The Nail Junkie Cupcake over 27 Polish Pinkie Promise

*Nothing To Disclose*

Hello and Happy Monday! Today I have the second part to my swatch of Pinkie Promise which you can see here. I thought the perfect topper to Pinkie Promise would be The Nail Junkie Cupcake. This polish was released last year for Valentines Day and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it.

I've loved The Nail Junkie since she first released her line. You can see my previous posts of Fish, Flamingo, Candy Corn and Watermelon. Every single one is so unique and different, everything I love in an indie.

Cupcake is full of round pink and red glitters and holo in the base. I love love love it. One thing with all of my Nail Junkie polishes is I store them upside down to ensure glitter dispersal.

For this I used one and a half dabbed coat of Cupcake over Pinkie Promise. I didn't do any moving of the glitters so what you see is what came off the brush. Topped with Seche Vite.

What do you think of this combo? I loved it and wore it for 3 days, which for me is a long time;) You can find The Nail Junkie polishes here, and what is so great is she is now offering to make your own polish, with your own custom label.

Don't forget my giveaway is going on and ends on Friday! You can enter here. Also, make sure to follow me on Facebook because I hit over 1,000 likes I'm getting a large package together for a giveaway there as well!

Do you own any Nail Junkie polishes? Which is your favorite?

Until Next Time!
-Sammi

A Polish Addict Swatches & Review

Good Morning My Lovelies! Today is a so-so day for me, but again, with the wonderful words from my polish sistas I am trying to be strong. This group of ladies has really given me a "virtual" shoulder to cry on when I need it. Well, enough sob and on to what you came for! I was going to wait till launch day to show you these but I just couldn't keep all the goodness to myself!



First up, we have Glitz N Glammer. Yup, that's right! Laura created a polish and named it after my blog!! When she asked me if she could I jumped at the oppertunity! I will forever cherish this polish.



Glitz N Glammer is a really light pink shimmer base FULL of, gosh I can't even name all the colors of glitters that are in this. There are pastel, neon, metallic all in hex and bar glitters along with micro glitters to boot! Also, to add to the mix of fun, a butterfly came out on the brush that I had NO idea was there, he was hiding ;) AH it is so beautiful and it SCREAMS me too which is the best part.



I used 3 very thin coats of Glitz N Glammer topped with a coat of Seche Vite. I couldn't stop looking at my nails, the pearlescent shimmer base is to die for.



The other thing I really love about Laura's bottles are the labels, she has unique labels, they have a print along with her shop name and her name, with small round stickers at the bottom for the polish name.



LOOK AT ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. I die, I swear, I die. I'm asstounded. The quality of her polishes is remarkable, the formula is always easy to work with, and get this, No. Thinner. Needed. Now that makes Sammi a happy indie lover!



This is Dream-Cicle. I could have DIED when I opened my package, when Laura showed sneak peek photos of this on Instagram I told her I would die if I didn't have it, and there it was in my package. <3



Dream-Cicle is a bright orange crelly base with LOADS of different shapes of glitters in all shades of colors as well! One thing Laura knows well is her glitter combinations. She doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well. Sorry small ramble there.



Again, I used 3 very thin coats for my swatches topped with Seche Vite.



You can find Laura at her shop here and also keep up to date with restocks on her facebook as well.



Laura will be stocking both of these shades along with a few others on Saturday March 23rd. ALSOOOOOO, she will be stocking her NEW CUTICLE LOTION STICKS AND CUTICLE CREAM. Yes, I had to yell, I am really excited for these and if I wasn't broke at the moment I would buy ALL OF THEM! (end vent)

What do you think Glitz N Glammer & Dream-Cicle? Do you have a favorite?

Until Next Time!
-Sammi


*Products in this post were provided to me for my honest review*

Barry M- Textures!

Hello my sweets, wow and Happy Friday!! What a week this has been, I'm finally starting to feel better, so it's time for some good stuff! Today I have two of the new Barry M texture polishes to share with you and WOW, do I love them. I am really loving the texture polish craze, I think it gives a whole new look to polish, without being overdone. I now have Barry M, Zoya's Pixiedust and Milani textures! I can't seem to have enough.



First up, I have Kingsland Road, a super sweet creamy pink.



What I really love about Barry M's textures is that they don't have the "sandy" feel that the Pixiedust or LiquidSand does, it's more of a soft texture, I described it to my co-worker as "sugarcoated polish" I thought it was very fitting;)



I used three coats here, I could have easily gotten away with two!



