Sweet Color Nail Polish - More adventures with me putting stuff that isn't meant for nails, on my nails, and a dash of Anderson Cooper. (NOTE: I did not put Anderson Cooper on my nails).

I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!    This week for the first time EVER I  forgot I had to go lead a workshop for children.  Well not really forgot so much as I thought it was a different day!  I felt horrible!  I've never done anything like this before.  I'm lucky that by chance someone extra was there and took my spot. *facepalm* Never again!

Anyways on to polish!  Today I have my first Sweet Color Polish from the Born Pretty Store.  This polish does not have a name.  It is simply listed as S037.  It also says it's eco friendly, but does not say any more than that.  So I can't say if it's 3 or 5-free.   The polish is a grape coloured, cream polish and I had it completely opaque in 3 coats.  Application was tricky though because of the brush.  It was super duper floppy and a bit hard to control.  Now I don't like them too stiff *giggle*,  but floppy is also a no no *giggle*.  There's that happy inbetween.  But keep in mind this may also be a personal preference.  I'm sure some people out there like them floppy... *giggle*.

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Note:  That's not tip wear on my ring finger.  It's shrinkage from not wrapping properly.

I wore it on it's own for a day, then I added some of that temporary hair colour.  You know the one that you spray on and then you just wash out at the end of the day.  I originally bought this because I was dressing up as Anderson Cooper to go to an Anime convention.  Yes, you read that correctly.  I decided to use it for a bit of nail art and see if I could get a simple gradient effect.   I think it turned out pretty neat.  But I thought it still needed something.  So I added this silver, no name glitter I had.  Pretty pleased with how it turned out!!!

If you would like to try some sweet polishes they retail for $6.14 USD.  But you can use out 10% discount code EAL91 and get a discount!

Have you tried Sweet Color polishes?  Do you put weird things on your nails?  Or is that just me?

*Product sent for honest review

Let's all take a moment to remeber the 80's.

So I had been wanting to try some of these nail art water decals for a while.  I had seen them before and always loved how they looked.  Anyways if you go over to the Born Pretty Store you'll see that they have A LOT of decals so I knew it was going to be hard to choose.  That's when I remembered something.  Missy from Gnarly Gnails had done a review.  Half her decals were woman and man stuff(you'll see what I mean) and the other half was just a denim explosion.  It was that, that caught mt attention.  I actually looked online to see if anyone had used those.... no one.  I could not understand why.  Look at them!!! Stylin' denim 80's wear... on your NAILS!!!  So it was at that moment I knew I had to be the one to share this majesty with the world.  Because if that's not perfection I don't know what is.

Look at these snazzy, bad boys.  Look at all those details, barely a printer line or garish sticker outline.  Application was as easy as slipping on you favourite pair of jeans.  Cut out what design you want, dip it in some eau and it slides right off onto your nail!  I placed them over a multitude of colours and holographic glitter.  This is my homage to the 80's.

Overall I think these are fantastic!  I'm all for easy nail art!  And you know what?  These are fun, unique, and they only cost $3.99.  And you can use these for multiple manicures easily!  If you would like some for even less use our 10% discount code EAL91.  Use it on anything on the site :) Oh and did I mention free shipping!

See what I mean by woman and man stuff?

 Instructions on back

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And here's are coupon code again!

*Product sent for honest review.

Femme Fatale - Gilded Rose: What's going on?!?! I don't wear pink? Or do I?

First this has nothing to do with this polish but I have to let it out.  I HATE when people remove mt watermark!  Someone took a photo of mine, removed the watermark, re-posted it on tumblr either two days ago and now it has 33,000+ notes.  I honestly have no problem with people using my photos just leave the watermark!!! (Oh and it was the 53 layers of polish post :P). On the bright side the 53 layers of polish(The WATERMARKED version) along with some of our other wackier nail art was featured on SHEfinds!  So go and check that out!!!

