TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indie Friday - Once Upon a Polish The Beanstalk

 

Welcome to this week's episode of TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indy Indie Friday! Today I am featuring a gorgeous glitter by none other than Once Upon a Polish. It's called The Beanstalk. Inspired by the beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk! :) I am loving her theme!

Here is The Beanstalk with no undies. It is a gorgeous clear base with a variety of green glitters in different shades, shapes and sizes (hexes, squares, medium, small, and micro) and silver hex glitter. It is absolutely stunning! My index and middle finger are two coats each. Ring and pinkie finger is only one coat each. I want to show you the difference between the two.

Slightly different angle and lighting than the picture before. Look at the shinnies! So pretty! I didn't have any problems with this glitter. It applied wonderfully and evenly enough! Bonus! :) You need this glitter, oh yes, you do! I promise you will not be disappointed! I can't wait to try in a jelly sammich!

Here is Once Upon a Polish The Beanstalk over Cult Nails Power Thief. Gorgeous combo! Loving it! :)

Bottle shot of Once Upon a Polish Beanstalk.

Macro bottle shot of The Beanstalk. Isn't it loverly!? :)

Don't forget to check out her store here and her Facebook page here.

** Also, we have a new blogger joining me for TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indie Friday, it's Emma from Manicurity! So please go check out which Indie she has featured today! :)

Thank Goodness, Indie Friday - Cult Nails Power Thief

 

Welcome to this week's episode of TGIF: Thank Goodness, Indy Indie Friday!  Today I am featuring a little Cult Nails polish called Power Thief from the Super Powers Collection.

 

I love me some brown polish! And I love me some Power Thief! This is a stunning warm brown with silver flecks/shimmer through out! Above is two coats.

Look at that! Stunning! This applied like a dream without any problems at all! I have nothing bad to say about this polish, it's fantastic! :) Such a perfect fall color! Can't wait to try it with different glitters and other fall colors!

This is to show you what one coat looks like. As you can see it is almost opaque in one coat! Yes! You can see some thinner areas on my ring and pinkie finger. Not too shabby huh!

Bottle shot of Cult Nails Power Thief.

Macro bottle shot of Cult Nails Power Thief. Look and the color and flecks/shimmer! Love!

Don't forget to check out the Cult Nails shop here and Facebook page here.

As you can tell, I'm back from vacation!! It's great to be back! Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things! What is that old adage: two weeks to make or break a habit? And I've been gone 2 1/2 weeks! Yikes! :)

Hope you all have had a great summer so far! :)

Teal Tuesdays - Dotticure

This week's Tealicure is a Dotticure! Oh so many made up words in the polish world! ;) So today I am showcase a marvelous surprise polish that I received from an amazing wonderful lady (The Crumpet) out of the blue teal. This polish is the base of this Tealicure. It is Fashionista Mystical Dragon Shade 3. Um stunningly gorgeous! And at one coat it was opaque! Woot woot! This is a gorgeous glass flecked duochrome polish.

The duochrome didn't really want to come out and play during the photo shoot, but trust me, it's in there! The polishes for the dots I used are: Cult Nails Let Me Fly (the darkest), OPI Fly (the middle teal dot that almost blends in), p2 Groovy (the medium dot near the tip of the nail), and OPI Skull & Glossbones (the grey dots).

This tealicure is such a fun bright mani thanks to the amazing polish sent to me by The Crumpet! Thank you thank you thank you! She has told me that she too is going to post her mani with it today, so go check out her blog! Also, a little birdie crumpet told me that Gnarly Gnails received this polish and she too is going to use it for her Teal Tuedays tealicure! Awesomesauce! Yep, I sure did just use that word. ;)

Here is Fashionista Mystical Dragon Shade 3 on it's own. See gorgeous! Though it does remind me of some other polishes I own (comparison post to come soon) but the fact that this is only one coat and look at the opacity, makes it a WIN! :)

Teal Tuesdays was started because teal is unloved and needed its own day of celebration!
Teal is a medium to dark bluish green color of low saturation; a dark cyan.
Open to interpretation, anything green with a hint of blue or blue with a hint of green is welcome here!
Aqua, Turquoise,Tiffany Blue, etc etc...all are welcome - we do not discriminate!

