Purplelicious

Good morning lacquer lovers, the wheels of my swatches of my Bettina polish haul is still in motion. The model I have to show you is called "Purplelicious, it's a grape color polish that has a slight shimmer to it in texture. I am bummed that I was unsuccessful in presenting that part of it to you all, as today has been cloudy all day; but I think you all can get a idea from it with help from the flash. 

On my accent nail I chose to dabble in the stamping area of nail art, I chose something easy and cute; the stamping nail art can be quite messy. I try not to stamp a lot, to me it's just as time consuming as free hand.

After you take a look, please have a great week...

Orly "Emberstone"

Hi my lacquer loves, today I have a mani that I did last week sometime and was too busy to post. At least I can tell you that I've gotten my research paper done a week early woop woop. This polish job I put to use Orly's polish called Emberstone, it's a red-orangy shimmery color. This formula is a one man band, it needs no layering to show its quality.

Having said that the polish shines on its own, I still went ahead and made an accent nail out of the deal by using Spoiled's Shuffle the Deck glitter. It's formula consists of red, silver and black circular shaped chunky glitter.

Pink Monday

Hi ladies... Wo is me, I've been under the weather for a few days now. I mustered up some strength to drag myself outta bed and do something constructive with myself. I posted on my Instagram (Goldensyard) a while back that the girly clothing store Charlotte Russe has heir own polish now, and how the bottle shape resembles American Apparel's own.

So I got around to using the ones I got which are a jet black and this fluorescent pink. They don't have funky names to them just regular color names. I will rate this polish a 8. The formula is thick and its first coat is very matte and streaky. You're looking at 3 coats plus a Seche top coat.

On my accent nail I used a OPI glitter called "The Living Daylights" from the James Bond Skyfall collection. The glitters have a fall look to it with its use of gold, red, silver and orange colors. I imagine with a red or green background it would be so fabulous !

Well I bid you all a great Monday.

Day 29- Inspired by a supernatural

Monday Monday, hi all, how was your weekend? I had a 3 day weekend so I'm not mad at Monday at all. Today I have a supernatural mani that the last days of this challenge calls for.

I chose to do a alien face and a ghost, although I don't believe in anything supernatural I digressed for this challenge. It was suppose to glow in the dark but for some reason the camera wouldn't pick it up.

Have a great Monday and rest of the week :)

Day 26- Inspired by a pattern

Happy Friday y'all, I've had the day off so I've been busy all day and I do apologize for the late post. I managed to snap a quick shot of my nails from a tube top I have. It's not much but I did a lol something!!

Day 12 challenge- Stripes

Happy Friday Lacquer Ladies, today I'm showing you the challenge nails of the day which involves stripes. I figured since I'm doing the challenge, I may as well sport the breast cancer awareness color while I am at it. I used two OPI pink colors for this mani.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend, be safe.

Day 10 challenge- Gradient

Hi all, today I have to show you my try at the gradient technique. It's pretty neat and easy if YouTube has anything to do with it. I've seen people refer to this as Ombré also, so I guess the term is interchangeable. I've used two pink OPI polishes for the technique in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

I hope you ladies are keeping yourselves "abreast" of your self check ups lol :)

Day 6 nail challenge- Violet

Hey ladies, man I almost forgot about posting this mani cause I've been lazy all day; it's Saturday so you know how that go.

Today I used an untried polish from the Color Club "poptastic" collection called Mrs. Robinson. It's a pretty color that shows opaque in just two coats, I have so much faith in Color Club it's bananas!! It seems to dry semi-matte so I used Ulta x-dry on it and it shined right up.

So yeah that's how the cookie crumbles.....Hope you're enjoying your weekend :)

Let's get lacquer wasted

Hi my polished pretties, hope you had a great weekend. Today I'll be showing you a indie polish by one of my Instagram fam, she goes by the name of FemmeFetaleLacquer. She is based out of Queens, NYC where she makes handmade polishes. I found her shop on bigcartel.com to be very affordable and unique in style. This polish I am wearing is called Party On, I like it because I've fallen in love with the white lacquer based glitter polishes. Although this may look similar to my post by Lush Lacquer, they are very different. Here you are viewing 3 coats and a top coat of Rush 60 seconds top coat. This is 1 of 2 polishes I orders last week, this is a mini bottle of 7ml which I am quite content with its size. The price of these are $4 and they are a "3FREE"based polish. Check out her store when you get a chance on www.femmefatalelacquer.bigcartel.com

Pour some sugar on me

Hi ladies, research paper submitted yesterday and I'm on to the next one....in 3 weeks that is :/. So today I have a mani I did last night using another Nails Inc Special Effects lacquer, this one is called 'Sugar House Lane'. I like this because of the salt n pepper glitters mixture with the subtle taupe lacquer. I actually started to paint my nails a taupe color so it would show up more but I found that I clearly didn't need to. This is two coats and Seche Vite on top. By the way I used a glue base coat for the peel off process :)

"Purple polka dots in mani".....

Hi ladies, I feel like I haven't posted in a long time (even tho it hasn't been a long time). I have been handling a very tedious research paper for one of my classes and so I have been trying to get that done as it is due Wed (don't u just love papers). Well here's a mani that I found time to do on Friday, it's no big deal. I used China Glaze's polish called "Peri-WINK-le", in some shades of light it looks like a blurple color and others a darker baby blue. I love CG's formula, no complaints here..... I'll also include in this post some pick ups my collection has gotten "lacquer'd up" with. Wednesday cannot come soon enough.... talk to you ladies layterrrrrr

The Butter London polishes below are from last Monday with their special B1G1F sale. In order they are : Trout Pout, Slapper, Blagger and MacBeth.

 This pick up below I got from Ebay, it's theBalm "Petunia" and Lime Crime "Once in a Blue Mousse".

and I leave you with this to think of in times of stress...............

Purple Girls Rock

Hi all, this mani I am showing you comes from a mani I had on Saturday. This brand Girls Rock I picked up while I was in Chicago last month. I purchased it at CVS for $2.99, there were various colors. I mostly wanted to try it because the shape of the bottle resembled the Butter London polishes and I pondered the idea that the formula would bear a similarity. I did take advantage of the Butter London special purchase at Ulta stores yesterday (swatches to follow this week). The formula is thin but not in a too too bad way. In pursuit to see it become opaque I did have to apply 3 coats of it, but that lead it into a deeper purple than how it looks in the bottle. On a scale from 1-10 I give it an 8 because of the 3 coat application. In contrast to Butter London polish, the square top to this bottle is the brush whereas Butter London's top screws off to another small bottle cover. Lastly, the purple hearts glitter polish I used on my accent finger is by Nicole by OPI and I don't foresee myself purchasing any other product from them similar to this. The brush refused to pick up the hearts, it was a complete struggle for me to get the hearts out of the clear lacquer. I almost spilled the bottle tilting it to get some out with a toothpick. Instead of the brush picking up the hearts, it just moved them around in the bottle; you will see below how the hearts are mainly settled in the bottom of the bottle. The intent for design is cute but the execution of applying it to nails takes up too much time for my liking!