Friday, November 18, 2011

Dr.'s Remedy Fall Fever Collection

I hurried to get these swatched for you all as soon as I got them in the mail since we are quickly running out of "fall" days! I can't believe that Thanksgiving is less than a week away! This is the fall collection from Dr.'s Remedy called Fall Fever.

The first color I have for you is NOBLE Navy. I have to say, this is the noblest of all navy cremes. Absolutely perfect application and opaque coverage in two coats. I'm in love.


Next up is BALANCE Brick. Brick is exactly the word I would use to describe this color. It's kind of a dusty red, not very vibrant but still very pretty and fitting for fall. This one was a bit thinner and needed three coats.


And lastly we have DEFENSE Deep Red. Now this is definitely a fall color. Deep, dark, and shiny! I needed three coats for this as well, but I had no application issues and each coat dried quickly. It almost looks more jelly-like than creme.


I cannot even express how excited I am that I get to share these with you guys. I also have the Dr.'s Remedy holiday collection in my hot little hands, so that will be coming up closer to December, but definitely run over to their website and check out their fall shades now while the autumnal mood is still hanging around! 

Dr.'s REMEDY is a line of doctor-inspired cosmetics that is dedicated to using clean, hypo-allergenic ingredients. The birth-child of two New York-based podiatrists, Dr. Adam Cirlincione and Dr. William Spielfogel, Dr.'s REMEDY proves quintessentially-perfect for any person looking to better the condition of her skin and nails; their Enriched Nail Polish is the first-ever nail polish on the market approved by the American Podiatric Medical Association. Dr.'s REMEDY is sold online at www.remedynails.com or by calling 1-877-323-NAIL.

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*The product(s) in this post were sent to me for review.*

Thursday, November 17, 2011

My awesome rack(s)!

;) My boyfriend was lovely enough to make these polish racks for me (after much nagging) and he gently reminded me this weekend that I have yet to blog/brag about them. I also had some requests for a video of my collection, but I don't really have the equipment or time for that at the moment, so photos will have to do. You should be able to enlarge them and zoom in to see the bottles better, or you can just shoot me a comment/e-mail if you have any specific questions about anything. This is the first rack that we made a couple months ago. It holds my nail art polishes, Halloween brands, OPI, Julep, Wet 'n' Wild Wild Shine, some randoms, Sinful Colors, Orly, Confetti, Sally Hansen, and China Glaze.


And here is the one that he made me for our anniversary last month. :) This one holds my Dr.'s Remedy (these will all be up on the blog in a week-ish hopefully), my giveaway prize from Nails by Catharina, Wet 'n' Wild Fast Dry, some randoms, Color Club, Revlon, Milani, Zoya, and Essie.


The polish ads are underneath because they hide the L-brackets that we used to mount the racks. :P So, what do you think? He did a pretty great job, right?!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

French w/Julep Michelle

Hey guys! This is my 100th post! Woot! :D

I've blogged about all of these colors before so I won't say too much here. I used one coat of Confetti Pink Paradise as my base color. I created the french tip using hole reinforcers and Julep Michelle and I dotted OPI Catch Me in Your Net with three different sized dotting tools. This is the first time I've done a french tip in a color other than white and I'm loving it! Stay tuned for another version of this next week! :)

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Blaze Cotton Candy to Sugar Plum

Cotton Candy to Sugar Plum is a shade from Blaze that changes color in the sun! Blaze has a ton of awesome shades (over 50, actually!) that are all UV activated. In addition to their great selection of colors, they're also 3-free. Let's start with the Cotton Candy side of CCtSP first, shall we? Inside, CCtSP is a very delicate shade of frosty light pink. I used three coats for these photos and you can still see some VNL, but I don't really mind. I actually liked this one a lot more than I thought I would!


Now, here's the Sugar Plum side. Pretty, right? This would definitely be a fun shade for someone who wanted an interesting-but-not-obnoxious polish color. The formula was good on this bottle; I said before that I used three coats, but they dried pretty quickly and were easy to apply. Also, I thought it was great that the color change happens very quickly.


Overall, I would definitely recommend this brand. Like I mentioned in the beginning of this post, Blaze has an awesome selection of colors on their website (check it out here: http://blazenailpolish.com/) and they are reasonably priced considering you technically get two colors in one! 

*The product(s) in this post were sent to me for review.*

Monday, November 14, 2011

Zoya Posh

So do you guys know about how awesome Zoya is? They ran a promo on Halloween where you could get two polishes for free and just pay shipping. That ends up being about $3.50 per polish when you do the math, AKA it's a total steal. Thankfully, I was around all day and able to take advantage of this great deal. 

Posh was the polish that I knew I wanted from the start. Posh is a shimmery, matte red that needed two coats to be completely opaque. Please excuse the poor clean-up; I was in a bit of a rush. :#


Zoya's mattes are really neat because they come in a different bottle than their normal polishes; the bottle is frosted and has a rubberized cap. I didn't put a topcoat on Posh to see how it would look (since it's beautiful enough as it is, duh), but I did take a close-up shot for you :)


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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Dr.'s Remedy Special Holiday Pricing


There's only 5 more days to take advantage of this awesome deal! You can like/follow Dr.'s Remedy below to keep up with their deals and promotions!
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Orly Here Comes Trouble

I shared this with you once as an accent nail, but I decided that it was cool enough to be a whole mani. :) This is Orly Here Comes Trouble and it is absolutely packed with hexagonal shaped glitter and super tiny micro-glitter. I used about three coats for what you see below; it's hard to tell exactly how many I did because some coats were thicker than others and some nails needed an extra coat where others didn't.  The only thing I wish I could change about Here Comes Trouble is the yellow-ish base; it looks gross around the edges of my nails. However, I found this on clearance at Sally's for $1.99. Can't pass that up!