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nyx las vegas is a sexy green that covers well in two coats. i usually like weird bottle shapes but the nyx bottle turns me off :/ oh well this color is so hawt! a must have.

sinful colors soul mate is a lovely medium pink with not much remarkableness, but i totally love it.  goes really well with any skin tone and is a very work appropriate shade.  this is two coats.

pure ice is a walmart brand polish that comes out with pretty great colors, i don't know why i don't have more of them actually.  this is one of my favorites, twinkle.  it's a mango orangey coral with gold orange shimmer.  two coats :)

icing skinny dip is another lovely work appropriate shade that is rather unremarkable but still called enough to me to buy it so i obviously liked it, haha.  it's a nice light pale pink with subtle shimmer.  this is two coats.  i remember this one being a bit thick.

essie lolipop is a stunner, and one of my very favorite jellies ever.  it's a red WHAM POW shade that essie really set the bar on.  this is two coats on my nubbins.

china glaze's midnight ride is part of the rodeo diva collection, my favorite collection ever.  it's a dark and glowy purple that is kin to gussied up green and rodeo fanatic.  adore this!  two coats.

sinful colors plunie plum is kind of a weird unique mauve color.  i really love this frosty shade.  it was very flattering on my skin tone.  i made it matte with china glaze's matte magic topcoat and it was even prettier.  two coats.

color club feel the beat is an orangey red almost marbled polish that came from the the musique collection color club put out a while ago.  i got this as a present from my dear friend niki aka magic maid.  thanks girl!  this is three coats.

maybelline wet shine series were some of the best polishes ever!  so cute and very wearable.  this one is called peach gleam.  another polish i got from miss niki, on a blog sale.  this is three coats.

catrice is a european brand but i got this from my stateside friend miss ange-marie on a blog sale.  soft lilac is a gorgeous shimmery pale purple that is really beautiful and classic.  this is three coats.

new york summer aramanth is probably the ultimate grass green jelly out there.  if you are a green lover, you need this polish.  kind of a problem child for application, but the old school jellies usually are.  this is four coats.

sinful colors you just wait looks like the topcoat that was left out of the zoya reverie collection, i mean if there was one.  sheer pink wash with gold shimmer and not really my usual style, for some reason this baby just called to me.  three coats and still very sheer looking, in real life there is almost enough shine and shimmer to look totally covered!  i adore this and it would look great layered i'm sure.

 *whew* hope that wasn't too much for ya on this gorgeous (rainy) sunday :)  love ya!

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

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icky french mani

any nail blogger that's been around more than a week knows most of them/us detest french mani's, well in the traditional sense. stark white, garishly long tips with pink beds? the horror! but, i like them. no, honestly, i LOVE them. you may recall seeing a post of mine about the Jerseylicious girls, and how much i cherish their re-donk-ulous acrylic nails. it's totally wrong haha i know, but what can i say?

anyway, a while ago my nails were HELLA long thanks to seche retain base coat/treatment (IT'S AMAZING) and i decided to see what a traditional frenchie would look like on me. honestly, my nails have never been this long before, and probably never will be again haha. it was awesome, but crazy.

i used maybelline's salon expert french tip white for the tips, free-handed then fixed with a brush and acetone.  then i covered the entire nail with china glaze's sheer pinky love letters polish. and of course added a squishy topcoat of seche vite. haha you like? as perez hilton would say, icky icky poo!

do you have any guilty pleasures when it comes to nails and/or nail art? spill!

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

banana puddin' & haul

i have a big wish list. i don't think i'm aspiring too high or something like that, i just like to know what i want! keeping track of them in a spreadsheet is the way i've found to organize them, to help me keep them in mind so eventually i will get to them haha. it's like keeping a goal list or something. because it's easy to say oh yeah i want that one day but then forget about it and then come across it someday and pass it by :P anyway, my point is that i have gotten a few of my "wish list" items recently and i'm pretty excited about it.

perhaps my FIRST lemming since i started blogging is maybelline banana puddin'. it's long discontinued and hard to find. the sexy pale creamy custardy yellow creme is very milky and slightly sheer, but i was prepared for that. this is 5 coats, and you can see the weird imploded trapped bubbles below the topcoat but i don't care haha. this color does not disappoint at all and i feel like it's very flattering on me.

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i got some nail mail today and wanted to share some pictures with you. i wanted to mention that these are all from my new camera, which i'm still getting used to. it's a canon sx210 powershot and i am not quite sure if i like it yet, but i'm getting close.

this is another one of my hugest lemmings, opi ds fantasy. a gorgeous dark blue with the diamond dust holo glitter. *siiiiiiigh*

this polish is called opi at your quebec & call, from the canada collection back in the day. another one of my hugest wants! it's an awesome olive golden green with shimmer.

i also got some amazing streetwear polishes from Claudia over at Chromatic Misadventures, thanks girl! i seriously think they should be making more polishes like this, bring back the brand revlon!

i was also VERY happy to see a sweet package on my porch when i got home from CND with some polishes to review. i have to say i love their bottle design, but i haven't tried a lot of their stuff. excited to see how they work out.

welp, that's the all i have to show you today :) did you enjoy? how do the pictures look, i'm still a bit worried about it o_O have a great weekend everyone *kisses*