Uber Girly mani with Lumina Lacquer All Tied Up, Color Club Miss Bliss and Zoya Trixie

Morning *singsong voice*!  I've been doing alot of winter and blue manis.  Well I needed a change.  So I slapped a super girly, pink mani on and I am loving it!  It's nice to change things up don't you think?  Well this is has a very princess feel and I actually got alot of compliments on it!  I used Lumina Lacquer, Essie, Color Club and Zoya to create this skittlette.

Lumina Lacquer: Shop, Facebook, Instagram

Essie: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Color Club: Shop, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

Zoya: Shop, Blog, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

I started with 2 coats of Essie Marshmallow, a sheer, jelly white polish.  I used it on my index and middle fingers.  I topped Essie Marshmallow with Lumina Lacquer All Tied Up.  I adore this polish!  It's so girly but a glitter polish you could wear year round.  It's full of pink and silver glitter in hexs, circles and bows!  That's right - BOWS!  Satin white, satin pink, metallic fuchsia and holo silver!  This polish had a great formula with very easy application.  Plenty of bows and large holo circles came out without any fishing and all the glitter laid flat on my nails.  I applied 2 coats of All Tied Up.  I used Color Club Miss Bliss on my ring and pinky nails.  Whoa the bright rose pink holo is amazing!  One of the strongest and brightest linear holos I've used.  Another great formula here.  I used 2 coats of Miss Bliss for complete coverage.  Finally I used Zoya Trixie, a metallic silver polish on my thumb as a fun accent to tie in all the colors used in this mani.  Trixie had a lovely formula with a beautiful finish.  I used 2 coats of Trixie.  I added a silver bow charm to accent my ring finger nail using a small dab of nail glue.  I only used topcoat on my glitter nails.  

*I apologize for no macros, I thought I had transferred them and it turns out I didn't...and then I deleted them all before I realized my mistake.  Sad panda.  

*indoor pictures*

*sunshine pictures* 

Red Dog Designs All Of Time And Space

Good morning readers!  I hope your weekend has been full of fun and Halloween parties.  Mine was full of soccer and birthdays.  And now before I head off to my soccer game I wanted to share this pretty little ditty that my friend Gina from Red Dog Designs sent me to try out!  Recently a group of our friends decided we weren't too happy with a mainstream polish that was released.  We talked about the possible reasons why it didn't work and what would make it better.  Gina started tinkering and came up with a couple versions of her own.  Guess what....they are both gorgeous!!  She hit it out of the park!  I am sharing the purple version today, which has now been released in the Who's 50th Anniversary collection and my friend Michelle at Ehmkay Nails is sharing the black version (you can see it HERE).  So lets take a look shall we?

This is All Of Time And Space from the Who's both Anniversary collection.  When I look at this polish I see night sky, stars, constellations!  It's like a gorgeous purple and blue galaxy on my nails.  All Of Time And Space is an inky purple jelly based polish full of pink-purple glitters with aqua shimmer.  I also see some blue hexs.  The formula and application were both AH-MAZING!  With each coat the depth grew and got better!  I used 4 coats for full coverage, but 3 would have been completely fine.  I used 1 layer of topcoat to finish.  

More social media links!

Red Dog Designs: Shop, Facebook, Instagram

Ehmkay Nails: Facebook, Instagram

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*indoors

Glow In the Dark Week, Night 6: Red Dog Designs Frank N. Stein

Bwahahahahaha (insert creepy laugh from the creepy horror villain of your choice).  And I'm back with yet another glow in the dark polish to share this evening!  I only have one more polish to share tomorrow night.  I liked these night posts and themed week so much I think I will do it again in the very near future.  Do you enjoy themed weeks?  If you missed any of my previous posts for Glow In the Dark week you can see them by following the links below!  

Night 1: Ninja Polish Howling Blue Moon

Night 2: Dollish Polish Spectral Pup

Night 3: Sea Lore Seafetti

Night 4: Red Dog Designs The Great Pumpkin

Night 5: Wicked Polish Prowling

Tonight I have Red Dog Designs Frank N. Stein.  I previously reviewed this polish and loved it so much I had to include it in my Glow In the Dark week.  How could I not!  Frank N. Stein is truly one of the brightest and strongest glowing polishes I have tried yet!  Frank is a lime green base with gold shimmer and purple glitters.  It's very pretty in the sunshine when the gold shimmer stands out the most.  But I have to admit I like it most at night when it's glowing that amazing bright green glow!  Formula and application of Frank were awesome.  I used 4 coats and 1 layer of topcoat.  

