MIA

Yo yo yo, polish-loving friends. I just wanted to pop in to tell you why I've been MIA for so long. A friend is trying to help me shed some pounds and one of the things she's having me do is give up something I enjoy until I lose a certain amount of weight.  I chose blogging-- both writing my own and reading others.  I'm not there yet, but I hope to be soon!

However, we didn't say anything about Instagram, so come find me! My username is FingerFlair.

Cheers!

Spammage

No rhyme or reason, just some swatches.

Sinful Colors Forget Now

With ridiculous pen

Dotticure or Eyeballicure?

Boo! Seche Vite is killing me lately.

Enchanted Polish Sour Patch Kid

L'Oreal Brit Invasion + Girly Bits Shift Happens

L'Oreal Brit Invasion

Banana

Max Factor Fantasy Fire layering

Through an instagram filter

Black + Sally Hansen Glass Slipper.  And a fried egg sammich.

Pretending to be a south paw

Sally Hansen Freeze.  Pretend I cropped this.

This looks like a spider

If you've made it this far, HI!  Today is my birthday.  I'm tres-dos (totally a real number) years old, if I can even believe it. Mentally, it's more like 15.  When I was a tot, I always thought adults were so together, and that they were in control of everything.  I don't know about you guys, but I have come to the realization that that couldn't be more FALSE.  Half the time I don't know which way is up, and the other half is spent scratching my head squinting at things.  And yes, I know those are basically the same things just worded differently.  I'm glad to be 32, though.  It's an improvement over 31, which is a total non-age.  All the 'one' ages are, with the exception of 21.  

My brother got me an original Lite Brite.  It's so cool. The sound and feel of the punch of those colored plastic pins through construction paper takes me back!  Nostalgia!

*Grumble Grumble*

I am in a real pisser of a mood right now.  Pretty sure it's on account of my rage.  Grrrrr, I say.  Grrrrrrr!!

a-England The Knight, 2 coats Enchanted Polish Cranberry Cosmos, 1 coat Cover Band Sticks 'n Stones, 1 coat a-England The Shield.  Direct sunlight, sitting in the Juke.

Same mani shit as above, except in my room at home.  Natural light.

Outside in the sun

These were my nails last weekend.  Fun, right?  Well, bah humbug!  Not cheering me up.  I've lost the funk.  Old Gregg keeps it in a box in his cave.  He probably takes it out and drinks Bailey's with it.

Enchanted Polish should be called Most-Pigmented-Best-Formula Polish, but I can see how that might be awkward on a label.  You can purchase Enchanted Polish at llarowe, but this shade is no longer available.  Might be released again in the future, though, so go like them on FB to keep updated on the Enchanted goings-on.  I'm writing this from work (naughty) where FB is blocked, so no link for you.

Cover Band Sticks 'n Stones is awesome.  I love it way more than I thought I would.  I want to put it over everything.  I'm currently wearing Annalicious and  Let Me Fly (Cult Nails) and I'm pretty sure I'll be sticking and stoning my digits when I get home.  You should buy this.  Now.  It's in stock  at Ninja Polish.


I'm still grumpy.

I won a frickin' giveaway!!

I am just about excited as all hell because I won a frickin' giveaway!!*  No, but really.  I totally did win.  This, after I was telling my friend just yesterday that I never win any of the giveaways I enter.  Free shit rocks, especially when it's cool free shit.  Those polishes in the new Ninja Polish Facets Collection look interesting and I can't wait to try them out.  Thanks so much, Rhonni!

*It's kinda like when the name of the movie is mentioned in the movie, huh?

Nail Pattern Boldness: Le Big Party

Well, hello there, le You!  It's le me!  Today I have for you a couple of swatches of le AWESOME Le Big Party from Nail Pattern Boldness.  First saw this fun mix of matte glitter on Lavish Layerings (NOT the only blog I follow, swear) and stalked NPB until she re-stocked.  As you know, I bought 6 glitters at that time, and this is the 3rd of those that I've tried.  It is by far my favorite, both in formula and in look.  The glitter in Le Big Party is densely packed, yet it somehow manages to escape the usual thick and goopy consistency of other glitter polishes.  You could easily get full opacity in 2 coats, maybe even 1 if you have bitty nails.  I prefer it layered, though, which is what I've done below!

                          

                                  Seche Vite shrinkage, you may go to hell.

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This is 1 coat of the Knight, 3 coats of Girly Bits Cu Blue, 1 coat of the Shield, 1 coat of Le Big Party, 1 coat of Seche Vite.  I wore Cu Blue on its own for a couple of days, but couldn't get it to photograph even close to how it looks in person. So I slapped some glitter on to show you instead.  Now, these are not the best swatches, even for me, but I wanted to show them anyway. The plan was to apply Gelous before posting to the blog, but I ended up picking the mani off during a Friday evening showing of "The Bourne Legacy".  <spoiler alert>Movie SUCKED.  Not at all worthy of the Bourne franchise.  There wasn't nearly enough ass kicking, and the story line was a bit redundant.  And really, what good is a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne?</spoiler alert> These photos are the only ones I have before picking off the polish.  Side note, don't ever pick off your polish.  It's murder on the nails.  Check out the Lavish Layerings link above for a better representation.  I plan on swatching this again at a later date and will use either Gelous or Glitter Food (which I haven't bought yet, but intend to) so it doesn't look so gritty.  Even gritty, it still rocked my socks.  

What the hell kind of nail polish blog refers you to another blog for better pictures of the polish its featuring?

Nail Pattern Boldness: Don't Drop That Spoon

I received a package in the mail last week that contained six bombs.  Six glitter bombs!  Six matte glitter bombs!

Ka-POW!

Nail Pattern Boldness.  This dadgum indie polish craze is going to bankrupt me, I just know it.  I'm holding Jenny from Lavish Layerings responsible.  She keeps posting swatches of these gorgeous ZOMGMUSTHAVENOW polishes.  What am I supposed to do but go buy them?  

The first one I tried is Don't Drop That Spoon.  It's the blue beauty third from the right in the above lineup.  All swatches below are 1 coat of The Knight, 2 coats of Sation Oh My Oceania, 1 coat of DDTS, 2 coats of Gelous, and 1 coat of The Shield.  

Outside in the blazing hot sun

Getting the Juke spit-shined, but without the spit.

In the loo

Outside again, sun behind some clouds.

Walking the Maglet

That's really how I hold the leash.  NOT.

That's shrinkage, not tip wear. 

The description on Etsy says that Don't Drop that Spoon is "an assortment of turquoise and light green colored matte glitters", but I feel like not all of the glitter is matte.  I'm looking at the bottle right now, and there are some definite twinkles going on. 

See the blue twinkles?

Blurred.  Blue and silver twinkles.

Next to Floam.  No Floamy twinkles, but a few in DDTS

Blurry Floam.  No twinkles.

Maybe it's just that those particular glitter pieces are not quite as matte, because this polish is definitely not a super-sparkler like regular glitters.  Whatever you want to call it, it is really pretty, and I love it!  I'm not completely sold on my choice of base color, though.  Can I talk to you for a minute about the disappointment that is Oh My Oceania?  I first saw swatches of this color over on Let Them Have Polish.  That pretty, shimmery turquoise called to me so I bought it.  I was so sad when it came in because the shimmer is non-existent on the nail, the formula sucks, and the fat brush is awful!  This coming from someone who is a fan of the Insta-Dri spatula!  Ugh.  I Googled other swatches and they all looked the same as the ones from LTHP. Maybe I got a bad bottle.  I don't know, but it gets a big ol' BOO from me.