A Look at My Collection: Glitters

Time to look at all the glitters in my collection! Numbers 14 through 18 were just some experiments I was doing. Some of these glitters are kind of blahhh on their own, so I wanted to see what they looked like over black.

1. Sinful Colors: Pink 4 Ever

2. Sinful Colors: Pearl Harbor

3. Sinful Colors: Paris

4. Sinful Colors: Green Ocean

5. Sinful Colors: Hottie

6. Sinful Colors: UFO

7. Orly: Love Each Other

8. China Glaze: Fairy Dust

9. Nicole by OPI: Love Your Life

10. Claire's: Crush

11. Wet n Wild: Glitz

12. Wet n Wild: Kaleidoscope

13. Ulta: Pinata Yada Yada

14. Wet n Wild: Black + Orly: Love Each Other

And a close up of number 14. Love Each Other is such a unique polish. It's nothing on it's own, but put it over black and it's a whole new color. I love it!


15. Wet n Wild: Black + China Glaze: Fairy Dust

16. Wet n Wild: Black + Claire's: Crush


17. Wet n Wild: Black + Wet n Wild: Kaleidoscope

18. Wet n Wild: Black + Sinful Colors: Green Ocean
And my nails of today! I'm wearing Sally Hansen Insta Dri Fuchsia Flare.

Sinful Colors has some awesome glitters if y'all ever get the chance to check those out. And they're only $1.99, so they're a great inexpensive option! I think my favorite glitters are Pinata Yada Yada, Glitz, and Green Ocean. But I like all of them. They're a lot of fun to wear, and as y'all can probably tell... I've used up a lot of them. For a while I was all about adding glitter to every single mani. I'm not as into that as I used to be, but I'm starting to like the glitter accent nail. But that's *such* a pain to remove. Oh well! What are y'all's favorites?

Thanks for reading! :)

A Look at My Collection: Reds

Today I wanted to show y'all my collection of reds. I've said before that I don't have that many reds, and I find that weird because it's my favorite color. Right now I have 13 in my collection. Not even enough to fill up a whole nail wheel! But that's okay. I like the reds I have and I know I'm going to wear them a lot this fall. :)

1. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Red Carpet

2. Chi: He's Chi-ting On Me

3. Sinful Colors: Sugar Sugar

4. Savvy by Femme Couture: Shimmer Time

5. Borghese: Venetian Red

6. Wet n Wild: Burgundy Frost

7. Essie: Rock Star Skinny

8. NYC: 211 A

9. Ulta: Steppin Out

10. OPI: Chick Flick Cherry

11. Sally Hansen Salon: Hollywood Scarlet

12. Wet n Wild: Red Red

13. Wet n Wild: Crazed

So that's my collection! Like I said, red is my favorite color and I really like to wear it on my nails. But, I'm not a big fan of the staining that reds *always* leave behind. It feels like no matter what you do, or how careful you are... you will still get horrible stains. Do any of y'all have any tips or tricks for removing red polish? Do y'all like to wear red? What's your favorite color to wear on your nails?

Thanks for reading! :)

A Look at My Collection: Greens

For the past few weeks, I've been going through all of my polishes trying to find a better way to organize them. I always go back to organizing them by brand, so I don't know why I even bother. But, I've also been using my nail wheels a lot. I love painting them, because then I can see all the different shades I have and I can see that I don't need to keep buying one color. I've noticed that my collection of greens is pretty small, as compared to my pinks or blues. I thought it would be fun to show off my collection through nail wheels. So today I'm going to show y'all my greens!

I currently have 17 greens in my collection. There are 18 nails on the nail wheel, so the 18th nail is just a little experiment I was doing. :)
1. Sally Hansen Insta-Dri: Jade Jump

2. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Lime Lights

3. L.A. Colors: Current
4. Del Sol: Looking Glass

5. Zoya: Gemma

6. OPI: Green-wich Village
7. Sinful Colors: Irish Green

8. Wet n Wild: Jade

9. Sinful Colors: Show Me the Way
10. Maybelline: Go Go Green

11. Ulta: Into the Limelight

12. Rimmel: Camouflage

13. Sinful Colors: San Francisco

14. American Apparel: Hunter

15. OPI: Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow
16. Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear: Green with Envy

17. Sally Girl: Pea-Body

18: Ulta: Pinata-Yada-Yada topped with L'Oreal I Pink I'm in Love

So those are my greens! In the first picture of the nail wheel, my Del Sol changed to its outdoor color, which is a pink-red. But, indoors and in the shade it is green. I think my favorite greens are Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow and Into the Limelight. What are your favorites? Is there anything y'all want to see on my nails?

