Glitter Gal Duochrome Collection - Warped Teal & Twisted Jealousy

Hey everyone! First of all - thanks for all the well wishes in the last week or two. I appreciate it more than you know!
I'm starting to feel better and hoping to be able to recommit myself to posting every day because I miss sharing my polish adventures with you all on a daily basis.

To hopefully get my blog a-rollin' again, I'll be doing three posts showcasing the brand new Duochrome Collection from Glitter Gal!

Mmmm, look at those pretty bottles...
This collection consists of six sheer duochrome polishes, all best worn over black or other dark colors to show the true beauty!
As well, I just read that these polishes are "5 Free!" They contain no TFR, Camphor, Formaldehyde, DPB or Toluene. Pretty cool!

I decided to post these polishes in pairs because it would just be too much to post all at once! Each polish deserves a bunch of photos.

These polishes come in the new large 15mL bottles from GGal. I love the bottles because they are very sturdy and the brush is also quite lovely. No complaints.
Each bottle also comes in a nice little box! Makes it feel more special when it has its own box, right?

I'm gonna start out today with my favorite one!

Glitter Gal - Warped Teal
Are you surprised that the teal is my favorite? Didn't think so!

Yes, that's the same polish in both photos. This baby has many different faces.

This is two coats of Warped Teal over black. In some lights it is a shimmery green and then you turn your hand and it is like a blue/teal/green metallic! It's crazy.
It's hard to really say much about the polish because the pictures have to do the talking!

So stinkin' pretty, right?

Love love love. I totally recommend picking up this one because it is just so interesting and duochromatic and lovely. It's a winner!

And now for the second polish from the collection...

Glitter Gal - Twisted Jealousy
To follow my favorite polish, I am showing you my least favorite of the bunch.

Don't get me wrong - this polish is still great, but the colors just aren't something I would reach for.

Twisted Jealousy is an intense shimmery green that has a brown duochrome! It is a very interesting combo and I don't think I've ever seen anything like it!

Like I said - it's beautiful, but not my kinda colors. If you like greens and browns and earthy hues, this one would be perfect for you!

Two down, four to go! I hope you guys enjoy seeing these swatches because I had fun doing them.

These polishes retail for $17.50 AUD/$17.95 USD and you can buy them from Glitter Gal directly or on Ninja Polish!
And don't forget to check out Glitter Gal on Facebook, because they just posted some teasers of upcoming polishes! (And yes, there is one called Rebecca!! We will pretend they named it after me. Obvi.)

See you tomorrow with two more pretties!

Product provided for honest review.

China Glaze - Flip Flop Fantasy

Hey girls and boys!
First of all, I wanna explain my absence - as I've mentioned before I'm not feeling the best right now and I'm having a pretty serious flare up of my Crohn's disease.
I'm spending most of my time just trying to relax which doesn't leave me much time for the ol' blog. I promise I am not deserting you guys and I won't be another blogger who just randomly disappears - but I just need a bit of me-time for a while, I guess.

I'm still painting my nails (obviously) and I will make an effort to post when I am feeling up to it, but please be patient with me as I try to get my health back on track.

I found a bunch of old swatches I've been meaning to post and I might try and post some of these in the coming days! I'm gonna start with a super happy neon color to try to bring my blog back to life, haha!

China Glaze - Flip Flop Fantasy 
This is a super bright pink-coral neon that really gets attention. I don't think I have ever had so many random people ask me what color nail polish I was wearing as when I wore this one a few weeks ago.

The formula is nice and it covers in 3 coats, but it does chip pretty quickly.
(You may also notice that these photos have my old watermark. I was too lazy to redo it with the new one. Hahaha.)

I added an accent nail with Hello Kitty For Sephora - Gold Sparkle.

Do you have Flip Flop Fantasy? Do you get as many comments on it as I do?

Oh, one last thing before I go! A deal for my Canadian polish friends!
Shoppers Drugmart is having BOGO on all polish tonight from 6-9pm!
Click this link to print the coupon and get yourself some deals.

hey mom, quit copying me!

Good morning everyone! I've got a fun post coming your way today.

Some of you may know that I've somehow wound up with two moms in my life - my real mom and my internet mom. You would think that no sane person would willingly think of me as their child without having birthed me but hey, I guess I am that charming.

This lovely (and insane) woman that I am referring to is Laurie from Dressed Up Digits. She and I met ages ago when my blog was just starting and she was totally a fangirl and she stroked my big ego. Somehow we wound up becoming very good friends and here we are! She started her own blog and now she's got a big ego of her own because I am a fan of hers too!
(The best thing about an internet mom? She can give good advice but she can't make you clean your room.)

A few weeks ago I showed Laurie a cool mani I had done and she loved it, and decided to do it too! So now I'm posting it today, and so is she.

Tada! A fancy, vampy tape mani featuring OPI - Lincoln Park After Dark Suede.

Some of these photos show topcoat over the whole nail and some don't. I liked it both ways.

