Morgan Taylor Best Dressed stamped mani

This was a mani using an untried polish that I got from a Secret Santa swap.  My Secret Santa was so awesome and picked out great polishes for me!  This is Morgan Taylor Best Dressed, a cherry red metallic polish that was pretty opaque in one coat.  More pics and info after the jump!

Morgan Taylor Best Dressed stamped mani

Fluff Post

Hello!  I am a tad far behind in posting!  So I'm just going to include a couple things in this post.

Yay NAIL MAIL!!

ILNP Black Orchid

This post includes swatches of ILNP Black Orchid, which is a beautiful vampy cranberry black-red linear holo polish, and a mani fail of nail art I attempted with flakies. It wasn't truly a fail, because I think it could've been a good mani, but it wasn't what I was going for.

ILNP Black Orchid

(By the way, I'm using Blogger's iOS app for the first time and I'm a little very disappointed in the lack of options here... It certainly doesn't offer the functions that the PC version does, nor have they updated it since May 2013!!! What?!? Fyi, don't bother, this app is NOT user friendly...)

So yeah, Black Orchid by itself is gorgeous. Here is one coat of it over a coat of OPI Nail Envy:

One coat of ILNP Black Orchid

Not too bad, a bit patchy, but it tended to be a bit fussy and didn't like being overworked. I did a thicker second coat which seemed to help. 

Two coats of ILNP Black Orchid, no topcoat

Next I tried using the Aztec nail vinyls from Glam My Mani, and they would have looked great if I used a better color rather than flakies. I was just so excited to use polishes from my nail mail that I wasn't thinking clearly. So here is Black Orchid and ILNP Atlantis:

ILNP  Black Orchid and Atlantis

With a flash so you can see this had the potential to be gorgeous, I just wasn't feeling it.

Flash to show holo

I even thought if I slept on it, that if feel better about it in the morning. Nope. I took Black Orchid and my topcoat to work with me because I couldn't bear to sport this mani. I'm sure my cube neighbors loved me! *shrug*

Still, ILNP Black Orchid is a winning polish in my book, so I highly suggest it if you are looking for a classic vampy look with a twist of holo. 

ILNP Black Orchid

ILNP Black Orchid with flash to show flame

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Bear Pawlish "No Good Can't Hear You" swatches/mani

***WARNING***

Very Pic-Heavy Post

I am sooooo, sooooo sorry.  I'm sorry that I am about to bombard you with amazing, ridiculous, delicious, multi-chrome goodness.  I don't know who got me into this mess of loving multi-chromes as much as I now do, but I want to thank them.  With big, wet, sloppy kisses.

(Ick.  At least I didn't say the "M" word.)

I bring to you No Good, Can't Hear You from Bear Pawlish.

Oh.... my.... multichromegoodness.

Bear Pawlish No Good, Can't Hear You

Fun With Friends' Manis/Bear Pawlish Ultra Violet Swatch

Sorry for the dual post, but this will include a Bear Pawlish Ultra Violet swatch/mani and a mani done by a non-polisher.

I know I've said this before, but it really means a lot when a friend can appreciate your addiction to polish, and then join in that addiction.  Which is exactly what my dear friend Kate has done.  First up, Bear Pawlish!

More pics and info after the jump, just click the Read More link below!

Bear Pawlish Ultra Violet and Zoya Cosmo

KBShimmer Snow Way! Snowflake Mani

I'll be doing some updates and changes to the look and feel of my blog, so thank you for being patient while I figure out the ins and outs of blogging.  =)

Meanwhile, I have a swatch of another gorgeous polish from a great indie, KBShimmer Snow Way!

It's a fun sky blue crelly polish with lots of various-sized white glitter and a hint of holo microglitter.  I used it for the base of my Snowflake mani seen below.  More pics and info after the jump, just click the Read More button down below!

Snowflake Mani using KBShimmer polish

Happy New Year!! (mani)

Happy New Year, nail polish lovers!!

So my New Year's resolution is to post to all social media at one time after I do my manis.  That way I won't be 5 manis behind with no blog posts about them!

So here is my NYE mani that I rocked while holding my son over the toilet at midnight (he's only two, and not the one I imagined would be praising the porcelain gods!  mixture of too much food and damn congestion from a bad cold...).  More pics and info after the jump!  Click the Read More link down below.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!