Love & Beauty Periwinkle

Periwinkle is a dusty periwinkle with gold shimmer and some beautiful reddish flecks that glow like embers at the right angle. Unfortunately I did not really succeed in capturing them in their full glory, but trust me, they're beautiful.

It's formula was nice. I believe this is two coats although it could have been three. I really need to start writing down how many coats I do. And here's some stamping I did over it with my gold foil Saints polish:

Tags that I should have done a long time ago

All right so I've got some awards that I have been neglecting for a while and I decided I should probably do them. So ready yourselves for a deluge of useless information that was more than you ever wanted to know about me.


Blah blah blah rules and stuff that no one actually reads. Basically you tell everyone 11 random facts about yourself and then answer 11 questions that the tagger gave you. Since you probably know more about me than you ever wanted to, I'll skip the facts and just do the questions.

1. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do in your last living hours? Oh my gosh I don't even like thinking about this... I would probably invite all my friends and family over and we'd have a giant party where we all ate a bunch of delicious food and just talked about life.
2. How do you see yourself in 10 years? Hmm... I don't know, there are so many different possibilities that could change the direction my life takes! All I know is that I want to live in New Orleans in an apartment that is probably decorated with a bunch of hippie paraphernalia.
3. What brings back childhood memories? This is surprisingly hard! Board games is the only thing that comes to mind immediately. I used to love Clue and play it all the time. Nobody wants to play it with me anymore! :(
4. What is your favorite nail polish brand and what color from that brand? This is so difficult! I guess my favorite brand would be a-england, and I really love Tristam and Perceval.
5. What country would you like to visit?  Anywhere in Europe, hands down!
6. When you're alone, do you sing and pretend you can actually sing? YES I love to sing (admittedly, I like to sing very overdramatically to old rock songs), and I'll have you know that I've been told I have a nice voice!
7. Do you have a guilty pleasure? If so, what is it? I love trash TV, but I can't say that I'm ashamed of it!
8. Do you have weird habits? Yes. A few years ago I discovered a microscopic chip on the corner of one of my front teeth. It's pretty much invisible but I constantly scrape against it with my thumbnail. Also, every night before I go to bed I absolutely have to put lotion on my hands and lip balm on my lips. Whenever I turn up the volume on the TV it has to be in multiples of 5. I'm not crazy, I swear...
9. Have you ever done something that you later regret? Of course, hasn't everyone!? I try not to regret things that I can't fix, though. I don't like dwelling, so I just tell myself "Yes that was dumb, but it's over now." and move on.
10. Do you have a favorite perfume? Miss Dior Cherie. I don't actually own it since it is preeetty expensive but every time I go to Ulta or Sephora I spray a sample paper to death with it and shove it in my wallet or pockets so they smell really good.
11. How would you like to spend your most relaxing day? I would love to go have a picnic out in a nice field somewhere. I would want it to be sunny, but the temperature should be cool. That would be nice.

1. What do you like most about your life? My friends, my family, where I live (I <3 Houston).
2. Do you wear makeup every day? No. I only use it if I've got any blemishes that need covering. (I love the word "blemishes." It sounds so much nicer than "pimples.")
3. What's your motto in life? Things won't just happen because you want them to. You have to make them happen.
4. If you could change 4 things in the world, what would you choose? I wish that there would be no more wars, world hunger could be solved, no one was unemployed, and everyone just got along.
5. What does your URL mean? I think it's pretty self-explanatory, haha!
6. Do you have a collection of anything? Naaaail polish! I've also got a bunch of little glass animal figurines, and I sort of accidentally ended up collecting snowglobes? I don't officially "collect" them but for some reason I have like ten.
7. Can you give me some of your nicknames? Honestly I don't really have any. I do have a friend who is also named Laura, so sometimes we call each other "Other Laura" but that's pretty much it.
8. Love or lust? Love!
9. Who's the person you trust most on this earth? I trust all my friends and my family!
10. What's the most important for you? I guess just being happy. I really don't think you should do anything if it doesn't make you happy.
11. Have you ever been in love? No.