Now onto my final Femme Fatal polish.  Gilded Rose.  I meant to write this a couple days ago but I wasn't feeling all that swell.  Anyways, as most of you know I don't wear pink polishes.  I saw this in the bottle I though "Pretty, but I don't think it will do anything for me."  I was very wrong!  I ended up wearing this for days.  It rarely matched any of the clothing I owned unless I was wearing black, but I could care less.

Gilded Rose it stuffed to the brim with various glitter.  Tiny lavender and holographic gold pieces, as well as small and medium pink pieces, as well as small gold and holo gold pieces.  There's also stars.  Holo gold stars!  I layered one coat over OPI's Step Right Up! a soft pink shade.  Application was super easy.  The only glitter I placed down myself was the star, because I want it on an exact spot and I didn't want loads of other glitter to start covering it.  And right before I took it off I wanted to see how it looked matte.  *points to bottom of post* Pretty eh? I think I'll layer it over black next time!

Again this is NOTHING like what I would usually wear, but I'm in love with this!  It just seems so right.  Honestly out of all the Femme Fatale polishes I was sent this polish was the one out of all 4 that on my own terms I NEVER would have even glanced at.

If you would like a bottle full size bottles are 12ml and you can find them online at Llarowe (USA), Harlow & Co (Canada),Shoppe Eclecticco & Beauty so Fly (Singapore), Ledouxnuage (France) and Norway Nails (Norway).  They are $13 USD but of course that price will vary slightly depending where you get them. And if you are in Australia you can order straight through them!(NOTE: Their shop is closed atm and will reopen on August 9th.  You'll probably also like to know that they will be having a 2 day sale then too!)

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Femme Fatale - Spindleweb: Choosing nail polish undies is EXACTLY like choosing a wedding dress.

You know how they have those TV shows were we get to watch people choose their wedding dress?  And the moment they find their wedding dress they start sobbing. Well when I was trying to figure out what was the best base for Spindleweb was tried 4 different bases, the last one being Barry M Racing Green.  And that's when I understood what it was like to be a future bride... but not really. I saw them together and I thought "This is perfect".  I then wept... but not really. They just played so well together!

Femme Fatales Spindle web is of course a glitter.  It has a green tinted base full of green shimmer.  It is also totally composed of hex glitter ranging from tiny to large. They come in blue, green and lavender(although these pieces only come in tiny). And they range from matte to iridescent.  The formula on this was a tad tricky at first, as it was a bit thick.  But a couple drops of thinner cleared all of that up.  Either way I only ended up having to use 1 coat.  So far this is probably my favourite colour I have tried from them.  It reminds me of a murky but pretty swamp.

If you would like a bottle full size bottles are 12ml and you can find them online at Llarowe (USA), Harlow & Co (Canada),Shoppe Eclecticco & Beauty so Fly (Singapore), Ledouxnuage (France) and Norway Nails (Norway).  They are $13 USD but of course that price will vary slightly depending where you get them. And if you are in Australia you can order straight through them!

Ps.  Don't mind near my cuticles.  The Seche started to shrink the polish :(

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*Product sent for honest review

Police Nails - I'm done with Google adventures

This seemed like the natural progression of things.

The base is a perfect police blue, the he police tape is acrylic paint and a rollerball pen, and the hand cuffs are Orly Platinum Blush.  I actually had a hard time figuring out what to put on my thumb.  I started looking up "Things police carry with them" online as I wanted to put some thing a bit different on my thumb.  Everything I found I either ended up not wanting on my nails or it was just something I didn't feel I could draw.  That lead me to look up "What CSI carry around", but then I had to look things up specifically.  Originally when I put CSI in any form in my photo searches I mainly got promo for the TV show.  Now the thing is when you look up individual CSI items you start getting actual crime scene photos. So after 1 dead body I was done. FINALLY I gave up and tried to paint tiny handcuffs on a piece of paper.  I failed epically, went back to Google and searched handcuff nails where I found this.  Much easier then the more realistic looking cuffs I was trying to do :P

Anyways the moral of the story is my nails are pretty and the internet is sometimes filled with the things nightmares are made of... :D

Femme Fatale - Planar Anomalies: What are you?!?!?

