It's winter time, so how about a "thermal" to keep you warm? A review of Split Personality by Smokey Mountain Lacquers!

Hello lovely readers! Have you missed me? I have been super busy! My Noah (the wrestler) went to the National Dual tournament in Virginia! He did great! Since I go back, we have been busy getting ready for family to come. I just got my tree up yesterday! I usually have it up in November on Black Friday!!! SO I am way behind! Now on to today's review!

Today, I have a lovely Pink/Purple thermal called Split Personality for review from Smokey Mountain Lacquers. It is a thermal!!! I have two thermals in my collection already from other makers, and I can get the thermal to show pretty easy on my nails, so when Kim asked me if I was comfortable with doing a review of a thermal I was fine with it. What I didn't know was that when I put my hand in my warm light box I would lose the pretty duo colored nails. LOL! Anyhow, I think I still have some great photos for you.

Let's talk about formula. The first coat was a little streaky for me. However, the second coat fixed that for me quite nicely. So there really was no issue with application. The polish is a pretty bubblegum pink with small micro silver glitters when cool. When warm, the polish turns a bright shade of purple. Of course, the silver micro glitters stay in tact.

Here is the first photo I took in my light box. As you can see, my tips had no color change because it was so warm in there.

 

Here are some out of the light box photos. You can see the color of the cool tips very well in these!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This beauty will retail for $9 at Smokey Mountain Lacquers, so keep your eyes peeled for its release! You can visit Smokey Mountain Lacquers for tis lovely and others below

https://www.smokeymountainlacquers.com

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SmokeyMtnLacquers

 

You can also visit their Facebook page for updates!

https://www.facebook.com/SmokeyMtnLacquers

 

What do you think? Do you like thermals? I really do! Leave a note in the comments section and tell me your feels! :)

This polish was provided to me for review by the maker.

Cold Hands..?... Warm Mittens!

Hello again lovely readers! I have had a BUSY week! Had a great Thanksgiving holiday with the family! I stuffed myself with turkey and all the fixins, BUT...We got some GREAT and exciting news this week. So, I told you about my son who wrestles and his exciting win a couple of weeks ago, and his wrestling successes and last week we got contacted by the coach for the International Youth Dual Team! My son has been invited to join the team! He will be representing the state of Oklahoma on the team! I am so excited for him. The only hitch is raising enough funds for all of his travel. So, I will be adding a link on the right side of the page for my son's Fundrazr page where you can donate, or anyone can donate if you feel you can. :) I also have a Pinterest board with a bunch of my stash up for sale to raise the funds. http://www.pinterest.com/coveredbycolor/pretties4sale/ If you see something that interests you, you can email me at anxi0tee at live dot com or send me a PM on Facebook, or leave me a comment on the CbC Facebook page.

Now, on to the mittens! Since today it was 66 here in Oklahoma, and we are expecting some severe winter weather, I got to thinking about my mittens and scarves. I have a new love for scarves lately. I now have four, and not even sure why I need so many when I have one neck! :P But why do I need 700 bottles of polish when I have only 20 nails? HAHAHA!

For this mani I used two new holiday polishes. Here is my supplies below.

 

 

The polishes are Sinful Colors Holiday Rebel, China Glaze Just Be-Claws, HK Girl Top coat by Glisten and Glow, and Pure Ice Loose fine glitter (I found these at Wal-Mart). I also Used China Glaze Pelican Gray for the base color and Sinful Colors Snow me White for the base of my accent nail.

 

To begin, I painted my base colors of my nails. I then used a small paint brush and painted the red mittens (China Glaze Just Be-Claws) on all but my accent nail. I added the Sinful Colors Holiday Rebel on top of the Snow me White on the accent nail. I waited for everything to dry and on a piece of wax paper mixed the fine white loose glitter with a drop of HK Girl. I then painted the white fluffy trim of the mittens on. The texture of these is a little 3D this way. You could use a white glittery polish to get the same look but without the fluffy 3D look.

 

 

Here is a close up of  Holiday Rebel (please excuse my very awful looking cuticles this close up):

 

 

What do you think of these lil cute warm mittens? How about Holiday Rebel? It is super pretty for the holidays and it put me in a festive mood for sure!

 

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~Jennifer