I'm aliveeee! With a new polish!

I've been a bad, bad blogger lately!

I'm so very sorry!  I've been so freakin' busy for the past month and a half...it's been INSANE.  I've been out of town like 4 times and have had visitors twice and two bridal showers and bachelorette parties and a wedding this Saturday and a business trip all next week! Raaahhh!  Oh and I also accepted a new job!

WOooo so a whirlwind!

I've been slowly trying to remake more of my polishes! And I've got 5 new ones, hopefully six!  I'll be re-opening my shop sometime in August.  I've got a big order to fill first and a few more out of town things to take care of, so I'll have a better idea of WHEN after all that!  So stay tuned!

I've also got some sweet reviews for you ladies that should be out this week/weekend!

BUT for now, I'll sneak preview one of my new polishes: Ces-ium The Day!

Check her out:

Three coats alone, one over For Audrey

2 coats over For Audrey

Excess amounts of pictures, sorry!  Ces-ium The Day has fine aqua, green, and blue glitters along with some ultra fine holographic shimmer!  It's meant as a layering polish and in most of the pictures above I've got it over China Glaze For Audrey, a perfect combo if I do say so myself!

This one will be for sale in limited quantities when I open shop!

Stay tuned this week for some more reviews :)

<3 you ladies, thanks for sticking by me while my life goes crazy!

Whitney

Featuring: Naïade by Karine

I have a pretty indie polish to show you today called Naïade by Karine!  I got this pretty right before she decided to stop taking orders, but I wanted to show you anyway!  Hopefully in the future she decides to accept orders again because I really like her polishes.

Here are some pics!  I initially forgot to take pictures the first day I wore this, so it's after a day or two of tip wear...my bad!

Naïade is a pretty aqua/teal jelly filled with iridescent flakies and green/gold/blue glitters!  It went on very easily, but needed 3 coats to be opaque.  However, it wasn't thick after three coats like some polishes are!  The flakies were gorgeous and in the sun it looks fabulous!  (Check out her pics to see it!).  She should really make more polishes, because she's talented and her names are cute and creative.  Naïade is named appropriately for the water nymphs in Greek mythology!

Hope you guys are having a great week!  Enjoy the weekend :)

<3 Whitney

Elemental Styles Limited Edition 4th of July SALE!

Don't worry ladies, I didn't forget about the giveaway :)  I'll announce the winner tomorrow!

I just wanted to post today about the polish I made for Independence Day called U.S.A-mericium!  It's named for the 95 element, Americium (Am-er-ee-see-um)!   I knew I wanted to make this polish for a while, but I just didn't have the supplies.  I also didn't want to release it with a normal collection since it's so 4th of July appropriate!

Here are some pics:

Bottle shot!

Over red, white, blue, and black! 

Over red, white, blue, and black -- it's by itself on my thumb

U.S.A-mericium!

Close up!

U.S.A-mericium is filled with fine red and blue and ultrafine silver shiny glitters!  It's also got two sizes of matte white hex glitters.  It's very fun and festive and perfect for the 4th of July!  It can be layered over other colors, the photos above show one coat of U.S.A-mericium over other colors (black is my favorite!), or it can be worn alone in 2-3 coats.  It's named after the 95th element, americium!

I am doing a limited edition sale of U.S.A-mericium TODAY, June 24, at 4:30 pm EST on my Etsy shop!!  I want to make sure you have them by the 4th to do your manis :)  This is a one-time only sale and I won't be re-stocking this anytime soon.

So stay tuned later to get your hands on one :)

<3 Whitney 

P.S. I have a bunch of blog posts lined up so I can stop being a bad blogger and writing more!

Featuring Elemental Styles: Don't Radon My Parade

I'm ending out my "Hand Made for the month of May" with one of my own polishes :)

This one I swatched pictures of, so I thought I'd show it to you ladies today!

This one is Don't Radon My Parade from my Noble Gases collection:

In these pictures it looks a little less opaque than it does in person...but whatever!  I really like this polish, it's a pretty teal with a gold shimmer!  It's not considered a glitter because it's very easy to remove, hah!  Here's my description:

Don't Rad-on My Parade is a teal based polish with a fine, gold holographic shimmer that reminds me of mermaids.  She's much prettier on the nail than in these pictures--they just don't do her justice.  For full opacity 2-3 coats are needed and you'll be left with a lovely teal and gold shimmer to show off to all your rainy-day friends.  This polish is to honor my supposed doppelganger, Barbara (my co-workers are crazy), and her song from the musical Funny Girl, "Don't Rain on my Parade."  It's also named after the 86th element, radon, discovered by my dear friends Pierre and Marie Curie in 1899.

Don't Radon my Parade can normally be purchased from my Etsy shop. 

Thanks for reading, pretty ladies!  Hope you're stayin' cool--it's been in the 90s here this week!

<3 Whitney

Nail Venturous: Burst of Blue!

I have another great Nail Venturous polish to show you ladies today!  It's called Burst of Blue!

Check her out:

Wee!   I will never tire of Amy's polishes.  They are just so good! 

Burst of Blue is a clear polish filled with fine blue and black matte hex glitter, larger white hex, and black and white bar glitter!  You can slap one coat this beauty over any other color to give it a cool blue effect or you can wear it on it's own!  I used three coats for these pictures and for the polish to appear opaque.  I really like these colors together!  My bedroom is actually black and white and teal, so naturally I like this a lot :)

You guys get your hands on anymore of Amy's polishes lately?  You can find them at Ninja Polish and on her Etsy site!

