Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

While I am not Irish I still enjoy decorating my nails for St. Patrick's Day! My husband is 1/4 Irish from his mom. He randomly gets red hairs in his beard, which is extra weird because he is very dark skinned with black hair haha. I also believe St. Patrick's Day was around the time my husband and I dated for the first time way back in 2005 (holy crap we are old) because I remember it being a stupid date for an anniversary. Anyway, here are some St. Patrick's Day polishes I acquired this year and wore from late last week until today!

Shelby Lou Nails
Pahlish Fields of Gold
Multiple tones of golden flakes, gorgeous!

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Pahlish Fields of Gold
Check out that holo!

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Contrary Polish Shamrock & Roll

*This is not color accurate. Bottom picture is closer but not quite

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Contrary Polish Shamrock & Roll
Just a hint of VNL at 4 thin coats, not noticeable in real life.
*Not color accurate, the color near the moon of my index finger is closest.

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Renaissance Cosmetics Prototype 71
Shamrock from Love, Angeline
I adore this microglittered crelly!

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Renaissance Cosmetics Prototype 71
You can see the hint of shimmer in this picture, love it!

What is on your nails for St. Patrick's Day today? Don't get pinched!

Have you loved your cuticles today?

HPBloggers Presents: St. Patrick's Day Dotticure

Purchased By Shelby Lou

I am getting a holiday mani up before the holiday, go me! I love green polishes and my new edition of OPI Damone Roberts 1968 was begging to be worn last week. This was recently re-released and I almost missed out. Luckily my nail gal @joyrserio somehow knew I would be a failure and picked up an extra for me. You have to help your girls out in this life!

Shelby Lou Nails
St. Patrick's Day Dotticure
OPI Damone Roberts 1968
Rica Whiteout, & Love Angeline Decal

For this festive mani I started with a base of OPI Damone Roberts 1968. I suck at dotticures and apparently I can't stamp them either... I used a tiny dot image from MoYou London but my dots didn't stamp too well. So I took a small dotting tool and redid all of them with Rica Whiteout. At first I thought I was clearly being anal-retentive, but it ended up being a genius guide to do perfectly-spaced dots! I will be trying that again. I also stuck on a Love, Angeline shamrock that I picked up last year and never used. I wish it stood out more, but I still like it.

Shelby Lou Nails
St. Patrick's Day Dotticure
OPI Damone Roberts 1968
Rica Whiteout, & Love Angeline Decal

No, I'm not Irish. At least not a lot. But any excuse to wear green! Make sure you check out some of the other lovely manis from the Hobby Polish Bloggers.

Have you loved your cuticles today?

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Hump Day HARE: Ghostwood National Forest

Purchased By Shelby Lou

I am annoyed by many things this week. I just found out that I need to renew my social worker license before the end of this month--almost a year sooner than I should have to--due to some new changes made by the licensing board. I am beyond annoyed. Not only am I basically get cheated out of money by having to renew sooner (I hate the government), I also have to shell out for a continuing education class. All unplanned expenses this month. Guess I can't buy the new Super Chic Lacquers after all, boo.

And then I got a papercut right by my cuticle on my middle finger swatch-hand. Really?! I covered it up though, I wouldn't subject you guys to that haha.

Today's Hump Day HARE is Ghostwood National Forest, one of the newest additions to the Welcome To Twin Peaks series. I was pretty sure I would dislike this, but it was the only green I had untried of my Hares. Ghostwood is a very dark olive green jelly with gunmetal glitters in dots, hexes, and squares, gold and gunmetal flakes, and purple shimmer.

Shelby Lou Nails
HARE polish Ghostwood National Forest
Accent of Essie Nothing Else Metals
Without Flash

My swatch shows three thin coats. In some lights this polish looks black, in brighter lights it is definitely dark green. The gunmetal dots took on a super-pale lavender hue to me, so I did some edgy triangles with Essie Nothing Else Metals. I used regular old scotch tape for those--much easier than striping tape! I must have been inhaling too many fumes though because I forgot how smooth of a surface one-coat metallics need--oops. It still looks better than those China Glaze Crinkled Chromes though haha!

Shelby Lou Nails
HARE polish Ghostwood National Forest
Accent of Essie Nothing Else Metals
With Flash

You can check out the macro I posted on my instagram to get a better look at all the goodies inside this polish. I like this much more than I thought I would, but it is much darker than anything I've worn in awhile. I'm not pumped about this mani, it leaves me feeling a little meh.

Would you rock this super-dark polish? Do the Crinkled Chromes still give you nightmares? I'm sorry if I retraumatized you.

Products:
Hare Polish

Have you loved your cuticles today?