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Been gone a dog's age

2010-03-26T11:27:00.001-07:00

Been gone for a dog's age, I've a lot of polish back log to start taking pictures of and reviewing and a lot of nerdery. XD

Just unfortunately had, had a couple of hard months and blogging completely fell by the wayside, my love of polish never diminished but time and drive/fun/opportunity, etc just made things difficult, so hopefully back and better than ever in the next couple of weeks, now that spring has sprung...I say spring has sprung, yet it is flurrying today. >.<.

Have missed everyone's blogs!

New Hard Candy (Wal-Mart) Polish in Sweet P

2009-12-10T09:42:00.000-08:00

I love this polish, it is cute and festive as all get out, it looks like the color of the Grinch, but if he was made out of glitter! Was so pleased with the look I didn't pause for clean up (and glitter clean up with Poshe on top, come on! pop, pop, off) because I was excite to post the pictures!

Unfortunately with these super size and loose rings, I've lost this green one already. Will have to take a good hunt for it, it can't have gotten too far, unless the vacuum has conquered it. XD

Amazingly one coat is sparse and you expect three or four for amazing coverage, but two did the trick, I was surprised, I only really used the Poshe to cover the glitter's gritty feel on the nail.

Hoping to be able to get another year's usage out of my old HD polish of Icky Eggnog, used a thinner but it is looking like it might just be passed it, but will give it a go. Have loads more greens and reds to post, so I need to step it up as it is already the tenth. Woah, it is moving quite along!.

Inside, two coats, top coat of Poshe.

Outside,show's the shade the best here, imho.

New Hard Candy polish in Envy!

2009-11-10T07:02:00.000-08:00

First off let me apologize for the state of my nails, as you can see I broke my middle fingernail quite low, caught it in the car door and went kind of a bit crazy shaping and filing my nails down to sort of size them. But looks sort of stubby because of the jaggy break of the middle fingernail, it is still pretty painful. >.<

Also, this polish was so hard to capture on film accurately, none of the pictures look exactly like it does in person. This one is gorgeous, it is like British Racing green if it had a bit of shimmer to it. Envy might appear blackened in pictures, but isn't at all, it is stand out green. Reminds me of the old Urban Decay polish Gangrene, without the purple sheen.

Definitely worth the $5, fantastic application, just two coats and Poshe because I can't help myself lol. I'm impressed with the new Hard Candy formula so far, hope the next one I try is as good! ^^

Two coats, indoors, top of Poshe.

Outdoors, cloudy.

The New Hard Candy polishes! Where I've been, and more.

2009-11-06T10:22:00.000-08:00

Sorry for being so absent most of last month, I notice I barely posted and need catching up again on everyone's blogs. Last month nearly everything that could have gone wrong, had done. One of my cats was really ill, she's getting better now, but had to be taken to the veterinarian's care and tests all sorts, and might need more in future, she seems to be on the mend though.

So that caused a lot of stress, some issues with the house and a whole host of lovely other things just piled up at once to make the month awesome, right left and center. I'm positive things are on an upswing though.

Nail polish wise, I'd been trying new ones, and have a bunch to swatch for you all, several pics that I had taken conspired against me, either they didn't turn out well and weren't salvageable in photoshop or repeatedly were funny angled with bad shadows overlapping...

Some polishes were so bad they chipped the same day and and that was so pretty started to recede about half an hour upon application it was craziness.

Have tried two out of the three Maybelline Express Finish polishes I brought, and two strikes so far. >.< Great colors, just chip-tastic, and it brings the lulz with a claim of 50 seconds to dry. Not even 5 mins on that second coat. Still had to whip out the Poshe to speed it up.

Went to Walmart yesterday to get odds and ends and naturally was excited to scope out the new Hard Candy polishes, especially since they are now so inexpensive, (well for Hard Candy!! Wicked!).

Unfortunately, two women were just stocking the Hard Candy section and I am a bit timid so I asked them if I could quickly grab some so I kind of blindly grabbed quite a few (and I mean that!), but next time I go, will really take a good hard look at them! There was an awesome looking taxi cab yellow.

One of them had the ring/plastic off, they are shrink wrapped in plastic onto the bottles, and are quite hard plastic and slip off the bottle necks unlike the original jelly rings that were sometimes hard to shift off the necks at all.

Click the picture to see it enlarged! ^^

Colors in order are...

Mr. Right, Hot Pants, Sweet P, Pretty in Punk, Mermaid, Envy, Rumor Mill, Break Up.

Also, just to show the difference in bottles over time, there's an original bottle of holiday LE Icky Eggnog, which I shook like crazy to make look like more was in it, looks so much like Sweet P, which is why I grabbed it, save Sweet P is smooth glitter rather then chunky holo glitter, and the newer bottle is flanked by a later Hard Candy polish bottle in Glitch. ^^

Nerdery time.

Last night my friend tried to synth me a signed (with his name on) Aristo's, the first synth failed, because he wasn't facing south apparently...but the second worked! This was his first Aristocrat's Jacket synth ever! I'm so proud of him and he's so excited I'm glad to wear it and advertise his Pro crafting skill, the NQ version is of course the Noble's Tunic which I put on the AH immediately. LOL. XD Good for him though, last sold Aristo's sold for 2.7 million gil. Average cost of gil to make, 500-600k gil. Hot!

Sally Hansen HD Opulent Cloud

2009-10-17T08:01:00.000-07:00

Let me open with how much I love this particular polish! It is ridiculously pretty, it has a very antique-y kind of look to it, in fact if it was slightly less heavy on the purple it looks a lot like the old Urban Decay polish Chains.

This is one of the new Sally Hansen HD's called Opulent Cloud, not sure what the others looked like aside from a red shade because the display was mostly empty by the time I got round to it lol!

This is beautiful though and looks completely different in all sorts of lighting changes, the shift on it is something else, definitely worth the higher price tag for this particular HD. Plus, unlike the other HD's this one only required two coats for complete coverage and yes I did pop on Poshe on top. ^^

Indoor lighting, two coats, Poshe top.

Outdoors,cloudy.

0.. <--- kitty on the keyboard type. XD He likes to sleep on the LAN tower or the Monitor top, he took over the spots from my girl cat, the LAN tower is cold in the summer from the fans and the monitor is super warm...So now when he wants attention he drapes his arms down the front of the monitor and slides down down down til his paws touch the keyboard so I will scoop him up. He's getting on in years so I can't resist this little trick.

I fall for it at least three times a night for a cuddle.

Urban Decay Meltdown; Aion

2009-10-05T08:29:00.001-07:00

I'm really behind in reading people's blogs and in posting just a lot of things have kind of toppled on me and need to wade back through and start enjoying the little things again. Looking forwards to catching up on everyone's blogs, I know I'm only a couple days behind, but sometimes that can feel like ages!

This polish is truly pretty though, was amazed at just how bright it is. Initially I thought it was close to one of the original polishes, but when I put it next to the bottle, this came up as lighter. Wicked pretty though I think!

Two coats again, marvelous. Poshe making another top coat appearance. This one is called Meltdown.

Two coats, top of Poshe indoors.

Outside, sunny.

Lookaway, nerdery below! Decided to give Aion a go, and my god it is beautiful. The graphics are insane. Even the music is lovely and hasn't put me off...yet. I want my wings lol. Can see one of my chars Here which is a level 8 priest, and Here" which is a level 5 Scout.

Which are opening jobs before you can unlock your advanced jobs. Cool that you can see the characters online and what they look like model wise, although the resolution is better in game. Things look gorgeous in game.

I am torn which to do more on however, because I've done in games mage like crazy and might be nice to just straight tank stuff. But hey mage is good right? Hmm, wonder when they update the online info because my Priest has a title and that isn't showing up there. Tree Hugger I believe.

There is more xp needed to advance to level nine, then there is xp in the whole of level 75 to max out buffer in FFXI. LOL! So yeah lvl even in low is a grind. Also, you have to block out Kinah (Gold/Gil/RMT) sellers upon logging in or else there is so much spam that you can't see through the chat log. Hell I didn't know if anyone ever spoke to me through all the spam.

At least I haven't run to any more queues to log on. First two nights I had it were half an hour waits for the server...first night I waited half an hour, was able to make my character then server bumped me. Was so mad lol. Haven't run into that since.

I like the quests and how it shows on the maps with markers so you don't need to log to wikis to find NPCs information, so it's fun to wander. Am really enjoying it so far. Will take me forever to advance since I still have EG commitments on FFXI so balance my fun play time and keep games being fun.

Urban Decay Apocalypse Polish; New FFXIV Trailer

2009-09-27T07:21:00.000-07:00

Another beauty from the UD Apocalyptic Collection, this one is the Apocalypse polish itself. Which is for the lovely vampy shade, surprisingly and beautifully another two coat wonder. I'm loving these two coaters from this collection.

This is a very vamp like burgandy brown, it can appear black but it is definitely more towards brown and the currant berry base color is quite apparent. Quite a striking shade that is hard to describe, but looks amazing on. Two coats and the usual habitual Poshe top.

Indoors, two coats, Poshe top.

Outdoors, overcast.

A new trailer for FFXIV has been released, also on the Offical Site sign up for the beta has been introduced. Exciting. But never mind...checky new trailer. This was released at the TGS!

Urban Decay FBomb Polish

2009-09-20T07:02:00.001-07:00

Blargh am sick! >.< Not fun. Hope everyone had a good Talk Like a Pirate Day yesterday. Wahey. But of course for me, it is always talk like a pirate day, and I don't just mean my sailor mouth which I dutifully keep clean and ladylike in my type! lol

Ahh, must profess my love of Urban Decay's FBomb polish, been wearing it for two days and I haven't even had a bit of tip wear and from a nice creme-y red like this, is something to boast about for me. Usually I'm prone to nicking early, but so far this has been a dream.

Such a gorgeous pin up red, classic but it isn't a drastic red, it is a touch muted so it isn't so in your face and blood red. Two coats with a top of Poshe to seal. Sorry about the pictures, this set and the last haven't been all that great, I suppose because I haven't felt well I just have taken them and didn't check them as well I normally would have and they've suffered. Clean up also looks bad here too. So sorry.

Indoors.

Outdoors,sunlight.

Nerdery time.

Uhhhh! You can finally Get Nintendo DSi's in Pink! OMG. Do want. Really badly. When I was in Niagara all four of the boys had their DSi's with them (and I couldn't find my DS, it went missing!) but they did all let me have a go on theirs at various times. Awww! The only bugger about that is, I want to nab myself a PS3 finally after waffling and playing D's. What to do. What to do. Both are a chunk of change so it is really a tough choice.

Also Aion! Looks great. But...does it just look foxy and have that WoWness to it? I want to try it, but I've also joined an EGLS and don't know how beholden I am to that play wise. Finally got round to A Moogle Kupo D'Etat yesterday, and hopefully will finish it tonight or tomorrow on FFXI. Still haven't bothered with ACP waiting on a friend to start that (well have started first two bits), would rather of done that for the body piece than Kupo D'Etat's head piece. But oh well.

Urban Decay Mini Set and Grunge Polish Review

2009-09-18T15:20:00.000-07:00

My Apocalyptic Nail Kit arrived, the set of mini's from Urban Decay. All new polishes save one revamp which is Big Bang, which I have around here somewhere, in this room in fact, should dig it out lol. It is a set of seven polishes and they are errm, even mini-er than I expected they come in at 5mls.

Super cute bottles, great purple metallic pleather carrying case. Amazing shades. So well worth the purchase. Especially based on the two polishes I've tried thus far. Today I have a review of Grunge. But here's a pic of the set. Click to expand.

I must remark upon the formula, fully wowed, two thin coats, but fully pigmented and quick to dry only put a top of Poshe on again because I do with just about everything that isn't a matte or satin top.

The color is another hard to photograph one, but it is also hard to describe, it is not unlike original UD Shade Pigeon, if you were to franken it with a lot of grey or gunmetal, so it is like a gunmetal green, it shows a great blue sheen, but there is a great green luster to it more than the blue the camera picks up.

Two coats, top of Poshe, indoors.

Outside, sunlight.

Was so excited about these, I love my UD polishes. Heheh, check tags to see my old UD archive! I'm sorry for the state of my actual nails, I just broke a couple yesterday and am in the process of reshaping them, and as you can see my pinky took the fall and polish casualty!

But honestly, I'm in love with the formula on the polishes I have tried, so far have tried a metallic in Grunge and a creme in FBomb, which will post tomorrow. If there were full bottles to be had, I'd be buying FBomb in a heartbeat.

