Salon Perfect Holiday Polishes

*Products won in a giveaway*

Hi all! It's been a while (per usual) but I'm back with some awesome sparkly polishes to show you today.

Before the holidays I was lucky enough to win a set of the Salon Perfect limited edition holiday polishes on the Pointless Cafe blog giveaway. From what I understand these polishes weren't available at all in stores and when I saw the swatches on the blog I was hoping that I would win because they were so gorgeous. Jump forward a few weeks and I received an e-mail that I had won! I was pretty stoked. The collection consists of 4 glitter polishes, a white polish and a topcoat was included also. I took pics of these as I wore them and didn't do a swatchfest with them so I don't have the white polish here. There is also a red that I plan on including in some Valentine's Day posts.

 Plum Crazy

 Electric Avenue

Emerald City

The formula on these was perfect. I used 2 thin coats for each color and it built up beautifully. There was a slight grittiness to them but it wasn't anything that 2 coats of topcoat couldn't take care of.

I'm sorry that I'm showing you something that you can't buy but they are too pretty not to share.

I hope you are all doing well. It's pretty soggy up here in the Pacific Northwest but after living for years in arid California I'm really liking it.

'Til We Meet Again...

Rebecca  :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hi! Here is my final St. Patrick's Day mani right under the wire. Better late than never right? Doing this mani reminded me why I don't do nail art; I suck at it and I don't have the patience for it. First off, here are the polishes I used:

 L-R: OPI Fresh Frog Of Bel Air, OPI Alpine Snow, BB Couture Apollo

L-R: China Glaze Mingle With Kringle, China Glaze Starboard, Spoiled Show Me The Money

And here is the finished look:

On the thumb I did a base of Alpine Snow topped with Fresh Frog Of Bel Air. On the index and pinky fingers I used a base of Starboard topped with Show Me The Money. The middle finger is a base of Alpine Snow taped off with Starboard and Apollo. And the ring finger is Mingle With Kringle. For some reason I decided to do the glitter toppers before the taped off Irish flag finger. When I was cutting the tape I mangled my thumb on one of my hands with the finger holes of the scissors. When I peeled off the tape for flag one of the pieces broke in the middle so I had to use tweezers to try and remove it and totally jacked up the polish in the process. Then on the other hand the polish seeped under the tape and messed up my straight line. It was an aggravating, frustrating mess! I'm surprised they look even half as good as they do. I have to say I absolutely love Mingle With Kringle which I got this weekend at Sally for $1.72 or something ridiculously cheap like it.

So yeah, not my prettiest mani but it'll do. Hope everyone is having a good day! We had a little potluck at work and now I'm sitting at home with my honey; we're too old to go out drinking and carrying on. And that's just how I like that.

'Til We Meet Again...

Rebecca  :)

Feelin' Froggy With Cult Nails

*I purchased this*

Hello again! I'm back with my second St. Patrick's Day mani. This time I used the perfect green for the holiday; Feelin' Froggy by Cult Nails.

This was from the Fairy Tale collection and is a really pretty green with amazing blue shimmer running throughout.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this polish is available anymore. But you can get any of the other amazing Cult Nails polishes here.

That's it for today! Short and sweet...

'Til We Meet Again...

Rebecca  :)