Ulta Black Lace

Is anyone still out there? I'm having issues with my camera. I think it's time for a new one. I wouldn't post these pictures normally, but I want to show you guys that I'm not backing out of blogging, just that I can't take good pictures to even post. You also get to see my uneven right hand that I STILL haven't evened out since I lost my ring fingernail in Corpus.

Somethings wrong with the something or other, I don't remember. But I think it's on its last legs.

Okay, for all of you that were wondering where I was, I was visiting with my aunts and little cousin for a few days, then we went to Corpus for a couple days. I wasn't able to post my NYX Jungle or ChG Emerald Fitzgerald manis because I didn't have time to take photos. Then when they left I got all sad and depressed blah blah, and didn't feel like doing my nails or blogging. I'm back now though, one follower less and a few nail casualties, but I'm good! My nails held up amazingly, I thought they'd all be gone since they were naked the entire week or so, but they stood up to the abuse of water and other things.

Last but not least, I wanna say thanks to all the wonderful ladies that read and comment on my blog. It makes me happy to be able to share my obsession with others!

Orly Royal Navy

Royal Navy. What more is there to say about it that hasn't already been said? It's beautiful. Oh wait, that's already been said. This is 3 coats. I didn't have VNL like it shows in the photo. Which is weird cause it's supposedly not a jelly and jellies always seem to show up like that on camera on my long nails. I should probably just stop trying to describe colors and finishes and leave that to the polish queens. I'm just a lowly peasant. In fact, you should probably leave here since my photos of this suck and there are much better ones out there.

I'll shut up and stop boring you with my negativity, but first, how about a picture of the kitten?

I just wanna bite that little belly!

That's better. I did some white konad spiders over it after a couple days, though I don't have photos of that. Once again excuse the broken nubbin.

Now these next ones are really bad, but they show the shimmah!

Sorry for the glare.

OPI You Make Me Vroom

I needed to go back to my first love. Red. I haven't worn it in ages, especially since I've gotten side tracked by all these fantastic greens I've gotten lately. Might I also add that every time I want to wear red the p*nche rain has to be there to ruin my pictures! It's darker than this, imagine OPI's Vodka & Caviar. Actually they're probably dupes.

I didn't add that sticker. Apparently all the ones from whatever collection this came from have one.

Please go easy on me, I had to use regular polish remover to do clean up, which floods like crazy.

*tries to bend pinky to stay in line*

Horribly inaccurate picture of the color, but I like it anyway. =D 

2 creamy coats. Smooth, creamy, red perfection. I kinda feel like a hooker in this though, with my long nails. Oh, and this isn't B3F.

OPI Damone Roberts 1968

You've all seen it before and here it is again. 3 coats. I don't know what it is, but I want to buy every mint green that comes out. Anyone else feel this way?

OPI Rumple's Wiggin'

Pastel purple. Less white and stark than ChG Light As Air. I still haven't worn my Light As Air (shame!), but I like this one better I think. Kind of a pain to apply. 3 coats.

Shh, that's not polish on my skin.

Nail line is not visible in real life.

I'm such a bad blogger... Can you guess what I'm gonna say? Yes of course these photos are too blue. Some of them don't even look purple at all. Well my camera couldn't get a color accurate photo, and I don't have the time or patience to tweak all of these photos in Photo Shop.

OPI Fiercely Fiona

Haven't posted a mani since I've been letting my nails breathe for longer than usual between manis. This is Fiercely Fiona 3 coats.

Diamond Cosmetics Coffee, Tea or Me?

This was 3 coats. Just a chocolate brown creme. I banged this one up all to hell while it was drying last night. You can see the dings on my thumb and the smears and smudges on my other nails...ugh. Also this dries darker on the nail.

Lotion on on this one above...that's what's down on my cuticle area and the nail.

Shade

China Glaze Grape Pop + Nfu Oh 51

I got bored of Grape Pop so I put 51 over it. Behold!

Sorry they're kinda shitty, there was no sun when I was able to swatch these so this is by my window.

China Glaze Grape Pop

I feel like I'm not posting enough and like I let my few followers down. You probably just skip over my new posts in your blogger anyway though. =P

This is Grape Pop for Up & Away collection. For some reason this reminds me of the grape flavor of the gum that came in a roll that was supposed to be like tape. Bubble Tape or something like that. This shows up waaay blue in the photos I snapped of it. I tried to get this to show up the real color, but I could not get it to. It doesn't help that there was hardly any sun today.

That's a cat related injury on my cuticle, not a disgusting, huge dry spot.

Imagine this lighter and that's the color. A lot like RBL Mismas, I think they're even dupes. It's not like you haven't seen this one before either.

China Glaze High Hopes

Here's to trying to make myself feel better! This is a nice happy color, right? It tells me I should have high hopes about life. It's bright and pretty. Wait, why isn't it working?! =) Just kidding.

This is a really bright color. I didn't expect it to be that bright in real life, even though I've seen it that way in photos. The application sucks like a lot of the Up & Away polishes. Three annoying stringy but thick coats. Some bald spots are left after two so I think it really needs three. I should've thinned it before instead of after. 5 drops of Seche Restore did the trick.

Also, I've seen Zoya say their polishes are B3F and also camphor free. I never knew camphor was in polish because I never smelled it in there, but this baby smelled like Campho-Phenique so strongly. You know, the stuff used to numb cold sores and canker sores. I think Carmex has it in it too, which doesn't make sense if it's supposed to moisturize your lips. Camphor dries things out. That must be a way for them to keep your lips chapped so you keep buying it. But I digress.

Color Club Vintage Couture

I'm waiting on my stupid camera...so another crappy photo.

This is such a pretty stark pink pastel, but I was cringing while applying this. I did 3 coats on my left and 4 on my right. It just wasn't evening out and I still had bald spots. I recommend starting with a thin coat, then doing thick coats after that. Maybe the reason it was so thick and annoying was because it's been sitting with it's neglected, unused siblings for 6 months.

I was gonna do a comparison with Something Sweet, but they kept showing up white on my camera. So...I failed again?

Orly Enchanted Forest

Come visit my enchanted forest and take a trip into my wicked garden... It's filled with thrills and delight. Sorry, that's what it made me think of. I'm a perv, I know.

It's funny what joy can be brought from painting one's nails with a pretty color. Painting my nails always makes me feel better. Well, except sometimes, but I'll get to that later. Indoors and outdoors.

I don't know this looks kinda dull...maybe it's cause my SV is reaching the end of its lifespan. It's all polluted. This is such a pretty green, though. Ilakit a lot.

China Glaze Calypso Blue

This is my horrible drunken attempt at painting my nails. Some are good at it, I just haven't quite mastered it. Which is a shame, cause this color went on so smooth and dreamy and it's such a gorgeous dark blue. Too bad.



Tip: Don't apply nail polish when drunk!

Guest appearance: Mi hermana

An appearance by my one and only sister! She's wearing Color Club Blue Light with China Glaze Solar Flare over it.

Sparkly things always make my camera freak out, so that's why they're all blurred and smeared. D:<

Purdy, purdy!