Camping = Manis

A camping trip with a nail polishy friend means Manis!!!!  (My girlfriend prefers not to be named on the blog so we'll just call her Voldemort from here on out.) 

It's doing Mani's outside on lawn chairs while our hubs and kids are swimming!  

What could be better!!!! 

These were the lovelies we chose....  once again Cult Nails My Kind of Cool Aid... essie's Shine of the Times... Sally Hansen's Rockstar Pink... & Sinful's Dream On.

On the way to the camp ground we made a pit stop at Target where I just happened to find myself running through the nail polish collections and I spotted Shine of the Times!  It's reputation preceded it!  I'd never seen it in Target before!  To say I pounced on that last bottle wouldn't be an overstatement!  :D  

Camping was off to a REALLY good start!

 Voldermort was smitten too! What's not to like after all? 
Right over the way cool Cool Aid.

Shoot.  I don't even know how to describe what's going on here!  

Here goes a try: Chunky, iridescent, transparent, dusky loveliness!

Voldemort is rockin' this look, don't you agree?

I was feeling less subtle, more I'M CAMPING AND LIFE IS GRAND!!!    The florescent Dream On was my good start!

 Topped by the crazy little silvery gold, blue and pink sparklies in RockStar Pink!

I love camping, don't you?  

:)

My Kind of Cool Aid

Finally laid my hands on this dusky gem from Cult Nails!

MY KIND OF COOL AID!

The pretty sparkle in the bottle doesn't translate so much to the nail.  

So I decided to kick that sparkle up a bit!  

After a generous coat of Cool Aid, I put on my Seche Vite.  

Then Sally Hansen's Diamond Strength "Diamonds" polish.  Lookit that shimmer!  

Isn't it purty?  I did this yesterday morning.  I should have used Seche Vite one more time -over the top of everything.  Because THIS morning I noticed SEVERAL chips!!!!!   No way!  Say it ain't so!   :p  

I can only hope another layer of SV would've averted the chippage.  

'Cuz chipping after 24 hours is just not right!

So cover-up dabs in place, I took to the deck for the photo um, shoot.  yeah. That's what I do, photo shoots, sure.  I do believe I ♥ this fabby drabby Cool Aid!  

Happy Father's Day!  Have a great week everyone!

Color Me Captivated

Now that I have this dreamsicle of a lacquer from Cult Nails (SV on top), I can't beleive that I debated on whether or not to get it!  

The color is Captivated and it sings "Summer!!!!!!"

Makes me think beachy thoughts!  

 This is one of those polishes that when you see you hand in the middle of some mundane task, it makes you smile :) 

Once again, sparkly happy-making from Cult Nails!

Do you have any Cult favorites?

Seduced by the Cult

I spazzed out the most when I first saw Seduced! Have to do this sparkly first! Sweeet!

Red and Blue and Goldie Flakies having a party on my nails!

I left the Nail Magic on as an undercoat.  Put on my Sinful Black On Black.  Then Seduction!  Seche Vite on top naturally :)

 The deck = the perfect place for a party

Fun times are being had by all nails...

*sigh* I ♥ the Cult!

I'm in Cult Nails Heaven!

Weeeeeeeee!  Cult Nails had a sale and today I took delivery of 3 gorgeous laquers!  I'm all head in the clouds!  So after wiping many a galaxy off my nails I realized they could prolly use a break.  I put my Nail Magic Nail Hardener on there and am letting them be!  

Buuuuuuuut I'm soon going to have tough decisions to make!  Which brand new pretty shall I put on first?!?!?  Happy happy troubles! :)

 This is a close up of Seduction!  And the pic and following description is straight from Cult Nails

"Seduction - A sheer purple/red jelly top coat polish loaded with red and blue multichromatic flakes."

You'll find this under the "Limited Edition Colors" tab!

Up close and gorgeous Iconic.  Pic and following description straight from Cult Nails

"ICONIC is a deep berry creme with gorgeous red flakes and hidden gold shimmer throughout. Iconic is destined to become an instant classic." 

 Color me Captivated!  This pic from Cult Nails

can do all the talking.  No description even needed.

What AM I going to do? ;)

Tulum + Gold Tips

I adore my Tulum color from Cult Nails!  In really bright light I can see the little gold sparkles in the bottle but I can't see them on my nails.  So I thought I'd try to add some more gold shimmer.  Here's Tulum straight up with SV on top.  It's a few days old at this point.  I put this on after a string of failed attempts with other colors Friday evening.  What a gorgeous fallback color to have! 

  So I thought maybe an added sparkley gold would be really awesome.  So I put Nicole's The Next CEO on top, the only gold polish I have, and well, you couldn't tell there was Tulum underneath!  I could've had the afore-blogged Revlon Lava on under there and you wouldn't know!  Enter the plan to make a Fenchie out of these two...

I'm liking it!  And doncha just love the flowers on Magnolia/Tulip Tree and the super green of the lawn?  Spring is my very most favorite season!  
I do wish the gold in the Tulum would come out to play a bit more...  but hey now it's ME who gets to play more!  :)  To that end, does anyone else know of a gold shimmer that goes on sheerly? 
Thanks lovies!!!

Konad & Kitty

So I'm sitting in my spot of sunshine taking pic after pic and none of them are turning out very well... part of the silvery polish I used to konad is always disappearing in the photos. It consistently looks like I only put the design on bits of my nails rather than all over each nail! :p
Enter Marley...

He's joining me in my spot of sun and I can't resist petting on him! So, well, maybe he'll make a good background... what the heck, I'll start taking pix...

What ho? I can see much more of the Konad design when I'm in the shade! Aw Marley, thanks for showing up!

Since we fostered a kitty who was a real snuggler, Marley has become more affectionate. Like he took lessons from the other feline or something.

Here he's doing his best GQ. What a handsome boy. Ok, jeez, someone shut me up! :D The base is the Cult Nails' Tulum that I applied last night. Marls is showing off China Glaze's Admire. A lovely shimmery pink. All with SV on top. xo

Yay, I've joined the Cult!

Wooooo, how excited am I to take delivery of my first Cult Nails lacquer! What we have here is Tulum... under indoor lighting... not the best. But I tried, with the help of my daughter's white and pink unicorn no less. {Too bad Clairvoyant (aka Unicorn Puke) is still unavailable! but I digress....}

and a different light...

And there are gorgeous little sparkles in the bottle that I could see yesterday in the sunlight that I can't see under indoor lighting (at night) now. I love the color and I don't even know why! It's just perfect!

See the gold sparkles? I applied two coats of Cult Nails' Tulum under SV. I hope to see the sparkles on my nails tomorrow!

Oh and maybe I'm late to the party, or maybe our part of the country is late to the party... but look what I found at the drug store! No more making special runs to Sally's for these anymore! Sweet!