Opi Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow Polish

2009-09-16T08:11:00.000-07:00

This was another really hard to capture on film polish, it is an almost blackened shade but it is amazing looking in the sun or the even in the just the right light even, but so hard to how the green comes across accurately.

The polish is Opi's Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow, I used three coats, the first two look muddy, but by the the third it is absolutely perfect and I popped on Poshe on top just as habit really. Great formula. Wish the pictures show just how green this looks outside, but indoors this can look just shy of black.

Indoors,three coats, top of Poshe.

Outdoors, sunlight.

Shades By Barielle Blackened Bleu

2009-09-13T08:38:00.000-07:00

Here's Shades by Barielle in Blackened Bleu one of the gorgeous All Lacquered Up Collection colors, it is really gorgeous, super blackenend navy blue with these amazing blue flecks.

I wish it photographed half as well as it looked in real life. Sometimes, well especially with my camera it is hard to get these darker shades to get an accurate shade portrayal without coming across as just dark. But this one is amazingly vibrant.

Indoors, three coats, top of Poshe.

Outdoors, cloudy.

Oh am so excited that Urban Decay is making polishes again, I picked up the new mini set available on the site straight away, and it is making their to me right now lol! Very cute little collection. Hopefully they will also resurrect some other old shades as well like Oilslick or Gangrene, that'd be fantastic!

Niagara trip and yes I bought polish!

2009-09-09T06:10:00.000-07:00

I have so much catching up with blogs to do, it is overwhelming but it will fun to breeze through and see what every one has been up to. Left for a trip to Niagara Falls/Clifton Hills Ont last wends. Which was brilliant, I haven't seen the Falls for years and years.

Woo, I was there invading Timmies like crazy, rocking the maple dip and lamenting that a large Ice Coffee is the size of a medium at Dunkin Donuts, but Timmies reigns supreme in taste and in that special place in my heart lol. Also I ate enough poutine to fell a lesser person, god love Swiss Chalet and their special gravy. <3

I have picture spam, but actually have decided to keep it light to just four pictures which you can click on to expand. Took some great ones with my BlackBerry which I need to upload as well. These pictures were taken by my nephew Max and they are extremely lovely, couldn't say no when he asked to helm the camera!

Was awesome from start to stop, Transformers 2 RoTF was on PPV. Ch-Ching. Unintentionally lulzworthy CBC programming...(The upcoming skating with the stars esque show featuring Stephan Richer!) gorgeous weather and just being back in Canada was a dream come true. Plus the heaven on earth known as Shopper's Drug Mart.

Any ways, here are some pictures of the majestic falls. Honestly riding on the Maid of the Mist boats and being surrounded by The Falls on either sides is the most beautiful and amazing thing you can ever see or do, really. I highly suggest it.

Oh...thing that is new to me, the vending machine in the hotel didn't accept bills,but credit cards, and only let you purchase one soda at a time and when I'm trouping out there with a child army to watch Transformers lol we were there for an age XD.

A view from one of the walking cutaways near the roadway, you can see one of the Maid of the Mist boats.

I believe this particular falls is called The Bridal Veil falls.

Here's a view of another Maid of the Mist boat, see the blue poncho's they are wearing to protect you from the spray? You get drenched obviously. But lol, it was so bloody hot that day, I felt like a turkey in one of those cooking bags at Thanksgiving. Which makes me even more appreciative to eat Tofurkeys lol. XD
Mind you UDPP in Sin, my makeup didn't shift in all that. heheheh.

This is Skylon Tower. We went up that. Horrors. Scared of heights and glass elevator. Not a great combination. But, managed it, didn't want to wuss out and be a baby, nine of us there after all wasn't going to be silly and be precious. You know what? It was not that bad! Was quite pretty, if it was steps I think it might have been more difficult on the scary department, but no, the views were in fact breathtaking and not at all terrifying. Besides I've been up the CN Tower so this isn't a touch on that.

Ok, you have been more than patient, here is the lone polish I picked up, it is from Gosh and is named Peachy, super cute I think.

Orly Pixie Dust Polish

2009-08-31T06:55:00.000-07:00

I really like this one, had to preface with the really bit lol. This is Orly's Pixie Dust. A gorgeous bluish grey with a fine silver shimmer. Can safely say I love this polish. Was afraid at first that this shade would make my hands look corpsetacular.

Two coats with a top of Poshe, and oh dag, I needed to do better clean up, didn't notice until I got a good look at the outdoor pic, where the Poshe kind of is still pooled at the bottom where I'd not peeled it yet. >.<

Indoors.

Outside, overcast.

Shades by Barielle in Slate of Affairs

2009-08-24T10:28:00.000-07:00

My Shades by Barielle haul arrived saturday, while I didn't take a group shot I do have pics of Slate of Affairs and I have to say it doesn't capture on film how lovely it really is. The light blue shimmer that runs through the creamy grey blue slate shade is just marvelous.

Indoors, three coats top of Poshe.

Outdoors, slightly overcast. Look how vastly different it appears outdoors.

Post 100 and it's so not Lux! Jesse's Girl in Blue Moon

2009-08-19T11:01:00.000-07:00

100th post that is craziness! Wish it was better and more chock full of goodness.

Sorry I'm so behind, been busy and the weather has been so humid that the polishes I have been wearing have either just not been drying well and chipping off before I can capture them and not been pretty and in other cases been wearing some that I've already post reviews of! ^^

A little behind on reading everyone's blogs as well, so getting back on that too!

Saw GI Joe last week! Wow, so many lulz, must preface that with, I will so be purchasing that on DVD. Destro ftw. They totally ruined my Baroness. ; ; Oh well she's still my girl. Cartoon girl. My childhood style queen lol.

Have a new tattoo also super sweet old school pirate ship, as the golden age of piracy is one of my main interests, and let me say they aren't kidding around when they talk about how the elbow area HURTS. I have quite a bit of work and nothing has ever felt as dreadful as that area, was ridiculous.

Ordered a haul of polishes, just got round to the matte Opis.

Here's Jesse's Girl in Blue Moon. This is my second go around, my first was four coats and it didn't last long, today I'm wearing it with just three and a top of Poshe and it looks amazing so far! Only and outdoors and bottle picture though because my inside lighting pictures didn't turn out and will need to retake them at home. ^^ Sorry about that.

Really is a gorgeous color, hope to get a good wear out of it this go. It looks more royal purple to me, but I love how electric it is.

Outdoor, sunlight...blistering heat lol.

Scherer Chameleon in Blue Sky

2009-08-09T07:14:00.000-07:00

I saw these Scherer Chameleon polishes in Rite Aid yesterday and picked up one in Blue Sky, the only one that really stood out to me. Was really a pretty duochrome in the bottle. Was also able to pick up two cute Jesse's Girl brand polishes, very excited to have been able to snatch those up, seeing amazing swatches Kitty's blog. Most were sold out. lol

The formula on this, was going to say for the picture to mind my pinky nail which had a nick on it for my being clumsy hitting it before the pictures, but during the editing of the pictures just general doing things it sloughed off in chunks. Two coats with Poshe and apparently isn't super resilient a polish. Six chipped nails and have been wearing it under 15 hours. *shrug* Application was sort of thick as well. Which is a shame because the color is such a lovely duochrome. Shifts between a lavender and blue metallic. Really dislike poor reviews, but this one just seems to be be very chip prone. Dried very quickly on its own though.

Two coats, top of Poshe, indoors.

Outdoors, sunlight.

Going today to a family party, my little niece's first birthday party to be exact how exciting! Can not wait, such a sweetheart, should be all kinds of fun. Wicked fun to see her on any occasion never mind all super star party style!

Piggy Polish You're Blue-tiful

2009-08-05T06:41:00.000-07:00

My first foray with Piggy Polish brand polish. This one is called You're Blue-tiful, it looks lavender, slightly blue with heavy greenish shimmer in the bottle. Not really seeing blue here lol. Once applied looks super minty green on, this is three layers with a top of Poshe, it was super sheer so I had to build up the color.

Would be really cute sheer on longer nails, but with them this short, I don't like the look of sheer on my own nails, on others yes but just on my hands, not so much.

Indoors, three coats topped with Poshe.

Outside, cloudy.

Sally Hansen HD Lite, House Show Pics

2009-08-03T10:55:00.000-07:00

Oh, horrible nail breakage last night broke one nail on hitting it against one of the plastic chairs and one I well, maybe..um...might have..um, well I may have. Might have. Could have done. Might have done. Ok. I bit my nail. And my purse. >.<.

LOL so wrong. Jessica Fail!

Well, at least that with all of my nails filed down yet again that probably rounds out the last of the big damage from the false nails.

This color really really does not suit me at all. It looks fantastic in the bottle, and applies extremely well, in fact it is only two coats with a top of Poshe, it did need the Poshe for shine, as on it's own it wasn't as shiny as it appeared in the bottle.

But this yellow on my pale and pink pallor. Not a good mix I reckon.

Indoors, two coats, Poshe top.

Outdoors, hazy.

Ok the wrestling! A lovely evening, we all went to dinner beforehand which was extremely yummy I had a grilled cheese with chutney and apples in it. Ridiculous! One of my fav. things ever.

Apparently you could bring proper cameras, which I didn't know, they used to be down on that at this particular venue, and I'm disappointed because I could have taken some really great shots! Especially of Maxy getting to shake ECW Heavyweight Champion Christian's hand! But unfortunately only crap shots with my BlackBerry.

Boo.

Which leads to the nail breakage. LOL.

I can't even post my Burchill pics, cause I shook too much from nerves and it was shakezilla, maybe my sister or Stacey got better ones of him hur hur hur. But I do have some pics to share! Oh should have prefaced with teh Burchillz is my fav. wrestler. ^^ In fact many of my fav's were there including William Regal,CM Punk the aforementioned Paul Burchill and Drew McIntyre.

Here is Maxy and Masen in front of the ring, it was before the show so the tent was lit all in red for some bizarre reason. Tried to lighten it up and correct it as best I could.

CM Punk.

CM Punk and Kane, who is just massive in real life as opposed to just seeing him on television, he's 7'2 and looks every inch of it.

Drew McIntrye. Foxy, unfortunately he stopped the gimmick where he comes out in a kilt. I really really enjoyed that. Much more than I should. Lovely Scottish gent, talked on and on, got beat down by Ricky Steamboat. XD

William Regal! He got on the mic a lot as well during the match, people were on him a lot riding him for being English, he pointed out to the crowd that they were bloody stupid, too right as his opponent was Canadian, so their USA chants were moot. LOL. Christian got on the mic too and got a laugh out of it too.

Sorry for the quality of the pictures, did the best I could with the phone. Blast not knowing cameras were allowed now at the venue! All my gents lost, save CM Punk! Mine are all baddies though, but was glad Christian won his match. Was so much fun. Small tent shows like these are the only way to fly, once a year, every one has such a good time, suspension of belief. Seeing all the kids have such a good time. It's just brilliant fun. BurchillBurchillBurchillBurchill. XD Ok, now I'll stop and behave and be back to polish and normalcy and not fancying silliness.

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Ocean View,Supercommuter,Stuff

2009-08-01T06:45:00.000-07:00

Another Hard as Nails polish XD I keep getting this right,left and center it seems. Pow! XD What in the world, this is the last one of them though. Still need to get through the HD's.

This one is Ocean View, and the color is OMGWTFBBQ striking, but the formula, ahhh. Blech. That runs into a couple of problems, at least with this particular bottle for me.

Three thickish coats and it is still baldish, maybe a fourth would have helped but it was already so thick on the nail and from the pictures you can see where it pooled at the sides and cuticles as well as the brush stroke party and how even there you can see how unforgiving it was to show imperfections of my nails from the false ones. Check out the index nail. Ugh!

Also it chipped and off a couple of nails on the first day, and on day two had raging tip wear. But, I'm wondering how much of that goes down to humidity interfering with how the polish dries, Poshe can only do so much. So I'm going to try this again on a cooler and drier day, because it is really lovely and hoping maybe a lot of what goes on can be attributed to the weather and the state of my growing out nails.

You know me, I'm loathe to have a poor review of anything.

Three coats, top of Poshe. Indoors.

Outside, sunlight.

First off check out this Amazing Post at Hipster,Please!. So nice, I repped it twice. The Supercommuter album is finally ready! It can be purchased here as a pre-order, but via email you get access to the album early as a digital download in several formats to listen to while waiting for the physical copy.

