Azature: Opal Diamond

*Purchased by Me*

Hi guys! I hope you had a great weekend! It didn't rain the entire weekend here!! It did rain insanely hard for most of Saturday, but the sandbag in front of the garage worked like a charm! Sunday was cloudy and it drizzled a lot, but it wasn't a bad day. I'll share a little more about my weekend at the end of the post, but for now... let's get to the polish!

During the July 4th sale, I picked up quite a few Azature polishes for my birthday, and one of them was Opal Diamond. All of the swatches that I could find online showed it as a pretty pinkish light gray polish, and I knew it would be something unique for my collection. I'm not sure if the formula changed or what, but when I got the polishes, I noticed that my Opal Diamond didn't look anything like the bottles that I saw online.

Ellagee: Sir Twinkle Toes

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Hi guys! A few months ago, two of my favorite indie makers, Ellagee and Digital Nails, released a collaboration box. Their collab boxes never disappoint, and this was one was no different. The theme was unicorns, so it was a complete must-buy for me. Today, I'm going to share the polish from Ellagee with you.

Favorite Doctor Who polishes!

Happy New Doctor Who Day!!  It's the best day of the year! I've been eagerly awaiting the new season since Christmas! And it's finally here!!!!

In celebration of this wonderful day, I'm going to share some of my favorite Doctor Who themed polishes! Doctor Who inspired polishes are what got me into indies when I first got into polish!

Pahlish: The Sea is Boiling Hot

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Hi guys! I hope you had a great weekend, and a fabulous start to the week. At least it's no longer Monday!

In May, Pahlish launched Through the Looking Glass collection - a collection based on Alice in Wonderland. I only picked up one from the collection, despite them having the most adorable custom labels. The collection was heavy on the pastels, and for some reason I just wasn't feeling in a pastel mood. But aren't these labels so cute?!

Lucky 13 Lacquer: Bitchy Trampoline

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Hi guys! Hope you're having a great week! I've been quite busy ... we got another kitten over the weekend! I have been asking for one for oh... about 2 years now, and he finally said yes! She's about 12-13 weeks, silvery black, and absolutely full of energy! I've posted a few photos of her on Instagram. We were a little worried about how Mr. Bloo would handle the new kitten since he's 13 years old, and hasn't been around another cat in 2 years. We couldn't do the recommended introduction because our house is too small to isolate her. There was some growling and hissing on his part the first day, but we're on the 3rd day, and he's starting to tolerate her better. They might not be best friends, but I think she'll be good for him.  Someone that he can show the ropes to!

I'm lucky that at my job I can wear whatever polish I want; it's the one benefit of only have 3 people in my office. The downside is that my boss thinks I'm insane with how much nail polish I own! It's kind of funny... when I worked in call centers, my nails were too short for me to use polish (it was when I was still biting them). Now that I've bitten by the nail polish bug, I have no one to talk to about it. Not being able to talk about polish with others was one reason that I started this blog!

Many jobs require work-appropriate polishes, and today, I've got one of my favorites for you!

Hobby Polish Bloggers Presents Starry Night Sky

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Hi guys! I hope you're having a great Saturday! I'm just vegging out and watching Supernatural. I'm a big chicken, and I can only watch it during the day when someone else in the house with me. It makes for something interesting to watch while I'm editing photos!

It's time for another Hobby Polish Bloggers link-up!  This month's theme is "Starry Night Sky," and each blogger puts their own unique twist on the theme! As soon as the theme was announced I knew immediately what I was going to do! I had just received a bottle of My Ten Friend's Starry Night that I'd bought in a blog sale, and well, when I hear "Starry Night" I think of the Vincent Van Gogh painting. I thought it would be perfect!

Starry Night starts with a gorgeous shimmer blue base, and is jam packed with blue, black, yellow and white glitters, and black microglitters. 

I wish I'd been able to snag this one from a restock when My Ten Friends was still in business. Since I got this one from a blog sale, the quality wasn't that great. It was very thick and gloopy. I had to add quite a bit of thinner to it, just to be able to use it. I used two thick coats for these photos; I couldn't have used thin coats if I'd wanted to! I've bought quite a few polishes from blog sales, and this one was the first that I'd gotten that was gloopy. 

Starry Night (the polish) is seriously like Starry Night (the painting) in a bottle.  Look!

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The next time that I wear this beauty, I'm going to wear it over blue undies to conserve the polish since My Ten Friends is no longer in business, the polishes are pretty rare, and I want it to last!

Now that you've seen my take on Starry Night sky nails, be sure to go check out all the other participants in this month's link-up!

