ellagee Doctor Who collection Part 2--the greens

Holy cow! Summer hit Missouri this past week and the air has been so humid it is hampering my abilities to polish! Which is why, despite my best attempts, this post didn't happen last Friday as it should have...my polish wouldn't dry, it was applying all goopy and wonky, and in general I was a hot, cranky, tired mess!

Finally though, here is the last 2 of the 4 polishes I bought from ellagee's Doctor Who collection, and all I can say is...WOW.

First up is Void Stuff...it's a beautiful emerald green jelly polish loaded with green glitters! I used two coats, but should have done three thin ones...this was when I realized the humidity was hampering my polishing. I had trouble with this polish and I have no doubt it was the weather!! The humidity seems to mess with jellies more than any other formula, and I had some troubles with it wanting to goop up at the end of my nail and then pull back. I didn't have this problem with Sexy Old Girl from the same collection so I'm thinking it was the weather. I really thought I would love this polish, but it didn't speak out to me. It's a beautiful color, and so shimmery and shiny in the sunlight, but wasn't a favorite out of the 4. Here it is, in all its emerald green glory:

Next up is Medusa Cascade. Now, as I mentioned in my previous post, I'm not a Whovian. So I have no idea where the inspiration and name came from for this polish. All I know is O.M.G. wherever the inspiration came from, it was amazing!

Medusa Cascade is a multi-chrome, shade shifting, wonderful batch of goodness that shifts from gold to yellow to orange to green to teal to blue. My boys said it was very dragon-like...whatever that means. Let me just say I spent 15 minutes in the shower looking at my nails from all angles in and out of the water to see all the colors. Yes, I am, in fact, easily amused, however this polish is just simply gorgeous. The formula is smooth but because it is a chromie, brushstrokes can show. Here it is, Medusa Cascade:

See all the pretty colors?!?!?! My friend Amy said it was no wonder I loved this polish because it was like the beach and ocean all in one polish. All the things I like :-)

Sadly I think Medusa Cascade is gone because Laura can no longer get the pigments used to make it, but she was working on some dupes of the original formulas of some of the multi-chromes in this collection so keep checking!

Forever polished,

The Unprofessional Polisher

ellagee Doctor Who collection Part 1--The Blues

Today I have a couple of amazing polishes from ellagee's Doctor Who collection. I have to admit, I've only seen about 7 episodes and so I haven't completely jumped on the Doctor Who bandwagon, but it is a quirky show, I'll give it that! I got 4 from the collection, 2 greens and 2 blues and today I have the blues for you!

Onto the polish!

First up is Sexy Old Girl. Everyone who watches Doctor Who knows he travels in the TARDIS. Well, this polish is a TARDIS blue jelly with holographic glitters! It is so beautiful! My camera went into sparkle overload and couldn't quite catch the awesomeness of Sexy Old Girl. I had a few problems with the formula on this one, only because there is so much glitter and it wasn't cooperating for me. But once I got it on, WOW! It's a stare at your nails all day long polish!

Next up is Trenzalore, named after the place Doctor Who can't go to. What a pity because if it is as gorgeous as this polish, he's missing out!

You know how sometimes you find things in life that is like a part of your soul, a piece of clothing that just soothes you when you put it on, a blanket that automatically makes you feel cozy and comfy, an animal that seems like they're a part of you? This unexpectedly happened for me with Trenzalore. I kid you not! It was the first polish of the four I tried because I thought it was the ugliest in the bottle. My thoughts were, "Eh, I'll wear this one for a day then I'll take it off and try the pretties." It was more like I put this on, and I wore it for FOUR DAYS until one nail was so chipped I HAD to take it off.

Trenzalore is a soft blue-gray polish with subtle scattered holo. Formula is smooth and amazing and just seeing these pics I want to run home and put it back on. I LOVE this polish!

There you have it! The blues of the Doctor Who collection from ellagee. Both can be found at www.ellagee.com along with the other amazing polishes from this collection!

Found my soul mate polish!

The Unprofessional Polisher

America the Beautiful by ellagee!