Let me tell you, it is pure bliss. No one can flow like Wheelie! I really do not want to know how many times I have listened to Life is Grand it is just an amazing, amazing, amazing track. How is that for eloquent? Every element is spectacular, the music is just laid together so perfectly. I couldn't be more thrilled with this album. So worth the wait! Can not recommend it enough.

If you've been having missing the Optimus...

Tomorrow I'm going to see lolWWE with a bunch of family and friends, we have a whole row (nearly), it's at a tent show no less, been to it there a few time over the years and it's massively entertaining. Will need to empty my phone to take some pictures. Because you can on the sly with your phone if last year was any indication. Emptying my phone is a lot harder than it should be though, so that will be fun. My nephews are super psyched already. ^^

Wet N Wild Chrome Polish in Cobalt

2009-07-27T08:30:00.000-07:00

I should have taken a picture of this bottle for scale, it is a mini for sure, it is a cute Wet N Wild polish, in their current Chrome line of polishes in Cobalt which is a teal blue shimmer. Not really heavily metallic or chrome like particularly.

The bottle is .29 fl.oz/8,5mL full. and just runs about $1.99 at Rite Aid, a couple of cute colors but this was the only one that really caught my eye.

The formula itself was fast drying, but was quite thin so it took three with a top of Poshe. It is a bit greener in tone than it pictures. If your nails are longer it might need a fourth for coverage but mine are quite short at the moment so I can't tell if it would be thin at the length. ^^

Indoors.

Outdoors, overcast.

Ulta Starstruck Polish

2009-07-25T06:37:00.000-07:00

Let me start out by saying I couldn't at all capture any where near half how gorgeous this appears on the nail. This is just chock full of glittery goodness, three coats (could have gone with two, but really wanted to be hog wild with immersion) strong with Poshe, and even before I put the Poshe on the coats were fairly quick to dry and with some glitters that is quite an amazing feat in and of itself.

Also I haven't notice any side corner chunks coming off yet, I always hate how that some times can happen with a glitter laden polish how the corner tips can slough off fairly quickly into the mani's shelf life.

Indoors.

Outdoors, sunlight.

Sula Sky Polish

2009-07-23T06:20:00.000-07:00

Let me see, I like the color. The application was fun, peeling it off was marginally fun, but certainly didn't work all the time, so removal with polish remover was also needed.

Says on the bottle for extended wear to use a top and base coat, I'd recommend that as well if you have softer nails, I do and it feels like my nails are naked and the feel the slightest bit weak with just this applied.

You can see the nicks in my index fingernails, the bubbly application and every ridge and imperfection ... can't hide with this formula.

Dries super fast, cute shades but it is certainly not worth the asking price of $9. by any leap. Had I no had blinders on from having had a rough few days and then being psyched at going to Ulta I'd probably of not gone as crazy! But do like the shades I chose and will wear and swatch with top coats.

Two coats indoors, no top coat.

Outdoors.

Ulta Haul, Nerdy Haul...stuff.

2009-07-20T12:19:00.000-07:00

I finally got to hit an Ulta today for the first time ever lol, there aren't any around where I live, but I went quite far off for a shopping adventure with my sister and a friend with my nephew and her little one and there was an Ulta on the lot so I made haste and hit that action so fast!

Errm, also something like these aren't like the others, I also made a haul of a different kind which I will also address wahey. ^.~

I bought a bunch of the Sula polishes, I'd seen them on All Lacquered Up, they are Paint and Peel polishes, like grown up Tinkerbell polishes! That is just sick, such a gimmick I can get behind, totally had to restrain myself, cute color range as well.
From left to right the Sula shades are Midnight, Moss, Azure and Sky.

I also picked up Ulta's own brand polish in Starstruck and a Piggy Polish in You're Blue-tiful, after seeing so many lovely Piggy Polish swatches on Kittyluv's Color'sblog seeing them in person I knew I had to pick one up, was hard to choose!

Oh, yes and also finally picked up UD's Primer Potion in Sin and am so excited about it especially in this weather where makeup goes to pot in the humidity in seconds.

Now to address the nerdy elephant in the room (picture?).

Since I was shopping with Mr Maxy I had to hit the toy aisle (sure, that's my working excuse in this paragraph) scoping out what's good getting him and his brother a surprise and oooh look Baroness, I can't resist, she is my fav. character in the GI Joe world growing up I was a GI Joe nerd and loved the evil evil (also dark haired!) vilaness! So anytime I see a cool Baroness figure. Plop. My nephews will give me them from time to time, it is very cute ^^

Also the mini Jetfire, it's like a having a mini robotic version of my father. For the lulz. And for the nerdery. There may or may not be a non pictured largish Ironhide.

Waiting for the Monthly version FFXI/A Moogle Kupo d'Etat update to finish up. Have done the download actually, which went fairly quickly surprisingly. Haven't bought the Moogle Kupo d'Etat expansion, to be honest haven't finished/gotten into ACP. With the reset maybe I can run into Bloodtear or Steelfleece my fav. NMs. I like rams. What can I say.

Geeky Screeny!

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Gunmetal

2009-07-19T06:28:00.000-07:00

I found this in a little bowl for fifty percent off at CVS, with two other polishes (there was another of this one,and a caustic looking pink). Wahey! Really, really like this one, such a strong blue lean to this aptly named Gunmetal polish. Two coats (Hard as Nails/Xtreme Wear Gunmetal) and Poshe top. ^^.

Indoors.

Outdoors, sunlight. Sorry for the tip wear, have had this on a couple of days and just thought now to get a snap!

Sally Hansen HD Digital Polish

2009-07-15T05:47:00.001-07:00

Woah, this is florescent like you wouldn't believe! Outside this polish is amazing. This is Sally Hansen HD polish in Digital, and amazingly this wasn't a four coater, but just two coats with a top of Poshe!

Yes it is still doing that weird pool thing at the base, but been reading reviews that it is not uncommon with the HD's about the pooling happening unfortunately. It is still gorgeous though, the glow on this is crazy!

Indoors.

Outdoors in the sunlight ^^

Revlon Nails Fashion Runway Collection Nails, reviewed

2009-07-15T05:25:00.001-07:00

All right, here it is reviews of the nails, my sister declined pictures being taken.
Fie! But, here is what she had to say of them, she chose the same design as well though. They stood up well to dishes, cooking (including cookie making, which as you know is messy work at the best of times) and scrutiny from a friend who wears professionally done nails.

We both thought it was difficult to text, both having Blackberrys of the same model, I in fact chipped some of the silver 'chrome' off the stuff near the center ball with the nails. Massive misspellings and corrections lol. Being a gamer had to see how these did with my gaming macros, which are programmed buttons and how I could hit them (sometimes I have trouble hitting them my my natural nails get long) and with the crazy long middle finger length caused a bit of trouble, but nothing super bad, had to get used to typing with the longer nails, but was less of a nuisance then texting.

I haven't had false nails in years, so it was strange getting used to the feel, but the Revlon nails didn't have that super alien feel to them, they were quite comfortable. My sister said she only felt discomfort in her thumb and that was for just a day til she shaped it. Her removal was a good process, she said they just popped off for her and her natural nails only felt soft for a day before hardening back up. My removal was a tad bit harder, but my nails have always been a bit weaker.

What I would like to have seen more of though would have been more sizes for the pinky and a bit longer, my natural pinky was filed down super low and the false one barely covered it which was surprising considering how massive the middle nail was to all the others. When I made a gaffe with the pinky I was hard pressed to find another size for my pinky that I didn't have to MacGuyver with a file to fit. So more pinky and possibly index sizes please!

Basically, while long nails aren't generally my style I do love the way they look ,these Revlon styles are truly gorgeous and I enjoyed the fantasy of having perfect nails for a few days and would absolutely use the product again especially if there was a special event and I wanted to be especially decked out. Thank you very much Revlon for letting me try out your product.

Revlon Nails! Transformers 2 ROTF

2009-07-10T06:12:00.000-07:00

Hello, doing something new, I was super kindly approached to try out and review some of Revlon's gorgeous array of Runway Collection temporary false nails, and they are super adorable.

They were most generous as well with the amount of designs to choose from, my sister and I are are both trying them right now for dual reviews so it will be a few days time time to have a proper review for wear etc!

Mind my pinky nail, I did mess up there and get a bit of glue on it and could not find another comparable size to replace it unfortunately.

But here's a quick pic! ^^ This design is called Sequins.

ZOMG Transformers 2 ROTF. Wow. Geekgasm. I can't even begin to go on about how much I enjoyed it, I could get nitpick-y and spoilery here, but I will not do either of those things. One word I will say, Constructicons! ZOMG!

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Ivy League

2009-07-04T07:54:00.000-07:00

Happy Fourth to those in the States ^^

I've a Sally Hansen Hard as Nails polish today in Ivy League a green with a nice gold tint to it, and shocker it only took two coats with a top of Poshe. I really like this one, the display had a huge array of amazing colors it, but I resisted and only picked up Ivy League because of the huge purchase of the HD collection last month which I still haven't tried on all of (looking forwards to getting round to it though!).

Sorry that I didn't think to peel off the sticker, tacky >.< although the price was a fine sight better than what the HD polishes cost can tell ya.

Two coats, with poshe on top, nice dense pigmentation, nice even application too. Indoors. Lack of clean up pen. Errm *^^*;

Outdoors. Sunlight. Sunny day, finally!

Am a day behind or so reading blogs hope to catch up tomorrow after bbq fun. Hopefully tomorrow will also get around to seeing Transformers as well, the weather has been bad, so the theaters have been packed where I live that you can't get on the lots to see anything. I want to see me some Optimus!!!!one!!eleven!!

Comparison of ManGlaze's The Death Tar and Zoya's Dovima

2009-06-29T07:01:00.000-07:00

As the title says, here is a comparison of ManGlaze's The Death Tar and Zoya's Dovima next to each other. Both are lovely matte blacks, will have to also show Knock Out's Flatte, which is darker than both of these. On my ring and pinky nails are Zoya's Dovima and middle and index are ManGlaze's The Death Tar, they are nearly identical to each other to the naked eye right down to brush stroke appearances. Formula wise is where they differ, and that difference is huge.

The Death Tar applies evenly and is much thinner and easier to control. Both are shown with two coats applied. I definitely recommend ManGlaze's The Death Tar though. Still need to get Flatte up to compare next to these, think it is still my fav. ^^

Indoors.

Outdoors, cloudy.

Zoya Dovima Polish

2009-06-26T14:41:00.000-07:00

Back from the tattoo shop ^^ Fresh new anchor and stars, very lovely, ow and all. But, let's get on to the Dovima review, and I must say it isn't the best. Pictures first.

Two coats, indoor lighting.

Outside, barely a bit of sun shining through.

The formula on this was so thick, and wasn't really a quick dry like most of the matte polishes on some fingers it did dry quickly on some it smeared right off and application was horrid, it rolled right off the edges thickly on some nails. Plus the wear was bad, already I'm chipping badly and it has only been a few hours time.

Will have to do a comparison for color next to ManGlaze's The Death Tar and Knock Out Cosmetic's Flatte, already I can tell you it looks closer to The Death Tar and really ladies, I say spend your money on ManGlaze's The Death Tar and skip Dovima. Plus the clean up was ghastly, usually you can slough the matte stuff off your skin fairly easily, this was sticky as all get out. I hate to give a bad review, really I do but this just wasn't up to snuff.

Posh was lovely, and am looking forwards to swatching Loredana, am hoping that this one was just a dud.

Zoya Posh Polish (Matte)

2009-06-25T06:20:00.000-07:00

Here's my first go with Zoya's matte collection in Posh, the red of the group. A very satiny finish rather than super super flat. Quite pretty though, am super pleased with it.

Two coats, indoors.

Outdoors, overcast. Where's the sun? Fnnar!

Because of super busy things going on I've gotten a bit behind in a lot of areas, so hopefully in the next couple of days I'll get back up to speed and next week get the contest up and sorted, I'm really sorry about the delay on that.

Reading a delightfully scary book called The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters right now, really digging it.

Zoya's Matte Collection

2009-06-24T06:12:00.001-07:00

Woot! Look what arrived last night, boing! Zoya's Matte Collection! Haulzilla!

from left to right; Posh, Dovima and Loredana.

Hopefully pictures posted tonight of Posh, because that is so calling my name to be tried out first. ^^

Illamasqua Phallic!