Click the Teal Tuesdays logo on this post or in my sidebar to be taken to the facebook page!

Some of the other blogs participating are:
Cherries Sweets
Colorsplash Nails
Gaga for Nails
Fancy Phalanges 
Gnarly Gnails
Geeky Owl
Mandy's Polish
Nails Beautiqued
No Holos!
Persistently Glittery
Simple-and-Beautiful

Teal Tuesdays - Anything Goes!

This week we decided to let the challenge be what ever you wanted to do as long at it includes teal! So I decided to just do a swatch of a gorgeous dusty teal with silver shimmer! This is two coats of Cult Nails Let Me Fly with one coat of Seche Vite. And wow is it ever gorgeous!

Here's another shot of it in not so direct sun (two coats Let Me Fly and one coat Seche Vite). I love this color and polish! Application was lovely! The formula is a bit thick but that is what made the application nice! It's not too thick, it's just right!

I wanted to show you what one coat looks like (direct sun). It is almost opaque in one coat but you can see some sparse spots specifically on my pointer finger.

Teal Tuesdays was started because teal is unloved and needed its own day of celebration!
Teal is a medium to dark bluish green color of low saturation; a dark cyan.
Open to interpretation, anything green with a hint of blue or blue with a hint of green is welcome here!
Aqua, Turquoise,Tiffany Blue, etc etc...all are welcome - we do not discriminate!

Click the Teal Tuesdays logo on this post or in my sidebar to be taken to the facebook page!

Some of the other blogs participating are:
Cherries Sweets
Colorsplash Nails
Gaga for Nails
Fancy Phalanges 
Gnarly Gnails
Geeky Owl
Mandy's Polish
Nails Beautiqued
No Holos!
Persistently Glittery
Simple-and-Beautiful

Nail Mail Monday!

It's been awhile since I've had so many packages delivered in one day! I was so happy! :)

First up is my Cult Nails order from her second $5 sale! :) I got all the ones I wanted!

(l-r) Hypnotize Me, Let Me Fly, and Enigmatic. I have swatched these all for my swatchsicles and my favorite is Let Me Fly! It is stunning!

Next up is my order from Diamond Cosmetics. (l-r) Matte Smoke (yep a grey matte!), Chainmail Charm (suppose to be a holo, but isn't a really strong one), Talk of Tokyo, and Concrete Jungle (this is the polish that started the whole order!). Funny thing is that while doing my swatchsicles I have come to see that I really do like greens and greys and this purchase confirms it even more! :)

My quick order from Head2Toe for more clear nail tips for my swatchsicles with my first Misa polish in Grey Matters. This is a silvery shimmery grey!

These were not nail mail but what I picked up from Sallys this weekend! The Finger Paints were clearanced so they were an extra 50% off! $1.62 each for Circus Peanuts and Choco Mint! And then I asked the girl working if they had the new Orly Glam FX line in. They did in the back! She brought them out and I fell in love with Mermaid Tale.

Macro bottle shot of Orly Mermaid Tale. Stunning!!!!

Nail Mail of the Cult Kind!

So, I've joined a Cult.........Cult Nails that is!

Boo-yah! My first polish burritos!! :) I bought these when Cult Nails was having their $5 sale! I never thought I would ever own one Cult Nails polish let alone three! Now, these weren't the first on my list but some of her supplies were low, but these were still on my list! She is going to be having another $5 sale soon for those that were low on hand. :) Oh? You want to see the polish? Ok!

In a Trance (yes I need another olive green!), Power Thief (and another brown!) oh and I love that my Power Thief is spelled wrong on my bottle's bottom sticker. It says "Power Theif" :), and Time Traveler (go Doctor Who!) I am very excited to use all of them! I've heard they apply like a dream. Well, we shall see!

Do you ladies take advantage of this sale? What colors did you get or what colors do you already have? Do you love this brand or is it not for you?