My first Pink Wednesday!

The first time I saw Mean Girls was with my dad when I was thirteen. Now every time I drink with certain friends of mine, we do nothing but quote the movie thanks to having seen it about 74729 times. My mom likes to call it my generations Breakfast Club. I love that movie, so I don't see it, but whatever.

When I stumbled across On Wednesdays We Wear Pink, I was thrilled. I mean, two of my favorite things in one? Sign me up please!

For my first Pink Wednesday I went with a polish my friend gave me for Christmas. It's from Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure and called I Pink I Can. It's a really pretty bubble gum pink creme that my friend called my perfect 'Barbie Pink', which I am constantly on the look for. 

Three coats, top coat, no flash, artificial light.

The gorgeous color of this polish is about all the good I can say about it. I personally am not a fan of the brush for this line. I feel like its too square and picks up waay too much polish and often makes the lines near my cuticles look really straight and sharp. It took three coats for full coverage, but you can probably get away with two if you're reaaaaallly careful, have no staining, and/or do not mind a little but of streaking. 

Three coats, top coat, flash, artificial light.

 

The picture with flash better shows the true color of the polish, which is a pretty bubble gum pink as I said.  I really do wish that this polish impressed my more because I love the color, but I just can't say it did. 

If you're interested in participating in Pink Wednesday or just seeing what all the other bloggers did, go to the website and sign up or look at the blog roll! I'm really excited for upcoming Pink Wednesday and seeing what everyone else has to share for the day!

So, do you have a perfect color you're constantly searching for? Or do you have a suggestion for a perfect barbie pink for me? Let me know in the comments!

China Glaze - Designer Satin

I'm still sick from Saturday. Because of this I have been doing nothing but sitting in my bed, reading and watching my favorite 'feel good' movies. (Beauty and the Beast... It's been my go-to sick movie since I was six and had pneumonia.) Reading books requires me to stare at my nails a lot, and having two chipped thumbs was getting to me. So I decided to try out one of the new polished I got for Christmas, and am I glad I did!

This is China Glaze Designer Satin. Designer Satin is a purple-y magenta creme. With the flash for some reason it looks a little more purple but without the flash it looks more red. So it was almost impossible to get a good picture of it. My favorite part about this polish it.. wait for it.. it's only one coat! So exciting!

As you can see, in this picture it looks more pink/red (and blurry, wooomp) but I promise you it looks a little more purple in real life. This polish took a little longer to dry, but I was okay with it because of the whole one coat thing. Plus, with one quick coat of Out the Door and I was able to take a nap with out worrying about sheet prints! Well, I'm off to watch Beauty and the Beast.. again.

So, are any of you guys reading any good books lately?

New Year's misery and DS Extravagance by OPI

I had big plans for New Year's this year. This was my first 'legal' NYE since I turned 21 a few weeks ago, and the boy who has patiently waited for me to turn of age since we began dating was going to take me to Philly with a bunch of friends to party in the new year.

That is, until I woke up Saturday morning at five thirty as the boy was leaving for work, unable to breath. I've had asthma since I was a kid and knew that this was a simple, run of the mill asthma attack. Uhm.. no. None of my medication was working and by seven I found myself driving to my dad's house a half hour away so he could go with me to the emergency room. Five hours later I was out, exhausted but able to breath. In the end, I made it to about ten thirty before I passed out on the couch in the lap of my unbelievably understanding boyfriend.

But before this all happened, I had an outfit planned. And with every outfit, at least in my world, comes a nail polish. Enter DS Extravagance. DS Extravagance is a purple holo that blows my mind every time. It's that one nail polish in my collection that until I put it on, I always forget how amazing it is, but once I do, I just stare at it all day.

This color applies in two thin coats for full coverage and dries within ten minutes without the help of a quick dry topcoat. That's another one of the reasons I love this color.

On top of this I had the plan of 2012, a champagne glass, and a bunch of rhinestones but I obviously never got to it..

One last picture just to show you all the pretty colors in this polish!
So, what did you end up doing on new years? Did you have a polish plan like me?

Kardashian Kollection - Disco Dolls

I thought for a while of what my first post should be. Should it be something I love and i know is tried and true in my heart? Should I post some crazy new nail art method? In the end, I decided to do a little of both, reviewing one of my favorite new polishes and adding a fun nail art on top.

I have a confession. I am Kardashian obsessed. I don't know what it is. I know that none of them have done anything notably amazing with their lives and that they are literally famous for being famous, but I just cannot help it. I'm obsessed. So when I found out that they were  coming out with a nail polish line with Nicole by OPI, I was really excited. As soon as my mom told me they showed up at my local Walmart I went and bought one, and recently got three more for Christmas. My favorite so far is Disco Dolls.

Artificial light, no flash, no top coat.

Disco Dolls is described as 'glittery gold glam gone wild' by Nicole by OPI. It's different sized gold, red, silver, and green glitter in a gold base. I love this color so much because of the different sized glitters.

 Artificial light, flash, no top coat.

I bought Disco Dolls for about 7 dollars at Walmart. It only took me two coats to get full coverage and the first coats dried completely in two minutes while the second took about seven for it to be totally dried. I think this is really good time for a nail polish drying time, which is partially why I love it so much. 

The only down I can find about this nail polish is that it does thicken pretty quickly as expected for most glitters, but this isn't something that can't be fixed with a few drops of nail polish thinner. I use a 2 dollar generic kind from Sally's Beauty, but I've heard great things about the Seche brand. 

Artificial light, no flash, with top coat. 

My only other issue with Disco Dolls is that it's a little too close to my skin tone. I'm very fair skinned and when I wear this polish alone sometimes I feel like I just have super sparkly normal nails. I'm crazy, I know. So when I wear this polish I always try to do a little something to it to make it special. 

I decided to try this basket weave technique I've seen around online a lot lately. It was actually surprisingly easy to do. Three equally spaced line up top, three lines going diagnolly from right to left and three going from left to right. 

This manicure is really simply and honestly only took me maybe a half of an hour from base coat to top coat.

So tell me, do you have any favorite polishes that you consider your stand-by 'easy' polishes?

-Morgan