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OPI DS Extravagance

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Dear Total Wine: please let me know when you are receiving in your shipment of Woodchuck Fall cider. I have no cider left and am very sad. I want something that doesn’t taste like pumpkins for fall because I think pumpkin is the new bacon and I would forever wish bacon and pork would stop being so overused because my people totally did it first!! /hipster

Anyway.

I am not feeling very well today. But here is a post!

This is two coats of OPI DS Extravagance, and one coat of Lynnderella The Tell-Tale Heart on my ring and thumbs as accent nails. I had to take these pictures in my kitchen again, for maximum holo- and glitter-ness.

I do miss having accent nails. It is my way of putting nail art on my nails, minus the art. I think I read somewhere that the placement of accent nails (or which fingers I accent) means I’m a lesbian and looking for love. Or something like that. I read it on Jezebel. By the way, did I mention that I cannot stand Jezebel? I really do not like that website (or the Gawker network in general) at all. Okay, I take that back. I rather like Jalopnik. They actually have decent articles. (And pretty cars. I like pretty cars.)

Thanks for reading!

Lynnderella She Lived in a Swamp + a-england Dragon

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I have had this…I don’t know what to call it…want? I guess it has been a want. I have lately wanted to wear my Lynnderellas. Yes, they’re all old. Vintage, if you will. The sting of being considered a show-off and beneath such an ARTISTE in mind and creativity has slowly melted away, and in the spirit of Halloween I have wanted to break them out again. After all, it’s just nail polish, right?

So here I am, revisiting some of my old polishes that I have kept. I’m going to attempt to post something Halloween-ish every Wednesday, up until Halloween. I’m not one for school spirit and all that, but I do like to (attempt to) participate!

This is two coats of a-england Dragon, topped with a coat of Lynnderella She Lived in a Swamp.

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure why this called out to me, or why I kept it. This is one of the original bottles from the Halloween 2011 collection, and all the bar glitter is a pain in the ass to lay flat. I thought I could turn a blind eye to the difficulty in application, but it annoys the crap out of me. Dabbing glitter on is one thing, and I don’t mind that. But stabbing unruly bar glitters is something I do mind. Maybe it was intentional back then, too.

The combination is still a nice one. In real life, you can see the sort-of duochrome-y-ness in Dragon. And I’ve heard that some people don’t like claw poses, so here is a straight-fingered one for you!

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Llarowe’s Memorial Day Giveaway Results!

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This is ever so late, but I’ll post it anyway. (I may have been watching too much Downton Abbey lately because I sprinkle so many “ever so”‘s and “quite so”‘s and “quite right”‘s and so on. I am not ashamed of this, but I would like Mr. Bates to stop being such a martyr and just kick Thomas in the balls. JUST ONCE. THAT IS ALL I ASK.)

Over the Memorial Day weekend, Leah Ann posted a giveaway on Facebook. To enter, you had to talk about your hero. I picked Shane Doan. Obviously he’s not My #1 Hero or anything, but he is one of them. By the way, if you don’t know who he is:


He’s not Asian, in case you were wondering.

He’s a way cool captain, a class act, a hard worker on and off the ice, and he’s seriously the nicest athlete I’ve ever met. (I haven’t met many but still.) Anyone who talks to you, albeit briefly, like you were his best friend and is genuine about it is A Very Good Person.

So anyway, I won one of these two available sets for the contest, which was pretty sweet. Technically I entered because I wanted to win “Remember,” but three polishes are soooo way better than one. :D

I never enter contests because I feel like I won’t win. Not that I should win all the time, but I don’t want to risk the disappointment. I’m so risk averse that I don’t even play penny slots. (And I’m from Vegas. I grew up with that kind of stuff. It’s very weird.)

While I’m going to show everyone what each one looks like, I actually did not open any of these bottles (except to swatch on one nail). All the below swatches are from old bottles, and I decided to mix it up with some jelly sandwiches! I like jelly. It’s great on toast, it’s great on toast with peanut butter, and it’s great on my nails. (I wasn’t about to say that it was better than toast, because I love toast.)

Ruby Red Ruby is my favorite out of the three. Here it is layered over OPI Got The Blues For Red with OPI Guy Meets Galveston on top. I believe I wore this during the playoffs, but I never took photos of it. There was a Hipstamatic photo on my Facebook page, but that was about it. This one was a lucky one. If I remember correctly, this is what I was wearing when we beat Nashville in Game 5 to get to the third round. It’s fiery and glistens and is just generally gorgeous.

