Darling Diva Polish D.M.S.R

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D.M.S.R stands for Dance, Music, Sex, Romance. What a gorgeous polish and befitting name right? D.M.S.R. is a very soft light lavender creme base with a lot of different type of glitters; large, medium, and small purple hexagonal, medium blue, holo and purple butterfly glitters. It was very hard to capture but in real life, you are able to see very tiny micro holo glitters throughout, which just puts the cherry on top with this polish.

D.M.S.R. is really my cup of tea. Light jelly base with gorgeous glitters, I could never get enough of these type of polishes! Above shown are 3 coats. With 2 coats, it reached opacity but I love the jelly sandwiched look so I added another coat. None the less, it is gorgeous and perfect for the upcoming Spring season!

If you are wanting to own any Darling Diva Polishes, click here. Carrie's polishes are incredibly affordable with extraordinary customer service and fast shipping!

Anna

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KKCenterHK 3D Bow Shaped Nail Decor

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I've been really feeling like getting back into the blogging nail game and I'm so excited and feeling refreshed after being in and out for so long. With that said, today, I bring to you the KKCenterHK 3D Bow Shaped Nail Decor with leopard print.

If you don't already know, KKCenterHK is an online based shop that provide many wonderful different cosmetic products that vary from false eyelashes, wigs, makeup products as well as nail polishes and nail decorations.

The bow is 9.9mm x 6mm x 2mm in size and comes in a pack of 2. These bows are a perfect size. Not too small or too big. Too apply the bow, took a little nail glue and pasted it on the desired location of my nail and applied the bow. It was very easy and functional.

You can find the nail art bows here for $3.60 USD. By using the code "totheShowing10" you will receive 10% off your entire order. The code is valid until the end of the month.

Anna

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Darling Diva Persephone

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Darling Diva Polish Persophone. This polish is gorgeous! Check out this gorgeous duochrome shift. From a burgundy purple to gorgeous blue in a purple-blue'ish base. 

Excuse the change of scenery (and my reflection) as I used natural light to capture the beauty of Persephone.

Hopefully you are able to see the shift in the pictures because this one is gorgeous! Above here are only 2 smooth coats topped with a topcoat and it's pretty opaque. I feel like you could definitely add more coats or use a base but I love the way this looks with just 2.

To purchase your own Darling Diva Polishes, click here. Carrie's polishes are incredibly affordable with extraordinary customer service and fast shipping!

Do you own any DDP's?
Anna

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Pahlish Prayers For Rain

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Pahlish Prayers for Rain.

Is this not amazing or what?

Prayers for Rain is described as a "deep blue leaning translucent teal jelly base with a mix of iridescent glitters, small blue and green hex, blue and green shimmer, blue disco squares, and sparse blue-green flakies."

I am seriously in love.

Need some Pahlish polishes? You can purchase them here on Llarowe and/or Shannon's Etsy shop!

Anna 

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A Week Of Pahlish: Little Caroline

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I absolutely adore Shannon from Pahlish. And unfortunately, these posts were suppose to be up sooner than I am posting them now. But life has been happening, and especially school. But for the next couple days, I will be sharing with you these beautiful creations from Pahlish. And if you haven't already tried any of her polishes, you are totally missing out because they are amazing!

Finally! I am confident that these pictures will post!

Pahlish Little Caroline. Smooth like butter! Amazing! The glitter, shimmer and jelly base in this polish is just amazing! I am in total awe!

Little Caroline is described as "an ultra squishy neon fuchsia jelly base loaded up with color shifting hex and squares. These squares shift from orange to green (the same color shift as flakie polishes like Nubar 2010 and Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure) and are accented by subtle gold and pink microshimmer."

I couldn't had said it any better!

If you haven't already and would like to try some Pahlish Polishes, you can purchase them here on Llarowe and/or Shannon's Etsy shop! 

Enjoy!
Anna 

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Pahlish Clanking of Crystal & Unlucky in Love

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I have been so lucky to be able to review some Pahlish polishes! I cannot tell you how honored and grateful I am feeling right now.

And so today I bring to you 2 beautiful Pahlish polishes:

Totally random, but I never though that Internet Explorer would ever save this blogging life of mine. Also, I want to thank all my readers who left feedback and advice about my picture uploading problem. Thanks so much!

