See Sarah Swatch: 2012

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Where's My Chauffeur plus glitter!

Hey lovelies. It's my last day of finals, which means it's my last completely stressed out day of the year! I'm taking my Arabic final at 4, then I'm going home to sleep for 15 hours straight. Anyway, I have a fun mani I did last week to show you, it's Essie Where's My Chauffeur topped with a polish I made myself with lots of different shapes and sizes of white glitter & two kinds of iridescent glitter (blue and orangey) with gold and purple shimmer. I loved this mani so so much. I want to try this with BL Old Bill too! I think that combo would be really pretty together:)

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Birthstone Mani!

Happy Tuesday:) today our theme was a mani the same color of our birthstone. I'm a January baby (coming up soon!) so my birthstone is a garnet. I used Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones for my mani today:) I think it's pretty close to the garnet color, right?

Make sure to take a look at the beautiful birthstone manis my Twinsies have:
Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...
Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Tara at Polishy of Truth

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

A Chanukah-y Twinsie Tuesday

Happy Chanukah to all those celebrating! I believe we're in the middle of Chanukah right now (yes? I think?) and our manis reflect that today :) so here's 2 thick coats of Pretty n Polished's How Do You Spell Chanukah? (Love the name)

Make sure to take a look at the manis from my Twinsies!

Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...
Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Tara at Polishy of Truth

Monday, December 10, 2012

Wonderful, Awful Idea

Morning everyone! It's full-out finals week here, so I'm slowly losing my mind. Plus, I don't have time to change my nail polish:( but it's okay, I have on a ridiculously gorgeous Lacquistry (which you'll see next week!) in anticipation. Today I have one of my polishes to show you- Wonderful, Awful Idea. It's named after a line from the Grinch movie. Both versions are on my favorite holiday movies list! I love everything about the newer movie it always makes me laugh. So here's 3 coats of WAI (though 2 gives you opaque coverage, 3 gives you a more intense color).

Friday, December 7, 2012

My New Favorite Purple

I'd like to start this post with saying how much I love Zoya. Seriously. I'm in love with all the promos happening. I just got the Gilty topcoat (plus some Christmas gifts for my mom!). And I'm fangirling out over Mimi. It took me SO. LONG. to get this (dumb on my part). But now I have my mitts on it & I'm in love. I don't know if my pictures really show the amazing chunky shimmer off, but it's stunning in person. Though you all probs know that already, since I've been living under a rock. Anyway. Mimi in 2 coats of purple glory: also, I've been obsessed with making paper snowflakes, so you get a bonus of that!

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

A Black and White Twinsie Tuesday

Hey ladies! Sorry this is late, I scheduled it for the wrong day, I'm a doofus. Anway, I hope everyone's December is going well! I'm basically drowning under finals and papers and projects, so without further ado, here's 2 Black and White manis! Both glitter toppers are made by me just for fun :] The first is over OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and the second over Wet N Wild Black Creme.

Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...
Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Tara at Polishy of Truth

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

TT: My Oldest Polish

Happy Tuesday, ladies! Today we're posting our oldest polish. This isn't really mine, I found it in the back of my mom's polish drawer, so I stole it a while ago ;) Wet n Wild Shameless is ... I don't even know how old. I feel like we've had it forever! There was some separation in the bottle, but a quick shake took care of that. It dries SO. FAST. Which actually might have been a bad thing, it kind of clumped when I put on the second coat. But
The color is super pretty! I love the shimmer:)

Make sure to take a look at my Twinsies' oldest polishes!
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

One Bad Apple

Hey all! I hope everyone's thanksgivings went well:) mine was great, I got to spend a nice week with the family, and I was in charge of the deserts for Thanksgiving dinner, so I had fun with that (if you're wondering, I made a maple & roasted pear cheesecake and a banana split brownie pie). Anyway, I have an older polish from 2Chix to show you today, One Bad Apple. I wore it on top of Essie Bikini So Teeny and I loved the combination! I just used one coats of OBA here, and I had no problems at all:)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Thanksgiving-y Twinsie Tuesday!

