Guest Post from Meredith!

 Hello Everyone! This is Meredith from Polish and Charms! I have a fun, although short, little guest post for you today! This is OPI Fly with an accent nail of OPI Gargantuan Green Grape. For the OPI Fly I used 2 coats and for Gargantuan Green Grape I used between 3 and 4, I had a few spots where you could still see visible nail line.  I want to thank Sarah for letting guest post today!! 

Thank you so much Meredith! Both those polishes are GORGEOUS and I love them paired like this! <3 i="i" nbsp="nbsp">

Guest Post from Jenn!

Hello, loves!

I am so excited to be featured on SeeSarahSwatch!  I really admire Sarah for her talent as a blogger and lacquer mixologist!  Thank you, Sarah, for allowing me to grace your blog!

I have for you...

(natural daylight)

This gorgeous polish is OPI Red Lights Ahead...Where?  This creme lacquer is super opaque and only need two thin coats!  I cannot get over how bright and corally this shade is!  I am loving it for the this wonky, hot weather we are currently experiencing is southern California!

To top off this beauty, I needed to add a bit of sparkle, so I used Miliani Gold Jewel FX!  I really love this combo!!

Thanks you a bunch, Sarah, for letting me come visit, and I hope your nails grow back super quickly!  Breaking nails is no fun!

Thank you so much Jenn for this post!!! <3 i="i" nbsp="nbsp">

Another Guest Post :D

This post comes from Ash from Art Evolve, one of the most talented nail artists I've ever seen!!

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 Hello dear readers! This is Ashesela from over at Art Evolve. When Sarah asked if any of us Twinsie Tuesday gals would like to do a guest post, I said yes! :D Sarah is a really wonderful person who runs a fabulous blog, and it really is my pleasure to be able to help her while she is away. :D For this manicure I used a base of China Glaze Holly-Day. I took my bottle of China Glaze Twinkle Lights and applied several coats onto a plastic sandwich bag. When it was dry, I cut out shapes and stuck them to my nails, then added a generous amount of top coat to keep the shapes in place and seal them on top of the green.

 I love doing this!! It is seriously fun and easy using this technique, and if you haven't tried it before, I heartily suggest it!! :D Thank you so much for letting me do a guest post Sarah, and we look forward to your return!! :D -Ashesela

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Thank you, Ash!! You always amaze me and this is no exception:]

First Guest Post!

Hello all! Today's guest post comes from the wonderful Jenna from I'm Still Thinking :]

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Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well!

First, I want to say Thank You to Sarah for having me a as a guest poster. For those who don’t know me, I’m Jenna from I’m Still Thinking… I was so happy when Sarah asked for volunteers to guest post. I love helping out!

So when Sarah first asked for volunteers I really wracked my brain trying to think of the perfect mani. I never did come up with an idea. I had about a million camp related ideas, but never got around to trying them. :O/

I had been wanting to try this mani for a while and after I did it I knew I wanted to use it for this post. Sorry, I notice a couple tips look a bit ragged…I think there may have been a stray flakie or two O.o

I am not your standard french tip kinda girl. I am normally anti-french tip, lol. But from the moment I first laid eyes on Barielle Buddha-ful I knew it was meant for a french tip mani on me. It is a very sheer nude polish with green/blue flakies.

The gold was a last minute touch to cover up my shakey tip lines, but I really think it goes great with this mani.

I know this is a completely anti-camping mani, but it turned out so good I couldn’t resist using it for this post. I hope ya’ll enjoyed it. Hurry back Sarah…we miss you a lot <3

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Thank you so much for your post, Jenna!! <3 I am LOVING that Barielle flakie!

Share the Love: Day 4, Guest post from Amanda of Amandalandish

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!




First of all, thank you to the lovely Sarah for hosting me for the holidays :)

And thanks to all you lovely followers for reading.






Day 4 of my 5 Days of Greys brings me to Fright Night Claw Polish in Phantom.




Given the cutesy coffin shaped bottle, I anticipated these polishes would be mostly kitsch and not well made.  After reading numerous posts that raved about these, I couldn't help myself when I saw them at CVS a day or two before Halloween.  I bought the lot for my last giveaway, but I had to keep this beauty for myself :)




Phantom is really one of the most beautiful shades of grey polish I have ever laid eyes on.  A medium to dark grey, it leans a bit more blue than green (for reference, I'd say China Glaze Recycle leans green).  The application was lovely in two coats, although I have to admit getting used to the thicker, short handle cum coffin head was a little tricky.  I had to be a bit more dexterous with the tips of my fingers to apply this nicely.

I know I love a polish when I can't stop looking at my hands and Phantom kept me staring.  What I like most about this grey is that there is blue and purple micro shimmer (glass fleck?) dispersed throughout.  You can't really see it in normal light, but up close it's really lovely (see my last picture).  That's probably what makes this grey pull blue and what I'm particularly drawn to. 