An InLinkz Link-up

Glam Polish: Into the Deep

*Prize*

Hi guys! A couple of months ago, I won one of the prizes in a giveaway from The Jedi Wife, and it was a gift certificate from Ella Ann Cosmetics. Since Ella Ann Cosmetics is a stockist of Glam Polish, I knew that I was going to use the gift certificate to pick up a few of their polishes! I'd been drooling over swatches on Instagram for long enough! One of the polishes that I picked up was "Into the Deep" from Welcome to Storybrooke Collection. Once Upon A Time is a favorite show of mine, so this was such a win!

Game of Thrones Inspired Polishes

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What? A post on Sunday?  What could be the reason for the momentous occasion? Why, it's the day that I've been not so patiently waiting for the last ten freakin' months. Books have been re-read, episodes have been re-watched. All in preparation for tonight's big season 5 premier of Game of Thrones! 

 

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Unlike so many other book readers, I'm actually excited that there will be book spoilers this season. Don't get me wrong - I freakin' love the books, but I want to know where the story is going!  Plus I know that even with some spoilers, I will enjoy the upcoming books, whenever they finally come out. In honor of this glorious day, I want to share some of my favorite polishes inspired by Game of Thrones. If you haven't read the books or watch all of season 4, you may want to just look at the pretty pictures, I might type a spoiler or two.

OPI: Go With the Lava Flow and That's Hula-rious!

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I started to edit the photos that I took this past weekend, and realized that I still had a few that I had not written a post about. Since they were already edited and everything, I decided to just use them rather than redo the photos.  

When I first heard about the OPI Hawaii collection, I was excited about the colors that it would contain. However, I guess I've gotten pickier about mainstream polishes, and ended up I only picking up 2 colors from the collection - Go With the Lava Flow and That's Hula-rious!

Chanel: Taboo

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Hi guys! I finally got into Urgent Care this week, and found out that I did not have a sinus infection like I thought. Instead the doctor told me that I have strep throat.  I'm over 30 years old, and I have never had strep throat in my life!  Anyways, the antibiotics are helping, but I still feel pretty run down, so I have another pretty quick post for you all.  

Digital Nails: Special Snowflake

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Hi guys! I have gotten way too many new polishes since the holidays. Today I want to share another polish from the December Beauty Quartet box - Special Snowflake from Digital Nails.

Different Dimension: Pluto Is Still A Planet To Me

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Hi everyone!  Sorry for the lack of a post yesterday; my husband and I went Wednesday night to see the musical Wicked, and we did not get until quite late. I was too tired to wake up and write a post.  If you ever get the chance to see Wicked on its national tour, I definitely recommend seeing it if you can!  It was amazing, and even my husband enjoyed.

Now to the polish... I want to share "Pluto Is Still A Planet To Me" from DIFFERENT Dimension's Cosmologically Speaking collection. Before I even saw this polish, I wanted it - simply for the name!

a England: Gloriana

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Hi everyone!  A few months ago, a England launched their Elizabeth and Mary collection - a collection inspired by Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. The entire collection is absolutely breathtaking, but so far, I have only been able to get my hands on one polish from it - Gloriana.

Givenchy: Folie Scintillante #23

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Hi guys!  Much to my husband's chagrin, I love glitter.  He hates it because it somehow always ends up on him when I remove it!  Today, I would like to share a glitter top coat from Givenchy's Christmas 2014 collection.

Nerd Lacquer: Megaera

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Hi all!  I was able to score one of my top 3 most wanted Nerd Lacquer polishes in the last restock earlier this month.  I was ecstatic!  

Digital Nails: Real-Life Mad Scientist

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Hi guys!  Today, I want to share one of my favorite polishes with all of you! Recently Raph from Digital Nails released a Scientist Puns collection. One of the polishes from this collection is Real-Life Mad Scientist, inspired by Nikola Tesla.

JINsoon: Azurite

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Hi guys!  I've got a quick post for you today.  I'm getting ready to head out of town for the holiday, so this will be my last post this week.  Today, I'm sharing "Azurite" from JINsoon.  It's another polish that I got for my birthday that's typically out of my polish pricing comfort zone.

Lucky 13 Lacquer: Bad Witch

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Greetings!  One of my favorite movies growing up was The Wizard of Oz.  I watched it every time that it was on television.  The polish that I'm sharing with you today, Bad Witch from Lucky 13 Lacquer, is inspired by the Wicked Witch of the West.

Cult Nails I'm Not Gone, Girl I'm Here! collection

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Greetings!  Today, I have the latest collection from Cult Nails to share with you!  The "I'm Not Gone, Girl I'm Here!" collection is made up of 3 polishes - Inescapable, Sublime, and Wanna Be.

Brooke Anderson by Gabriel Cosmetics: Hush Hush and Shine Y'all

*Press Sample*

Hi guys! A couple of weeks ago, I posted the press release for the upcoming collaboration between Brooke Anderson and Gabriel Cosmetics.  This is a new to me brand, and I was excited to try them. Today I have two polishes from that collection to show you!