Pretty Pretty Princess

As I said, more Cult Nails polish for you. Today's polish is Princess, which is just lovely. Here's a quick peek at it.

As always I'm super impressed with the quality of these polishes. I have yet to find a bad bottle, and I've ordered every one she's put out. Not much else to say today, I'm kinda worn out after a somewhat busy day, and am hoping to get to bed early. So if you want to see a bunch of pics of Princess, hit up the jump.

Blue Glitter Bomb!

Nicole Kendall On The Katwalk is today's polish, and it's a lovely blue glitter with bits of green and purple in it. Let's just get right to the pictures, ok?

Da Bluuuuue!

I've got a gorgeous blue for you today, and I chose to accent it with silver crackle. I'm all sorts of busy this week, as The Mate's birthday is Friday, and I'm gearing up to try to make it nice and special, even with a very small budget. So, let's take a peek at the polish.

Fast Friday Flashback

I've got a real quick Flashback today, some comparison pictures. When I first started getting really into nail polish, I wanted to collect some of the rarer polishes, and I did manage to get some pretty neat ones. Two that I really wanted are China Glaze Wet Velvet and OPI Real Teal. Once I had them, I saw how similar they are, and made comparisons. Today I'll show you those pictures.

Khloe Had A Million Sparkles

Today I've got a pretty fun mani that I really enjoyed putting on and wearing. I used two Nicole polishes for this, and it's a tape mani. I have to say, I'm kinda proud of how nicely this one turned out. Let's get right to it.

Kissy Face

As you may know, we have two dogs, and one of them is a Beagle mix named Krissie. We often use the nickname Kissy, or Kissy Face, or Kissy Kiss, or other variations on that theme. So when I saw today's polish, I HAD to pick it up, there was no way I could leave it there. Shall we see what it looks like?

Friday Flashback!

Today's Flashback is a mani that takes the form of a Funky French! So it's like, totally an F kinda mani all the way around. However, if I were grading, an F would not be happening, because this one actually turned out quite nice. Let's pop on in and take a peek, shall we?

Clouds and Mountains

Today I'm going to share an artsy mani that I did, trying to paint a picture of clouds and the moon around mountaintops. I didn't do too badly, but I can see what I need to change to do it better next time around. First, let's see the inspiration pics.

The moon. Not that I really needed a picture, but whatever, I had fun googling for images.

The clouds. I was going for the fluffy ones.

The mountain. I especially like the way the clouds are wrapped around the tip.

So, why don't we look at what I came up with?

A Marble On Monday

Today I'm sharing with you a marble mani that I did with blue, black, and white. I'm late because after the perch fishing trip yesterday, I'm practically too sore to do much besides lay in bed! But it was so so worth it. We had a blast. So anyway, this marble is probably a good one to share while I'm thinking of the fun on the waves yesterday. Let's take a peek, shall we?

Partly Pink

We all know what day it is, so I probably don't need to tell you that On Wednesdays We Wear Pink. But, in case you've forgotten, feel free to click the graphic and go find out about it. Then you can check out all the folks who get involved - if you like pink, then this is your chance to see all sorts of it!

So why did I title this 'Partly Pink'? Well, it's another splatter mani, so it's only got a little pink in it, but I'm counting it anyway. Mostly because I don't happen to have worn just pink recently. I have SO many colors I love, and pink sometimes get forgotten about a little bit. Anyway, let's get to the pictures and go from there.

Mystery Monday

Well, I obviously went with skipping Sunday Swatches, but I'm back today. I've got several manis that I simply cannot remember which polishes they are, so I thought I'd do a bit of a picture dump with them for you to see. Then tomorrow I can get back on track with regular manis which I've kept better track of. Hee. Let's see what we've got.

Saturday Simplicity

Today I have a very simple mani to share with you, one that is easy and kinda elegant, I think. I've gone with a white base color, and done a konad stamp of a bow on each finger in blue. Sometimes it's nice to do something that isn't a whole bunch of stuff, and is just a fairly quick and easy mani, yet still looks pretty nice, in my opinion. Let's take a peek.