Darling Diva Polish Denim Mitten

Guess what?  I won an art contest a while back.  It was fun, it was themed.  Hosted by Jen's Nail Files with 12 prizes up for grabs (all the same polish).  We were asked to take a name of a Darling Diva Polish and interpret it.  Well I saw a few that I really liked; Unicorn Bath, Stripper Pole, Slutty Pumpkin, but I settled on Angry Beaver.  LOL how could I not pick that one?  I drew a funny little angry beaver fellow on my nails with swear word symbols above his head.  Well surprisingly I was one of the winners!  So here's the lovely one (or 12) of a kind polish I won.  Please be sure to follow Jen at Jen's Nail Files and Darling Diva Polish (Facebook, Etsy, Llarowe, Mei Mei's Signatures).  

Denim Mitten is a gorgeous blue holo and shimmer polish with glitter mixed in.  There are small blue hexs, iridescent purple glitters and medium purple circles.  The way the holo sparkle, rainbow glittering shimmer and micro glitters combine works very well and the effect is soft and sparkly.  I used 3 coats alone but when I wear it again I will likely layer it over a similar blue based creme polish because it was sheer.  Sheerness aside, the formula was lovely to work with and application was a breeze.  I used 1 layer of topcoat to shine things up!

*I won this polish in a nail art contest

Red Dog Designs Besame Mucho

Morning polish friends!  Today I'm showing off a polish that came out for Valentine's Day but it's so purty you can wear it all the time!  This is Red Dog Designs Besame Mucho (I totally hear the song in my head when I say the name).  Besame Mucho is from the Ol' Blue Eyes Collection and Gina describes it as, "purple shimmer based, with purple, rose copper and copper glitters in various sizes and microfine pink holo glitter."  It's so very pretty and shimmery!  It can be worn alone and as a glitter topper and in this post I'll show you both ways!  Red Dog Designs can be found at reddogdesigns.bigcartel.com, Facebook and Instagram (rddogdesigns).  

For this mani I started with 2 coats of Laka #12, a light pink-purple creme.  If you haven't heard of the brand yet there are "kiosks" popping up in malls called Laka Manicure Express.  Quick, inexpensive manicures and tons of pretty nail polish, mostly cremes!  But more importantly the best hand scrub and land lotion I have ever tried.  I am head over heels for the Hand Peeling and Hand Cream.  Go try it!  #12 applied great, it was easy flowing and not streaky at all.  I used 2 coats of #12.  Then I sponged 1 coat of Besame Mucho on my nail tips.  Besame Mucho is such a gorgeous blend of colors - I think it would look great over nude, deep purple, pink holo, everything!  I used 1 layer of topcoat to finish this up.  

Here's Besame Mucho all on it's own!  Totally different look right?  Almost a metallic finish with lots of sparkle and shimmer.  I used 2 coats and had great coverage.  There is still a tiny bit of visible nail line but I bet with another coat that would dissapear.  1 layer of topcoat and I had a smooth to the touch finish.  

Chanel Azure & Lynnderella Mermaid Magic

Hello polish friends!  I'm pretty excited about this mani!!  It's Chanel Azure from the new L'été Papillon De Chanel Summer 2013 Collection.  Azure is a stunning metallic teal-blue that has some shifting properties to show a bit of green and deeper blue!  Hello pretty lady!  I put on 2 coats of Azure and had perfect application.  I paired it with Lynnderella Mermaid Magic, a gorgeous glitter mix of blue, aqua and purple.  Can you believe that I won Mermaid Magic and another fab LE from the Love Lynnderella 2,000 Likes Facebook page!?  I am a seriously lucky girl!  I used 2 coats of Mermaid Magic.  I used 1 layer of topcoat for shiny and smooth to the touch nails.  Paired together I really did feel like I was a mermaid!  Breathtaking!

*on a side note, my topcoat had gone a bit thick and turned wonky - it gave me horrible shrinkage and it happened so quickly I literally watched it happen.  Thanks for ruining a perfectly lovely mani topcoat.  Pbbbbbtttttt!

**on another side note, Mermaids ARE REAL!  LOL.  Yeah, I watched the Animal Planet special.