Lacquerlicious & Orly Manicure

Hi folks!  I have a super bright and fun manicure to show you all today.  I know with the weather, things have been kind of doldrummy around here and I know other parts of the country are getting hit just as bad.  I'm doing my best to keep my spirits up (and encourage the Spring weather to get here) by pulling out my most colorful polishes!  Today's manicure is no exception.

I started with 3 coats of Orly's Purple Poodle, which I picked up at Sally's last week on clearance.  PP is a fuchsia jelly with little blue flakie and glitter bits.   If this doesn't qualify for bright, I'm not sure what does!

I actually wore PP by itself for a day, but decided it needed a little something extra to punch it up even further.  I settled on No Tricks, Just Treats! by Lacquerlicious.  This is my first Lacquerlicious polish and I grabbed it over at Llarowe for $3!  Talk about a great sale!  Anyway, I'm definitely impressed with this brand and I hope to add a few more to my stash in the future.   NTJT! is the very definition of a glitter bomb.  Containing over 75(!) different glitters, each bottle is a little different.  Mine has a great mix of dots and hexes in large and small sizes, stars, bars and micro glitter in just about every color you can think of.  I can't wait to use this in a jelly sandwich!

Thank you all so much for reading!

Super Haul and a Manicure

Hello, hello!  This is my second post in two days...aren't you proud of me?  I spent a good chunk of my day wandering around the city and checking out many of my favorite nail polish bargain bins and boy, oh, boy, did I score!  Here's a montage of my haul:

The center photo on the bottom row is my total haul for the day, 26 polishes in all for right around $46 with tax.  Not too shabby, huh? I'll throw a list of all the polishes at the end of the post if you're interested.  I'll just briefly run over the highlights here.  In case you didn't know, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear polishes are on sale at Walgreen's currently; 2/$5 plus you get 1,000 Balance Rewards points when you buy two.  That's a pretty sweet deal!  You can see the four I picked up today in the bottom left photo above (plus a couple of Wet 'n' Wilds I didn't already own). Additionally, be sure to check out your local TJ Maxx and/or Marshall's cuz I found tons of Orly's on clearance for $2-3, including some Instant Artist nail art polishes.  My TJ's haul is pictured in the bottom right and Marshall's is the top center photo.  I only grabbed the one at Marshall's because I already had the other colors I saw there.  Sally's is running a Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale on their ENTIRE stock of regular and gel polishes.  I picked up the 3 polishes shown in the top left photo for $8.43 with my 15% off Beauty Club coupon...I'm pretty proud of that one ;)  And finally, Dollar Tree had a crap ton of Sinful Colors polishes, although they are in packages rather than free-standing on a shelf.  My score there is shown in the top right photo; they were $1 each, as is everything at the Dollar Tree. 

Now, on to my manicure!  In addition to a cute set of Orly minis I found at TJ Maxx, I also picked up an awesome magnetic glitter polish from Color Club in a set with a top coat for $2 on clearance.  OMG, it's SO sparkly!  The photos don't do justice, but take a look anyway:

I started out with a coat of Charged Up by Color Club.  This polish is a gold holographic glitter polish with magnetic bits. The magnet that came with this polish is a fishnet pattern and I was excited to try it out since I don't have a magnet like this yet.  I learned a helpful trick for magnetic polish awhile ago.  Did you know that you can re-activate the magnetic properties with a non-fast dry top coat?  If your magnetic polish dries too quickly, or if you don't get a good "pull" on your first go, simply apply a coat of top coat or clear polish (anything clear that's not fast dry should work) and re-hover your magnet.  I'm so glad I learned this trick, otherwise I'd have wasted TONS of polish here.  The magnet worked pretty well, but I have a decent amount of curve to my nail, so sometimes the pattern didn't want to cover my nail well.  After redoing several of my nails several times, I just decided to do a sort of gradient on the sides of my nails to blend in where the pattern didn't cover.  I used Orly's Androgynie, a holographic hex and gold microglitter in a clear black base, for the gradient, applied with a sponge.

Over all, I like this manicure.  I do love the Color Club polish, it's pretty darn fantastic and I'm so glad to have it in my collection.  Unfortunately, this binge has brought about a "no buy" for at least a week.  I know a week doesn't sound that long, but, trust me, it'll be a challenge!

Thanks so much for reading!

Polish Haul
~Sally's
     -Finger Paints, Itsy Bitsy Spider and I Spy-Der
     -Nina Ultra Pro, Violet It Ride
~Marshall's
     -Orly, Take a Chance
~Dollar Tree
     -Sinful Colors, Hot Wired, Island Coral, Let's Talk, Savage, Call You Later, Cream Pink, Outrages, and Slate
~Walgreen's
     -Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear, Blue Me Away!, Pacific Blue, Breezy Blue, and Green With Envy
     -Wet 'n' Wild Wild Shine, Tickled Pink, Lavender Creme
~TJ Maxx
     -Orly, Twilight, Instant Artist Yellow Submarine, Androgynie (mini), Starry-Eyed (mini), Berry Sweet (mini), and Glitz (mini)
     -Color Club, Charged Up w/ Clear Top Coat

Sugar Rush with a Side of Bombshell

Howdy everyone!  Sorry it's been a few days since I posted, it was kind of a crazy weekend.  I put myself on a "no-buy" for last week and then broke it all over the place at Ulta on Friday and then Ulta again and Forever 21 on Saturday.  Forever 21 had a half off of clearance prices sale so I got a bunch of polish for $0.49 a bottle!  I'm excited to try out their polishes as that was my first ever trip into the store.  I'll be going back, I'm sure!

Additional to all the polish I bought over the weekend, I did get some nail mail as well.  I received my Add On from Julep (however, never got my Maven Box, so I'm a bit bummed about that) and, much more exciting, my first ever order from Darling Diva Polish!  I first saw this polish featured over on Lucy's Stash.  You can see the review that caught my eye here.  The polish that really stood out to me was Sugar Rush and I've done a little manicure with it!  Take a look:

You can see Sugar Rush is on my ring fingernail.  It's so fantastically magical!  My very first indie polish and what a great choice!

....more after the jump....

Scalloped Jelly Sandwich Manicure

Howdy, everyone!  I know it's been a few days since my last post and I'm sorry for that.  I've been working some extra hours this week so I've been too pooped when I get home to post!  But I do have something new for you today.  Here's where I started with this one:

 

So I finally broke down and bought a bottle of Revlon's Royal at Ulta last week.  I've been coveting it simply forever and, even with their copyright issues, I just had to have it.  So here, I applied one coat of Royal, followed by a coat of China Glaze's Ray-diant and then another coat of Royal to make a lovely jelly sandwich.  Royal really is a beautiful polish...but, boy! does it stink!  Is it just my bottle that smells kind of like feet?  lol

Anyway, after wearing this for a day, I decided to jazz it up a bit, and here's the result:

 

I loved my Scalloped Manicure from the other day so much, I decided to try it again.  This time, I used Orly's Luxe over top and doesn't it look fabulous!?  I love, love, love this color combo!  And I think the glitter peeking through the blue just adds a little something extra.  Whaddya think?

Thanks so much for reading!