Elixir Lacquers- With a K

I love this polish! Oh. my. goodness! To me, it doesn't match the picture on the Elixir Lacquers website, nor does it really match the description, but it's completely alright because it's gorgeous!
The description from Elixir Lacquers website says:
"Silver and electric violet holographic micro glitter with violet prismatic hexagon glitter, suspended in a violet jelly base."

To me, on my nail, in the bottle, and in the pictures below, this polish is pink. Not purple, not violet. Maybe it might lean toward a mauve, but it's more in the pink family than anything else. There is scattered holographic glitter throughout which adds this amazing sparkle to the polish. Then, there are bigger chunks of holographic glitter. I can't decide if these chunks are hex or more of a shredded glitter. Maybe more of a mix of both? Eh, it's amazing. I'll stop rambling. These pictures are 3 coats With a K with one coat Seche Vite. 

 Direct Sunlight

 Direct sunlight

 Direct sunlight

 Shade

 Macro

Shade

I love the sparkle of this polish in the sunlight! My absolute favorite part of this polish, though, would be the larger chunks of glitter. That really makes for an interesting mix!

Hope you enjoyed!

-Amanda

More Rainbow Honey Frenching!

Well, before I went wedding dress shopping the other day (for those who missed it IN MY LAST POST, my first time out wedding dress shopping was my last time! I got my dress on the first visit!) I wanted to have a light and fun manicure. I chose Rainbow Honey's Pinkie Promise and Elixir Lacquers' Bad Kitty.

Let me tell you, these polishes are meant for one another! I love how light and eye catching this one is! Before I show you, I just need to apologize for the tip wear in the pictures. I wasn't able to take a picture before this.

It's like I have jewels on my nail tips!!!

Macro of Pinkie Promise

Rainbow Honey can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE.

Elixir Lacquers can be found HERE, and HERE.

This manicure design seems to have a bit of a bridal feel to it. What do you think?

Thanks for reading,

-Amanda

Bad Kitty

So, this past week I had gotten into a very bad habit of doing my nails late at night. I lack decent lighting in most rooms of the house which makes it very difficult for taking nice nail pictures. When I took these pictures and saw them on the camera I was so upset! It looked like the coloring was so wrong and none of the beauty of the polish could be seen. I was cranky because I had to work the next day which meant bad tip wear so if I wanted to retake the pictures, it would still look horrible.
Well, fast-forward a day or two when I finally decide to throw caution to the wind and upload the pictures. Go figure! The images are not nearly as bad as I thought! What a lovely, relieving surprise!
I present to you, Elixir Lacquer Bad Kitty (all shown with 3 layers and a topcoat):

Bad Kitty is gorgeous. It's without a doubt my nail polish soul mate! It's this lovely soft lilac with flashes of blue and purple-pinkishness. It's amazing.

You can check out the Elixir Lacquer store here. There are so many more that I want! I'll definitely get them someday. So beautiful!

Thanks for reading!
Hope you enjoyed!
-Amanda

More Nail Mail

I had a long and busy day at work today. It was gorgeous outside and I hardly was able to enjoy it! Yet, when I came home, there in the mailbox were some gorgeous lovelies to behold! I HAD to share these!

This post is even more picture heavy than my last one. Oh goodness!

First up are my darlings from Elixir Lacquer. Recently, they had a restock of Bad Kitty and this is a polish I have desperately wanted since I saw a swatch for the first time. I had caught wind of the fact that this might be the last restock of Bad Kitty for quite a while. PLUS, there was a sale on all Elixir Lacquer polishes! All signs pointed to YES-BUY SOME POLISH! I wish I had gotten a few others but I had to limit myself.
In the end, I decided on Bad Kitty and With a K.

With a K & Bad Kitty

How pretty?!

With a K macro

Bad Kitty macro

Next, we have the one polish I purchased from DandyNails. It's called Funhouse and it's beautiful!

Funhouse with a lovely business card!

Macro goodness of Funhouse!

Next, we have my order of one polish from Once Upon a Polish. I truly had such a difficult time choosing just one from this store when she went live with a restock! In the end I chose Flounder (yes, that's right! It's inspired by Flounder from The Little Mermaid). When I opened my package, this is what I saw!

How gorgeous is this?! Love fun touches like this!

 Opening it further! I love the business card! And look what I found when I flipped it over!

Thank you, Kimberly for your personal touches! (and gorgeous polishes!)

Here is Flounder!

Makes me so happy!

Oh these colors are gorgeous together!

Lastly, I received my order from Pam at Whimsical Ideas by Pam. 

I LOVE the packaging!

So pretty! Seuss, I Believe in Fairies, Saturday Morning Cartoons, & Hatched

I love the cards that everyone is adding in their with their shipments! I feel like it adds a little something extra to it all. This is also included:

I am so very happy with these purchases! I cannot wait to use these!

Also, I think my mom and sister were just as excited to see these lovely polishes...they've already put dibs on the ones they want to use first! I think they're being converted into Lacquerheads too!

Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed!

-Amanda