Rainbow Honey I Miss You over OPI Lost On Lombard!

Hey everyone! Today I have a swatch of OPI Lost On Lombard and Rainbow Honey I Miss You to share!

I went on a small shopping spree yesterday and (finally) spent some of the money I got for my birthday! I picked up some leggings, a cardigan, a polish (Lost On Lombard) and an Avojuice lotion! I've since spent the rest of my birthday money online on another cardigan and some comfy pants and I can't wait until they get here! I have a sweater and cardigan obsession in case you didn't know! :P

I'm really loving the Avojuice lotion by the way guys, I've heard really good things about it and they're all true! It soaks in incredibly fast and they have super festive holiday scents such as Holly Berry, the one I picked up yesterday!

Onto the nails! All I did was two easy coats of OPI Lost On Lombard and a coat and some dabs of Rainbow Honey I Miss You!

How cute is I Miss You? I think it would look even cooler over a black because there would be even more of a contrast of pastel and dark!

Also, what do you guys think of me putting a square version of the picture I'm going to Instagram instead of the original pictures in my posts? I kind of love the whole square picture thing because they show up bigger than normal-sized pictures! I might like to try using all square pictures so they're bigger and all Instagram friendly!

What have you guys been up to lately, done any shopping for yourselves or just for others? Thanks so much for reading guys! :)

Rainbow Honey Haul and Snowflake Nail Art featuring Mint Flavor!

Hey everyone, today I have some snowflake nail art, a swatch of Rainbow Honey Mint Flavor, and a Rainbow Honey haul to share!

I recently ordered a huge package of Rainbow Honey polishes and now that I'm off school I have so much time to play with them! As you can see below, I picked up the entire Summer of 199X collection, part three of the Final Battle collection, Tera Flare, Cranberry Sangria (I picked this one out but it was included for free for spending forty dollars or more), and Persephone which was thrown in as a surprise! I can't tell you guys how excited I am to use them! Be sure to let me know if you'd like to see any of these swatched before other ones, I'd be more than happy to oblige!

Aren't the boxes amazing? Everything about this brand is incredibly professional!

Here they all are for you guys to see! I think it'll be easy enough to describe which ones you'd like to see from this picture, so I won't bother listing all of the names here!

And here we have Mint Flavor, the only one of the eighteen I've tried so far! I have to say that the formula was perfect, not too thick or thin and quick-drying! Also, this beauty was almost a one-coater so what you see here is two easy coats and a coat of top coat!

I wore this on it's own for a day and I fell in love! It has the most gorgeous white or green shimmer (not sure, it looks more green in the bottle and more white on the nail) that makes it perfect for summer, winter or anywhere in between in my opinion!

Also, I fell in love with this new hand position for bottle-holding pictures! It's even perfect for Instagram! What do you guys think of it? :)

I then went in with a polish I just swatched a couple of days ago, Candy Nail Polish Egg Nog! I used a small paintbrush that I cut some bristles off of for the snowflakes, and a dotting tool for the dots!

I followed MrCandiipants' tutorial for these snowflakes (mostly because she's hilarious), but since my paintbrush was a lot thicker these look quite a bit different!

I don't really like the addition of the dots, but I'm really happy that I've finally managed to master consistent dotting!

Thanks so much for reading everyone, how are you guys doing? I'm so sorry that I haven't replied to comments in a while, I seriously love when you guys comment on my posts! I'll get onto that right now! :)

Candy Nail Polish Freshmint, Egg Nog, Fruit Cake and Sugarplum!

Hey everyone, today I have four Candy Nail Polish polishes to share!*

Sorry about not posting for four days, I now have three weeks off between semesters so I'll definitely be able to post more! Maybe I'll even try to change my nails everyday and post everyday! :)

Onto the polishes! Three of these polishes are from Candy Nail Polish's Holiday Collection (link here if you'd like to see the other three polishes in this collection) and the fourth is an unreleased new polish! All four of these polishes had flawless formulas, not too thin so that cuticle flooding was an issue and just thick enough that the glitters were perfectly suspended and distributed throughout them. I let a few of them sit upside down briefly but I really don't think they needed it! They all had really smooth finishes on their own, even Sugarplum and Freshmint despite all of the glitter in them, and that really surprised me! I did layer one coat of the top coat I always use, Essie Good To Go, over each polish for an extra smooth and shiny finish. I was even more impressed with their formulas considering they're from such a new indie brand!

This is a very picture-heavy post because these polishes are so pretty, so let's get to it!

First up is Freshmint, a light green crelly polish with a slightly frosty finish and white matte hexes and shards, pink matte squares, lime green matte squares, blue metallic squares and hexes, and gold metallic hexes! What you see here is three easy coats and a coat of top coat, though it was just about a two-coater! The glitters in this remind me of candy, it's such an adorable polish!

