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

Zoya Fire & Ice

Hellz to da yeah!

This collection is so totally completely awesome. At first sight I was very underwhelmed to say the least, but as I started looking the colors over more closely and swatching them I began to fall in love with every color more and more.

These polishes are so unique and almost impossible to describe but I'm going with "micro glitter glass fleck metallic bad assness" as my official status on the type of finish they are. It's really all about the formula and finish with this set of polishes. The colors are pretty boring and played out until you take a closer look and realize how complex and multidimensional they really are. These are basically the sparkles collection on steroids people. Even the seemingly boring reds are fabulous!

You really have to see these up close and personal to appreciate how gorgeous they are, but I have done my very best to capture their fabulousness in photos.

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The only flaw I found with these incredible polishes is that they are pretty sheer. These are all 4 coaters with the exception of Valerie which took only 2. They are totally worth sitting through a 4 coat manicure but I recommend using this tip instead.

Love, MM

A little bit of Essie spam

Some are new, some old. Either way these are all polishes I really like. Most of these came out of the $1 bin at my local hole in the wall salon. SCORE! 

 

Love, MM

NARS Midnight Express

Holy Carp!

This is my first NARS polish. While it took me 4 coats to get a nice even color, it dried to the most incredibly shiny finish EVER. This has got to be one of the best jelly formulas I have ever used. It is absolutely gorgeous! 4 coats is pretty standard to get a jelly polish opaque so it's really not a problem, but even if it were a problem this polish makes up for it big time with it's amazing shine and glorious jelly finish.

Super dark cobalt blue. OMG. This is so freakin beautiful!

Love, MM

American Apparel swatches part 2

Love, MM

American Apparel swatches part 1

I recently found an American Apparel store near my house and of course I had to try their polishes. These are just wonderful. Very smooth application and very well pigmented across the board. Before I knew it one polish turned into 11, so I'll be showing the first 5 today.

These were all solid 2 coaters and I highly recommend you pick them up as soon as possible if you want them because it's rumored they wont be around much longer.

Love, MM

My first OPIs

I posted a few days ago about the floodgates being opened on lots of new brands for me. Since OPI was one of them I thought it would be fun to post the ones I picked out from the hundreds available to add to my stash as my "first OPIs".

After sifting through thousands of swatches these are the ones I got in my first official OPI order. I probably should have divided this into a few posts but what the hell! Let the shiny new OPI spamage begin!

After swatching all these I can say 2 things without a doubt. One is that I am an official OPI convert, and second, OPI is the most all over the place, hit or miss formula out of any other polish brand I have tried. Some are 4 coats some are 2, some streak some are smooth. It's like playing the lottery. Overall I am really happy with the polishes I chose to break myself in to the brand.

What do you all think of the first OPIs I picked?

Love, MM