A few more Finger Paints.

Last night I went back to Sally's to grab a few more Finger Paints. I am pretty sure I spotted another nail junkie while I was there. We're a mysterious and illusive species and you rarely see us in the light of day, but I feel like I have the knowledge to identify one of my own kind when I see one. 


She was a 20 something woman with neon green nails filed to perfection. I noticed this from 20 feet away the second she walked through the door at Sally's. Yeah, I always obsessively STARE at strangers until I get a glimpse of their nails. So what? Anyways, she walked in, looking down at the ground, and made a straight B line to the polishes. A dead giveaway. Then she ninja grabbed the China Glaze Crackle Haunting 4 pack that I had JUST PUT DOWN!!! DAMN IT! She instantly bought it and I cursed under my breath for the rest of the night for putting it down. 


So, fellow nail junkie who STRAIGHT UP STOLE the new China Glaze Halloween collection from me, I hope you like your new polish. PS- I licked the package. Enjoy your strep throat. I'm pretty sure I have a swollen lymph node.


When I checked out at the register the SA went out of her way to give me a free purse. I think that means I am spending too much money there. I ended up buying 3 new Finger Paints, a new Orly, Fresh, marked down to 1.99 and China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-le. It's one of the only CG's in the core collection that I don't already have. So, I got it.


I'll go ahead and swatch all of my new ones even though the title of this post expressly says Finger Paints. Whatever. I do what I WANT!

 First up, this gorgeous hidden gem from China Glaze that I have somehow managed to ignore until now. So weird because I absolutely LOVE this color and I am wearing it right now. It's a little sheer but worth it.

Pretty redish purple. I really like this one. I have found that all the Finger Paints I have purchased dry super duper shiny. Mama likey!

HOLY SHIT! Dark blue super pigmented jelly with loads of super tiny pink shimmer. I LOVE THIS! I am so glad I got this one, I put it down 3 or 4 times.

 Here is another view of the polish above without flash to show the insane shine. Sooooo shiiiiiiiiiiiiinyyyyyyyyyyyy.

 Wow. A perfect lavender that does not make my skin look red. Love it.

 Last we have my clearance polish. I think they sold everything from this new collection but this one polish so they marked it down. I saw this last weekend and it was 6.99. It's a neon so it dries matte. Pictured here at 2 coats with no topcoat. I'm not crazy about this but I am fairly sure that for Halloween I'm wearing this with OPI Black Shatter on top because it looks CRAZY AWESOME.

Love, MM

China Glaze Metro Collection.

I love this collection SO MUCH I just had to post it. This is one of the rare China Glaze collections where I love almost all of the colors. Normally I have to have no more than 6 of a 12 piece set but for this collection I had my heart set on 9 of them!

I was so obsessed with these that for the first time ever I went to Sally's and paid retail for them so I could get instant gratification. For someone as cheap as me that is really saying something.

This collection is so incredible but for some odd reason the promo pictures and advertising are really misleading. In the promo pic the polishes are arranged in such a way that the collection really looks STANK. It looks like burnt oranges and nothing but reds. YUCK! They really screwed up with that photo. I am willing to bet this collection would have been 50% more popular had they pulled the purple, grey and green polishes to the front of the display in the photo and let the red and pink polishes hide in the back. 

The formula on these is amazing across the board. All the cremes except one are careful one coaters and 2 of the glitters cover in a mere 2 coats.

One of the reasons this collection is so mesmerizing to me is that the colors are super complimentary to one another. They look fantastic side by side making you feel like you need all of them. 

Swatches!!! Please keep in mind I am re-learning to photograph nail polish since it's been FOREVER!

Purple and silver micro glitters of a few different shades in a clear base. This is 3 coats. This one is my least favorite of the 9 I bought but I still like it. It's sort of different.

 I adore this dark grey creme with a hint of blue. This is my all time favorite grey creme. This is the only grey I own that doesn't make my skin look over the top red.

 This is an eggplant base with duochrome micro glitter. The glitter flashes from orange to lime green. This is 2 coats. Amazing color!Even though I mostly stick to cremes these days I really love this one and I can't wait to wear it.

 Another view.

 Simply stunning dark blue, almost navy blue jelly with loads of silver micro glitter. This is only 2 coats!!! This is a must have.

 Darkish pink creme. Nothing new but I really like this for a pink. It makes my skin look so creamy and fresh. I can actually see myself wearing this on purpose.

 Mustard yellow with subtle shimmer. I bought this because it's so different. It makes my skin tone look horrible but this is probably the only yellow polish I will ever wear. 2 coats.

 Really gorgeous red based purple creme. This is really pretty but not really unique. This one needs more coats than all the other cremes. It's a minimum 2 coater.