2009-06-22T05:48:00.000-07:00

Must preface this with the fact that the pictures couldn't capture how gorgeous this polish actually is, I may need to redo these pictures at another time. I was so impressed by the formula of Illamasqua's Phallic, all the shimmer was just amazing. Two coats probably could have been used but I went for three which really darkened it up because at the length there was a bit of bare spots. A top coat of Poshe was added. ^^

Phallic indoor lighting.

Outdoors, sunlight.

Illamasqua Muse, Mini Haul

2009-06-17T06:02:00.001-07:00

My Illamasqua polishes came!

Look at the gorgeous packaging, the middle package was Muse, I just loved the design of the box.

From left to right : Envy, Muse and Phallic.

Muse indoors. Two coats, no top coat, lovely creme application. I jammed my middle finger just before I took the picture hence why the polish is lifted there :/ Grr. No reflection on the formula, just my being clumsy at the time.

Muse outdoors, sunlight.

Sally Hansen HD Cyber

2009-06-17T05:54:00.001-07:00

Have a back to back post today, I didn't put it all together in case it made it too picture heavy. Here's my third going out with a Sally Hansen HD and still enamored. Yet another glow and pigment heavy polish. Also another three coater, with that weird build up at the bottom which I'm thinking is just that it doesn't play nice with Poshe. Will try the next HD with a different top coat and see if that makes a difference.

This is Cyber which is a gorgeous purple which has these amazing pinkish and bluish hues to it.

Indoors.

Outside,sunlight.

My Illamasqua polishes came and wow am I floored at them. Just blown away at the packaging alone, the shades are just...well you'll see ~.^

Sally Hansen HD Pixel Pretty Polish

2009-06-14T06:52:00.000-07:00

Here's Pixel Pretty, another of the HD Sally Hansen Collection. I also wasn't sure about this one at first glance because it had a bit of a yellow cast to it, and that doesn't really suit my skin tone. But that amazing glow to it took over and won me over! The glow is amazing, like Blu, perhaps not as pronounced but certainly eye catching.

It did require three coats for full coverage, and a top of Poshe. The outdoor pic it shows up strangely pooled at the bottom which it doesn't in the indoor shot, and isn't like that IRL, I think that had to do either with the angle I took the shot at, and the clean up stage. So please disregard the strange look at the bottoms of the outdoor picture. Had to preface it, because it looks quite odd.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors, slightly cloudy.

Sally Hansen HD Blu Polish

2009-06-11T05:49:00.000-07:00

Of the Sally Hansen HD polishes tried Blu first, it really grew on me. Wasn't super sure of how well I liked it on at first, but it just absolutely glows and catches the light. Has garnered quite a few compliments. Another three coat polish just to get things completely even, top coat of Poshe.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors, sunlight. The strange look is clean up strange the Poshe pulled the excess up a bit and I thought I shifted it before taking the picture.

Think I might try Pixel Pretty next.

NYC Electric Nail Glossies in Midnight

2009-06-09T05:43:00.000-07:00

I've had this one kicking around for quite a while, might even be a year or two, but I think I've seen ones lingering in Rite Aid from this collection in displays here or there. This is NYC's Electric Nail Glossies in Midnight. The square cap on this one comes off and reveals a thin wand.

Was a three coater for a bit of thin spots in color and it just sat strangely on some nails aside from the Poshe drying it nicely. Like it looked like it dried in a wave on two nails, which I couldn't document at all, yet on other nails perfect application. I'm stymied! While it isn't a duochrome it sometimes took on the look of a more teal than midnight blue in the blackened base, all and all it wasn't a bad polish. Just an odd one; slightly inconsistent.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors, sunlight.

Zoya Dita Polish, Sally Hansen HD Polishes!

2009-06-08T14:37:00.001-07:00

Finally gave Zoya's Dita a go and I love it, quite a bright fuschia pink, not quite retina burning but still very vibrant, not a sedate pink that is for sure!

Indoor lighting. Two coats, Poshe top. Not the best clean up, the Poshe is near to the bottom and is gobbing up and the bottom of my nails it seems at close inspection.

Outdoors, overcast. Truer to color than the indoor lighting.

Finally at CVS they've stocked the Sally Hansen HD polishes, and I was the first at them lol, got the entire row of the display. The checkout girl thought I was crazy, she said she'd never seen anyone buy so much polish before. Came off my no buy with a vengeance, am now on one again having bought so much now. Hopefully by the end of next week will have contest stuff at the ready (Have some fun stuff!). Need to work out other details but will sort that out as well. Click on the small picture to enlarge.

from left to right.

Hi-Res, Digital, Three D, Lite, BLU, Pixel Pretty, Hi-Def and Cyber.

Looking forwards to trying these so much, seen some amazing swatches floating around.

Butter London Chimney Sweep

2009-06-04T14:35:00.000-07:00

Here's another of my Butter polishes, this time it is a super shiny grey called Chimney Sweep, it is very nearly black but falls short of it and it is shiny once its on, but I do have a top coat of Poshe on, so I must add that disclaimer. There are three coats of Chimbley on ^^. The outdoor picture you can really see the shine. Sorry not the best of clean up here. The formula on this one was great, I could have gotten away with just the two coats.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors, overcast.

Have some lovely Illamasqua" polishes on their way to me that I am very excited about. ^^ Like a lot of people Phallic was one of my purchases. So gorgeous. Check out this post @ Bring on the Bling showing just how beautiful it is.

Close on the nerdery again. @E3 they released the trailer for FFXIV, the New MMORPG coming next year and look hi rez choco! How cute. Looks hefty on the same looking hume guy. ZOMG. But still. Have enough to get through in XI, but can't say I'm not curious about XIV Oh, yes trailer. Where's the taru?!!! Embedded below.

Oh the Official XIV site is up with screenies & trailer @ http://finalfantasyxiv.com

Zoya Rihana Polish

2009-06-01T10:43:00.000-07:00

Ugh had a lovely dentist appt. today, not fun! Ahh well. But I do have lovely pictures of Zoya's Rihana polish. Plus it is sunny today, so I can not complain. ^^ Ok, onto the lovely bottle shot! Bottle shot!!!!!!!!!

Indoor lighting, three coats and a top of Poshe. This looks very lit from within. Actually this looks a lot like, except with a more burgandy than red tint of course, like the later releases of Urban Decay's Gash polish. It has that same deep glow about it.

Outdoors, in the sunlight.

Hmm, considering buying and Illamasqua or two this month. So many pretty shades to choose from. Ahhh what to do, what to do! lol.

Close with something nerdy, let's see in XI got my WHM to 71/72 solely on Campaign and two Besiegeds. That is bad. Server hop maybe XD Nah.

Butter London Big Smoke

2009-05-29T08:27:00.000-07:00

Today we have another Butter London polish, this time up is Big Smoke, which is a dusky medium navy blue. I like the color a lot. The formula on this one, not so much. I used four very generous coats, and still in some places in the light I can slightly still see through. So I'm slightly disappointed,now I know why it was sat there so full in the collection. XD But, with a white or black base that can be remedied depending on how dark you want to go I reckon. Photographs a tad darker than it is. Four coats with a top of Poshe. Bottle shot!

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors, it was a bit drizzly so this wasn't in the normal spot but best place I could get with good light. Should it clear will take another picture.

Butter London Mariner

2009-05-26T06:25:00.000-07:00

Here's a lovely vampy blackened green I've been wanting to wear for a while but hadn't when I'd the longer nails. Butter London's Mariner. This shows up so dark,very nearly black. Check it out in the bottle.

In fact once on you can it is hard to detect the green, but it super pretty. The only way to clearly see it start green is to see the hot mess the first coat leaves, which is a streaky horror, but the second coat adheres like a dream and all is forgiven. Really the second coat takes away the horror of the first. The square bottle is fiddly to deal with. But I'm showing the first coat because it does show the green base. Mess below, take a sedative before looking!

Two coats of Mariner, indoor lighting, with a top coat of Poshe.

Outdoor, sunlight.

Zoya Indigo Polish

2009-05-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

I decided to leave the bottle picture bigger so you could see the multi colored glitter flecks in the polish. When applied they really aren't prevalent on, but they are there and will catch the odd light here and there. Quite pretty.

I need to get some vaseline so I can try the tip about clean, this pooled a fair bit around my cuticles the Poshe kinda 'helped' that out too. Two coats of Zoya's Indigo with a top coat of Poshe. Indoor lighting.

Outdoor light, slightly overcast.

Wasn't able to capture the glitter effect, but it is hard to see even when looking for it with the bare eye, it is a pretty surprise that catches the eye sometimes. Maybe with a third coat, hmmm.

Hope everyone is having an excellent week-end!

Nyx Asphalt Polish

2009-05-21T06:03:00.000-07:00

I've been so excited to give this one a turn, it is Nyx polish in Asphalt. Which is a black base polish with rainbow glitter, it is wildly fun. Love it! This is two coats with of course a top off of Poshe.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors in sunlight.

And I'd caved on my no buy this month, and bought three Zoya polishes. Indigo with it's multi colored glitter I couldn't resist, and of course I couldn't stop at one so to keep it company on it's journey with it came Rihana and Dita.

KO Ox

2009-05-19T13:51:00.001-07:00

Well, I trimmed my nails to nubbins, of course today I miss the length. lol. Naturally! XD But really when the polish was off the peeling and staining wasn't pretty, it was like split ends on the nails they were due to come off unfortunately, but I did enjoy them! Also this is fun because I've a good array of dark polishes to swatch and I like how they look on my nails a shorter size, on others I like the vampy/ longer length combination but on my hand I think it looks alien! Ahh well without further adieu...Knock Out Ox!

Indoor lighting.

Outside, in the sun no less!

This is a gorgeous plummy ox blood purple. Two coats. During high school I used to dye my hair this shade, and sport a pair of doc martins in this color too. heheh.

Color Club Electronica /KO Ox bottle

2009-05-18T14:55:00.000-07:00

Ugh still without corrector, but here is the glorious Color Club Electronica, I don't know why despite lighting conditions it photographs such a royal blue, but is it ever a deep shimmering purple irl. Don't mind the almighty horror I made of my index fingernail, they state of them with using the nail guides for the french tips and all the acetone have made them quite icky so I'm going to trim them tonight.

In bottle shot of CC Electronica.

Indoor lighting. Two coats, with a top of Poshe, for the length a third coat wouldn't of been amiss some spots I could still see a bit of streak through in the length.

Outdoors.

Oh and Ox came today, so very excited about this, my future nubbins can't wait.

Full Hand Amour Rainbow Hologram/Revlon Black Lingerie

2009-05-15T12:44:00.001-07:00

First of all I'd like to thank you for all the input, I'll reply here instead of replying in the comments. I truly appreciate your taking the time out to comment and I'm totally going to implement a lot of it! I've got an idea brewing about a giveaway that hopefully I can have going at the beginning of the month as well now.

<3s ladies!

I'd been concerned because I'd lost a follower and you are all super dear to me, so any thing I can do to improve and keep you engaged is something important!

I reckon the FFXI post is what caused it lol. Can't promise something that horribly dirty nerdy wont happen again in future! Will try and keep that to a minimum.

Decided to retry Amour's Rainbow Hologram with the Revlon Black Lingerie tips, with Poshe top coat. I'd shown it on just one nail the other day because I'd rushed it and gotten frustrated. It was worth redoing, and I think I'd like to get more of these Amour (Unique Ruby not withstanding! hur hur!)

Indoor lightning.

Outdoors,really shows the iridescent sparkles. Such a milky pink base too, that builds on a second coat, but this is just one coat over the black with the Poshe top. Again sorry about the clean up, corrector pen ahoy and better remover.

Midnight on the Midway Polish

2009-05-14T13:31:00.000-07:00

Ladies, I'd like your help, how can I make this a better blog, more pictures? More diverse colors? More verbose? Less so? Any suggestions or requests to grow this blog I'd love to take! Looking into getting a better camera down the road as well.

Today is Black Phoenix's Claw Polish in Midnight on the Midway. It is a metallic grape that sometime can cast pinkish in the light. Very silvery in bottle. As you can see I've come to the end of my corrector pen sadly! Need to pick up another quick snap. This is two coats with a top coat of Poshe.

Indoor lighting.

Outside.

Another outside snap.

Revlon Black Lingerie/Amour Brilliant Ocean Blue

2009-05-13T05:45:00.000-07:00

I decided to retry the suggested french mani with the black tips with Amour's Brilliant Ocean Blue with Revlon's Black Lingerie, and it is so pretty. Turned out much lovelier than the Rainbow Hologram. Took a picture indoors and out, couldn't capture how nice this actually was. The metallic blue it turned the tips is so shiny and shimmers light blue as well in the light.

