A few more Finger Paints.

Last night I went back to Sally's to grab a few more Finger Paints. I am pretty sure I spotted another nail junkie while I was there. We're a mysterious and illusive species and you rarely see us in the light of day, but I feel like I have the knowledge to identify one of my own kind when I see one. 


She was a 20 something woman with neon green nails filed to perfection. I noticed this from 20 feet away the second she walked through the door at Sally's. Yeah, I always obsessively STARE at strangers until I get a glimpse of their nails. So what? Anyways, she walked in, looking down at the ground, and made a straight B line to the polishes. A dead giveaway. Then she ninja grabbed the China Glaze Crackle Haunting 4 pack that I had JUST PUT DOWN!!! DAMN IT! She instantly bought it and I cursed under my breath for the rest of the night for putting it down. 


So, fellow nail junkie who STRAIGHT UP STOLE the new China Glaze Halloween collection from me, I hope you like your new polish. PS- I licked the package. Enjoy your strep throat. I'm pretty sure I have a swollen lymph node.


When I checked out at the register the SA went out of her way to give me a free purse. I think that means I am spending too much money there. I ended up buying 3 new Finger Paints, a new Orly, Fresh, marked down to 1.99 and China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-le. It's one of the only CG's in the core collection that I don't already have. So, I got it.


I'll go ahead and swatch all of my new ones even though the title of this post expressly says Finger Paints. Whatever. I do what I WANT!

 First up, this gorgeous hidden gem from China Glaze that I have somehow managed to ignore until now. So weird because I absolutely LOVE this color and I am wearing it right now. It's a little sheer but worth it.

Pretty redish purple. I really like this one. I have found that all the Finger Paints I have purchased dry super duper shiny. Mama likey!

HOLY SHIT! Dark blue super pigmented jelly with loads of super tiny pink shimmer. I LOVE THIS! I am so glad I got this one, I put it down 3 or 4 times.

 Here is another view of the polish above without flash to show the insane shine. Sooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiinyyyyyyyyyyyy.

 Wow. A perfect lavender that does not make my skin look red. Love it.

 Last we have my clearance polish. I think they sold everything from this new collection but this one polish so they marked it down. I saw this last weekend and it was 6.99. It's a neon so it dries matte. Pictured here at 2 coats with no topcoat. I'm not crazy about this but I am fairly sure that for Halloween I'm wearing this with OPI Black Shatter on top because it looks CRAZY AWESOME.

Love, MM

China Glaze Metro Collection.

I love this collection SO MUCH I just had to post it. This is one of the rare China Glaze collections where I love almost all of the colors. Normally I have to have no more than 6 of a 12 piece set but for this collection I had my heart set on 9 of them!

I was so obsessed with these that for the first time ever I went to Sally's and paid retail for them so I could get instant gratification. For someone as cheap as me that is really saying something.

This collection is so incredible but for some odd reason the promo pictures and advertising are really misleading. In the promo pic the polishes are arranged in such a way that the collection really looks STANK. It looks like burnt oranges and nothing but reds. YUCK! They really screwed up with that photo. I am willing to bet this collection would have been 50% more popular had they pulled the purple, grey and green polishes to the front of the display in the photo and let the red and pink polishes hide in the back. 

The formula on these is amazing across the board. All the cremes except one are careful one coaters and 2 of the glitters cover in a mere 2 coats.

One of the reasons this collection is so mesmerizing to me is that the colors are super complimentary to one another. They look fantastic side by side making you feel like you need all of them. 

Swatches!!! Please keep in mind I am re-learning to photograph nail polish since it's been FOREVER!

Purple and silver micro glitters of a few different shades in a clear base. This is 3 coats. This one is my least favorite of the 9 I bought but I still like it. It's sort of different.

 I adore this dark grey creme with a hint of blue. This is my all time favorite grey creme. This is the only grey I own that doesn't make my skin look over the top red.

 This is an eggplant base with duochrome micro glitter. The glitter flashes from orange to lime green. This is 2 coats. Amazing color!Even though I mostly stick to cremes these days I really love this one and I can't wait to wear it.

