Twinsie Tuesday: Favorite Glitter Topper

It's time for Twinsie Tuesday again; and this week's theme is Favorite Glitter Topper. It took me a while to pick a polish for this prompt because lately I have not been interested in glitter toppers, my heart currently belongs to creams, but finally the perfect topper came to mind.

My favorite glitter topper is Lacquer by Lissa - Yinzer.

Polishes Used:
-Sinful Colors - Unicorn
-Zoya - Pippa
-China Glaze - Solar Power
-Lacquer by Lissa - Yinzer

I think you can see why this is my favorite glitter topper, it's a Pittsburgh polish!!! I love that Lacquer by Lissa is a hometown indie maker, but also in Pittsburgh, Black & Yellow are seasonal all year long! Also, as I have mentioned in the past, Yinzer has nice application and good coverage in just one coat. (The above pictures only show one coat of glitter)

So what do you think? Do you like my choice for my Favorite Glitter Topper?

Don't forget to check out what the other ladies chose for their favorite glitter below:

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Rachel at Top Coat It

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Traci at DrinkCitra

 

 

Black and Gold Stripes - Pittsburgh Themed Nails

Today is the 3rd game in the NLDS and the Pirates are battling the Cards at home. Since the series is currently tied 1-1, and I am pretty much still down and out with this flu (Saturday literally all I did was run to Target to get medicine and slept all day) we ended up selling our tickets to today's game. We will be attending tomorrow's game and hopefully it will be the last of the series with the Pirates winning and moving on to the NLCS; we shall see.

Anyway, I wore these nails last Thursday and got lots of compliments on them. It was a Pirates and  Penguins day so these were multi-purpose.

For this look I simply used OPI Alpine Snow as a base and then added black and gold stripes with my striping polishes! It was super easy to create, although the more I thought about it it probably would have been easier to just use a gold glittery base and only have to add the black stripes. Oh well.

Since I wore this mani to the Pen's game, here is a photo of my friend Amanda and I before the game started. It was their home opener and we made it onto the big-screen!!

Pittsburgh Sports Themed Nails

Oh my goodness; I don't know if any of my lovely readers are baseball fans, but I know that some of you are Pittsburgh fans. If you have been following my blog, you know that my husband and I are Pittsburgh Pirates season ticket holders, yep, all 81 games. This season has been especially exciting and for the first time in 21 years, my team is in the #Postseason (#buctober, #absobucnlutely, #rtjr)

Anyway, you will be seeing more Pittsburgh themed nails from me in the next couple of weeks, with the Pirates beating the Reds on Tuesday night, we officially are in the first series and I will be rocking black and yellow nails for it! Also, if you like hockey, the Pittsburgh Penguins home opener is tonight and yep, I'm going to be there.

Here are the nails that I was going to wear on Tuesday's wildcard game (although I ended up taking them off and wearing black, since they were calling for a blackout)

Of course I put all my polishes away before I wrote down what I used (if you really want to know the colors, let me know and I will dig them out; sorry, bad blogger). As with the nail art I showed you earlier in the week, these were also inspired by a MrCandiipants youtube tutorial.

Do you like this look? Let me know!

PS. Here is a bonus shot of me at the game :)

Lacquer by Lissa - Polish Review; Yinzer and Here We Go

*Products in this post were provided by the manufacturer for my honest review*

TGIF!! I have had a long and stressful work week so I am glad that it is finally the weekend. Today I am lucky enough to share with you two polishes from Lacquer by Lissa, a local Pittsburgh Indie polish maker.

Before I get to the shades, here is what Melissa, of Lacquer by Lissa, had to say about her brand. "I founded Lacquer by Lissa in June 2013. I have always loved nail polish and I discovered indie polish in one of the Facebook groups I was in. I was completely amazed by all of the different colors and glitters and one day I decided I wanted to do it myself. I use a 3-free base as well as the best solvent resistant glitters I can find. All of the polish is mixed in small batches and poured to order by me. All of my polish is $8.25 each and I also offer an option to pick 3 colors for $22.00 or Mystery Grab Bags for $20.00. I am located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania so I like to do a lot of colors inspired by my city. So far I have Iceberg (Stephanie's comment: you can see my swatch of Iceberg here), Yinzer and Here We Go that are all Pittsburgh inspired."

So anyway, onto the polishes!

Yinzer:

Melissa describes this polish as, "This polish is a clear base with a mix of different shaped and sized black, yellow and white glitter suspended inside. Among the glitter you will find bars, hexes and rectangles." I am wearing ONE coat of Yinzer with Sinful Colors - Slate as my base. This a glitter bomb and I was surprised how much glitter I got out in just one coat!

Here We Go:

Melissa describes this polish as, "This polish is a black jelly base with matte red, yellow and blue squares suspended inside. You can build this polish up with 3 coats, or just use a black base coat and use one coat of Here We Go. This was inspired by the Steelers emblem which is red, yellow and blue diamonds". I chose to use 3 coats to build this up and I love the dimension that this gives!! I have topped Here We Go with one coat of Out The Door.

Lacquer by Lissa also threw in a Conditioning Cuticle Balm. These are not yet currently being sold in her shop but she will be launching them with her Halloween Collection, and the first scent she plans to sell is Pumpkin Pie! Perfect! She sent me Fairytale which reminds me of a nice fresh melon scent. She is also currently running a promotion that each order will be getting a complimentary Peppermint Cuticle Balm while supplies last.

The Cuticle Balm comes in a nice chap-stick type container which is very nice for ease of application. The balm is made of Beeswax, Sweet Almond Oil, Shea Butter and Fragrance.

You can find these and other polishes and check out Lacquer by Lissa here:
-ETSY SHOP
-FACEBOOK

*Products in this post were provided by the manufacturer for my honest review*

Liquid Lacquer - Little Bow Tied Men & Lounging Lily

Continuing on with my Liquid Lacquer kick, today I have Little Bow Tied Men, a special polish that Melissa showed some swatches of but never ended up making to sell. As soon as I saw the sneak peek swatches, I knew that I needed it as its Black and Yellow! Pretty much anything that I can wear for Steelers, Pirates, or Pens season (if we ever have hockey again) I am going to snatch right up, so Melissa was sweet enough to make a bottle for me.

Here we go!

Polishes Used:

-OPI - Nail Envy

-OPI - Alpine Snow

-Liquid Lacquer - Little Bow Tied Men

-Gelous

-OTD

This is a super pretty sheer polish with yellow and black glitters and a super slight pink shimmer to it. It's really pretty and I think this looks great over the white base that I selected. 

Next up, we have Lounging Lily. It is similar to RBL Aqua Lily, and its gorgeous, don't you think? I am going to show you two rounds of photos, without TC and with TC. Own it's own it has a really pretty "soft" finish, so here we go!

This is two coats of Lounging Lily and it is just such a pretty polish. I love the pink shimmer to it, and the pictures don't do it justice. This was a HUGE seller during Melissa's last restock and I think you can see why.

Are you loving all of the Liquid Lacquer polishes that I am showing? I have a special treat coming up soon so make sure to stay tuned.