Maybelline Polka Dot Nail Polish: Pretty in Polka

Guess whos nubs are back!? Thats right - My nails are re-gaining their strength and are in much better condition! 

For my nail re-introduction I am showing you one of Maybelline's new polishes from the Polka Dot collection. The Polka Dot collection contains 5 Jelly based polishes with black and white hex glitters. 

The one I am showing you today is Pretty in Polka. Pretty in Polka is a bright jelly rose shade with large and small hex and circular glitters.

All 5 polishes are very reminiscent of Indie polishes such as Connect the Dots by Lynnderella, minus the bar and square pieces. So if you are looking for indie dupes - these provide you with some variety and are really great for layering. They retail for around $4, so the price is right too.

In this photo I am wearing Pretty in Polka over America Apparel's Dynasty - a dusty purple shade. 

Have you tried the Maybelline Polka Dots Show Colors?

My week in NOTDs: China Glaze It's Alive & Finger Paints Twisted

Sorry for my lack of posts this week but I wasn't fully satisfied with either of my NOTDs. I also went naked the beginning of the week. I think it was the stress of starting my second week at my new job and beginning my classes.

Ever since I got FP Twisted I wanted to wear it with black and red so I killed 2 birds with one stone and did an alternating mani. I used Wet n' Wild's Black Creme and China Glaze Winter Berry, then topped it off with 2 coats of FP Twisted

THEEEN I put on this beautiful green glitter that I skipped out on when it first came out. This is one of China Glaze's polished from their halloween collection - It's Alive. I had been wanting it and luckily found it at a local beauty supply shop on clearance and only just got to wearing it. The formula of this was a little lumpy for me but it's probably just because it's a bit old and could have used some thinner before I applied it.

That was my quick wrap up for the week. I am off to the shelter, hopefully adopting a dog very soon!

Orly Androgynie

So...it's December and while this is my favorite month it scares the hell out of me

how time has gone by. I went to Disney for last New Year and I feel like I just got back!

Anyway! the good news is my semester is over on the 16th so I will have more time

to devote to my blog.

Today I have an Orly from their Holiday Soiree collection. I only picked up one because 2 seemed similar to OPI's It's My Year so I passed and the only one I really wanted was Androgynie.

Despite some of the negative things I read about this I still wanted it and I actually didn't

have most of the problems others had. Many said it was on the sheer side and had to use three coats but this is only two. The only reason I would have added a third was to get more of the big hex glitters. They do tend to gravitate toward the bottom.

Other than that issue I really love this polish!

Purple Polka Dots

To my very pleasant surprise, I received a nail parcel in my mail yesterday.

I had no recollection or ordering anything from online recently, nor had

I had planned any swaps!

Months ago I received a twitter message from Booty Babe telling me I received a free

nail polish! I finally got it yesterday and luckily my nails were nakie so I did a little something

with it.

I haven't done nail art in so long so I just did a simple polka dot mani with my Booty Grape polish and a black nail polish by Finger Paints.

Sally Hansen HD LAser

I only got into polish last year. I remember going through Steph's Closet's

Gallery and picking out a bunch of nail polishes I wanted. That night my

friend and I went to the drug store. One of the polishes I really wanted

was a Sally Hansen HD one. I ended up with laser. I wore it last summer

on its own and it was really pretty!

The other day I decided to wear it over black and it became even more amazing.

On it's own only the blue is really apparent on the nail, but it the bottle there are flashes

of blue and pink when it hits the light a certain way.

However, over black the purple really comes through. It was just really hard to capture in a photo!

Kleancolor Born to the Purple

Happy Friday!

I have a fun mani today using Kleancolor Born to the Purple in hopes to replicate

DL's Bad Romance! Not an exact dupe but I'll take it :)

This is the second Kleancolor I have tried. The problem I had with this one

is that I couldn't grab many hex glitters on the brush! After doing 1 coat I went back

and placed some of the hex glitters around my nail lol.

Below you can kind of see the hint of berry base that this polish is made up of!

Have a good weekend!

China Glaze High Hopes Funky French

Happy Hump Day! Hope your week is going well so far.

Before I get into my NOTD I just want to welcome

and thank all of my followers!

It really means a lot that you guys take the time to look at my posts so I really

want to get to know you. Don't be strangers :) Introduce yourselves, say hey,

leave a link to your blog in the comments.

Ok ok, onto the post :)

Thequeeneileen did a french manicure tutorial with For Audrey and

I fell in love with it!

I changed it up slightly and am really pleased with it :)

I used China Glaze's High Hopes from the Up and Away Collection for the tips and then just a random striper from The Icing

It was really easy to do. I got tons of compliments on it at work :)

Color Club Fashion Addict

Since the sun was out today and the weather is the warmest its been in ages I had to do a holo.

Color Club's Fashion Addict is probably the prettiest holo I own (however, if I owend some of China Glaze's OMG's it would be a different story). 

I have had this untried for a while & worried that it might be a dud, but even in artificial light its gorgeous!

& since I can't seem to keep my nails with just polish anymore, I had to add a BM.

This is BM19 with Black Konad Polish

I am thinking about doing a small giveaway if I reach 50 subscribers.

Let me know what kinds of polishes you would like to see!