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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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nyx asphalt

i adore nyx polishes, i don't have enough of them! the bottle shape is divine and the colors are really unique. asphalt is the perfect name for this guy, a black (almost greyish) jelly-like base color with mult-colored & sized glitter pieces. it really does look like asphalt haha, but way better because of the bling! but not too glitzy, a toned-down gal would feel comfortable rockin' this polish right along with us glitter-bombs. understated but totally hawt. this is 3 coats, no topcoat.

p.s. these pics were taken with a crappy camera that i have since returned, but i took a LOT of swatch pictures with. please bare with me as i will try to edit their horribleness to the best of my ability.

the second pic has more lamplight shining on it and you can see more of the jelly-like quality to the base. i la la love this polish! it really reminds me of sephora by opi's 212 but not brown based and smaller (?) glitter pieces. i think i like this one better tho, it's cheaper!

pedicures galore

i finally got a foot bath!! yayay now i can feel pampered and will never have to pay for a pedicure again cuz i can do it myself at home! i got this baby at Ulta cuz it was on sale for $9.99, and i haven't found one for under $25 so i snatched it right up. BONUS it also came with a battery powered manicure set like pros use so it was pretty much a dream come true. it's super fun and i had a great time using it. i got some foot soak at sally beauty for like $3 and i was in bubbly heaven! the manicure set was way easy and fun to use too. i used to be a dental assistant and it is EXACTLY like the instruments we used to use to polish teeth and make/polish temporary crowns and bridges so it was a cinch :D. wayyyyy fun times!

this is a pedicure i did last week, sinful colors cha cha red. super cutie reddish pink. i loved it and it was the first sinful colors polishes i had purchased. easy to find at any walgreens and cheap, $2!second pedi picture, this is one i did yesterday after using the battery powered set on my tootsies, to buff and polish and stuff :) they are much shorter and buffed to remove the ridges. the color is essie sexy divide with nyx purple avenue flaky polish over. it is supposed to look like one of nfu-oh's polishes. oooh i liiike this!

shifting power glitter

oookay so i didn't wanna do the typical red white n' blue mani for the fourth of july weekend cuz let's face it, that's BO-ring (no offense to any gals sporting the patriotic colors tho ;) haha. so i went with my gold essie called shifting power. (i've seen this polish on other blogs labeled as "shift power" but i re-checked my bottle and it indeed says shift-ING so maybe some bottles went out without the ING?) unfortunately, the gold was a little weird with my skin tone, way copper toned and kinda dijon-mustardy almost. reminds me of the gold on a car, hence the name probably. anyway, i put one coat of nyx's sheer nude (AGAIN stupidest name ever for this super pink glitter shade) on top. and of course you can't see the gorgeous pink glitter in the pictures, it shows up as sort of flat greenish haha. but trust me it's pretty glamtastic! :) happy holidays and stay safe!

*editor's note 7/06: so after wearing this for a weekend...would i wear this look again? no. would i suggest the combo to any of you?? no! but the pictures are nice haha. i think the gold by itself would've been a better choice. aw well, fails come with wins too right?

modified nars

i was a little bored with my orangey nails, nars orgasm, but didn't feel like doing a whole new color last night so i put nyx sheer nude (dumbest name ever) which is actually a super pink glittery color on the tips. the pay off was pretty super if you ask me :)

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