Lush Lacquer Mr. Bubble

    Sorry for the lack of posting, I've been a busy bee this past week. Today I have an awesome glitter from Lush Lacquer Mr. Bubble. Remember way back in the day when the only time baths were fun is when your parents let you use Mr. Bubble in the tub? This nail polish totally reminds me of how that bubble bath smelled...weird, sorry.
    Mr. Bubble is a mixture of white, pink, and blue hex matte glitter in a clear base. There are big pieces and small pieces of each color and the color combo is gorgeous. The formula is pretty excellent, glitter coverage is good and didn't require too much effort to rearrange the glitter pieces. I layered it over Essie Bikini So Teeny and 1 coat of Out the Door topcoat.

  
  You can get Lush Lacquer polishes at their Etsy site here!

French Mani NOTD

    I get to go to an Aces hockey game tonight with the boyfriend's work family. It's going to be fun, though, so I decided to get my nails ready with an awesome manicure I've seen around the internet! I used Zoya Cho for the nude base and OPI Black Onyx for the black on the tips.
   

   
    The index finger didn't turn out as well as I would have liked :( I unfortunately can't paint a straight line to save my life so I used self-adhesive reinforcement labels to make the tips somewhat straight. If you haven't bought reinforcement labels, do yourself a favor and go get some asap! They're perfect for nail art stenciling.

      Zoya Cho is a good nude, it's a little yellow toned for my skin but it's the best one I've found so far. I hate how it takes 3 coats to get it to full opacity even with my nails being so short. I really need to get OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons, it will probably work better with my skin tone.
    Anyone have any good nude polish suggestions??

October Julep Maven Box!

    I got my October Julep Maven box yesterday, hurray! If you've never heard about Julep Maven, definitely check it out here! It's $19.99 a month for 2 or 3 polishes and possibly a different Julep product. It's an awesome deal for really, really great products and polishes.
    October's box included 2 polishes and a silver shatter top coat. It also included 2 small jars of glitter in orange and black AND an adorable little bag of candy corn. The boxes are always themed in the cutest way. It makes getting nail polish in the mail that much better :)
    There is one polish I haven't swatched yet, Leslie is described on the Julep website as a black and silver specked shimmer. I'm super excited to wear it soon.

    The first polish is Caroline, which the Julep website describes as a dark burgundy shimmer. That description is pretty accurate. It's a gorgeous vampy red, perfect for fall and winter. I used 2 coats without top coat.

     The top coat, Glenda, is a metallic silver crackle. Although I'm not a huge fan of crackle top coats (this is actually the first one I've owned), I really like this one. This is one coat over Caroline.

   
   
    You can buy Julep products on their website Julep.com, or at Sephora. Individual polishes are $14 a piece, another reason the Julep Maven program is fantastic.

Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe

   It snowed here on Friday, it's way too early for snow. Anyway, today's NOTD is Across The Universe from Deborah Lippmann! Deborah Lippmann polishes are some of my favorite by far! Who doesn't want a jelly sandwich already made to perfection? This is one of her most popular colors, it's a gorgeous navy jelly with medium sized teal and green hex glitter and loads of small green hex glitter. Formula was great but I did have trouble with dragging so make sure you allow a few minutes between coats to avoid this.

The pictures are 3 coats with no top coat.

 The last one is in the shade, even without sun it has gorgeous depth.

Deborah Lippmann nail polish is available at Nordstrom stores. The creme finish polishes are $16 and the glitter polishes are $18.

Maybelline Color Show- Green With Envy and Pretty & Polished- On Equal Ground

Today's NOTD is Maybelline Color Show in Green with Envy. I really love this color, actually, which is odd considering I haven't seen any other polish blogs swatch any of the colors in this line. I think that everyone who loves polish and knows indie polish brands overlooks drug store brands, myself included.
     Anyway, I saw this color and instantly knew I needed it! Good thing I bought it because I adore it, formula and color. It could possibly be a 1 coater if you do thicker coats, I prefer thin coats so it took me 2 to get full opacity. Ugh, sorry for the crappy photos, I plan on trying to get a camera soon but it's been too rainy and dark outside to get accurate photos so these are from inside.
     Green with Envy is a gorgeous sea foam green color, these colors don't do it any justice. It leans a little more green toned than China Glaze For Audrey. If you see it in the bottle, it's basically exactly the same on the nail. You can get this line at any major drug store, I got mine at Fred Meyer.

     Of course I couldn't have plain ol' polish on my nails so I dabbed some glitter on the tips from Pretty & Polished called On Equal Ground. This is definitely my go to glitter top coat. It's a mix of medium red, green, yellow, blue, and purple hex pieces and small glitter hex glitter. It works with every nail color and has an amazing consistency. A lot of indie polishes I own have required nail polish thinner but this glitter is perfection.

     Sorry the bottle label is smudged, my cat spilled water on my nightstand and this polish was a victim of the flood :(

DIY Nail Polish Organizer

   Even before my adventure to Alaska, storage for my lovelies (nail polish) has been really difficult for me. My collection isn't so large that I need an piece of furniture to contain it but it's big enough to not fit into a shoe box. I previously had it stored in this crappy three drawer plastic bin that wasn't tall enough and couldn't handle how heavy my polish was leaving me worse off than before. Long story, I know, but now that I'm up here and finally, but not really, settled in, I figured I needed to get it off the shelf that it's inhabiting right now. The BF is sick of it taking up "his" space (seriously, though, he probably just needs to throw away whatever he plans to put there anyway).
 

    Here's my beautiful organizer thanks to this site! Although, I substituted her advice of a Diet Coke with a beverage more suited to my life, beer. In the instructions she only adds a few nails to the shelves for support which worked fine for her. I'm paranoid, though, so I nailed the sides to each shelf and added a few more elsewhere which probably provide no support, but give me peace of mind. For the front of the shelves I used ribbon instead of fabric and it worked like a charm! If you decide to get tacky spray, use caution, my fingers were so coated that I ended up getting caught in my cat's tail 2 hours after.

   I haven't added the polish yet but I'm pretty stoked! I'll put up pictures when I finally get it hung and organized :)

   Finally, a pretty picture from my deck.

Pretty & Polished Jawbreaker

So, it's been a rough few weeks for my nails and cuticles thanks to the manual labor required with moving. I finally decided to suck it up and paint my fugly fingers anyway.

You all have hopefully heard of Pretty & Polished, if not, you really need to hop on the bandwagon because she makes absolutely gorgeous polishes with formulas to die for. I have a really hard time working with some indie polishes because of how thick they tend to be, but it's totally worth it regardless. Her polishes so far have been consistently smooth, opaque in 2-3 coats and dry really quickly also. This NOTD is probably her most famous polish Jawbreaker, which coincidentally looks just like a jawbreaker!

Again, apologies all around for the awful state of my nails/cuticles haha. Anyway, this polish is a white jelly base that leans more towards a cream with the capability of full opaqueness in 2 coats. It's loaded with colorful small hex glitter and, my favorite, giant red hex glitter! I always get around 1 nail on each hand that gets a cute cluster of the red hex glitter and I love it.

You can visit Pretty & Polished etsy site here, although it's not always open but like her page on Facebook to get updates for when she restocks.