Nail polish haul- THE ULTIMATE INDIE CHALLENGE... ok not really just excited here folks

       Okay, so in a short while I will be going on a vacation and will have to get gel nails.. and that means  that I will not be able to change my nails six times a day like I'm accustomed to...
         Despite this or because of this I have been buying polish and swapping polish like a maniac and have come into some really cool glitter top coats, base coats, texture polishes, and some colors that I've always wanted but didn't need have.  This post will show you some photos of polishes that I have gotten in the last month. Oh boy, is my husband sorry he introduced me to the Reddit laqueristas!

 So I ordered some glitter toppers from I Love NP and Glitterdaze, although I love the selection of both brands, I like the idea of getting a good sized smaller polish for four dollars from Glitterdaze then the entirely too small polishes from I love NP. If they only added that ONE ml I would be way more impressed.. but onto each brand

 I love NP: I decided to buy two regular sized polishes and two mini's, however I accidentally bought three mini's and two of the same- which is fine because I bought two mini of Animal Cookie. This polish is a beautiful, clear based glitter polish with hex white and pink glitter in different sizes and shades, and some white bar glitter, but there is a lot of mini pink glitter throughout the polish. It's a beautiful color


Glitter Daze-


A couple things I traded which I love-

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Today's mani- I love NP strawberry Creme

        As if  I havent been ranting about indie nail polishes since I started blogging again(why not ten more!-me on etsy earlier today), I am just posting you a swatch of today's manicure, I love NP's Strawberry Creme. I love it! Only, I should have used white as a base coat to make it really stand out and perhaps make my skin tan. I am going on a vacation soon to the beach, and I want to look tan.
     Those of you that know me know that I am irish and this is impossible.....however... one can dream.. or make it look like they are tan by wearing white-like creme colors on their hands and feet.  I'm thinking of getting white gel manicures of a creme gel mani/pedi for my vacation for the sole purpose of making my pasty white/red-when-tanned skin look actually tan. I feel like this is a quick fix that won't actually work though... back to this manicure..

     So this mani is two coats of strawberry creme, with a regular peeling base coat ( a base coat that prevents peeling, the name that I use is Esmalte.. its brazilian or something, super expensive except in harlem... you know I travel for that shit).
       I realized that if  I use the seche clear base coat with the Seche vite top coat, mid day the entire polish comes off of my nails. The worst part is, it always happens like, at the most inopportune time. Like, when I'm delivering a lesson to my students, or meeting with my boss, or at the bank and the bank teller asks "what the hell is that" and I dont know how to tell him that what looks like my entire nail coming off is actually just because of a shitty base coat. I do tell him that entire story, he looks puzzled  tells me i should stop buying polish because i got no money and i awkwardly leave.

        SO ANYWAY. I used two coats of the strawberry cream, and on my thumb and ring finger I put an I Love NP glitter top coat called purple stuff. I bought that one in a mini and it is SO CUTE. I will do a full haul post of all of my indies by the end of the week and everyone will die of their cuteness.  I like the glitters in this polish and it's application A LOT. I just wish it was more of a bright white, which can be fixed by applying a coat of white polish under it. So thats what I am going to try once I finish this post. It makes my skin look darker and I think its very feminine, which is good for me because it took me three tries to still not spell that word correctly.

Also- look how short my pinky is! I am ramping up my vitamins right now so it grows out a bit before turkey ugh!

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