Untrieds: Sally Hansen Carribean Coral

Hey everyone! Sorry this post is late. I have another post I'm drafting too with my explanation of why but the post at hand is more important :) Today Amanda, Sarah, and I are back with our untrieds challenge and I actually didn't cheat (much).

This base is Sally Hansen Carribean Coral which is a red-leaning coralcreme, though the bottle looks like it has shimmer. It didn't translate to the nail so I'm calling it a creme :) Application was easy in two coats, no top coat in this picture.

Then I felt bored and had leftover Valentine's Day thoughts floating in my head so I did a simple skittle mani using my white dotter. My heart's wonky so it looks like a weird triangle but whatever. The glitter on my accent nail is Different Dimension Love Her? I Don't Even Lacquer! which had really good glitter payoff but I had to fish for the heart to get it out of the bottle :( It's a fun color anyway and I'll try thinning it for next time.

There you go, happy Thursday!

xoxo,
Amanda

February Untrieds, Part Two

Hi everyone! Sorry I'm not very chatty this week... I don't want to bore you all with the introductory chatter all the time ;) I have another creme untried for you today! This is one of the new Butter London spring polishes, Molly Coddled. I got this when Nordstrom was doing a B2G1 and I got Trout Pout and Kerfluffle with it, which you'll be seeing soon I think.

Anyway sorry for that aside... I used two coats of Molly Coddled and the first picture is higher quality but the second is truer to the real color. No issues with application and it actually would have done fine with just one coat, but I'm an avid two-coater usually.

This isn't the last you've seen of this polish... MWAHAHAHAHAA! (That's an evil/mad scientist laugh, in case you didn't know.)

xoxo,
Amanda

MyWholesaleFashion.com: Santee

Hello again! Somebody's got a case of the Mondays ;) We're inching closer and closer to the holidays (Hanukkah just began a couple days ago, so Happy Hanukkah for those who celebrate!) and I'm realizing just how unprepared I am this year! Oops!

Today is my final installment of reviews for MyWholesaleFashion.com. It was really fun reviewing for them and I can say for sure their customer service was quick and easy.

In today's review you will see one of the bottles was damaged in shipping. Please note that this isn't common with their shipping method, but that their polishes are usually packaged in 6 and when they separated them for reviews, they didn't wrap as they usually would have for protection. I specifically asked about this when I received mine and David from My Wholesale Fashion assured me this was unusual and he'd pass the message along to their shipping department for future reference. All my polishes were still useable so it wasn't really a problem anyway.

Anyway! The final brand is Santee which is one I had seen on eBay but never ordered. The colors I picked were Flame Heart, Love Season (which is the sparkly pink topcoat in the final picture), Beach Blue, Aqua, and Perfect Silver.

 Here's two coats of the cremes, no top coat. I really think blue and gray go well together and this would make such a perfect combo for an accent nail mani!

And here is Love Season (such a cute name btw) over Flame Heart.

Finally, the list of ingredients, again, not B3F but this one didn't seem to smell very much which is either because it was the last one I swatched or maybe it just doesn't smell very chemically ;) 

There you have it! What do you think of My Wholesale Fashion? I'm definitely interested in some of the jewelry and things they have too, especially since they seem to be really trendy (I spy lots of owls and mustaches!) Have you bought anything? Do you plan to? Let me know what you thought of the brands!

xoxo,
Amanda

MyWholesaleFashion.com: Kleancolor

Hey, happy Sunday! I'm dreading work again tomorrow, my weekends seem to fly by! Anyway, I'm back today continuing my review for MyWholesaleFashion.com.

Today I have Kleancolor, which I've purchased before but haven't tried any of their cremes. Here are the colors I picked: Barbie Pink, Pastel Orange, Pastel Teal, and Plum.

These swatches are two coats of each in the same order as above:

Kleancolor is not as smelly as Nabi was, but isn't big 3 free either. Here's the ingredients if you want to check them out. I didn't find the scent overpowering but not pleasant exactly either. I would definitely wear these again, though, if that's any measure.

I really loved this pink in particular, but I loved all the colors. I'm glad I picked up Plum because I am usually so opposed to dark/vampy colors and I loved this color on me!

xoxo,
Amanda

Urban Outfitters Smush

Hi ladies! How's the week going? More than halfway through which is promising! I have short Fridays so I'm really looking forward to the weekend already since it's almost here for me! Any plans?

Today's post is Urban Outfitters Smush, a Tiffany or mint blue. It reminded me of China Glaze For Audrey but I forgot to compare, so let me know if you're interested in a comparison.

This is four coats of Smush. Yes, you read that right, four. You can see I didn't even do cleanup with this one because it was an absolute nightmare so it came off right after these pictures. It was super streaky and the application was tricky, at best. I was pretty disappointed in this one :(

Such a shame, because the color is so pretty! What do you guys think? If you want to try it, it's listed in my Blog Sale! ;)

xoxo,
Amanda

A NOTD!