I'm putting together a post on what polish I should wear to Florida. So far I have 10 polishes that I'd like to wear. I want y'all's opinions on those, so look for a post coming up this week!

Thanks for reading! :)

Set the Nude

Today I'm showing y'all Ulta- Set the Nude.

Like pretty much every polish I own, I love this! This is kind of a chalky grey/really light tan. I used three coats. The first coat looked pretty streaky, so I was worried that the color wouldn't build right or that you would see streaks no matter how many coats you put on. But I was wrong! After the second coat, it started to look a lot better. And the third coat made it perfect. I used a top coat to even everything out and I love the way it looks! It can look really grey indoors. My Mom wore this a while back and got a lot of compliments on it. Very pretty neutral if that's what you're into. :)

What do y'all think? Thanks for reading!

Oh and check the post below! Send me questions for a Q&A video!

Hauls!

Despite my lack of blog posts, I've still managed to get my hands on a few new polishes. So I thought a "haul" post would be a good idea to get me back into the swing of things! :) These photos are terrible. Let's just say I'm not the tech-savvy one in the family.

Essie has kind of been my favorite brand lately... I think it's because it's become easier to find them. You can find them at Walgreens, WalMart, etc. I love their selection of blues, and even though I own the beautiful Turquoise & Caicos, I pick it up almost every time I see it, forgetting that I have it at home ready to be used. I'm weird. I bought all of these (with the exception of Mochacino, which my Mom purchased) at the regular price. It's about $8 a bottle. I bought them on separate occasions, but they're still a bit pricy. From left to right we have Beach Bum Blu, Turquoise & Caicos, Tart Deco, and Mochacino.
And who could pass up a brand new bottle of OPI? Two of these I bought a LONG time ago. I've worn them, but never posted them here. The first two are Samoan Sand and Bubble Bath. I found those at Target. My Mom bought the last one, Mimosas for Mr. & Mrs., last weekend at Ulta. She's sporting the color right now, and it looks perfect. But her nails are also perfect. :) We're both really drawn to these soft, neutral colors.
I always saw Jesse's Girl polishes on other blogs and never knew where to find them. I popped into Rite Aid a few months back and found a small display with a few of their colors. I like to buy new brands in two's if they're fairly inexpensive so I ended up with Beach Baby, the neon pink, and Julieg. I've already posted Julieg, and it's my go-to summer color. It's just perfect and I can't tell you how many times I've used it. I love it. These were $2.99 each if I can remember correctly. And I think it was buy one get one half off or something like that. It was kind of a long time ago so I'm not 100% on those details. They're really good, though. I'm pretty sure I'll go back for more. :)

Yay for a really blurry pic. This one wouldn't cooperate, so I'm sorry! I had been eye-ing a few of these Insta-Dri's for some time. I've never really heard great things about their formulas, but I had a Target gift card burning a hole in my wallet, so why not?! I got Blue Away and Jade Jump. I tested them out and I really like them! I'll have to get used to the awkward brush, but I'm really loving the colors! :) They were about $4.00 each.
The rest of these are just random finds. Back in the fall I bought Borghese Stellare Notte. I have mixed feeling about it. I wore it once and I just don't know if I love it. I've seen it on a bajillion blogs and it looks great. I think I need to wear it again and do a better job of application and then see how I feel. It is a pretty unique color. Ulta- Set the Nude and Sonia Kashuk- Tauped are colors my Mom picked out. They're both really pretty. Set the Nude can look really grey, so that's unique for my ever-growing collection. I bought butter London Jaffa and Zoya Gemma together on a trip to Ulta. LOVE Jaffa! It's a really great summer color. And I can see me rocking Gemma some time in the fall. I had a $3 off coupon for Ulta so I didn't have to spend a million dollars! I also had no idea Zoya's were sold at Ulta, so that was an awesome surprise. And having such easy access to butter London polishes won't be good for my bank account. ;) oh well! I love all these colors. :)

I want to swatch these soon! Which ones do y'all wanna see? Talk to y'all soon and thanks for keeping up with me! :)

Steppin Out

This is Ulta~ Steppin Out. Probably the best red in my collection. I *love* reds and this one just amazes me. The application was flawless. It is *super* pigmented and two coats does it. The photos make this look like a tomato red, but it is a deeper red in person. I can't explain to ya'll how much I loveeeeee it! :D

Ahhh... just beautiful. :)