First off let me start off my saying Happy Birthday Mum!!! Because it's her birthday, but I'm sure you deduced that when I said Happy Birthday Mum.  Of course I am making her dinner tonight, a fish dish with salmon, swordfish, and tuna!  Along with some other yummies!

Now onto the polish. Femme Fatale Planar Anomalies, is quite the anomaly.  On the website it says that this colour is almost impossible to photograph.  I though "Pffffftttttt bring it on, I will capture you one way or another".  It's safe to say my photos show you pieces of this polish but I wasn't able to show you all the pieces together.  I failed you. *Hangs head in shame*.

Planar Anomalies is another glitter polish.  It has a black base that is full of micro shimmer that shifts between green-pink.  It is also full of tiny, small and medium holographic glitter and tiny, small, medium, large and extra large black matter glitter.  Indoors the polish is very unassuming.  It's like one of those people you see and you think, "There's something about you... I don't know what it is.  You're interesting to look at and you're pretty, but I feel like there's something else to you".  Then you see it in the sunlight and you think "You sparkly majestic creature you!".  (That sounded like Twilight, but my review has a much better storyline).  When I took it out in the sun the shift between green and pink was really there.  There was actually a lot of green shimmer going on but for some reason I could not get it on camera as I saw it.  Also another thing that this pictures don't show you is just how holo it was,  it was going super crazy in the sun.  And the black glitter isn't obvious, but you can see it.  It's has this really neat subtle look to it.  I decided to use one coat over my Essence black.  It was easy to put on but could get a bit finicky if you started playing with it.

Overall I really love this.  It is super unique and again like Tricky Treats was super easy to use especially when you see all the glitter in it.

If you would like a bottle full size bottles are 12ml and you can find them online at Llarowe (USA), Harlow & Co (Canada),Shoppe Eclecticco & Beauty so Fly (Singapore), Ledouxnuage (France) and Norway Nails (Norway).  They are $13 USD but of course that price will vary slightly depending where you get them. And if you are in Australia you can order straight through them!

 Best shot I could get of the holo

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 One coat without base colour

*Product was sent for honest review.

Bondi New York - NYPD: Bluetiful!

So Bondi New York is a new brand for me and in they are also new brand on the polish scene.  I had been eying their polishes for a little while now, and decided to take the plunge.  I bought 2 bottles from them NYPD and Lady Liberty. 

First let me say their polishes are all NYC themed(and 5-free!), which I love!  Last time I was there I found a street knife!  If you don't know what that is let me explain.  It's a knife, that you find lying around in the street.  Street knife!  That also could be the name of some amazing break dancing crew 0_o.

On the subject of knives the first polish I will be sharing with you is NYPD (Perfect segue!).  NYPD is a vibrant medium blue.  Similar to the blue the NYPD(New York Police Department) use. The formula was fantastic!  It was as if Apollo had a hand in making this. One medium coat was almost all I required, but had to add one more just to even out some minor patchiness.  Another thing I loved was it didn't bubble.  I didn't really wait much between coats and I was worried that maybe the first coat was too thick to be putting second coat on so soon.  But I decided to risk it and put the second coat on, and there was no sign at all of bubbling.

Overall I love this colour!  Colours like this(vibrant and not in bright neon territory) are favourites of mine!  In fact this will probably have to go in my top blue polishes list :) I will admit though at this point their polish selection isn't the most extensive colour wise, but the formula more than makes up for it. 

Have you tried Bondi New York?  Have you ever thought about what you would name your break dancing crew?

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STREET KNIFE! (Ok technically it's on the sidewalk...)