Mani Monday... The Darkest Kiss always requires a Thank You..

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Hello Lovelies,

   I am back with another Mani Monday post after forever. During the holidays, quite honestly EVERYTHING was crazy. Then after the holidays not only did my kids get the flu but they also shared that horrible plague with me as well. So needless to say that my nails were horribly neglected and quite frankly they looked like shit.  I know I should hang my head in shame over that fact but I just recently started doing my nails again which is horribly sad and I wanted to get back into the swing of posting manis and beauty posts since I have been doing nothing but reviews. So this is the first of many new Mani Monday posts and if you follow me on Instagram you would have actually seen my poor attempt to film trying to capture the holo. However I did manage to capture hints of it here and there on film. 

I used the following polishes for this mani
Opi Base Coat
Gothic Gala Lacquer Darkest Kiss
Pure Ice Superstar (for stamping on the thumb and the ring finger)
Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate BP-12 (use discount code KLH10 to save some money)
Gothic Gala Lacquer Thank You Flake Top Coat
Vapid Lacquer's Fast Drying Top Coat.

   I hope that you enjoyed this Mani Monday installment and until next time lovelies!

Mani Monday: Moar Drunk Stamping! Revenge of the Stamper....

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Hello Lovelies!
    Welcome back to another installment of Mani Monday! Today I am featuring a lovely polish from Literary Lacquers, Lake of Shining Waters. Due to being drunk from my stamping success last week I decided to go ahead and stamp again. Because with one success there has to be another right??

Cause one success equals an automatic success right?

  I love Literary Lacquers Lake of Shining Waters is a gorgeous teal linear holographic polish so of course white would pop fantastically against it. So I painted my nails with Lake of Shining Waters and I was like...

This polish totally looked AMAZING.

  And then I had the dilemma that I wanted to stamp on top of this polish..

Technically, it wasn't repainting my nails but the stamper was steadily giving me shots of courage.. 

    So, I finally decided to go ahead a stamp on top of this polish I was drunk with stamping courage so with tears in my eyes I took up the stamper with a mission to make this polish look fabulous.

I was both nervous and drunk with stamping anticipation...

    Then I picked up the stamper and then the stamper betrayed me...

My stamper totally acted like this towards me. 

   While this polish is truly amazing, my stamping is not. While it is a learning curve....

Just look at the polish and not focus on my craptacular stamping...

  You will also have to forgive the crappy indoor lighting. It has been raining for two days straight so I don't have any awesome natural light to capture the beautiful holo effect.

I used :

Nail Trek II

Lake of Shining Waters from Literary Lacquers (2 coats)

White Stamping Polish from the BornPrettyStore (used KLH10 for a discount)

Bundle Monster Plate 212

Get Your Shine On! Fast Drying Top Coat from Vapid Laquer   

While this isn't as bad as some of my other stamping attempts I really wished that I had put the stamper down and left this polish alone cause it is simply beautiful. You can purchase Lake of Shining Waters from Literary Lacquers on Etsy.  You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram as well. She is also having a 2 year anniversary giveaway that you still have time for to enter! Quick! Head over to Literary Lacquer's Facebook and enter!I hope that you enjoyed this installment of Mani Monday (and my drunk stamping) and until next time lovelies!

                                     

Don't judge a polish from my bad stamping job go check it out for yourself

Mani Monday: MOAR Drunk Stamping...Holy Crap I STAMPED!

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Hello Lovelies!
    I am back again with MOAR Drunk Stamping!Surprisingly enough, this isn't an indie post! But I was looking for some colors to do a new polish and nothing seemed to catch my eye. However I did have some nice Sinful colors that caught my eye. However, I couldn't decide on which one I wanted to use. So, I had tried a gradient polished look before so I figured that I would give it another try since it had been several months since I last attempted it. So I gathered up the polishes and the various other clean up supplies, top coats and base coat and I was ready to go..

That's right I was going to do a bad ass gradient polish..

  Then apparently, since I was feeling like an invincible bad ass  and drunk with polish power I figured why not go ahead and throw some stamping on top of some gradient nails? I had gotten a new stamper so this was the BEST time to try it out! I just knew it was going to be..

My nails were gonna ROCK!

                         
  Needless to say I was pretty damn pleased with how my nails came out. I won't lie there were a couple of times that I had to remove the stamp and do it all over again BUT I really liked how they turned out. Just take a peek....

While my stamping obviously needs work I am pretty damn pleased...

I used the following this for this fabulous gradient stamped look

Nail Trek II 

Sinful Colors Mint Apple

Sinful Colors Rise & Shine

Sinful Colors Savage

White Stamping Polish from BornPrettyStore (use code KLH10 for 10% off your purchase)

Bundle Monster Stamping Plate BM19

Vapid Lacquer Fast Drying Topcoat

   While this isn't the best stamping I have seen out there, it is the best that I have done and it makes me feel pretty frickin fabulous staring that my stamping job.

I totally feel like this moth when I look at my nails.

Bonus photo! While I was outside contorting my fingers trying to get the best polish shot, I had a beautiful little visitor come out and inspect my nails. Okay, maybe he didn't inspect them but I had to take a photo of him cause his tail was simply gorgeous and possibly my next gradient attempt.

