Guest Post: squared nails- Essie Mochacino

Mochacino is a light brown taupe with loads of silver shimmer. I know think I have any taupes like this. Mochacino reminds me of milk chocolate or even a latte. I read somewhere it looks like it has been coated in sugar - and that's very accurate. Most shimmers just have a small amount - this polish is loaded with silver shimmer.

Application was beautiful - Essie's have a smaller brush but I like that sometimes because I can be more precise. I did three coats - but you could easily get away with two coats. Essie polishes retail for around $8, but some stores are selling Essie's for around $7.75. Mochacino is a retail exclusive, and can be found at retail stores such as Walgreen's, Target, and Walmart.

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Guest Post: Clumps of Mascara- Sinful Colors Innocent

I love Sinful Colors. How they can be SO perfect and only cost $1.99 is beyond me. I was strolling through Walgreens one day (you know, because the beauty department is where I hang), aaaaand I come across this Shrek-green that I just HAD to have.

Even IF I have a similar shade at home. For the record, I don't care how many bottles of polish you have, if a bottle that is only $1.99 screams at you, you HAVE to buy it. Seriously.

It's in the unofficial invisible beauty book.

 I'm serious.

Sinful Colors' Innocent reminds me OPI's Who The Shrek Are You. The formula on this kid is just as good as OPI's too.

It was opaque and gorgeous at only 2 coats. But to make things even more interesting, I did a coat of China Glaze's White Cap.

Do you find polishing your nails to be therapeutic? I do. In fact, I'd much rather do my own nails than have someone else do them. Maybe it's because I'm cheaper than cheap but that's neither here nor there. 8) What's the fastest trying top coat in the world?

Seche-Vite, baby! The final look...

Loves it. Sinful Colors, you are perfect in every way. Never ever change.

I mean that.

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Guest Post: Glitta Gloves-Ocean Manicure

Hello lacquered lovelies! I'm so excited to be doing a guest post for Stephanie, I've been reading her blog for a while now and I have a nail crush on her. Which isn't weird at all... anyway! Since Stephanie is going on a cruise, I wanted to go with a sort of ocean-inspired mani using one of my new BM plates!

I started out with three coats of China Glaze Cyberspace, a colour that always reminds me of sand in the bottle. It's from the Tronica collection and it's not a linear holo, but it's pretty nonetheless. Sadly, I couldn't get good light when I was starting this after work, but this is what it looks like most of the time.

Next, I stamped a full nail image from BM-215, which kind of looks like seashells to me. I used Konad white special polish. Then I added some glitter, of course! I used Color Club Sultry, LA Colors Color Craze Goddess and Sephora by OPI Only Gold For Me. Goddess has these circular holographic bits of glitter in it, which isn't much like real sand at all, but who can ever say no to sparkles?

And super macro so you can see the details...

And that's it! Really simple but I like how this came out. I don't often just sit and play around with polishes but I kept looking at that shell image and thinking I should try something with it! I think this would look cool with a gradient base too, different sandy browns, maybe something with some silver shimmer thrown in to look like real sand? I wish I knew of a polish like that! Do you?

What do you lovelies think? Do you like "theme" manis? Have you gotten the new BM plates? I love them, they've improved so much between the last set and this set. The images are larger and sharper and they're still so affordable and a great alternative to Konad plates!

Thank you, Stephanie, for letting me do this! I hope you have an awesome time on your cruise, sugar! And thank you all for reading! Have a beautiful day!

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So long, farewell. See you soon SPAM!

I'm off tomorrow for a week long vacation. I'm sorry to miss out on Bottle Spam Saturday & Share With You Sunday this week, but I've been rushing to get things done. Normal posting will resume Monday the 23rd. This upcoming week I have some great guest bloggers who will be filling in for me. In the meantime here is some random spam!

 China Glaze Midnight Mission

 Color Club Covered in Diamonds over Black

 Cult Nails Iconic

 Cult Nails Quench

 Essie Dive Bar

 Franken Ring of Fire -by Lacquer Ware for Tips and Toes

 Franken- Snow-kissed Lilacs

 OPI DS Glamour

 OPI Mrs. O'Leary's BBQ

 Pure Ice Twinkle

 Revlon Top Speed Ocean

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear The Real Teal

See you all soon! <3

Steph

Zoya Caitlin

Hey folks! I'm sorry for the lack of posts. I've been kind of rushing to get stuff ready to leave town. I got my hair cut and colored today. I haven't really done a lot of "me" things besides for nail polish in long time, so it's nice to get pampered! Anywho, I have a pretty spring Zoya for you!

Caitlin

Caitlin is a medium gray with slight hint of purple creme.

I love this color! Gray-purples are colors I definitely used to hate on, but now I love. I actually have been buying more gray clothes too. You know the question I asked in a poll a little while ago about what polish color you'd like to paint your room. Zoya Caitlin would definitely be contender for me. It's a nice soothing color.

Happy Thursday!

Steph