Laura's Lacquers

Here's your sneak peak!

It's annoying because I wasn't able to get the plate lined up just right. The Konad patterns are juuuuust barely big enough for my nails so if I don't get it aligned exactly right then there's weird blank spaces. Annoying, but I didn't feel like fixing it.

Okay so I'm hoping I'll get the giveaway up sometime next week, I still need to go through and find some polish that is worthy of you guys' loving homes and and then make a super epic franken. I'm so exciiiiited! Also, have any of you guys done a Rafflecopter giveaway? Is it easy to do? Because I see lots of people doing that now and I'm not sure if it's better than the normal Google spreadsheet giveaway. Any opinions are valued!

Today I will be featuring a beautiful polish from Love & Beauty, and has a name that does it absolutely no justice: Periwinkle.

It was actually a lot prettier in person! You could see the red flecks shining through and it was super awesome.

Okay, so obviously the Thursday Post thing isn't working out. It's not because I don't have a bunch of links to show you (because I have a craaaapload), it's because Thursday is the busiest day of the week for me and I have absolutely no time. So I'm thinking about doing Thursday Posts on a different day of the week, which presents a dilemma. Which day do I do them on? Do I still call them Thursday Posts or do I call them whatever day of the week I put them on? Any suggestions?

2 coats. In all honesty, I probably wouldn't have bought this except for the name, since I love Alice in Wonderland. Here's the full quote:

The contrast is starker in person, the camera was also being a derpface.

And sadly, a dream it will remain. No chance of snow down here in Houston, sadly. We did have actually for realz snow two years ago, but I doubt it will happen again any time soon.

Anyway, to drown my sorrows of living in a snow-less land, I decided to do a snowy manicure. I started with two coats of Love & Beauty Royal

I scrounged this one out of the polish bins at Forever 21 (who is trying to look all shwanky with their new logo, XXI, like Roman numerals makes them more sophisticated. Psh.) pretty much unscathed, although the other two I grabbed I had to wipe down with acetone. Anyway, it is super pretty, it's got a murky teal base full of duochrome glitter flecks that turn from blue to purple. It's pretty awesome, but since I was pining for snow I decided to stamp over it.

We'll start with Earthy Angel

I have no pictures of it alone, so you'll just have to go with these pictures of Color Club Blue-topia (also from the Back to Boho collection) stamped on top.

Sooo... I kind of love this. This is two coats of Earthy Angel which is a nice tan polish that's darker than my skintone so it doesn't do that weird blending-in thing that makes your fingernails disappear which is kind of freaky. It's quite flattering and I really like it. The formula was nice, too.

I thought it could use some stamping so I tried this one that I haven't used before, and I really like it! Sometimes I find that some stamps don't transfer right when they're super intricate which is probably the most ridiculously frustrating thing ever and it kind of makes me want to flip a table but this one was nice.

Celery-unicorn scale rating: Kit-Kat bars. 

Today I have for you my First Official Holiday Manicure. Yes folks, you read that right: the holiday season has started (at least in my mind). I am READY for Christmas, y'all. I don't know if you know this (although that's a dumb question, how on earth would you know this?) but I LOVE the holidays. Once Halloween hits, I spend every spare minute thinking about the span of time between November 1st and January 2nd. I. Love. Festivity. I'm a super excitable person, so generally I get SUPER psyched up about Christmas around halfway through November, and I start listening to Christmas music and everyone is all burned out on Christmas spirit but I'm still going strong!

...aaaanyway, today's manicure starts with Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe.



I guess you could call this my First Official Backup (I like capitalization, can you tell?) since I bought a mini size of this but it was so beautiful that I didn't want to use it and I am still hoarding it to this day. That's why I never buy minis, because I literally cannot bring myself to use them.

SUPER gorgeous closeup guys

BEAUTIMOUS

My bottle of Milani Gold Lame (accent on the e, blah blah blah too lazy) is getting really thick, eugh. I need to thin that up. Anywho, that's what I used for the tips and the stamp, and I just used a toothpick to make the dots with Revlon Cherry. Easy peasy, and FESTIVE! Unfortunately, when I did this, the weather was being a major bummer and not matching my holiday cheer. It was warm. It's getting nice and chilly now, though! (and by chilly, I mean 50s/60s. Yep, that is defined as "chilly" down here in Houston.) I'll be honest, I'm not the hugest fan of cold weather, mostly because I don't really have the clothes for it since 90% of the time, it's HOT. But I definitely like the holiday mood it brings!

So have you had an Official Holiday Manicure yet? Any polishes that get you in the holiday mood? Do share!