China Glaze Pool Party

Hello!  Today I have a bright, in your face polish for you.  I love neons and super bright polishes.  Summer collections are usually my favorite.  Although you'll find me in bright polishes all year round.  That may have to do with living in the Phoenix area though.  It's always so freakin sunny here.  Anyway, today I have China Glaze Pool Party, a super bright pink that pulls a little orangey red on me.  It's a neon so it took three coats to even out but I knew going in that neons are a pain in the butt.  I'm still not convinced that texture polishes are for me but I do own a few because I thought they'd be perfect for using with stencils to do simple designs.  My accent nail was done using a stencil from a Kiss Nail Art kit and Zoya Liberty.  I did not put topcoat over Liberty so the design was raised on my nail.

Overall I'm very pleased with this mani.  I will definitely be using more of my textures to do designs with my stencils.  Are you a fan of neons?  My all time favorite neon is China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise.  It's on my toes right now.

Until next time my lovely readers...

Sara

*I bought this polish myself when I was supposed to be polish shopping for a secret swap I'm doing.  I snuck this in at the register.  Totally worth it!*

Hit Polish Nail Lacquer Superman

Hey everyone!  I'm sitting here enjoying some peace and quiet because everyone's in bed so I thought I'd write up a post.  Tonight I have Hit Polish Nail Lacquer Superman for you to enjoy.  I know the bottle says D&R Apothecary but that is this brands old name.  Superman is a blue jelly with red, blue and yellow glitters in it.  I think you'd be able to get it opaque in a few coats but I didn't want to wear that much glitter so I layered two coats over OPI No Room for the Blues.  This was a fun mani to wear.  I kept checking out my nails.

Okay so I've shown you Kryptonite and now Superman, both from Hit Polish Nail Lacquer.  Which one is your favorite?  I don't know that I can pick.  I love them both.  Check out Hit Polish on etsy here and on facebook here.  Have a great night and I'll talk with you soon.

Sara

*I bought this polish myself.  I was smart and got a full size, unlike Kryptonite when I only got a mini.*

Barielle Brillant Collection

*PR Sample

Hello my lovely readers!  I hope you are all having a wonderful day.  Other than going to the gym today the boys and I did nothing.  Kinda nice to be able to do that now that All Stars is over.  Today I have the newest Barielle collection to show you.  This is the Brillant collection.  This collection consists of five cream polishes.  Nothing too ground breaking but Barielle makes great creams so I'm happy to be showing them to you.

First up we have Magna Cum Laude Turquoise.  Holy long name!  This is a lovely turquoise cream.  I used two coats when I painted my nails at night.  The next day I realized I could have used three.  All the pictures today have topcoat.  I did not have any staining when I removed this one.  I wore it for a couple days.

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Next up we have Head of the Class Green.  I love this color so much.  It's a green that leans a little tealish, just a bit.  This is two coats but it was almost perfect in one.  I used Straight A Coral on my accent nail.  I need to mention that when I removed this green it stained my nails and my fingers so bad.  I don't usually have staining problems at all so I was surprised when this happened.  I wear this color family all the time too.

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Next up is Smarty Pants Pink.  I love that name!  This is a bright pink cream.  It did take three coats to be streak free and even.  I don't own many pinks so I'm glad to have this one.  My accent nail is a water decal in a paisley print.  I love water decals.  They are perfect for people like me that major suck at nail art.

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Straight A Coral is the next polish today.  This is a juicy coral that pulls pretty pink on me.  This polish took two coats to be perfect.  My accent nail is another water decal.  See?  Perfectly easy nail art.

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 Lastly I have High Marks Purple.  The formula on this one was the best of them all.  You could easily do one coat of this.  I have two on because I bumped a nail and messed it up.

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So there you have it.  Five lovely creams from Barielle.  Again these were sent to me for review and all opinions are honest and 100% mine.  You can purchase these and all the other Barielle polishes or treatments here and give them a like on facebook here to stay up to date on sales and giveaways.  So now I'm curious...Who makes your favorite cream polishes?

Until next time,

Sara

*These polishes were sent to me by the pr company in exchange for my honest review.  All opinions are mine.*

Zoya Josie & Hit Polish Kryptonite

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Happy Sunday!  Today I have Zoya Josie from the new summer collection.  Josie is a dusty grass green cream that has the most wonderful formula.  It's exactly what you'd expect from Zoya.  Two coats and it looked perfect.  My accent nail is Hit Polish Nail Lacquer (formerly D&R Apothecary) Kryptonite, a gray jelly base with green and gray glitter, layered over China Glaze Recycle.  I only bought the mini of Kryptonite (what was I thinking?) so I layered it to conserve.  This is my favorite mani of the last few weeks for sure.

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So what do you think?  Before ordering Kryptonite I wouldn't have paired these two colors but now I'm kinda obsessed with green and gray.  If you'd like to check out Hit Polish Nail Lacquer for yourself click here for the etsy shop and here for her facebook page.

Have a great day!

Sara

*I bought both these polishes myself.  I couldn't pass up Zoya's Earth Day promo and Hit Polishes just have this weird way of jumping into my online cart and flying home to me.*