Liquid Lacquer Review Post!

*Some of the polishes in this post were provided to me for my honest review, others were purchased with my own money*

Hey all! I have some seriously great polishes to show you today. They're from the wonderful Liquid Lacquer,  and I am so excited to show them to you all!

A Calm Does Not Suit Me

Uhm, hi, how great is this one? It reminds me of snow, which is great when I'm dying of the humidity in Jersey. ACDNSM is a gorgeous polish, and it was opaque in 2 coats on me! I love the way the glitters look like they're floating in the whtie crelly base. And such a good choice on the glitter colors, it's not a crazy rainbow jumble, and it goes so well all together.

Formula: great! Lots of glitter on the nail, covered VNL easily.

Collide into You

CiY took me 3 thin coats, but so worth it! This is on its own, and I am obsessed with the magenta circles with this shade of turquoise! I also really love how this shade looks on me, so it was a definite winner.

Formula: good! Glitter was easy to get onto nail, not too thick base.

Damn It's Cold over Essie Boxer Shorts

This glitter is in a clear base, so I put it over Boxer Shorts. This polish, to me, reminds me of  ACDNSM, just not in a crelly base. Like it's the same color family, but you can put it over anything:] I saw a swatch of it over dark blue, over at A Little Polish... loooove!

Formula: good amount of glitter with one coat!

Hydra over Sally Hansen Ion

Yes yes yes. This is all sorts of perfect! And probably my favorite glitter topper I have in my collection. I'm obsessed with the color combinations on this one! The different shaped mint and grey glitters are so subtly beautiful together! I wore this mani twice in two weeks, I loved how it looked on the nail. Also the stars? Perfect.

Formula: good! easy to get  smaller glitters on nail, a tiny bit of fishing to get stars.

Kissing on the Rooftop over OPI Funny Bunny

Okay, all the yellowy or orangey parts you see there? Ignore them and imagine them as iridescent glitter. Makes the whole mani a zillion times better, trust me. 

Formula: also great, not hard to get stars, iridescent glitters are abundant in one coat.

Quarter Life Crisis over China Glaze Keep Calm, Paint On

Love the circles so much in this, and the color combination is really fun for spring and summer!

Formula: eh, not as good as hoped, just wish there was more glitter in the base, had to do some digging and placing here.

Rain Song

Stunninggggggggggg. You need this. Right now. I LOVE unexpected holo colors and this is in my top 5 holos. The effect is definitely more linear IRL, trust me. And the shade is gorrrrrrrrrrrrrgeous. Get it. Now.

Formula: great! Two coats, and good to go.

In conclusion- just trust me and get Rain Song and Hydra, because I love them too much. It's not even funny. Totally great polishes, great customer service, and fast shipping. Definitely go check out Liquid Lacquer! I can't wait to place another order. I'm definitely in need of more holos from her!

Playing TT Catchup

Hey all! News in Sarahworld- I just graduated from college, I have to pack up everything and move back home, and I've been on too many interviews in the past few weeks so I can be a real person. BUT I've kept my  nails polished and have been taking pictures, so I'll be posting a lot of stuff in the next few days! And some reviews that I'm really really excited about! But this post is about some Twinsie Tuesday catchup, so here's the manis I'd missed:

Fishtail Mani:

Polishes used: Orly Pretty-Ugly, Cult Nails Morning Glory, Essie Mesmerize, CG Keep Calm Paint On

Oldest Untrieds:

Cult Nails Awakening

Pahlish Sunlight Shooting through Pine Trees over Awakening

TT Revisited:

Polishes used: Essie Naughty Nautical, Essie Mesmerize, OPI Eurso Euro

And my wonderful twinsies:
Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Katherine at Haul of Fame
Kelly at Tuxarina
Lakeisha at Refined and Polished
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
Sarah at See Sarah Swatch
Traci at DrinkCitra

Some LynBDesigns Polishes!

*Polishes in post were provided for my honest review*

Hey all! I have some really fun polishes from LynBDesigns from her Twitterpatted collection. Just a note on formula: all of these polishes had a smooth formula with no difficulty of getting nice sparkle on the nail. All were sheer, and so I have some layering options for you below:] 4 coats on index finger for all of these pictures, then one coat over differing base colors for my middle to pinky nails.