And outdoors.

Oh when I was going on about FFXI yesterday forgot to mention about how much I dig the RDM JA Composure, finally when they got round to giving RDM one it was decent. Eventually I'll post some of my geeky but cute screenies, if I can find em. lol.

FFXI Anni Ring Time. Stats Ahoy. Geekery Inside.

2009-05-12T12:26:00.001-07:00

So it is time that the Anniversary XP band is released, joy and rapture. Not sure which job I'll bung the uses on, either finish out WHM or ease the pain of BLM lvling with. But with the mog giving you your band you also get your yearly updated stats of various things like...

KO'd : 1260 deaths. I'd of thought it'd be more with Campaign/Besieged and my nasty habit of getting ganked purposely by Blackbeard fishing. That's over the course of four years.

Battles fought: 49954. Although I did Campaign so I'm sure it's gone over since I reckon the numbers go per mob.

Defeated: 35312 of the above mobs. Wahey.

GM calls : 3. How helpful were they. 0. Sorry. How many I've seen in 4 years. 3! Sick gear though worth a look should people be shouting one is around lol.

Frightening chat frequency number I'm not even going to show, etc.

Got to 17 fishing, not on purpose, am fishing up nebs like crazy for money as I don't have the patience to farm my new tier two En spells or the rest of my new WHM spells. Plus I plunked a shazz load on a HQ Dark staff upgrade...finally because I'm cheap with the gil. Farming is the devil. Might have to sell my blau. Naaah.

Amour Rainbow Hologram/Misa Fatal Affair

2009-05-12T05:32:00.000-07:00

Decided to try another of the special Amour's, this time Rainbow Hologram, I used for the tip Revlon's Black Lingerie. The whiteness of the polish turned it purplish. Rainbow hologram in itself is a pinkish white with iridescent glitter. I'd done full hands but had messed it up royally and wasn't bothered to start over. Rage! lol.

This is Misa's Fatal Affair, and I am in love. It is a gorgeous vampy deep purple with a blue shimmer, it is just stunning and so shiny irl. The blue doesn't translate super well in the picture. The formula was sort of thick though so it took an age between coats, but luckily only needed just the two.

Woof, I've Ride the Lightning in my head. Lovely! Jaunty tune ftw!

Amour Brilliant Ocean Blue Polish

2009-05-11T05:38:00.000-07:00

This is Amour in Brilliant Ocean Blue, bought from Transdesign. Two coats. Really very shimmery, with good coverage, could have gone with a third though. This was one of the color effect polishes that if you use black base are supposed to be super reflective, but this was swatched over a clear base. Did try the black with the red/Unique Ruby to pants results lol. But will maybe retry this with the black tips to start as they suggest. I think this blue is quite pretty as it stands though.

SH Lime Lights, Liberty/Peppermint Patti

2009-05-10T07:29:00.001-07:00

Here is Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Lime Lights, just two coats, because I liked just that little bit of sheer despite the state of my nails. Really beautiful shade, catches the light. ^^.

Also, here is a side by side for Lucy, who was asking if Knock Out Liberty was a dupe for MAC Peppermint Patti, despite the frosted bottle of Liberty, the color is true. Peppermint Patti is darker, almost a bit yellower in tone green than Liberty.

Also, happy Mother's Day to the mums reading. ^^

KO Liberty! DS(i) fun

2009-05-07T06:00:00.000-07:00

KO Liberty is here, and is just lush! Really does look like that green over copper patina.

Sorry for the hasty semi clean up, just wanted to post how gorgeous this was. Less haste, more speed. XD

This is three coats, and is extremely quick to dry. Keep having to peek at this mani, really love the combination of color and flatness.

They have one called Ox out now, and it's my dream been hoping for an Ox blood colored polish and for a flat one at that. How can I resist. Oh what to do.

My nephews popped over last night with their DSis, they traded in their DSes apparently you get a good deal of cash on trade in for a DSi. Anyways, we were messing in Pictochat chatting and they can send and write/draw to mine in a rainbow which is so cute. Wonder if they can in individual colors as well. Looks like the DSi is worth upgrading to, but am going to wait to see if they release another wave of colors, as it is just blue and black right now...don't want to surrender my pink/Boba Fett number just yet.

SH Insta Dri in Blue Streak

2009-05-06T10:09:00.001-07:00

Hmm, for a start this has more of a green tone than this picture indicates. This is Sally Hansen Insta Dri in Blue Streak, didn't do a clean up because this didn't stay as a mani, this color which I do like,mind, doesn't lend itself to a half moon mani. ^^

Hoping maybe Liberty comes today!

Mon Cherry part 2, CVS Haul,Max's Art!

2009-05-05T10:19:00.000-07:00

Took another shot of Mon Cherry, because that last one was pants, just didn't look right! And...it's on the green metallic backdrop which for no reason find amusing.

Here's my CVS haul, click on if you'd like to see it larger.

Had to pick up a scrip and thought, wow excuse to peruse for nail polish. I got Poshe top coat, was cheaper than Seche, think it was on sale. Also one of the Sally Hansen Insta Dri's in Blue Streak and Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Lime Lights, I adore that sort of shimmery green, it isn't always the most flattering but it is so cute!

What all else, oh a replacement mascara. Had meant to do a review of Max Factor's 2K Calorie Extreme Lash Plumper saturday and that afternoon before snaps were made I fell prey to the pink eye that'd been going round the house, no amount of hand washing and Purell action worked. I thought I'd evasion +1 too. lol. So I had to toss that mascara, was going to rep it but saw this new Revlon mascara called DoubleTwist. The wand is interesting it looks like a combo of a bristle brush with the newer soft plastic style intertwined. So looking forwards to trying it once I'm sure the conjunctevitus has cleared completely. Not fun, I can tell you! First time in all my years I've ever had it. Not a fan! XD

Oh, and I promised my nephew to feature his artwork, and here is the little charmer with a picture he drew of his favorite wrestler, Jeff Hardy, replete in face paint. He's got a few more that are fantastic of Hardy as well ^^

Max is standing in front of my nerd nook. *^^*;

Revlon Mon Cherry Scented Polish

2009-05-05T05:50:00.000-07:00

Finally got around to trying Revlon's Mon Cherry, faint cherry smell here. Not entirely sure that I'm keen on the shade, think it is more of a pedi one for me. This is just missing some pop, it's nice though. Oh, sorry for another half moon mani, but when my nails are long it is all I can do to not rock a half moon mani. lol. Might retake the picture again tonight, it is all wonky.

Blech, raining up a storm today.

My bottle of KO Liberty is on it's way, so says the email. Can not wait for this one!

Because of that purchase have made it a no buy this month, unless I find those new Sally Hansen Insta Dry new shades! Must resist. Must resist.

For fun thought I'd put a video in this post, one of my fav. HorrorPops songs, 'Where you can't follow' ^^ Love that Patricia Day, she's amazing.

Nyx Titanic Polish

2009-05-03T06:18:00.000-07:00

Decided to do a moon mani, this is my fav. style of application usually I'd use Revlon Color Stay in one of their two shades of red, vintage was the better one. That polish suited the style perfectly but was a (let me think of a non sailor mouth adjective) a...a...bear to remove, not unlike Purple Avenue's glitter extravaganza. Think they've long since stopped making it. But I digress (shocker), decided to give it a go with Nyx's Titanic and love the results. Cleaned up by using Nailene strips and a corrector pen, but still close up you can see it but looks fantastic under not such up close scrutiny. Maybe ^^ The Nyx formula is wonderful both coats dried extraordinarily quickly.

Petite Haul,Mad About Mango Polish, Smith's Lippy

2009-05-01T06:27:00.000-07:00

Humming, coming atcha. Or something.

Righty, here's Mad About Mango, another of Revlon's scented line. I was surprised how well I liked it on, it pools a bit, but more fault lays with the fact of my application, must try and master applying above instead or right down in there. The scent, well it smells like any and all kinds of Hubba Bubba gum, ever, stronger than Not so Blue-Berry that's for sure. ^^

Here's my petite Nyx haul, three polishes that came in a box that could have shipped twenty, lol. These are gorgeous.

From left to right is Titanic,Purple Avenue and Asphalt. I'd had to have Asphalt after seeing swatches, anything black and with any hint of rainbow I must get my greedy mitts on.

Decided to try on Purple Avenue first, it has this amazing large chunky holographic glitter, reminds me of some Nfu Oh's. I'm wearing three coats and it gives this light flush of purple to the nails, I like how subtle it is. Bet this would be forgiving if you chipped it. Also this would make a dead lovely top coat. But I do recommend a clear coat over it, not from lack of shine but that not all the glitter lays flat, it is more of a bumpy texture.

Lastly, have to go on about Smith's Minted Rose Lip Balm.

I didn't take a picture inside, because the pot has seen a lot of use and you don't need to see that lol. Horrors! But I must say how lovely it feels, there is a hint of peppermint that isn't over bearing and rose oils. The shade is a reddish pink that goes on quite sheer for just a tint of pink, it moisturizes and is glossy. Lips feel very kissy in it. (Is that a word? XD) Highly recommend it!

Not So Blue-Berry polish

2009-04-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

Meant to post this yesterday. Not So Blue-Berry indeed, it is definitely more on the foil violet side. Hmm, need a new background for pics, that shiny green is getting kinda blech and I think well clashes with most of the things put up against it. lol. Scent wise, this one is very faint even whilst applying; I'll take faint, better than cloying or chemically smelling any day!

KO'sLiberty!

2009-04-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

Check out Knock Out Cosmetics Liberty is now available for purchase! What a lovely green patina. Lady Liberty indeed!

Scented Raspberry Rapture Polish

2009-04-28T06:23:00.001-07:00

Righty, here's Revlon's scented Raspberry Rapture. (reminds me of my mum saying raaahhssssspberry) Pre clean up shot because there's more to try on! (boing /call 19) Mad about Mango is calling my name. Just remembered they didn't have any of the Pretty in Papaya left. Oh wells, that was more than a fair share of haul. lol. Onto the scent, it is just this side of candy raspberry scent, I quite like it. The scent isn't super heavy or cloying. Really strong when applying it however, but it dries down to be quite nice. You aren't wafting it around but it is a pleasant whiff here and there. Can't wait to try the others both for shade and scent.

Not quite sure what I rotted my middle finger on, but owch, maybe a paper cut gone awry or something.

Zoinks, Revlon Scented Polish Locked and Loaded!

2009-04-27T09:36:00.000-07:00

Guess what I finally found in stock. Oh, it's tharr in the title,innit? Oh well. I found them, the wicked scented Revlon collection and I must say they are foxy as all get out. Click on the small pic for a larger one.

Boing! I really like Mad about Mango, for trying first it is tied between that and Mon Cherry. Not So Blue-Berry is toes bound. lol.

I really need to be on a no buy, that was just woof.

Nina Ultra Pro Polish/G8C

2009-04-27T07:00:00.000-07:00

This is Nina Ultra Pro polish in well, it only has G8C printed on the bottom of the bottle so no fun name that I could find. This was worn to swatch and is just two coats. It warrents a third I think. There was this warm pinkish gold shimmer in the bottle that didn't at all transfer once applied. However I really like this polish.

Mind the dings, was just trying it for a snap and put it on while watching Hot Shots Part Deux on cable. Remember finding it vastly amusing when it came out, but not at all now lol. Doesn't stay funny like Airplane! and Airplane! 2. But it did have hotness like Miguel Ferrar and Rowan Atkinson!!!1eleven! Holy hotness Batman. Besides, guiltily enough was watching that to pass time before the trainwreck of Daisy of Love aired. XD

BPAL Embalming Fluid Polish

2009-04-26T07:57:00.000-07:00

Here's me wearing BPAL's Embalming Fluid, a lovely glow in the dark polish with iridescent glitter. This is three coats of Embalming Fluid with a top coat for shine. Was impossible to get shots that showed how pretty this was, and even more difficult to secure that glow in the dark shot. lol. It is available at here at the Trading Post. Claw polish, wahey!

Annnnnnd in the dark...

Makes for a wonderful top over any polish for a bit of glitter and glow in the dark action. I highly recommend BPAL'a polish, especially Destroying Angel.

Now I must pop outside since there is actually both sunny skies and warm breezes happening. Well at least for a few minutes before I turn pinker.

