A happy return with Laquerlicious Lady Liberty

I'm back! Finally. I thought I would be back in time for patriotic manis, however I cleaned like a maniac that weekend and ruined all my nails. I hate my nubs but I've decided that life must go on and nails must be polished! Bathroom still needs some finishing touches (seriously, husband, can we at least put the TP holder up?) but otherwise it is gorgeous. I promise I will post before and after pictures--sometime this month. Life has generally been too busy but I have gotten a lot done around the house during my blog break. And yet I missed sharing manis and talking about polish so much.

I also had joined a giveaway awhile back, make sure you check it out and enter here. You could win a $40 gift certificate to a polish e-tailer of your choice. Holy crap, I wish I could enter!

For my comeback mani I have Laquerlicious Lady Liberty. I don't count Laquerlicious as among my favorite brands (hey, to each his own) but when I saw this I knew it must be mine. I can never have enough blue-green aqua cremes, make it a lovely crelly with warm-toned metallic glitters and I am sold.

Lacquerlicious Lady Libery
I am embracing the nubs!

My mani shows two coats. I started with a first thinner coat and a thicker second coat, both with a light touch. I stuck on my studs then used two thick coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top. Flawless formula, easy glitter distribution, and hardly any clean-up! I could wear this forever. I tried to do an awesome two-tone mani with a row of studs on my ring finger... but my nail would only fit 4 and a half studs which is not a real number in studs and it looked silly. Grow nails, grow! I mean look at that pinky, ugh. Lady Liberty is in stock now at Laquerlicious.

In regards to my nubs: I decided to make lemonade out of lemons and made a meme. I doubt I am the first to make this meme nor will I be the last haha!

Products: 

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Have you loved your cuticles today?

Nail Polish Bloggers' Connection Giveaway!

I joined a giveaway with some girls from Nail Polish Bloggers' Connection before the sudden chaos that was to be the bathroom, so here it is! Also stay tuned for my comeback post :-D

Some of the lovely ladies involved with this giveaway are:
Lacquer Or Leave Her
Whisker's Musings
Lustrous Lacquer
Fixin' To Faff
Lauriestrodes Fun With Nails

We have three $40 gift certificates to the winners' online store of their choosing. My favorites are Color4Nails and Llarowe, but you can also choose Sally Magpie's, Harlow & Co, Mei Mei's Signatures... we are flexible here :-)

This giveaway runs *now* until noon Pacific Time on June 31st.

Thank you to Michelle of Lacquer Or Leave Her for organizing this awesome giveaway!

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Have you loved your cuticles today?

Blog Break

So clearly I have been crazy busy. Last weekend and in the weeks previous I was preparing for my BFF's wedding. She got married on 6/1/14 and it was beautiful. She and her new husband had a bridal army (a 14-person bridal party!) set up and tear down the little country fire hall for her reception in two days for 200 people. It was an awesome time and I would do it all over again for her. Not gonna lie though... I am still exhausted! You can see my wedding day mani on instagram here. Picture polish Majesty was the perfect wedding polish, since I had to pick just one awesome color that I could apply at the hotel the night before.

In the midst of these wedding festivities our tenet upstairs moved out. I realized only a couple weeks ago that our 14-day gap between tenants (June 1st-15th) was going to be the best (and yet the worst) time to gut our bathroom and remodel, since we can use the bathroom in the upstairs unit. It is such a pain running up and down stairs but much better than moving into our parents' house for who knows how long. My husband ripped down the walls the day before we had to leave out of town and finished by cutting up the jacuzzi tub (that was a not-properly-installed-moldering-deathtrap) the day we came back. You can see a picture on my instagram of the bathroom guts here. Currently my husband's uncle is working on electrical and hopefully a floor today. My cats are freaked out by the power tools and hiding. I also made banana muffins this morning.

So anyway, I'm on a bit of a blogging break but thought I should give y'all a heads up, because I'm still here with tons of polish to wear and share. Instagram is probably the best place to see what I'm doing while I'm less active on the blog!

Have you loved your cuticles today?