Blogger changed some stuff behind the scenes and I am not liking it. Bleh. Anyway, I mean to post this earlier in the week since I actually did these last week but my kid has been hogging my laptop for days on end. In his defense he hasn't been feeling super great so he's milking it for all he's got and getting extra computer time so he can play Roblox all day. Ok on to the nail art! I used polishes from my brand Moonflower Polish and a stamping plate from MoYou London. Details below. Ok so this is a relatively super simple mani that simply looks more complicated than it is. First I ..read more

Happy Star Wars Day my friends! May the 4th be with you all. I won't have random nail art for a while since I actually have planned nail art this time. Today I wanted to celebrate my all time favorite movie series, Star Wars. I'm a huge fan and have been since I was a kid when my dad introduced me to the Original Trilogy. These are all freehand stripes, and a water slide decal that says "I heart SW" from Fangirl Polish. The base is May's Polish Pickup color, Dulce de Coco. I also used 2 of my Star Wars themed polishes for previous Polish Pickups, The Grand Admiral (blue, Oct '1 ..read more

Saturday's Random Number Nails were picked by my husband, his number choices led me to Bettina Cosmetics Neptune. This is a super pretty matte indigo polish but the formula is the absolute worst. It's lumpy and dries so fast you can barely spread it on your nails. I ended up having to do very sloppy, large coats that covered all my nail surface, and then clean it up. That also ended up being a problem because it's also really pigmented. The end result was that I needed to use a lot of acetone to clean up, and since my skin is dry from all the hand washing, you can see where the polish stain ..read more

Emily de Molly's Odd Strategy for June 2018 Polish Pickup was Friday April 24th random number nails. I really liked how this one looked on it's own so I decided not to do any nail art. It's a purply gray base with pink-blue multichrome shimmer and blue microflakies. Shown in 2 coats with topcoat, super smooth formula and a dream to apply. Kinda sad it's taken me 2 years since I bought it to actually wear it ..read more

Thursday April 23's random number nail art is brought to you by Ariana, my daughter. Her random number selection resulted in Polish for Days You Can Fly! with some gold stamping using MPolish Bells and MoYou London Pro 02. I'm gonna be honest, I was not a big fan of this polish. The flakies look amazing and shifty in the bottle but I had trouble getting the polish to look nice on my nails. I ended up sponging a 3rd layer and that helped a bit but the end result was lumpy, even after 2 coats of topcoat. It was also really hard to clean up for some reason, which led to super dry cuticl ..read more

Yesterday's Random Number Nail Art lead me to the color green and the 6th drawer in my 2nd Helmer unit, which resulted in Ethereal Lacquer's Rainforest for June 2019 Polish Pickup. This one is very sheer so I started out with a base of 2 coats of Bettina Cosmetics Green. Followed up by 2 coats of Ethereal's Rainforest. This one is super shifty and full of aurora/unicorn pigments. It has an agua shift to it by itself but I wanted to bring out the gold and green shifts more, hence the green base. Lastly, some very simple but I think, elegant stamping with MoYou London Pro 02 plat ..read more

What is this?! A freaking blog post! I seriously think there's only 1 person still reading this...maybe 2, and they know who they are. Thanks. Ok so like almost everyone, I'm stuck at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not that I normally go out anyway but besides the point. My son is doing virtual distance learning which consists of me sitting there next to him while he uses my desk and computer, explaining things occasionally. Same thing ends up happening with my daughter in middle school. For the most part I'm not actually doing anything other than technical support, reading stuff and ex ..read more

Hey guys! This month I have 2 polishes to show you for the August 2019 At The Carnival theme for Polish Pickup. I have Great Lakes Lacquer - Creatures of the Night, Brought to Light! and from my own brand Moonflower Polish - It's Not About the Parakeet! Great Lakes Lacquer - Creatures of the Night Brought to Light! Swatches are all 3 coats with no topcoat. This polish is inspired by Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival from The Last Unicorn. Described as a midnight violet corrupted by a strong red to orange to bronze multichrome sheen. I will add that this has a sheer jelly base with a smoot ..read more

For June 2019's Weather Phenomena theme I also received Chirality's Antonio Bay as a press sample to swatch and review. Inspired by the 1980's John Carpenter film The Fog. Amanda of Chirality sent me this as her description "Beware as the fog begins to roll into the small town of Antonio Bay. It has a metallic base color with blue/green/pink and gold/pink shifting pigments, along with copper flashes. Depending on the light and angle, it will appear mocha, mauve, silver, bronze, soft pink, or many other variations due to the shifty shimmer. Opaque in 2 thick or 3 thin coats. For best res ..read more