Why Hello There Super Bossa Nova!

So it came to my attention recently that I had not worn Essie's Super Bossa Nova!  This polish came out LAST summer with Braziliant (awesome orange!).  I had been wanting SBN for a while and finally decided to pick it up! 

Check out this beauty!

It's seriously a perfect pink.  I love it!  It has a flash of purple in it as well, you can kind of see in the bottle!   I have far too many pinks and was still excited to add this one to my collection!  Essie always has a decent formula and this one is no different.  It went on nicely in 1 coat, but I used 2 for these photos.  ONE COAT!  I can't describe enough how much I love one coat polishes.  If I wasn't so sloppy at painting my nails, I'd be able to actually use one coaters lol.

I hope you guys are enjoying your weekend!!  You all better be grilling out and swimming :)

<3 Whitney

Orange, It's Obvious!!

Sooo if you followed me last summer you should know that my favorite color polish to bust out when it's sunny is ORANGE!  I became a bit obsessed with it last year and ended up buying a ton of orange polishes, so I was super psyched that orange was part of Essie's spring collection! 

Check out Orange, It's Obvious!

Orange It's Obvious is a very saturated, bright orange cream.  I love the Essie formula and brush, it's never been runny for me and is always super easy to apply, this polish not being any different!  If you zoom in on the pictures you can see that in the bottle it's slightly more neon than it appears on the nail--it dries just a shade darker, which is okay. 

Overall, I loved it--Orange It's Obvious is opaque in two coats and is a perfect bright orange I'm going to save for summer, rather than spring!  You can tell it'd look better with a tan rather than my pasty white hands :) So give me a few more months of laying out and I'll be wearing this again!

Did you ladies get any polishes from Essie's new spring line?

<3 Whitney

E-nuf is E-nuf!

A while ago I was lucky enough to get quite a few Essie polishes from Traci at the TraceFace Philes! 

One of them was a lovely dark pink/red called E-nuf is E-nuf!  Check it out:

I really like Essie...sometimes the formula is a little thin, but I've had much better luck recently.  Especially with this polish! 

It went on super shiny and smooth in 2-3 coats (sorry, this was about two-three weeks ago, so I can't remember exactly!).  I love 2 coater polishes, but more often than not to get good pictures for the blog I do 3.  I usually don't wear reds like this but it ended up really pretty.   

I probably should've used ridgefiller because you can see the irregularities on my pointer finger nail, but that's okay.  Usually reds stain pretty bad but this one came off easily and didn't turn my skin all red when I was cleaning up!

Overall I'm liking Essie more and more, and it's helpful that they sell them at a lot of places due to my current lack of beauty stores...mainly Ulta.  :/

Welllllll hope you are well, I'm headed back home for a wedding this weekend, so I probably won't have time to update for the weekend, but I'll try and set up a post!

<3 Whitney

Pink Wednesday! Essie Watermelon :)

Happy Wednesday, friends!  I leave for Texas tomorrow, so I probably will not be as responsive as normal for the next week or so.  I will have my phone and maybe my laptop, but I plan on being pretty busy! 
I hope you all are having a great week so far!  This week I have a pink to show you from Essie called Watermelon!  I love this color and I was lemming for it for a long time!  Luckily I got it from Traci's Blog Sale!

Up close...eep I see bubbles!

Sooo sometimes I have some issues with Essie formula as they are often thinner than I prefer, but this one worked great.  I needed 3 coats for it to become opaque and I actually enjoy their smaller brush.  From the looks of this last picture it appeared that there was some slight bubbling on my thumb nail, but I did not notice it in person.  Chances are it was my fault because I leave nearly zero dry time in between my coats because I'm impatient!   

Anyhow, I really like this pink and I've been wanting it forever, so I'm glad I bought it!  I feel like I may have a dupe of it in my collection somewhere...if I find it I'll let you all know :)

Have a great week while I'm away!

<3 Whitney

First attempt at a sponge mani!

Hey everyone! It's Monday and if you're a member of the Facebook group Polish-aholics Anonymous, you know that means it's time for a Nail Art Challenge!

This week's theme was sponge mani.  I attempted my first quite a few days ago and liked how it turned out.  Which is good because I was too busy to try another one!  Here is how it turned out:

I started off with a base coat of China Glaze Happy Go Lucky:

Old picture ;)

I cheated a little and used tape to make a diagonal line down the middle and painted Essie Watermelon near my cuticles and Essie Meet me at Sunset down to the edge of my nail.  When I removed the tape I think took a tiny sponge from an eyeshadow applicator and created the sponge look in between the two Essies!

Overall I really enjoyed how it turned out:

I got my inspiration from my glass nail file haha

Ta daaa!

And that's ALMOST all....until I added Funky Finger White Scales over top of it.  I can't believe how much I love this crackle.  And I really like the look of multi colors under the white crackle polishes!