 My favorite polish of the collection. Sort of an army or olive maybe a camo green creme. This dries at least 2 shades darker than the bottle. I adore this color! It looks incredible with Urban Night and Concrete Catwalk. MUST BUY!!!

 I really LOVE this red. I am so into red polish lately, especially cremes, and even more especially "different" red cremes. This is kind of murky almost with a tint of grey. Dies super duper shiny and makes my skin tone look amazing. This is the best red to come out all year.

Some updates on yours truley. After an 8 year relationship I am finally ready to get married and I am currently deep in the trenches of wedding planning. Man, it's insane but a lot of fun. I have been on this crazy hardcore diet for the last 6 weeks and planning on staying on it until my wedding 16 months away. Wish me luck on that rediculous crap! Also, I got CHICKENS! Thats right, you heard me correctly. I have PET CHICKENS now. They are so entertaining and sweet! The super cool thing about my new chickens is that they should start laying eggs in about a month and I just figured out that the reason I have been so sick lately is that I am alergic to EGGS. AWESOME!  


I am so excited to be posting after so long! It's nice to be back! 

Love, MM 

My NOTD

Just a quickie today to show off whats on my nails while I'm waiting for my dear step daughters to arrive. I CANNOT WAIT for them to get here so we can decorate the house for Halloween!!! My favorite holiday! Then I cannot wait to take them shopping all over town scouring for Halloween themed cosmetics! Oh, how I love Halloween cosmetics! I need to start saving money year round just so I can buy out all the stores when Halloween rolls around!

Today I'm wearing one of my favorite polishes of all time.

 China Glaze's Fairy dust over one coat of Sinful's Black on Black. I love how this polish changes depending on the lighting. In the shade it simply looks like silver micro glitter, but in the sunlight it explodes into a holo-fest of awesome.

Here's another picture of it doing it's thing in the sunlight.

Gorgeous!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! 

Love, MM

China Glaze Up & Away

Yeah, I realize I'm super late posting this! So what? Wanna fight about it?

When these originally came out I decided the only one I needed was Grape pop, so I got it and went about my merry way. But the strangest thing kept happening. In just about every polish order I've made in the past month or so at least one or two polishes from the Up & Away collecting kept sneaking into my shopping cart... I have no clue why I keep buying them. I don't even like pastels. 

Out of the 12 that were released I have somehow ended up with 7 of them. Whoops! Oh yeah and please excuse my talons, I'm growing out my nails for Halloween! I'm going as a robotic eagle humanoid. Just kidding, I have just been too lazy busy to file them down. 

This has been my mani for the last 3 days! No tipwear or chips! This was a 2 coater but a little hard to control though.

I kinda like this one, a little bit. Another 2 coater. 

As you can see by the slight drips forming on my ring and pinkie nails this one was a runny butt hole! This is 3 coats, but it could have used 4, that is if you can keep it from running and dripping all over the place.

This one is just ok, I'm not really a huge pink fan though.  This one was thick enough to be a 2 coater but somehow still a bit runny.

I would totally rock this out if it didn't make the pigment of the skin on my fingers change to a fierce neon RED. Oh and if I liked pastels. This was a thick 2 coater, not runny thank goodness.

Love this one! This is one coat but I clearly could have done a better job applying it! This polish has SEVEN dupes that I know of. Off the top of my head some of them are- OPI funkey dunky, Orly Charged up, Ulta Celebutante, Nina ultra pro Mambo, Rescue Beauty Lounge Mismas, plus Spa Ritual and somebody else also make one. 

I really like this dark cherry pink. It's a little runny but still a 2 coater.

The formula on these is all over the place. Some are highly pigmented one coaters (grape pop), some are runny 3 coaters, and some are thick and streaky 2 coaters. It's really a hit or miss situation. Luckily none of them are so bad application wise that you should refrain from buying them if you really like the color. Dry time was good on all of the ones I got.

Love, MM

Sparkly

This was my "cheer me up" NOTD today. It kinda worked...I was a good girl and left it on all day long which is about impossible for me to do. I usually have 5 or 6 NOTDs before bedtime rolls around. 

This is China Glaze Heli-yum with lots of tiny little rhinestones I just got in the mail yesterday. I ordered a shit ton of them off ebay last week. I can't wait to try these on black. I love this polish BTW, this is one single coat. 

I just got back from CVS where I returned SH HD LASER. The checkout lady asked me what was wrong with it and I said, "It sucks ass".  She then opened the polish and tested the brush out by swiping it on the rim of the bottle about 15 times. Then she started to peer into the bottle opening to see if it was all used up...So I was like, "the bottle is clear". She continued to strain her eyes looking down into the tiny bottle opening as if she hadn't heard me at all. I let her go about her investigation for at least 5 whole minutes before I lost my cool. 

