Hey bellas! I hope every one's holiday was super. Did you make through them relatively unscathed? The holidays can be crazy stressful. I make it through them buy humming and surrounding myself with polish fumes! Lol.

Here are few of my recent NOTDs.

This is China Glaze VIII. It's a wonderful dark eggplant creme. Very chic. The lilac glitter is Pure Ice Busted. Don't sleep on Pure Ice ladies! There are quite a few winners in their selection. For a $1.97 @ Walmart they are a wonderful little pick me up. I am wearing China Glaze Spontaneous on my ring finger. The design is from Konad plate M37 using ChG VIII. The colors in the first pic are truer. It's kind of tricky capturing purples in photos.




This is OPI Designer Series Original. Sick, right? This is one of favorite polishes. It's one of the few that I have worn several times. Even Mr. Brown notices when I wear this... Now that's impressive. The entire DS line is holographic. Some more than others. The more recent additions don't give the complete holo rainbow effect. They just have a ton of holo shimmer added. They are still divine.

The polish that I am holding the above pic is Finger Paints Shiny Red Apple. It's an awesome red creme. FPs apply like a dream! Full review on the FP line to come!

This is a dark grey chrome franken that I made a little while back. I just added some black polish (Wet N Wild Black Creme 424 is one of the best black cremes in the world! Opaque in one coat and .99 cents!) to a silver chrome polish that I had laying around. I was surprised by how much black I ended up adding. Chrome polishes are heavily pigmented and don't readily take on other colors. There is actually more black than chrome in this one. The the gold shade is Orly Glam. A nice warm orangey gold. Orly doesn't get enough love if you ask me. I love the rubber handles! I wish they would get more exciting colors though. I have to admit... China Glaze has the market locked when it comes to shade selection. Every collection has at least one "I need that in my life" color.


B.B.

Oh by the way... The winner of Say Yes to Carrots giveaway was Julisa from Trenton NJ. She said that Yes Man is funny and everyone should check it out. I wasn't able to post on Friday because my laptop power cord broke. No juice, no post. I can email from my cell but mobile blogging is for them high fallootin bloggers and I'm just not there yet! lol!

I wasn't planning to post this but I can't stop looking at so I figured it must be worthy of an STS post.

It's a part of the long DC'ed Sally Hansen Magical collection. This is called Ruby Slipper... A name FAIL in my opinion because this bad boy is straight pink. But whatever... I still love it to pieces. I resourced this little gem from my local Dollar Tree. I'm telling ya'll... Dollar Tree is the hotness, lol!




It's a lot like the China Glaze OMG collection or the original OPI Designer Series. Yummy, holographic lurve!

B.B.

Great Minds Think Alike!

Today's post was originally going to be a StS post featuring the wonderful new Zoya polish, Zara. But lil sis Brittany Bee from Clumps of Mascara was all over that. Isn't it a beautimous color? It is everything that I wanted MAC Trax eyeshadow to be. Trax looks very very similar in the pan but the gold shimmer isn't as pronounced once it hits the lid. BOOO! I was so stuck on the gorgeousness of Zara that I decided to do a FOTD in it's honor. I apologize in advance for the lack of the breakdown. It all just kind of came together as I was getting ready for a parent-teacher conference for Boy Brown. The pics are also a few hours old so meh...


This is my Zara mani.



And this is what I changed it to. lol!




Excuse the mess. These pics are pre clean up. It's a little something that I frankend up. It's pretty funky. A little darker than I wanted it to be but I think it turned out nice. A blurple with holo shimmer and multisized glitter... Not something that you come across everyday!

B.B.

And the Winner Is......

Submitted by Lesley.

I know that I was supposed to post this on Friday but Friday was one heck of a day. Momma Brown and Step Brown came into town so Mr. Brown and I could celebrate our anniversary (also Friday) like civilized married folk... without the chilluns. Boy Brown also had to get his trick-or-treat on. I offered him $5 and 2 big ole bags of candy from Walmart but he wasn't having it. lol!

This was my anniversary/Halloween mani. Mr.Brown has a thing for orange nails so this was right up his alley.


The orange is Sinful Colors Summer Peach. The black is OPI My Private Jet over Wet N Wild Black creme.

This is today's NOTD.
Finger Paints Red Marzipan is a part if the current LE holiday Nutcracker collection available now at Sally's. I wish could capture the bold amber and gold flash that this polish gives off. You can see it pretty well in the bottle. I couldn't photograph it to my life though. It's said to be similar to the wildly sought after OPI La Boheme. I am really loving this color. This will definitely get a replay somewhere in the near future.





Thank you everyone for all of your entries. I was truly flabbergasted by the amount of entries that I received. Stay tuned for another giveaway shortly. I have some pretty neat things in store.

B.B.