St. Patrick's Nails & Sunday Sales!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my fellow Irish folk! 

I'm finally recovered from having the flu, so back to regular posting! I have a lot of great things coming up that I'm really excited about, but unfortunately I've had to abandon the 31 day challenge from being sick for so long. I'll try to pick that up again sometime in the future!

Today I'm going to show you my green mani I wore this weekend, and a few sales at the end of the post!

Base color: Zoya Neely (2 coats)

Accent nail: China Glaze Grafitti Glitter 

Stamping polish: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Jumpin' Jade

Stamping plate: Konad m22

Rhinestones from Cheeky

And onto the few sales for this week! They run from today through Saturday, March 23.

Walgreens

Select Wet N Wild cosmetics, 99 cents

Cover Girl cosmetics Buy One, Get One 50% off

CVS

L'oreal cosmetics: spend $12, get $4 ExtraBucks

Sally Hansen products: spend $10, get $5 ExtraBucks

Rite Aid

Revlon cosmetics Buy One, Get One 50% off

Ulta

OPI Disney's Oz The Great and Powerful collection: $9 each

Ulta nail polish, 2 for $4

Hope everyone has a good rest of the weekend! Enjoy some pics from my family's St. Patty's party yesterday! :)

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Sunday Sales & Challenge Day 6!

Hey hey hey!

First up I have Sales for you, then another nail art challenge!

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Sally Beauty (sale prices valid the entire month of March)
Finger Paints: Buy 2 colors, get a Free base coat
Barielle Skin care and nail treatments, $7.99 each
Beauty Secrets 8oz. Acetone, $1.79/ Non-acetone, $1.99
Beauty Secrets nail treatments, $2.79 each
China Glaze - all colors 2 for $11 (excludes Glitz N Bitz collection)
China Glaze Avante Garden Spring 2013 collection - 2 for $11
China Glaze Glitz N Pieces collection, $6.99 each
China Glaze Ombre 4 packs (comes in purple, teal, or pink) $12.99 each
Finger Paints GEL POLISH now in stores... 24 shades for $10.99 each
             Starter kit $42.95, does NOT include the light ($54.59)


The sales below run from today through Saturday, March 9:

Walgreens
Cover Girl cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% off
Sinful Colors polishes are 4 for $5

CVS
Buy $10 of L'oreal Riche Lip or Nail color, earn $3 ExtraBucks rewards
Buy $10 of Sally Hansen, earn $5 ExtraBucks rewards
All NYC cosmetics are Buy One, Get One 50% off
Essie polish $8 each

RiteAid
Wet N Wild: any polish originally 99 cents is now only 69 cents!
In-Ad coupon for $3 off Revlon nail color (must have coupon!)

Ulta sales are the same as last week, you can view their full ad here.

Now on to POLISH! Today I am sharing my look for Day 6 of the challenge: Your Favorite Color Family! If you had asked me a year ago which color I'd choose for this, I probably would have told you pink. But I am now a true-blue girl!

Base color: Zoya Tallulah

Stamp color: Zoya Ibiza

Stamp plate: Bundle Monster BM-314

Rhinestones from a Cheeky nail art set I ordered on Amazon

Zoya Tallulah is one of my most favorite blues ever! It just seems to glow, I love it!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

XOX

Jess

New 31 Day Nail Art Challenge: Days 4 & 5!

Hey there!

 Today I have another day of the challenge, and I've decided to combine days 4 and 5, which are pink and purple! Details on the polishes I used at the end of the post!

Base color: OPI You're Such a Budapest

Stamp color: China Glaze Designer Satin

Stamp: Cheeky CH26

Dots: China Glaze Dance Baby and Zoya Aurora

Top coats: Seche Vite & INM Northern Lights 

I'm a little bit behind from where I was expecting to be with the challenge right now, so you may get a few extra posts this weekend! Stay tuned!

XOX

Jess

Whimsical Ideas by Pam!

Good morning lovelies :) Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I spent most of it cleaning and catching up on blog stuff, nothing terribly exciting! 

Today I am featuring another new-to-me indie brand, Whimsical Ideas by Pam! She makes some absolutely stunning and unique glitter mixes! For my first order I picked Once Upon A Time and Kismet's Pajamas. These "whimsies" have the prettiest bottles, I love the font used for the polish names, and the little bows on the caps are just adorable!

All pictures are shown with one coat of glitter over base coat, and with one coat of NYC Grand Central Station quick-dry top coat!

Kismet's Pajamas

Kismet's Pajamas over China Glaze Stone Cold... 

love the silver shimmer from Stone Cold peeking out!

Kismet's Pajamas over China Glaze Liquid Leather

bottle shot: silver and magenta hexes with tiny magenta glitter in a black base!

and a macro shot!

Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time over Wet N Wild Break the Ice

Once Upon A Time over Zoya Neely

Once Upon A Time over Zoya Julie

bottle shot: small lavender hexes, medium seafoam green hexes, 

and tiny purple glitter in a clear base!

and a macro shot! 

I adore both of the colors I chose! Kismet's Pajamas is edgy and spunky, definitely something I would wear out to a bar or club! Once Upon A Time is the complete opposite, soft and pastel and very Easter-like! 

For the record, these glitters are super easy to remove! I didn't need to use foil at all!

