Shake Your $$ Maker!

The sun is shining. It’s warm outside and I am in the mood for bright, vivid colors. When I saw the new Essie neons, I HAD to have them.  You know exactly which one I wore first. Dont you? That’s right. The green one, Shake Your $$ Maker. Can I just tell you that I am in love with this one and may need back ups? Perfect, green jelly, y’all!

One problem though….they photograph like crap. I could not get this to show it’s true shade with my big camera to save my life but here it is….

Not pleased because this green is so perfect, you guys but I tried with my cell phone and this is as close as I could get. Blurred mess.

As much as I love this green the application sucked. Come on, Essie. Get it together! I don’t know how you guys feel about this collection but the green was the only winner for me.

Dear Neons

Fyouverymuch for not photographing properly.

When you read this, I will be on my way to some much needed, phoneless, computerless, everythingless, fishing. These are the nails I am wearing to do so, so you may see a “How does China Glaze hold up to fishing” post when I get back. Maybe not. All I know is whooooo hoooooooooo 3 days without technology! Happy Times.

As the first bit of this post implies, this is nowhere true to color.  Trying to “correct” it made it worse, none of my “neon tricks” worked either.  So here we have completely useless photos of the new China Glaze summer 2013 neon jelly Shell-o.  On my nails, it is hot freakin pink that leans slightly coral.  In the pictures, well, you see.  Total wompage granny coral NOT neon.

If its any way to tell you all how bright these nails are, at my kids’ school today, one of the lunch helpers said they remind them of those “day-glo parties from college”.  Hmmmm.  Interesting.  (Yes, she’s a teaching relic from College in the 80s O_O). Anyhoo.  Peace out Rainbow Trout (which I’ll hopefully be catching ASAP)

Bananarama Love

I am totally showing my age here but do you all remember this group? Well, if not they were called Bananarama and they were a British pop band in the 1980′s. One of my favorite songs by them was called Venus. Sometimes they still use that song in television commercials.

Now for those of you who don’t know me very well, I HATE yellow. I don’t know why I hate it but I do. As a matter of fact, the only things I do like that ARE yellow are lip products. I mean I may have a bright ass yellow purse in my home but I don’t know. Usually, I pass anything off with yellow in it to my lovely seester.

Anyway, today I wanted to show you another L’Oreal gellie and her name is Bananarama Love. It’s a totally squishy yellow but I love this polish so much. I’m surprised at myself.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to blog it so I took this crappy cellphone picture.

So very squishy!

Then I thought I might as well break out the big camera and really show you guys what it looks like. At first I thought it would be close to Deborah Lippmann Yellow Brick Road but hers is darker in my opinion. (Another yellow jelly I like but I gave it away)

In the shade here. Please ignore my dry ass hands. Whenever it’s chilly down here, my skins suffers for it.

And here it is in the sun…

Seriously, this collection is amazeballs. I am so impressed with L’Oreal right now. I want to own every bottle from the Miss Candy collection. The press releases are saying this is out everywhere in May for a limited time but everybody is finding these. Don’t give up hope if they havent hit your store yet.

Looking back at these pictures, I think it’s time to shorten these bad boys. I have extremely long fingers so I don’t really need the longers nails. E.T. PHONE HOME!

And just because I am a big fat lemming, I ordered these sunglasses weeks ago and they finally came. They are totally not the real ones though. Who pays $300 for some shades they might lose, sit on or what not.

So back to the polish, go and buy these. Hurry up.

P.S. Go buy stuff from this sale.

Berry Nice

Oh, yes.  Berry Nice, indeed.  Today I have for you the dark purple gellie (jelly) from the new LE L’Oreal collection.  This one Ernando showed you yesterday, BUT, in the interest of showing what it looks like on two people at polar ends of the skintone spectrum, I’m showing it again today.3 coats, direct sun, with my “expensive” camera.

The picture is a lie.  You know how purples do NOT photograph.  This photo does show how flippin’ shiny these suckers are.    The sunlight made it look extra sheer, but at three coats I only have slight nail line visible.  Wanna see what I’m talking about, and what the polish actually looks like?

Taken with a very bad cell phone camera.  Legit like a 3.2 mp cameraphone camera.  3 coats, taken in indirect light.

Can we get off topic for a second, and complain about how shitty cameraphone cameras take the only accurate and reliable photos of purple polish?  Because I’m a lil sore about the fact that the only good photos of purple I can get come from a blurry ass cell phone with no macro abilities.

However, at least I can get an accurate photo of the purple, blurriness aside.  The cameraphone picture looks exactly like what my nails look like.  Deep yet vibrant purple, slight nail line, gorgeousness.  Everytime I look at my nails, I can’t help but think I dipped them in Purple-saurus Rex Kool-Aid (if you don’t know what purple-saurus rex is, I don’t know if we can be friends).   I love this polish.  It may even be my favorite of the entire set; it is definitely my favorite so far.

I do want to take a second to talk about the one thing that disappointed me.   When the first shots of this were going around Twitter, I went ballistic.  BLACK JELLY!  Angels sang.  I thought, FINALLY a company has listened to my requests.   Then my Twitter buddy, Amanda, snagged the first bottle that I actually saw swatches of.  It was not a black jelly.  From far away (it is sitting on my counter as I write this) just to glance at the bottle, it definitely looks black and not purple.  Needless to say, when I found out it was purple,  I was kinda pissed.  I don’t like purple, as a general rule.  The way Ernie feels about gold?  That is how I feel about purple.  I was mad.