Dharma: Alone, over OPI You Only Live Twice, Orly Wild Wisteria, and CG Snap My Dragon. 

This was a super fun color! I've been really into pinks lately and this has some gorgeous blue shimmer running through it. I loved it over the OPI, it took the polish to the next level.

Verna: Alone, over Revlon Royal, SH Breezy Blue, Zoya Natty

Okay, I think Verna over Royal is amazing, but I also loved it over the light blue! Very pretty!! Like 

Harriet: alone, over BL The Old Bill, OPI My Vampire is Buff, Cult Nails Bitten.

Favorite look: alone! It's such a complex shimmer this has going on, and I really liked it with my skin tone. A huge huge fan of this one!

Millie: alone, over Essie Where's my Chauffeur?, Revlon  Velvet Rope, CG Manhunt

Stella: alone, over Essie Where's my Chauffeur?, Revlon  Velvet Rope, CG Manhunt

Okay, these two clearly can't be worn alone, but I LOVE THEM. These are my favorites of the collection! They're just both really delicate and sparkly without being overbearing and just..ahh. Yes. They're both so pretty over WMC? !!

PS Please check out my blog sale here ! Some ass broke off my passenger mirror on my car and I'm selling my excess polishes to pay for it. Thank you!!!

TT: Copycat Manis

Hey ladies! For this week's TT post, I was assigned ChiChi to copy. ChiChi does a lot of beautiful nail art, so I wanted to try my hand at it today. And it wasn't half bad! But then again, I had a great start point with this post. Anyway, ChiChi actually copied this mani from this post. I'm replicating a replica! Haha :] I used Cult Nails Deal with It, Revlon Enthrall, and OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls for this mani.

Amanda at Amandalandish
Anna at Going to the Showing
Anne at Grape Fizz Nails
Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Beaulieu Review
Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi
Cordia at Seriously Swatched
Elizabeth at Did My Nails
Jamie at Polish, Please!
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

Twinsie Tuesday- the Vintage Edition

Helloooo! Today's TR post is a vintage inspired mani & all I could think of was old Hollywood, glam red nails. So I used OPI Danke-Shiny Red to do a half moon manicure! This was by far the most common mani I saw when searching for a vintage nails online. And it didn't involve too much technical difficulty! Thank God;) Also, forgive the 3 finger pictures. I broke my index nail really badly (like bleeding badly) so it's definitely not ready for any sort of close up:(


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
Jamie atPolish, Please
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

Deep Blue Lonesome Ocean

Hi all! I have to start with something completely non-nail related. Guys, I made bacon jam last night. Bacon. Jam. Let that sink in. I followed this recipe: http://www.notquitenigella.com/2009/10/08/bacon-jam-your-wildest-dreams-come-true/ and it was so good! I'm a little bacon crazy, so I had to try this recipe ASAP. haha, okay, on to the nails.

Today, I have for you my personal favorite way to wear Pahlish Lonesome Ocean. While I like the polish by itself, I think that 3 coats of it is just way too much going on so I put it over OPI Roadhouse Blues and tada! Better:)

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

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.

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.

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?

Twinsie Tuesday: Glitterbombs Away!

GLITTER. Yes!! I'm so happy about this week's challenge, it's perfect for my not-so-inner glitter freak. I wanted the brightest, most sparkling mani ever, so I decided on OPI Sparkle-icious topped with Lynnderella One Nutty Fruitcake.

I have every color ever somehow on my nails. In glitter form. YES.

I can't wait to see the manis of 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

Shimmahhh: Part 2

Here's the rest of my shimmers for you! :] Same deal, pictures first, talk later.

Rochelle

2 coats alone

LtoR: Revlon Velvet Rope, Revlon Runway Pearl, OPI Steady as She Rose, Revlon Royal

Tracy

2 coats

LtoR: SH Barely Bluebell, Revlon Royal, Revlon Runway Pearl, Joe Fresh Moss

Like the last Shimmer post, these polishes all had an amazing formula. There was so much glitter packed in there! I was amazed. And again, really smooth application, no issues there. I wasn't expecting Rochelle to have a tinted base. This wasn't at all a bad thing, just a surprise.

Shimmer polishes can be found here for $12 a pop :] These polishes were provided to me in exchange for an open and honest review. All thoughts are my own and unbiased.