if only I were a mermaid :)

Guess who's back, back again? Back again? My blog is back, tell a friend.
Seriously, tell a friend. About my blog.
Ok, my posts have been far and few between as of late. Moving into the new house and all its trial and tribulations. (Insert curse words here). But we are finally (almost) settled in. My nails have suffered immensely in the process. And I've had little time to paint them at all. The horror! It's been an itchin' and I finally got to scratch.
So what polish do I bring you for my return?
Drumroll, please.........
deborah lippman's Mermaid's Dream.
Where do I start with this?
My favorite polishes are blues, greens, teals, glitters. This has all of it. The name itself, Mermaid's Dream. I LOVE the ocean, everything about the ocean, including anything about mermaids. I think I was supposed to be a mermaid :)
This polish is a seafoam green metallic base with micro silver, gold, and green glitters and then larger turquoise blue glitter. Le sigh. It dries to almost a scaley, matte finish. Maybe what you would imagine a mermaid tail to be like. Really cool. I prefer a glossy finish though so I topcoated it.
Now, if you know anything about deborah lippman's polishes, you know this wasn't cheap. It's my most expensive polish to date. $18 at Ulta. Normally, I would not make such an extravagant purchase but my boyfriend's mom got me an Ulta gift card for Christmas. I saw this polish and fell head over heels but I wasn't going to buy it even though I had a gift card. But she talked me into it! No regrets here, though. As fabulous on the nails as it is in the bottle!
And...sorry but I'm still using the iPhone for the pics...the camera is in a box in the room that we haven't unpacked yet. Ummmm, maybe I should be doing that instead of my nails. :/~