Hi girls... thanks so much for all of your patience with me, I know it's been a loooooooooooooong hiatus and I really appreciate you all sticking by me. I have a belated 200 followers giveaway planned, I just need the motivation to put together the Rafflecopter and all that jazz. I'm in the process of figuring out exactly where blogging fits in my new life. Basically my days look like this: work, spend time with long lost friend, eat dinner, shower, pass out. My weekends are basically spent sleeping out with whichever friend wants me... so it's been busy. This post is courtesy of my 9am client who canceled on me... ;)

Anywho, today I have for you Deborah Lippmann I Know What Boys Like, which is a blurple creme and is my first DL that isn't a glitterbomb (since my only other ones were the Get This Party Started set). I applied two coats and topcoat and got the following, although it dried satiny on its own. If I had to peg its color down, I'd say it's definitely more blue leaning, although a quick google search will show you it looks purple sometimes too. The second picture (the one with the awkward shadow, yeah, that one) shows the color most accurately.

Hope you ladies liked this post! Hopefully I'll be back with many more soon. :)

xoxo,
Amanda

Amanda Does Fauxnad

Hi all! I know a whilleeeee ago I asked you all what you'd like to see more of, and the resounding answer was nail art and stamping. I've slacked on that, but this mani reminded me why STAMPING IS AWESOME AND YELLING ON THE INTERNET IS NOT. Sorry for your little virtual eardrums.

My base color was two coats of Orly Frisky which I snatched up on clearance at Ulta recently. My nails are little nubbins here which always means my cleanup process suffers... sorry. I just hate to look at them so much I avoid thorough cleanup, I guess ;) Anyway, so, yeah... Orly Frisky. A lovely blue creme which is sooooo much more mint green than it shows up here.

Then I thought, "Oh! My readers! They want stamping!" and so I found the single Bundle Monster plate sitting within reach - BM210. (hey, how did he get out of his dungeon?!) I used my favorite design from the plate and Icing Chrome Teal and voila! My favorite mani of the longest time was born. (it's a newborn here, that's why the cleanup is so messy. see how I made it work?)

xoxo,
Amanda

Cult Nails Awakening + China Glaze Snow Globe

Hey guys, I'm back again! Are you confused by my regular posting? I know, I know. I was a neglectful mom... er, blogger. But I'm trying to be good again :) Today I have two polishes: one I like and one I adore! See if you can figure out which is which (it's not hard if you pay attention at all :P)

Cult Nails Awakening is a gorgeous green leaning blue, or blue leaning green creme... I can never tell. I don't like labels! It applied easily in two coats, but it could have used a third if I was applying it solo. However, I never leave well enough alone...

So I added China Glaze Snow Globe, a perfect addition for the first of December! Which is perhaps one of my favorite glitters ever. It works with everything.  Yes, all these italics are necessary.

Snow Globe contains medium sized iridescent glitter which shows as different colors depending on the base color. I put two coats of Snow Globe over Awakening, and magic was made...

I love Snow Globe over dark colors, but I recently saw it over pastels and white (!!!) and I kind of love it that way too. Either way, I need another bottle (even though I'm sort of afraid since Steph told me her bottle dried up when she had it originally :( and I'd be so sadddd).

xoxo,
Amanda

Blue, Blue, and More Blue... Lex Cosmetics Atlantic

Hi guys! I have a confession. I think I'm addicted to blue polishes. I uploaded my pictures from last week and like four of them are blue manis... so... it's officially blue week! Or at least blue 5 days, or until I run out of blue manis ;)

Anywho, today I have another Lex Cosmetics polish: Atlantic. This is a medium blue-green creme polish that was a snap to apply. Seriously, Lex makes some great formulas with these polishes. Below is two coats and topcoat:


In low light



In sunlight (!! yes, contrary to popular recent belief, we do get sunshine in New England)

So I realize this is between blue and green but give me a break, let's call it blue-ish and let it count for blue week/few days ;) What do you think of Atlantic?

xoxo,
Amanda

Models Own Purple Poppy

Hi hi hiiiii, today's post I don't have much to say about, so let's jump right in. Warning: ultra-nubs from here on out because of my many breaks. Starting from scratch could be good... right?

Models Own is a British brand, but I bought this when they had their 50% off for 50,000 facebook fans. I'm so impressed with their cremes! Purple Poppy is a red-leaning purple, which means every picture below will look slightly pinker/redder than it actually is. Le sigh. Below is one coat without topcoat, yet it's lovely and shiny and good. It could have done with a second coat, but I was just so excited to have a polish that could look nice in one quick coat that I left it at that.

Flash, which makes me see how badly this polish goes with my skin tone... eeeesh

I actually got a few compliments on this, so I take that as a good sign! What do you guys think of this polish or my unfortunate nubs? I think this length is actually growing on me (no pun intended) but I'd like them a bit longer.

xoxo,
Amanda