Elevation Pahlish LE Duo

When these babies arrived in the mail, I was in awe. Seriously, these are gorgeous. But once I applied these on my nails, I was floored.

 Elevation Pahlish Mount Carmel & Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Mount Carmel

Gorgeous chocolatey crelly brown filled with pinky gold glassflecks

Coral Pink Sand Dunes

Clear base filled with coral and pink glitters of all types 

including circle and hex 

I love these kind of polishes. The murky kind of muted colors filled with glitter/shimmer/glassfleck. I absolutely love this! When I applied Coral Pink Sand Dunes over Mount Carmel, I didn't even know that it had circle glitters. That made me love it even more! I have this thing for circle glitters and this one took me by surprise! 

Both polishes applied like butter and are gorgeous!

These polishes were provided to me by Shannon from Pahlish. You can find her polishes here at her Etsy shop as well as Llarowe. You can also "Like" her Facebook to stay updated with her newest collections.

Gorgeous right?
Anna 

*These products was provided for  for my honest, unbiased review. Please see PR Disclosure for any questions.*

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Smitten with Mittens

This is another hard-to-find polish that my lovely friend Carrie let me burrow and I can't even begin to tell how you much I love this one! I never cared about this polish until I polished this baby on, and now I understand why this is a hard-to-find polish. It's so pretty, seriously. I feel like I need this one to keep now.

 

OPI Smitten with Mittens is a deep red with tons of gold and red'ish glass flecks. Some would say that it's glitter but it's so much finer than glitter.Hopefully you are able to see that in the picture above. Smitten with Mittens is breath taking. This would make it to one of my 10 polishes of the year - or even in my top 10 list. 

Now I understand the craze about this polish. It's gorgeous. If you could ever get your hands on this, I'd say snatch it up quick! 

What a beauty right?

Anna

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The Bad Fairy Dupe?

This polish was gifted from Carrie. Seriously, she's my polish bestie.

I wish I had MAC Bad Fairy to compare but unfortunately I don't. So hopefully this will do!

I never knew what the hype was about Bad Fairy until I used Poison Apple. They're pretty different however, I really love Poison Apple.

Uh huh. Yeah. Take a look at that again. That duo chrome glass fleck is amazing!

This is 2 coats since the first coat was a bit sheer but the 2nd coat perfected this lovely polish! Unfortunately after researching, PA isn't a dupe for Bad Fairy, and that's probably not new news to you but I think this polish is very special in it's own way. Though it's not a dupe, I still love this one and think it's beautiful.

The best part is that Claire's always has a great deal at buy 1 get 1 50% off and each polish retail for about $5 so 2 polishes for $7.50 isn't bad at all! I mean, just look at that duo chrome! How can you say no?

So thanks again Carrie!

Will you be picking this up?
Anna

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Twinsie Tuesday: Glass Fleck

I have had such a busy busy weekend that I forgot it was Tuesday! Now onto today's Twinsie Tuesday challenge: glass fleck.

This past weekend was my son's very first birthday on Sunday. This past weekend was filled with many productive activities. Then Sunday came around and I soon as I got home, I showered and headed straight for the bed. So that is the reason why I am so very behind this weekend!

Before we get into the pictures, I want to give a warm welcome to our other newest addition Elizabeth at Did My Nails. We are so lucky to have her on board!

So now, let's move to the pictures that you all have been waiting for!

Orly Meet Me Under The Mistletoe. Isn't that a beauty? In a way it reminds me of Zoya Ivanka.

MMUTM covered perfectly in 2 smooth coats. The first coat was a bit streaky but 2 did the trick. MMUTM has blue-green glassfleck with an emerald base. You can't quite see the blue, which is a little unfortunately but still absolutely gorgeous. Just look at that bottle shot.

Some people consider this a shimmer/glitter, but I'd say this is in the flecked family.

What do you think, shimmer or glass fleck?
Anna

Check out my Twinsies' glass flecked posts!

