Indie Spotlight: 4th of July Nails - Lush Lacquer Snap Crackle POP :)

Here is my first polish for this week for the 4th of July. Last year I ordered too late and I didn't have the polishes I wanted for the 4th, this year I planned ahead and ordered in early June lol.  I'm now doing this for any holiday polishes I want.

This is one coat of RBL Dead Calm topped with one coat of Lush Lacquer's Snap Crackle Pop. This ended up being a PERFECT combo. I was so happy how this turned out. I was giddy with the results lol.

I'm so thrilled and happy that I ordered this. I had never seen it before, but I had a good feeling about it. I was so right on with this one. It has a combo of large blue and white hex glitter, smaller red hex glitter, red and white bar glitter, red white and blue micro glitter. It is like an explosive firework on your fingertips!

I'm excited about rocking this on my nails the next couple of day! I have a different polish for Wednesday the 4th, and now I am not sure I can take this one off lol.

One thing I love about Lushlacquer is her Etsy shop is always stocked, but be aware it takes 2-3 weeks to receive your polish - so plan ahead!

I hope you guys like. Thanks for visiting and please leave me links to your 4th nails. I would love to see!

Another Oldie but Goodie: CoverGirl City Lights

Today I have another oldie for you. It's Cover Girl's Boundless Color - City Lights 430. I found this beauty in a bargain bin in my local store for .99 cents! The store was Pamida, but it has since went out of business. I'm so glad I grabbed this (& 4 others) before the store went out of business.

 

This is considered a topcoat which is sheer in 1 coat, but opaque in 3 coats.

This polish is packed with holo glitter.  You can see the holo in very low light & in very bright light. Here is a blurred shot so you can see what this looks like once the sun hits it. It is truly drool worthy lol. 

My best polishes have popped out of bargain bins or dollar stores. My favorite kind of polishes!

 Hope you guys like it. 

For those of you that follow my blog, you may be asking yourself what happened on my first day of my new job, and may be wondering why I have such a flashy polish on when I was so worried initially. It all was fine. My first day was awesome. My Boss had LONG bright red nails, and all the girls had polish on (mostly on toes) of all colors. It seems no polish is off limits - woohoo! I may still hesitate on blacks, but I'm sure I will work it in somewhere lol. 

Hope you guys have a happy Wednesday.

Rescue Beauty Lounge - Bikini Bottom

Today I have an oldie but goodie polish from Rescue Beauty Lounge - Bikini Bottom!

I needed something very light and classy looking because today is my first day at my new job - yippee! I wasn't really sure what to do nail wise. I have only went for an interview (one visit to the location), and it was hard for me to decipher if the girls had there nails painted or not. It is a bank and I don't think they have polish rules, but I wasn't positive. I'm sure I have always seen bank tellers with polished fingers - am I right?

I originally wanted to do a nude, but I just couldn't do it lol. I'm not a fan of light colors at all so going nude was too crazy for me (LOL). I picked this instead, a very very pale blue. My manager is a female and she is very sweet and nice and I figure today I will ask her if polish is an issue and what rules they do have about it. Let's hope she doesn't say no polish - I WOULD DIE haha. I don't think this is the case, because your hands are very visual at a bank and no polish would look blah (at least to me).  We will see.

Here is Bikini Bottom.

This polish is extremely sheer and there was an obvious VNL on the first and second coats. I ended up with 4 coats to make it opaque. I know four coats sounds extreme, but this polish is so thin and light that 4 coats does not feel thick. It feels like most 2 and 3 coaters I usually where.

I actually LOVE how it came out. I bet I could have used less coats if I had started with a coat of white as a base first, I just didn't think of that til it was too late. I had heard a lot of negative things about this polish being too sheer, but with 4 coats I love it and it really is not thick at all! 

What do you guys think.

Thanks for visiting and wish me luck lol!

Indie Spotlight: Candy Lacquer (w/Milani Key West)

Today I'm wearing a mani that I absolutely LOVE!  The base color is Milani Key West and then I added an Indie Polish Glitter Topcoat made by Candy Lacquer called High Tide. It's glitter in a clear coat so it can be applied over all types of colors.  This combination is mermaid nails made easy :) Candy Lacquer polishes can be purchased HERE at Etsy. Currently the shop is empty, but you can be notified via email when the store is restocked.

I really love how this came out. It's late night and I was a little bit in a rush doing this mani, but I still love the results.

This is my first Candy Lacquer Polish and it will not be my last lol. I thought this would be extremely gritty and bumpy, but with one coat of SV it is smooth as glass. (**please note: these picture were all prior to applying the SV topcoat - which was an after thought to smooth things out)

 

Do you guys like?  I LOVE! Candy Lacquer has now been added to my favorite list!

This is my second post today so make sure you scroll down and check out my facial masks/scrubs series.

Freeman - #1 Enzyme Mask Pinnapple

I'm back with a Freeman Series of face scrubs and masks.  This series will be similar to my Montagne Jeunesse Masks Series. I will have both products going at the same time, and alternate between the two companies. I will add these as FREEMAN MASKS and the others as MONTAGNE JEUNESSE MASKS in my LABELS section in the bottom left sidebar so you can separate the two companies easily
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This week I'm using FREEMAN: Enzyme Mask Pineapple

I purchased a few of the Freeman Masks and I will review them all in the next several weeks.  The packaging on these is not as clever as the Montagne Jeunesse Masks, but they are just as eye catching to me.

The mask I am reviewing today is not a mud mask, but an enzyme scrub. The consistency on this is very different than a mud mask. Though it is smooth, it has a gentle exfoliating property to it. It's very minimal and you really have to roll this around between your fingers to feel the small micro scrubbing beads in this. It's a gentle exfoliator versus a smooth mud mask.

The instructions are to apply it to your face for 10 minutes, allow it to dry and then rinse.  This is transparent once you apply it to your face, and it has a very nice cool sensation when you first apply. As this drys on your face it does not tighten at all like a mud mask. It's feels very flexible on the face and transparent. 

The smell on this one is fabulous. I smelled both pineapples and bananas, and it was very 'tropical smelling' to me. I felt like I was drinking a Pina Colada getting lost on a beach somewhere lol. If you are looking for a nice escape - this is it!

Once I rinsed it off my face, it felt soooooooo GOOD. My skin was very smooth and soft feeling. The smell lingered for a bit so you want to keep that in mind if you are sensitive to smells.

 I am just as impressed with this mask as I was the Montagne Jeunesse Mask I reviewed last week. This line is also inexpensive at about $1.50-$1.99 per mask. I really didn't have high expectations, and now I have a different respect for these types of masks.

Here are past masks in the Montagne Jeunesse Series that are posted as of today:

  Montagne Jeunesse - #1 Chocolate Masque

I would love to hear what you guys think on either of these products. Do you love them? Hate them? Leave your comments below.

Thanks for visiting today!