Nail Venturous: Corrupted!

I don't think you're ready for this jelly.

Oh. My. Gosh.  I found my new favorite nail polish in the whole world and it's made by my friend Amy at Nail Venturous Nail Lacquers/I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous!

I don't know how she makes such fabulous nail polish--she must be a genius.  She's gotten quite popular though and her shop will be closed for a little while, but if you can find a way to get your hands on some of her frankens (check Ninja Polish), I'm sure you'll love them!

Okay, you MAY be ready for this jelly now.  Check out Corrupted:

Ahhhhhh!  It's like a peacock on my nails!  Corrupted is a dark blue jelly with various gold, blue, and teal hex glitters.  There are also large light blue diamond-shaped glitters and gold bar glitter!  Not to mention that the formula was FABULOUS.  It went on perfect in 2 coats. 

Seriously guys, I'm so in love with this polish.  I might order another one as a back-up if I ever get the chance, hah! 

Have you gotten your hands on any of Amy's polishes?

<3 Whitney

Introducing: Elemental Styles' Noble Gases Collection!

Weee!  A new franken collection with SEVEN polishes!  I'm really excited about this one, actually!  These will be available in my shop VERY soon, but in limited quantities for now! 

I'm running super-dee-duper low on my base polish, but I've found multiple new suppliers, so hopefully I'll be able to bust out more soon!

BUT for now, check them out here:

First up: Sexual Hel-ium!

There are a ton of pictures of this one, sorry!  I initially made this one quite a while ago but needed to finish the collection before I showed everyone!  So the swatches are on my old nubbins, but there are some new pics near the end.

Sexual Hel-ium is a feisty fuchsia jelly with an array of pink and silver holographic glitters swimming throughout!  It actually goes on opaque in 2-3 coats and is not as "see through" in person as it appears in some of the pictures!  It's probably one of my favorite polishes I've made--it makes you feel fabulous and girly when you wear it!  Barbie would've killed for this polish.  Sexual Hel-ium is a shout out to Marvin Gaye's song from the 80's and is named after the lightest, squeak-iest of the noble gases, the second element, Helium!

Next up: Neon Lights!

Neon Lights is a clear polish filled with neon pink and neon yellow matte glitters.  The mixture of glitters makes it appear almost orange and looks great over an orange base!  The nail-wheel swatches show 2 coats of Neon Lights over white, over orange, and 3 coats by itself!  It's a great as a layering polish or can be worn alone.  The swatches on my nails show 2 coats of Neon Lights over 2 coats of orange, making it look fire-y and awesome!  Neon Lights is named after the 10th element: Neon!

Next: Ar-gon with the Wind

Ar-gon with the Wind is a light and airy polish with fine light blue matte glitters and various-sized white hex glitters.  The glitters are in a clear base (it's actually very, very light blue, but we'll go ahead and say clear here hah!).  Ar-gon with the Wind is meant as a layering polish and the nail wheel swatches show 2 coats over white, 2 coats over blue, and 3 coats by itself!  This polish is named appropriately for the 18th element, argon, and one of the best classic movies of all time: Gone With the Wind!  And if you don't like it, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! :)

Next: Kryptonite!

Kryptonite is a light green polish with fine iridescent green/yellow glitters, white bar glitters, and is the ultimate weakness of Superman!  This polish, like the fictional radioactive element, glows in the dark!   This polish goes on opaque in 2-3 coats and is named after the 36th element, krypton!  The name is also a shout-out to Superman's greatest weakness--but don't worry, it's not harmful to us humans.

Next: Xenon: Warrior Princess

Xenon: Warrior Princess is another layering glitter that, after three coats, can be worn on its own!  She is a clear-based polish with matte pink, purple, and white fine glitters!  She's tough as nails and kicks butt on a nail wheel over white (2 coats), pink (1 coat), and all by herself (3 coats).   Xenon: Warrior Princess is the girlier sister of Xena and is named after the 54th element, xenon!

Next: Don't Rad-on My Parade

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.

Last but not least: Ununoctium

Uunoctium (un-un-ock-tee-um), is another one of those crazy named, recently discovered elements!  Number 118 to be exact!  The polish it is named for is a bright neon peachy-pink glitter!  Ununoctium has a light neon pink jelly base with iridescent neon pink glitters and a few random iridescent flakies hidden inside.  This color goes on opaque with only a little bit of visible nail line left after 3 coats, but can also be used as a layering glitter!  It's a color that is perfect for summer and would look great with a tan!