Snow Angel is layered under and over OPI Don’t Touch My Tutu! I always wonder what I could layer this over, aside from white. Everything I’ve seen it paired with is some variation of white. Plus my bottle is now clumpy so the glitter doesn’t sit well. I’m always so nervous to thin it out a little with something because I don’t want to ruin it. I believe I layered it over Orly Rock Solid, but I’m not going to link that post here because my pictures a year ago were pretty terrible. I may try it again though, so you may enjoy it.

Bibbitty Bobbitty Boo Blue looks way rad paired with Revlon Royal as a base, and Nfu Oh JS-30 as the “jelly top.” I have been looking for a jelly that is less opaque than Royal, and I believe I’ve found it. Also there is a lone piece of bar glitter on my pinky. I don’t know if it’s in the newer bottles, but I don’t believe I’ve seen that before.

Thank you Leah Ann for hosting such an awesome giveaway; you certainly made my day. And thanks all for reading!

Lynnderella Change + China Glaze First Mate

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Usually, when I plug in my numbers into random.org to pick a color to wear, I usually have to hit the button a few times till something catches my fancy. Cheating, I know. Fortunately, this time I didn’t have to.

I had Hornblower on the mind. I had just finished up watching The Even Chance, and was itching to do my nails. I immediately pulled out the most fitting base color for this burnished, neutral-ish gold glitter I was about to wear. Of course I had to tell my awesome pal Rach about it. I knew she would understand.

What was more fitting than the color scheme of a lieutenant of the Royal Navy’s uniform? All those epaulets and brass buttons and will you refer to me as “My Lord.” I am in fact the Earl of Edrington. Sigh.

(Wait. Dear Sam West was a Lobster. Sigh.)

I know you’ve seen this before, but I wanted to wear it again.

This is two coats of China Glaze First Mate under a coat of Lynnderella Change. I never knew there was a beeeeeautiful gold shimmer amidst all the gold, copper, and silver.

I wore a gold under this the first time I wore it, and I slopped on as many coats as I wanted because I wanted it to thparkle and all that. Then I made the horrible decision of putting on a coat of Glitter Tamer, and by the next morning it had shrunk and shriveled to little golden scrotums. Not exactly one of my best moments, of course.

I suppose Mutiny was my favorite Hornblower episode; it had just the right amount of Jamie Bamber AND Paul McGann (aka my favorite audio Doctor ever)…and I believe that was the episode where you saw Ioan Gruffudd’s marvelous backside.

I’m gushing. I must stop. If you really want to watch what all the hullabaloo is about, you can find all of the Hornblower episodes on iTunes. I warn you, the series probably looks a little dated, but it is humorous in most parts, dramatic in others, and overall a rollicking good time.

Thanks for reading!

Lynnderella The Telltale Heart + Barry M Indigo

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Is it Friday already? Whew. I’m not complaining at all. I rather like having shorter weeks. It’s a little more stressful because people seem to think you have to cram five days of work into four days. I am not that kind of person.

Today I have something fun, even though it’s not super summery or anything.

This is two coats of Barry M Indigo under one thin coat of Lynnderella The Telltale Heart. Indigo is a gorgeous vibrant purple, very similar to the hue in SH Purple Pizzazz and a-england Avalon. The Telltale Heart is a super pretty and fun pink glitter with lots of medium hexes & squares, as well as a super awesome (and sort of but not really subtle) pinkish shimmer.

Both have great formulas, and both were very easy to apply. TTH, if applied as a regular coat, will coat your nail with a ton of glitter. That’s fantastic for most glitterbombs I wear, but I wanted to be able to see the base color so I had to be a bit more careful.

I have been dying to wear Indigo for…well, a really long time! And then I realized that I hadn’t posted this Lynnderella on my blog yet, so I figured I’d pair them up. I can’t believe I haven’t shown this one yet. I even uploaded the photos to WordPress and everything! These look way better than the ones I put up a year ago, though.

This is the closest photo to what Indigo looks like, except a little more blue. I can’t stand that my camera can never photograph these types of purples without turning them blue. (See: DL Call Me Irresponsible.) It might be time for an upgrade! :\

I’ll leave you with this: the game is about a year old, and I can’t tell you how many strands of hair I’ve pulled out trying to beat this game, but the soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal. This is from the World 1 Warp Zone from Super Meat Boy. I even have this as a ringtone!

Thanks for reading, & have a great weekend!