Next is Egg Nog, an off-white/creme crelly with gold shimmer sprinkled throughout! I'm seriously in love with this polish guys, it's so delicate and beautiful and the name is so cute! I'm definitely going to wear this again soon with some nail art on top! Shown here is three coats and a coat of top coat but again, this was almost a two-coater!

Next up is Fruit Cake, a copper shimmer/frost polish with little rainbow glitters! The base looks too orange here, I really need to figure out how to colour-correct pictures! Shown here is two coats and a coat of top coat, and I also mattified it which you can see below!

Here's Fruit Cake with a coat of Julep's Matte Top Coat on top!

Lastly we have Sugarplum, a deep purple jelly stuffed with gold and possibly silver holographic glitters in various shapes and sizes! Show here is two coats and a coat of top coat. I posted a video to show the holographic glitters in action on my Instagram last night, here it is!

Thanks so much for reading everyone! Which of these are your favourites? Let me know in the comments! :)

*These polishes were sent for swatches and an honest review.

Pretty & Polished Cuticle Balm Review: Pink Sugar and Lavishing Lemon!

Hey everyone! Today I have a review of two Pretty & Polished cuticle balms to share!

These two cuticle balms have vastly different consistencies and physical properties due to their different formulas, so I'll talk about their consistencies individually below!

The Pretty & Polished Pink Sugar Cuticle Balm melts easily upon skin contact and is quite greasy (which I love in a cuticle balm). It mostly soaks in within ten minutes of massaging your cuticles periodically, and it's incredibly moisturizing!

The scent is amazing and just as they describe it on the website, "Pink Sugar features notes of cotton candy, strawberry, vanilla and musk. It's a dreamy combination!" I haven't smelled any other pink sugar scent before so I can't say if it's like other pink sugar fragrances, but it smells incredibly lovely!

Next up is Pretty & Polished Lavishing Lemon Cuticle Balm! This one is a lot harder and more difficult to melt, even more so that the Burt's Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme. I actually have trouble melting it if I've been out in the cold prior to trying to put it on. It's easy to scrape a tiny bit off the side to use though, so even if you're too cold to melt it, you can still use it! This leaves a thin layer of hardly greasy balm on your cuticles for about ten minutes without any extra rubbing in or massaging!

The scent is just simply lemon as you may have guessed, super fresh and lovely!

I really love having both of these on hand because either one or the other is great for any upcoming situation! For example, if I have a lab coming up I can use the lemon one because I know it will soak in fast and not be greasy!

Thanks so much for reading everyone! I have some indie polishes to swatch so look forward to those swatch and review posts! Hope you're all having a lovely Thursday! I have a final exam today, tomorrow and the next day (a Saturday!) so I will be the happiest Bailey ever sleeping in Sunday morning! What about you guys? Anything stressful or exciting coming up? :)

Black Sheep Lacquer Under The Bridge: Reswatched and Reviewed!

Hey guys! Today I have a better swatch of a polish I've swatched before, Black Sheep Lacquer Under The Bridge* (old post here)!

I've decided to break up the huge wall of text and the huge wall of pictures by alternating between text and pictures, I'd love to know whether you prefer this configuration or the old one in the comments!

This week and next are final exam weeks at my college, and I'm actually lucky enough to finish my finals this Saturday! So for me, this week is final week and I really want to crack down and study hard! Because of this, I decided to paint my nails with a pretty indie polish and leave it on for six whole days :O. I do have a Pretty & Polished cuticle balm review post to write up, so hopefully I'll still be posting every three days this week! All of my finals are back to back, so I've decided to do a subject a day so as to not overwhelm myself haha. Today's topic is cell biology in case your curious, and it's actually going really well. Quite surprising for a procrastinator like me!

Anyways, onto the polish! Under The Bridge is a gorgeous red jelly polish packed with large and medium-sized dark blue hexes, small matte white hexes, small dark blue squares, tiny silver and dark blue hexes, and who could forget, huge red circles! All of the dark blue glitters that are covered in the red jelly base appear purple and it makes them look so glowy and pretty! The base is darker and pinker in person, it's really difficult to capture reds accurately on camera! Other than having to fish for two of the four circle glitters I have on my nails right now, this polish had a perfect formula (no glitter clumping or anything) and I find fishing for glitters kind of fun anyways! I might have not even had to fish for any if I had let the bottle sit upside down for longer before polishing! What you see here is two coats of Under The Bridge and two coats of top coat for maximum squishiness!

I actually described one of my dream polishes to Erin and this is what she came up with, it's a beautiful take on my description and I absolutely love it!

What do you guys think of this polish? Super pretty right? I hope you're all having a lovely Monday, let me know what you'll be up to this week in the comments! Anyone else about to do some final exams?

*This polish was sent for swatches, though I have already swatched it.