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Happy Leap Day!

For today's mani I used one of the stamping plates I got for Christmas. There are a few left that I haven't tried out yet and I was really excited by how much I liked this particular pattern because I wasn't especially fond of it on the plate, but once it was on my nails I really enjoyed it.


I used 2 coats of Essie Over The Edge, a layer of Essie Good To Go, then stamped with Finger Paints Easel Come, Easel Go. I'm having a hard time finding a good silver to stamp with, I can't help but feeling like they are all too sheer, I've tried Sally Hansen, OPI and now Finger Paints. Easel Come, Easel Go was ok but still feels a bit thin. Anyway overall I enjoyed this mani.
 

Sorry for the somewhat low quality photos, I'm too lazy to use a real camera and download pictures, so all my pics are taken with my iphone.
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Plumberry

Hooray for the wonderful weather yesterday! After the snow storm that blew in from Chicago this past weekend, I'm grateful for the warmer temperatures (although I'd still love a snow day :)

The color I wore yesterday really helped me get into the mood for spring. As part of the loot from the spectacular Walmart Essie clearance we found a few weekends ago, Essie - Plumberry is a creamy berry red with a little hint of pink. The color was so bright and vibrant. I absolutely love this color!
Inside

A little bit of natural light for once!
Are you counting down the days until Spring?
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So busy...

Sorry for the lack of posting lately, but we have all been crazy busy.  I'm currently getting sucked into the awfulness that is tax season.  Working a minimum of 54 hours a week can get very tiring.  But I promise we will get back to posting regularly.  Hopeful everyone is having a good week :)

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Angora Cardi

This past weekend, Jen, Brittany, and I found an awesome deal on Essie polishes at the local Walmart. We were able to pick up polishes for $4 and topcoat for $5. It was such a great deal that we couldn't pass it up. We each came away with some new colors and were super excited.

The first new polish from my collection that I'm going to share with you is Essie - Angora Cardi. This polish is a creamy, deep dusty rose color. I think with my skin tone the polish definitely gave off more of brown tone in certain light. I liked the color overall, but definitely don't think that it will be one of my go-to colors. As usual for Essie, the application was great and the removal was even easier.



I can't wait to show you the other polishes we picked up (I'm wearing Dive Bar now, which is BEAUTIFUL!!!)

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Sweet Nothing

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.  Today I have one of our many Ulta polishes.  These photos are from about a month ago, but I didn't have time to take any nail photos this weekend.  I've been trying to find a nude color that I completely love and I felt like this polish may fill the void.  However, that was not completely the case.  But I did really like the final look of this polish and I feel like it could have some jelly sandwich potential.

I did 3-4 coats of Ulta Sweet Nothing.  The first coat of this polish basically looked like nothing, but I was able to build up some color with the 2-4th coats.


I really like the color combo with my eos lipbalm and Sweet Nothing.  I may need to do a different design using this two colors.

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Essie Obsessed

Up until a few weeks ago I didn't own but one or two Essie polishes and I never even used those but after finding one color that I loved (Essie Sexy Divide) I have been using and buying a ton of Essie polishes, I guess you can say I'm a little obsessed now. Today's mani started out with 2 coats of Essie E-nuff is E-nuff on every finger except my ring finger. I've had this color around for a while but never really used it, it turned out to be a really pretty red with an orange/peach tint and like all of the Essie's I own it was beautiful and had great application.


For the accent finger I used to coats of OPI Alpine Snow and then stamped with the same Essie E-nuff is E-nuff. I can't remember which stamp I used, it was one of the new Mash stamps I got for Christmas, but honestly I'm too lazy to get up and see which one. I liked the circle pattern a lot though.

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Velvet Rope and Glitter

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day :)
 Today's mani is from quite some time ago, since I haven't really been the best about taking photos lately. I had just gotten these polishes in December and this was the first time I had tested them out.

I started off with two coats of Orly - Velvet Rope. I really love this color because of the subtle silver glitter that is in the polish. The application was great and it was opaque in one coat. I decided to add Nicole by OPI - One Less Lonely Glitter to the ring fingers for an accent. This color is from the Justin Bieber collection (and was a birthday gift :). I was too lazy to clean up the application of the accent nail, so forgive me for the sloppiness.



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