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Showing posts with label yellow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yellow. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

TT: Textured Nails

I'm the absolute worst, I've been apartment hunting and forget to publish this post, but here's Sally Hansen Sweetie for our textured nails of the day! I had 2 coats on here, and the polish went on really well, no problems with thickness or anything (though I've seen reviews that say otherwise, so I'm thinking maybe batch inconsistencies?).



I like this shade of yellow a lot, and I'm still on board the whole textured train, so I was a pretty big fan of this polish:] I hear there's some new Sugar Coat  polishes coming out, and I definitely have my eye on a few of them!


Amanda at Amandalandish
Amber at Nails Like Lace
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
Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish
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
Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
Sarah at See Sarah Swatch
Traci at DrinkCitra

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

My favorite color!

Happy Tuesday morning everyone! It's gorgeous outside over in Jersey and I'm so sad I'm stuck working till 5. Blah! I just want to lay outside all day haha. Anyway, I wasn't sure if today's TT post was supposed to be our favorite color to wear on our nails or just favorite color in general. So I went with favorite in general, yellow!, though none of my yellow polishes make any top 20 lists or anything. I find yellows just too hard to work with, so I'd rather wear yellow clothes than yellow nail polish! My prom dress was actually yellow, and so is my room. And for the longest time, I wanted a yellow car too:) So without further ado, I give to you the first yellow polish I found in my stash, Revlon Zealous (shown with 3 coats here). This isn't my favorite shade of yellow, but it'll do!


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





Tuesday, September 25, 2012

TT: Cars

Happy Twinsie Tuesday! Our posts today are supposed to be nails that are the same color as your car, which posed a problem for me, considering I don't have a car. So instead, I did nails inspired by the most famous car I can think of:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I AM just that cool. I had some really disastrous nail art fails before I decided to go with a ruffian. I used Zoya Sooki and Revlon Zealous for this look.


 One day, I will master the lightning bolt on my nails. Till then, ruffian 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, September 24, 2012

Not Too Polished Review

Hello all! First things first, Irina from Gilded Feathers guessed it right, the polish was Winterfell from Not Too Polished! So Irina, if you see this, email me at sarahsnailblog@gmail.com please:]

Onto the review! There's a lot of pictures in this post, but seriously, you need to see them. Before I start, I need to say that all of these has an amazing formula. All were 2 coats with the exception of Tonks, which was a 3 coater] and Wolfsbane [a glitter topcoat]. My jaw dropped multiple times when swatching these. I kept being impressed over and over again with every nail I painted. Really great formula and the colors were also just great. There were some in here that I took a chance on liking, and I am SO glad I did. I love all of these, they literally are all a hit. And




So, while there's a lot of versions of red-glitter-in-black-base polishes, I'm a big fan of this for a lot of reasons. First, you get a LOT of glitter. Clearly a big fan of that! And second, this is completely opaque in 2 coats. So it wins in my book :]



!!This polish is named after the House Stark in the Song of Ice and Fire series/Game of Thrones show. And really, look how perfectly this captures the winter-y feel! I can't stop staring at the layers of glitter in this, those white glitters looks just like snow falling. And the shimmer looks just like frost. It's just so.. wow.



Red and gold makes one of my favorite combinations. And this is really well done! The red is a little more raspberry than straight red and the glitter is so reflective and really holo-y in person. Also, Harry Potter. I had to get it. I want a Ron and a Harry inspired polish!!



This is the only non-glitter I got this time. It's a great blue [with some grey thrown in] jelly-creme. And SO shiny. The formula was so even and went on really smoothly. I love the colors in this collection, I had such a hard time choosing one. I'll definitely need to pick up Dessicate, Flesh, Bone, and Blood soon.



Black and gold also holds a place in my heart. And look at this! It's just so shiny IRL, I died. The glitter is really similar to the glitter in Granger, really holo and reflective. Another win!



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New favorite grey. I love love love the glitter in this base color, it is amazing. And perfect in 2 coats, which is really great for a light polish like this. This is probably my favorite out of the bunch, which was such a hard decision to make. Also, I really love Alice in Wonderland. I wrote my senior paper about it in high school!



Okay, so bubblegum pink is not usually my thing. BUT... I love this one too. The shade of pink just makes me happy and the contrasting color of the glitter really just works so well. And I'm a fan of the shimmer in here, it's really pretty.



The shimmer in this is so complex and gorgeous. Just look at how many colors there are in there! This was the only one of these that needed more than 2 coats, I have 3 coats on here. I want to try this over a light yellow creme and see if I can preserve the polish that way.



This is over a really pale pink and I love the combination of colors here. Eee, look at how great those colors look together. The white and yellow and brown really work and feel so fall-y. I feel like any more gushing would just be redundant, so I'll stop here :]


Can you tell how much I love these? I am so happy with these choices and the polishes are really stunning. I was so excited putting these on and I truly loved wearing them. If you haven't gone over to Not Too Polished's Etsy, you NEED to. I really think this is one of my favorite Etsy shops.

*Some of these polishes shown were provided to me for my fair, honest, and unbiased review*

Sunday, September 23, 2012

2 Nostalgics and a Contest!

Hello all! How was everyone's weekend?? The boy was here for a visit, it was really nice:] And my housemate's 21st birthday, so that was interesting.. Haha. But overall, a great weekend, and we're heading out soon to watch the Pats-Ravens game soon! I don't really have a team I really root for, but I figure it'll be fun to watch. Also, it's been stunning out all day and I am LOVING this fall weather. I'm in a rambling mood today, so I'll cut to the polishes now lol

I have 2 Nostalgic polishes for you today. The first is Bitchcraft. This mani is 2 coats Zoya Shawn and 2 coats Bitchcraft.



So while the end result of this wasn't bad, I HATED putting this polish on. I flipped the bottle, shook it, fished around, swirled the brush, shook some more and application was still a pain. It took way too much work to get a sparse amount of glitter on the nail. I like the color combination, but I won't be using this polish again, way too much of a hassle :/


Luckily, The Brain made up for it. Shown here at 3 coats.


Doesn't this remind you of Spongebob?! I like this one a lot, the blue glitters look so cute in the yellow base. And while it may not be seasonally appropriate, it's so happy looking! And also, the Spongebob thing. Seriously, how can that not make you smile? Thankfully, the formula was a lot better on this one, no fishing for glitters. And while it's a little sheer, it's definitely buildable.




And finally, I have a flash contest for you! I have a big review post going up tomorrow that I'm so excited about, these polishes really spoke to me. So, the first person to guess the name and brand of this polish gets their polish of choice from this brand [purchased by me] and 2 polishes from my store :] So take your guesses in the comment section! The contest will end tomorrow [9/24] at noon EST :]

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Shimmahhhh: Part 1

I got some great Shimmer polishes to show you today. I'm gonna spam you with pictures, then talk after.

2 coats




LtoR: Revlon Royal, Revlon PowderPuff, Essie Bikini So Teeny, American Apparel Butter



3 coats





LtoR: Revlon Velvet Rope, OPI Steady as She Rose, China Glaze Sunset Sail, Misa Grey Matters


Both of these had great formulas and were easy to work with and honestly looked so stunning to me. I particularly liked Mary, those slightly bigger black glitters had my heart! I will say though, that while I didn't have any CS problems or anything, I've heard of some CS inconsistencies. So take that for what you will:]

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