WELLLLLLLL that's it!  Hopefully these will be up in my shop before this weekend is over!  Let me know what you ladies think :)

<3 Whitney

Featuring: Jessica Iridescent Eye + Glitter!

I know, I know.  I've been severely neglecting my blog.  I'm so very sorry!

I got caught up in filling Etsy orders and work has been insane.  BUT I'm back in full force now!

Today I'm going to be showing you all a Chanel Peridot dupe by Jessica called Iridescent Eye!

Jessica is a brand I hadn't heard of until recently and I was surprised to find is quite affordable.  You can pick up Iridescent Eye and many other Jessica polishes at Ninja Polish for $5.00 to $6.00!

Check her out:

As you can see, Iridescent Eye is a pretty green/gold/blue metallic-esque duochrome!  The formula on this polish was pretty descent, albeit just a tad bit streaky.  Streaky as in you can kind of see the brush-strokes, but this is typical of a chrome/metallic polish.  Two coats would be enough to make this polish opaque, but the pictures above show three!

Now I saw swatches of this and Peridot online a lot and I thought I loved it, but the green/gold just doesn't look awesome with my skin tone :-/  SO I decided to slap on some glitter over-top that I hadn't tried, but I didn't know what would go with a duochrome.  Well, why not add some 27 more colors to it? So I added OPI Rainbow Connection:

It's kind of all over the place, even with just one coat of RC, hah! But it grew on me after a while.  I decided I really like Rainbow Connection and am going to try and use it more!  However, I still am not totally in love with the look of Iridescent Eye on my skin tone, so keep a look-out for it on my blog sale page, which I hope to update this weekend.

Hope you all are well!

<3 Whitney

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!! 500 Follower Giveaway Winner!

Hellllllllo ladies!  Holy moly!  I had 1200+ entries to my giveaway!  I have done nothing but validate entries all week long, hahaha. 

I finally have a winner!  Random.org picked number 757 out of the hat for me and here is the winner:

Congratulations KIRSTEN from Geeky Owl!!  Her blog is super cute, check her out!

Yahoo!  She has 48 hours to respond to my e-mail otherwise another winner will be chosen.

Stay tuned, I will have a few more giveaways here in the future ;)

<3 Whitney

Thanks to everyone who entered! 

Here is a Pretty Summer Peach: Zoya LC!

I love Zoya.  And I love when they have sales with free shipping, haha!  I picked up Zoya LC when they had their Valentine's Day Sale along with Ivanka and Charla!  I'm waiting to see if they have another Earth Day Promotion, it was awesome last year!

Check this beauty out:

I normally don't wear reds, but LC has just enough pink in it for me to love it.  I was slightly disappointed with the formula, though.  It just was a bit thicker than Zoya's normal formula, but still went on nicely in 2 coats.  I don't have many of their creams, but from what I can tell, their formula isn't super consistent.  LC was thick, Pippa was kind of runny, but Whitney was pretty good ;) But I may be biased for that one, haha.

Have you guys tried LC? Or any of the other ones from the "Hills" collection? 

<3 Whitney

I'm so flyyyy! OPI Fly + Pretty and Polished GBF

Hey ladiessss!  I've got some pretty polishes to show you today!  

First up, from the OPI Nicki Minaj Collection: Fly!

Fly is a pretty bright teal that I loved as soon as I saw it in the promos!  It took me a while to get it, but I finally did and it is great:

I really had a hard time capturing the actual color of this polish!  In these pictures it looks more robin egg's blue, but it's really darker and more teal.  Overall, I really liked the color in person much better than in these photos!  The formula was thin, but pigmented and provided full coverage in only 2 coats.  I couldn't tell what kind of polish this was...it's like a jelly/cream hybrid.  Very interesting!

This was the only polish I picked up from the Nicki Minaj collection, but I wouldn't mind having the purple crackle :)

After wearing this for a while, I decided to try out Pretty and Polished's GBF, a pretty silver flakie layering polish:

This is super pretty!  I feel like it'd go over any polish and look good!  It had a really good formula, but I had to fish around for the flakies a bit!  I think if I had a full size bottle it would've been easier, though :)  Inside GBF are various sized holographic silver glitters and shards!  Have you guys gotten a chance to try any of Chelsea's polishes?  They are fab!

Did you guys get any of the Nicki Minaj polishes??

<3 Whitney

Shop is Open!

Hey pretties!  Just to let you know my Etsy shop is open and running!

This will be my last stocking for a few weeks, I think, I've got to re-evaluate my supplies and hope the base situation gets worked out :/

Enjoy, though!

<3 Whitney