After I chopped my nails I needed sparkles to make me feel better, so I wore a succession of really beautiful polishes, the first of which was Anise Cosmic Kiss - the Anise brand is available at DSW of all places:
The inner fire and subtle holo finish of this polish didn't show up like I wanted it to in pictures, so I did a Polish in Motion for it:
Sooo pretty! I really enjoyed having this on my tiny nubbins. They've since grown out of course, but I'm trying to keep them on the shorter side (for me) for a couple of reasons - one of which is in an effort to minimize breaks which is so far a fail; I think I could get a break at any length I am such a clutz LOL.
I've got such a backlog, both from earlier this year & from last year, I could probably do a post a day for the next year & not be caught up. I don't know if I can actually follow through on that, but I plan to try! Day two: check!
This almost got one of my "evolution" titles, but I think that requires at least 3 versions of the mani, and this was only 2. I'm impressed so far with this Anise brand, which as I mentioned I picked up at DSW - & if you're wondering if I went to DSW & left with no shoes, I did buy some but my shoe hauls lately have all been incorporated into my vlogs on my other blog, if your interested =)
Anise Pearls for the Devil is very dark & does come off as almost black in many lights, but a closer look shows purple & turquoise layered over the dark grey base. I love vampy colors so no surprise I guess that I liked it on its own:
After a day or two I decided to stamp it up - I used China Glaze IDK & Bundle Monster image plate bm224. This is an interesting, kind of snake-skin pattern, and I switched it up a bit between my two hands. left hand the end with the smaller scales is matched to itself, right hand the end with the larger scales is matched to itself - and on my thumbs the design is stamped sideways, again opposite sides on the different hands. Hope all that makes sense LOL but you can see the different look that it makes depending on how you double-stamp. My favorite placement is my thumbs:
Didn't get as much catching up done as I wanted this weekend, but that's pretty par for the course I think LOL. I'm going to try & post a few more things today & get closer to current =) Thanks for reading.
For those who did not see the haul post, this brand is available at DSW - yes, the shoe store. Imagine my surprise =)
I started out with it plain, and as a deep green with slightly duo-chrome tendencies, it stands very well on it's own. Anise Crocodile Tears:
After a few days, I wanted a change without actually changing polish so I added Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure:
Which for some reason I just wasn't in love with it that way, so I topped that with Matte Magic & this is the version I ended up actually wearing for several more days:
I have no real plans this weekend other than getting caught up with posting, so lots more pretties to come =)
Very behind this week. Lots going on IRL that I don't really want to get into, but I'm going to try & just get some catching up done tonight & tomorrow. I'm going to admit I may drop out of sight again for a while, I'm just not sure how this is going to go so I'm going to post while I can.
I split the haul & the swatches each into their own vids again this time. Here is the haul:
& here are the swatches:
& for the bottle pics I kind of broke everything up by brand, regardless of where or when I purchased ... these are all from quite a while ago, I think I recorded the haul vid like 2 weeks ago & the swatches one week ago LOL. So here we go.
Icing ... I went overboard at 2 different Icing stores. I got 4 different 5-packs of mini bottles - although Icing's minis are pretty decent size compared to for example OPI, at .4 fl oz - but then again, normal Icing bottles are bigger than many brands at .65 fl oz:
First row - Cancun Spring Break set: Hot Date, Flamingo Dancer, Suntan Lotion, Lime Martini, Blue Caribbean. Second row - Glow in the Dark set: Gleam and Go, Lamplight, Twinkle Stars, Glowworm, Moonbeam. Third row - New York Graffiti set: Silver Spray Paint, Tag Me Pink, Midnight at Times Square, Black Shatter, Fourth row - Paris Romance set: Un Cafe s'ilvous Plait, Paris Romance, Bonjour, Printemps, French Lavender.
And the other single bottles:
Top row: Glimmer, Gold Dust, At Dusk, Pumpkin, Tiger's Blood. Middle row: Rock Star From Mars, Witch's Brew, Vampire's Blood, Cherry Blossom, Orchid. Bottom row: Thunderstorm, Twilight, The Golden Age of Glitter, Irish Gold, All That Glitters is Green, Electric Emerald.
No names on them, so they just go by color on my spreadsheet - Neon Yellow, Neon Fuchsia, Pink w/ Glitter.
Justice - and yes it took some serious courage to go into the kid store for my own purposes LOL! The sales girl thought maybe I was buying a gift but I fessed up it was for me:
Also no names I could find - Black Crackle, Purple Crackle & Pink to Purple sun changing polish (pics after sun exposure at the end of the swatch vid)
And finally, my unexpected find at DSW, Anise:
Night Adventure, Midnight Electric, Ring My Bell, Pearls for the Devil, Crocodile Tears, Agent Glam.
So yeah, a pretty big haul. I thought my no-buy following this would last longer - but I forgot how early holiday collections come out. I spied the China Glaze Let it Snow collection when I hit Sallys today for cuticle oil, and ... well ... I'm sure you can guess. Another haul post in my future =) But not before I edit & post NOTDs for the past week!