Loosing my cool consisted of shifting my weight from side to side, making a very mean face, and huffing and puffing REALLY LOUDLY. She eventually gave me back my 6 dollars but She left me with so many questions. Do I really look like some sort of nail polish criminal? Does she think I skulk from CVS to CVS using up nail polishes and returning empty bottles for full refunds? Do I look like the kind of person that runs a nail polish smuggling ring out of my apartment, victimizing drug stores all over the east coast?  Was she really too stupid to realize that nail polish bottles are CLEAR?

While I was at CVS I got 6 of the new confetti polishes that look very promising. I also hit Walgreens while I was out and got some Sinfuls. So, I'll have swatches of those soon.

Love, MM

Some China Glaze Love

Some old and some newer. I hope you enjoy the swatches! 

 Love, MM

Vintage Vixen Swatches

Here are swatches of the 10 polishes I got from the Vintage Vixen Collection.  I skipped classic camel and goin' my way, but I'm sure I'll buy them at some point. 

 I think I hyped myself up WAY too much over these because now that I have them I'm kind of disappointed. I just feel "meh" about the whole collection.  I think I definitely built it up too much in my head while waiting so honestly nothing really would have been good enough. I mean I like them and everything they just aren't what I was expecting. Oh well.

Love, MM

Aqua Baby

Every time I see this polish it reminds me of this one time my step chitlins were dragging me around a gigantic, upscale and crowded mall desperately looking for the perfect items that would make them too cool for school.  Along the treterous journey we passed a kiosk that encircled an infant getting it's ears pierced. 

Of course you could barely tell what the mound of red flesh and clothing WAS, because the child's face was so contorted with agony and confusion it was nearly impossible to tell what this woman in the kiosk was holding. Unless of course you walked up and got uncomfortably close to the action.  This little bunda was merely weeks old as anyone could tell. The proof was in the size of the GATHERING of onlookers that had formed around the event.  A glorious heard of horrified people stood and stared, mouths agape, as the young mother clasped the arm of a jewelry clad toddler with one claw, still managing to hold the squirming, SCREAMING infant getting pierced with the other.  I myself was a few yards away holding on to one of those huge ceramic pots they use as trash cans to be more presentable,  bent over at the waist exploding in waves of uncontrollable laughter.

Anyway the reason this polish reminds me of that scene which I of course will remind you I found totally hilarious, was that I have never seen so much liquid come of out a child in my life. Hence, Aqua Baby by China Glaze.

Look I just could not help but to laugh.  It was the onlookers that did it, with their higher than mighty stances and upset faces.  Their stupid fanny packs paired with straw hats and sunglasses on the top.  I had to laugh or I would have combusted under the weight of the rediculousness ok. I dont really give a crap about the baby, yeah its sad and all, but not as sad as a mob of morons taking the time out of their petty little routines to get pissed off at a total stranger.

Love, MM

P.S.- Look, the baby's freakin ears were gonna hurt for like 15 mins at the most so back off. GEEZE.

Fun Filled Facts A La Manatee Mama

You know you sit and wonder all about my life and ponder its minor

  intricacies on a daily basis so don’t try to lie to me!  It’s a well 

known fact that I am at the tippy top of every ones curiosity list and 

you know it!  So here is some well deserved relief for all of you that

are suffering in miserable agony dying to know more about me.

• I don’t have a DISH WASHER.  This is one of the main causes of my rage filled rants about petty situations.  I’m all about projection of my negative emotions.

•    I have a clothes line and I USE it.

•  My hair is black, and it’s long enough to get the tips stuck in my butt crack while in the shower, AND If I don’t keep it in a bun while drying it will frizz out to a disastrous point that requires another shower.

•  I call my mom at noon everyday and say, "are you on lunch yet, are you on LUNCH YET?" because I am dying to talk to her.

• My best friend sometimes avoids my phone calls because she is “busy” but I think it’s because she just can’t handle another incredibly negative rant about something retarded like stubbing my toe and the hour long story that goes along with it.

• I am a freaky insane person that has panic attacks often.  I take 5 medications for all my various types of crazies.

•  If the gate to the fence around my property isn’t locked securely with our, easily removed by bolt cutters, super weak and pathetic bike chain I can’t sleep.

• I rarely get zits, but when I do they are ALWAYS near the lower corners of my mouth so it looks like I have the herp.  By the herp I of course mean herpes.

• I have a paralyzing, life altering, crippling fear of Locusts. 

• I have never run faster in my life than the time I got a locust in my hair.

• Once in high school I came home to find a stick bug that was caught in a spider web in the window sill of my house.  I went inside and got a steak knife to try to cut the web and free it.  In my concentration I had my mouth wide open and it sprayed the foulest liquid ever known by my taste buds straight into my open mouth.

