I had fun with this mani! First I started with a base of Painted Polish Freedom & Fireworks- a pink leaning red holo. It’s so pretty and sparkly, and such an easy formula! Then I decided to go red, white and blue. So I added OPI Alpine Snow for the white and OPI My Favorite… Read More My 4th of July Mani 2021
I have a couple Fancy Gloss polishes, but this is the first one I’ve actually tried! This is Just Be Happy from December Polish Pickup 2020, the theme was Everything is Fine (thanks, COVID-19!) A pink and purple thermal! Yes, please!!! Love love this! I took a million pictures, so you’re welcome, lol. It goes… Read More Try Them Tuesday- Fancy Gloss Just Be Happy, Supernatural Lacquer Room on the Broom, JReine Temple of Temptation
Navni is such a great brand, I’ve loved all the Navni Beauty polishes I’ve tried- in fact, their polish Kitty Style was a top indie polish for me a couple years ago. This is Sanguine. A beautiful red jelly polish with gorgeous flakies. It has such a pretty pink shift to it with a smattering… Read More Try More Thursday- Navni Sanguine, Glitter Daze Electromagnetic Bubblegum, Whimsical Ideas Pippin
ILNP By Nightfall is so pretty! It’s a black polish with heavy silver shimmer and holo. ILNP was one of my “gateway” brands to indie polish, and they just never disappoint. This is two coats with a great formula. I just love love love black nail polish. This is a more unique polish in my… Read More Try More Thursday- ILNP By Nightfall, Lollipop Posse Pull the Stars from the Sky, Elevation Polish Hitsujiyama Park
This was my first Red Eyed Lacquer, it was a Polish Pickup polish from May 2020, the theme was Candy Land. Fun fact, this was in my 2020 Indie favorites, so you might have already seen it there! LOL. Of course the color, it’s an amazing shade of pink! And then the little black specks-… Read More Try More Thursday- Red Eyed Lacquer Don’t go Dragon My Hi-Chew, Tonic I Pink You Blue Me Off
This is from OPI’s Texas collection from Spring 2011. Who knows when I actually picked this up! It’s their “sorbet” finish- aka jellies. I didn’t know that, so I was surprised at how sheer it was, lol. I did three coats of this, and I was super impressed at the formula. For such a sheer… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday OPI Houston We Have a Purple
Neon pink! First up is Cirque Color’s Retail Therapy. This was a 2020 Indie Polish favorite! You can see why. That pink! The formula! Fun and bright! I just love polishes like this- a ~slightly~ jelly formula that makes application a breeze. Here’s the closeup. Then I wore Different Dimension Candyshop. This is such a… Read More Try Them Tuesday- Cirque Retail Therapy, Different Dimension Candyshop, Blush Lacquer Teeny Weenie Pink Bikini
Glam Polish does flakies so well! This one is Shell No, from their 2018 Mermaid Tails collection. This is a neutral flakie polish. I like it, but I prefer brighter polishes generally. But for a neutral, it’s great! The flakies do have a bit of color to them, this is three thin coats. And it… Read More Try Them Tuesday- Glam Polish Shell No, Rogue Lacquer Gris Gris, Anchor & Heart Full Blown, Four Alarm Holiday
So last Thanksgiving I had to run my daughter to the Urgent Care- I can’t even remember why now! Anyways, we had to wait at a Walgreens for a prescription and so I picked out a nail polish to make myself feel better, lol This is Pumped Up Pink! Such a great pink metallic polish!… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Pumped Up Pink and Essie Balancing Act
Vapid Lacquer has somewhat slowed down their polish offerings (though they have great body lotions!!! My kids adore them!). This is an older Vapid, Notso Slick. It’s a dusty purple with shimmer. I smooshed the corner of my middle nail without noticing it! It’s got that blue shimmer running through it. I did three thin… Read More Try More Thursday- Vapid Notso Slick, Illyrian Strange, Glisten and Glow Baby Shark