Back to school!

  My manicure back on the first day of school.
  What I did was put on China Glaze Emerald Fitzgerald and matte-ify it as a green chalkboard, use China Glaze Stone Cold for the grey chalkboard, and Wet n Wild French White for the white, and azure and pink nail art pens.  And I used a white on to write 2014 on my thumbs.  Everything I matte-d.


 
Happy schooling,
Em

DL Candy Shop

  This was one of the gems I bought for a ridiculous price last year... Deborah Lippmann's Candy Shop!

My nail broken (mentioned in a pervious post)

  Ok I TOTALLY TOTALLY TOTALLY LOVE THIS!  I wore it to my cousins Bar Mitzvah and my grandmother thought I had fake nails, haha.  Everyone knows I bite mine (hence why they are short now...).
  There are no words for this, I LOVE IT!!  Three coats of pink suspended love on my nails and I'm all good :).

Happy spending,
Em

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

Revlon Whimsical Again

I've been so MIA lately...










  Awko greenish picture.
  Ta-da!  A better swatch with less bubbling!!!!!  Again not much to say...  Very dreamy.

Happy dreaming,
Em

Very Berry Replay (Except Not...)

  Well, where I first saw this mani, I was like OMG and then I tried it.  Lol.

This is after I added some shimmer...

Original

Shimmery

  Okay, so I know that I have been veryyyy lazy with posts lately.  I mean with finals last week and studying and graduation and work this week, it has been ridiculously crazy.  But like I said, it should be better now.  Well, that is unless I get home from work every day and fall asleep (like I have been)...

  But for this manicure I used Love and Beauty Olive (I think, there was no tag on it) for the turquoise and Zoya Lolly for the pink.  And then for shimmer I added China Glaze White Cap.  Let me tell you, it looked AH-MAY-ZING!  Like I loved the look of it so much that I did just the turquoise on my toes (with the shimmer).  Very summery.

Happy summer,

Em


P.S. If you wanted to be awesome and follow me on Instagram (which would be awesome right?) then my username is emie116.  I don't post only nail-related things, but once in a few weeks I do post a mani.  There are a lot of things about me on there so you get to learn a little about my non-polish life :)

Zoya Ali and Love and Beauty Pink Speckled Glitter and Pure ICE Don't You Wish

  Hello peoples!  I am sorry to photobomb you later in this post but I couldn't choose many good pictures so I just included a ton of them :P.
  While I was shopping at a random mall last weekend, I came across this at the huge Forever 21 that they have there.  Like my local one is big, but this one is like four times the size of mine.  Mega.  And in there I found THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  In real life, it looks like OPI I Lily Love You, or this if you see it.  It looks rediculously close to it, but the Love and Beauty one has less flakies and more iridescent glitter.  But it is still close!  I only got it because I was so angry that I missed out on the OPI one.  This was a nice, (so much) cheap(-er) alternitive.  But my bottle is THICKKKKKKK and I wish I had known that.  The brush was all wonky too but I could still deal with it.
  I didn't want to go all amazing that fast so I started out layering it over Zoya Ali, a medium-ish neon-ish pink.  A pink that I can kiiiiinda deal with.
  And as an accent nail, I put two layers of Pure ICE Don't You Wish (which is the same concept as CG Fairy Dust but not the same thing (bigger glitter in DYW, more colorful, smaller and more holo in FD)).
  So onto the pictures!

L to R: flakies, flakies, Pure ICE glitter, flakies.

There's my flakies!

Flash

Blurred

Flash

Flash, not NEARLY color accurate

To show the differene

Probably the most color accurate one but not quite right...

Too dark

  It is a solid mani.  I did this on Saturday and as of today, Wednesday, I still have it almost perfect.  Just a few chips on the edges of nails and my left pointer finger's one completely popped off.  But it LASTS!!!!

  Again, sorry to photobomb you.  Just had to do it.

  Oh, and while I was at that mall, I also picked up Icing Pre Game (this is Icing After Party but in my eyes it looks like the same thing, my bottle must have been mislabled cuz I have never seen Icing Pre Game), Icing Rockstar From Mars (to complete my Charlie Sheen collection), and Icing Birthday Beyotch (another DL similar thingy).

Happy flakie-ing,

Em

Funky Fingers Monster Ballad

  Hey everyone!!  Today I have Funk Fingers Monster Ballad, a pink chrome.  Well, maybe not a chrome, but in that family.  I kind of liked it.  If you can see closely, there are many, many little bubbles. And imprints.  It didn't like me very much...

It's a nice shade of pink.

  As I have said many, many times before, I am not a pink person.  I like pink clothes, but I hate pink on my nails.  Only a few have broken that standard: namely Zoya Lolly and China Glaze Ahoy!.  Umm, like the only two pinks I have posted about??  Lol.  Well, this follows the rule that I don't particularly like pinks.  It's nice... just not for me.  I would've liked it better if it cooperated with me.  Also, I think this is a dupe of one of the ones from Color Club's Foiled collection, but I'm not positive.  It is a possibility though because they are made by the same company.
  Nice application, 3 coats.  My usual base + top coat.  Just not the desired result.

Happy chrome-ing,
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