Hey everyone! Today I have three polishes from the America the Beautiful collection by ellagee. I am very much a patriot, and wish our great nation could regress to some of the principals our founding fathers held near and dear, but alas I don't think that's going to happen any time soon. My brother fought for this nation and was wounded in Kuwait in 2005, and every time I hear the national anthem I tear up a bit. When I saw this collection, I knew I had to get them!!!

First up is Give Me Liberty, a red jelly with tiny holographic glitter. O.M.G. SOOOO pretty! The holographic glitter makes it look like tiny fireworks are going off when you move your fingers! Application was smooth, and the pictures below show two coats. For the pics I probably could have used another coat, but in real life there was no visible nail line. I actually wore this polish for 3 days without any tip wear or chipping! And I had no staining upon removal ;-)

Next up is Let Freedom Ring, the blue jelly counterpart to Give Me Liberty. Again it's full of holographic glitters...my stars but it is gorgeous! Of course, I love all blue polish but this one, WOW! Formula was smooth and long wearing and it didn't stain! Again the pics are two coats but I probably could have used three.

Last but certainly not least is Our Flag Was Still There, a gorgeous red, blue, silver, and white texture polish! Oh my, but it is sparkly!! I decided to use it over Let Freedom Ring for some nail art! Formula on this one was a little thick but it's a texture so that's completely normal. And WOW! I got TONS of complements on this! Plus, our school colors are red and blue, so I wore it to my boys' baseball game and it was totally fun!

All in all, I'm so glad I bought these polishes because all three can be used at other times besides Independence Day time! All were definitely the quality I've come to know and love from ellagee! If you're interested in getting them for yourself, visit www.ellagee.com! Give Me Liberty and Let Freedom Ring both retail for $9.50, Our Flag Was Still There retails for $10.00.

Ever patriotic,

The Unprofessional Polisher

OPI Sheer Jelly Sandwich

I haven't done a lot of nail art lately, mostly because it's ball season for us right now and with two boys playing (on the same team at least!) I don't have a lot of time to sit down and do involved manis! But, I've gotten tired of just polishing and going on, so I jazzed things up a bit!

I love pink, and I love glitter, and a few months ago I bought 2 OPI Sheer Tints. And this one has been sitting in the untrieds bin just waiting to be used. It's Be Magentale With Me, a pink sheer polish that OPI created to use to give a pink tint to any nail polish. Well, I decided to use it in a jelly sandwich of sorts!

First, I painted basecoat then one coat of Be Magentale With Me. Then I used ellagee Loved By No One More Than Me, a glitter topcoat with silver and pink circle glitter and silver shimmer. Next I used another coat of Be Magentale then used topcoat over that. I loved this mani, and it totally reminded me of one of my fave ellagee polishes, Shirley Temple, only not thermal :-)

Although I loved this mani, I hated that I had VNL because everything I used was sheer, plus can I just say removal was HORRIBLE!!! It was basically like removing basecoat and 4 layers of topcoat with glitter! Even the tried and true cotton ball/acetone/rubber fingers method didn't cut it completely. Next time I think I'll use something else and save Be Magentale With Me for what it was truly intended for...like spicing up all those nude cream Zoyas I bought!!

Squishy raspberry sparkle!

I love jelly polishes...the depth they can give...their squishiness...it makes me want to lick my fingernails because they remind me of candy :-)

Today I have for you a jelly polish from Zoya, Paloma. She is a very beautiful raspberry jelly and I wish I had taken pictures of her on her own so you could see how much she looks like a watermelon Jolly Rancher! Anyway, after I polished two coats of Paloma, I used Zoya Sparkle Gloss Topcoat to give her some sparkle! I love this!!

Sadly, I only got to wear this mani for about an hour. The one complaint I have about jelly polishes is that if it is at all humid outside they take FOREVER to dry. That's why I only got to wear this for about an hour...I waited until I was fairly certain my nails were dry then got up to put something in the sink and completely smudged the polish off two nails. I was sooooo sad because I loved these so much! I will be doing them again!