But then, I put it on my fangatips. Then, everything changed.  Looking back, I’m not sure why I entertained the idea it was a black jelly.  The collection is called Miss Candy, and the only black candy I can think of is disgusting black licorice, which noone with taste buds likes.  I know this because my son and husband like black licorice, and they cannot possibly have taste buds, because they like some of the grossest things ever. Purple jelly makes more sense for a “candy” collection.  It actually speaks right to my childhood.  Eat a bag of candy and wash it down with Purple-saurus Rex.  Life doesn’t get any better than that.

L’Oreal did the damn thing!

What did they do?! Created a set of the most wonderful jelly(gellie) polishes that I have ever seen. So a  few days ago, the seester posted about how we went on the hunt for the new L’Oreal Miss Candy collection 2013 and cleaned out the Rite Aid when she was down here. Having one set of these was not enough for me so I went back to that same Rite Aid and asked the stock girl if they would be refilling the display. When she said no, my poor, little heart was broken. Apparently, they only get the small displays and once they are emptied….NO POLISH FOR YOU!

I have been all over this city looking for these things. Walgreen’s will have them if you’re lucky and supposedly CVS will be getting them. I cleaned out the display at the one store that had them and I am not done. These polishes are THAT good. The application is wonderful and the colors are amaze-balls  I’ve worn the orange, the yellow(you know I hate it but not this one)  and now the purple which is what I want to show you today. It’s called berry nice and it is the sex!!! This is by far the juiciest purple jelly I have ever seen and it is soooo shiny even without a topcoat.  In the bottle it appears to be almost black but once you put that bad boy on? The clouds open up and the angels sing.(Still hate the brush though. L’Oreal work on that.)

Look.at.it!!!

How can you not love this? I can take it or leave it with purple to be honest with you but this polish might be my favorite in the whole set. I still can’t decide.  If you see these, buy them. BUY ALL OF THEM!

L’oreal Summer gellies

I’m super behind in posting. I have tons of stuff that needs posted, but when I found the new Limited Edition L’Oreal summer gellie polishes, I knew they’d get bumped to the very front of everything I’m posting. I do still have the China Glaze Hologlams to show, and a couple of the China Glaze textures to post, but frankly, these L’Oreals are far more important.

Earlier this week, after a seriously sucky past couple weeks, I decided to just say peace out, and head down to visit my seester. We went out shopping one of the days, and didn’t really see anything we needed, until we decided at the end of the day to “just check” and see if the Rite Aid had the new L’Oreal limited edition summer display. Well, let me just say, we lucked out. They had the L’Oreal display, the Julie G gumdrop polishes, a few other LE displays, including the Maybelline Summer LEs (which will be another post).

So, we may have cleaned out the L’Oreal display (Hint: we did). All they had left in the display when we were done were they eye shadows. I bought all four of the lip glosses, and of course EVERY SINGLE ONE of the polishes. I am now on the hunt in MY town for the displays to pop up, because I NEED BACKUPS. Of every. single. thing. I. bought. I kid you not, they are that fabulous.

Call them what you want- jellies, gellies, gellys, sorbets, sheers, whatever; but its very easy for companies to really mess up on the formula. That is NOT the case here with this limited edition set. L’Oreal really knocked it out of the park on these.

When I got home I immediately changed my mani from my three day old Illamasqua to, you guessed it, the “red” jelly. Jolly Lolly looks red in the bottle. Do not be fooled. When you put it on, it is a bright bright pink. It reminds me of Pinkie Pie’s hair…

Anyone who knows me knows that I have a slight (serious) addiction to red and neon pink jellies. So this one was an obvious first choice for my first manicure.

MY CAMERA HATED THIS COLOR. No matter what I did my camera would NOT pick up this color accurately. It is bright in person. So bright, in fact, I could not stop staring at it.

Word of caution, like most jellies, these tend to be ultra sheer at the tips of your free edge, so I highly recommend double wrapping the tips. If you can, stay away from fast dry top coats, because even with my medium-fast dry topcoat (Out the Door), I got some tip creep and minor shrinkage. Which means Seche will most likely do even more damage. The good news is, they dry quite fast alone. I put on the “mint” jelly about an hour ago, three coats with no top coat at all, and its dry unless you smoosh it really hard pressing down on it with your fingers. SCORE! These are also so shiny, you really wouldn’t even need topcoat.  So shiny in fact, you can see my camera in those photos.

If you happen to find these, I know right now Rite Aid has a deal going on if you have a Rite Aid card, and you can get them for cheaper than the normal $5.99 SRP. I recommend snapping these up when you do find them, because being a LE collection, once the display is out, they will be gone for good.

In a galaxy far, far away….

Okay that was real corny and nerdy but today I wanted to talk to you about this dress I bought and how it inspired me to do my nails. Generally, I am lazy as shit about doing nail art. Hell, even polishing my nails has become a chore as of late. I can’t ever decide what to wear or it turns into changing the color several times before I finally give up and go naked.

A few weeks ago, one of the lovely twitter babes tweeted this dress.

Of course, mny fat ass HAD to have it. It came quickly from ModCloth and I immediately fell in love but it’s really short. If I bend over in it, you will see the dark side of the moon.

Anyway, yesterday I got a bug up my butt to make my nails match this damned dress. Remember, I am lazy and this took me like an hour to do so I’m keeping it for like three days.  For the base, I used L.A. Girl 3D Black Illusion. The rest were all OPI DS polishes. So here ya go….

 

 

Maybe one day I will work up the courage to show you what I look like in this dress. LOL!