Illamasqua Contest - Design Your Own Polish

Hey guys!Many of you are probably aware of this already so for you this will just be a reminder. Illamasqua has a great competition open right now for anyone around the globe who has ever wanted to design their own polish.Yep! To all you frankeners out there who have made a colour you couldn't find anywhere or to those of you who wish your...

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E.L.F. swatches

These polishes cost $1 each. And I'm not sure they are worth that much. E.L.F. PlumJelly plummy purple shade, almost brown if I got it opaque. This was three coats and was very sticky. It might've been improved with some thinner but the brush was so cheap that it resembled a broom. A big broom. E.L.F. Hot PinkThree coats, more of a hot coral...

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Rescue Beauty Lounge Scrangie

Yeah, I changed my mind: this is a pretty damn cool polish after all and it wore nicely with Dermalect basecoat and ridgefiller and Diamont topcoat. Rescue Beauty Lounge ScrangieThis took me about four coats but it was a very easy four coats. I still don't know that I would've paid $18 for it but it was definitely worth $9. What can I say...

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StrangeBeautiful Volume 2 - The Rest

***THE POLISH OR PERISH BANNER CONTEST ENDS IN 2 DAYS! GET YOUR ENTRIES IN!***This is the second part of a 2 part post on StrangeBeautiful Volume 2. Now that the freaky-deaky browns and repetitive putties are out of the way, the rest of the Volume is oh... so nice.Green(2 coats)This green is my shizz. Application was great in 2 even coats....

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Blue Island Snow...

A belated tip of the hat to a Canadian winter! :)For interest sake, I thought I'd start including polish swatches in their original, unfettered, un-Konaded glory. (Because some of you much prefer that to nail art.)Base coat: China Glaze Blue Island Iced TeaPlate: Konad m69; Delaney A12Stamp: China Glaze Calypso Blue; Konad SP in WhiteTopcoat:...

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StrangeBeautiful Volume 2 - Yellows & Browns

I, like Flint, went a little SB happy when Bergdorf offered them up on 30% discount. You may recall that my bff gifted me with Volume 1; I rounded out my collection with 2 and 3.Like w/ my Volume 1 swatches, I've broken this set up into 2 groups of four each.I'm not as happy with the colors in Volume compared to the other 2. It's certainly...

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A dorktastic survey + old NOTD: Milani Cyberspace

I've gotten requests for book recommendations on psycholinguistics... which then made me curious about what the other Polish or Perish bloggers might recommend to somebody who was interested in their field: What books would you recommend reading if someone wanted to understand what you were studying? This is sort of a disingenuous answer...

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Grooming My (French) Poodle.

Parlez-Vous OPI? Mais OUI!!I have no poodle to groom Cake, so I groom my nails.This is a polish from the OPI France Collection, which in my mind, is the 2nd best OPI collex of *all time*. It makes me feel fabulously French in that avant-garde fashion-editorial kind of way. Like I'm the kind of woman who would wear a Catharine Malandrino shift...

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Diamond Cosmetic's Cherry Tobacco

This is the SFW nail polish I chose for day 4.Cherry Tobacco(1 coat)Application and color of this polish are simply amazing. I am in love. Seriously, is there a skin tone this wouldn't look amazing on? My sole complaint is that it is a little chip...

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Color Club Rebel Debutante, Part II of III

I wasn't going to update today but I've been bent over an abstract for the annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse for the past four hours and need to do something else for a couple of minutes. I recently decided that the way I had originally framed my research question was leading me into a dead and boring end. But after a...

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"Breaking" up is hard to do...!

Just look at the pics if you'd like! Every so often, the inevitable happens: one of my nails (after growing on its merry little way for ages) just snaps off. I'd like to say that it snaps off on its own volition, but the fact of the matter is, nine times out of ten it's as a result of my own (blatant) stupidity.  Case in point, as I...

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Essie's Vanity Fairest

***ONE WEEK LEFT TO ENTER OUR BANNER CONTEST! IF YOU MISS IT, YOU WILL BE SAD. :(***The Sunday before I started my job I painted my nails for my first day. First, I attempted OPI's Bubble Bath but I almost cried from the sheer dullness of it. That, plus it took me three coats to get it even.So I tossed that and slapped on this Essie. My...

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Tardy for the Party

So last night I was watching the Olympics when Essie Mint Candy Apple arrived at my door (from a swap)! I felt compelled to try it out, so I applied it on the couch in the dark (so please excuse the application). I know I'm a little tardy for the party on this one - it's from Essie's Winter Collection and was a huge hit last season! I just...

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Old NOTD: Estissimo TiNS The Foxy Lady

And yes, this is one foxy lady...TiNS The Foxy LadyThese photos don't even BEGIN to show the amazing holo glittery goodness that is The Foxy Lady. I mean, WOW. It's awesome in the sunlight because it is so chock full of holo, it's like a some sort of psychedelic party on your nails. It's great indoors too because even though the holo mostly...

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Some skincare promo/discount codes!

I do try harder to keep up with the nail polish promos (and I figured you had all heard about the Zoya promo by now) but once in awhile, I thought it might be nice to put up some skincare promos as well. I'm a nut for lotions, creams, soaps, shower gels; it's almost as bad as my nail polish addiction. And I figured those who are into their hands and cuticles might be interested too:AVON is doing free shipping for orders over $20....

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Jazz in my pants.

Essie Jazz is my go-to polish when I'm not sure what to wear. Sometimes I get in a rut and this happens - I just stare at all of my pretties and I can't pick one! This is one that always works no matter what - but doesn't bore my out of my skull. (Love my Essie sheers, but sometimes I am in no mood to tolerate their sweet lacy femininity!)...

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