OPI I Lily Love You

It is SO good to be back! I was seriously feeling deprived of my nail blogging time! So sorry it has been SO long since my last post. It was NOT supposed to be this long! Originally I was going to only be MIA because of a vacation that I was on to New Orleans (it was hot, and gorgeous, and so much fun! Picture below!), but then I ended up getting sick AND leaving my camera in my moms truck. So I had to wait until I saw her again to get it back! BUT. I AM BACK! And promise to not be gone this long again any time soon! 

So todays post is for a little gem I found in my local Kroger. (Look for polish WHERE EVER you can girls!). I Lily Love You is actually from OPI's Summer 2011 Nice Stem! Collection, but its so much fun I had to give it its own post anyway!

I Lily Love You is a sheer pink polish PACKED with iridescent flakies, squares, and lots of other tiny glitters. This polish is really sheer so instead of laying it on a thousand times, I just went ahead and layered it over two coats of OPI's Do You Think Im Tex-y? which I think is a perfect layering combo. This polish went on great, and packed a lot of punch (meaning I only needed two coats to get THIS much glitter on my nails. Actually think I could have gotten away with one easy). Over all, fun glitter polish. AND it actually looks great layered over a lot of other polishes as well. I was looking at some swatches of it over black and it looked AMAZING! I will def. have to try that soon!

OPI can be purchased at most beauty stores and retails for $8.50

The Nail Junkie Apple Jelly Shimmer

Hey guys! Did everyone have a good 4th of July? We had some A-MAZ-ING fireworks here in Houston, but of course I left my camera in the apartment and didn't get any pictures. :( I have something VERY exciting and special for you today! A polish from The Nail Junkie's summer collection! While I wanted to go crazy and order every single polish in this collection, I refrained and just ordered my very favorite, Apple! And I mean FAVORITE! The Nail Junkie describes Apple as a "neon green jelly with two sizes of shimmery glitter". Let me tell you, this is the perfect green jelly. Im seriously in love! One of my favorite things about this polish is that fact that it has TINY shimmery glitter. While I am still a TOTAL lover of big chunky glitter, I really respect Aleta for not being like everyone else in the indie world right now and throwing some in there just because thats what she thinks everyone wants, because this seriously WORKS for this polish! (Once again, not dogging polish makers that have lots of glitters in their polish, I love it as much as the next guy). One of the things that I did notice about this polish is the fact that it has a serious color range depending on where you are. When I first opened this package up, I was in the bedroom and I thought to myself, great color but not so much a neon. It had more of a kelly green color to it. It wasn't until I stepped outside that I saw just now bright and neon it was. So it definitely does change a little under artificial light. Gorgeous colors either way though! (I hope that made sense)...

So seriously, absolutely no complaints about this polish. I used three coats, and one coat of SV to get this opacity. There was still a little bit of a visible nail line at times, which I usually am not a huge fan of, but I actually didn't mind it with this polish. Like I said, it just works!

SERIOUSLY! Just look at how juicy this jelly looks! Be on the look out for a sweet jelly sandwich featuring this polish soon as well! ;)

This polish retails for $10.00 and can be purchased at The Nail Junkies shop along with all of her other polishes! Unfortunately it does look like she is sold out right now, but you can check her blog and facebook for updates on her restock!

BAM Nail Lacquer Venusian Sunrise

Ok, First of all, sorry for all of the pictures, but I LOVE the way the polish looks on my nails! I had this sitting in my cart on etsy for like literally two months, because to be honest I just wasn't sure if I needed it or not. It was pretty but not amazing. SO glad I changed my mind! In the bottle it looks nice, but once I put it on it is... for lack of better words... BAM! Ok. That was cheesy, but serious! This polish is amazing! Its the perfect mix between jelly and creme (I did have to use four thin coats, but three would have probably done it). Its also a really cute color. It reminds me of Barbies and bubble gum! Who doesn't love that? I know pink isn't for everyone, but if you DO like pink then this is the perfect polish right now. If that wasn't enough, it scattered holographic sparkles AND little iridescent glitters!

 Please ignore my gross cuticles. I just wanted to show y'all a close up of that pretty glitter!

 This shot shows off the shimmery part of the polish pretty well too!

 Bottle shot goodness!

Seriously just LOVE looking at this polish!!!! EEK!

Venusian Sunrise retails for $9.50 and can be purchased BAM Nail Lacquers etsy site!

Pahlish Toxic and Timeless

I seriously can NOT tell you guys how in LOVE I am with this polish! Right now Pahlish is one of my favorite indie polish brands of all time. Toxic and Timeless is a sort of seaweed green jelly base with what seems like every type of glitter imaginable in various shades of green, blue, and yellow! LOVE!!! I will definitely be ordering some more polished from Pahlish as soon as I can! :)

Don't you just LOVE that giant yellow hex glitter right in the middle of my pointer?! Perfection I tell you!

I know this isn't the best picture, but it really show cases those tiny little glitters well. So cute!

Macro bottle shot love.

Toxic and Timeless retails for $8.50 and can be found at Pahlish's etsy store!

Tina & Lucy Sulfur

Hello everyone! Thanks so much for stopping by. Im just starting out, and the nail world is still a little new to me, so bear with me! 

I am SO excited to have Sulfur be my first blog post because Sulfur was actually my *first* indie polish! YAY! So basically Sulfur is a bright yellow (sulfur) jelly with big pink hex glitters and smaller aqua square glitters. The glitter does settle pretty fast in the bottle, but the application of the glitter was actually pretty good besides a little clumping (which you can see on my pointer finger! Oops!). The base was just a tad bit runny but seriously... It didn't even matter because it looked SO amazing on!!! Not to mention that I didn't even need any sort of glitter tamer or anything, just a little top coat and it was super smooth! LOVE when that happens!!! I wore this polish for almost 5 days and it stayed on like a dream! 

Notice that the hex glitter looks a little less pink and a little more orange on my nail than in the bottle. That is not my camera, it really does seem to do that for some reason. :( 

You can check out Tina and Lucy at there etsy store, and bottles are $7 each!