China Glaze Ahoy! Again

  Pink again...?  Haha.  I know I"ve been a terrible blogger lately but I've been terribly busy.  Like I just got home from band camp late last night so I'm going back to normal routine.

Ohhh the break on my ring finger.....

  Pink with gold shimmer.  These were from when my nails were long.  Band camp murdered them and they are epically short.  AKA I am PISSED.  I liked them this length, well except for them ripping my contact and such.  It was like having a handheld weapon that will never go away!  (except that they did haha)  I've been de-clawed...

Happy shimmering,
Em

China Glaze Ulta-mate Holiday

  Okay, this mani was from a WHIIIIIIIILE ago (pictures taken on April 19th to be exact) and I've wanted to share this with you guys since like mid-winter.  But it doesn't look too great on my little nubbins.

  So enjoy this mini golden-holo goodness!!

Happy holoing,

Em

Wet n Wild Black Creme with China Glaze Luxe and Lush

  Hello everyone!  I know that I have been a bad bad blogger lately.  But as you can tell:  it's June.  For me that means mega end-of-year prep, work starting up, and temperatures rising.  Things get complicated in June, October, and January, so one must expect me to be more than slightly MIA at these times.  I promise that within the next three weeks, things on here should be back to normal (-ish).  In the mean time, please enjoy this post!
  So after my recent obsession with the Hunger Games trilogy, I decided to crack out Luxe and Lush (District 1, where I would belong).  I saw it matte somewhere over a black and decided to try it myself.  Very happy with the results!  "And may the odds be ever in your favor!"

Without matte top coat I believe

Same as above

  I believe the only matte picture is the first one.

Happy obsessing,
Em

China Glaze Ahoy! with China Glaze White Cap

  Back in February (oh god...) when I still had Ahoy! on, I said that I might try to put White Cap over it.  Well... I did.  And here is the accented result.

Ta-da!

Not my best choice but it looked pretty cool.

  I still like both polishes but not really together, lol.  Back to the drawing board!

Happy layering,

Em

OPI It's My Year

  I am going to appologize in advance for the seemingly terrible, chipped photos.

After I matted it.

Beautiful shimmer.

I didn't really like it much though.

FREAKING SHIMMER!

Agh chips!

  Like I said, not too happy with this manicure either.  It was a nice color that I didn't really like itself.  I matted it then liked it for a while, then it was meh again.  Pictures taken in the beautiful sun of these past few weeks.  It was literally like summer weather :D.

  I got this through a giveaway and the original post can be found here!
  Have fun with the bad weather again!

Happy matting,
Em

Revlon Carbonite

  Hello blogopshere!  Want to hear a funny story?  I am extremely backlogged on posting.  Like 13 drafts backlogged...  And then there are those awkward moments when I have a beautiful manicure that lasts two days and I forget to take pictures of it...  Hate those days...

  But today, I've got a manicure from late February.  Revlon Carbonite.  This lasted like a few days on me.  Manicures on me = don't last too long.  But it is G O R G E O U S!  So worth getting!

I love how it looks gritty and grungy.

Bottle shott

Here you can see it's dimentions.

Silver here.

Sorry for lack of cleanup but THIS RIGHT HERE IS WHY I LOVE IT!

  Carbonite is a well-known pretty much dupe for Chanel Graphite.  I love both colors and from not owning Graphite, I can't say whether they are real dupes or not.  Sorry :(.

  But it is this silver with gold shimmer and it looks like slightly rusted metal.  I am totally in love with it. If you see it, get it.  You won't be sorry.  This is two? three? coats shown here.

I Love Experimenting on Mel...

  We got reaally bored reaally fast...  So this is what we came up with on our... Jenga day...
  Be ready for picture overload.  And they are out of order...

Right hand

Claire's Blacklight with Essie Shine of the Times

Sephora by OPI Slushied with Pure Ice Oh Baby!

Sephora by OPI Slushied with Revlon Blue Mosaic

Hot Topic Neon Green with Essie Shine of the Times

China Glaze Mega Bite with Funky Fingers Baby Baby Baby

Left Hand

Delia's Neon Orange and Essie Shine of the Times

(green nail) Pure Ice First Time

Claire's Blacklight with OPI Silver Shatter

Claire's Blacklight with 2012 Jesus Christ Superstar

China Glaze Mega Bite with China Glaze White Cap

Clair'es Blacklight with Revlon Blue Mosaic

  So basically, it was a sans cleanup layering fest.  I just wanted to try random things out.  She actually hated the Blacklight/Jesus Christ Superstar combo so much that she removed it and put some other neon on instead.

  Hope you like the randomness!

Happy randoming,

Em

China Glaze Ahoy!

  From the Anchors Away Collection from sometime in 2011 or 2010.  Not a hundred percent sure though...

From my last haul post

It's pink.

Gold shimmer

Link its really pink

Awk angle, lol

But it's a pink that I actually like.

  Like honestly, I enjoy it.  I like that it has that gold shimmer throughout it.  It gives it an extra uumph (lol bad spelling wins).  I miight, just miight, add White Cap over it.  I'm not sure how that would look, but I bet pretty good.  Maybe though, lol.

  Two coats is necessary, I didn't see any need to do more.  Mine looked a little dull with 1 coat of top coat so I had two of that.

Happy shimmering,

Em

Mini Haul Jan 2012

Haul

  I had a 20% off entire purchase for Ulta so I went binge nail polish shopping last night.  This is the result...  (you can see nail wheel swatches for the entire Anchors Away collection here!)

-China Glaze Ahoy!  (fuchsia with shimmer throughout) Anchors Away

-China Glaze Ultamite Holiday (gold holographic glitter) Ulta Exclusives 2011

-China Glaze Hey Sailor (red creme) Anchors Away

-Zoya Pippa (yellow creme) La-Di-Da Collection

-Zoya Ali (neon pink creme) La-Di-Da Collection

I plan to enjoy ;)

Happy couponing,

Em

Christmas Mani

  Sorry I've been so behind on posting!!  Life's been pretty crazy lately and I've still be doing mani's, I just dont have enough time to photograph them before they chip or upload the photos.
  But I knew that I had to get this post out today!

Very festive!

I used:
Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby
Wet n Wild SaGreena the Teenage Witch
China Glaze Mega Bite

Red + Green + Gold = Merry Christmas

Across the middle of the nail is those red webs (those were an accident) that happen to be awesome!!!

Colors used.

All my tape and toothpics and Q-tips.  Joyous cleanup.

  Less than an hour after I finished this mani, I went to color me mine and made a mug.  I can't wait to use it!!

  Finished Hanukkah (my holiday) mani coming soon!

Happy holidays,

Em