Zoya, baby! Mini haul

I'm very excited to see that Ulta now carries Zoya nail polish. Maybe they have for a while, but I try to avoid Ulta, for fear of polish binging. At $7 a bottle, that seems very reasonable. OPI is $8.50 - and I think their colors are boring. I also picked-up an awesome red jelly, on clearance for $3.25! Love Jellies!!!

Ulta Professional, What a Maroon, Zoya Marley, Caitlin, and Gemma

I had to have this one - Army green with a purple flash!

I'm thinking Marley would look awesome with Deborah Lippman, Glitter in the Air on top - really lusting for that color. Price tag scares me though, at $18 a bottle. I'll want all of them.



The world's ugliest nail polish color?

I really wanted to like this color - it's so unusual. Greige with slight silver shimmer. With my skin tone, it is truly hideous. But I slapped a gold glitter top coat on and it makes it passable. Gold glitter saves the day again!

OPI for Sephora aka $OPI, Under My Trenchcoat with

$OPI gold glitter topcoat.

My troll hand. Doesn't look too trollish from this angle.

Our garden is loving the warm spring weather.

Mattie is NOT loving his Elizabethan collar!

In honor of Charlie Sheen's "Radness"

I'm finding myself so entertained by Charlie that I did a manicure in his honor. I will also start incorporating "radical" in my conversations.

You should be thinking mid-1980's. Neon colors, jelly bracelets and side-ponytails.

L.A. Colors, no-name bright pink with Konad, plate m57, black zebra stripes

This is my funky troll hand.

So Eighties!

Urban Decay Nirvana!!!

My sister ROCKS! I received a large box with a big Urban Decay sticker on it. I thought, "Did I win a contest? Did I sign-up for a sweepstakes two years ago? What's happening???!!!! My sweet, sweet sister sent this to me for my birthday!

OMG!!!!

I will procede to a bubble bath, have a few girl scout cookies and look at these precious things. The colors, the names, so many, aaaahhhhhh!!!! I will kick it off, tomorrow, my birthday, by wearing "Perversion" - so appropriate in so many ways!

Awesome 99-cent color

It's hard to pass-up a 99-cent bottle of nail polish when the color is this cool.

This is Wet n Wild "Wild Card/Invitation"

Unfortunately this pic doesn't capture the color that well.

So I did my usual meticulous application, and what do you  know? BUBBLES. Bubbles everywhere. Now, I was quite careful not to shake it too much during application. In fact, I shook it once before hand, and let it sit for awhile to let the bubbles rise to the surface.

So, how did I get all these bubbles?

Maybe you "get what you pay for." So, I decided to do some layering for fun since I can't wear a mani with so  many flaws. This is what I came up with:



 This is a layer of Finger Paints "Hue Left Me A Message?"

I can't wait to take a picture of it in the sun - so sparkly!

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Konading again

Konad is fun, but time consuming. I thought I would try different shades of pink flowers over a pale pink base. I found that the more flowers I added, the sloppier it got. Check out the finger with leopard prints. Can't wait to do that again!

I think my base color - OPI Sweet Heart is an awesome pale pink. It is incredibly flattering to my pale skin. So feminine. The pics don't really capture the true colors. I might only leave this on for a day, so that I can do another Konadicure.
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Houndstooth Konad

This is my second "Konad-icure" and wow, the learning curve is steep. I'm quite happy with my improvements in coverage and discovering which polishes work best with Konad.

This is OPI Lincoln Park After Dark. I like the

glossy finish. This bottle is at least 5-6 years

 old and went on very thick.

I stamped the houndstooth design from

Konad plate m63 with Orly Rave or Rage -

the label with the name came off.

It seems like metallics show-up nicely over vampies. I think it's a good combination.

I wish I had more time for nails. I can think of so many different themes/designs. . . Valentine's Day, Egyptian flag, snowflakes . . .

Thanks for reading! -Crystal