Top 19 Polishes of Now!

Ok so a while back I mentioned doing a top 25 post, but when I was going through my melmer I only found 19 nail polishes that I can call 'favorites', although I'm sure that once I finnish off my untrieds I'll have 25 favorites, but I haven't so they don't count.  The other thing is that I went through and pulled out my favorites, and got to my favorite 5 when I realized that I couldn't figure out where the rest of the polishes stood in 6-19th favorite.  So I have my top 5 and the other 14 favorites in no specific order.

(From L-R: Essie 'French Affair', OPI 'Swimsuit...Nailed It', 'Mermaids Tears', 'Hot and Spicy', ALDO 'Teal the Spotlight')

This is the TOP 5!  Essie being #1 and the ALDO being #5  This shows I have a thing for cremes doesn't it?

(OPI 'An Affair in Red Square', Essies 'Shine of the Times', Wet n' Wild 'Cost is No Issue', Sinful Colors 'Nail Junkie', Jessie's Girl 'Glee')

(Sinful Colors 'See You Soon', Avon 'Classic Fit', Nails Inc. 'House of Parliment', Color Club 'Sugar Plum Fairy', OPI 'Steady as She Rose')

(Color Club 'Hot Like Lava', Revlon 'Poppy', Finger Paints 'Twisted', Essie 'Power Clutch')

There you have it folks, my top 19 of 2012.  For most of these you can see my swatches, but not all have been posted, but if you want to see swatches of a specific polish tell me and I can try to rush-blog :D

What are your favorite polishes??

Top 19 Polishes of Now!

Ok so a while back I mentioned doing a top 25 post, but when I was going through my melmer I only found 19 nail polishes that I can call 'favorites', although I'm sure that once I finnish off my untrieds I'll have 25 favorites, but I haven't so they don't count.  The other thing is that I went through and pulled out my favorites, and got to my favorite 5 when I realized that I couldn't figure out where the rest of the polishes stood in 6-19th favorite.  So I have my top 5 and the other 14 favorites in no specific order.

(From L-R: Essie 'French Affair', OPI 'Swimsuit...Nailed It', 'Mermaids Tears', 'Hot and Spicy', ALDO 'Teal the Spotlight')

This is the TOP 5!  Essie being #1 and the ALDO being #5  This shows I have a thing for cremes doesn't it?

(OPI 'An Affair in Red Square', Essies 'Shine of the Times', Wet n' Wild 'Cost is No Issue', Sinful Colors 'Nail Junkie', Jessie's Girl 'Glee')

(Sinful Colors 'See You Soon', Avon 'Classic Fit', Nails Inc. 'House of Parliment', Color Club 'Sugar Plum Fairy', OPI 'Steady as She Rose')

(Color Club 'Hot Like Lava', Revlon 'Poppy', Finger Paints 'Twisted', Essie 'Power Clutch')

There you have it folks, my top 19 of 2012.  For most of these you can see my swatches, but not all have been posted, but if you want to see swatches of a specific polish tell me and I can try to rush-blog :D

What are your favorite polishes??

ALDO 'Twilight Rendez-Vous'

I really like this color.  This is one of the five ALDO Nail Lacquer.  This is 3 slightly-easy coats.  By slightly-easy, I mean that the brush was JACKED UP!  It was angled.  like not straight across on the top!  WHAT ON EARTH!?!?!  Normally this is what my right hand looks like (slightly more messy), and my left hand is all cleaned up.  But other than that, I like this color :D!  (oh yeah and a top coat)

ALDO 'Twilight Rendez-Vous'

I really like this color.  This is one of the five ALDO Nail Lacquer.  This is 3 slightly-easy coats.  By slightly-easy, I mean that the brush was JACKED UP!  It was angled.  like not straight across on the top!  WHAT ON EARTH!?!?!  Normally this is what my right hand looks like (slightly more messy), and my left hand is all cleaned up.  But other than that, I like this color :D!  (oh yeah and a top coat)

ALDO 'Teal the Spotlight'

This is another ALDO Nail Lacquer.  I really really, like this color, because nothing beats a good creme.  This is a teal, but it has a bit of grey in it (although my camera was to mean to show that greyish-ness).  This is 2 coats without a top coat.  Wow, short post.  Until next time!

ALDO 'Teal the Spotlight'

This is another ALDO Nail Lacquer.  I really really, like this color, because nothing beats a good creme.  This is a teal, but it has a bit of grey in it (although my camera was to mean to show that greyish-ness).  This is 2 coats without a top coat.  Wow, short post.  Until next time!

Day 9: Rainbow Nails

Well Mimi was supposed to put up to extrmely simple post this weekend but she didn't.  So I'm angry.   GRR!  Well to day was rainbow nails and I saw Rainbow Nail Art and Holo Rainbow, but i don't have anything fancy like that.  I don't even have Red, Orange, and Yellow glitter polishes.  Blogging really shows the gaps in my collection :(.  So I did rainbow skittles on each hand.

UP CLOSE:

Blue: Ulta 'Blue Streak'

Green: Sinful Colors 'Innocent'

Yellow: AVON 'Sunshine'

Orange: Orly 'Sol Cabana'

Red: ALDO NAIL LACQUER 'Pampered Patent'

And I did the rainbow reverse on the other hand so that when you go like that they make a DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!

This is such a basic mani but I like it.  Tomorrow Gradient Nails and I'll post the Day 7 & 8 posts.  That's what's make this lack of post even more of a fail because I had all the pics for one of the post set up for one of them and it's not like I was asking for a essay or anything!!