• A song: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
• A dessert: I loooove tiramisu.
• An animal: Platypi!
• Your best trait: Ambitious.
• Your everyday attitude: Easygoing.
• A color: Cerulean (yes, I felt like being fancy).
• A number: 7
• Do you prefer giving gifts or receiving: Both? I can't piiick I mean come on I like getting gifts but giving them is really fun too!
• A day of the week: Saturday
• Your passion: Nail polish? And I also really love football.

1. What is your go-to makeup product? I really like mascara although I don't wear it all the time.
2. What was your favorite fashion trend of 2011? Well since I'm not really up on most fashion trends, I'll say my favorite trend was all the homemade polish sellers popping up! (NerdLacquer, Lacquistry, etc.)
3. What is your favorite dessert? Didn't I already answer this? Well, I also love fudge.
4. Favorite color? Bluuuuuueeeeee
5. What is your middle name? Not telling! It's probably not safe to give out that kind of information on the internet! Buuut I'll tell you it starts with an "e."
6. What is the last song you listened to? A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay.
7. Cats or dogs? I have both. :)

1. Name your favorite song: I won't pick favorites so here's another song I love: Lonely Boy by the Black Keys.
2. Name your favorite dessert: Seriously? People need to start coming up with new questions for these things!
3. What ticks me off: People who don't say what they mean.
4. When I'm upset I... Rant. A lot.
5. What's your favorite pet? I love all my babies equally!
6. Black or white? White.
7. Biggest fear: Just... being terminally unhappy, I guess.
8. Everyday attitude: Already answered!
9. What is perfection? James Dean and The Beatles.
10. Guilty pleasure: Already answered again!

a-england Perceval

And today I have for you another manicure that I did using Tinsel Town. I started with two coats of a-england Perceval, a beautiful glowy red with a fantastic formula and the best glowy shimmer ever. Then I made black French tips and then put Tinsel Town over them.

China Glaze Tinsel Town

Okay, now put your pants back on. This is one coat of China Glaze Tinsel Town over one coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme. Tinsel Town is ridiculously sparkly and gorgeous and amazing and you all need to get it right now. If it's still around, it's probably on clearance since it was a holiday polish, so go get it

a-england Iseult

If you've tagged me for something recently, please remind me! I know that Ingie and Frosso and Tyne have tagged me for a few things, and if you've tagged me for something just let me know in the comments and link to the post so that I can get around to doing all this stuff.

Today's manicure starts with a-england Iseult.


Iseult is a delicate seashell pink with a lovely pearly silver shimmer. She's very pretty. Shown here is two coats. Delicate, feminine, flattering, work-appropriate, whatever you want to call it. A nice palate cleanser without being boring. The formula is lovely, no problems whatsoever.

I decided to make Iseult a little more spicy with some major sparkly. I made a glitter gradient using OPI Servin' Up Sparkle.

Piggy Polish 6 Impossible Things + Stamping

I would like to preface this post by saying that Blogger is being a humongous derpface, and when I click on blogs in my reader so I can go comment on them, some of them won't load. I try refreshing them, but then the page just goes blank. I've also tried going to the homepage, which will load, but then when I click on the individual post it starts being stupid again. This happens most often with Ice Queen's Nail Parlour and A Polished Touch, so I just wanted to let those two ladies know that that is why I haven't been my regular commenting self! I'm not sure how to fix it. :( If anyone is also experiencing this and/or knows how to remedy it, please let me know!

Anyway, today's post starts with Piggy Polish 6 Impossible Things.


Alice: “There is no use trying; one can't believe impossible things."

The White Queen: "I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Also, it was on clearance and came with a ring, so.

6 Impossible Things may look white, but it's actually got something else mixed in. I can't decide what exactly is making it look a little dingier, but it's got the slightest green/blue/grey cast. Here it is next to Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Whirlwind White, which is extremely stark.


Then I did some stamping over it, using a feather plate. I used Wet n Wild Blue Moon, Color Club New Bohemian, and OPI Mermaid's Tears. Unfortunately topcoat kind of smudged it, so I am  leaving these pictures smaller so that it doesn't look as gross.

On my accent finger I did a coat of Color Club Holiday Splendor followed by Sinful Colors Hottie.

Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe