In coral, creme

Milani Gold Label

**The featured products in this post were purchased by me with my own money. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated.**

I was down in North Carolina visiting my mom a couple months ago and had picked up a few polishes by Milani while down there. My stores don't get in the good stuff from them and their displays stay empty (or at least they always are when I go in), so when I saw these while I was down there, I knew I had to get some. The bag these were in got misplaced, which it why it took me so long to swatch these, but OMG are these creme formulas fantastic! Keep reading to see more!

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In blue, copper

JK Customs Tears of Gaia

**The featured product in this post was provided to me by the manufacturer for my honest review. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated.**

It's Thursday and I've got a BEAUTIFUL glitter top coat from a brand new indie company, JK Customs. My friend, and fellow polish-a-holic, decided to start her own line! I'm so excited for her and agreed to review some polishes for her. She sent me three and I shared my concerns on two of them. She has since tweaked one of the formulas, but didn't send me a replacement so I'm not going to share that one with you. The other was just having a bad day and needed to be worked on a bit more. I was over the moon in love with one of the polishes though. I still get to show that one off to you!

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In crelly, Cult Nails

NOTD - Pinky and The Brain

**The products in this post were either purchased by me or given as a gift. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated.**

Getting a little laid back on this Thursday! I've got a fun and simple mani inspired by a childhood favorite cartoon of mine. 

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In blue, creme

4th of July

Happy 4th of July everyone!! I've got my celebratory mani to show you all today! It's simple. My free-handed approach to nail art really sucks, but I love this mani anyway. One thing that sucks is my wait time. I waited 30 minutes before adding top coat and it still streaked. If any of you have tips, PLEASE HELP ME!! Anyway, back to the mani, check out pics below! 

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In blue, Deborah Lippmann

NOTD - My Blue Baby Blues

Yesterday, I had a baby shower to go to. It was a lot of fun! I hadn't seen my friend in 3 years. Actually, the last time she saw me was when I was pregnant with Maggie. And the funny thing is, she's due just a few days before Maggie's birthday. There's always that off chance her baby will be born on Maggie's birthday. Would be funny... 

Anyway, for her baby shower I wanted to do something simple, but fun. I grabbed 10 of my blue glitter polishes and decided to do an ombre blue glitter mani. Obviously, I opted for blue because she's having a boy. I swiped each polish on a piece of paper so I could figure out what order to put them in. I thought I got it right, but after all was said and done, I had a couple that were a little off. It was ok though because it wasn't all that bad. 

This is a little picture heavy so I'll get right to it! 

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In essence Color and Go, Finger Paints

NOTD - My Childhood At My Fingertips

I couldn't wait any longer, I had to put NailVenturous Floam on my nails! The bottle was calling my name!! Only thing is that I had seen everyone who had it post about how they had issues getting it off. I decided to just use it as an accent nail. But what do you put with it that won't take away from it's glorious beauty but would just add the right amount? Something drew me to Wake Up! by essence Color & Go. I wanted to dress it up a bit and I hadn't tried any of my new Finger Paints flakes yet. I just knew Flashy would be perfect. (and it was!!) Also, I had to put something other than a base coat under Floam. Milani's Fresh Teal is perfection and practically meant to blend in with Floam.

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In creme, essie

NOTD - May 2nd

Yes, the tile of this is a date... I have NO idea what to call this mani! Basically, I got so many new polishes this weekend, I wanted to use as many as possible. The main theme is pink though. Feeling springy! 

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In CVS, essence Color and Go

End of April Nail Mail and Mini Hauls

**WARNING** Picture heavy!

My goal this weekend was to buy for my swap boxes, not for myself. I did have a few that I ended up hiding at CVS that I wanted that I went back to get for myself. Those were the only ones I had planned on getting for myself. Then on a trip to Ulta, I came across a Zoya on clearance that I couldn't leave behind and then a couple at Giant when I went on a run to grab some things. I don't think I did badly! But I also got some nail mail goodies! Lots of nail mail goodies! I'm going to start with my mini hauls then go on to the nail mail.

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In April 2012, Copious

Nail Mail - 4/19 & 4/20

I've received some good nail mail the past couple days! I got an email last week saying I still had credit on Copious. If you haven't been, it's pretty decent. When you sign up, you are given a $10 credit. So you can get some items for "free". I have to put it in quotes because technically they have to charge at least a penny for each purchase. They have just about anything other than groceries on there. Check it out! I've made 3 purchases from there so far and have gotten my items very quickly. I was eyeing a couple Sinful Colors polishes on there but by the time I went to check out, they were already sold. The next thing that caught my eye was this Milani. I hadn't tried any of their products yet and this one I saw was actually a lot of 2. So, why not! I can try one then I'll put one aside for a giveaway or a swap later on. So, here's my mini nail mail from Copious.

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