New York Summer Pt 4

Happy St. Patrick's day!

Part 3 is here.

Color Club Pardon my french Winner!

Wow, 141 entries! Out of the lot of you random.org selected one winner.  One lucky winner that I was secretly and seriously PRAYING would not be international because sending that damn ice cream set from last week to Amsterdam nearly cost more than my new car.

Lucky for me today's winner lives in my neck of the woods!  So number 7, Lissi, COME ON DOWN...

Lissi said...

Hey. I'm a follower. Please enter me. I added a link to your page/giveaway on my blog (Nail Addicts Anonymous). The link is on the sidebar under "Giveaway Announcements." Hope you'll check us out. http://nailaddictsanonymous.blogspot.com/ Thanks! Lissi  

 

Congrats Lissi!!! Email me at Manateemama@live.com to claim your prize! And a big thanks to all who entered!

Love, MM

IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME.

Here are some pics of my current mani that I am head over heels in love with. I am like a cheerleader on prom night, waiting for my date to arrive, butterflies in my stomach, in love with this.

Who cares that I didn't go to prom because I was WAY too hardcore, loathed cheerleaders and have no idea what it was like to wait for your prom date?  I can imagine OK.

It was probably really stupid, and no where even close to what I am going for in order to describe my feelings about this manicure.  No, I'm sure it was way too stupid to be an accurate metaphor for my love of this polish.  So, just ignore that prom crap and I'll go with Christmas morning.

 

2 coats Nfu-oh 568, 1 coat 52 and seche TC.

New York Summer Pt 3

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This set of NYS polish followed suit perfectly with all the others I have swatched.  No cuticle drag on the  neon jellies, smooth application overall and good drying time. So instead of regurgitating everything I've said in part one and two, let's get this polish parade on the road! Speaking of parades, why are they always so stupid anyway?  I always spend my time trying to mentally will the stilts dude to fall. I mostly do this to try to take my attention off how overly aggravated I am at whoever is forcing me to watch the parade, because there is no way I would be willingly watching a PARADE. But I'll just spoil the fun for you and take away all the suspense. The stilts dude doesn't fall. HE NEVER FALLS!

This polish is pretty but what a major disappointment! From the color dots it was represented as a teal/grayish blue jelly or cream.  A really AWESOME looking polish.  But oh well, it's just another stank ass light blue shimmer with green flash.  This was 3 coats.

Wowza.  This one is super pigmented. It could have been a one coat wonder which is the first time I have seen that from NYS, but I did 2 coats anyway.  This is really dupey to China Glaze Cowgirl Up.  It's a tad darker though with MUCH more gold flash.

OH! You startled me! I almost didn't SEE you there. This is a freakin NEON purple people. WOAH. It was way too bright to capture, but I did get a good representation of the color.  This was 2, flowing, non cuticle dragging, coats.

I would LOVE this if it were a tad less orange but it's still really cool.  A neon red jelly? Come on! This was a 3 coater with great application just like ALL the rest of the NYS polishes I have swatched so far. Awesome.

Holy Holographic Repeat Rainbow Ruffian, Batman!

Yeah.  I'm getting a little carried away with this whole "ruffian" thing. 

I just repeated the "ruffian" over and over to get this look. Just keep painting your nails a little further down each time. I used all China Glaze holo polishes. L8R G8R, DV8, 2NITE, LOL,  BFF, QT, TTYL, repeat.  I did about 3 colors at a time, let them dry, then continued. One coat each.  I coated it in Seche Vite at the end making sure to wrap my tips. Since this isn't technically a ruffian I have dubbed it the "Hobo".

 Here's a closer look.


If you want this to look like an actual rainbow instead of a rainbow covering the nail then start with a light blue creme and leave a larger space before starting the first holo polish. Then do 5 or 6 holos and end with a green creme covering most of the bottom of you're nail.

You can even add a little Pot-o-gold!  If you wanna be stupid and cutesy about it like me, that is.

Love, MM

Oooh la la

I swear it's like every single time I apply an Nfu-oh polish it becomes my new "favorite" of the color group it's in.  I just found my new favorite red last night.

 This polish shocked, attacked, then physically abused me.  It slapped me in the face, HARD, then it grabbed me by the eye balls and glued itself to them refusing to loosen it's grip. Not that I really minded, I wasn't driving or anything.  GAH!  This is the hottest red EVER!   Seriously it's like sex in a bottle.  It's not like the sex you are actually having in a bottle.  It's like the sex you WISH you were having, in a bottle.  This was a fabulous, smooth, fast drying, 2 coat application. But, I really could not care less if this polish took 5 coats, it is that gorgeous.

GORGEOUS.

New York Summer Pt 2

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First things first lets get this duplicate polish out of the way.

This blue is breathtaking.  This is 3 coats and it applied like a dream.  Seriously it applied so well it was hard to believe.  I am so incredibly happy that the no cuticle drag trend with NYS polish is continuing!  This dried in a "normal" amount of time for cheap polish but it needs a shiny topcoat anyway since it's a neon, so just use a dry fast TC and you're golden.  

This polish is a DEAD ON dupe for Misa Pour me something tall and strong.

Here is the beautiful twin.  Can you tell a difference?  The Misa is only on my ring finger. The NYS Hot Sky Blue polish is $1.59 at transdesign.

This is a crazy hybrid jelly, glass fleck glitter, shimmer in a very pretty berry pink.  The shimmer flashes to a light purple, fuchsia. 3 coats.

HELLO!!!  This is so bright. SO. BRIGHT.  This opacity took me 4 coats and still no drag and no runs.

This is another glass fleck, jelly, shimmer concoction.  I think it's really nice.  This took 3 coats.

Hot pink jelly.  This was 3 coats.  This one is not really my thing but the formula was great!  It is also a neon so topcoat it.

Overall the formula and application have been spot on for all the NYS polishes I've swatched so far.  See part one for more details.

Love, MM