CUPID PUKE

Cupid puke - can't think of a better way to describe this mani. But don't let the word "puke" make you think I don't like this - because I do! I love it! I'm really in to layering glitter top coats right now, it's a phase, it'll pass.

This mani took 7 coats of polish to complete, lol. I can't believe there wasn't more shrinkage at the tips with all those layers.

I started with 3 base coats of Sinful Colors in Scandal. Then I did a layer of the red glitter using Wet n Wild Prancer. Then I layered over that the gold glitter using Santee Copper Kiss Glitter. Next I used Nabi, my name sticker is missing, but it is the bottle shown in all the pictures. It is a thick almost gel like clear base with opal colored glitter and light pink pearlized hearts suspended in it. I did have to do some fishing to get the hearts out, but it wasn't any big deal. For the last and seventh layer I did a coat of seche.

I love this! With everything that is going on with this mani it looked like Cupid had thrown up all over my nails.

CHEAP BRAND - NOTD

I say "cheap" but really it should be "cheaper", since this polish's quality is anything BUT cheap. I love Diamond Cosmetics polish. This was one I pulled out of my pink box. It is actually a mix between a purple and pink. The polish has lots of lighter pink shimmer through out.











I decided to add a little bit more glitter to this look with another "cheaper" brand, Nabi. I believe this color is called Pink Glitter.

CHEAP, DRUGSTORE BRAND SWATCHES - THE PINKS

Last night I was in a swatching mood so I decided to pull down a few boxes of nail polish and pick some out to swatch. You might remember that I recently started keeping my nail polish by color, so I pulled down PINK, GREEN and BLUE boxes to pick from. I didn't even realize until after I picked out several bottles that the majority of what I had was cheaper drug store brands. After swatching them, I really wanted to stress to you all just how great some of these brands really are. Most of the ones I am showing you cost me $2 or less for each bottle!! So next time you are at your local dollar store or drug store, don't just pass by those cheap brands. Get one and give it a try, you just might be surprised that really nice nail polish doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.


This first post will highlight the PINK nail polishes I picked out.


BIANCA, SCANDAL, BEAUTIFUL GIRL


Sinful Colors usually gets ripped about being streaky and thin. And that is true for some polishes (but I think that goes for all brands too), but not all of Sinful Color's polishes streaky. I used three coats for each, which is what I consider normal.

Sinful Colors retail for $1.99 at Walgreens.


BIANCA






Just to jazz it up a little bit, I used LOVE MY NAILS in Dazzling.Love My Nails I believe are $1.97 and can be found at Walmart.

(As a side note, their tag line of "For that deep, wet look" has to be some MALE marketing there.)








SCANDAL





For this one, I chose to use a Nabi - Milky Glitter. I purchased my Nabi's from a flea market in Las Vegas for $1.00 each. I have really been pretty impressed with Nabi brand and they have some really nice, unique colors as well as a ton of glitters to choose from. This particular glitter polish I used was really easy to apply. I didn't have any problems that cheaper glitters sometimes have of not applying well. I did not have to fish the glitter out or apply it any different way for this to show up on my nail. Very nice Nabi, very nice. Milky Glitter has two types of glitter in it, THREE different sized round glitter and small bar glitter.







BEAUTIFUL GIRL






To top this one off I picked a Misa. Now this isn't a cheap, drug store brand, but like I said, MOST of the ones I picked out were. Misa is a really nice brand of polish. Every time I use one, I want to get more of them. Not only do I just ADORE the bottle shape, the polish is really, really nice. I used Candy Girl to top this off. I loved how girly this was.






Stay tuned for my GREEN and BLUE posts coming up!