Hey ladies! Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of TT:] I have such a lovely glitter to show you tonight. It's from Darling Diva Polish, and though it's released in a holiday collection, it fits right in with the Thanksgiving feel: here's FUUUUUUUUUUUDGE over Sally Hansen CSM Bittersweet.

this polish is just screaming Thanksgiving and fall at me. I'm so glad I got it in now :]

Make sure you take a look at the other turkey day manis:]
Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...
Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Tara at Polishy of Truth

Monday, November 19, 2012

Back!

Hi all, sorry for ghosting out on you there. This time in the semester is ridiculously crazy. So I'll be doing quick posts for a while now. Today's is a DDP polish: Regulus. And short version: get it. Longer version: this is 2 coats of amazing. I love the base color and the iridescent blue glitter here, it's a really pretty combination. & the matte glitters really work in this too! It's not something I would have thought topic together, but I love it.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Twinsie Tuesday: 3D [Glasses] Mani!

Happy Tuesday, ladies! I'm swamped with essays right now, so you'll have to deal with short posts for a few days. But I have plenty of pictures, so we're good on that end [for once haha]. Anyway, this week's TT challenge was to do a 3D mani. But I: A)suck at nail art-like stuff; B)don't like things sticking off of my nails [seriously, I topcoat the crap out of my glitter manis]; and C)had negative amounts of time this week, so therefore, short of sticking random crap all over my nails [pony beads crossed my mind.... no lie], I was forced to cheat. Sorry Twinsies! I know they all have some kick-ass manis to show you today, but mine is considerably less so. Though hopefully a little funny? I don't know, I'm in a weird place with this essay, so everything's funny to me right now.

[So much for a short post]. Here's my 3D glasses mani to help you see all the other wonderful manis from the Twinsies!

& for reference:

I used Revlon Aloof, Revlon Royal, Zoya Sooki, and Wet n Wild Black Creme for this mani. Not the neatest in the world, but hey. I'm hopped up on caffeine and attempting to pound out a paper, so I think I get some leeway haha.

So, grab your 3d glasses and go take a look at my Twinsie's 3D manis!

Monday, November 12, 2012

Vegan Zombie

Happy Monday! Blah. It was such an effort to get up this morning. And I'm not looking forward to writing this paper I have at all. But bright side: the weather is phenomenal right now. I'm obsessed. I currently can't decide what to wear on my nails, but I'm hoping inspiration will strike soon.

Today's polish is the lovely Vegan Zombie from Polish Revolution. The description on this is "light gray jelly [with] fine deep blue glitter, medium hexes in light green, light green holo, satin white, green squares, and larger satin white hexes". The fine glitters didn't really translate as blue to me, they just seemed black, but I liked them nonetheless. I tried this polish on its own, but I like it a lot better over OPI My Pointe Exactly, which is what you see here. So this is 2 coats of the OPI and 2 of Vegan Zombie.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Viscous Vampire

Hey ladies! I hope everyone's weekend is going well:) the boy is over this weekend, & I made lava cakes!

Anyway, I have a quick post for you today: my first Pretty Serious polish! Forgive the iPhone pictures, I could NOT get this to show up correctly on my camera. But Viscous Vampire is beauuuutiful! This is 2 really easy coats, the formula was great on this. I was so so impressed with my first PS polish, I can't wait to get my hands on more!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Darwin

Hi all! Thank you for your concern yesterday and for reading my rant! The landlord finally did something right and sent someone professional to fix the oil leak and our heat is back on. Plus, our house smells normal again! Finally:] Anyway, I have another Lyn B Designs polish for you today. I saw this over on Chelsea's blog a little while ago and when I decided to order a few polishes, I had to include this one. Darwin is from the Gender Benders collection, 14 polishes named after unusual male names. This is just 2 coats of polish and it really looks like galaxy nails. I love how strong the shimmer was in this one. And the holo glitter was really great, it shines through SO well, not covered up or bumpy looking. Basically, it's a great idea and great execution on this polish. I'm really happy with this purchase.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Twinsie Tuesday Canadian's Choice