You can check out these and all Pam's other beauties over at her Facebook page. Polishes are $10 per bottle, you can e-mail her which ones you'd like to order. Let me just say, her customer service is FANTASTIC! I was browsing online around 1:30am when I decided to place my order, my e-mail was responded to immediately, and my invoice was sent back to me - all within about 15 minutes! It makes me look forward to placing my next order! :)

What do you think about Whimsical Ideas by Pam? Do you have any yourself?

XOX

Jess

My First Franken!

Good morning beautiful people! I hope those of you on the East Coast have made it through the night unscathed, Nemo has dumped at least a foot of snow in our area! I don't mind being snowed in though, it gives me time to catch up on cleaning, laundry, and most importantly, swatching!

Today I am really excited to show you all my first franken! For those of you that may not be familiar with the term, a "franken" is a polish made by mixing together a bunch of other polishes. For this franken (which I have yet to come up with a name for!) I mixed three different polishes. My base was Wet N Wild Spoiled Nail Junkie, then I added lots of China Glaze Luxe and Lush. To finish it off with some extra shimmer, I used a little Orly Twilight. After some thinner, this baby was good to go! 

I think this is really beautiful, it has a jelly-like turquoise base, packed with glitter and flakies and shimmer - what more could you ask for!? For my first try at frankening, I think I dun good :P All these photos are layered over Zoya Ibiza.

 

Here is a super close-up shot....

and a bottle shot! :)

I am really excited about this, I hope you guys like it too! Frankening is a whole lot of fun, and there are just endless possibilities!!! 

If you have any ideas as to what I should name this bad boy, let me know! It reminds me of oceans and mermaids!

Zoya Spring 2013 Lovely Collection

Good morning!

Today I get to share with you my 3 picks from Zoya's new spring collection. It makes me excited just to say spring, because it had just been way too cold lately! These colors definitely put you in a good mood and get you ready for the warm days ahead!

I decided to buy two cremes and one shimmer from the collection, and I am SO happy with my choices! These are definitely what I'd call Easter colors, and I love them. I did not use a top coat in any of the photos below.

 Blu

Blu is a soft baby blue creme. I can't get over how pretty and delicate it is, it reminds me of Cinderella! The formula was only the tiniest bit runny, but evened out nicely after two coats. 

 Neely

Neely is the perfect springtime green, which unfortunately my camera had trouble picking up. This is not a color I would normally gravitate towards, but there was just something about it that drew me in. This creme applied perfectly in two coats.

Julie

And last but certainly not least, my absolute favorite from this collection, Julie. A perfect lilac with the most beautiful shimmer. I can't begin to tell you how much I'm in love with this color! The formula was only slightly sheer and opaque at two coats, but I used three for this photo just to even it all out. I can't wait to wear this again!

I picked these up at my local beauty supply, you can also get them at zoya.com and Ulta for $8 each!

Do you have any of the Lovely polishes? Which do you like best?

XOX,

Jess

OMG, We're Back Again!

Hello my lovelies!

First and foremost I want to apologize for being absent from the blog for so long. There were a lot of things going on that prevented me from updating regularly, but now everything has settled, and I am back on the blogging grind! And don't worry, because even though I wasn't updating, I did NOT stop collecting polish, and have some awesome new beauties to feature!

Secondly, you've probably noticed the new blog name! After a whole lot of thought, and many conversations with friends and family, I decided to change it to the new and improved "Lacquer Love by soRomantical". I've also been working on making it easier for you awesome readers to find me on other social media networks as well. You can follow me on Instagram and Twitter @soRomantical, and 'Like' me on Facebook! I've also set up an email account for this blog, so any questions you have for me can be sent to lacquerlovebysoromantical@gmail.com. 

Whew! Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's move on to what you came here for: nail polish!! Today I have a random swatch, and a silly picture :)

Zoya Shelby

 Shelby is a beautiful bubblegum pink creme from the summer 2012 Beach Collection. I would definitely call this a "Barbie pink!" I used three thin coats for these photos (no top coat). This is one of the polishes I got during their promo sale in January.

I've really fallen in love with Zoya recently, everything they do is just flawless! I am really looking forward to seeing what they come out with this year. I am currently working on getting some of the Pixie Dust collection!

Not that I don't care about politics, but discussions inevitably lead 

to unnecessary disagreements. So instead, I show off my nails :)

That is all for today, check back tomorrow for my picks from Zoya's Spring 2013 Lovely Collection!

XOX,
Jess

Comparison: Charla vs. Halley's Comet

Hi there!

Today I have a quick comparison post for you guys. Here is Zoya Charla vs. Orly Halley's Comet.

You can see in the bottles they look nearly identical. 

Can you guess which is which on my nails?

On my index and ring fingers I am wearing Halley's Comet. 

On my middle and pinkie fingers is Charla.

While Charla leans a slight bit more blue than Halley's Comet, they are pretty much identical in color. Orly's polish gives off a better duochrome effect, in my opinion. At certain angles my nails almost looked as if I had a green to blue gradient going on! Zoya's polish is thinner, and I used 3 coats of Charla for these pics. Orly's is thicker, and I used 2 coats of Halley's Comet. 

I am a huge fan of both polishes, but if you forced me to choose, 

I'd pick Orly Halley's Comet! 

You can find both of these colors at Ulta, or at most e-tailers that carry the brands.

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 :)