Friday Flashback

Well, since I shared my 4th of July manicure from this summer with you yesterday, what better time to do a Friday Flashback of past 4th of July manis? I've only got a couple pics on hand, but hey, that's okay. It's FRIDAY and the weekend is near, and it's time to go out and DO something, even if it's wrong. Not wrong as in illegal or immoral, but whatever. *giggles* Let's take a peek.

Holidaze... 4th of July in September!

I know, I know, it's way late, but I'm still playing a lot of catch-up from being gone so long. So anyway, over the 4th of July, I didn't have as much time to do a lot of celebratory manis, but I did manage one that I loved.  Let's see how it turned out!

Sunday Swatches (Quick and Dirty Style)

So I haven't had as much time for nail polish as I have in the past, in part because of all the life drama crud that's been going on, and in part because the stress from said life drama has caused my skin to really get insane so I'm a lot slower at things and it takes me much longer to do my chores. In fact, I've had to start giving up a bit on having a perfect house, and just get done what I can. That is probably part of the reason that I haven't been changing my polish daily like I normally would, if I can barely get my chores done without falling over in exhaustion, adding a manicure in there just isn't gonna happen. But please don't think I'm whining (much haha), life could always be worse, and in general I know things will get better if I just keep plugging away.

So this week I set out to do some swatches, and because I've been rearranging things, I didn't have my normal spot to do my swatching, and had to change things up a little (but my OTT light is working! YAY!). Then after I finally managed to get the swatching in, photobucket decided to be a pain my my rear and wouldn't let me upload the pictures for a day and a half! I thought about not having swatches this week at all, because my skin flaring up so much makes my cuticles look pretty awful, no matter how many times I rub all sorts of creams and oils into them. In the end, I decided that if you don't like my raggedy cuticles, then just don't look at my swatches, and we'll all be happier. After all, the whole 4-5 of you who read me all the time probably don't care about it, the others who read me sometimes are probably only interested in the pictures, and the rest of the world doesn't care one way or the other. And that's okay with me, because I'm not looking to be the next hugely famous nail blog, there are already way better ones than mine out there.

Anyway, I'm starting to babble, so let's move on to the important stuff - THE POLISH! I had a few BYS shades that I haven't tried yet, so I thought I'd give those a quick test to see how they look, and share them with you. Let's see what we've got!

Dancing In The Dark

Today I've got a lovely blue glitter polish to share with you. It's from a new-to-me brand called Julie, and I added some art to make it even prettier (at least I think so). Since it's Saturday, I'm off to spend some time with The Mate and the dogs, so I'll keep it short and sweet. Let's get right into it.

Pardon My French Scream

Instead of focusing on the anniversary that so many are remembering today (and I certainly am too), I'm going to focus on some pretty pretty nail polish. First though, I'd like to let you know that The Mate's surgery went well, and he's a little sore but otherwise okay. We expect his recovery to be pretty fast and easy. Such a relief to have that over with. Anyway, polish is the focus here, so let's just bounce right on into the pictures.

Sunday Swatches (Not Really)

Well, I haven't had much time for swatching lately, so I thought I'd share something else today. Instead I have a few bad pictures of the Sally Hansen Salon Effects strips that I wore for a few days. Let's get right to it, I've got a busy day tomorrow and need to get ready. What's going on, you ask? The Mate is having his nose rebroken so they can get his septum back where it is supposed to be. Yikes. It's a same day surgery, but still, I'm worried, and of course I'll be waiting right there to see that everything comes out okay. Anyway, let's move on to the pictures.

Friday Flashback (Freehand Funky French)

Ooh lookit at me, all alliterating and such! But really, what better time to take a look back on a funky french than Friday Flashbacks? So let's just get right to the polish, and enjoy the pretty.

Lame Title Goes Here

I just can't think of a title today, I guess I'm not all that creative. Sometimes that just happens. So why don't we look at a beautiful polish and pretend there was an awesome title up there?