Fall Nails With Not Too Polished

Hey there! A month or so ago I was on a roll for some reason and won a few blog giveaways back to back. It was pretty surprising...I don't have the best of luck a lot of the time. But then again, I was entering giveaways left and right like a mad-woman: I guess it had to pay off sometime right?

One of the giveaways was from Liz at the Not Too Polished blog. She has her own line of polishes that she sells on Etsy and part of my prize was the polish of my choice from her shop. I chose a polish called Headless Horseman. I've been on a bit of an indie glitter polish kick lately and this one caught my eye right off the bat. It is a gorgeous mix of black, yellow-gold and burnt orange micro-glitter; small yellow-gold and burnt orange shiny hex glitter and random large black hex glitters thrown in here and there. I chose to do it over a semi-light base color so the micro-glitter would really stand out. For that I chose OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know; one of the few polishes I was able to get from the Spring 2012 Holland Collection. I only got 4 from that collection but there are still a few more that are on my wishlist. Anyway, on to the nails! First the polishes...

 I love the pink shimmer in this polish! It's such an unexpected color with the brown but looks so amazing with it. And now the finished product.

I absolutely loved this manicure! It looks so Fall-ish. This is only one coat of Headless Horseman; it applied effortlessly with no dragging or fishing for glitters. I didn't even have to fish for the big black glitter pieces which was really great. I followed it up with 2 coats of Gelous and it was still a bit gritty; for some reason I can never get glitter polishes smooth now matter how many coats of Gelous or Posh I put on it. It must be something with my body chemistry or something. And this manicure wore like iron! I applied it on Sunday and by Thursday I had a miniscule amount of chipping and a bit of tipwear. I only took it off because I wanted a change. And of course I had to make a pair of earrings to match. I wore these puppies all week I love them so much.

So there you have my first Fall manicure of the year. This is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love everything about it...the smells, the light, the decorations, pumpkin everything! If you want to follow Liz on her awesome blog you can find it here. You can find her amazing polishes in her Etsy shop here. I'm in the process of opening up my own little Etsy shop for my jewelry creations; I'll keep you posted. But in the meantime if you are interested in seeing some of my stuff I have a Facebook page here.

Hope you all are having a fantastic weekend. I'm working on another Fall manicure today so I'll post that sometime this week.

'Til We Meet Again...

Rebecca  :)

*I purchased some of these products and won others in a giveaway*

StarryEarth Treasures Untold

Hi guys! Sorry it's been awhile since I've posted anything. My laptop is struggling along on it's last legs for a few weeks now and this week it decided to slowly quit letting me stay on websites. First it was Facebook, then Blogger (quite helpful), then Evil Shades, then IMDB, and now it won't even load any pictures. It's very sad and I should start planning its funeral. Luckily hubby has a desktop that I can use but it's tough to share sometimes. I want my own computer! *crosses arms and stamps feet*

Anyway, today I have a polish that I got off of an Etsy store called StarryEarth. Elizabeth was kind enough to send me a mini bottle of my choice. I couldn't decide and left the choice up to her and the polish she chose for me was Treasures Untold.

It's a really pretty seafoam colored base with small red and lilac hex glitter and some small red square glitter. When reading the names of the colors involved they don't seem to be a good mix but it sure looks pretty in reality. It covered really well; it has a semi-jelly texture but it builds opacity quite nicely. I used three coats because the second still had some bald areas but I probably didn't let it dry enough between coats. I was too excited to get the sparklies onto my nails I guess. The glitter is very abundant throughout the polish and you definitely don't have to fish for it.

I love that you can see the full glitter from the top layer of polish but that the other layers look like a jelly sandwich. You can find this and some other very pretty polishes here at the StarryEarth Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/StarryEarth. I definitely plan on owning more of these in the future.

Hope everyone has had a fantastic weekend! I'm not much looking forward to another week of work but I'll mange somehow. :)

'Til we meet again...
Rebecca  :)

*Products in this post were sent to me for review*