 Another view.

 Simply stunning dark blue, almost navy blue jelly with loads of silver micro glitter. This is only 2 coats!!! This is a must have.

 Darkish pink creme. Nothing new but I really like this for a pink. It makes my skin look so creamy and fresh. I can actually see myself wearing this on purpose.

 Mustard yellow with subtle shimmer. I bought this because it's so different. It makes my skin tone look horrible but this is probably the only yellow polish I will ever wear. 2 coats.

 Really gorgeous red based purple creme. This is really pretty but not really unique. This one needs more coats than all the other cremes. It's a minimum 2 coater.

 My favorite polish of the collection. Sort of an army or olive maybe a camo green creme. This dries at least 2 shades darker than the bottle. I adore this color! It looks incredible with Urban Night and Concrete Catwalk. MUST BUY!!!

 I really LOVE this red. I am so into red polish lately, especially cremes, and even more especially "different" red cremes. This is kind of murky almost with a tint of grey. Dies super duper shiny and makes my skin tone look amazing. This is the best red to come out all year.

Some updates on yours truley. After an 8 year relationship I am finally ready to get married and I am currently deep in the trenches of wedding planning. Man, it's insane but a lot of fun. I have been on this crazy hardcore diet for the last 6 weeks and planning on staying on it until my wedding 16 months away. Wish me luck on that rediculous crap! Also, I got CHICKENS! Thats right, you heard me correctly. I have PET CHICKENS now. They are so entertaining and sweet! The super cool thing about my new chickens is that they should start laying eggs in about a month and I just figured out that the reason I have been so sick lately is that I am alergic to EGGS. AWESOME!  


I am so excited to be posting after so long! It's nice to be back! 

Love, MM 

China Glaze Poolside Collection - Design Nail Arts

YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI
Very bright neon yellow. A bit hard to work with, I had to do four coats. I think white polish under would solve the problem. Still nothing one can´t handle and the result is worth it. It really shines!

SUN WORSHIPER

A beautiful neon orange. This will make a great pedi color. It was also a bit harder to work with. But I expected that and again used four coats.

FLIP FLOP FANTASY

I love the name of this bright coral neon. It is a lot on the pink side and I just love that. This applied very nice, three coats.

 POOL PARTY

This stuff is radioactive! I think it is the brightest of the whole collection. A hot pink neon. I will be wearing Pool Party a lot in the summer, I am sure of that. Great application, had no problems. Three coats.

TOWEL BOY TOY

Another great name for a polish. This is the only one with shimmer and I wouldn´t call it a neon, although it dries matte. It a beautiful blue with shimmer. I added a picture in the sun, so that you can see it. My favourite of the collection. Three coats.

KIWI COOL-ADA

Neon green, very bright. This applied very nice, although four coats were needed. I don´t have anything like this and again it will be a great pedi color.

Overall I really like this collection. Some of them were harder to apply, but if you follow the application tips, you are ok :) In this collection, you get all you need for summer. Fun, bright neon colors, that will make you always stand out! Can´t wait to walk on the beach with these beauties!
P.S. too bad there is not a purple neon, but I want a purple polish in every collection, so don´t listen to me :P

My NOTD

Just a quickie today to show off whats on my nails while I'm waiting for my dear step daughters to arrive. I CANNOT WAIT for them to get here so we can decorate the house for Halloween!!! My favorite holiday! Then I cannot wait to take them shopping all over town scouring for Halloween themed cosmetics! Oh, how I love Halloween cosmetics! I need to start saving money year round just so I can buy out all the stores when Halloween rolls around!

Today I'm wearing one of my favorite polishes of all time.

 China Glaze's Fairy dust over one coat of Sinful's Black on Black. I love how this polish changes depending on the lighting. In the shade it simply looks like silver micro glitter, but in the sunlight it explodes into a holo-fest of awesome.

Here's another picture of it doing it's thing in the sunlight.

Gorgeous!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 

Love, MM

China Glaze Up & Away

Yeah, I realize I'm super late posting this! So what? Wanna fight about it?

