LynB Designs: Dianthus Redux

Hello there. Today I have to show you a polish I received as a gift for ordering from LynB Designs. It's called Dianthus Redux. I had no clue what it meant so I looked it up. A dianthus is a genus of a flower also known as a carnation. It's not what we know as a traditional carnation. Redux means to return or to reoccur. Put them together...reincarnation? Have I rambled on too long? Maybe? Ok, ok take a look. 

Dianthus Redux is a gorgeous red toned purple jelly with a mix of square and hex purple and white glitters and also a purple shimmer/micro glitter. I used 3 coats over a base coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter A-Peel and topped it off with some G&G HK Girl Fast Drying & Super Shiny Top Coat. The formula of Dianthus Redux was a bit thick and gooey but surprisingly easy and well behaved. It did take slightly longer than usual to dry with my fast dry top coat. 

After wearing that for a day I decided to practice with my stamping so I used my Cheeky Stamping plate CH16 and double stamped the scribble design with both black and silver. 

I totally fudged up the index finger...sigh. I hope with practice I get better. Right now my nails look a hot mess. So I decided to matte them...

Hmmm...not really better. Am I being too critical? Oh well I gotta start somewhere, right? 

CH16

Nothing to disclose***

Spy Princess Nails: Covenant

**Product provided for an honest review.

 



Today I have another Spy Princess Nails polish to show you called Covenant. It is also part of her Alias collection. Covenant is a green jelly base jam packed with emerald green, black, gold and silver holo glitters. Like Freelancer, this one didn't do too well on its own so I layered it over MmmmNails Nerd In Glasses which is a light grassy green. I really like how this looks. I think it is a good polish to wear for St. Patricks Day, Halloween or even regular everyday life...who needs an excuse to wear awesomeness like this on their nails??? Not me! Below is 2 coats of Covenant over Nerd In Glasses topped off with topcoat.

 

I apologize for the horrendous cuticles. The cold weather has been hell on my hands.

 

 

UYou can see the little flashes of holo in the close up.

 

I am really loving these glitters from Spy Princess Nail Lacquer found in her shop on etsy for $8.50.

 

**This product was provided to me for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

 

 

LynB Designs: Time And Relative Dimension In Space, A Manicure for Autism

Today we wear blue for National Autism Awareness Day. I dedicate this manicure to those who are afflicted with autism and their families and friends. I couldn't choose a more beautiful blue to wear than Time And Relative Dimension In Space by LynB Designs. I bought this a few months ago on etsy and had today as the perfecr opportunity to rock it on my nails. Its a gorgeous deep navy blue jelly with lighter blue glitter that makes it absolutely glow. It also had the most amazing formula. It was so opaque I only needed 2 coats and thats amazing for a jelly finish. Its exactly what I think of deep space. Words can only say so much...see for yourselves!

LynB Designs
Time And Relative Dimension In Space
2 coats with topcoat

 

Amazing isn't it?

Daily Lacquer: Moon Kitty, Ami & Makoto

Hello everyone! How are you guys doing? I'm ok, just kinda meh...If you didn't know about 3 weeks ago I tore my ACL in my right knee and I'm waiting for my surgery on the 5th. Then on friday night i pulled a muscle in my lower back so I haven't really been up to blogging or even painting my nails. I am starting to feel a little better...as I am currently reclining with a heating pad on my lower back and some tylenol with codeine in my system. I have been wanting to post these pics I have of Daily Lacquer's Moon Kitty, Ami & Makoto for some time now. I won them sometime last fall in one of Maggy's giveaways and never got around to posting about them.

I really love that Maggy makes truly unique polishes that are absolutly gorgeous. When I learned that she had a collection based on the popular anime cartoon of my childhood, Sailor Moon, I knew I had to have some of these.

 

The first polish from The Lovely Moon collection I have is Ami. Ami is a gorqeous robin's egg blue jelly chock full of a mixture of different sized and shaped blue and silver glitters as well as moons and stars. I really love how this looks on me. The forlula was a bit thick but I think that's because it has so much glittery goodness going on. I used 2 coats of Ami with 1 coat of topcoat.

 

The next up is Makoto. Makoto is a mixture of different sized and shaped green, pink & I think some silver glitters including pink hearts and silver holo stars. I used 2 dabbed on coats on top of Wet & Wild Candy-licious, a bubble gum pink creme.  

 

Last but definately not least we have the LE Moon Kitty. This is an extremely opaque purple jelly chock full of holo glitter, holo stars and moons and some mixed glitter. I so so so love this polish. Again it was thick but not hard to spread on the nail. I used 2 coats with 1 coat of topcoat. 

