Fall Into Autumn Challenge - Cloudy Days

Aren't you just loving the Fall Into Autumn Challenge series?! I am!

Today's theme is Cloudy Days; this is something that I am very familiar with living in Pittsburgh. There are for sure, without a doubt, definitely more cloudy days in the 'burgh than there are Sunny Days. I knew exactly what I wanted to do; something similar to my Summer Nights / Northern Lights mani (from the Lazy Days of Summer)

Polishes Used:

-OPI - Nail Envy

-NYC - Sidewalkers

-Sinful Colors - Slate

-Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

-Sinful Colors - Morning Star

-NYC - Matte Me Crazy

I started off with the grey base and sponged on "random" dark grey, white, blue, and more white polish to get the billowing cloud effects; do you see it? I love it. lol. 

What do you think? Do you see Cloudy Days in this? 

Check out the other ladies participating in Fall Into Autumn :)

I Won A Giveaway & Butter London - Trustafarian

I recently won a giveaway hosted by Katee at A Girl and Her Polish. I was so happy to win and I absolutely love her blog!!

Here is a collage of the prizes she sent me:

Butter London - Shag
Butter London - Trustafarian
Claires - Candy Shop
Once Upon A Polish - Whosits & Whatsits Galore!
Venique - Twinkling Glitter
Milani - Twinkle
Rainbow Polish - Polish of my choice!!!

What a wonderful giveaway! I am SURE you're all following Katee's blog already but if not, make sure you check it out.

I am going to go through all of these polishes in the next couple of days, with the exception of the challenge mani's that I am going to be posting of course.

The first polish I am trying out is Butter London Trustafarian. These are my first Butter London polishes and I really like them.

Polishes Used:

-OPI - Nail Envy

-Butter London - Trustafarian

-OTD

Trustafarian is a lovely light green holo. I have on 3 coats for the pictures and, I know, I know, I put on top coat - I know you're not "supposed" to because it can ruin the rainbow/holo look but thats OK. I still love how this looks and you can still see the holo-ness.

Which of the polishes from Katee is your favorite? What should I try out next?

Pretty & Polished - Jawbreaker

This is my 200th post! Whoohoo! So exciting, and pleased with myself for finding something that I really enjoy doing and sticking with it.

Coincidentally, today I will be showing you Jawbreaker by Pretty & Polished, a polish that I had been lemming for a while now and finally ended up purchasing, and I am so glad I did, because I love it!

Polishes Used:

-Nailtiques - Formula 2 Plus

-Pretty & Polished - Jawbreaker

-Gelous

-OTD

I am wearing 3 coats of Jawbreaker for the pictures. As always, I LOVE all glitter polishes in a jelly white base and Jawbreaker does not disappoint. It's application is great without any clumping as some polishes are known to do. I did have a little trouble getting some of the larger glitters out but I didn't try too hard. 

You can check out Chelsea's awesome polishes at the following, I purchased my polish on Etsy:

Etsy Shop

Facebook Page

Llarowe

Do you love this color as much as I do? Do you own any polishes from Pretty & Polished?

Sally Hansen - Champagne Toast

Happy Wednesday!!!

I have really been loving nudes and sheer polishes lately and today I am showing you Sally Hansen Champagne Toast. I was able to pick this particular polish up at Ross Dress for Less a couple weeks ago in a package of 5 different Sally Hansen's.

Polishes Used:

-OPI - Nail Envy

-Sally Hansen - Champagne Toast

-OTD

I love that this is so simple and pink and shimmery, it's just a pretty polish and would be perfect for a wedding. 

Short post today, but whoo-hoo, the work week is halfway over! 

Blue & White Houndstooth

Today I am showing you a mani I wore last week. I sort of consider this a stamping fail, not sure what's up with me (and I don't think its user-error), but I swear, like 1/2 my BM plates the images don't transfer and I don't know why; I have never had that issue with my Konad plates. (End Rant lol)

Anyway, at work we had a "Day of Caring" where all the employees do community service during the day instead of going into the office. I wanted to do something fun because I figured some of the people at my site would really be interested in this, so I went with a shimmery blue with stamping.

Polishes Used:

-OPI - Nail Envy

-Kleancolor - Shining Sea

-Konad - Special White

-Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

-BM-322

-OTD

I started with my pinky using the Konad white polish, but unfortunately, I am getting to the end the bottle so I needed to switch to Sinful Colors Snow Me White. It still works for stamping but doesn't have that 100% opaqueness that the Konad does. 

I LOVE this blue, Shining Sea, on it's own, of course I didn't take any pictures of it before I ruined it with stamping but I am sure you will see it again ;-)

Any tips for using my BM plates? Do you think it's user error?