Happy day after the 4th

I went to a family picnic yesterday for the 4th and one of my most stylish family members had a manicure that rivaled mine. 

Check if out:

It's an American flag!!! How cool is that?! Hope everyone had a safe and fun holiday!!

4th of July Mani and my never-before-seen right hand!

Happy Fourth of July (tomorrow). I know a lot of folks probably have long(ish) weekends. Kudos to those of you who don't have to work today, tomorrow or Friday! I had to work today - covering the grand opening of a new supermarket. Free jelly bean and coffee samples = a happy me. Although, I do believe one of the jelly beans in my package was pickle-flavored which was not yummy. The bubblegum flavored one was interesting. I didn't want to eat it. It felt weird to swallow something that tasted like bubblegum when I've had years of training not to do so. Anyways, on to the nails!

 

I used L.A. Girls 3D Effects polish in 3D Silver. This is a scattered holographic polish that I got at
Rite Aid. As far as holos go, it was inexpensive. The dots are essie's Russian Roulette (red), Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Hard to Get (white) and Finger Paints Midnight Sleigh Ride (blue). I used a bobby pin for the dots. I should have waited a bit before applying the topcoat because it made some of the color bleed into the white. It's probably only noticeable to me (or to you if you click on the photo and make it bigger, but please don't do that!).

Another shot of my left hand

And - Ta Da! The moment you've been waiting for! My right hand! I'm uber right-handed so I can never hold the camera with my left hand, but I wanted to demonstrate the fact that the white and colors didn't bleed on this hand because I waited a bit longer to apply the topcoat. So there you have it - I really do have two hands! Happy 4th to all my fellow Americans and be safe!!!

Russian roulette

Today I have Essie's Russian roulette. I got this at Big Lots for $1 recently.  This along with a few Essie polishes were sitting on the shelf like they were waiting for me!!

 

I'm usually not much of a red person but since this was so inexpensive I decided to get it. At first I just put it on my toes and I really liked it. These pics are 3 coats of Russian roulette with Orly's Top to Bottom on top. I put a little flower sticker on my index finger just for fun. The formula on this was a bit thin, but very easy to manipulate for a pretty clean application. 

Milky glitter

Today I'm wearing Revlon Whimsical. It is a light blue milky base with blue and light purplish pink hex glitter and smaller silver hexes. This is my first foray into a milky glitter. It is something totally different than anything else I have in my collection

The consistency of this was pretty thin, but the glitter was surprisingly easy to get out of the bottle. I had to use several layers of this polish to get it to how it looks in the photos below. I'm talking 4 or 5 coats, which took a while since the dry time was kind of long. I topped it with Seche Vite just so the darn nails would dry!

Polish drawers reorganized

My stash has gotten bigger, so I needed to re-organize my nail polish drawers. Right now I am barely fitting all of it into 2 dresser drawers. Think I have enough? I didn't count it or anything. Too afraid.

I had previously had my drawers organized by color and that was it. I have changed it up a bit and now have them organized by brand. I think it will make it easier for me to find what I am looking for with it organized by brand.

How do you organize your polish?

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Top drawer includes OPI, Butter London, Orly, China Glaze, Nicole by OPI, Sinful Colors and Color Club

The second drawer includes Wet n Wild, Spoiled, Sally Hansen, Pure Ice, Revlon, Avon, NYC,

Finger Paints and a few single brands like LA Girl and Sephora Pantone Universe

I'm not cryin'

Hello! I have Mermaid's Tears by OPI today. I've been wearing it for a couple days and it's been holding up pretty well. I got this a while back at TJ Maxx in a duo with a turquoise crackle. I like this alone and it looked really good with the orange and white dress I wore yesterday. The combo was almost like the new color scheme of my blog!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

OPI Mermaid's Tears, 3 coats with a topcoat after 2 days of wear. 

Blog redesigned

Wow - two posts in two days. Don't get used to anything!

I redesigned the blog today using a free template I found online. I may change it up more often than I have been. I get bored with the same thing as I'm sure most of you do, too.

Happy first day of Summer (tomorrow)!