Nail-venturous Floam

Friday, May 25, 2012
blue, glitter, nailventurous, neon, yellow
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Woohoo, it’s Friday! It’s Memorial Day Weekend! Time to catch up to all my other friends in Diablo 3! Time to work out a lot and yell at Tony Horton on my TV screen! Time to (hopefully, if the BF wants) have a food cheat day!

Time to show something fun!

Ah yes…you’ve probably seen this before…this is the infamous Floam by Nail-venturous.

This is two coats of a neon yellow and blue glitter, which dries matte. These two photos do not have top coat on them, so you can sort of see how they dry. I wanted to layer them over something, but I didn’t know what. This is what it looks like on its own. Coverage was not terrible, though if you just put the second coat on within a normal amount of time, you get glitter drag so you have to even things out. I can’t tell if I like the glitter without top coat or not. I’d probably just add it in anyway because I feel naked without it.

I think my brush may need a trim, because when I bought it, the bristles were bent fromt leaning against the bottom of the bottle. I hate that so much. It’s so annoying. It’s not the seller’s fault or anything, but whoever makes the brushes needs to shorten the brush handle, or shorten the bristles. How do they not see that when they put them together, anyway? Bah.

I purchased this during the last big swing over at Ninja Polish. I think I was at a hockey game earlier that night, and I had read that their servers went kaput when people rushed to buy this. When I got home, I saw the website was up and everything seemed to be working fine, so I went ahead and placed my order with no issues. When people stopped trying, I swooped in for the prize. ;D

I’m gonna leave you with the music video for “Cerulean” by Simian Mobile Disco. Have you heard their latest album, Unpatterns? It’s not as dark as Delicacies, but it’s still pretty amazing.

Thanks for reading, and have a merry (AND SAFE DAGNABBIT) Memorial Day!

HARE Polish Leap Light-Year + My First Blog-iversary!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
glitter, hare, jelly, red
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Yesterday was my first blog-iversary! I started my blog on May 22, with this pointy-edged atrocity! Well, it was only an atrocity because I was trying out a new nail shape, filed the corners too sharp, probably scratched my face numerous times in the process, AND the nail polish chipped. LOL! It’s funny I mention that because I’ve attempted to go back to the square-ish nail shape, just with somewhat smoother corners.

I wanted to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for reading, commenting, and enjoying my nerdiness about hockey, Homestar Runner, and video games. I appreciate all my readers, new and old. I wish I could tell you more about how grateful I am to know that you read my posts. I hope I keep it interesting enough and that you don’t consider me as “that weird girl.” (Which has happened on numerous occasions in my lifetime, believe it!)

Now. To the polish. This one is pretty special because I purchased this from HARE Polish, and it turns out that this will not be sold in the final Spring collection from this year. I will tell you all about it in a little bit.

This is two coats (two coats!!!) of HARE Leap Light-Year. This is a red jelly with tiny silver glitter and silver square glitter. These formulas are seriously getting better! What took Archipelago four coats to achieve now takes half the time and effort. Don’t get me wrong; I will defend my original core HAREs to the end of my days, but Nikole has been creating some amazing stuff.

LLL will unfortunately not be offered in the Spring collection because all the glitter sinks to the bottom. I believe Star Tropics is the other one not offered. (You will see this one soon also!) You can probably tell from the bottle shot. The bottle I am holding was a replacement bottle; the original contained glitter that curled. The formula of the old bottle was super clumpy. The glitter in this one was easy to manage and the color is so pretty. It’s shiny enough on its own, but it needed a coat of Gelous to smooth out the bumpiness.

If Nikole had used a different color glitter (like green and blue or something), I probably would have run around the house going “THEY’VE GONE TO PLAID!!”

(You may not know this, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time.)

Nikole is the best because once she heard about all the curling glitter, she set off and worked on a reformulation and sent everyone replacement bottles. How cool is that? She is seriously such a nice person, and her customer service is impeccable. Plus she likes Neutral Milk Hotel as much as I do AND is from L.A. like me; what’s not to like about her?

As always, thanks for reading! :) <3

Dior Lucky

Monday, May 21, 2012
creme, dior, pink
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Well, Phoenix was indeed lucky yesterday afternoon. Maybe just a little. Staving off elimination and all that. The Clarence Campbell Trophy can stay in its box as long as it damn well wants to, for all I care! I’m glad we’re playing the hockey we’re supposed to be playing: blocking shots, good forecheck, and being all-around physical.