 

I hope you enjoyed this post. I definately enjoyed this polish! Thanks again Maggy!

Pomegranate Nail Lacquer Royal Fairy Tale Collection

Hello everyone. Happy Valentine's Day if you celebrate...I personally hate it so...moving on.
Today I have a couple romantic shades from Pomegranate Nail Lacquer's new Royal Fairy Tale Collection, Damsel & Storm The Castle.
Damsel is a beige/tan shimmer that reminds me of the tights we wore in dance class. They were shimmery and would not run unless you stuck those suckers in the blender! The formula was a little thick but not hard to work with. I used 3 coats.

 

 

Storm The castle is a mega opaque teal grey jelly. AhmiGawd do I LOVE this color? I DO, I Do, I DO! The formula was fantastic and was completely opaque in only 2 coats.

 

 

If you are already familiar with Pomegranate Nail Lacquer you will notice Tina has changed her label and bottle. While I do like the new look, I do miss the old bottle I originally fell in love with ;)

The new bottle is a tiny bit smaller at 14.5mL vs the 16mL it used to be. It also reflects in the price as well as these are $8.50 instead of $9. You can visit the website here.

 

**This product was sent to me for an honest review.

 





Mmmm Nails: Red Hot Diva

Hi guys. I have not abandoned you guys. The holiday season is just a very busy and hectic one at work & home. Not to mention my latest health issues. For some reason I have been having migraines, no bueno. I promise I will post more after the holidays.
Today I have a polish from Mmmm Nails called Red Hot Diva. What a sexxy biotch she is too! I was amazed by how much I la la loved this polish. It's a red wine jelly with ruby red shimmer. Formula was great. I used 3 coats and top coat.

 

Mmmm Nails has an etsy shop and her polishes are very reasonably priced.

Mmmm Nails Jellykisses

Happy Monday everyone! Can you believe I almost got up this morning and went to work for 6am forgetting I had the day off. Good thing I looked at my schedule. So instead of sleeping in, I'm up at 6:30 walking the dog. Sigh, what I would give to sleep until like 9am...Anyhow, today I have another Mmmm Nails polish called Jellykisses. It's a blue jelly based packed with small blue glitter and some medium sized blue hex glitter as well. I layered this City Color light gray which is a very very light gray with a hint of shimmer in it. It reminds me a little of OPI My Boyfriend Scales The Walls. The formula on Jellykisses was good. The glitter payoff was great...they usually are with jelly bases. This is 2 coats with a layer of top coat.

 

 

You can find Mmmm Nails on etsy.

 

**This product was sent to me for an honest review.

 

 

Oopsie Daisies Michief Night

A while ago I ordered the Halloween Harvest Duopack from Oopsie Daisies on etsy. It came with Apple Picking which I posted here and Mischief Night. Mischief Night is a black jelly base chock full of orange and purple glitter of different sizes. The formula on this was a little thick but that only made it easy to build up to opacity. I used 2 coats and a top coat.

I only wish pictures did this polish justice. It was so much nicer IRL. The glitters seemed to glow from within the polish much like they did with Tyranny shown here.





OPI Pink of Hearts 2012

Hello Lovies. OPI has come out with a wonderful duopack to spotlite Breast Cancer Awareness month which is of course, October! For my first BCA manicure I decided to do a glitter gradient using the two colors in the duopack. I Think In Pink, a creamy bubblegum pink crelly (creme/jelly) and You Glitter Be Good To Me, a glitter bomb chock full of metallic rose pink glitter with magenta hex glitters in the mix.

The formula for I Think In Pink was good. It was a bit sheer at first but built up to nice coverage by the 3rd coat. You Glitter Be Good To Me was also good formula wise. It was so easy to do the gradient with this. I only used the brush to apply it. What do you think? I went crazy with pics since I love it so much <3



Oopsie Daisies Tyranny

Hi guys. Sorry I missed posting yesterday. We had a death in the family so we were at the funeral and hanging with the family afterwards.
On a brighter note, I got to wear Tyranny from Oopsie Daisies Nail Polish. I think I have found my all time favorite polish. Its multisized red glitter in a black jelly base. This polish is absolutely gorgeous.  The red glitter glows from the black base like embers in coal. I used 3 coats. The first was sheer and streaky but it got better and better with each coat. I topped it off with a thick coat of Seche Vite and it was smooth as glass.

Oh! I used the Elmers glue base coat to see how it works. I washed my hands, took a shower, did dishes and my mani held strong. I was curious to see how easily it would peel off so I started picking at it. Once I got a piece lifted it was easy peasy peeling for me. I am ecstatic over this!