ellagee: Cozy Winter Nights Collection and The Naughty List - Black Friday 2016 LE Polish

Good morning lovelies!  I've got lots of awesome polish to share this week and I'm starting with a Black Friday LE and a Winter Collection from ellagee.  I'm talking about some gorgeous polish here people!  Make sure you set an alarm on Black Friday to snag these.  Let me tell you a little about what to expect on 11/25.  Naughty List is the Black Friday special.  It will be available at 12am CST and only on Friday. It will also be free with orders over $50.  Cozy Winter Nights will be available on Friday also.  It's a 4 piece collection of jewel tone colors with subtle holo full of color shifting flakes. Another great deal going on is with every $20 purchase you get a mystery discount code to use on future purchases.  Ok, that was a lot of information!  Let's just check out the polish now.

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ellagee: Shop, Facebook, Instagram

CrowsToes Hell Hath No Fury & Avon Supernova

Good morning!  Thought I'd jump on and share the mani I wore for my date night last night.  My daughter goes to a little gym class and they hold a parents night out once a month.  It's so nice to have a place to drop the kids off and get a couple hours to spend alone with my husband.  It's amazing how much better food tastes when I don't have to hold on to my daughter from climbing under the table, or stop the boys from bickering over which color crayons they got.  It nice to be able to talk without interruption and enjoy adult only time.  Anywho....I wore a pretty coral red top and I threw this on my nails to match (actually I think it went the other way around, I matched my shirt to my nails).  Here are the media links to CrowsToes and Avon before we look at pictures!

CrowsToes: Blog, Llarowe, Overall Beauty, Facebook, Instagram

Avon: Shop, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter

So I started this simple but lovely mani with 2 coats of Avon Supernova.  Supernova is part of the Cosmic holo collection that came out in the Spring this year.  I picked up a few and the holos are soft and beautiful.  The formula is very creamy and opaque and you can easily get away with 1 coat!  Supernova is a warm red-orange color with a subtle scattered holo effect.  It's gorgeous alone and adds just a little something extra special as a base for glitter.   I used 2 coats.  Then I blinged it up with CrowsToes Hell Hath No Fury.  Hell Hath No Fury is from the 2012 Halloween collection and is described as a "bright mix of fire and orange glitters with a red/orange/gold colorshifting shimmer."  It's so gorgeous!  The color shifting shimmer is a purple iridescent that gives off little glowing twinkles.  I used 2 coats and the glitter came out easily and was plentiful.  Application and formula were both great.  I used 1 layer of topcoat to finish - I'd use 2 next time as my nails weren't completely smooth to the touch. 

a-England Briarwood & Lumina Lacquer Mick Or Treat

Happy Friday!  I am pretty excited about this post!  It's so "Fall" I almost can't take it.  I look forward to the Fall every year, it's my favorite season!  Yeah I know, I'm from California and I don't get seasons - let me live in my fantasy world.  Besides, it's been chilly enough in the mornings and evenings to call it Fall here.  Today I even asked my fashion forward bestie if I could officially wear my corduroys yet…I was given the approval, YAY!  So I'm already rubbing my hands together thinking about which Fall/Autumn/Halloween polishes are going to come out of my helmer drawers to play over the next couple months.  I should make a list.  Anywho….I fell into this spiraling train of thought after wearing this on my nails for the past few days.  

This is a-England Briarwood.  Wow, what a stunning color!  Adina says Briarwood is a burgundy based color with holographic particles.  It's definitely a very deep reddish brown, so sure I can go with burgundy.  It's so gorgeous I can barely stand it!  Briarwood is a tight scattered holo and effect is more soft and subtle than the in-your-face linear holos you normally see me post.  But the best part is it's a 1 coater.  Yup you heard me right, 1 coat.  Formula and application were flawless!  I used 1 layer of topcoat.

I also used Lumina Lacquer Mick or Treat.  How adorable is this polish!?  It's a glitter bomb packed full of colors that are perfectly Fall!  Tatiana, the lovely gal behind Lumina Lacquer, describes Mick or Treat as "a mixture or orange, red, black glitter with pumpkin glitters thrown in."  Now I know my bottle had pumpkins in there but I wasn't lucky and didn't get any out.  I was also given a baggie of extra glitters but I have no excuse other than I'm lazy and I didn't put any of the loose pumpkins on my nails.  That's ok because I truly love the way my Lumina accent nails turned out without the pumpkins.  I used 3 coats of Mick or Treat to ensure my accent nails were absolutely covered to the brim with glitter.  and they were!  Each brush dip provided plenty of glitter and the Mickey's came out with no fishing required!  I used 2 layers of topcoat on my glitter accent nails.  

a-England: Shop, Facebook, Instagram (aengland_official)

Lumina Lacquer: Shop, Facehook, Instagram (luminalacquer)

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