ORLY - OH CABANA BOY

A hot, shimmery pink for you to enjoy!

ORLY - IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

I wanted to get some better pictures of this, but it was a little difficult. I don't really like the lighting situation I have going on in my nail room just yet. I fiddled with the camera settings a little bit, but it's hard to beat a great mid-day sun shot. This took more coats than I expected. I needed four, maybe could have gotten away with three if I would have done thicker coats.

I got this on clearance at Sally's for $3.99. It was the only one of the Cosmic FX polishes they had left. I missed out on this collection during my hiatus. I even checked at a couple of other Sallys hoping to find some in their clearance section but no luck.

ORLY - MEET ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE

Good morning gals! Today I'm showing you Orly's Meet Me Under the Mistletoe. I picked this up the other day when I went into Sally's for like the first time in TWO MONTHS!!! Can you believe that it had been so long? Anyway I met a great girl that works there who actually remembered me from being in before and always buying nail polish. I slipped her one of my handy Blog business cards and she actually knew my blog! How cool was that? So Jules if you are reading this...HI and it was great meeting you! And PLEASE, what happens at Sally's stays at Sally's OK?

Ok, so on to the color. I really wanted to be wowed by this, but I was really kind of underwhelmed with how it looked on my nails. There wasn't anything wrong with it, it was just kind of flat. It looks so awesome and flaky and glittery in the bottle but on the nails wah wah waaaah. After yesterday I was ready to take it off. I think it just needed a little something extra like a nice big helping of some peridot green glitter, that would really kick this one up a notch.

It also bothers me just slightly that the font is two different sizes on the label. I know it was too long of a name to fit on one row, but why make THE MISTLETOE so much bigger like it was more important than "meet me under". Did that bother anyone else?


FUN FACT: Mistletoe is Oklahoma's state flower

MEMORIAL DAY MANI - RED, WHITE & BLUE

Hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. Here is my mani:

Zoya Gaia for the base color, Orly - Royal Navy for the diagonal parts. Then I used a Stripe Right pen in Red Glitter to accent. I topped it all off with Klean Color - Chunky Silver. My ring finger has some star accents on it, but with the chunky silver it might be hard to see.

SALLY'S HAUL

I know I touched on this a little bit last week, but now is the time to get to Sallys and stock up on all their seasonal nail polishes. All the price tags still read $3.99, but they are not, they are all $1.99 EACH!!! Below, I got all this nail polish for $30.00! I used my 15% off coupon as well as getting a free China Glaze with the purchase of Seche fast drying top coat. Seriously ladies, hurry!!


Yes, that box contains TWO polishes for only $1.99! The other one the name tag is gone, anyone know what the name of this one is??




Finger Paints from their Summer, Fall and Holiday collections, all for $1.99 each.




The Matte Magic's are on sale for only 99 cents each.
The two china glazes were not on sale, but I got one for free with a coupon.




I already have these, but at 1.99 each I wanted to stock up. I can use these as back ups or as gifts for future giveaways and contests.

VALENTINES DAY NAILS - BLACKENED ROSES

Another Valentines mani today - yeeeeaaaaaahhh!! Kind of stuck on the Valentines theme for now. I used Orly Matte Vinyl for the black base and then stamped roses and hearts with cupid arrows with NYC Royal Foil. Loving this! When I showed it to the BF he wanted to know why it looked so dry, lol. I had to inform him it wasn't DRY but MATTE. I decided to put a clear coat over the four nails that I had stamped the hearts with arrows on to shake up the look a little bit. Sorry for the dryness but I couldn't very well oil up my fingers while trying to keep the polish matte looking. This mani is only good for a few hours I would say. The matte starts to get shiny and since it isn't protected I have had some chipping too. But I liked the out come of this one.







The addition of the clear coat on the ring and thumb nails below:





(Look at how perfect that stamp came out!!!! Pats on the back Brooke :)

SOME RANDOM SWATCHES

SANTEE - PURPLE DIAMOND
FOUR COATS, NO TOPCOAT








HARD CANDY - ENVY
TWO COATS, NO TOP COAT







ORLY - HAPPILY EVER AFTER
TWO COATS W/ TOP COAT