ella + mila My Rain-Beau

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I cannot believe that it's 2023 already. Last year was challenging for me medically, and we're still trying to figure out what is causing my issues, but I wanted to wear some polish and make it a great day today. This is ella + mila My Rain-beau from the BonBon collection and is classified as a "Cinderella" blue creme.

duri Glow Up

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One of my favorite shows as a teenager was Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. I was OBSESSED with everything Buffy and SMG and today's polish, duri Glow Up reminds me of the opening credits. This deep blue purple metallic polish looks just screams vampy 90s to me.

duri Google Me

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You've seen this color already but I wanted to show it alone. This is duri Google Me, a metallic blue with loads of shimmer. I really love how bright this color truly is.

Blue and Gold Nails

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HOW do people use their iPhones for amazing photos? Because y'all - I can't figure it out. I got a hohem iSteady X for Christmas and I haven't had the energy to open it but I did today because well, I did these nails on Wednesday of last week and so my grow out is - well, you can see it.

China Glaze Cattle Drive Me Crazy

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Got the blues? Today from the Gone West Fall 2019 China Glaze collection I have Cattle Drive Me Crazy, a dark blue shimmer. This was such an inky blue.

cuccio Blueberry Sorbet

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I actually really love blue nail polish. I know that when I was in high school, blue polish was NOT a thing but now you can literally find any shade you want. Today's cuccio Rainbow Sorbet color from the Summer 2020 collection is Blueberry Sorbet. This was one of the shades I was most interested in wearing.

cuccio Feline Fine!

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Today from the cuccio Spring 2021 Kittens and Canines collection, I have my second favorite shade called Feline Fine! and yes, that's with an exclamation mark. This is a soft baby blue creme that is just a bit more pigmented than Are You Kitten Me? but is the same make up.

cuccio I Dream

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Happy Wednesday! Today I have I Dream from the cuccio Spring 2020 Imagine collection. This is a medium denim blue creme with a tiny bit of grey smoke undertone.

cuccio I Reflect

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I can't believe it's fall already. Today I have cuccio I Reflect from the Spring 2020 Imagine collection but I loved this polish so much I wore it for a solid week. This is listed as a chambray creme which is a gray-blue that is a lot like denim. I found this leaned more grey than blue for me.

Pink Mask It's A Boy

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Being a #boymom, I've embraced blue nail polish more in the past 6 years. When I was first looking over colors for Pink Mask, I chose It's A Boy, a cornflower blue creme that looked right up my alley.

Pink Mask Gel Polish

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Back in July, I got a lovely email from Pink Mask, an Argentinian company that launched in the USA this July with their gel polishes. While they have been around since 2015, this was my first experience seeing their product.

OPI Alpaca My Bags

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It's been about 8 years since I wore OPI on my blog. No real reason - I used to love the colors, the collections, the ultra wide brush. OPI is much easier to find these days too... I can get it at my local Wal-Mart although this color I purchased from Ulta in order to qualify for free shipping. Sorry, not sorry. This is Alpaca My Bags from the Fall 2018 Peru collection. As soon as I saw it, I wanted it and I've kept it in my Saved folder on Instagram for months.

Vapid. Birthday Bitch 2020

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Vapid is an indie company that's located only about 150 miles north of where I live. That sounds like a far distance, but that's where my extended family lives and since Vapid just opened a store front, it was only fitting that when I was up seeing family, I made a stop to see all the goodness in its glory. Now I could do an entire post on just the store and the other items Vapid has to offer but for now, let's just talk about Birthday Bitch 2020.

Morgan Taylor A Starry Night

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Only two left in the Morgan Taylor winter 2019 Champagne and Moonbeams collection and today is an indigo pearl called A Starry Night. Now, I think this would have been super beautiful with an accent nail of Sprinkle of Twinkle but I'm rearranging my nail polishes (again? yes again), I had already put that polish up in its drawer.

Morgan Taylor Flirty and Fabulous

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So like most people in the world, I'm pretty much at home right now. I don't want to dwell on the state of the world but I think we can all agree that this is unlike anything we've ever dealt with before. Right before I started working remotely, I decided to pull out my last shade from the Morgan Taylor fall 2019 collection Flirty and Fabulous, a turquoise cream.

Glam Polish ZOOM!

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Why hello friends. If you follow my Facebook, you'll know that unfortunately, we were the victims of a home invasion and they took my camera and computer - two things that are essential in my blogging. (My Helmers were also ruined but that's another story.) The good news is that the majority of our items were recovered including said camera and computer so here I am, trying to find some normalcy in my life again with blogging.

Painted Polish Catching The Canal

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Painted Polish is an indie company that I've purchased from a few times at PolishCon and I always say "I'm going to buy more" but when I saw Catching The Canal on the Polish Pick Up Flashback, I finally pulled the trigger and made my first Polish Pick Up purchase. Apparently this was the April 2019 "Famous Works Of Art" contribution from Painted Polish and was inspired by Claude Monte's impressionist painting "Le Grand Canal." This is a beautiful periwinkle crelly base with a rainbow of color-shifting flakies. 

Morgan Taylor Oh So Shifty

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This was the first year since Morgan Taylor's launch that I didn't get to meet up at Cosmoprof North America and see what the girls had in store. While I was definitely sad, I did have a bright spot (literally!) when the new Illusions 2019 collection showed up! These 6 shades all have a duo-chrome finish as you can see in the bottle above. Today I'm wearing Oh So Shifty, a green to blue duo-chrome.

cuccio Aquaholic

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It may be August, but it's still pedicure season here and right before I gave birth to my little boy, I decided a blue pedicure was in order so I grabbed Cuccio Aquaholic from the Summer 2019 Heatwave Collection. I was so impressed with how well it applied that I wanted to wear it as a manicure too.

ILNP Ocean Ave

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If you've been watching my Facebook, you know that I've finally gotten all my polishes into Helmers, purged nearly half of what I owned, and I'm working on swatch sticks and wanting to get back into blogging. The other big news in my life is that I'm welcoming Boy #3 next Monday (woo!) and while I'm excited, it is starting all over with a new baby which can be stressful and what not. I had painted my nails this past weekend for the first time in months and remembered how much I love painting so this time, I picked ILNP Ocean Ave from the summer 2019 "The Boardwalk" collection. This is a cerulean blue with copper microflakes and a bit of holo microflakes for added touch.