Yup, my tail is as fabulous as that moth!

However, my polish assistant was not amused with having his photo taken...

   Well, I hope that you enjoyed this Mani Monday installment of Drunk Stamping! While I am not delusional in thinking that I am an expert stamper. I possibly can raise my status from a raging falling down drunk stamper to possibly an AbFab Patsy Stamper if this stamping streak keeps up. So until next time lovelies!

Yup, it is time to have a drink to celebrate my stamping skillz!

Mani Monday featuring Literary Lacquer!

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Hello Lovelies!
   I am back again today with a new installment of Mani Monday! First, I must apologize that this post was supposed to go up last Monday but to to the preschool chaos that was happening here I missed it. So, I do apologize.But, today I have to chance to show of some really gorgeous beauties from Literary Lacquer. Literary Lacquer is run by a wonderful lady named Amy and she creates FABULOUS polishes based off of novels! So of course being the big giant literary nerd that I am, I squealed with joy at the aspect of this.

Yup, this is my face looking at her available polishes. Cause seriously they are pretty damn epic.

When the polishes arrived I was blown away as soon as I opened the package. It was as if pure literary and polish goodness powers combined and punched me in the face with their epic-ness.

So much pure awesome in one package!

I was determined to swatch them all...

I was determined!

I originally picked this gorgeous polish, Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, which is you are a scifi junkie you  will automatically know that is from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It is one of my favorite books (and yes I even loved the movie hence for your viewing pleasure the fabulous animated gifs). It is described as a vibrant turquoise blue linear holographic polish with added fine holographic glitter. The description isn't kidding this polish is PACKED with holographic glitter. It hits you in the face when the sun shines on it .

That's the holo hitting you in the face.. Just be prepared.

But don't just take my word for it, take a look at this!

I would say that it is more on the green side of turquoise but either way it is fabulous.

Another sunshine shot trying to capture all that holo-y goodness.

Look at all that HOLO! 

I also was lucky enough of get the Bionic MmmmDetector, from the Good Parts Collection based off Erotic Fiction,which is a polish inspired by Vox written by Nicholson Baker. For those of you who are history buffs, or actually lived thru this, this book is the same one given to President Clinton from  Monica Lewinsky. Bionic MmmmDetector is described as a black jelly packed with aqua, teal, blue and green micro glitter. I will admit that when I applied the first coat I was wondering if I needed to apply some undies underneath the polish. But I didn't, it builds up beautifully giving the polish amazing depth.

Step away from the undie polish cause this is gorgeous all on it's own!

This polish while not based on HGTG looks like an amazing space polish.

Trying to capture the glitters just right

Close up shot.. Doesn't it look like an exploding planet?

This could totally be the glitters in the polish.

Finally last but never least, Amy was sweet enough to include a sneak preview a polish, Camazotz,  from the Wrinkle in Time Collection which is another favorite book from my childhood. Camazotz is the planet that has been swallowed by the Dark Thing. This polish fits it perfectly since it is described as a black linear holo with a blue/ red shift. It can even appear purple at some angles.

Don't be sad, while the planet was swallowed by the Dark Thing the polish is fabulous!

See here it appears black

And close up you can see the purplish hue.

  I loved all of the polishes so much I wanted to track Amy down and immediately hug her for combining two of my loves, books and polish into one awesome package!

So much literary and polish love!

Want to know more about Literary Lacquer? Don't Panic and know where your towel is..

And buy amazing polish..

  Literary Lacquers offers full size polishes of these colors and more on her Etsy Store for $10 a piece. You can also find her on Facebook as well as Instagram to be up to date on new releases as well as sales. I hope that you enjoyed this installment of Mani Monday with Literary Laquers. So until next time lovelies, so long and thanks for all the fish!

Until next time! Read some Douglas Adams and watch HGTG!

Quick NOTD: Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey with Lucky 13 Lacquer

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Hello lovelies!
   I am back with a quick Nail of the Day while I usually share nail photos for Mani Monday I wanted to share the EPIC level of wear of this gorgeous polish.  Before this obsession, I would walk around with the saddest little remnants of polish hanging on my finger for dear life and not have care in the world.  Usually I have polishes chip within a day or two of wear even with a top coat and a base coat. I could walk around with gloves on and still get a chip. And then this happens...

Yup since my nail polish obsession started this is me.

Quickly followed by this emotion...

I JUST FINISHED PAINTING! SERIOUSLY?!?!

  So when I find a polish that can with stand my epic level mutant skill of chipping polish I am impressed...

Yup, see all that debris? It is chipped polish.

So behold this gorgeous gem from Lucky 13 Lacquer! Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey polish has lasted 5 days on my mutant polish chipping fingers. Yes, I just said 5 DAYS which is damn near a miracle for me. So I had to take a photo of it today, day 5, to share with you. Behold...

Take a look at THIS on day 5!

I am just beyond impressed. The Doctor would be proud.

    I was trying to save this polish until I got my Doctor Who stamping plates and attempt to stamp something Timey Wimey on it but I had to share this amazing polish that is STILL on my nails!

Behold the epic stay on POWER!

 If you want to pick up this polish from Lucky 13 Lacquer you can do so here. And don't forget to show them some love on Facebook and the Facebook Fan Group!  Until next time lovelies!