Fierce Friday: Party On My Yacht

Good Evening Babes! I know its been a while, but I know you all understand that life happens. I have Party On My Yacht by Pretty & Polished to share with you this evening. Chels of Pretty n Polished and the creator of this lovely gem said the name came from the gorgeous champagne colored sparkles and brightly colored "summer shore" colors. Application and formula was amazing and it took 3 thin coats to reach full opacity. There's gold, purple, green, and hot pink glitters, along with blue bar glitter packed in a milky white base. I topped it off with a nice coat of SV and it was perfectly smooth. The first 2 pictures are taken outside in natural sunlight, the last picture is indoors.

What do you think of POMY? I can tell you that I was DROOLING for this baby and it didn't disappoint! If you like what you see in the pictures then you will love it in person because its even better! You can purchase POMY along with a large assortment of Chels other frankens on her Etsy Shop. She has full size and mini bottles available for purchase. Thanks for stopping by and reading what I have to share :o)


Kisses
Marketta

Pink Wednesday

Good Morning Babes! Today for Pink Wednesday I have Models Own Pinky Brown. Pinky Brown is from the Beetlejuice Collection that came out this past fall. PB has the prettiest pink to brown duochrome shift with pink glitter. It looks like it has a very tiny sprinkling of holo glitter which I think is what gives it the glass flecked look. I don't know, I really stared at this polish for a long time and its just so interesting. I'm really bad at explaining this particular lacquer so I will just let the swatches do the talking. I used 2 coats in the swatches below, and SV as my tc.

Please excuse my dry cuticles, I rubbed vitamin e oil on the and they are still bad. This winter has not been kind to my poor hands, thus the nubbins. These swatches aren't my best due to cleanup being a bit hard because by the time I got around to my last swatches for the day my cuticles were extremely irritated (especially my ring and index fingers, ouch :o( ). So what do you think about Pinky Brown? I LOVE IT! Thanks for stopping by and reading :o)


Kisses
Marketta

50th Follower Giveaway Winners!

Hello Babes! I know this is waaaay overdue but when I say that I have had A LOT going on, I mean I have had A LOT going on. I know you understand that life happens, and on top of that I traveled a lot for the holidays. Next time I will make sure that a winner is drawn and announced the very next day. I was very frustrated with how I had to sift through all the entries individually because I had the first Rafflecoptor form and something somehow got messed up and so on. It was just time consuming so as I was going through the entries I would write a name on a piece of paper and put it in a bowl as I went through and verified each entry. For example if you had 3 entries by tweeting, fb, and posting my giveaway, your name was on 3 different little scraps of paper. I put the lid on, shook up the bowl really good, and just picked out 2 pieces of paper. My next giveaway will be done through the simple form and chosen through the Random application to make things easier for myself. Enough blabbering and onto the winners...

Prize #1 Winner: GFC Marta Warmuz of Chit Chat Nails

Prize #2 Winner: GFC KayJay at Refined and Polished

Both winners have been notified by email and have 48 hours to respond. If there is no response new winners will be picked.


Kisses
Marketta

Bettina Grape

Good Afternoon Babes! Today I have Bettina Grape from the Candy Collection (which I still need to share swatches of). Candy is a pretty periwinkle blue creme that took 2 coats to become fully opaque. Dry time was really good and it dried to a nice glossy finish. For the swatches below I used Konad ip m78, special white polish, and SV as my tc.

 

Here's Grape on it's own...

What do you think about Grape? I really love this blue, but I absolutely hate my nubbins! This stamp was actually too small for my nails before, so I'm happy to be able to go stamp crazy. However, I can't do this short of length, so I will grow them out to a nice comfortable short length that I'm happy with and can still enjoy stamping. Thanks for stopping by to let me share with you :o)


Kisses
Marketta

Readers Request: Models Own Emerald Black

Good Morning Babes! Today I'm sharing Emerald Black with you from the Models Own Beetlejuice Collection. Marisa from Polish Obsession asked me if she could see a swatch of this beauty because I raved about it on Twitter, so of course I had to post it because she's the nicest girl ever. I was up late with Rie (Nails and Noms), and Jen (The Polishaholic) waiting for the clock to strike and the sale go live, but after the order was placed it was a little bit of a nightmare for me. I will get into that story at a later date when I swatch the rest of the collection. For the swatches below I used 2 coats and no top coat. Application was very good, and so is the formula. The duochrome effect is very subtle in this baby but its there. I really love this one and its my second favorite from the whole collection, and I wasn't even going to get this one if I had to pay for them individually and not the set. Onto the swatches...

What do you think about Emerald Black? I really love this shade, and I will definitely be getting my moneys worth out of it and not collecting dust. This is my last post with my long nails :o( I have super nubbins right now because this winter is taking a toll something serious on my hands and I have some peeling. So tomorrow will be nubbins! Thanks for reading :o)


Kisses
Marketta

Readers Request: Essie Ruby Slippers

Good Afternoon Babes! Today I have a readers request from the lovely Maria from Nails Made Simple. A few of my fellow bloggers and I were talking about polish on Twitter and Ruby Slippers came up. I said that I have it  but haven't swatched it yet. Maria asked if I could so she could see it on a similar skin tone, so of course I said yes because she's such a sweetheart. Essie's Ruby Slippers is an amazing red jelly packed with red, golden copper, and very sparse silver glitter. The golden copper glitter is what gives it that "glow from within" look and a lot of depth. The formula is pretty good for an intense glitter and was fully opaque in 2 easy coats. A little wait time is suggested between coats or you will have some drag going on. Dry time was reasonable, but it does dry a little dull with texture, so a nice thick tc (I used SV) is necessary. RS is very much on the HTF side and is the original Ruby Slippers released. OK enough of the rambling and onto the swatches...

This polish is 10x as amazing in person, and I definitely consider it to be a necessary part of every polish addicts collection! I'm not crazy about red but I love this! The last picture is intentionally blurry so that you can see at least some of the copper that is VERY much there in person. What do you think of Ruby Slippers? Thanks for stopping by :o)


Kisses
Marketta

Cult Nails Tied Up

Good Morning Babes! Today I'm sharing Cult Nails Tied Up with you. Tied Up is a dusty medium toned (cornflower some would call it) blue jelly/creme hybrid. I'd guess that dropping a little bit of black into a bottle of periwinkle blue polish would give you an idea of how it looks in person. Maria describes it as a smurf blue, but to me its not bright enough to be smurf blue. I LOVE THIS POLISH! Did I mention that I love it? Well I absolutely do and I have nothing like it in my stash. The formula is amazing on this baby, very easy to apply, and is fully opaque in 2 easy coats. I used Red Angel ip RA-114, special black polish, and Seche Vite as my tc in the swatches below.

Here's the lovely Tied Up on its own. Dare I say that its my new favorite blue? Let me show you why...

Do you love this or what? I'm going crazy over Tied Up and then the stamping... I almost cried when I had to take it off to continue swatching, but I plan on wearing this mani next weekend! If you don't have the Red Angel set you absolutely HAVE to go on Amazon and order it! Thanks for reading and enjoy the rest of your day :o)


Kisses
Marketta