Surgery update and a nail wheel for you.

Happy Friday everyone! I hope everyone is having a great Friday so far. Mine hasn't been too bad. Just a quick update on surgery, yesterday's didn't happen and Tuesday's has been cancelled for now. I had some pre-surgery testing done, including an EKG, which came back abnormal so now I have to be cleared by a cardiologist before I can have either procedure done.

***Disclaimer***
All polishes on this color wheel were either purchased by me or won in give-aways.  Those won will be noted as such.

I've been trying to find a way of storing my polishes that I am happy with and a way of knowing of what was in the storage boxes.  My hubby found some plastic shoebox type boxes and lids at a local dollar type store and bought 3 of them for me (to start, I definitely need more of them or a different system altgether) and I  bought a package of nail wheels at our local Sally's.  Over the next four days, I will be sharing four nail wheels with you.  The first two are China Glaze, the third is mixed polishes which includes:  OPI, Orly, Zoya, and Savina, and the fourth will be Julep.

This is the first China Glaze nail wheel.

Starting at top of wheel and working to the right around (all are 2 coats unless otherwise noted):

1. Bali Bliss (3 coats)
2. Champagne Bubbles
3. Creative Fantasy-Jelly (3 coats)
4. Crushed Candy-Crackle (1 coat)
5. Exotic Encounters-won in a give-away
6. Fade Into Hue-won in a give-away
7. Fancy Pants-won in a give-away
8. Fault Line-Crackle-won in a give-away (1 coat)
9. Glistening Garland
10. Get Carried Away
11. It's A Trap-Eze!
12. Kalahari Kiss-won in a give-away
13. Keep Calm, Paint On-won in a give-away
14. Kinitic Candy
15. Liquid Leather
16. removed
17. Mimosa's Before Mani's-won in a give-away
18. Ruby Pumps-x's 2

I do have some nail spoons on the way as I think spoons will be a better way for me to organize my color samples.  Wheels don't allow you to add colors in between, while spoons do.  

How do you organize your color samples?

As always, thank you for spending a few moments of your time with me.  Have a wonderful Friday!  Huggles!

My first crackle!

Good afternoon, my darling readers!  I know crackle polishes are no longer all the rage now, but I've been wanting to try them since I first saw them awhile back.  When I saw this for sale on Wishes of a Blue-Eyed Girl's blog sale here, I knew I had to get it and try it.  Since this is blue, I thought it would look pretty cool over the China Glaze Strawberry Fields I was already wearing.  This is 1 coat China Glaze Crushed Candy over CG Strawberry Fields, which is reviewed here.  I finished with 1 coat of Out the Door.

Without further ado, for your viewing pleasure:

I love the blue over the pink.  This is the truest as I could get the colors.

Even though crackle isn't as popular now as it was, I like the effect.

I'll definitely be using Crushed Candy again.

I know the trend has gone away from the crackle polishes, but I do like it and I've never really been a trend follower anyway as I pretty much march to the beat of my own drummer and always have.  Have you used a crackle polish in the past and how did you like it?  Do you still like to use crackle polishes even though the 'trend' is now over?

As always, thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with me!  Huggles!

Nail Mail!

17 October 2012

I received a package in my mailbox last Saturday and wasn't able to get it until Monday.  Thankfully my loving hubby picked it up for me (big smooches for him!).  This is what I got from the blog sale that Wishes Of A Blue Eyed Girl is having.  If you have the funds, go check out and see what she has left available for sale.