My son painted my nails!

Heeeeeyyyyy! Happy Friday! Are we excited for the weekend? I am in the sense that it means watching TV late, and sleeping in! :)

Today I want to share a little about me! Before anything else in this world, I am a mom. I have four boys ranging in ages 14 to 22. Each of them is awesome, so I thought I would start with my youngest, and highlight some awesome stuff about them each in the blog for the next few Fridays.

 Noah, is the youngest of my boys. He is 14. He wrestles and is a national wrestling champion. Last year, he was ranked 3rd in the nation by wrestling USA magazine for his weight and division. Two weeks ago we started this season with four trophies!

 

This is me and Noah last year after one of his duals.

 

 

As you can imagine, things around my house are very masculine. Not much girly girl stuff going on at all! Noah had been bothering me for weeks to paint my nails, and honestly I was flattered he was taking in interest in something I love! So, I finally let him paint my nails. The colors he chose were Zoya Reva, China Glaze Blue Iguana, and Zoya Opal. We had a blast while he painted them!

 

 

 

This is the finished product, pre-cleanup. I think it came out pretty! A little staining on my cuticles because it was EVERYWHERE, but still pretty! He chose a combination I would not have and it looks really good together. I would never have tried Opal over these colors, and honestly it looks awesome!

 

 

 

That's it for today. Don't forget about my giveaway HERE. I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Best Friends and Nail Polish

GOOOOOOOOOD Evening Readers! Today I had a great day! I made approximately 15 dozen cookies and then made the most delicious chicken scampi for dinner! *drools* I thought a lot today about what to write about for tonight's post, and I hope you enjoy it. I know that I am not the only person who has been this fortunate in the nail polish community, and I would love to hear your stories about friendships you've made in the community.
 
Almost a year ago, I stopped biting my nails for the first time in my 39 years. I started polishing my nails. A Facebook friend was posting photos of manicures from a few well known bloggers. I started following those blogs myself, and then found nail polish "groups" on Facebook. The very first one I joined, I didn't participate much. Once I did start to join in, a special event was set up for our group. It was a conflict within this event that introduced me to some GREAT ladies in the nail polish community. Today, I admin a group with those same ladies, and I don't see them as co-admins, I see them as my friends. We have all chatted and shared personal stories, and I feel like these ladies could care less that I am not perfect. Something I have a hard time with, with other people. (I love you girls!!!) In the group I admin, I have met some fabulous ladies. I have had great swaps and sales with them, I have got to know their families through chatting, and some I share physical ailments with. I have exchanged phone numbers with a select few of them, and it is a wonderful feeling to know that if I need a friend to talk to, they will be there to listen. (I would do the same for them.)
 
One particular girl though, has been there through a bunch of my crap. I've shared a bunch with her. We have never met in person, but we have had hour long phone conversations and text regularly. Some days I am having a terrible day, and she always says the right thing to make me feel better. (she knows who she is, I LOVE you! :) One day, she asked me what my favorite polish colors were. I never thought anything of it, other than her just asking. A couple weeks later, the most beautiful polish showed up at my door and she explained she had it made just for us. It is from a mutually favorite brand, and OMG, the colors she chose, hit the nail on the head! (Haha, you see that I was kind of punny there!)
 
This polish is a teal with purple shimmer in it!!! It is my absolute favorite polish, both because of the color and formula, AND because it was given to me by someone special. Let me share with you this gorgeous beauty, meet CS003 from Mentality Polish:
 

 

 

 

Since I was on the subject of Mentality Polish tonight, I thought I would share a few other beautiful polishes from Mentality with you!

 

Meet Moe. Moe is from the Mentality "Stamper" collection, and is described as "a purple holographic duocrome nail polish with a blue flash that dries to a semigloss finish.

The Stampers are a collection of holographic nail polishes designed for stamping and are great stand alone polishes." This polish is absolutely stunning alone!! I also experienced flashes of pink. I needed 2 coats to get the coverage I wanted, but here it is with flash first, and then without.

 

 

Next up is Morality. Morality is part of Mentality's "Black Light Holo Collection". It is described on Mentality's store as "a stamping grade black jelly multichrome holographic nail polish with a color shift from purple to silver to green." I only needed one coat to get a completely opaque polished nail. Here it is first with flash, then without.

 

 

 

You can purchase Mentality Nail Polish HERE

 

Do you have any of these Mentality polishes? What one is your favorite? I LOVE each of them equally, except my CS003. THAT one is my favorite polish in my entire stash.

 

Have you formed friendships because of you passion for nail polish? Let me know! I love hearing those stories!