Next up, is Ridley Road, a soft seafoam green.



Oh how I love this color, but it did NOT play well with my skin tone, I've never had a polish make my skin look so lobstery before! But I won't let that stop me from wearing this!!



Again, three coats but could have gotten away with two!

These are my first Barry M polishes and WOW I am impressed! I'll definitely be picking up more of these! Do you have any of their new texture line? I purchased mine from Ninja Polish and I really love their customer service, fast shipping, and their website!

Which is your favorite textured line that has come out? There is so many to count, but I don't doubt that I won't have one of at least each line!

Until Next Time!
-Sammi

Sunrise.. or sunset?

Good Morning my sweets! Today I have for you a really quick post. I did this gradient on my nails a couple of days ago and I got so many compliments that I thought I'de share.



For the gradient I used all China Glaze, base is Lemon Fizz, the gradient I used Snap My Dragon, and Mimosas Before Manis. I ordered the entire Advent collection, would anyone like to see swatches of any specific color? A couple of people told me this looked like a sunset/sunrise:)



On top of the gradient I used two coats of Northern Lights Top Coat. LOVE that stuff!

What do you think of my gradients? I'de love to see your gradients!

Until Next Time!
-Sammi

ABC Challenge: H- Glitter Daze- Hearts in Her Eyes

Happy Day Everyone! Today calls for the letter H for the ABC Challenge I am participating in! To be honest with you, when I was thinking about today I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to use. I thought about it all day while I was at work, and by the time I got home I still had no idea. So as I was getting started, I opened one of my "indie" polish drawers, and there she was, standing, label facing up, calling my name. Hearts in Her Eyes, how perfect was this?!?!! This is also one of my untrieds so how could I NOT use it?



I ordered a few GlitterDaze polishes during the "Free Sample February" and got lots of extra goodies in my box, a rose scented nail polish remover (this stuff is AMAZING by the way, I really hope they start selling it, I'm a HUGE fan of anything rose scented) a rose scented hand bath fizzy, and a sample of their body butter.



Hearts in Her Eyes is a gorgeous medium pink crelly, with loads of white, black, red and holo purple glitters, white hearts, and large black round glitters. This is SO squishy, and delicate and super girly.



This was a really easy polish to work with, no thickening or glooping, I did have to fish for the heart glitter a little bit, but nothing a quick turn of the bottle for a few moments couldn't have fixed!



For my swatch I used 3 thin coats of Hearts in Her Eyes with one coat of Gelous and one coat of Cult Nails- Wicked Fast.



I would highly recommend GlitterDaze, not only is their site EXTREMELY functional, but fasting was super quick and the packaging, oh lawdy, the packaging. I really wish I had gotten a picture of it, but they put so much detail and love into the packaging, I felt like I was opening presents on Christmas Day.



You can find GlitterDaze on their website here. Full size bottles go for $11.00 and mini's are $7.00. You will definitely be seeing more from me again, as I bought 7 other polishes:) WAHOO!



Until Next Time!
-Sammi

Dragon Scales

Two posts in one day?! I'm on a roll! I was going to wait to post this tomorrow but I just couldn't resist. I love these polishes so much and have one more to show!

Im showing you nail'd it unique polishes, dragon scales. If you haven't ordered from her yet she is a doll to work with and sent my polishes out next day! She has an etsy which she currently has nothing up but she restocks every couple of weeks and has tons of great polishes to choose from!

I have layered one coat of dragon scales over two coats of china glaze-kinetic candy followed by a coat of gelous and one coat of seche vite. Now dragon scales was a little thick for my liking so I put a couple drops of thinner in it and it was perfect! It consists of matte grey, blue, coral, pink, green, gold hex glitters and fine black and white glitters! It is so perfect and so bright and fun!

I hope you enjoyed and until next time!

-sammi

Punk rock princess

"If you could be my punk rock princess..."

Hello lovelies! Can you tell where I got the theme for mani today? I wore this over the week and loved it! The stamping defanitley was not perfect as I was rushing to hide from my kitten, but I still loved it! I used essie's super bossa nova, which is perfection in two coats. This is a deep pink with purple shimmer, in the sun this polish ROCKS! (No pun to the title there;)) for the stamping I used pure ice silver Mercedes and funky fingers black expressionism. Black expressionism has to be my favorite one coat black, ever. Ive used it so much I'm down to about 1/4 of the bottle! Time to hit up Sally's;) I used bm-316 for the design. The studs are from bornpretty I love this site so much, so many nail art products for cheap! I also received my rhinestones from them as well.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did and I've got plenty more where it came from! Until next time!

