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Are you dizzy with excitement about nail polish?

Alright, Megan, I finally did it for you. I took pictures of my messy, crazy, scattered all about and unorganized stash. Well, it's much more organized than it used to be, thanks to the awesome Kup! I'm pretty sure that Kup's gonna be organizing it even more the next time she's around. :D

China Glaze.

Pure Ice, Sinful, Shades by Barielle, various babies (minis), Sephora, CND, Love My Nails (I think I see one).

Goldie, OPI, Sally Hansen X-treme Wear, NK, Finger Paints, Love My Nails, Orly, Claire's, Maybelline, Milani, CND, Cover Girl, Essence, St. Tropez, Sally Hansen.

Illamasqua and Lippmann (the ones I've recently used).

Messy, crazy stuff on my one little table.

New China Glaze glitters and Lippmann bag with Lippmanns in it that you can't see (about eight of them). Yes, those are yoga toes (or whatever they are called). I like to use them when I do my pedicures.

What is this, you ask? It's a bag with all my lovely Illamasqua boxes in it! The open boxes are ones I've tried now. Closed boxes are ones I haven't used yet.

Other random stuff on a side table.

Nina Pro Ultra, Shu Uemura, $OPI, Sally Hansen Salon, Sally Hansen HD, Icing, Essie, L.A. Girl Flare, L'Oreal, Hot Topic.

B.B. Couture for Nails, Nicole by OPI, Orly, Misa.

Nfu-Oh, Butter London, Anna Sui.

Massini, Hard Candy, Sparitual, Zoya.

Nubar, Maybelline, MAC.

Konad Special and Princess, Chanel, Urban Outfitters, Lancome, Dior, Delia's, Nars, Rescue Beauty Lounge, Laura Mercier.

Barry M, Color Club, Toma Metallic Illusions, NYX, Lippmann Collection, Wet 'N Wild Craze, Pure Ice.

There are maybe 15 or so that you did not see pictures of. They are floating around in the no man's land that is my disaster corner of the kitchen counter. I drop my purse in that area when I come home and I also have a mess of various shopping bags around there. Off the top of my head I have some Milanis (Welcome Back Color and Enchantment Halloween ones), MAC (two newest ones), Wet 'N Wild Fantasy Makers, Lippmann Rehab, Essie babies (the ones that include Mesmerize), and I think I might be forgetting a polish or two, but that's about it. Oh yeah, and about five new colors from Hot Topic that I picked up today!

K. Hope you are happy now, Megan! :) And yes, I know I have a lot of polish. Yeah. It's a collection, not a problem!! :D

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Here is a relatively un-extraordinary picture of me wearing MAC Baby Goth Girl over some random pink Essie whose name I cannot recall. It was a vivid pink creme and I was hoping that by layering Baby Goth Girl over it the effect would be closer to how BGG looks in the bottle. No such luck! It's a great polish, very pretty, but definitely one of those where you really wish it looked like it does in the bottle when it's on your nails! I may continue to experiment with it in the future.

Next is Illamasqua Untold. I did three sort of thick coats. I also used China Glaze Matte Magic on the ring and pinky fingers.


Illamasqua Jan is a really soft, pretty mauve creme. Again, the ring and pinky are mattified.


I hope you enjoyed the mix!

I've become a obsessed with Illamasqua nail polish. I recently hauled a small boatload of them. Like a tug boat, maybe. :D Here are pictures of two neons, Rare and Collide. If you've heard anything good about Illamasqua nail varnish (as they say) then I assure you it is TRUE. Below, three coats of Rare.

I only put Seche Vite on the ring and pinky fingers. It applied very easily, very perfectly!!

Rare is blinding bright and so neon that it's almost a twinge green. Below is Collide, two coats, I think.

Amazing sexy hawt, hawt pink!

You will be seeing much more Illamasqua from me. I hope you like it!

Here is your next dose of candy, Hard Candy, that is. To start with I used Mr. Right, a very rich and glossy navy. This is two coats.

I applied a coat of Sugar Daddy on top. It's a lovely pinky gold shimmer. I decided to thin it a little right off the bat because judging on the other HCs I thought it might be a smidge thick and look streaky over top another polish. Whether or not it was needed, I'll never know. In any case, it layered beautifully!

The result was hard to describe, hard to capture, but utterly divine. I was looking at my fingertips way more than usual.

It had a quality to it that made it almost duochrome, and I think it's just the way the shimmer read on top of the navy, but so cool! Purple, pink, gold goodness.

Also, this reminded me a little of the elusive Sally Hansen HD Opulent Cloud, which I am yet to find. I'm not sure if it actually looks like Opulent Cloud (maybe a little) or more just OC was on my brain heavily at the time and I decided it did because I wanted it to! Either way, a win in my book. Opulent Cloud, I will find you and you will be mine.

Behold my first ever matte finish mani! I used one coat of Hard Candy Frenzy (it was opaque and perfect), one coat of Hard Candy Sugar Daddy, and then did a Konad with m61 and Special Polish in Dark Purple, finishing with a coat of China Glaze Matte Magic! Please disregard the blue skin - ha ha!



This design transfers and stamps so easily for me - hooray! My only challenge is in getting the placement and pressure right, hence some waviness. But boy it's nice to have a stamp that is super easy to work with. Oh, and I never thought I could get into the matte finish craze, but I guess I was wrong. I like how it looks over shimmahs! And it's just kind of fun and different.

This is possibly my most favorite koni ever! I love it so very much and my love for it grew over the four or so days that I wore it. That's right - it didn't chip or wear for four days! Unheard of for me. :D I believe it's two coats of China Glaze Let's Groove. Beautiful, rich, perfect purple. Reminds me a lot of Butter London HRH. Then I konaded with m60 and used several of the lighter China Glaze Romantiques (a different color on each finger).





I got a ton of compliments on this one. It was a real eye-catcher. People wanted to know where I'd had my nails done. They said whoever did my nails was a genius. They asked if they were Minx. Whaa?! I was beyond flattered. Yeah, I don't mind a little positive attention. :)

For a while I thought to myself that I could be happy just wearing this koni over and over again, day after day, for the rest of my life. Craziness, I know!

Why hello, dear Dizzies! Long time no post! Sorry about that. I'm back with crazy snowy unicorns for you. I started with OPI Glacier Bay Blues. Gorgeous, subtly duochromed deep, cool blue. It flashes a bit green and purple and in real life, in the picture below, it was so breath-takingly stunning I only wish the camera had captured half of the beauty!!

Below it is shown with a flash, still outdoors, at dusk.

And here it is indoors, in my weird bathroom lighting.

Here's where it gets interesting! I added Konad stamps of unicorns from M28, using various light colors from the China Glaze Romantiques collection. I did a different color on each finger but it's pretty subtle.

I also finished with Shu Uemura Nuance top coat. I had tried to add little stars on the side of some of the unicorns with little success and much frustration. I did manage to get a few hearts (M35) by the unicorns on my thumbs, as seen below. The stars on M11 either hate me or hate the Romantiques! Bah.

It's a little busy, a little over the top, but I still like it. Unicorns will always have a place near and dear to my heart as I was rather obsessed with them for many of my childhood years. :)


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