Knock Out Cosmetics Wahey

2009-04-24T12:49:00.000-07:00

Was perusing the fan page of Knock Out Cosmetics well more precisely their Facebook page and ahoy new polishes! There's a green called Liberty which looks aptly like a green patina. Green! /dance +1.

Also coming is a deep purple called Ox (hope it's Ox bloody, that'd be pr0n). As well as shades called Concrete, Pool, Nude and Chocolate which from the small picture also look perfectly named. My greedy mitts want them all! All I tell you. On the page it says that Concrete and Pool will be released mid-May, Nude and Chocolate mid fall.

The page says that Liberty shall be released next week, and the week following Ox shall.

Ridiculously excited by these new shades, do go look at the pics toute de suite!

Liberty, though wow can't wait till my digits are rocking it!

Hot Topic Turquoise/Pink Glitter

2009-04-23T05:53:00.000-07:00

Here are the two that I couldn't resist from hot topic, one is Turquoise and Hot Pink Glitter and the other is Teal.

This is two coats of the Turquoise and Hot Pink. Was good coverage and dried fast despite it being sort of globby in bottle. It did do a little bit of tip shrinkage on like two tips, so it isn't that bad or super noticeable unless you are looking for it. These run $2.99 a pop.

And here's a close up.

My SOTU box set came yesterday, it was everything and more than I hoped it would be!

Dirty Nerdy!

Sounds of the Universe!

2009-04-22T06:58:00.000-07:00

Sorry no polish on this post, am wearing Revvolution again (I posted a pic and edited it out of this post, having forgotten I'd posted a swatch of Revvolution). Will post tonight a new mani maybe! Really enjoying Revvolution.

Can't believe it is weds. feels like a monday. Hmmmm.

Been playing Pogo Bowling at Pogo, don't know what possesed me to give Pogo a go, but it's been fun. Lots of distracting games. Reminds me of the addiction I had to Gamesville's bingo during insomnia spikes. Must evade hot bingo action. lol. XD

Anyways!

Haven't had luck finding the new Revlon scented polish collection. There's two I definitely want. Maybe three. Must show restraint! Wish Anna Sui still made polishes, I loved the packed glitter and the rose scent. All of the Anna Sui line had that rosey scent. Miss those loads.

Oh! Yesterday I got my mitts on Depeche Mode's Sounds of the Universe download, Amazon says my box set is otw to me now. Squeeeeeeeeeeee! The album is brilliant! Martin Gore ftw! <3 <3 <3

Glamour with Nfu Oh 52, DS yammering.

2009-04-19T10:44:00.000-07:00

I really am fond of DS Glamour, it is just such an amazing shade, never mind the holo! But I wanted to make it extra shiney so I added a coat of Nfu Oh 52 which lent it a more violet shade with the infamous chunky glitter. That pro wide brush though, it is just as fiddly as the Sally Hansen Insta-Dry one imho.

Saw an advert about trading in old DSes can fetch seventy dollars off the new DSi. Ayii temptation. Grrr argh! Don't really need it. Think other thoughts, like nail polish thoughts or saving up for aforementioned PS3 console. Or bill thoughts. Probably the latter. XD

CC Volt of Light, Playstation woes

2009-04-18T14:34:00.001-07:00

Ugh, preface this picture with the fact that I dinged my index fingernail on the camera no less. So smudge ahoy, decided on wearing DS Fantasy for the day (first time wearing it and ahh it's gorge!) instead or I'd of fixed it for the picture. Sorry for that laziness.

This is Color Club Volt of Light, really into these violently neon shades of late. This is two coats, it does have drag marks and tends to pool on this particular shade. I think a third coat and it'd have been perfect. Think for me this would be more of a toenail shade. Doesn't suit me really.

Was at the Toys R Us today and managed to back down from getting my own PS3. Will continue to have that cash separate and maybe next month cave. It is such a cash plunge when you buy new consoles, games aside even not even thinking of headsets etc.

ManGlaze Polish ,BPAL Tray...

2009-04-17T11:42:00.000-07:00

Here's ManGlaze's Fuggen Ugly. Have to say, it's foxy as all get out. A lovely flat gunmetal grey. I think it's perfect for the this length of nails, when my nails are short like this I love a strong shade.

Oh! My BPAL haul came yesterday. The Labbies are crazy fast these days. Could hardly believe it, that they've arrived. Today I'm wearing Velvet Unicorn, and I love the label art. It smells what I thought Dirty Pillowcase was going to smell. I'm smell like yummy sugaaaah!

Talking of BPAL, I made another BPAL tray, lacquering various BPAL inserts onto a basic wood serving tray. This one has a two of the Carnival Diabolique tickets one front side and one reverse a long with some of the postcards. Click on both for larger pictures if you'd like to see it more clearly. ^^

Here's the first one I made from a couple years ago.

Would love to make more, but the shop near me doesn't offer the same sort of lacquer so I need to look around for some.

I want my own PS3, playing it is so fun, I need to commit to this console. XD

Color Club Revvolution + More

2009-04-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

Wahey, finally got my mitts on Color Club Revvolution. It reminds me so much of UD's Oilslick which was my fav. Dag, I see that my inner voice is going with comparing various polishes to old UD stuff is still going strong. Really I'll stop. XD

It isn't as vibrant as a lot of the amazing swatches I've seen, but my word it is lovely. Definitely an instant fav. Like that hot holo action in the sun. Heheh.

Righty here's what I had incoming finally arrived, click on the picture to get a larger one.

From left to right is...

Creative Voodoo, CC Electro Candy, CC Volt of Light, CC What a Shock! and CC Vivid Intensifying Top Coat.

I tried on Volt of Light, I love it. Just insanely bright. Think I will do What a Shock! next. ^^

Oh and for a random closer here's my pirate cat sticking his tongue out at me and chef big arse resting in the background.

Misa Toxic Seduction

2009-04-14T11:27:00.000-07:00

Hmm, here's Misa's Toxic Seduction. It is pretty, reminds me of UD's Gangrene without the slight violet duochrome and Sally Hansen's Insta-Dry in Jumpin' Jade, but Toxic Seduction is more jade in tint then Jumpin' Jade's heavy teal tones. Toxic Seduction is like a less blackened Date Night by Barielle. Quite nice. ^^

I think a package is coming my way, today-polish ahoy! Am on a no buy from this mini binge and the Karen of course, so I best make em last for a good while.

Just saw Wonderland, was fun, not as good as Super Bad...kind of longish but amusing. His friends were awesome. XD

Full Karen Mani

2009-04-12T05:55:00.000-07:00

Here's a picture of a full mani using KO's Karen. ^^

Eggs were decorated yeseterday and in a few minutes shall set to hiding those and millions of plastic ones. Hopefully it will just remain overcast and not go back into rain! ; ;

Hope everyone has a great day today!

Some UD and HD Catalogue Pics,Elijah Lucian/YTCracker,Blythe

2009-04-11T11:06:00.000-07:00

First off I'd like to preface by saying my mirrors are up for my old (late nineties early 00s)UD and HC Pages are up, that had scans of polishes and catalogue materials. A fun make up time capsule. They are located here: Urban Decay and Hard Candy respectively. ^^

But I thought I'd post some newer shots of, like this picture from a Hard Candy catalogue showing the range of polishes at that time. I found this particular cache of Urban Decay and Hard Candy catalogues stored with two Auraze catalogues (remember those giant rave pants and ripstop skirts?) dated 1999! So that puts somewhat a date on these.

Here's some fun promo items, coasters showing a makeup look by Urban Decay, on the backside lists products used as well as a cheesey pick up line with a space to put your name and number to hand out.

Ah what else, oh the dog bowl from the Todd Oldham Urban Animal Collection.

Will make a shorter sig/url insert, think that was my artwork one. Much too bulky for these. XD

Purchased Elijah Lucian's album and highly recommend it. If you purchase it, you also get the download straight away so you can play it before the physical copy arrives. I'd heard him singing on YTCracker's Serious Business album on the tracks Hardly Tell (and the remix of) Lay Downand Over and Over (which I highly recommend, is teh cheap on iTunes; worth admission price with the song I am a Pirate WIN!). Which are amazing, and you can hear YT on Elijah Lucian's album on the track You Say as well. Much praise!

Closing this post with a picture of my custom Blythes one is a zombie. XD Zombies Organize! My nephew helped me out with the posing and hooked me up with the GI Joe weaponry. We took a bunch of different pictures that day, this is my particular fav. though ^^

DM Stream! Karen/Flatte

2009-04-11T08:13:00.000-07:00

Here's a maybe Harley Quinn mani, might be pushing it but hey. Was in haste to try KO's Karen, which I'm wearing here with KO Flatte Black. Karen is such a cherry tomato, it was entirely worth the asking price in my opinion, yes I'm sure with a regular flat top coat can be duped easily, but really I'm just loving the formula and shade. The speed of dry time is great, this would be perfect for an emergency mani too! Will also be doing soon a side by side of Flatte Black again'st ManGlaze's The Death Tar for comparison.

Oh hotness! You can listen to a stream here of the entire new Depeche Mode album Sounds of the Universe!

I hope there are eggs to decorate today lol, mind you the only eggs I'm fond of are creme eggs. ;)

Have a whole bunch I plan on adding so if I've spare time today will post a bunch of various polish related pictures, for sure scanning a lot of my older UD promo material. Have a happy holiday everyone!

Wahey Karen!

2009-04-10T11:23:00.001-07:00

My bottle of Karen and Flatte Top came a few mins ago, so here's a quick and dirty pic. Tonight will hope to take better pictures of and a mani...Great timing because I trimmed and shaped my nails yesterday after a breaking a nail opening up a plastic case. Grr! Oh well. ^^

Looks like if a cherry tomato didn't have a shine. Am loving it!

Nars Ziggy,Rocky,Orly

2009-04-09T08:24:00.000-07:00

Here's Nars' Ziggy, it is cute, but the formula was just not fantastic. Very streaky this one was. It is such a gorgeous shimmery almost buttery gold. Does not at all suit my skin tone. Blech. Pale and pink ftl!! Naah just gold doesn't suit me. Heh.

Putting in on it reminded me a lot of Chanel's (Petillant) Shine.

They are certainly closely matched Ziggy being a touch warmer.

Thought I'd spruce Ziggy up with a coat (will add another I think) of Orly's Prisma Gloss Gold.

Oh they match an old pair of Kaos eyelets! Would downsize to match lol, they are cute!

What a mess I made of this hasty mani, ordered some more of those correction pens when I caved and purchased Revvvolution, so this time I will be honouring the non messy pics when I have more. Oh and for fun I thought I'd post a picture of my Rocky Johnson, he is sat on a suction cup, he knocked over his hammock that was attached to the cup. lol. Isn't he handsome? ^^

Played FFXI, and didn't get my en spells, a friend was able to locate some of the new WHM spells for me though. Quelle surprise another maintenance today. There is always maintenance after maintenance. Should just announce it will be two days in a row. Oh Squeenix. XD

BPAL update! FFXI

2009-04-08T16:26:00.001-07:00

Wahey, it's BPAL's The Salon: Velvet Paintings. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page. This update is fantastic I snagged myself Velvet Clown,Velvet Pink Kitty, Velvet Tiger and Velvet Unicorn! Just read those descriptions, they are going to be phenomenal!!!

Just mini squee, I'm sure there was something I meant to write about or some hot polish action. It will come to me...eventually ^^

Am downloading my FFXI, post maintenance/Crystalline Prophecy update. New stuff for RDM and WHM. Been waiting on it! More En spells!

Creative Turquoise Tint,Lauder Midnight

2009-04-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

Wanted to give sheer another go, regardless of my nails having hot staining action from the glut of darker shades I normally wear. This is two coats of Creative's Turquoise Tint which is still sheer, a third would probably rock full coverage. The name is misleading however, I don't see turquoise at all it is a pastel green shimmer. Really gorgeous IMHO but quite far from turquoise. It does look it in bottle though, certainly worth the purchase. ^^

Got my email notice that my bottle of Karen from Knock Out Cosmetics is on the way. Squee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excited +1!

Seche Vite Restore'd an ancient bottle of Estee Lauder Perfect Finish Nail Lacquer in Midnight within a inch of it's life (with aide of clear polish). This came out around the same time that the original release of Chanel's Vamp if I recall correctly. It's a blackened shimmering purple and it was impossible to get a good shot of it. This was one of my sister's fav. polishes so hoping to surprise her with it. Worked well tried it on, but didn't think to take a shot.

