Get On Your Tuxes!

Wow. It's been a while hasn't it? I just checked to see when the last time I posted was. 10 days ago. Whoa. So, here's another quickie notd post, in my sad attempt to catch up... I am working on some new content and just getting out of this rut though, so yay to that!
Behold- Black Tie Affair, Hard Candy's take on this whole black and white party. And while I think you'd get kicked out of an actual black tie event for wearing this, it's fun and cute and was super cheap. They're like $4 normally and I had a $1 off coupon. This was great, one thick coat on top of China Glaze Aquadelic, in my bathroom lighting.
It's funny, because I remember that huge big dramafest between Lyndrella and Cover Band when they copied her, and now every drugstore, salon and indie brand has there own version. I personally have no problem with dupes, with any kind of brand, as long as their not too blatant and preferably in a different price bracket. What do y'all think? Do you agree with me or take a different stance?

Madness!

I think school is killing me. I mean, it's only 6 more days of it, but it the past little bit that's the hardest. Teachers just love to pile on the crazy homework. Who needs slope anyways?!?! X-y intercept my ass...
Anyways, just a quick post for today. My nails have been going vast amounts of time without polish, hopefully 2+ months of Vacay will remedy that.
Here's China Glaze's Mosiac Madness. 2 coats over Julep Debra. Honestly, I found this collection a little blah. I just don't think anyone really needs 6 of the exact same polish in different colours. A smaller collection or a little bit more uniqueness would have been much appreciated. But it was clearance, so ah well.
Formula was average, a bit thick, but I think that somewhat helped with glitter application.
Anyways, nothing fancy, but a gorgeous polish none the less.
See everybody later! Peace out homedogs!

Me and My Homies

Wuz up peeps? It's just me. Stephanie. The same one who writes all the posts here. Yeah, that one...
How are y'all doing? I hope no one was in the path of that devastating tornado that hit the states. My condolences to everyone effected.
Today I have a little mani I did for my Bestie Victoria. She loves neon and glitter and everything girly and pretty, so I did a rainbow gradient mani for her with a set of minis I got from Claire's over a base of white creme. Aren't her nails just adorable?!?! This week were doing fishtail manis! So excited, I picked out the prettiest colour combo :D

Spectacular!!!!

Hey Everyone!!!
I've been very busy working on a bunch of things. Hopefully everything will work out and be up soon :)
Today we have a gorgeously amazingtastic colour, Australis Speck-tacular. I suggest you find an Aussie friend (Hi Sammi!!!), because you need this. It's an excellent drugstore flakie, and I am so happy this isn't another 2010/Shine Of The Times/Hidden Treasure/ Blahblahblah dupe. It's more along the line of Fingerpaints Asylum, a HTF, yay!
Anyways, I'll let the pictures do the talking. No formula issues, indoor lighting, three thin coats over 2 of Joe Fresh Denim, another favorite of mine.
Here it is!!!

Late Easter

Hey guys! Hope you had a good laugh with my April Fools Joke. It wasn't the best but I thought it was pretty funny :D Just a joke though, to anyone who thought otherwise!
Anyways, it's a little late, but here's my Easter mani. I know you guys have been interested in more nail art, and I figured -while I'll still mainly be swatches and I'm never gonna be a crazy nail art person- I'd show you a little something here and there :D
I decided to do a simple pastel rainbow gradient manicure. There are a bazillion tutorials out there, so I won't right one out , but if your interested I'll post a couple links to good ones.
For this mani I used Nails Inc Nottingham Carnival, Julep Courtney, Joe Fresh Wave and Julep Renee, in that order. I used a plain white creme polish as a base for opacity.
As a first attempt, this was pretty simple. It didn't take much longer than a normal mani and the design makes it super easy to mess up, but still have it turn out great :) this looks a bit worn, I only got a chance to take pics 3-4 days after! Sorry!
Here it is!

Waves

Hey Everybody!
I'm trying to clean out my folders and use all my old pictures, and this is a real old picture, lemme tell you! This is actually the first polish I took a picture of, and it was used as underwear for my very first NOTD, which was Indian Ocean, btw :)
Anyways, Joe Fresh Wave is a truly gorgeous colour! It's a very light, baby blue, with some light shimmer :) It was a dream to work with, and only took two coats for full opacity, which is amazing for this light of a colour.
Also, I must add how dark my hands are! Okay, probably not to many people, but I am so darn pasty now, I couldn't believe how tanned my hands looked in this picture, taken in August. Anyways, this is natural light, which I'm aching for now, as pictures come out so much crisper and nicer :)