Aphrodite Lacquers!

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Happy Tuesday evening!

Tonight I have for you two polishes I bought from Aphrodite Lacquers. Owner Rebecca sells some beautiful hand-mixed creations! I picked up two for my first purchase from her store, Fortune's Fool and Two Star Crossed Lovers. For all my photos, I used three coats of the polish over a base coat of white, topped with Seche Vite.

Fortune's Fool

Fortune's Fool is packed with different sizes and shapes of blue glitter, with a very fine blue shimmer in a milky base. There are also some holographic hexes in the mix. I'm loving the circle glitter in this polish! Below is a bottle shot.

Two Star Crossed Lovers

Two Star Crossed Lovers is very similar to Fortune's Fool, but purple! Instead of circle glitter, however, there are purple squares! So pretty! Another bottle shot below.

Rebecca has some really unique mixes for sale on her Etsy page. Each Aphrodite Lacquers polish sells for $8. 

See y'all tomorrow!

XOX

Jess

Zoya Ornate Winter 2012 Collection!

Hello hello!! I am beyond excited to share this collection today! I ordered this right after it was released as a special birthday gift to myself :)

There are six amazing colors in this collection. I am blown away by almost all of them! Let's get to the pictures!

Aurora

Aurora is an absolutely gorgeous purple with scattered holographic glitter. WOW! I had to give you a blurry shot to show off the holo. The day I wore this was super sunny, and I was getting distracted while driving because of all the wonderful that was happening on my nails!

 Blaze

Blaze is a deep cranberry red, and also has scattered holographic glitter.  So pretty!

Electra

 Electra is a bar holographic glitter in a clear base. As you can see in my pictures, the glitter gives off a rainbow of color! The glitter seemed a bit "hairy" to me - not sure if that will make sense to anyone else! I did 1 to 4 coats on my index to pinky fingers.

Logan

Logan is the prettiest green I've ever seen! This will be a perfect Christmas color. 

 Storm

 Storm is black with scattered holographic glitter. I first wore this to my cousin's sweet 16, and I completely fell in love with it. You can check out that manicure here.

 Ziv

Ziv is gold, gold, gold! It kinda reminds me of champagne, and New Years Eve! 

For all of my pictures I used 2 coats, except for Aurora, where I used 3. The formula is really good on all of them, which is generally typical of all Zoya polishes.

Out of the 6, my top 2 picks are Aurora and Storm. To be completely honest, I didn't care much for Electra, but it's still nice to have. Random note: while swatching, I had Logan and Ziv sitting next to each other, and let me just say now that they are going to be great together come St. Patrick's Day! A perfect green and gold combo.

I ordered my Ornate collection at zoya.com for $48. Not a lot of stores around me sell Zoya except Ulta, which doesn't have a very big selection, so I knew my best chance to snag these were to order online. Well, aren't I glad I did! With this set I got another polish, and since that brought my order to over $50, I got a whole bunch of freebies with my purchase! A whole bunch of color spoons, a 2oz. bottle of remover+, and a sugar scrub! I'll definitely be ordering from them again, especially whenever they have their next sale - I've been keeping a little wishlist :)

Grandma Colors!

Some polishes just remind you of grandma!

I will say I really liked this manicure. And then at work, one of our female patients, who is about 90 years old, comments that my polish is so similar to hers.... and it was!!!!

The comfort came when a co-worker pointed out my color was much more frosty/metallic than grandma's, and my accent nail definitely made a difference. You can decide!

My base is Sinful Colors Dancing Nails. I used two coats here. It went on super easy and smooth. For my accent nail, I layered Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Strobe Light. Yes, another holographic glitter! This one has a clear base with sparse light pink microglitter, and it is absolutely fabulous. I'm betting it would look great over almost any pink or red.

Can I just say for the record, I really really like Sinful Colors polishes. For the most part they have great formulas and the colors are pretty. And they are cheap as dirt!! Most of mine were bought during 99 cents sales at Walgreens. If you're looking for some standard, basic colors to build up your stash, try Sinful Colors! Regular price is $1.99, and they can be found at Walgreens and Rite Aid. 

Hurricane Sandy Post Day!

Happy Monday to all!! I apologize for my lack of posting lately, but I hope to try and make that up to you today and tomorrow! My job was closed due to this crazy Frankenstorm that is on it's way towards our area, so I will hopefully have a bunch of posts lined up soon for you(as long as my power stays on!)

First up I have a Zoya/Orly combo. It's really pretty and sparkly, which has fit my mood perfectly lately! 

Orly Angel Eyes layered over Zoya Song

I wish I had taken a picture of Song before adding the glitter. It was a perfect one coater, thick but not goopy at all. Very beautiful on it's own, it is from the Zoya Fall 2012 Diva Collection. Angel Eyes is a holographic glitter with very tiny blue glitters mixed in, and yes, my second picture is blurry on purpose to show off the holo! Its a great layering glitter, but if you wanted to, you could get it opaque in a few coats - the tiny blue glitter would definitely allow for that. This polish is from Orly's Winter 2012 Naughty or Nice Collection.

In other news, last week I got in the mail my Zoya Ornate Holiday 2012 collection!! I couldn't decide which of the 6 to get, so of course I caved, and bought the set of 6 for $48! I got one other polish as well, and with my order being over $50, I got a bunch of free goodies! Sugar body scrub, polish remover, and tons of color spoons! This was my first time ordering from Zoya directly, and I was beyond pleased with the experience! And on top of all that, shipping was free and fast! Stay tuned for some of those polishes later on today!

OPI Skyfall Part 2!

Hello Friday! I am particularly excited about today, I took off work, and my birthday is tomorrow! Yay :D

So in my last post I previewed the OPI Skyfall collection and showed you Goldeneye. Today I have another polish from that line, and it is beautiful!!!

Tomorrow Never Dies is a gorgeous purple. There is a wonderful, very subtle shimmer going on, and I swear when I was applying it, there were teeny tiny blue shimmer bits hidden in there. I used two thin coats for these pics - the first one went on a bit streaky, but it evened out great on the second. My pics make the color seem more blue than it really is, but trust me... this is one of the prettiest purples I own.

 I wanted a really eye-catching accent nail, and I dug this great Five Below find out of my Helmer. Funky Fingers Mermaid Lagoon has three different types of glitter in it - tiny blue, slightly bigger magenta, and then these absolutely fantastic medium sized hex glitters that are... you guessed it... holo! 

I'm totally obsessed with anything holo right now, since I am a *new* collector of polish, the only holo stuff I have is glitter, I am anxiously patiently awaiting the arrival of the China Glaze collection due out next year! For now, here are a few blurry pics of Mermaid Lagoon... enjoy its glittery goodness :) :)