea foam color. It is pretty sheer, but the holographic totally stands out, even in dim lighting. I used four coat, just to cover any bald spots. It really is a beautiful polish. It's just the perfect combo. These scheduled posts are some what out of order, and I'm actually wearing Fishwife for the first few days of my cruise! It's totally perfect. I'm really impressed with all of the butter LONDON holos that I have because they don't seem to be dulled by a top coat.

Four coats of butter LONDON- Fishwife

One coat of Poshe

I absolutely love this polish!

KBShimmer- Candy Cane Crush

Hello Everyone!

I have a new post, finally! I'm sorry for the absence, but man do I have a good one to show you all today! I'm actually semi obsessed with the this mani. Especially the combo, which you'll see at the end. LOVE IT!

So today I have an amazing glitter from the KBShimmer Holiday Collection to show you, Candy Cane Crush! Now this is not just any old glitter polish, it's scented! You heard me, scented! Vanilla peppermint to be exact. It's super yummy, and the scent lasted even after the top coat! I started with two coats of Butter London- Dosh, and then did one coat of Candy Cane Crush. Not only is it amazingly dense for a glitter, it applied great to. I love the different sizes of red and white hexes, and I can totally see myself using this for other Holidays.  These two polishes together are very "Grinchy". The golden shimmer in Dosh really shines through. Not to mention, I can't stop smelling my nails as I type this.

Two coats of Butter London- Dosh

One coat of KBShimmer- Candy Cane Crush

Two coats of Poshe

Now for a little something extra! I added one coat of Sephora by OPI- It's Real 18K Gold Top Coat on top. WOWZERS! This is probably one of my favorite layering combos ever. I'll let the picture do the talking. There's also another coat of Poshe on top, and I can STILL spell Candy Cane Crush!

Butter London- Scuppered

Hi everyone! Today I'm going to show you one of the Butter London's I ordered a little while ago. I was actually pretty excited for Butter London- Scuppered, but I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it. Scuppered is part of the Butter London 2012 Holiday Collection. I don't usually do posts on polishes I don't end up liking, but I know that this will probably be a popular polish for this season.

Scuppered is a coppery, bronze based shimmer. There's also some pink shimmer and tiny green glitters. I think my bigest problem with this polish is that it pretty much just looks bronze unless you're in good lighting. Or if you're staring directly at your nails. I was expecting the green glitter to stand out a bit more. I usually stray away from bronze, brown, or anything in that family. I expected it to clash with my skin tone more then it does. I just don't know! Sometimes I like Scuppered, and then a minute later I want to take it off! Application was pretty good. When I hurried to apply the second coat, it pulled the first coat. Just let it dry a bit. Who knows, maybe it will grow on me.

Two coats of Butter London- Scuppered

One coat of Gelous

One coat of Poshe

What do you think about Scuppered? I have Jack the Lad to show you from this collection as well. Hopefully I like that one a bit more!

Nail Mail!!!

Yay! It's nail mail time! This haul is find of all over the place. It includes my Butter London order from their Friends & Family sale, two indie brands I haven't tried before and some nail art glitter! I'm sure there's more polishes I could have added to this post, but these were the ones I was most excited for. Are you ready to see what I got?!

First up is my Butter London order! Now I had quite a few on my wish list, and I knew there was a reason I hadn't ordered them. I had a feeling a sale was coming. I patiently, more like impatiently, waited, and finally they had their 30% off Friends & Family sale! Then I saw that it was free shipping when you spent over $75. It all went out the window from there. I can never pass up free shipping. Basically I got six polishes, originally $84 total, for $58! That's practically $9 a bottle! Compared to $14, that's a major steal. So let's see what I picked up!

Scuppered and Jack The Lad, both from the 2012 Holiday Collection. Posh Bird and Fishwife, I believe were released for fashion week, and then The Black Knight and Dosh. All are in order of the picture, and I included swatch photos. Look at that holo on Fishwife, ermahgerd!

