Too Much Polish, Not Enough Nails

Lissa - 30 something nail polish enthusiast stuck in Texas.

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Springy springity spring spriiiiing! Cirque Colors Panacea on thumb and ring; Nails Inc Regents Place on all others, topped with NYX Girls Enchanted Forest as a topper.

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Clearance finds are the best. I found Sinful Colors' Rain Storm polish in a bin at Big Lots for $1. It's a nice blue, moodier and more denim than it looks here. A one coater for my blissfully shortened nails, too. After a couple of days I brushed on a layer or two of a glitter top coat called Indi-Go With The Flow, which I got on clearance at Sephora when they were discontinuing the Sephora by OPI range of polishes. It's a very pretty but slightly unmanageable silvery periwinkle glitter. It blends in with Rain Storm a bit but I like that.

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ariedana replied to your photo: “My nails have been boring as heck. Thank goodness for Easter providing...”:

Are you doing another bL buy anytime soon? I am lusting after the spring colours.

If they have another F&F sale and some colors come out that I want, I might do - if it falls at the right paycheck time. I haven't been really thrilled by any of the colors lately except Sozzled, Dust Up, and Titchy, and I have just about all the older colors I want, so without big impetus, I haven't been in the mood to place an order, alas.

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I love this polish, but it is entirely impossible to photograph. It is a glitterbomb without question, and the bling is turned up to eleven. One coat of Happy Hands "Illusions, Michael" (original formulation, as near as I can tell - was obtained in a blog sale of sorts) over one coat of Barry M Gelly in "Blood Orange", which is really just red, I know, but it's a really nice red I should wear more. I put this over a coat of Essence Peel Off Base Coat because there is no way I want to try scrubbing this off with acetone and cotton balls. Even the foil method would have a time and a half with this...

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My nails have been boring as heck. Thank goodness for Easter providing an occasion to at least step it up a LITTLE. butter London in Jasper, Mollycoddled, Sprog, Kerfuffle, and Fiver. The black glitter is LA Girl Uninhibited, and I used the bL Matte Finish topcoat to take off the shine.

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I was rummaging through my collection when I found my bottle of Kleancolor Chunky Holo Purple and thought, "Doing this!" It's just so pretty... One coat of the Kleancolor over one coat of butter London in Bramble, which I guess must be one of my very favorite polish colors since I reach for it when I can't think of anything else to wear. So pretty and perfect.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Went simple: Sally Hansen Triple Shine in Kelp Out (still love it, what a great green, right? second wearing this year) with a layer of Sinful Colors in Green Ocean, their annual St. Patrick's glitterflake offering.

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This is super girly for me but I really do kind of love it tons. Thumb and ring: Delush Polish, Je Ne Sais Quoi, three coats. It's so effervescently fun with all the bubble-like circle glitters! Index: two coats of OPI Movin' Out over Rescue Beauty Lounge Stormy. Always love the pink-green-gold color shift of Movin' Out! Middle and Pinky: one coat of Salon Perfect Loves Me, Loves Me Not over Stormy. Stormy, by the way, is a perfectly beautifully behaved deep gray, and looks so nice under the baby pink and black matte glitter.

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Zoya PixieDusts - my forever loves, and this one is at the top of the list, it's so gorgeous. Chyna, an amazing ruby red texture. Actually tempted to order a backup of it! I've used it more than any of my other Pixies, which is a surprise as I usually shy away from using reds too often. Pixies are incredible for when I need to have glam nails in a hurry - no layering of basecoat between layers of color as I usually do, no topcoat! But such a pretty end result...

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Rescue Beauty Lounge in 'Anne', two coats. Such a pretty pretty color, I love dirty golden olive lacquers way too much. There is a very elusive pink shimmer to it - I couldn't get it on camera, but that's all right. Elusiveness is a pretty spot-on quality for a nail polish inspired by Anne Boleyn.

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Neutral nails for the interview that wasn't (well, it still is, it's just a conference call now and not live). butter London in Toff and it bothers me how much I'm enjoying a plain creme pink based neutral. WHO AM I. Yeah. It's getting glittered up later tonight. Or something. Definitely something.

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That would be 'Movin' Out' from the 2003 Holiday on Broadway collection! It's one of my very favorites, but I think this will be the last bottle of it I get - it's hard to find (I found it on Amazon for a better price than eBay, which doesn't happen often), and the price is starting to climb faster lately. :(

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I definitely find I get my money's worth with butter London (and then some I suppose, given that I get so many of them on sale!). The cremes I've tried have had perfect, beautiful formulas that go on so nicely I hardly have to do any cleanup. The only chips I tend to get are where my nails already have peeling issues, so that's hardly the fault of the polish. If I wrap my tips properly, I can get a week out of a butter London manicure! I love that! I absolutely use my bL polishes more than any others, and I'm pretty sure they must be the largest part of my collection.

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Picked up my mail today and there were some nice things in it! ...not that I can wear any of them yet as I have to assist in conducting an interview tomorrow and am not sure strawberry based duochromes or jadeite green would go over well.

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These, however, are my nails this week! It's all butter London up in here - start with 'Bramble' as base color, still the perfect deep and rich purple creme. Then top with a layer of 'Fizzy Pop', a coppery shimmer overcoat lacquer that was exclusive to Ulta over the holidays. So sparkly and fiery!

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My best friend wanted to play with stamping! She painted on a coat of butter London's 'Toff', and then I stamped over it with Sinful Colors in 'Gold Medal'. We used my MoYou London Tourist plate - can't recall offhand which number it is, but it's got XL designs and is French-themed.

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I never want to take these off. Thumb and middle: Scofflaw Nail Varnish in Koi Pondering. Index: Sinful Colors Gold Medal and butter London West End Wonderland (glitter sponge gradient). Ring: Zoya Pepper with Sinful Colors Gold Medal stamped over it, MoYou London plate Sailor Collection 06. Pinkie: Zoya PixieDust in Sunshine.