my first indies!

Hello lovelies...happy Friday =)

I purchased my first indie polishes this week from Amy's Nail Boutique and Lush Lacquer and I am in looooooove! 

First up is Over the Rainbow by Amy's Nail Boutique. It's a "crelly" polish with a white base, blue and black star glitter and multi color and size round glitter.

This is two coats of Over the Rainbow with two coats of Opi's Funny Bunny for the undies =)

These little cuties are from Lush Lacquer's Etsy shop.

Left to right: Sugar Daddy, Ticklish Teal, Minty Chip

Sugar Daddy is a white based crelly with multi-colored round and bar glitter. Ticklish Teal is a black-based jelly with teal glitter. Minty Chip is my definite favorite of the three. It is a mint ice cream-based crelly with black, silver and white glitter.

These are first, though definitely not my last indie polishes! There are so many awesome and creative brands out there! 

Have you bought any indie polishes lately? What are your favorite brands?

It's March!

Wow, did February fly by or what? It's March 1st and I must admit I feel like I've been slacking when it comes to blogging these last couple of weeks. I am a chronic migraine sufferer and I haven't had the energy to do much of anything except work lately, but that is going to change! (whether my brain likes it or not, haha!)
I am a natural-nails enthusiast and Shellac is something I've been itching to try for while, but I just didn't want to make the monetary commitment. I got an awesome deal on a CND lamp and am excited to finally try the Shellac manicure! Have any of you worked with Shellac or had a Shellac manicure done? I don't know how effective one would be on my hands considering I change my manis so frequently...I have a bit of polish-ADD...but it would be fantastic for my toes! I'll be posting my pics and reviews as soon as I try it out! I've got my top and base coats but I am waiting for the actual colors I ordered to come in. 
Something else new and exciting to look forward to in March...Ipsy! I joined Ipsy in January and was placed on the waitlist. I got an email yesterday stating I should receive my first box mid-March and I cannot wait! For those of you that heaven't heard of it, Ipsy is a monthy subscription program like Birchbox and many others out there where you pay a flat monthly subscription fee and each month you receive a box with a cute bag and anywhere from three to six full or sample size products to try. The value of the products in the box usually way exceeds the price of the subscription and you get to try products you may never have tried before due to price, availability, etc. One thing that is cool about Ipsy is that it was actually started by a beauty blogger, so the products in it are supposed to be things you would actually want to use and not something you'll stick in a drawer and forget about! I can't wait to get my first box!
Happy March, lacquer lovelies! What's new and exciting for you this month?

This is my foster-dog, Buddy. He loves to sit next to anyone with a computer, nose inching closer and closer to the screen until he's trying to eat the cursor. <3 Blog-Buddy

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto!

Hello lovelies!

I was stuck in bed sick this weekend and got inspired to do a Wizard of Oz mani. I have not seen the new Oz movie(is it even out in theaters yet?), but the original is a favorite of mine and it was the original that inspired this!

Here you have the twister, the ruby slipper, the Yellow Brick Road, Emerald City and a field of poppies =)

I layered three different reds to represent the ruby slippers, and on my thumb and ring finger is the blue gingham of Dorothy's dress. Please excuse the mess around my cuticles!!!

The boy and I try to make it a point to get downtown and catch the sunset over the Mississippi River when we can...caught it just as it was dipping below the tree line!

How was your weekend?

Oz the Great and Powerful

Hello lovelies!
I just picked up the glitters from the OPI Oz the Great and Powerful collection (as I am a polish hoarder and a fiend for glitter, how could i resist?).

                                                       Lights of Emerald City

I love the square confetti in this, though I am a little disappointed that there isn't any green color to this one!

Which is Witch?

When Monkeys Fly!

Left to right: Lights of Emerald City, Which is Witch? When Monkeys Fly!

Swatched over OPI Vant to Bite My Neck

There are four other shades in the Oz collection- a sheer pink, a light pink, a nude and a bronze-y liquid sand. 

I'm so excited that OPI is finally branching out into using different shaped confetti and glitter! So what do you think? Are any of these a must have for you?

Sea? I told you!

Hello lovelies!

I hope everyone had an awesome Vday! The boy and I shared some deeee-licious chocolate covered strawberries from Godiva...they were ahhhmazing!

My nail of the day today is Sea? I told you by OPI with Urban Outfitters' Sea Dust as an accent finger on my pinky.

The blue glitter in the UO polish matches Sea? I told you exactly! This combo reminds me of mermaids and the ocean. I've been obsessed with this color scheme lately....anything teal, seafoam, blue-green....I love it! Plus, both of these polishes have glitter, which is always a good thing. You can never have enough glitter!

I met up with my awesome friend and hairstylist this morning as the boy was way overdue for a haircut and I needed my color touched up badly... I had roots for miles!

Rockin' fresh hair and sea-inspired nails on this coooold Saturday! What's on your nails? 

xoxoKandy

Happy Saturday!

I had a bit of a sweet tooth today, so I added a couple of tasty-looking treats to my Valentine's mani =)

Dreaming of cupcakes and sugar cookies......

~Kandy

Get your Polka on with Polka.com!

Hello lacquer lovelies!

I've been feeling a little under the weather lately so I wanted a cheery mani to brighten my mood a bit. I also wanted to do something for Valentine's Day just in case this mani lasts that long, and I was itching to use my new OPI glitter so the heart was made =). 

The base color is Mint Candy Apple from Essie. I painted two coats of Blanc (a grown up version of the white out you used to paint your nails with in school...don't lie, you did it too! =P), also from Essie, to make M.C.A. really pop. For the heart on my middle finger, I used OPI's Polka.com. Polka.com is from the just-released Euro Centrale Collection and is made up of purple, blue and magenta hex glitter suspended in a clear base. There is also some microglitter in the same colors as the hex, though it's not overwhelming.

Here you can see the colors in Polka.com a little better.

What's on your nails? Planning on doing anything special for Valentine's Day?

~Kandy