V-Day Practice.

I really could care less about Valentines Day and we don't celebrate it, but I AM going to use it as an excuse to do an over the top, gaudy manicure.  I find this hilarious because I pride myself in not basing the value of my relationship on commercial holidays like V-day.   We are like, totally above that crap, man.

Then, Valentines Day rolls around and all those "We're above it all" feelings go straight out the window because I *Still* expect a gift and get all pissed when I don't get one.  It's one of those unbreakable female instincts.  I get all depressed and think to myself  "who cares if I told him I don't want to celebrate valentines he should get me flowers anyway just because he wants to".  I then silently convince myself that he doesn't love me for 8-12 hours. I don't say that petty crap out loud though.  Remember, it was my idea not to celebrate the stupid holiday.  So the statement that should have started this post was, "I really could care less about Valentines Day on everyday of the year except Valentines Day".

Anyhoo, here are some of my practice runs, and ideas for V-day manis.

 Zoya Vanessa with dots in Essie MCA and Essie African Violet. Not gaudy enough but close.

Essie African Violet with Lippman Maneater. Erm, this was supposed to be like those V-day chocolates with the pink middles. The ring finger looks like it's missing something. It's just ok., not NEARLY obnoxious enough.

Cutesy. This is Sinful Colors Beautiful Girl with China Glaze Ravishing, Dahling flowers and a silver glitter for the centers.

This was an attempt at sort of a "reverse" french. It looks terrible. The polishes are Misa High Waist Hue, and Push Upon It. Boring and Blech.

Essie MCA with a Sinful Black on Black chevron outlined in white. This was meant to remind me of those little pastel candy hearts but I don't think it's cutting it.

DOLLA DOLLA BILL Y'ALL!

Oh the horror, the terrifying chunky horror!  This craptastic mani truley captures the essence of  V-day. I keep picturing some lady seriously wearing this around like it's totaly normal to focus on expensive gifts to the point of wearing it as a manicure, then I giggle hysterically.

It's not the colors.

There is something sinful about Sinful colors polishes but it's certainly not the colors. It's the price people. Seriously Sinful colors, how can I be expected to maintain any amount of normalcy and not buy EVERY SINGLE ONE of your polishes when they are only $1.99 a bottle. HOW?

I almost forgot to mention(not really) that pretty often walgreens has been running BOGO adds on Sinful colors polish. Egads! That makes these little bottles of pretty paint only $1 each! 

As for the quality I have not had a single problem. Let's put it this way, I would reach for a sinful before I reached for an OPI, every time. Sorry OPI. (not really, again).

I even made up my own little version of a normally retarded song to sing about sinful colors. It goes like this- Don't you wish your girlfriend was cheap like me. Don't you wish your girlfriend could read like me. Don'tcha! 

Without further adieu bring on the SIN!

Yeah, so? I like this pretty pink polish. Deal with it. As my BFF would say "I'm too hardcore for braids" I assume this also covers polishes of the pink variety. Well, BFF here's what I say- I'm hardcore Enough for braids (and pink polish). This is 3 coats.

This polish is red alright. Red like a one coat OPI. And yes I see the bubble on my pointer finger. As my mother used to say, Waste not want not! But for real my mother never said that I'm just lazy. 2 coats

2 coats. Perfect name for this stank looking polish. No offense I'm just not into orange.

Oh how I love this. Before you go falling in love too please note this polish is WAY less blue than this picture. It is a glorious deep purple jelly with purple and gold fleck glitter. This is 3 coats.

This vibrant blue is so hard to capture with a camera. It's almost electric. 2 coats.

This is nearly a dead ringer for China Glaze Blk-Bila Bong. Love it. 3 coats.

This one is just ok, Love the color but green shimmers get old for me. Green cremes are a different story. A whole different book actually. 2 coats.

Olive greenish, yellowy shimmer. 2 coats

This is 3 coats over show me the way.I kinda like it.

Gorgeous blackened burgundy. 2 coats.

I freakin love this! Black with silver micro glitter. This is a one coater if you're careful.

This is one coat over black. Notice how it looks borring in the bottle but comes alive on my nails? This polish is like a librarian that works at night as a stripper. A good top coat will hide any graininess from the glitter.

Also one coat over black. This polish is as close to gold foil in a bottle that I have seen. At 3 coats it turns opaque. Both of these glitters are over sinful colors- black on black which is the best ONE coat black creme, period.

Drugstore Deals.

I normally like to stick to brands I get online like Misa, China Glaze, Orly etc. But I just cannot pass up cheap polish. An added bonus to my obsessive polish hoarding problem is that I find a lot of really awesome polishes I wouldn't have ever tried had they not been on sale. This being a prime example.

I only got this because it was marked down to $1.39 at my walgreens and I LOVE to have lots of matching bottles from the same brand. I am low on rimmels so I grabbed it in spite of the color. I tried it and fell in love. I freakin adore this! BUT, I came to find out that they were only discounted because rimmel is changing thier bottle design. How nice. 

I love the square Sally Hansen Salon bottles. But as with all good things from Sally Hansen they are discontinued and are being replaced with something fugly. So, a lot of stores are discounting the square style bottles. I picked these up at Walgreens for a little over a dollar each on sale. So if you love these like I do start stalking the walgreens in your area STAT!

Sinful colors polishes can be purchased at walgreens. They have been running BOGO sales for them a lot lately so they end up being only $1 each. Normally $1.99 a bottle. This is 2 coats

This beauty was part of the CVS 75% off sale going on this month. A lot of thier store brand items are also BOGO50% off.

I found these old Maybellines at the Dollar Tree. The express  finish normally come in 2 packs for $1. The others are sold individually.

I got this one from Ross in a sort of grab bag package. It had 10 old Sally Hansens. There were extremes, Salons, Glossies, Opals, 10 days wears and Hard as nails all in the same package for only 4.99! Of course I bought both packs.