KO Calamine

2009-04-06T10:18:00.001-07:00

I did say I was going to clean up from here on out, but this was prior to a hear on out XD Anyways, on to it then, here is Calamine from Knock Out Cosmetics. Completely gorgeous, palest of pale matte pink. I love it, my fingernails look like mini eggs. Sort of. Of course, a picture of the gorgeous bottle. Also aside from clean up, I am going to find a neutral central location to take bottle pictures so everything can be seen properly. Can't wait again for my bottle of Karen to arrive!

Was unable to resist getting Color Club Revvvolution today, I figured since I am able to hold off on UDPP in Sin, I can get a dead cheap polish...or a couple. Also looking forwards for it to arrive, from all the swatches I've seen it's like a holo porn version of UD's old Oilslick, one of my fav. polishes of all times.

Jumpin' Jade, Peeps,Cheetos. Nerdapalooza what?!?111one!eleven

2009-04-05T14:57:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, here's a picture of Sally Hansen's Insta Dry in Jumpin' Jade. I swear I'll do clean up before taking snaps from here on out. Really. Also there's a picture of the tapped handle, this thing is fiddly as hell. The formula does dry quickly, but it didn't make it through a morning of playing ball.

Ahh, grocery shopped to get the snacks for 'Mania which I should be the off for in a few minutes lol and look my Peeps haul, to stay yummy and Peepsy until the Christmas ones roll out XD wahey Peepsgasm! The peach ones are so cute, wonder if this tint is new this year?

Got my physical copy of The Nerdapalooza Tapes! You can purchase it now and access it via mp3 format, so you don't have to wait to hear it til the cd comes in. It can be purchased here. I stuck in the note that came with from TCP from Rocket Propelled Geeks, didn't want to misplace it. Definitely worth the purchase, you've got Front,Maja,CSHC, Schaffer and more!

Oh oh oh. Look at the Giant Cheeto. Is it not slightly terrifying?!

Nars Orgasm, Thanks Ladies! DSi,'Mania

2009-04-04T07:57:00.000-07:00

First off I want to say a big blushing thank you to two lovely ladies, Nixxy (Nixxy's Nails) and Brooke (Getcha Nails Did) for sending a shout out to my blog here. I am so flattered and my sincere hope is that I can provide a blog that is as humorous and swatch filled hotness as yours are ladies. *^^* Thank you again!

Orgasm time. Well, Nars time anyways. This is two coats of Orgasm which is as lovely as the blush and gloss are. For complete coverage three coats is in order, which I think I'll slap on because...well you saw the state of my nails rocking sheer. Not good at the moment lol. Plus I broke my index fingernail which is vexing, because the second I break one I like to file them all to like length and they just got longish. Blast!

Oh check out this cute hot pink and turquoise glitter nail polish atHot Topic, I always like to nab their polishes as they are cheap and not a bad formula, sometimes the handling leaves a bit to be desired. But look how cute that is.

Hmm, I know several people who are champing at the bit to get their mitts on The Nintendo DSi. Mind you it looks amazing with all the new features, and I certainly do want one...down the road. Hopefully there will be a pink one in future. Available at midnight, in blue and black. Looks fun as all hell. Don't know if I need one per sae, my regular DS is wonderful, besides I imagine I can pinch one from friends to try out. I hope. Pretty sure my nephws are all about it. Here's my hot nerdery pink DS. Replete with dog chew marks in corner and Boba Fett. XD

Talking of nephews one painted his a vibrant blue today, he's a Jeff Hardy fan, and digs painting his nails on the week-ends :) We are getting Wrestlemania tom. at the house so it will be all kinds of loud and tacky tomorrow. There will be much carbo loading in the form of pizza and whatever junky stuff we can find. Should be a wild time had by all.

Was able to get a June appt. with Mark at Spilt Milk! Which is awesome considering his wait times! Very excited, one of my sisters just got another piece by Mark thursday and it's gorgeous! Plus my brother's sleeve is on the wall there, which will be fun to see.

CG Black Diamond

2009-04-02T08:39:00.000-07:00

Hmm, here's a snap of China Glaze's Black Diamond after two coats. It is really pretty, and not what I'd expected. It more heavily leans towards a dark gun metal grey then black, there are slight hints of blue. Really quite like it.

Am on a makeup jones today, really trying to resist the call of the tinted Sin Urban Decay Primer Potion sold at Sephora as I love the original formula so much, the tinted is being all siren songin' it.

Also, really and making goo goo eyes at Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics lip balm in Tarred. Am a fan of black sheer glosses and lippy for the way they darken. I have Lipstick Queen's lippy in Black Tie Optional, but don't want to plunk $22 for the gloss as well so I generally slap Cover Girl's Wetslicks Amazemint (mmm minty!) in Happy Hour over it. (The CG gloss is very sheer with a blue tint). Hell I slap that over Nars' Orgasm gloss as well, brings up the shine nicely and again that minty feel!

The OCC balm is just $10 comparatively. I have to say I adore Lipstick Queen's packaging on the lippy, will need to snap up a picture.

Am so looking forwards to my KO Karen to arrive. /dance!

KO Hotness! Mascara ramble...

2009-03-31T12:10:00.000-07:00

Oh hotness, Knock Out Cosmetics has a new shade called Karen and it is a foxy foxy foxy looking red. Check out the picture, it makes those gorgeous bottles pop even more! There's also a treatment called Flatte Top which is a sealant and top coat which will bring you back to matte after a few days of wear. I've a Tony and Tina matte top coat which I love. The thing is ancient but still does the trick.

Karen though, it just looks amazing in the photos. I totally caved and purchased it. Earlier this month for my birthday my lovely sister gave me Calamine and Flatte Black. I can't say enough about them. The black is just so inky dark, and it is different than ManGlaze's The Death Tar, worth purchasing both IMHO. Will swatch Flatte Black soon! So excited about Karen, if there was an ox blood or navy ever slated...would be floored.

The sun is finally out today, after nearly a week of on and off rain. Now if only it would warm up a touch, but can not complain really after seeing the sun!

Picked up Max Factor's 2K Calorie Extreme Lash Plumper today and am looking forwards to giving that a go, the last couple mascaras I have bought have been let downs. Looking at you Maybelline Lash Stiletto! You in the back as well, Cover Girl Lashblast Luxe!

The store mercifully and unfortunately didn't stock Cadbury Mini Eggs! ^^

Get thee behind me choccy!

CG Blue Sparrow, Anatometal Fauxpal Cabs

2009-03-30T14:59:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick picture, didn't do clean up as I just painted them and thought wow, look how much it matches flashwise with an old pair of my Anatometal Bling Eyelets, which is Signity cabochon faux opal in #13. Don't think it quite shows how well they pair match up in the light. Might have to rep this pair in my current size. Which would require saving up...Still researching cams. /sigh!

This is three coats of Blue Sparrow, in pictures it looks bubbly application wise. But that is actually just the glitter, it doesn't appear bubbly IRL.

Really like the CG formula though it dries quickly and is super shimmery. The tint is called Blue Sparrow (Neon). When my sparrow tattoos were fresh the shade sans glitter is kind of close lol.

Sally Beauty Haul,Death Tar, China Glaze

2009-03-29T15:44:00.000-07:00

Was shopping in a plaza with a Sally Beauty and couldn't resist the call of polish! A thousand horrors. Unfortunately upon going forgot the names of the Finger Paints brand polishes that I was interested in, and in person couldn't find one I was interested in over some other polishes. Mostly the haul consists of China Glaze polishes. Click on picture to see larger ^^

From left to right is...Nina Ultra Pro says G8C no real tint name,It's So Easy Rite Stripe which is sheer black with red and blue glitter, China Glaze For Audrey, China Glaze Black Diamond, China Glaze Blue Sparrow and China Glaze Strong Adhesion Base.

Tried out Amour Unique Ruby with a black base, used the Sally Hansen Four in One again and was met again with easy denting hours later, so that is definitely made of fail. The Unique Ruby though was a disappointment wasn't anything phenomenal as described, it was nice but nothing super special. Looking forwards to trying out the CG base. Finally caved and purchased For Audrey after ages and ages dithering about it. Just as gorgeous as people have swatched it.

Here's a picture I meant to post yesterday of ManGlaze's The Death Tar.

CG's Black Diamond looks very interesting, almost a gunmetal grey with what looks to be a blue sheen.

Hello Kitty Lippy, The Death Tar, 13

2009-03-28T11:11:00.000-07:00

I think my fav. part of the MAC Hello Kitty lippy packaging is the adorable stamp on the lipstick itself. This is a tube of Cute-Ster.

How saweet is that?

Also here's a shot of Man Glaze's The Death Tar.

Have a cold, super enjoyable. :/ Arrgh!

My bottle of March's 13 arrived yesterday from BPAL, now that is fast turnaround. This one is very spicey as opposed to the brown sugar from the last 13 release, was that January? My Chaos Theory: Snake Oil series came as well. OMG it smells of Snake Oil and moss, it is extremely earthy. Really like it and am curious as to how the Dorian based one smells. Must look up the reviews on BPAL.ORG.

Orly, BPTP's Polishes

2009-03-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

Hmm, taking the blame off Essie's Mesmerize, I think it does need a longer drying time but I think the problem with all the denting may lie with the new base I used as I had problems with it to a much lesser scale when applying Orly's Love Each Other. The base I'd used Sally Hansen Complete Care Four in One extra moisturizing. Think I'll stick with my oldy but goodie base.

This is three coats of Love Each Other. Didn't half like it on, was sheerer than expected and is much more dramatic in bottle. Plus it show's the state of mass staining despite the buffing. Too much dark the past two months showing over despite the base coats. Was able to reshape them to a much nicer shape. Amazing what a picture shows as opposed to what you see. So sorry for the state of them. Sheers are a no go atm! That index nail before, Woof! But I think Love Each Other would look great on a black cream as a top coat.

Thought I'd post a picture of BPAL's BPTP's Claw Polish . Click on the thumb below to get a full size picture.

These are great, a cute feature on some of the newer bottles is if you breath on it or it gets fogged up the Triple Dagger logo appears on the sides. The polishes are really lovely and the tints in order of picture are from left to right: Embalming Fluid which is a glow in the dark polish with fine iridescent glitter, Midnight on the Midway, Mmm. Moriarty, Blood Countess, Morgause, Lady Macbeth, Destroying Angel, Opium Poppy and Maiden.

The polishes are a lovely formula, three free and all. I reach for these often. Destroying Angel is such a lovely vampy dark brown. A picture doesn't do it justice.

Essie Mesmerize

2009-03-26T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hate to even show this, this is Essie's Mesmerize and it just was amazing in how it it wasn't fully set after a day even, so was a lot of denting. Here's it without clean up, wow need to reshape those nails. Dag had no idea some were that uneven!

Wearing it as a pedi, and it's very cute and springy though. Going to abandon ship on Mesmerize as a mani, torn between trying out Peppermint Patti or Rescue Beauty Lounge's Bikini Bottom. Will say though, I really like the shade of blue it is quite flattering and doesn't have a huge yellow tone at all like some medium blues I've tried in the past.

Crown is fixed, a blessedly short visit. Pirate toof intact.

Going to see A Haunting in Connecticut tomorrow. Might try to evade that, remember watching a terrifying account of this on A Haunting series. Blech!

Retried Pictures, IS/Anatometal, NFU Oh 50

2009-03-25T14:46:00.001-07:00

Alrighty, here's better pictures of the head on and shot of the wearable/saddle on the Industrial Strength's Gem Eyelets and Anatometal's 'Blings' Gem Eyelets. To see the information about them please check this earlier post which goes into the difference of gems,metals worn and wearables. IS's Gem Eyelets are now available in a Double Flare option.

Saddle and wearable comparison shot.

Head on comparison of widths and channel setting depth.

Still researching cameras. My crown fell off today. >.> /Groan Hot dental action tomorrow to get it repaired.

Alrighty here's another shot of Nfu Oh 50 with flash on.

Mini review on Feria's new formula. Not loving it at all, I don't do whole head for months at a time choosing to stick with roots and then if it has really faded out drag the rest through via their instructions. Am now straw-like and need a larger trim than I'd hoped to do and much deep conditioning. Guess I will go back again to Clairol or splash out for that Fekkai one down the road. But there is humour, my hair is light black so I like to dye it blue black on occasions, here's the kicker it grows in grey in front so for the first few washes I have electric highlights, which are especially neon in sunlight. Mind the flash.