Clanking of Crystal and Unlucky in Love are such amazing polishes. The only thing is that I couldn't catch the true beauty of both polishes. My pictures seriously do no justice! You need these in real life. But the best part about these is that they applied like butter! Sometimes some polishes can get a little thick but I didn't have a single problem!

With that said, look forward to the rest of the Pahlish polishes I will be showcasing the rest of the week!

If you are interested in Pahlish polishes, you can purchases them here at Shannon's Etsy shop. You can also Like her facebook page to stay updated.

Anna

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More Darling Divas

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These are the rest of the goodies that I am extremely excited to you guys! Carrie is one of the sweetest person I know and her polishes are always amazing. While all of her collections have always been amazing, this recent collection that she came out with just blows me out of the water. They're unique and nothing that I have seen around with other indies.

Cheer Bear 

 

Care Bear Stare

  

Shadow Puppets

 Catherine

I have to say, I think that this is one of her most amazing collections thus far. There are glitter ones, a while based polish and a holo polish. And the best part yet is that they're different.

Of all the polishes in this collection, Catherine is seriously my favorite. Catherine isn't like your regular holo polish. It's super opaque and covered in one coat - except I did 2 just because. But the best part is that it has purple/blue iridescent glitters. Hopefully you are able to see it in the photo above. This was the only picture where I was able to catch the soft holo and the purple/blue iridescent glitters. Hopefully you get the gist of it. Unfortunately, this picture still does no justice. You really need this one in your life.

In conclusion, I am blown away by this collection. They applied like butter, and they're simply amazing. Not only is this collection perfect for Spring but for every season as well. Carrie's inspiration for this collection was a great idea and her interpretation of each bear turned out great.

If you're interested in these polishes or other Darling Diva Polishes you can visit her Etsy shop here. Her polishes retail between $8 -$12. I also highly recommend that you "Like" her Facebook page to keep updated on her shop and future polishes here as well as participate in her random giveaways there. So go check it out! 

Anna 

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CrowsToes Electra, Caleano & Alcyone

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I absolutely love and can't seem to get enough of Lauri's amazing polishes! So here is the last of the Pleiades Collection:

Electra

 

This is taken under a different lighting to show you how the 

polish shifts from a blue to a purple.

Caleano

Alcyone

All of these were a bit on the sheer and required 3 coats of each since I didn't use an undie. The formula on these were a slice of heaven! I really enjoyed polishing my nails with these. I apply very thin coats, so this was seriously like heaven to apply.

The only bad thing is that I couldn't really catch the shift of these polishes with my camera, even though I tried my best. These pictures do no justice and I really recommend them if you love duochrome polishes.

You can find CrowsToes polishes here and here. And for you overseas polish lovers, you can purchase the lovelies here! You can also follow her blog for the latest collections and exciting news here.

Anna

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Dandy Nails Review

This is my first time trying out any Dandy Nails and I am so excited to share these with you!

Dandy Nails Chilled Down 2 coats

Dandy Nails  Bathed in Light 2 coats

Dandy Nails Head Underwater layered over Sinful Rainstorm

I seriously can not pick a favorite! All 3 of these are gorgeous! Which one is your favorite of the 3? They applied wonderfully without a single problem! These are absolutely wonderful!

If you are interested in purchasing yourself some Dandy Nails, you can find Sandy's Esty shop here. 

Anna 

*This product was provided as a gift and this post has been written

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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 

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CrowsToes Merope & Maia

Lauri never ceases to amaze me with her creations! Each and every one of them are just absolutely amazing!

Merope

 

Maia

The shift in these polishes are much more visible in real life. It's just so hard to capture it with the camera. Oh, and its also very safe to say that SV really does shrink.

The application in both of these were lovely! They both applied very evenly in 2 coats. I love both of these and can't wait to show you the rest!

You can purchase CrowsToes here and here. And for you overseas polish lovers, you can purchases some CrowsToes lovelies here! You can also follow her blog for the latest collections and exciting news here. 

Anna

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More SHIMMER Bombs!

I absolutely love all of Cindy's creation! They are amazing and they make my nails feel like a treasure chest!