<3 Whitney

SoFlaJo Champagne Cocktail!

I love SoFlaJo and her stinkin' cute collections! 

The one I have to show you ladies today is from her Happy Hour Collection!  It's a beautiful silver glitter holographic polish called Champagne Cocktail!  She sells on her blog site and on Etsy, so check her out!

Wowowowow!  I love this!  Champagne Cocktail is an AWESOME silver holographic polish filled with various sized silver bar and hex holographic glitters!  So unique! 

You could easily layer this polish over another to give it a pretty holographic feel, or it goes on opaque in three coats!  The formula is thinner than many other frankens I've purchased, but I really liked it!  And it comes with a great wide brush for easy application!  I'm in love! 

You can purchase Champagne Cocktail, full sized, here for $10 plus SH!  And I definitely recommend checking out Jody's other polishes! 

<3 Whitney

Another Indie! Featuring: Glitter Daze's April Rain

Boy do I have a beauty for you ladies today! 

Have you heard of Glitter Daze? Sana has made some super pretty glitter-filled polishes!  She's actually got a blog where she features them as well--beautiful! 

The one I have to show you today is from Sana's Simply Spring Collection--a beautiful collection of glitter spring-colored polishes, all with cocktail themed names! Such a cute idea! 

Check out April Rain:

Honestly when I saw the bottle, I loved the color but had now idea how awesome it was until I swatched it!  April Rain is GORGEOUS! 

April Rain is a beautiful light blue/teal polish loaded with silver, sea foam green, and blue glitters!  I think this is a fabulous spring AND summer polish and I'm super psyched to have it in my collection.  It goes on opaque in 2 coats, but I used 3 for these pictures, but would be beautiful with 1 coat layered over another color.  As a matter of fact you can see Sana's blog post here that shows it layered.  Lovely!

Check out Glitter Daze on Etsy.  She sells full sized bottles for $8.50-$9.00 and minis for $4.50-$4.85. 

<3 Whitney

Not Too Polished : Hatter!

I've got another indie polish to show you ladies today!  Actually, it's another one from Not Too Polished called Hatter!

Hatter is from her Wonderland Collection (which is tooo cute, BTW!) and you can score this pretty polish for $6.00 for a full size bottle or $3.00 for a mini!

Check it out:

Hatter is a dark grey-ish green shimmery polish that appears to be a duo-chrome with purple undertones in the light!  It's packed with different colored glitters: silver, red, pink, blue, and green hexes, silver bar glitters, and gold micro glitter!  It actually reminds me of OPI Not Like the Movies with glitter!  I remember a lot of people went crazy over that when it came out because it was a duochrome and I kind of like this one better.  Honestly, it was the perfect consistency--by the way it applied, you wouldn't even know there was glitter in it because it went on so smooth!  No glitter fishing at all :) It went on opaque in two coats.

Have you guys checked out Not Too Polished yet?  Her May Flowers collection won't be out for much longer!

Whitney

Nail Venturous The Shimmer Effect

Onward with Made by Hand May!

Ahhhhhh!  Amy keeps surprising me with the creativity and quality of her polishes!  I lovvveee herrrr!

I've got another beautiful polish from her to show you guys!  It's called The Shimmer Effect and it's probably tied for my favorite with Corrupted!

Lookie lookie:

Oh my gosh.  GORGEOUS!

The Shimmer Effect is a purple jelly/cream with micro yellow and green and larger gold and bronze square glitters!  It looks FABULOUS together!  The formula was absolutely perfect, I couldn't even tell there was glitter in it, it went on like a cream, no glitter-fishin' what so ever!  These pictures show three coats, but 2 would've been just fine!

Have you guys got your hands on any Nail Venturous polishes?  Which one is your fave?

<3 Whitney

Made by Hand May featuring Not Too Polished May Flowers Collection

Hey pretties!  I decided to go along with some of my other blogger friends and participate in "Made by Hand May" and feature only indie polishes for the whole month! 

So today, I've got TWO polishes to show you from an indie polish maker named Elizabeth from Not Too Polished.  She's got a limited edition collection out for this month ONLY called May Flowers and sent me two to show you guys!

First up: New Grass

New Grass is a pretty spring green with an appropriate name :)  It's a thinner formula, but not runny--very good, actually!  This one applied relatively easily!  This shows three coats, but two would've been okay if you let it dry it between coats.  I'm super impatient and tried to get each coat on one after the other and then....I dragged my hair through it, hah!  I liked this color a lot more than I thought I would.  Normally I'm not into greens but this one didn't stain and it looked okay with my skin tone!  I'd definitely wear this again!  Go to green!

The next one I have to show you is Peach Blossom:

Peach Blossom was a bit thinner than New Grass, but was not unmanageable.  It's a very, very pretty, girly neutral color that is perfect for spring (or any other time of the year!).  I even think that it'd look pretty to use as the "nude" for a french manicure, just to put a peachy spin on it!  It took 3 coats to make it opaque...it certain lighting, I could still see a bit of nail line, but I'm too lazy for 4 coats of polish, so I deal with it :)

Overall, I really liked both of these colors, and they're great for spring!  She's got four other gorgeous colors in this collection, available this month only, for $6.00 each. check them out here!  As a matter of fact, I just ordered 3 more lol.

Have you guys checked Elizabeth's shop out yet?

<3 Whitney