• If I try on an item of clothing and decide not to wear it I will just throw it on the floor near the dirty clothes pile instead of hanging it back up.

• I cannot apply mascara unless my mouth is wide open.

• I have fat, piggy, chunky, sausage fingers no matter how skinny or fat I may be at the time.

• I make the best brownies you have ever tasted.

• I HATE yellow anything. Especially when it comes to clothing yet I somehow own a yellow shirt and I will wear it if everything else is dirty with a big FAT smile on my face if it means not doing laundry.

•  The yellow shirt I own is not only yellow but it has SEQUINS on it.

• I never, EVER check my voice mail.

• I have never had a cavity or broken a bone.

• I have stacks and stacks of loose DVDs piled around the TV’s in my house and they will probably never be returned to their cases ever again.

• I will start a fresh manicure in order to avoid work of any kind that may be on the horizon because “oops my nails are wet sorry I can’t do it now”.

• There is a black racer that lives in my yard. I named him “Fierce Frances” because black racers are harmless and I am lame and think that name is funny based on that fact.

• There Is also a GIANT owl of some sort that hunts on my property daily but I didn’t name that asshole because he is probably going to eat Fierce Frances.

•  I killed my first rattlesnake last night.

• I will hold my pee to the bursting point about 50% percent of the time for no reason at all.

• I just got a new comforter set 3 days ago and I think I’m so cool because every morning I make the bed to look just like the picture on the comforter bag but we ALL know this behavior will last less than 1 week.

• I threw away all my plastic iced tea pitchers and bought a glass one because I like the way the ice sounds clicking against the glass when I walk around with it.

• I just had my 7 year anniversary with my fiance on June 2nd and we BOTH totally forgot it.

• My birthday is may 3rd and I am 27.

 So... I'll just leave you with my NOTD and let you digest that

information and decide if you still want to be a follower.

 Love, MM

I'm back online home dawgs!!!

Hello. I have not had internet since April 28th 2010 and I am lucky to still be alive.  Seriously have you ever been without internet for that long?  SERIOUSLY?   Do you realize how long that is in "interwebz time"?  It's like 5 years ok.

The first week or so I tried to be cool about it and act all one with nature and, "I'm living the simple life" hanging my clothes out to dry and not shaving my legs, THEN, I became so desperate for a connection to my beloved laptop I started to play those dumb ass games in the accessories tab just so I could spend time on the computer.  Go ahead punk, challenge me to a game of minesweeper, I freaking dare you.  I am a P.R.O.

A quick side note here- Dear poor pathetic winner of my Boston Terrier Rescue giveaway. Your polish was mailed yesterday and please tell me how you would like to receive your $25 bones. I am so incredibly sorry it has taken so long to get you the goods!

Anyhoo here are a few swatches of the china glaze poolside collection, NOT.  What I mean is, here are the two polishes from the poolside collection that I bought, slathered in glitter because they are stupid on their own.

Towel boy toy is the base for this one. It applies ok but I am SICK of neons and this is a 3+ coater worn alone. BLECH.

Meh.  This is Kiwi coolada under sour apple. It looks like crap alone and takes a lot of coats but this combo was kinda cool. I actually wore it for over 24 hours which is almost a record.

Here is Electric Lilac over the purple polish from the poolside collection...oh WAIT they didn't freaking MAKE a purple they just made three more identical bright pinks instead. The base for this, since I was unable to acquire a new purple, was spontaneous. 

It's great to be back dudes.

Love, MM

Leftovers

I have ended up with some mismatched swatches that don't really go with anything else or can't really be made into a single posts. Either because I forgot to post them or forgot the reason I swatched them. Well they could but I don't feel like doing it. So, I'm just going to cram them all right here and call it a day.  Plus, now I have shorties and I need to get these long nailed photos cleared out because I can't just go around posting all sorts of nail lengths jammed together like it's no big deal, and be all "la te da" about it. Because as we all know I am an organized person and I hold all my nail related matters to the utmost of ridiculously OCD standards. 

This was 2 coats and also my 100th China glaze! Application on this was good, not streaky or gloppy.

Also 2 coats and good application. I wish this was more GREEN and not so pastel, cutesy, and stupid.

Guess how many coats this was dudes? FIVE. I got this in a swap so I really am hoping it was thinned before I received it because that is LAUGHABLE. Pretty polish though.

This is so freakin awesome. I love this polish, but all I can do when I look at this photo is sit here and grimace, cussing out my nails because they are not growing out fast enough.  I miss my long nails SO MUCH.  Oh yeah this was 3 coats, no problems.

Love, MM