 

Shimmer Melissa

 Shimmer Natalie

Both of these Shimmers applied perfectly and covered in 2 beautiful coats. The one thing I do need to tell you is that these polishes requires a few top coats. Shown above are 2 coats of SV and you can tell, it can use another. All in all, the payoff for both polishes are amazing! I totally recommend these!

You can find Shimmer polishes here on her Etsy shop.

What do you think? In need of some Shimmers now?
Anna

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Darling Diva Care Bear (especially) for a Crow

This one truly deserves it's own post because it is so special!

Carrie from Darling Diva Polish made this especially for Lauri from CrowsToes. So the story goes like this: "Once upon a time there was a woman who didn't like Care Bears. So I made a polish for her:) hehehehe;)"

This one is seriously to die for. It's so different nothing like anything else I have ever swatched or own. It has a compilation of various colored hearts and flowers in a clear purple/blue shimmer base along with a scattering of black glitters for a lovely crow.

This polish is amazing! It's a bit sparse but I had not a single problem with the larger glitters. 2 smooth coats and the application was like butter! I love it so much!

The first time I used this, I used a creme blue polish but when I took the photos it really washed out the purpl'ish-blue shimmers, so I hope this super sheer jelly-wash blue gave you a better idea of how it really looks like.

Carrie, you did an amazing job! Lauri, what do you think?

How about you? Is this for you?
Anna

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The Polish Bar Review

Again, I am so lucky to have been able to review another indie brand, The Polish Bar.

Janice is such a sweetheart and went out of her way to send these to me. So here, I bring you 3 of her lovelies!

2 coats of Shirley

2 coats of Butterfly Kisses

2 coats of Midnight Falls

Midnight Falls has definitely got to be my favorite out of the bunch. I wish I would've used a different base instead of black so you were able to see the black glitters in the black jelly base (or maybe, I should save that for another special day?)

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised to with these and really enjoyed them. I did find it a bit hard to polish on because the brush was a bit tiny and the glitter in the suspension base was a bit sparse. But I am sure with a regular sized bottle, the application would be perfect! Despite the sub-par application, I think these are lovely and would highly recommend them. And I think I might just purchase some of her goodies for myself!

You can find The Polish Bar polishes at Janice's shop here. Most of her polishes range from $8.50 and she has got a variety of different lovely polishes!

Anna

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JENsations Winter Wonderland

This one deserves a special post of it's own.

I have seen her polishes around and have been lucky enough to review some! So here it is for you today, JENsations Winter Wonderland.

This is Winter Wonderland 1 coat over 2 coats of NOPI Nothing Kim-pares to Blue.

First things first, are Jen's star bottles not the cutest thing ever or what? And I admit, I absolutely adore this! Here in the Minnesota weather with about 3 feet of snow, this is totally Winter Wonderland. The iridescent glitter is just amazing! And the snowflakes, just a little bit of fishing but she included a little baggy of snowflakes! Isn't that awesome?!

Now looking back at this, I wish I had put more snowflakes but I seriously love this. Next time I have got to swatch it over black!

You can find JENsations here at her Etsy shop. Her polishes range from $8- $8.25. And she has a huge variety of different polishes!

Have you tried any JENsations yet?
Anna

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Windestine Spring 2012 Collection

I am really in love with these four. I don't see too many Windestine polishes around but they certainly need more exposure and more loving!

When <3's Collide

Look at that squishy black jelly! I thought it was a regular black
jelly polish with pastel white shard glitters but no! Surprise! Check
it out! Those blue iridescent shard glitters. Almost had me to die!

Crushed Rose in Spring 

This jelly sage green with pink, white and yellow pastel glitters
is simply beautiful and perfect for Spring!

Leilani

A pale pink with multi colored hex and square glitters in various sizes.

Rainy Day Blues

A blue jelly with blue hex and bar glitters with holographic
glitters! Gorgeous! Look at the holo glitter!

This entire collection is amazing and applied wonderfully! 2 coats and it was pretty opaque. These are all buildable and could use another coat or an undie. All four dried quickly and have great wear time. 

I personally would wear all of these with a colored base coat just because I want to conserve them, but other than that, I loved all of these!

You can find Windestine polishes here at her Etsy shop. Her polishes range from around $8.

So which of these are your favorite?
Anna

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