Feria...for teh lulz

Was grabbing a prescription at the pharmacy and was mesmerized by Orly's Love Each Other polish, it truly is cute pinky and purplish flash in it. Think that will be my next mani, prolly tomorrow if I can resist the call of Peppermint Patti. ^^

I caved and bought the expansion for FFXI : A Crystalline Prophecy. Not expecting super much, already hearing whinging in my LSes about how free Haubys for all. XD

Nfu Oh 50, Camera researching,FFXI

2009-03-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

I really like Nfu Oh's formula, finally got around to trying one out. It is impossible to catch all the flash of tints. Truly a rainbow of chunky glitter yet it doesn't feel clumpy on the nail when dried. The pictures show two coats of Nfu Oh 50, over a base coat of Revlon's Black Lingerie 919 which is a nice basic black cream. Sorry for the lack of clean up on my nails in the shots.

Researching all manner of digital cameras, it is hard with so much variety from which to pick, but dutifully reading reviews right,left and center as to make the best choice. Would appreciate any and all suggestions. Refuse to be swayed by pink casing to a degree. Am a sucker for pink when it comes to my gadgets, from my phone to my DS to my old lan tower and laptop. XD

A new online expansion pack is coming for Final Fantasy XI: Online, it is called A Crystalline Prophecy. Details, if you can call it as much are available at POL's site. The expansion is available for advance purchase and will go live early April. New armour, with some customizable stats apparently. It is going to be a bitch to register if it's anything like Wings of the Goddess' expansion registration process was. Server pounding wahey. The new base armour doesn't seem fantastic for my WHM, or RDM really for that matter. Suppose I should pound out some of the other jobs. Still want a Nagerling for DRK, if I properly lvl it past my Sky sub for Chainspell>Stun.

More info is available about this expansion on AllaK.

Group Shot of the aforementioned polish haul; UD Gloss

2009-03-22T14:18:00.000-07:00

Here's all of my incoming polishes, should hold me off for a dog's age. Forgot to grab China Glaze Gussied Up Green for the shot, just didn't see it. Oops. Click on the image to see a larger full sized picture instead of the condensed/shortened thumb. ^^

Need to make a different layout so as to not need such small thumb pics.

Watched Twilight last night, quite enjoyed it. Was surprised didn't think I would do all that much. Rather liked the Bella character as portrayed in the movie via the character in the books.

Feria root dye time tomorrow. Excitement. Hair dye! *boing*

The new Pocket Rocket Lip Glosses by Urban Decay. I'm not sure whether I am grossed out or like wahey over the packaging. Remember having novelty pens not unlike these when I was much younger. 8 different shades and subsequently different menfolk to choose from in a dressed and lesser so state. Good gimmick or bad?

Peppermint Patti cuteness; IS Anatometal Comparison

2009-03-21T08:23:00.000-07:00

My Peppermint Patti came yesterday. It is so cute, very Maloxxy. Am looking forwards to trying it on! Sorry for the askew picture it is sat on my green lan tower and it isn't flat but I like the way it picked up the green. Bet this will be a perfect pedi shade.

Have tried the Seche Restore on a couple of my relic UD bottles. It seems to only want to do the job on glitter shades. Although Road Stripe is coming up nicely! But it is probably because of the forumla (UD), because I imagine Seche Restore will probably be brilliant with other brands however. Worked really well on a couple Candy Man's and a Hard Candy. Seche Restore rocks bells for glitter shades.

Wearing Berry Blue, by Barielle today and it's foxy. Love the heavy pigmenting! But I just noticed that Essie Mesmerize matches my dress I'm wearing right now perfectly. lol. That's the trouble with such a hot amount of incoming. So hard to choose. Gah. Real camera soon with proper pictures. Honestly.

Speaking of shockingly bad pictures, here are two. Which will be repped poste haste when...words...camera. Oh yes, where was I? Oh comparison of IS's gemmed eyelets next to Anatometal's Bling gem eyelets. These are both 7/16ths. Both are single flared, my ears are wicked bitchy and double flare is just not comfortable. The IS gemmed eyelets are only offered in Single Flare, at least @Steel Navel. Don't know if this is the case elsewhere. Anatometal Blings you can purchase SF or DF and custom wearable Steel or Titanium @BAF.

Alrighty the IS ones have about a 3/8 wearable (you can also choose a wearable of 5/16) I purchased the 3/8. It is a little bit longer as you can see as the pair of Anatometals is shorter in height and has a more pronounced saddle before the wearable.

Here's the head on; the gems set in the IS pair are 2MM in Water Opal, which is more of an almost Aurora Borealis gem without the gold foil-ish tones. The gems in the Anatometals are 2MM and are Faux Opals. The IS seem to be a little wider than Anatometal's 7/16ths/11 MMs sizing and the channel setting is thicker on Anatometal's as well.

Oh and the IS pair are Titanium whereas the Anatometal Bling's are 316LVM ASTM F-138 Implant Grade Steel. I've not tried on the IS pair yet, but upon looking at them I think my loyalty shall remain with my beloved Anatometal Blings collection. Yes I was swayed by the shiny heh. Water Opal how dare you! Shame. Shame! XD heheh. Also pet peeve the O-rings that came with the IS pair were so tight, I think they were for a 00G. lol. But that's easily remedied. I've O-Rings floating around a go-go! Probably people dig a tighter O-Ring size, but I like the slightly looser so I don't constantly rot my manicure. As I did a few minutes ago unlocking my door. Woof!

Happy St. Patricks. New MAC Sugarsweet. Polish Incoming Joy!

2009-03-17T05:43:00.001-07:00

Right, first off happy St. Patrick day for those who observe it.

Had an amazing joint b-day party with Bird. Super yummy vegetarian burritos at Sam Diego's. Mmm! Fun with Peanut. A great time had by all! I was given some amazing books, that I can't wait to pore over! Oh oh oh annnnnnnd!

MAC Hello Kitty hotness! Powder in Tahitian Sand, lippy in Cute-Ster and an eyeshadow palette in Lucky Tom! I love the pink glitter embedded in the cases, it's so cute and the saweet Hello Kitty herself on the lippy with a psychedelic pattern dress. Thank you Birdy! <3

The new MAC Sugarsweet collection is gorgeous. Very springy shades indeed. Polish wise Pepperment Patti has me excited, and is a must have. I do have Seasonal Peach and while the color is gorgeous, the application on it and the way it worked on my skintone...blech. Quite a letdown that one was for me.

Oh my polish haul came, altogether amazingly. A deluge of polish right,left and center!

The Nfu Oh bottles do not disappoint, they truly are the most adorable bottles. With the lace up molded corset, with the bow and bustle on the back and glass, cute flower on the front with filigree designs and the...boobs heh. Truly is a sweet little design. The shades though, I can not wait to try on. Even in the bottles there is so much color play and shift. I'm already in love. Brought were 50,51 and 52. Suspect more shall be in my future.

As for the Shades by Barielle, must say the boxing was a bit excessive giant box for just three polishes inside. The colors though. Made of win! Am wearing Date Night, since it is St. Patrick's and a nod to green isn't remiss in my otherwise all black outfit today. Application was fantastic, really could have gotten away with one coat, no dragging or brush marking. Tried to take a camera pic of the polish on, but it just isn't going to cut it, need to replace my old camera still. I have a lot of greens, Date Night is really stand out however. I also got Berry Blue and thanks to the buy two, get one free I received Decadence which is gorgeous but am dubious to how it will look on my skintone. To me it looks like it might have a good deal of a yellow undertone, but of course can't really tell how that will translate until it is on. Hoping it looks good, because it is striking and bright.

Also a bottle of Creative in Turquoise Tint, which looks like it will be an amazing sheer if done with a light hand, or a nice jelly full coverage. What all is next, hmmm...Four Amour polishes: Rainbow Hologram, Rain Glitter, Brilliant Ocean Blue and Unique Ruby, which I can't wait to try with a base of black polish.

Two Opi shades Yoga-ta Get this Blue and DS Fantasy. Two Orly, Goth and Prisma Gloss Gold which looks absolutely fascinating. Lastly, New York Summer in Class Act and Essie in Mesmerize. If the sun comes out I'll try and get a group shot on the phone. Such a huge influx of polish. Boing! Boing! *call19* (FFXI nerdery!).

Oh and another birthday present...

To quote MC Chris, 'Yo momma is a bitch-I'll see you in the Sarlacc Pit!' Fett's Vette. Wahey. <3 me some Boba Fett.

Polish Ahoy. Or at least some!

2009-03-15T08:05:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, finally have a picture (hot grainy camera phone action!) of my collection, albeit partial, there are still some in storage containers and of course the fantastic stuff that's incoming! Wahey! The picture is pants, but you can see the first two and a half rows showing my old Urban Decay and Hard Candy/Candy Man collection! Most of the Hard Candy still applies like a dream. Blech the picture cuts off a little to fit the page layout.

Found a nail polish thinner that I had to resurrect some UD polishes, but luckily I didn't go hoss and do a bunch. Usually I look at ingredients, unfortunately not this time as it was ridiculously full of acetone. Sigh. So my S&M polish is this gross white chalk now. However it did revive Twisted Sister to perfect consistency. But now I have Seche Vite Restore Thinner on the way, which I'd read about on Scrangie. It is a great post too, look how she was able to restore a clumped up dry bottle of L'Oreal Bijou Crystals polish. I mean that thing looked gone!

Just hoping it can restore my Asphalt or a decrepit Frostbite!

My nephews both dig the ManGlaze shades. One is sporting Fuggen Ugly right now! Heheh.

Joint birthday thing today! Should be fun. ^^

Again another reminder to head to Hipster,Please! to pick up Optimus Rhyme's TransfORmed! Huzzah Dub Cyber!

Andrew 'Test' Martin

2009-03-14T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is so sad, another wrestler death. Andrew Martin, he used to go under the name of 'Test' in WWE, and 'The Punisher' in TNA. He was just 33, a few days from his 34h birthday. What a horrible thing, my sincere condolences. So horrible to hear, such a young guy as well, he was quite the entertainer. Sad sad day. Various reports with links to news outlets via Rajah.

TransfORmed, still time to dl it for free!

2009-03-14T07:36:00.000-07:00

Apparently you can only still snag Optimus Rhyme's TransfORmed for free via Hipster,Please! for a short while now, so grab it quickly! It is also available on Itunes as well, inexpensively-plus you get two tracks not on the free d/l which are fantastic covers of Guns of Brixton and Train in Vain. So it's certainly worth buying as well. Eventually it will be available as a cd to purchase I've heard. All the songs are brilliant, Daryl Hannah is just phenomenal.

Possible Buffy MMO? BPAL 13, Polish

2009-03-13T08:43:00.000-07:00

I was reading a post at Slay Alive.com that there is (post is in the Figures and Collectibles sub forum) a Buffy MMO in the works! I've been playing FFXI since late 05 (although can't seem to stay connected due to some Comcast hijinks of late! Grrrr) am a big fan of MMORPGs, save WoW cause I just couldn't get well into it at all. A Buffyverse! Can't even begin to squee about how wicked exciting that would be. Oh lord ^^

Would pay a monthly for the game for sure, hell I'd drop ol' XI in a heartbeat in favour. Hope this is true, wonder if it would be all Sunnydale style or more in the vein of post Chosen season 8? Hmm, season 8ish would be very interesting Slayers a-plenty! No matter where it falls time line wise, this could rock bells as a MMO! Wishing for the best graphics portion as well if it is indeed happening and of course character customization which is something XI lacks save for a few variants on the same base chars. Basically a couple hairdo's and two choices of tints I think it is.

Finally I'll be able to try some of the gorgeous Nfu Oh shades, I purchased 51,52 and 60 via Fabuloustreet.com. Now, I'm going to have to behave as there is quite a bit incoming and spending like this needs to be reigned in. ^^

Oh and of course it being friday the 13th a new incarnation of 13 is available at BPAL! Am madly in love with February of this year's 13, the brown sugar note is divine. Plus ahoy the new Chaos Theory V: Recursive Self-Similarity V4: The Snake Oil Series. There are also bases of Dorian,O and Penitence. Gorgeous one and all. I can't get enough of Snake Oil though (like the hoarding of Boomslang,Lilith Victoria and Western Diamondback in particular) so I can't wait to see what randomness pervades!

Grrr why aren't those L'Oreal Star Magnet polishes available here? Not only is there a bunch of shades other than the two (one was Europe exclusive) Lancome releases but the price is so much better. Sigh.