When these originally came out I decided the only one I needed was Grape pop, so I got it and went about my merry way. But the strangest thing kept happening. In just about every polish order I've made in the past month or so at least one or two polishes from the Up & Away collecting kept sneaking into my shopping cart... I have no clue why I keep buying them. I don't even like pastels. 

Out of the 12 that were released I have somehow ended up with 7 of them. Whoops! Oh yeah and please excuse my talons, I'm growing out my nails for Halloween! I'm going as a robotic eagle humanoid. Just kidding, I have just been too lazy busy to file them down. 

This has been my mani for the last 3 days! No tipwear or chips! This was a 2 coater but a little hard to control though.

I kinda like this one, a little bit. Another 2 coater. 

As you can see by the slight drips forming on my ring and pinkie nails this one was a runny butt hole! This is 3 coats, but it could have used 4, that is if you can keep it from running and dripping all over the place.

This one is just ok, I'm not really a huge pink fan though.  This one was thick enough to be a 2 coater but somehow still a bit runny.

I would totally rock this out if it didn't make the pigment of the skin on my fingers change to a fierce neon RED. Oh and if I liked pastels. This was a thick 2 coater, not runny thank goodness.

Love this one! This is one coat but I clearly could have done a better job applying it! This polish has SEVEN dupes that I know of. Off the top of my head some of them are- OPI funkey dunky, Orly Charged up, Ulta Celebutante, Nina ultra pro Mambo, Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas, plus Spa Ritual and somebody else also make one. 

I really like this dark cherry pink. It's a little runny but still a 2 coater.

The formula on these is all over the place. Some are highly pigmented one coaters (grape pop), some are runny 3 coaters, and some are thick and streaky 2 coaters. It's really a hit or miss situation. Luckily none of them are so bad application wise that you should refrain from buying them if you really like the color. Dry time was good on all of the ones I got.

Love, MM

Sparkly

This was my "cheer me up" NOTD today. It kinda worked...I was a good girl and left it on all day long which is about impossible for me to do. I usually have 5 or 6 NOTDs before bedtime rolls around. 

This is China Glaze Heli-yum with lots of tiny little rhinestones I just got in the mail yesterday. I ordered a shit ton of them off ebay last week. I can't wait to try these on black. I love this polish BTW, this is one single coat. 

I just got back from CVS where I returned SH HD LASER. The checkout lady asked me what was wrong with it and I said, "It sucks ass".  She then opened the polish and tested the brush out by swiping it on the rim of the bottle about 15 times. Then she started to peer into the bottle opening to see if it was all used up...So I was like, "the bottle is clear". She continued to strain her eyes looking down into the tiny bottle opening as if she hadn't heard me at all. I let her go about her investigation for at least 5 whole minutes before I lost my cool. 

Loosing my cool consisted of shifting my weight from side to side, making a very mean face, and huffing and puffing REALLY LOUDLY. She eventually gave me back my 6 dollars but She left me with so many questions. Do I really look like some sort of nail polish criminal? Does she think I skulk from CVS to CVS using up nail polishes and returning empty bottles for full refunds? Do I look like the kind of person that runs a nail polish smuggling ring out of my apartment, victimizing drug stores all over the east coast?  Was she really too stupid to realize that nail polish bottles are CLEAR?

While I was at CVS I got 6 of the new confetti polishes that look very promising. I also hit Walgreens while I was out and got some Sinfuls. So, I'll have swatches of those soon.

Love, MM

Some China Glaze Love

Some old and some newer. I hope you enjoy the swatches! 

 Love, MM

Vintage Vixen Swatches

Here are swatches of the 10 polishes I got from the Vintage Vixen Collection.  I skipped classic camel and goin' my way, but I'm sure I'll buy them at some point. 

 I think I hyped myself up WAY too much over these because now that I have them I'm kind of disappointed. I just feel "meh" about the whole collection.  I think I definitely built it up too much in my head while waiting so honestly nothing really would have been good enough. I mean I like them and everything they just aren't what I was expecting. Oh well.

Love, MM