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I AM DONE WITH HIGH SCHOOL

YES, EVERYONE, I WILL NEVER TAKE ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL CLASS AGAIN. IN FACT, I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT IN MY HIGH SCHOOL AGAIN. IN FACT (AGAIN), I WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM MY HOMETOWN AND THUS WILL LIKELY NEVER SEE MOST OF MY PEERS AGAIN.

So, I'll be able to post more because it's summer but may be MIA again as my whole family packs up and sells our house and then moves 3,000 miles away. 

(I'm a little worried)

NYC Preppy Pink is a blue-toned pink that is just so valley girl on the nail. Very nice for pedicures.

 NYC- Midtown Mimosa. Look! A yellow jelly! I want to do a sandwich with this but I'm not sure what glitter to use.

 Fuchsia Glamour is one of my new favorites. Look how clean and pretty and dainty and lovely and-
And it's so tame but I adore it.

Though that name makes about as much sense as that Pure Ice purple with "taxi" in the name.

Station Polishes!

I'm missing two of the six sent to me, Stirring Silver and an unnamed (or, at least, nameless due to label adhesive issues) red jelly with red glitter. I need to swatch these again as it appears that I saved them to the wrong folder and thus lost them. D'oh!

One & Only Orange is AWESOME. My favorite of the group. An almost neon jelly orange with an easy formula and a good shine when dry. This is already on my toes.

Lemon Pearl is a pretty pale yellow with silver shimmer. I like but don't love this. The formula rocks, though. I could see some darker toned gals rocking this color.

This one was impossible to photograph! Miss McTeal is a teal (duh) with a good dose of blue shimmer. Very murky/moody/pretty.

Power to the Purple is a purple, of course. It practically broke my camera, hence the blurry photo. Anyway, it's a red toned purple with gold and red shimmer. Easy application, if I remember correctly. 

I liked most all of these. Lemon Pearl didn't look super terrific on me, but I'm going to give it another shot when I'm a little tanner. Of the six, One & Only Orange is the most glaringly obvious necessity. Power to the Purple looks dupe-y for $OPI Hell to the No, which I'll compare soon enough. 

I did get these for review, but I stated my opinion on each polish honestly and without any bias.

Okay, this is pretty cool...

I got these in the mail a few days ago and let me tell you, I was EXCITED. I had seen swatches on a blog or two and had no clue how on earth these new crackles worked. Well...

Firstly, they all come in two packs, one white base and one crackle. The crackle is where the magic happens (to prove it, I've swatched over silver in the second pic. That's Zoya Trixie, by the way). One crackle's purple (Remix), one's green (DJ Spinner), one's yellow (Emcee Me), and one's orange (Rave). They all appear as their respective colors but with black crack on top. It's hard to explain, so just look at the pictures!

The idea with these is to create art: rough, 80s street style art. You can apply them a whole bunch of ways and in any combination. 

My verdict? I kind of adore it. Yes, it's a bit gimmicky and yes, you've seen crackle polish 10000x before, but this seems new and different and the result is actually really cool. I've worn them out a bit and no complaints here!

 Items in this post were provided for review. This did not change my opinion of the product at all.

The Ultamate Polish

China Glaze Ultamate Holidays

Well, kind of. I liked it a lot, though it didn't hurt that it totaled something like $2 after being on clearance. I like Ulta collaborations for the most part, and I know a lot of people agree with me. Hey, a holo green/yellow/gold glitter is all good by me :)

Polish days 1-4

Here's my red, orange, yellow, and green for that polish calender thing. More to come, I promise!

The red is an OPI I bought at a nail salon, Edin-Burgundy. It's darker than the picture, a shade lighter and less purple than wine.

The orange is Color Club You Got Soul-ar. I hate the name. Hate it. It's more pink than the photo, but no where near coral. Cool glitter.

Essence's Sundancer is my yellow. I assure you, it's more orange. Not quite egg yolk, but more sunshine.

For green, I have Revlon Emerald. Formula was a bit runny, which tripped me up. I bought this at Target for $.25, so I can't complain.

Some Rescue Beauty Lounge Spam

I swatched my full collection of RBLs recently as "Rescue Beauty Lounge" seems to be the highest search that brings people to my blog! Yes, I just found the Stats page. Anywho, here's all my RBLs. I adore them all. Mismas is not pictured because she hates my camera.