So here’s a polish called Lucky, by Dior. Cause today? I feel pretty lucky to still be able to watch hockey. I’m not a big fan of walking to the arena when it’s 110 outside, but what the hell, why not?

This is two coats. Just so you know, I’ve already worn this several times; I just haven’t taken photos of it until now. I know, I know, I’m terrible. Sephora calls it a “hot pink coral,” which I kind of get. Some of the photos I took pulled more orange than pink, so I couldn’t really use them. On me, it was definitely more pink than orange, though. I’m pretty sure it has that hidden Dior shimmer, too. Not that I’m complaining.

I bought this one when I bought St. Tropez at Nordstrom’s last month. Yeah, it’s got that stupid paddle brush so I have to be more careful, and yeah it kinda chipped after a day…but I was using my nails to do something, I swear! Loodie would be so mad at me. :( I love this color, anyway. I love how fun it looks, and how good it makes me feel. So it’s your ordinary dark pink, but I care not. I love it anyway.

This polish also reminds me of my second-favorite album by Nada Surf, also called Lucky. I rather like Let Go a lot more though, as it helped shape my taste in music in college.

Thanks for reading! <3

Dior Bikini

Friday, May 18, 2012
coral, creme, dior
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Sorry about the absence on Wednesday; I was so busy and I hadn’t edited these photos yet, so I just decided to not post at all.

I feel like I’ve been hitting a writing rut lately; most of my posts feel like they’ve been rushed. I have been working out every day for almost a week and a half, and I feel really good about that. I also did not really expect hockey to go on as long as it did; it is really weird walking into the arena while it’s 105F outside. Yeah.

Despite the fact that many things are cutting into my free time, I swear I will place more effort in this blog. I really like it, and I really like seeing that other people like it, too. I want to be happy, but I want you all to be happy, too!

So let’s just get right into it!

This is two coats of Dior Bikini. I did not expect to want this from the Croisette collection, but the more I looked at it, the more I wanted it. Application was decent, though I probably should have waited an extra minute in between coats to prevent bald spots.

I wonder what drew me to this. I have been pretty interested in corals lately; I take a huge risk when I wear them, because most of them can look more orange or yellow on me. While I like colors and tones to work well with my skintone, sometimes I just give no f’s. This is probably one of those times.

I don’t know what it is about Dior polishes; they don’t wear well on me like the price tag would suggest, and the paddle brushes bother me…but the colors are way too cute. Maybe it’s the hidden Dior shimmer that pulls me in. Who knows.

I bought this on my latest small haul from Sephora; I also purchased Illamasqua Nomad and a Smashbox BB cream. I will be posting Nomad soon, and after wearing the BB cream for about a week, I rather like it. I’m not used to my face being a little lighter than usual, so it weirds me out a little. I don’t know if I should go a shade darker so that my face isn’t as bright. I’m a total makeup n00b.

Thanks for reading, & have a great weekend!

OPI Got The Blues For Red + oke.doke Hot Tomato + OPI Guy Meets Galveston

Monday, May 14, 2012
jelly, opi, red, shimmer
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I swear all these recent “playoff” nails are different. Really! I don’t think I’ve worn this much red in a really long time. I don’t have many reds, to be honest, so this has been a challenge simply by itself. I’ve had to re-use and re-configure different reds together, and all I can come up with jelly sandwiches and shimmers over cremes.

Here’s another unlucky one. We lost with this one last night.

This is two coats of OPI Got The Blues For Red (aka my trusty Coyotes red!), one coat of oke.doke Hot Tomato, and one coat of OPI Guy Meets Galveston. Hot Tomato has a very pretty red-orange and pink shimmer. It turns my Coyotes red into a more berry-ish red. Honestly though, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

The Coyotes played like total ass last night. Pardon my French. The last time we played this poorly was Game 1 in the previous round, and we actually pulled off a win that time. This time we were not so lucky. To see Los Angeles only have one goal on us while we played this poorly speaks a little about how much better we could be if our team got it together tomorrow, though. I’m keeping the faith.

Maybe that’s why I hated these nails so much. LOL!

I will have some cooler polishes for you, seriously…that is, unless we reach the Stanley Cup Finals. LOL! Just kidding. (Or am I?) I will have to reswatch Floam (!!!), and I did buy a new Illamasqua and Dior, AND I did get the OPI NYC Soft Shades, but I will post those soon. I swear. :)

Thanks for reading!

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