Nail mail!! Hare!!!

I have to say that I am obsessed with Hare Nail Polish. I absolutely adore it. And was so happy when I got in on the restock sale on Llarowe. If you love nail polish, check out the Llarowe website because it is all about indie polish and stuff that you just can't pick up at your local Walgreens, Ulta, or even Sephora. Not that I don't love those other store also for nail polish, but you can't even begin to get the kind of polish there that you can get at Llarowe! On to the Hare.
The first Hare's I bought were Ancient Affairs and Asteroid Turf. Love at first site. I then had my eyes on Bury the Hatchetfish, Bisbee, and Medusa Luminosa. I thought it would be impossible to ever get my hands on Bisbee or Bury the Hatchetfish. Impossible I say. I missed out on 3 restock sales. Seriously, this stuff sells out like Cabbage Patch Kids circa 1984. It's like trying to get an iPhone 5 first day. It's like trying to get a $99.99 54" 3D TV on Black Friday....ok, you get the point. Well, guess what? I got in on the 4th restock sale due to my ninja online shopping skills and now am the owner of Bury the Hatchetfish, Bisbee, and Medusa Luminosa, along with my previously purchased Ancient Affairs and Asteroid Turf. Now I think I must have the whole Hare Polish collection :) Chritmas is coming up folks, if you just have no idea what to get me! Ha.

I will get around to switching these, I promise! But right now, as I've said before, I'm in the middle of selling my house and having showings and trying to pack for the new move and Christmas and arrrrgh! But for the time being here is a picture if my little treasures:

Left to right: Asreroid Turf, Medusa Luminosa, Bisbee, Bury the Hatchetfish, and Ancient Affairs. *swoon*

Thanksgiving nails!

I couldn't wait to do this mani. I've had it in my head for days what my color scheme would be. I hoped it would turn out as fabulous on my nails as it did in my mind. And bada bing bada boom...it did! Wowzers. I can't stop looking at it. My new favorite to date. I got to use my much beloved paisley stamp again, too. My boyfriend thought (after describing my plans) that it might be too busy, but in the end I still did it and neither of us think it's too busy. I'll keep the writing short aaannnddd...here it is :)

What I used: CND Stickey basecoat, 2 coats of Confetti in Bayou blue, 3 coats of Sinful Colors in Ice Dream on ring fingers, stamp color was Sally Hansen in Silver Sweep, Seche Vite topcoat
Plate: Bundle Monster 2012, BM-315

Double feature...

I did both these manis this weekend but I've been too lazy, errr, I mean busy to post them. Well, really it was a mixture of both. I've been very busy and when I wasn't busy, I was being lazy. That sounds about right. My boyfriend and I are buying a house, trying to sell mine, showing my house, then there's work and holidays, a teenage son, a dog. Life, right? It's a wonder I have time to do my nails at all...but I try and make time because as I've said before, it's a de-stresser for me. Ok, so on to the nails:

My first one to show you is Revlon in Facets of Fuchsia. It's larger and smaller pieces of fuchsia glitter suspended in a black base. I used Sinful Colors Black on Black for underwear, but probably could've gotten away with no underwear with 3 coats. I've wanted this polish for awhile but never could just bring myself to get it. I don't know why. I guess because Revlon is a more expensive drugstore polish and I just couldn't justify the purchase in case I didn't love it...I WAS iffy about glitter polish...key word -WAS. Read on. But I was in Ross for Less wasting time while they were showing my house and I lucked upon this in a pack with 3 other Revlon polishes for only $5.99. Among those was another one I've been eyeing called Blue Lagoon. So with that, I couldn't pass this up. Now about the glitter polishes...I've never been a glitter polish type of girl but with the Hare polishes I've purchased lately and now this one, I've got a new slight mini obsession. I love the randomness of it. No nail come out the same. After wearing Facets of Fuchsia, you betcha I picked up a couple *cough, cough* more glitter polishes.

What I used: CND Stickey basecoat, 1 coat of Sinful Colors in Black on Black, 2 coats of Revlon in Facets of Fuchsia, Seche Vite topcoat



Moving on... next is some stamping action. The base coat is another I grabbed from Ross for $1.99. Unfortunately, it's unnamed but by Cosmetic Arts. I don't like that they don't name their polish! But, it's a really pretty color. It looked much different in the bottle though. I expected it to be more glittery on the nail because in the bottle, you can see tiny different colored glitters in fuchsia, blue, purple, and silver. On the nail, it just kinda all blended together to make a purple fuchsia. You could see tiny flecks of blue sometimes, pretty but not what I was expecting. I stamped over it with my trusty Essie in Midnight Cami, which is one of my favorite polishes for stamping. I was decently happy with the way it turned out.

What I used: CND Stickey basecoat, 2 coats of Cosmetic Arts unnamed color, stamp color was Essie in Midnight Cami, Seche Vite topcoat
Plate: Bundle Monster 2011, BM-203

Blue for World Diabetes Day

Today is World Diabetes Day and the nail community is doing blue nails in order to raise awareness. My dad has diabetes so this was for him...