BTW all of these were 3 coats and cremes

Day 9: Rainbow Nails

Well Mimi was supposed to put up to extrmely simple post this weekend but she didn't.  So I'm angry.   GRR!  Well to day was rainbow nails and I saw Rainbow Nail Art and Holo Rainbow, but i don't have anything fancy like that.  I don't even have Red, Orange, and Yellow glitter polishes.  Blogging really shows the gaps in my collection :(.  So I did rainbow skittles on each hand.

UP CLOSE:

Blue: Ulta 'Blue Streak'

Green: Sinful Colors 'Innocent'

Yellow: AVON 'Sunshine'

Orange: Orly 'Sol Cabana'

Red: ALDO NAIL LACQUER 'Pampered Patent'

And I did the rainbow reverse on the other hand so that when you go like that they make a DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!

This is such a basic mani but I like it.  Tomorrow Gradient Nails and I'll post the Day 7 & 8 posts.  That's what's make this lack of post even more of a fail because I had all the pics for one of the post set up for one of them and it's not like I was asking for a essay or anything!!

BTW all of these were 3 coats and cremes

Wet n Wild 'Party of Five Glitters'

Now, I know most bloggers have already posted about this nail polish , But since I bought it with the other Wet  n Wild Fastdry polishes and this one is just glittery and rainbow-y.  (btw the hand model is maren and she felt the need  to sloppily put on other coats (ggrrrrr.....).  

This is 4 coats of 'Party of Five Glitters' over bare nails (well if you want to get technical it's over a base coat. 

On Mimi's other hand we put 'PO5G' (sorry it's such a long name and I was getting lazy).  Here's the colors we used:     

THUMB: LA Colors 'Black Velvet'

POINTER: Sinful Colors 'Dream On'

MIDDLE: ALDO 'Pampered Patent'

RING: Wet n Wild 'SaGreena the Teenage Witch'

PINKIE: Revlon 'Silver Dollar'

Sorry there aren't any pictures of it over black but that's shown so often that we didn't really feel the need to include it.  Here, is a link to one of our favorite nail bloggers -Kayla Shevonne- Who shoes it over black and in comparison to Deborah Lippmann's 'Happy Birthday' (which looks nothing like PO5G)

All in all, for $1.99 (although right now there $0.99 at Walgreens!!) this is a really good glitter that any nail junkie should have.

Wet n Wild 'Party of Five Glitters'

Now, I know most bloggers have already posted about this nail polish , But since I bought it with the other Wet  n Wild Fastdry polishes and this one is just glittery and rainbow-y.  (btw the hand model is maren and she felt the need  to sloppily put on other coats (ggrrrrr.....).  

This is 4 coats of 'Party of Five Glitters' over bare nails (well if you want to get technical it's over a base coat. 

On Mimi's other hand we put 'PO5G' (sorry it's such a long name and I was getting lazy).  Here's the colors we used:     

THUMB: LA Colors 'Black Velvet'

POINTER: Sinful Colors 'Dream On'

MIDDLE: ALDO 'Pampered Patent'

RING: Wet n Wild 'SaGreena the Teenage Witch'

PINKIE: Revlon 'Silver Dollar'

Sorry there aren't any pictures of it over black but that's shown so often that we didn't really feel the need to include it.  Here, is a link to one of our favorite nail bloggers -Kayla Shevonne- Who shoes it over black and in comparison to Deborah Lippmann's 'Happy Birthday' (which looks nothing like PO5G)

All in all, for $1.99 (although right now there $0.99 at Walgreens!!) this is a really good glitter that any nail junkie should have.

Black, White & Yellow Water Marble

So on Thursday I decided to water marble my nails ( don't water marble at 9:30 on a screen porch with bad lighting.  Just saying...).  I had wanted to do a black and white water marble for time but i thought just black and white would be kinds boring.

(left to right: L.A. Colors Shock, Black Velvet, ALDO Bauhaus Architect, Sinful Colors Snow Me White)

So I added L.A. Colors Shock and ALDO Bauhaus Architect (looked it up and Bauhaus is a design school).  In each water marble I did I only had one "ring" of the orange (although it only showed up orange on one of my nails)

Shiny:

Ok, so I know that i had said that this was the mani with  Seche Vite o top but for strange reasons it looks satin-y. 

MATTIFIED:

I love the way my middle finger came out on this hand!

I like the middle finger best on this hand unfortunately when I matted this hand a bunch of weird spots came up. (best seen on the pinkie)

ALL TOGETHER NOW!

Black, White & Yellow Water Marble

So on Thursday I decided to water marble my nails ( don't water marble at 9:30 on a screen porch with bad lighting.  Just saying...).  I had wanted to do a black and white water marble for time but i thought just black and white would be kinds boring.

(left to right: L.A. Colors Shock, Black Velvet, ALDO Bauhaus Architect, Sinful Colors Snow Me White)

So I added L.A. Colors Shock and ALDO Bauhaus Architect (looked it up and Bauhaus is a design school).  In each water marble I did I only had one "ring" of the orange (although it only showed up orange on one of my nails)

Shiny:

Ok, so I know that i had said that this was the mani with  Seche Vite o top but for strange reasons it looks satin-y. 

MATTIFIED:

I love the way my middle finger came out on this hand!

I like the middle finger best on this hand unfortunately when I matted this hand a bunch of weird spots came up. (best seen on the pinkie)

ALL TOGETHER NOW!