I freakin' love the OPI Suede polishes and I've just finished rounding up all 7 of them! Yay!
(That being said... I've only got 2 of the OPI Matte ones... Hmmmmm....)

Here's OPI - Lincoln Park After Dark Suede on its own. 2 coats of glorious, suede-y goodness.
I love that you can apply these polishes super fast and be out the door right away because they take about 10 seconds to dry. It's awesome. I always use them when I am in a pinch.

Some of my friends thought that this mani looked like dragon's eyes or something, but I don't see it. It's triangles. Triangles! I don't want dragon-eye-nails! Heh.

Now everyone go check out Laurie's post!
Who do you think rocked the mani better? Me? I thought so! ;)

july haul

Whoops. Whooooooops. Triple whoops.
I have not been good in July. I'm working a lot and I'm making a lot of money. So I spend a lot of money.

Let's see what I got this month...
(Also HOLY CRAP it is the last day of July already?!)

I ordered some things from Apothica with my sponsorship funds:
Deborah Lippmann - On The Beach
Deborah Lippmann - Sweet Dreams
Deborah Lippmann - Bad Romance
Deborah Lippmann - Between The Sheets

As usual I picked up a lot of random OPI's along the way, mostly on sale for around $2:
OPI - Nothin Mousie Bout It
OPI - A Dozen Rosas
OPI - Mauving to Manitoba
OPI - Steady As She Rose
OPI - Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow Suede
OPI - Lincoln Park After Dark Matte

I got two wishlist polishes from a great lady named Gina:
OPI - Chica-go Get A Manicure
China Glaze - Electric Lilac

Picked up some colors from the China Glaze On Safari Collection:
China Glaze - I Herd That
China Glaze - I'm Not Lion
China Glaze - Exotic Encounters
 
I went crazy at Sally Beauty while they had some clearance sales on:
Orly - Preamp
Orly - Decades of Dysfunction
Orly - Dayglo
Orly - Glitz
Orly - After Party
China Glaze - Glam-More
China Glaze - Gleam Me Up
China Glaze - Jade-d
China Glaze - Luminous Lavender
 
The wonderful Destany sent me two Milanis:
Milani - Sail Away
Milani - Mint Candy

I actually bought the Julep box this month because I wanted the Canada polish:
Julep - O Canada!
Julep - Daphne
Julep - Mila
Julep - Kate

Line, my favorite Danish girl, sent me the cutest polish:
Depend - 303

I bought some polishes from another friend, Wendy:
OPI - Paint Your Toron-toes Rose
Color Club - Snow Queen
Color Club - Killer Curves
Orly - Fancy Fuchsia

Nicole by OPI went on sale:
Nicole by OPI - Disco Dolls
Nicole by OPI - Canadian Star
Nicole by OPI - Top of My World
Nicole by OPI - Coral Denominator

I swapped with Nicole from Elixir Lacquers:
Elixir Lacquers - With A K

I bought some minis from Rainbow Honey:
Rainbow Honey - The Worst Possible Thing
Rainbow Honey - Pinkie Promise
Rainbow Honey - The Element of Magic

Found a new polish line at a drug store with interesting glitters:
True Colors - Mystic Grape
True Colors - Remember Me

As you saw yesterday, I got some piCture pOlishes for review:
piCture pOlish - Mirage
piCture pOlish - Pshiiit

As you will see sometime soon, I've got the new Glitter Gal collection to review:
Glitter Gal - Hell-Bent Blue
Glitter Gal - Distorted Platinum
Glitter Gal - Warped Teal
Glitter Gal - Twisted Jealousy
Glitter Gal - Contorted Mauve
Glitter Gal - Buckled Bronze

I crossed another polish off my wishlist thanks to my friend Marcy:
Illamasqua - Raindrops

My new friend Jini sent me some great polishes:
Nails Inc. - Sweets Way
Nails Inc. - Pudding Lane
Nails Inc. - Topping Lane
China Glaze - Smoke and Ashes

And I've got one thing that doesn't belong in a category from a random drugstore sale:
China Glaze - Glittering Garland

To re-use a joke from yesterday... Holy Pshiiit.
I'm not even going to count them because that would just be a joke. A painful joke.

If it helps, I'm in the middle of purging, and I am calling August a low-buy month.
Yikes.

piCture pOlish blog fest 2012!

Hello and welcome to piCture pOlish Blog Fest 2012!

For those of you who don't know what PPBF is, let me explain! On this day, bloggers from all around the world will be posting swatches of fun new shades from piCture pOlish. There are over 80 bloggers participating this year! Holy cow. And we all got 2 shades! Amazing, right? piCture pOlish is such a generous company and you totally can feel the love they have for their customers. I love them. (And it doesn't hurt that the polishes are super cute with adorable bottles to match.)

Last year's Blog Fest was so fun, I am so happy to be participating again this year.
Let's get right to it! This is a seriously long post because I just had too much fun with these polishes.