Deadbeat Blogger...

Sorry I have been so...absent lately! I really needed to start saving money and staying away from the nail blogs and board at Makeupalley helps a lot! I haven't stopped wearing nail polish, photographing it or gotten through all my untrieds yet, so here is a sample of what I have been up to:


I loved this! It looked pretty mellow in the bottle, but on the nail it was a party!

It dried a little rough to the touch, even with top coat, but not so much that I couldn't stand it.

Look at that shine! I love Diamond! Such great polishes, pretty colors and a cheap price!

Sorry this one is so dark, I've been using a new camera and can't quite figure out all the settings. This is "Get Mauve-Ing". I like Barielle colors a lot. They seem to thicken up over time though. I also used Barielle's "speedy" topcoat on this one (picked it up at Marshall's for $2) and I have to tell you, it sucks. It took forever to dry and look at all the scratches I had in my polish after a day of wear.

This is the other reason I haven't been blogging as much. I broke my middle finger nail down so low. Just when I was really happy with how long my nails were and the shape. There was no salvaging it. I was reduced to this for awhile:

Look at that middle nail! So sad and crooked! Look at Grape Pop though - so yummy!

Woooo! What a hot purple!

Notice I couldn't bear to chop the rest of my nails as short! Everything was a crooked, mismatched sad affair. Things are looking up again after a few weeks of biotin and some prenatal vitamins (boy did that give my husband a scare! "they're for my nails and hair honey, I swear!" hahaha!!) I'll post a recent picture of where I am at soon, I swear I won't go away for so long again!

I think I have a bunch of pictures on my older camera, so I'll have to hook those up to the computer and post them too.

Comparison Swatches!

Here we have 4 lovely shades of blue-green gorgeousness! Sinful "See You Soon" WnW Craze "Morbid" Barielle Shades "Blackened Blue" and Sinful "What's Your Name".

Similar...yes, but you can see they are all very different. Morbid seems to have more green. "See You Soon" and "Blackened Blue" are the closest, but the Barielle has way more shimmer to it, (even though it's hard to tell from my unholy slopped on mess -sorry!) "What's Your Name" is very thin and watery. This is probably 3 coats.

Then for fun, I added some flakies, cause let's admit it, flakies make everything prettier!

All of them in the sun.

The Barielle Swatches I Promised! (well, most of them!)

I am torn. Misbehaving Mistress and Lava Rock are tied for 1st place in this collection!

I've never seen another color like this! It's brown-taupe-silvery, smooth, glossy goodness!

Slate of Affairs.

Slate of Affairs...swoon! I love this color! It's a very unexpected vibrant slate blue with tons of shimmer to it.

Gorgeous!

Get mauving. I like this one a lot, but it's no a knock-out.

My poor fingers were starting to suffer from all the swatching! Sorry about that!

THIS LITTLE STUNNER IS LAVA ROCK! MY FAVORITE OF THE BUNCH!

It's got a deep-brownish-plum-smoldering-shimmery thing going on. Very unlike anything I have ever seen. I was just mesmerized by this!

Hidden Hideaway vs. Lava Rock

Hidden Hideaway. Gorgeous purple. But not something new and different.

Secret Encounter. Really pretty, but it reminds me of other colors I already have, like...China Glaze "Short and Sassy" comes to mind. This has really pretty shimmer to it though, very delicate.

I didn't swatch Swizzle Stix or Grape Escapre. I got tired of swatching and was losing sunlight. Plus they are spring colors and I was feeling very FALL!

First Barielle Order!

I have never had any luck finding these at CVS. Well, once I found one on clearance randomly. But, I was really excited about the new fall colors. Espcially Lava Rock and Slate of Affairs. I dove in! From the website, they were buy 2 get 1. At a certain amount you get free shipping AND I had some sort of "welcome" coupon code. So, I think with shipping, these ended up being about $4.00 each. Not too shabby in my opinion.

Swatches coming soon...I swear!