Next up is my order from a new Esty seller, My Ten Friends! Now, I have to be honest. Most of the time when I find a new seller on Etsy, I wait a bit just to see if more swatch photos pop up. In this case, I just couldn't control myself! I ordered these as soon as I laid eyes on them. I'm so excited I did because I'm totally in love. The pictures do NOT do these polishes justice. They are so sparkly and gorgeous in real life. The price is pretty decent at $8.88 a bottle. I some how managed to get two blues and two greens, but who cares because they are stunning! The greens aren't as simular as they look in the pictures.

Once again these are in order: 42, Spacebound, Goldilocks Planet and Clusterfrak. I am SO excited to wear these! You can actually get 10% off your order right now with the code, Anniversary10!

And finally I have a few random bits. I purchased my first Nail'd It polish off of Llarowe. I've eyed quite a few, but never got around to buying them. I picked up Candy Wrapper because it was on sale for $9, and I've wanted it for awhile. Then I have some nail art glitter from JessiGeeWhiz over on Esty. These are solvent resistent loose glitter. You can use them loose or mix them into base polish. I'm super excited to do a review post on these because they are just amazing. 

Nail'd It- Candy Wrapper, JessiGeeWhiz glitters in Winter Solstice, Gift Wrap and Christmas PJ's. Jessi is having a 50% of sale from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, so be sure to pick up some of these gorgeous glitters! I know I will be. The coupon code is GEEWHIZ50OFF.

If you could decide what to see posts on first, what would you choose: Butter London, My Ten Friends, or the JessiGeeWhiz glitters?

Butter London- Two Fingered Salute

Guys, I think I have seriously found one of my favorite polishes of all time! I had to track this sucker down so you better bet I love it! The polish I'm referring to is Butter London- Two Fingered Salute. It was one of three Butter London polishes released as Nordstorm exclusives. I saw it and knew I had to have it. Then I waited and waited until I looked one day and it was sold out. No lie I almost cried. And then a Nordstorm Beauty Stylist came to my rescue and ordered me one from their Seattle store. I put it on as soon as I got it and it's still on my nails....like 4 days later. You might have seen a Facebook post about me having found my favorite polish of the year. Well here ya go, it's Butter London- Two Fingered Salute!

Butter London, you sure make me giggle with these names! Names aside, this is a stunning polish. Two Fingered Salute is the perfect shade of light green. I really don't want to call it sage because I find that on me it's way brighter then sage. Maybe a sage with a bit more blue. Who cares, it's so pretty! The amazing part of this polish is the chunky copper shimmer. It just makes the polish glow and adds so much dimension. Ahhhh, I really just love this polish. I have a such a soft spot for greens. It's so funny because green has always been a favorite color of mine but I hated it on my nails. In the past year, it has grown on me. Green is definitely a favorite polish color of mine now! Application was great. Two coats and it was good to go!

Two coats of Butter London- Two Fingered Salute

One coat of Poshe

It you're on the hunt for this polish but you can't find it in stores, I highly recommend chatting with a Beauty Stylist on Nordstroms website. I have a feeling the ladies in a nail group I'm in might have cleaned out the Seattle store but I'm sure other stores have this still! Best of luck if your on the lookout!

Butter London- Trustafarian

Hello everyone! I hope everyones Friday's are going well! Today I have a polish from the new Butter London Fall 2012 collection! It's called Trustafarian and is a gorgeous pistachio green holo! Oh, do I love this polish! I was a bit confused by the name so of course I headed over to Urban Dictionary for a rough definition.This is what I got out of the definitions listed: "The word combines trust-fund with Rastafarian. A privileged white kid who subscribes to the hippie lifestyle since they have no worries about money, a job, ect. They then devote their lives to eating organic, growing dreads and smoking pot." LOL WHAT?!?! Oh Butter London, you sure know how to name 'em.

Trustafarian is seriously gorgeous! Not only does it hold its holo after a top coat, it applied opaquely in three coats. I can't stop staring at it's amazeballsness. Did I mention I only paid $4.84 for it because I had a free $10 Nordstroms gift card?!?! Officially the best polish purchase this month. Besides my custom F4 polish which you guys will see soon ;) On to the photos!

Three coats of Butter London- Trustafarian

One coat of Poshe

Gahhhh, it's so pretty! Please go buy/order this right now! You need it in your life!