31DC2013 Day 8: Metallic

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Today I have metallic nails for you. Sort of. They aren't completely metallic because the idea that I had to get out of my head is mainly glitter. I recently purchased Jindie Nails' Betty's Fetti Milkshake and this decide was calling for me.

I ended up doing it on a nail wheel because I ran out of time. But the final product is wonderful. Look out for a review on the 5 Jindie's I purchased soon. 

31DC2013 Day 5: Blue

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Today I have a Jindie Nail Polish to share! Back in July Jen had a restock that introduced her Summer Chic collection. While shopping for those I had to grab Honey Blue Blue. It's been a major lemming for me. 

2 coats later look how pretty it is! I'm so happy with this purchase. Had I not wanted as much glitter I could have gotten away with only 1 coat. Every blue lover needs Honey Blue Blue in their collection. 

Jindie Nails: Jindie-Pendence

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Happy 4th of July! Today I have a special polish for you! Jen at Jindie Nails made a special edition 4th of July polish. I was lucky enough to pick it up along with PCBH which you saw yesterday. I received bottle number 149, I don't even remember how many bottles there were, but I still feel awesome to have a SE Jindie Nails.

Jindie-Pendence is a milky white jelly polish with red, white and blue glitters. There are squares, dots, diamonds, hex, bar glitter, a little bit of everything. It's so pretty. The formula is fantastic. I did 1 coat on my pinky to show it's true nature along with lots of glitter. The rest of the nails I did 2 swatches with a little bit of dabble to get enough of the different styles of glitter.

It is so nice and perfect for summer. The white is so bright and jelly. I absolutely recommend trying to see if you can find it. I'm so glad that I didn't miss out on this fantastic polish.

There's also a Jindie-Pendence Topper that I didn't pick up. This is similar glitter without the milky base. I'm a huge fan of milky bases so I had to have the original instead of the topper. But seriously, go pick up either. The glitter is fantastic either way!

Happy Independence Day!

Jindie Nails: Princess Consuela Banana Hammock

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I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not, but I am a huge FRIENDS fan. (If you follow Sweet T Lacquer you'll notice I do have a FRIENDS collection up!) Jindie Nails recently created a polish called Princess Consuela Banana Hammock and I knew I had to have it. I missed out on the full sized polish, but I was able to pick up a sweet little mini. 

Here she is with 3 coats. It was a little thinner than I expected, but it builds nicely. The bigger glitter was also a little hard to get out so you have to do a little fishing and dabbing. But the final product is totally worth it.

It's so pretty. I'm going to need a full size bottle of this polish very soon. I don't think  my mini is going to cut it. 

Now for me the worst thing is to see a blogger swatch a polish and not tell you there's an undie on. And undie is where there's a base polish decided to match the polish and bring out the glitter more. It also helps you avoid needing multiple coats for the thinner polishes. I don't know how many times I have bought a polish only to discover that it's super thin and I don't have a matching undie. Today I'm going to show you the perfect undie to go with PCBH.

This is PCBH over Julep's Abbie. I put a dabble of PCBH over my 2.5 coats of Abbie and I was good to go. I know it looks really bright here, but it's not. It's a perfect base for PCBH.

The only thing I could say that it does to PCBH that you may not like is it takes away some of the milky base in the polish. But if you're looking to conserve polish (because you only grabbed a mini like me) then this undie is perfect and you'll love it. I honestly haven't been able to stop staring at my nails. It's also completely perfect for summer too!

Hope you guys enjoyed my Jindie Nails today. Stay tuned for Limited Edition Jindie-Pendence tomorrow!

Jindie Nails: Candyland Remix

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I spend a lot of time looking at Instagram. It's really my preferred method of blogging. If you have an Instagram please check me out @Tara825c. While on Instagram I saw a swatch of Jindie Nails' Candyland Remix. I knew I had to have it. While I make my own polish, I don't buy a lot of them. But I just had to have this one. White base with neon glitter? I'm there.

The ordering process was crazy. I went to many different places trying to find the polish and finally landed on Llarowe. Having never used their site before it took me a few minutes to figure out how to register. Then when I got to the Jindie Nails section the polish was out of stock. I was crushed. Turns out it hadn't been listed as in stock yet, so I still had time. It shipped very quickly and I was so excited to get it! 

At the time I had just gotten acrylic put on, so I knew that I would have to show off my first purchased Indie polish. (My nails were horrible little nubbins at the time so I felt bad showing this awesome polish on my nubbins.)