 

Have you entered my giveaway??? You can check that out HERE!!! Go enter! :)

 

 

 

 

 

Let's talk staining and some Nail's Inc French Tips

Hello lovelies! Sorry for no post yesterday, but I felt awful! Migraine headaches are not fun! I slept most of the day and still slept last night until 10:00 am today. Do any of you suffer from migraines? What kind of things do you do to get some relief?

Now, let's talk about staining! I usually do not get stained nails from polish. I always wear a basecoat and can do almost any polish without an issue. I don't really care about staining, but when I want to do a French design, it can be an issue. Zoya Song is one of my favorite polishes, but it always stains me! Even with a base coat. Right before I did the French nails below, I removed Song, and had to go through a cleaning and stain removal ritual. I use a mixture of warm water, baking soda, and peroxide. I then buff my nails very gently afterwards to remove any left over color. It works pretty good! What ritual do you use to remove stains from your nails? I've heard of people using whitening toothpaste, and I have tried that but it doesn't usually work.

After my stain cleanup, I made some adorable cute French tip nail art using a polish by Nails Inc. This is one of my favorite blue polishes! This one is Chelsea Psychic Garden from the Ice Cream Shop collection. The application is smooth and the color is adorable!

To achieve this look the only tools I used were a dotting tool with two different sizes, and a white nail striper. I painted my tips with a base coat, added CPG on my tips, used the striper to create a line to hide imperfections, and then added white dots. Afterward, I used Zoya Dana to make two large dots and a small dot in the middle for the bow then I pulled some of the polish down to create a ribbon look. Simple right?

Here is my results. I would love to see some of you attempt this look and show me!

 

 

I also want to remind you about my current giveaway HERE. You can do an entry daily by sharing the link to the giveaway publicly. Good luck y'all!

 

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You are now enetering... a DIFFERENT dimension!

Good evening and HAPPY MONDAY! OK... so not so happy Monday, but we can't change that it IS Monday, so might as well try to be happy! I HATE Mondays! I just cannot seem to get my bearings today either. I feel so lazy! Must be the rain and cold outside.

Today, I decided to show you a few polishes from DIFFERENT dimension polish. I just recently discovered this brand a couple of months ago on someone's swap/sale board. I had seen swatches of the polish before, but never purchased directly from DD until after I bought off from someone else. I now have 8 DIFFERENT dimension polishes and I love them all! This is another indie brand of polish that is so versatile! There are glitters and toppers, plus some gorgeous holographic polishes.

For today's post, I am going to show you Ocean's Daughter, Whatever, Comfortably Numb, and Wish You Were Here. Let's talk polish!

First up is Ocean's Daughter. This is a beautiful holo polish! It is described on the DIFFERENT dimension page as "an minty blue holographic polish that is opaque in 2-3 coats." I used 2 coats only and had great coverage. I wish the photos showed how beautiful the holo-ness really is, but you can see some of the shifting colors in these photos.

 

 

An up close and personal photo.

 

 

Next up is Whatever. Again, two coats and I had great coverage. It also applies super smooth. It is no longer on the DD Etsy shop page, but I believe it was part of the 80's Baby collection. Again, you may ask why I show you discontinued polishes. First of all, it allows you to see a makers versatility. Then there is the fact that swap and sale boards in nail polish groups could always pop up with one of these beauties on it!

 

 

Next up is Wish You Were Here. It is a gorgeous shiny glitter topper! It is described in the Etsy shop as "an amazing glitter topper! Pink, fuchsia, blue and silver glitters in a variety of shapes and sizes are mixed throughout. This polish may require some extra patience in applying and may be best dabbed on." However, I didn't have to dab anything. It went on pretty easy I d recommend that if you want to place particular larger glitters on the nail bed, that you apply the polish, then gently use a toothpick very gently to "scootch" the glitter around. I don't normally do that, but in instances where I want particular placement, that's my solution.

 

 

 

And finally, Comfortably Numb. This one is a doozy! It goes over so many polishes. It is also a glitter topper. It has bright pink and yellow glitters in many shapes and sizes in it. I placed it over a very pale blue shade. This is another polish that I could not find on the store page, and I am not sure if it is discontinued, or just out of stock.

 

 

That's all of the DIFFERENT dimension polish I have for you today. I have several of these on my wishlist, including glitter toppers and holographic polishes. I love that they have a great variety for those of us who love both.

 

You can visit the DIFFERENT dimension HERE to purchase or browse their great polishes.

 

Please don't forget about my current giveaway. You can access it HERE. Please share my blog and please like my Facebook page for updates.

 

These polishes were not provided to me for review. They are from my own stash and the opinions are my own. I was not influenced in any way to publish anything about these polishes.