Some summer colors

Don't these both SCREAM summer? They practically applied themselves, too. Dontcha just adore a great formula?
Milani sent these to me for review, this did not change my opinion of the product at all.

Not loving

Just looks weird on me. Thoughts?

RBL Yellow Fever

LOVE this. The shimmer is so perfectly summery and the color is perfection. So many compliments throughout the day.

Also, first non-nail art-y post in a while. What do y'all think, should I show more plain swatches?

OMFG GUYS, I HAVE PENGUINS ON MY NAILS

As always with nail art, ask if you'd like to know colors.
My poor middle finger smudged even further after the pic was snapped, I'm in the process of redoing it.

SO FREAKING CUTE

Summer Nail Art

I absolutely adore this fun, eclectic nail art.
Rhinestones and glitter and roses, oh my!
Ask if you REALLY want to know colors, this is an old photo and I don't remember off the top of my head.

Some Saturday Spam

I MISSED MY TWO YEAR BLOG-ANNIVERSARY! I'm actually pretty upset, it happened in the beginning of May. It totally slipped my mind, and by the time I remembered, it was too late! Oh well, there's always next year....
Two years, though. That's a long time. That's a really long time. Two years and several hundred bottles of polish later, where am I? In high school. With a blog that almost has 410 followers. And over 71 THOUSAND hits. And two dogs.
So, a lot has changed.

Now, look at my nails. They're pretty.

A watermarble with SH Mint Sorbet, Mellow Yellow, Lacey Lilac, and Wet Cement. WnW Tickled Pink. Lots of bubbles, I'm a bit out of practice.


ChG Ick-a-body. Lots of compliments, weird, as it is a Halloween color. Which I wore in May. Fail?


Lippmann My Romance. My perfect barely there shade. Boring, yes, but so elegant. After watching the Shopping Channel last night (I'm sick. Bad TV's excusable) I was lusting after the lady-like perfection of a light pink. This isn't opaque enough, but it would be if I added another two coats (I'm at two in the pic). It's darker than my inspiration, which means I need to find a lighter version. Still, I love it.


Color Club Tru Passion (the purple) and Sexy Siren (the blue). My scarf is creeping into the shot. Lovely polishes.


Oliver says hi.

A bit o' art

Just playing around with the Milani Nail Art Polishes, I received the silver glitter, yellow, white, and purple glitter. The purple glitter wasn't on my desk while I was messing around, but I'll show y'all it soon. The metallic silver on my middle finger is a bit of ChG Millennium with a nail art brush. The base is Zoya Savita, a matte polish. Two of the fingers have topcoat.
The bow nails are by far my favorite. I may do that with different colors for my mani tomorrow.
Wow! These are pigmented. Seriously, I didn't have to paint over the white any more than the initial coat. The silver glitter was super dense, so it applied thicker than the others. The yellow's pretty, but I don't know how useful it will be. From using these, I've decided that I need the black one. It wasn't sent to me, but I can see myself using it several times a week.

Disclosure: My receiving these polishes did not affect my opinion during trial or review.

Random swatches

Currently, CC Revvvolution. It's stunning.




I wore this yesterday, ChG Ruby Deer with ChG Ruby Pumps on top. Super pretty.




Essence Underwater version 2. The close-up's bad. I need a better pic of it.






ChG Ick-a-body. This is $2 at Sally's right now, if you want it.





ChG Lemon Fizz. Funny story, I wanted this since it came out, but I never bought it. I was really lemming it a few days ago, I went to Ulta and it was $2! It made me happy. The formula, however, didn't make me happy. Three streaky, icky coats. I think I need to apply it again, but as a full manicure and not in a rush.




Barielle Gelt Me to the Party. FINALLY! A polish that is Hanukah themed. Plus it makes me think of My Fair Lady (get me to the church on time). $2 at Ulta. It looked much redder in real life on than it does in the bottle, but that may have been because it needed another coat.





ChG Zombie Zest. Another from the Halloween collection. Another one on sale for $2. Pick it up if you see it, it's stunning.





ChG Jolly Holly. Two dollars. A bit of a bore.