So pretty! I love it to much. These is 3 coats. It is a little thin with the 1st coat, but it is a milky white polish, so that's expected. I did have a hard time getting all of the big glitter on the nails, but again, that's somewhat expected with bigger pieces of glitter. The micro neon glitters were a fantastic touch.

Candyland Remix is the 2nd version of Candyland this time it includes more glitters. I've gotta say this polish was perfect for my first Indie Polish that I purchased. If you'd like to purchase any of Jindie Nails' polish you can at Llarowe at this link. 

February Haul

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I've never done a haul post before! I collected a lot of polish this month so I thought it would be quite appropriate. Plus my quasi-resolution was to be a better blogger. This is my attempt. :)

So that's the entire haul. 21 bottles of polish, 1 mini-bottle of cuticle oil, 2 sets of nail art designs, and 5 nail art pens. I also received my February Nail Art Society box too which is why I have an odd number of polishes, I included the polished I received in this haul. I will be doing an actual review on the box soon. Before I get my March box, I promise!!!

So you saw that I bought white flocking powder. I saw this set at Rite-Aid and bought it too. Now I have black and white. I'm so tempted to attempt a zebra design, just not sure how I'd go about that. 

I got this set at Rite-Aid as well. It looks to just transfer with water. There are 30 sheets with 4 different designs. I'm quite excited to try this out!

I'm thinking my local Sally's received their Cirque du Soleil set late, because they have been trying to get rid of it. They've had it marked down buy one get one free for a while now. So I bought Creative Fantasy and Get Carried Away by China Glaze.

A few days later I went back to Sally's and saw they had new Orly bottles. The old bottles made Orly unique, now they kind of look like everyone else. At the same time, I like the new black lids. So if you bought any of the new bottles you go one of the old bottles for free. They literally had 2 boxes full of these polishes. Plus they received a ton of the cuticle oil by accident. So they were giving that away too. I got Snowcone & Des Fleures in the new bottle and Plum in the old bottle.

Did I mention I have 2 Sally's in my town? Yeah, I'm lucky. Expressionist Red came in my Nail Art Society bag. But I went to the other Sally's and they had a promo where you bought a bottle of Fingerpaints and got a cute little black purse free. I bought Micheltangelo & 15 Minutes of Frame And if you renewed your Sally's card you received any of their Ion Hair Products $8 and under for free, so I got a can of hairpsray too. I almost always walk out of Sally's with free stuff, :)

I cannot stress enough how important it is to check the end caps when you go to a store. The best deals are always at the end caps. And Target and Walgreens always have beauty stuff in their end caps. Target had the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Co-Balt Blue marked down to $1.78! Walgreens had Loreal in Tweet Me and Revlon in Jaded Night.

Walmart still had their new Pure Ice display up so I picked through it and found more polish that I wanted, of course. We have Over You, Never Satisfied, It's Complicated, and Sheer Luck. I've bought 9 or 10 of the new collection, I need to swatch them soon and post them.

I was at Walmart the other day and happened to look through this pile of mixed up polish that doesn't have a place in the racks. Tucked in the very back was this package. Sally Hansen Nail Art Pens are about $8 a piece and this pack came with 5 for only $10. I could not pass it up. It was the only one of it's kind and I had to have it. It did come with a Red that I already have and 2 Chartreuses, but I think for $10 I can make do. :)

I fell in love with Jindie Nails over Instagram. The polishes are so pretty. Then I saw Candyland with it's neon glitter, I knew I had to have it. So I start looking all over and see it at Llarow, but they are doing a restock soon so I go to Jen's actual Instagram to see what to expect, turns out she made a Remix to Candyland named Candyland Remix. So I not so patiently waited and as soon as I got my email saying it was in stock I bought it! I love this polish so much. The picture doesn't do it justice and that's kind of on purpose because I want to have it's own special post. 

Lastly I got these little beauties. I blame Let Them Have Polish for this purchase. She posted swatches on her Instagram and I ran right to Milani's website and bought 5 out of 6. The only one I didn't buy was the dark purple because the "fuchsia" looked pretty purple to me. You guys are going to love these, I can't wait to show you the swatches. They come in Tainted in Red, Yellow Mark, Aqua Splash, Spoiled in Fuchsia, and Shady Gray. 

So there it is! My entire February Haul. I hope you enjoyed it and I cannot wait to show off all of these polishes to you!