Thin coat

Thicker coat of crackle

Well that's all folks!  Hope you enjoyed :)

<3 Whitney

Another Essie Summer Polish: Meet Me at Sunset + KleanColor Glitter

I recently bought a few Essie polishes from Traci at The TraceFace Philes!  She has a GREAT blog sale going on (and blog), so definitely check her out if you're lemming for some polishes!

One of the polishes I got from her blog sale was Essie's Meet me at Sunset.  I kept seeing this when I went to buy Braziliant and I really liked it!  It's a lovely dark orange cream polish:

Yum!

I think this is a perfect color for the end of summer/beginning of fall transition.  I feel like I could draw on a jack-o-lantern face and it'd be perfect for Halloween :)  I did really like it, especially because it went on opaque in only 2 coats!  Yum!

I don't know why I've been on such an orange kick lately, but I'm so drawn to it when I would normally be drawn to pinks!  Weird!

Anyhow, I ordered some KleanColors polishes from BeautyJoint for only $1.75 each and they came the other day!  I was eager to try them out so I added Chunky Holo Black on top of Meet me at Sunset and I was surprised how well I liked this combination:

My infamous RIGHT hand! *gasp!* My mom wanted to take pictures lol

 I keep my cuticles looking much nicer on my left hand haha...my right is fug.

Up close of the glitters

I added 2 coats of the KleanColor glitter over the Essie polish.  You can see on my thumb that there is a lot of glitter on the end of my thumb rather than near my cuticle.  I would've spread them out more by waiting in between coats, but I wanted to try it out asap!  I thought these colors went pretty well together even though I've seen Chunky Holo Black used mostly with darker colors.  I really liked the different sized glitters and really the only downside was the smell...KleanColors have a weirder smell than normal polish, I think! 

Overall, LOVED the Essie and was pretty happy with the KleanColor.  I'm more excited to try it over darker polishes this fall, though--do you guys have any KleanColors? Do they smell weird to you?

Thanks for reading!

<3 Whitney

Braziliant + Turquoise Crackle

Hey allll!  I did a guest post on Opal Steven's Blog today on crackle polishes, please go check it out!! 

Also, I just wanted to show you real quick my semi-crackle fail with OPI's Turquoise Shatter over Essie Braziliant:

My infamous right hand since the left looked like poop

Eh.  I think it was a good idea because I love the colors together, but I must've used too thick of a coat of turquoise shatter because I wasn't really satisfied with how much it crackled.  I wanted to see more orange!!  Overall I really liked the turquoise color, though, and I'll definitely be using it again!  I'll probably take this off tonight and re-do something else :)

Also, I briefly mentioned that yesterday I broke part of my pointer finger nail on my left hand and used the krazy-glue method of keeping it on.  It actually worked really well and I smoothed it out and everything but after showering and working with my hands a bit this morning it kind of went to hell and I broke the rest of it off :-/  I'm really bummed.  I don't want to trim all my nails down!  We'll see how it looks when I file it off later.  Ugh!


Well ladies, have a wonderful Saturday night...I'm going to spend it happily on the couch with The Boyfriend since this is the first Saturday night he's had off in months!  Horray!


<3 Whitney

Orange-ya Glad it's the Weekend?! Braziliant!

Okay my title is corny, I know.  Oh well :)  But YAY 150 followers!!

I've been desperately searching (and waiting) for Essie Braziliant ever since I heard about it at the end of April.  The whole Summer 2011 collection looks fabulous, actually, and I'm not usually into oranges but when I saw this swatched I HAD to have it. 

I finally found it at Target today and while I resisted buying anything at both Ulta AND Sally's, when I caught a glimpse in the store, my lack of self control took over and I bought it.  Wee! Then I came home and immediately took off my leopard mani and put on this orange.  Check it out!

A bit shiny from the Butter London remover...weird!

Ugh..I broke this nail today, apparently I didn't file it well.  I had to super glue the left side together haha woops

Love love love!  Braziliant is an obnoxiously loud orange and in the bottle you can see just a glimpse of pink shimmery undertones.  It doesn't translate as well to the nail, though, which is fine by me 'cause I was lookin for strictly orange here!  It's pretty opaque, but I still used three coats.  I used two coats of ORLY Ridge Filler first and I don't think I let it dry long enough which made me have some issues when applying this.  I don't know if there's some trick to it or something. Maybe I should've only used one coat of Ridge Filler.  Regardless, it turned out okay after cleaning up a bit!  I loved this color enough I even wrapped my tips 'cause I'm probably going to wear it a few days while I lay out at the pool!

Anywho, here's a quick photo of what I've picked up over the past several days:

Essie Braziliant, OPI Turquoise Shatter, Two Wet n Wild Craze Colors, and Wet n Wilds Mermaids Cove Collection Polishes in Waves of Enchantment and Diving for Pearls....and some remover!

I picked up the Wet n Wilds at CVS on clearance and buy 1 get one 50% off so it was only a few bucks for all those!

I think that's all for tonight, then! 

<3 Whitney

P.S. Have any of you watched My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding on TLC?  It's fascinating, hahaha!  I've never seen dresses this gigantic in my entire life.