-sammi

Shimmer polish- Sammi

Hello! Welcome and boy do I have a great polish for you today. I've been so excited I nearly gave myself a heart attack when opening the mail box. I ordered a custom polish from Cindy, the mastermind behind shimmer polish. If you haven't seen her polishes, I dare you to check out her etsy. You will find nothing but beautiful handmade polishes that really have that something extra special to them.

Let me tell you a little about Cindy, she blew my mind. not only is her customer service incredible, but she made something for me that was down right more than perfect. I contacted her about my custom, two days later I had a response, I told her some of my favorite colors, she told me it would take about a week to make. I was totally okay with this as I've waited a few weeks for an already made to ship polish. Well, two days after that she emailed me to let me know my polish was ready! I couldn't believe it. Then a few short days I was drooling over the pretty I had in my hand. She was so sweet during the whole process and this will forever make me a shimmer polish owner.

Okay, step away from the gooshey stuff (haha) my polish is made up of pink, black, grey, holo and small blue, red, and purple glitters. This polish has so much depth and love I can't stop staring at my fingers as I type this. I layered my sammi over china glaze-dance baby. I wish I would have swatched this over black also, but I can always make another post;) Cindy made this especially for me, she has many other polishes in her shop that are to die for. Please visit her etsy and give her a try, I promise you won't be dissapointed. I hope you enjoy and until next time!

-sammi

My first galaxy

Hello my lovely readers and hello new faces! I'm so glad you have enjoyed what I've had to show so far and I'm hoping you like this one too! I did this a week or so ago because a couple of girls at work had been asking(pestering is more like it haha) to try out the galaxy nail. They always find new things and ask me to try it out so this is what I came up with!

I used a mix of colors to come up with this and although its not very "galaxy" I lovedddd the way this came out. Some of the polishes I used were Sally Hansen bubble gum pink & mellow yellow, Sinful Colors Snow me white & black on black, China glaze fairy dust and for the life of me I can't think of the pure ice or essence that I used. I started with a coat(that's right! One coat!) Of black on black and then sponged the other colors in random spots. I then used my dotting tool to add the "stars" with snow me white and topped it off with fairy dust and a thick coat of seche vite!

The girls were more than impressed and asked me to do this on their nails as well! I hope you enjoy and until next time!

-sammi

Leopard, why are you so bright?

Good morning loveys and happy wednesday! Life is crazy hectic like usual, I've got some great stuff coming my way in the next week or so that I can't wait to show you!

Today I have a mani that was inspired by one of my favorite bloggers, Cristina at Let Them Have Polish! She did a bright leopard skittle and I thought this was so fun and summery! And in Arizona I thought this would be a perfect mani to try out. I used Sarah from Chalkboard Nails tutorial for the leopard and this was a quick and easy nail day for me!

For my mani I used zoya-charisma (I got this off of copious for a penny!) And zoya-renee. I can't say enough good things about zoya polishes. They always apply like butter, and they have a wide range of shades. For the spot outline, I used china glaze- liquid leather.

I hope you enjoy and until next time!

-sammi

Summer lovin', had me a blast!

Hello lovelies! Today I have something special for you. I was looking at Amy's blog, I'm feeling nail-venturous and I found these beautiful swatches from nAiL'DiT unique polish (also known as andeevie) I immediately went to her etsy and quickly bought three of them!

Let me just say, the quality of these polishes is outstanding, and they shipped very quickly. I was very impressed with the uniqueness of these, she has matte glitters as well!

Today I will be showing you Summer Lovin MELON. This is my favorite of the three I got, simply because it looks exaclty like a watermelon! It is loaded with pink, magenta, orange and green glitters along with white bar glitters and the best... black hearts as seeds! This went on with ease, although I did have to dig and place the black hearts but that wasn't an issue for me at all. I layered one coat of summer lovin MELON over 2 coats of OPI gargantuan green grape. I thought this was the perfect combination. And wearing this made me have the grease song stuck in my head (hence the title for today's post ;))

Overall, I highly recommend these polishes, especially for how unique they are! She also has a facebook and at every 100 likes she does a giveaway for her polishes so make sure you check her out!

I hope you enjoy and until next time!
-sammi