Thank you, Sarah, for giving me a little blog space to swoon over this amazing grey :)




Hoping everyone has a happy and a healthy Thanksgiving!




Follow me back to Amandalandish for the last day of my greys!

Share the Love: Day 3, Guest post from Rachel of Top Coat It

Hello to all you See Sarah Swatch lovers! I'm Rachel from Top Coat It and I'm thrilled to be here on the third day of our Share the Love voyage.

If you read any crafting or home décor blogs you've seen the chevron craziness sweeping the nation. Chevron nails have been on my mani to-do list for a while. I eagerly took this opportunity to try it. Yellow and grey is one of the trendiest color schemes right now so I jumped on that bandwagon too. What do you think?

I think they're awesome! I love them. I think I would love them even more mattified, but I have yet to find a matte top coat locally and haven't decided on one I want to order online. Do you have a favorite matte top coat?

I started with Sinful Colors Unicorn as my base color, which I haven't been very impressed with. You need at least 3 coats to get decent coverage and no matter what I do it bubbles. I had to take it off and start again. In an effort to keep the bubbles at bay, I painted my nails white with Sinful Colors Snow Me White first. That helped a lot. Noted; next time I want to use Unicorn, put white under it so one good coat is enough. The grey is Sally Hansen Wet Cement.

I loved getting creative with tape manis. I'll be posting a quick tutorial on how I did these nails on my blog sometime next week so watch for that at Top Coat It. Check out my guest post tomorrow at Amandalandish. Thank you so much for having me over today Sarah!

Share the Love: Day 2, Guest post from Heather of The Polished Panda

Hi ladies! Only a few more days before Thanksgiving! Are you excited!? I know I am!! I am so excited to be guest posting on Sarah's lovely blog today! This week, Sarah, myself and a few other wonderful bloggers have put together Share The Love guest posting. We each had themes manis and my theme is 5 Days of Glitter! So today I have for you Orly - Androgynie from the Holiday Soiree collection. This polish is absolutely stunning! It's like having a jelly sandwich with only one polish! This is two coats.

Isn't it lovely!? This is a perfect polish for galaxy nails! The formula is fabulous. It's thick, but not too thick where you can't see the gorgeous glitter throughout. I was a little iffy about buying this polish and thought about returning it, but I ended up falling in love! I hope you enjoyed this post & thank you, Sarah, for having me! It's been a pleasure :)

Share the Love: Day 1, Guest post from Chelsea of Nailed: A Nail Polish Blog

Hello everyone! I'm super excited (and a teeny bit nervous) to do my very first guest post! Thank you very much to Sarah for hosting me for the day and thanks also to Amanda over at Amandalandish for organizing this entire experience. :)

I chose blue as the theme for my guest posts and I thought I'd start things out with a little glitter! I've worn OPI Last Friday Night on its own before but I have to admit, I was never really impressed with how it look alone. It's quite sheer and so this is a polish that's screaming out to be layered over something fantastic but I never could decide just what that might be. Luckily, I think I finally found a partner for it that I really love: one of my favorite blues, China Glaze Frostbite! Frostbite is an in-your-face bright blue with a pearly finish from the Ski Collection and Last Friday Night is sheer blue polish with iridescent blue glitter from the Katy Perry Collection. I think they look ga-ga-gorgeous together!

This mani is BRIGHT! I wore it during a presentation for my journalism class, which was probably not a good idea since I am a big hand-talker and I'm sure electric blue nails were distracting. Oh well, maybe if the presentation wasn't so hot then a distraction worked to my advantage then haha.

I wish Last Friday Night was more opaque on its own but it was still really satisfying to find a polish I like wearing under it. I used two coats of Last Friday Night over two coats of Frostbite here, topped off with a layer of Seche Vite topcoat. This pairing kind of reminds me of little bubbles in an aquarium. It's definitely loud but the little bits of glitter give it a touch of femininity too. I think Last Friday Night might also look cool under just plain ol' black.

Also, I may or may not have both Katy Perry's albums... I possibly like to listen to them in the car when I'm by myself and no one can judge me for singing along really horribly... Maybe. ;)

Share the Love Blogging:]

Hi, everyone! Just wanted to give you a heads up on what's happening on this blog this week. I'm taking part in a week of guest posting on 4 other amazing blogs, while the 4 lovely ladies of those blogs post on mine! I'm so so excited about this:] Amanda from Amandalandish thought of this [more details here]. I'm so excited to show you what everyone has in store! Here's everyone participating in it:

Amanda from Amandalandish
Chelsea from Nailed: A Nail Blog
Heather from The Polished Panda
& Rachel from TopCoatIt


Check out their blogs throughout the week to see what everyone's up to!:]

Guest Post:]

Hello!! I have a guest post today over at http://polishedcriminails.blogspot.com/ , if you want to go look at it:] Rachel-Karina from Polished Criminals was nice enough to choose me as a guest blogger, and I'm so so excited:]

Hope everyone has a great Friday!