Ok so let's talk about this color. This is one of my new Pure Ice in Getting Gorgeous. OMG holy moley balls. Anyone who is a nail polish snob will be converted right now. The best spent $1.99 EVER. This is a must have blue in your collection. Go out and get it. Now. Run. I couldn't even begin to capture a fraction of it's fabulousity on my iPhone 5 camera even under a many different lightings. (I'm working on getting a real camera and lightbox soon). But let me tell you about it. It looks royal blue that shifts to violet in the bottle with tiny blue glitter. On the nail? Totally tranformed. Made me wanna go do the crying game in the shower. It is that awesome. It's like a duochrome glitter. It shifts from electric blue to royal to sapphire to purple to teal. The name says it all: Getting Gorgeous. This is easily one of my favorite blues right now. Pure Ice is doin' it and doin' it well ;)

Pure Ice haul - new colors!

I am not a nail polish snob at all. If I like a color, I get it. I don't care where it came from or how much it cost. I love some of the .99 ones just as much as I love my $11 ones. And honestly, I like the cheap ones better sometimes because I can get 2 or 3 for the same price I can get 1! Plus, I don't feel bummed if I don't love it since I'm on a budget and can only spend so much on nail polish every couple of weeks or so. Brings me to the topic at hand...Pure Ice sold excusively at Walmart. $1.99 a pop. And guess what? 55 new shades. That's right, 55. If you don't know already, Revlon bought Pure Ice out (along with BonBons) and have introduced a fabulous new line of colors! I only picked 5. For now. It was a hard decision, too. Out of 55 and $1.99?? Think of the willpower I must have had!!

FYI: I would love to swatch these out on MY nails but just didn't have time tonight. I just swatches them out on my nail wheels for the time being. Pic was taken indoor with flash.

Left to right in the pic:

Internationally Known - (but I'm known to rock the microphone) sorry...couldn't resist...some of you kids I'm sure just now did not get that. See, it was a rap song early 90's by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock...oh nevermind. anyway...umm...it's a creme teal, covered completely in 2 coats, beautiful peacock-ish color. Love. Although I had a few polishes close to this, no exact dupe in my personal collection, but I'm sure there is one out there. Probably not at $1.99 though!

Glass of Bordeaux - tiny red glitter in a black almost jellyish base. Took 3 coats to get opaque, but awesome outcome.

Monte Carlo - bright fuchsia-plum jelly. Yes, jelly. Pure Ice made a jelly! I don't usually like jellies, but the color is a beauty on this one. 2 coats did pretty well, I was surprised.

Taxi - tiny gold glitter suspended in a lavender base. I don't have anything even remotely like it in my collection and I can't wait to wear this. 3 coats for opaque. It's my favorite of the 5!

Getting Gorgeous - tiny electric blue glitter in an electric blue base. 3 coats for opaque, but it is gorgeous.

My first indie polish!

I wanted something subtle for this stamp so I could just show off this polish. I've got so many beautiful polishes lately that I really don't want to stamp over but it kinda conflicts with my blog...lol, so I'm gonna have to maybe do some blogs now and then just dedicated to my polishes on their own.
But I went ahead and tried this out just on my ring finger so I could showcase this polish. This is my first indie polish and I just love it! It's by Hare Polish and it's called Ancient Affairs. I got it on a indie polish site called Llarowe. http://shop.llarowe.com/
or Hare Polish also has a shop on Etsy.
It's gray with tiny sapphire, blue, and turquoise glitter. It took 3 coats to get opacity. I took this picture in direct sunlight and it shows some bald spots but doesn't look like that if you are just looking at it. My stamp also isn't this vivid either. It's really very, very subtle, but again...direct sunlight.
I'm loving indie polish right now because I get so bored with the store bought. And stay tuned because I will be working on my own polihes very soon, I hope :)

What I used: CND Stickey basecoat, 3 coats of Hare Polish in Ancient Affairs, stamping color was Milani in Sail Away, Seche Vite topcoat
Plate: Cheeky Jumbo Plate A

Well, hello gorgeous.

This stamping adventure turned out pure awesomeness. The pic really does not do it justice. Dare I say that it's my favorite I've done so far? Even more than the paisley? Maybe so...
I mean, I just love this color combination. It's Essie in Trophy Wife for the base (which is a staple color for any polish collection IMO) and Essie in Midnight Cami for the stamp color. I also love the stamp design. This win more than makes up for my Halloween fail last night. I know that my clean up here is super messy. My clean up in my pics are always messy because I like to get a pic as soon as I do them because my polish chips so easy and I never know when I'm gonna mess them up. But this is even worse than normal. Apparently Midnight Cami is just a biotch to get off the skin. It stains and sticks. But it's ok, it will wear off after a shower or two. And the outcome is more than worth it. I think I shall try these colors with my paisley stamp at some point. Then I'm positive the paisley would redeem itself as champ!

What I used: 2 coats of CND Stickey basecoat, 2 coats of Essie in Trophy Wife, stamp color was Essie in Midnight Cami, Seche Vite topcoat
Plate: Cheeky Jumbo Plate A