CK One Current

So Unrelated news... I entered a blogger of the month contest and used my manicure from March with the pink girly designs... if you liked that I would love to have your vote by clicking on this link and clicking on my entry (towards the bottom, not the picture but the selection button) Now onto this FABULOUS POLISH!!!

HOLY CRAPAMOLI!!! This polish is scented with CK One! Like the perfume, LIKE THE PERFUME!!!
So I have some Calvin Klein nail polish... I bought it cheap from Tuesday Morning... it comes in a tiny squarish rectangular bottle. It also may or may not be knock off stuff, but it seems pretty legit to me. On the other hand I dont have any of the CK One polishes in the long tube bottles, until now! I resisted because the colors werent all that great and they are 14 bucks a pop at Ulta. I am however a sucker for anything labeled "Limited Edition" which was what caught my eye with Current (also I was holding a bottle of polish in pretty much the same color from another brand). But what makes this polish so special? THE SCENT!!!!
The color is fairly unique... its got a touch more of a brown hue to it than the pictures make it out to be, think less neon more split pea soup.

This is without topcoat.... BECAUSE IT FREAKING SMELLS LIKE CK ONE! Nuff said..... but I'll say more anyways.
There was another color that is part of this special edition collection, its called Riptide and its blue. If the smell on Current lasts all day at work tomorrow then I will buy Riptide DAMMIT! Because I think this is pretty nifty.
All my favorite perfumes should come in polish form! Can you imagine an electric blue Ralph by Ralph Lauren? Or a yellowish tinged orange Happy by Clinique? I would die!


Any suggestions for perfume polishes? C'mon!

})i({ -Amy

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Pop Beauty Loud Lime

I love love love green... but its not my favorite polish to buy for whatever reason... it looks decent on me, but i just never buy it. Hmmmmm. So I forced myself to pick this up the other day at Ulta.

This is Loud Lime. I like some of the colors that Pop puts out, they aren't the most unique but I thought this one was different from others I have. It looks like it should glow in the dark, but it doesnt... le sigh

By the way, I hate the way this applied, this is three coats of imperfection all around... yuck, it needed a ridge filler I'm sure, but it was also thick and just uneven all around. Hopefully some thinner will fix this bad boy.
Either way, I have been pretty bored with plain nail polish lately... I have been dying to replicate some images from a tokidoki eye shadow brush box that I got for Christmas... Here we go

HEHE, bullet with an eyepatch and a diamond with a bad attitude!!! TOO CUTE!

I used a grey shimmery The New Black polish for the light grey and China Glaze Recycle for the dark grey on the bullet, and Butter London Diamond Geezer for the Diamond. Then I used my Sally Hansen nail art pen in Black to do all the outlining. Those pens sure make it easy to draw. I like the way they came out! Too back I cant do it on my left hand, oh well!

Have you ever tried Pop Beauty before? What do you think?

})i({ -Amy

Nail Pattern Boldness Flipping Out Hard

Ok, I am alive... I have been painting my nails, but have been avoiding all things social including the blog (and my bestie, and my brother, and my mother, and my co-workers, and even my boyfriend... that I live with). I apologize, but mostly to myself because it was really weird and unlike me and not fun. My grandmemere died on Saturday... I went out east to visit her while she was sick and it was a terrible trip where I got a cold and had to watch my grandmother slowly forget who I was... I have been distancing myself from everything because it makes it easier to cope. Writing about it seems to help a bit, but I'm over that now. I needed a pick me up and decided this was the best color for it, also I needed to post again.

Yeah, I havent touched my cuticles for a while by the way...

I bought this color SOOOOO long ago, I needed it from the moment I saw it... It was one of the first indie polishes I ever bought. It kind of looks like Ninja Polish Floam... and I thought it looked like actual Floam when I bought it... This is the first time I have ever used it, and my verdict? I think I need some Glitter Food or Gelous or something... SV wasnt too bad but DAMN is this stuff bumpy.

This is two coats of Flipping Out Hard over the closest color I had: Revlon Bonsai... which isn't even close, not even a little. But it worked so I cant complain (well, I shouldnt complain but always do). I might use some thinner in it the next time I use it... its really gloopy but looks AMAZING!!! I love this stuff. It looks exactly like I thought it would.

That being said I have to take this off right now because I just bought plane tickets for the funeral... I NEED HELP: What polish should I wear to the funeral? I cant go bear, cus my nails are yellow and gross... and I DEFINITELY cant go with this. My options are: Two coats of Essie Adore-a-ball by itself or with a coat of Zoya Chloe over the top; Julep Carrie which I just got in my mystery box; Ciate Cream Soda with some sort of micro holo glitter on top; I really want to do Butter London Gobsmacked because it is one of my VERY FAVORITE polishes... but might look a bit flashy; or some sort of nude... which I dont have many of? What do you guys think?

})i({ -Amy

Untrieds photo heavy... (more like another Photo Dump)

Since I have only recently started my polish addiction... I have a lot of additions to my collection that I havent tried yet... mostly cause I like to buy polish more than I like to apply it... too much nail care to worry about. I have a couple days off and not much to do except probably go hang out with my little brother tomorrow. So today I exercised for the first time in a bit over a year... it was pretty tough even though it was only a half hour of running up and down the stairs (because last night when I ran up and down once I was so out of breath I disgusted myself), le sigh. I thought it would be a good idea to sit at my desk and paint my nails for hours, and I cant really move if I wanted to. Please excuse my nails in some of these pictures, the acetone really dries out my skin and cuticles. click "read more" to see the photos