Im not sure how many purple shimmer wheels I have all told, but I do know I have one today for Nail Wheel Wednesday.1. Zoya Venus (3 coats)2. NYC Nail Glossies 239 (2)3. OPI 3 Plums I Win (2)4. Nina ...
Every year my employer puts on a user conference for our customers, prospective customers, and partners, and most years I end up working at least part of it. Were issued shirts to wear, usually purpl...
Im back at work today after the three-day holiday weekend, during which I spent very little time online. Mostly I lazed around the house, but I did talk Mr. Karen into going to see Dark Shadows with ...
In my end of April display post I said Id be buying the two glitter polishes from the LOreal summer display as soon as I saw them on sale. As it turned out, when I saw them on sale, there was also an...
Thank you to everyone who shared supportive thoughts and kind words on the loss of my sister-in-law. I was truly touched. Im back to blogging today, easing in with a nails of the day look from earlie...
I was hoping to be well on my way to validating the entries for my blogiversary contest and picking winners by now, but that and many other things got put aside when I got the news Friday night that ...
In my last display post, which focused on drugstores and big box stores, I promised to follow up with the things Id seen at Ulta and Sally Beauty, and here I am to do that now. Since I also hit up a ...
Just a short post today because I am exhausted from working at my employers user conference the last three days. Being pleasant and helpful and chatty for that many hours a day was quite tiring for m...
Mostly bright summery orangey cremes for this installment of Nail Wheel Wednesday.1. Sally Hansen Hard as Wraps Sheer Pink Gloss (3 coats) [the white spot on this is a smudge thanks to my not paying ...
If you made it through my last big display post, you saw the Julie G polishes, which are new at Rite Aid. Today Ive got two I picked up to try, one shimmer and one glitter. The first is Stiletto, a m...
You all know I like crackle polish, so it will come as no surprise that I grabbed the chance to try out a new twist on the trend from Pure Ice. Its called Vinyl Remix and consists of a white base pac...
Unlike all the hemming and hawing and delaying I did when the Salon Effects strips for fingers first came out, when I saw the Pedicure Salon Effects, I bought some the minute I could get them on even...
There are so many new displays showing up at stores by me that I need to do a post about them even though its not quite been two weeks since my last one. Actually, I have enough photos that today wer...
Its been too long since Nail Wheel Wednesday was glittery, so today Ive got nothing but glitter from OPI, Sephora by OPI and Nicole by OPI.(all have topcoat in addition to glitter coats noted below)1...
I appreciate that Essie releases polishes in smaller collections. Its much easier for me to deal with four or six new colors at a time rather than a dozen (or fourteen, like a certain drugstore brand...
There have been a number of movie tie-in collections from OPI in recent years, and this summer brings another one, The Amazing Spider-man. (One thing Im amazed by is that in all these years, from wat...
Today Ive got Barely Blue Bell from limited edition collection of Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure thats in stores now. Apparently this is one of three colors from that collection that were done ...
I somehow managed to not hear anything about the Birchbox exclusive limited edition Zoya Blogger Collection until it was released a couple weeks ago, possibly because it seems to have involved a vote...
Well, mostly teals anyway for this Nail Wheel Wednesday. Colors that dont quite coordinate always seem to sneak in. 1. Claires Mermaid (3 coats)2. Ulta 3 Jelly Bean (2)3. Piggy Polish Teal Me About I...
Being a fan of Disney, I was quite interested to hear earlier this year that OPI was going to be doing a Minnie Mouse collection for summer. Today Im happy to say that Ive got all four of the polishe...
I really shouldnt have let a month go by after my last display post; so much spring and summer stuff has rolled into stores since then that this is going to be a very long, very photo-riffic entry. Y...
The folks at Nicole by OPI (a.k.a. NOPI) are doing their very best to win me over. You already know they sent the Wel-Kim to My World polishes, which I ended up liking some of so much that I bought m...
As promised in this mornings entry, heres the giveaway to celebrate my 2nd Blogiversary. You all give me so much encouragement by reading and commenting and swapping and e-mailing that I want give ba...
Two years ago today, I publicly declared that I was turning this dormant blogspot space into a nail blog. Keep an eye out for my 2nd Blogiversary Giveaway later; right now I have a quick look at what...
Ive got a mix of warm and cool purples for this Nail Wheel Wednesday.1. Ulta Dont Be Shellfish (3 coats)2. Zoya Faye (3)3. OPI Rally Pretty Pink (3) [yeah, I dont need both this and Faye]4. Misa Blac...
If you read my posts on even a semi-regular basis, you know I struggle with peelies. So when Barielle sent a bottle of their Nail Rebuilding for me and Lucy to try, I was quite interested to see if i...
Approximately four thousand years ago when I swatched Orly Jealous Much, Inky Whiskers asked how it compared to Finger Paints Choco Mint. Okay, it wasnt quite that long ago, but it feels like it. Tod...
Blogger forced me into the new interface a couple days ago. I didnt like it when it was in preview mode, and I dont like it now, but Ill adjust. One thing that has improved since I looked at it when ...
As I mentioned yesterday, after I did my swatches of the Zoya Beach and Zoya Surf colors, I did some playing around with them and my dotting tools, tape, and stamping stuff. The three pinks from the ...
A couple days ago, I shared the Zoya Beach colors; today, again thanks to the folks at Zoya, I have the other half of the Beach & Surf collection for Summer 2012. Surf is six shimmers, some of which ...
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