Gargantuan Green Grape

This one was released a while ago, I believe sometime in 2010. Correct me if I am wrong. But today I have a polish that I have seen a lot of blog wish lists:

Gargantuan Green Grape. Is that not the coolest name ever? I could never forget that cute little name! Just imagine a huge green grape being squeezed and the juices were a milky mint green creme color (as showed above). This was 3 nice and streaky coats. I must say, this is a lovely color but not one for me unfortunately. Sorry for the lobster looking hands.

So a question, where do you ladies go to find discontinued polishes? Purchasing nail polish on the internet is more sort of a last resort thing for me or unless it's a special polish. Anyways, to my point I just purchased this recently. So where do you buy all of your discontinued polishes?

So where do you buy all of your discontinued polishes?
Anna

Also, I apologize for my slacking posts here lately. I have swamped with life, school and work. But the good this is only 2 more weeks of summer classes! A 3 month semester class mashed into 6 weeks?! Somehow, I'm managing. Yay!

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Blue Moon

Hopefully everyone had a great weekend!

Tomorrow is Monday, and summer classes start. No break from Spring semester unfortunately, but I'm sure (and it better be) worth it.

Today I have this pretty mani for you! Thanks to Abbie from AbbieNail. I received this in my first international swap. I wish we had Barry M in the states. Man! Actually there are so many polishes in the UK that the US is missing. How sad. For the UK readers, are there polishes here in the US that isn't easily accessible to you?

Showcased above is Barry M Blue Moon. This is such a beautiful glossy pale baby blue. It sort of is jelly-ish and quite sheer. For me, this mani required 3 coats. At 2 coats it was still streaky, so 3 did the trick. I love the way it looks. I'm not really a blue person kind of polish, but I can definitely do this one. The one thing I was a little disappointed by, as you can see in the last photo, there is a very slight blur-ply (blue-ish purple) shimmer to it in the bottle but did not transfer on the nail. Before swatching it, I knew already that it wasn't going to show up once I polished it on my nails. However, I really enjoy this color. I can't want to try out some more Barry M's.

What do you think? Do you own any Barry M polishes that you would suggest?
Anna

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Chomped Go Go Pink

Hopefully everyone is having an awesome weekend so far!

Sorry about being MIA. This week and next week are finals week and I am just feeling swamped! Anywho, but I do have a post for you today!

Here is China Glaze Go Go Pink. This is 3 coats. The first coat was super streaky, the 2nd coat was mildly streaky and the last coat made it perfect! Needless to say it was well worth the 3 coats! (I'm not a 3 coater person) I am so glad that I picked this up. It was on sale at Sally's as a combo with Seche Vite. It was only like $6.99 so I picked it up on a whim figuring I could giveaway the bottle of Seche Vite. Well, I'm usually not into milky pastel colors but for some reason, I am really enjoying this one on my nails. I love it! It's simply just a soft, milky, pastel almost jelly looking pink. Gah. I just love this one so much.

So this is the reason I chomped down all my nails. Since after having my baby, my nails aren't as strong as they used to be. And so at the very edge of my thumb nail, it ripped like this. Which really sucked. It caught onto everything and I mean everything. My hair, his diaper, my clothes. And it wasn're pretty to look at. So I just decided to chomp it down and regrow my nails. I haven't had my nails this short in YEARS and its awfully strange. However, I am debating whether to pick up the guitar again or not (that means I'll need to have short trimmed nails in order to play). But anyways, yes, this was the reason why I cut my nails super short. I'm not the kind of person to let myself have nails that have different lengths on each finger (which by the way is fine by me with other people). So, I hope my short nails don't look to bad.

Has this ever happened to you?
Anna

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