 Amanda at Amandalandish

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Ashley at Art Evolve
Brandi at The Collegiate Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog
ChiChi at I''m just me...ChiChi
Cordia at Srsly Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...

Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...

Katherine at Haul of Fame

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at See Sarah Swatch
Tara at Polishy of Truth

And don't forget to check out my giveaway! It ends in 3 days!

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What? Zoya For A Penny?

Yes, you heard that alright!

Thanks to Brandi over at The Collegiate Nail for introducing me to this; Copious.com. What is this Copious that I speak of? "Copious.com is social marketplace for buying from and selling to people." Simple as that. It's like a better version of eBay!

After clicking on the invitation, I created an account and that wonderful $10.00 was mine to spend on anything, whatever I wanted! They have many brands varying from Zoya, OPI, Nubar and China Glaze. It really depends on what people are selling.

With that, this is what I purchased my $10.00 credit on.

Yes, the famous Zoya Ivanka. Such a lovely color. This beautiful green-gold almost blue glass flecked polish. No one does glass flecks better than Zoya, hands down! And on top of that, the formula was perfect!

Now onto what you are looking for, the $10.00.

Just click here for the personal invitation.

This is a personal invite and that is the only way that you are able to receive your free $10.00 credit. Once you checkout, Copious.com will charge you a single $.01 (penny) just to make sure you are human. How awesome is that?

Now what are you waiting for?! Go get that free $10.00 credit!

So what did you end up purchasing?
Anna 

*This  is my personal referral link above, and I receive a free $5.00 credit on Copious.com if  you use it

 and complete a transaction. After signing up, you can give others your referral link as well and get $5.00 for each invite.*

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Kim-pletely Glass Pink

Good morning it's Wednesday! Half way done with the week, or so they call it "hump" day.

Don't you just love the name? Totally fit for her. Anywho, so that is what I have for today!

This one was probably one most wanted polishes when the Kardashian Kolors released their polish line. I know some people who paid $12-$15 for this polish. This is not your normal sheer jelly-looking pink. I actually picked it up because of the hype. But it's a pale milky pink with shimmer but it has beautiful iridescent blue/purple glassflecks in it!

I know most people did 4 coats but I switched it up. For the base I used a coat of Sinful Colors Glass Pink then 2 coats of Kim-pletely in Love. You can't see in the picture but under the perfect lighting you can see Glass Pink shining through and you can see the beautiful gold specks. I love the way it looks but I don't think it's to die for. So I am thinking about putting it in my blog sale. We will see how that goes!

Do you own Kim-pletely in Love or any of the KK colors from NOPI?
Anna

Also, I just have to share this with you because gas prices are going crazy!

Everyday I only hope to see gas being sold at the dollar store!

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I Have A Herring Problem

This is one of the newest polishes that I bought. It's actually from the last haul that I just posted. First, I didn't want to do a swatch because I feel like there are so many swatches. Then again, when aren't many swatches? So here it is! OPI I Have A Herring Problem.

I tried to get as close as it could to be accurate. But can I just say, THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! I was sort of debating if I should buy this or not because it looked like just a pale blue with tiny micro silver shimmer. But when I swatched it on my nails, it's definitely a true gem. I Have  A Herring Problem is from OPI's Holland collection for Spring 2012. It's a dusty blue-ish grey with very finely milled micro silver, gold, blue shimmers. The finish almost seems like a glass fleck than shimmer. Regardless, this is such a beautiful color! I really hope you are able to see the different colors in the shimmer. Because when I was able to see it, it completely changed my mind. I am so glad that I purchased this!

This was applied with 2 coats. With one coat it was a little sheer. Two coats was semi-opaque but good enough for me. The formula was as smooth as butter and applied easily. It dried fairly quick. I am super impressed with this. So what do you think?

I just wanted to share this too. While I do my nails and I am blogging, this is what he does:

He has his own little desk.

So are you planning to pick this up or any other polishes from the Holland collection?
Anna

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