Swatch: Glitzology My Viking Boyfriend

:D I love Glitzology. My adventure in glitter this time started with a stamping fail. I started with Orly Viridian Vinyl and then tried to stamp Pure Ice Blue Midnight.

BAH. I TRIED HARD KATEE FROM A GIRL AND HER POLISH!! With two different polishes. I think the Vaseline made the Pure Ice fail. Anyway, I gave up, and with most of my fails, I covered it in glitter.

GLITTER. Better yet even, and I didn't even realize from looking at the bottle, there's holographic HEARTS in this mix! I love My Viking Boyfriend and apparently he loves me back ;)

Now I bet some of you think this looks familiar. It totally does, on the surface. Remember Koi Pond? From a distance, these are definitely similar, minus the orange. Go figure! Apparently I have certain colour combinations I fall back on haha.

Anyway, the next post is about Cuba again and might even be slightly educational! See you soon :D

Don't forget, Stacy of Glitzology lives on Facebook and Etsy - visit and tell her I sent you!

Swatch: Orly Viridian Vinyl

Hi everyone! This and the next post precede my next Cuba tribute so enjoy your freedom from my rambling while you can :)

I did two coats and holy moly, this has a fantastic formula! It also dried to a rubber finish, one of my only ones. It very strongly reminded me of Sinful Colors Rise and Shine (gifted to me by the wonderful Alyssa from Frugal Polish). It's a bit darker, and I got this mini  in a set from Kelly at Nails for the Sake of Sanity!

I apologize for the weird shiny bits. Ever since I came back from Cuban humidity, my fingers with eczema haven't really recovered which resulted in them being slathered in Vaseline at all opportunities.

Do you have any rubber finish polishes? What do you think?

PS: I avoided mother's day, don't feel bad and I hope you all had a good one <3

Cuba 2013 Nails #1

Ola! I am back from Cuba! Did you miss me? I had the greatest time and I think for a bit here my nails are going to be homage to the trip <3 I'm gonna start with the absolute best moment of the whole thing, summarized in one photo.

Yeah, we totally played with a dolphin. It was the best freaking thing ever. My face is so stupidly scrunchy with all the happy and I don't even care xP Her name was Nina! She was the CUTEST THING EVAR and only 10 years old =3

Start with the ocean! Essence I Love Bad Boys covered with Julep Melissa.

The ocean was totally this colour. Since I'm running out of topcoat, I used Essie Pure Pearlfection as one and it gave the ocean a nice calm sparkle.

I left this for a while and came back in the evening to pay my homage to Nina.

I used Billie Silver and covered it with China Glaze Make a Spectacle, which also turned out to be perfect <3

I wnat to make sure you guys get a look at my little dolphin, so excuse the quality in these next two...

<3333! Being kissed by Branden and Nina pretty much made my life x3

What do you guys think? It's simple but I like it ^^ What exotic locales have you vacationed in/on/around? <3

Swatch: OPI The Spy Who Loved Me

Hey guys, I wanna apologize for the lack of posts lately and just warn you that there probably won't be more very often for the next while. I'm in transition right now, I just finished my undergraduate and I'm going on vacation next week without internet. Afterward I have to look for a job, move out... basically start life. Erratic posts like this one will happen because I am willing to procrastinate EVERYTHING with nail polish so I hope you'll stick around (and maybe move over to bloglovin? I'd hate to lose you all).Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Anyway, I have today one of the bond girls from that mini set that OPI discontinued. The Spy Who Loved Me is a gorgeous rich red with gold shimmer. Because the red is a little jelly-ish, the gold shimmer is just red but still gorgeous. The first photo is one coat which looks pinkish (like Essence Glamorous Life?) but it really deepens with a second coat.

You can really see the gold come out in that last photo.

Talk to you guys soon <3

Swatch: Glitzology Partly Cloudy

Hi guys! I'm actually really impressed with the pictures I took today! I love the colours <3

I started with Essence You Belong To Me, which is unfortunately running out and getting gloopy. Gonna need some thinner in it soon but it's a lovely pastel blue and I will have to replace it. Hopefully essence still has it in their new bottles =3.

ANYWAY, then I put Glitzology Partly Cloudy over top. I looooooooooove Stacy's glitters! Look at all those shapes!

Then I matted it! Because purty! (After replaying my wrecked pinky finger with Sally Hansen Mint Sorbet...)

Eeeeee <3

You guys should go like her on Facebook and check out her wares on Etsy <3 She likes to have sales quite a bit ;)

Swatch: Julep Parker

It's been a while since I've touched a Julep, hasn't it? I stopped getting boxes, and the mystery boxes kept being lame and then went up in price by $5. This is from the trick or treat box, where it sounded like everyone would be getting a scarf or bracelet or ring and I bought in thinking I had a chance at the scarf. When they fixed their language in a comment halfway down the page on their ad photo I cut my losses. I got a really cool glitter out of it, and Parker, and then I found out I could get the scarf online for $2. Lols, Julep, F--- you =D

Anyway. Parker is a neon-y orange that reminds me of cantaloupe flesh I think. The first two coats left some pretty bad bald spots in the lighting I was using but the third coat worked out. It was definitely opaque in two though, in spots. I also like the formula.

At first I thought it made me look really lobstered but it's kinda grown on me now.

I'm going out to a party with these so I decided they needed a little extra. I added Rainbow Honey Frozen Flame (one of my all-time favourites <3)

Good combo? Bad combo? Tell me what you think =3

Swatch: Zoya Pixie Dust Dahlia

I had a nice sunny day for these photos =D Actually I did them for me (and a friend) about an hour before my last Psychology exam EVER. I also believe this may be my favourite Pixie Dust of the entire lot from the first wave of Zoyas. Now I just need to save my money to get my hands on the summer collection =D

Onward!

Ugh, LOVE. Dahlia is definitely my favourite.

These lasted two full days before I picked them off. I was actually pretty worried about that since I had decided I wasn't going to acetone them off like I have been for the rest. They came off pretty easily though when I was ready and I am so glad I bought it.

Are you guys over the textured look yet? I think I only have one more.