Hi all! Story time ahead, skip to the pictures if you don't feel like reading this haha. I won't be offended. Anyway, I'm currently writing this post at 6 AM after being awake for about 3 & 1/2 hours now. I woke up at night not feeling well and I couldn't go back to sleep. Then about half an hour later, I smell what I thought was gas, REALLY strongly throughout the whole house and I start freaking out. The carbon monoxide monitor wasn't going off or anything, but I was still really worried, so I open the windows and ask my roommate if she smells it too [she didn't at first, so I thought I was crazy lol], then our other roommate comes in and says "Get dressed and leave right now, I think there's a gas leak". Perfect... So we all hightail it out of there just in case our house decides to blow up and wait for the gas man to come. When he gets here, he discovers that there's a back-up in the furnace and oil's been spilling everywhere because our landlord likes pretending he can fix everything [but really just ended up messing it up]. So. Now, we have no heat and it smells like oil. But the good news is that we're safe! Just pissed off haha.

Okay, on to the polish. This week's TT post is Canadian's Choice, which means that we split up into 2 "teams" and I'm on Team Anne! Anne assigned us a theme for this week: Woodlands. Anne says that Canada is known for beautiful woods and forests, especially in the area she lives in, so I decided to do a little tree mani! Rudimentary nail art ahead:

For this, I used Love & Beauty "Crystal/Light Aqua" as the base [these names couldn't be more boring], Orly Buried Alive for the tree trunk, and Cult Nails Deal with It, OPI Live and Let Die, and Love & Beauty Green [see what I mean?] for the leafy tree part. And this was done with my make shift dotting tool: a straightened out bobby pin!

I can't wait to see the other team's challenge and also how everyone on Team Anne interpreted this!
Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...
Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Marisa at Polish Obsession
Meredith at Polish and Charms
Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails
Rachel at Top Coat It
Tara at Polishy of Truth

P.S. Happy election day!! Go out there and vote! I'll be glued to various news outlets all day today, so I'll reemerge after the decision is made. kdasjkldsjf, crazy.

Monday, November 5, 2012

The Undead Spy Who Loved Me

Happy Halloween, New Jersey-ans! The Governor has pushed back the date on which Halloween can be celebrated here due to that bitch Sandy. Also, I think it's kind of funny that my sister shares her name with the hurricane. Anyway, I'm back on the East Coast, no longer in California :[ And school has started up again this week, so I'm not super pumped for that, but it's okay. Anyway, I have a pretty fun and sparkly mani for you today! I took OPI's The Spy Who Loved Me with me to Cali and loved how it looked, so when I got back, I wore it again with Lynnderella UnDead Red over it! I'm a big fan of this combination, the shimmer in Spy glints a little under the glitter.

Mmmm, all the red! This was 1 coat of UnDead Red over 2 coats of Spy. Spy had a lovely formula. There's a TON of gold shimmer in the bottle, but it translates on the nail as this crazy candy apple red shimmer. Loooove both of these! What do you think?

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Happy Halloween!

So at the time that I'm writing this, Halloween in Jersey might be postponed... Crazy storm, messes everything up! But I do have a Halloween mani to show you today:] It's not nail art, but it's what I had in the vaults, so you get to see the beautiful This is Halloween from LynBDesigns!

The listing says "A gorgeous deep purple base with copper colored duochrome. It's loaded with purple and orange smaller glitters". But seriously, emphasis on the GORGEOUS!! I am in love with this one. The colors go really really well together, & I really love that coppery shimmer in there. Ugh! Just stunning. I got a few of these polishes, & I can't wait to show you the rest!

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