Fan Group Love--ellagee Blueberry Ella-ment

I'm really excited for the next, oh, three weeks of posts. I have some fantastic polishes to show you all, starting with this beauty!

Laura at ellagee created another exclusive polish for her fan group on Facebook, Gee, I Love Ellagee! The members of the group got to vote on the color, finish, and name and this is what we chose, Blueberry Ella-ment!

It's a gorgeous cobalt blue linear holo! Formula is so smooth and it is perfect in 2 coats! I wouldn't expect anything less from ellagee!

Here's another pic that shows some of the holo:

For some reason my camera was having a hard time capturing the holo-awesomeness of Blueberry Ella-ment but trust me when I say it's definitely there in person. I love this color so much that I planned my outfit to my cousin's wedding around it :-) What can I say? I love blue and I love ellagee polish!!

Super fruity,

The Unprofessional Polisher

Birefringence--ILNP

Hellooooo!
Today I have a polish that has caught my eye numerous times, and why I never bought it I don't know. Lucky for me a certain friend of mine was very, very generous to me on my birthday and sent it to me, along with 11 other polishes! Altogether I ended up with 26 polishes for my birthday! It was like a dream come true!!

Here is I Love Nail Polish's Birefringence! It is listed as a multichrome polish and in the bottle you can see red, blue, green, yellow, and purple. On my nails though I really only saw two colors, teal and purple. Still, it is an absolutely GORGEOUS polish and it was my first pick to wear out of 12 :-)

Formula was great and I used two coats. Clean up on cuticles is a little tricky but if you're careful (and I was not) you don't have to worry about that so much. It wore really well for me, going about 3 full days before I broke my index nail and it chipped :-(

All in all, I love this polish and will definitely be wearing it again...and again...and again!!

One happy birthday girl!!!

The Unprofessional Polisher

Wet N Wild Haze of Love

I've been on the prowl for the perfect burgundy/brandywine colored polish, and I picked this one up somewhere I was shopping (isn't it sad I don't remember where?!) thinking this was it...

Nope.

Formula on this one is okay, a little on the thin side, and it seemed like no matter how I wrapped my tips they showed through...which is weird because this is a darker colored polish. Also, the color looks like red tinged chocolate brown on my skin tone, which is not what I was going for. And it stained my skin where I have some rough patches from the eczema flare up, because no matter how many times I went over it with remover it would not come off!

Better luck to me next time!!

The Unprofessional Polisher

Orly Macabre Masquerade plus a bonus!!

Good Friday to you all!! I have a polish today I scored during Sally's red tag sale a couple of weekends ago. I picked it up and fell instantly in love with it!

This is Orly Macabre Masquerade, a cobalt blue polish with tiny silver and red glitters. The formula was great on this polish and it's a two coater. If you aren't careful at the tips of your nails though, the glitters will snag and it will chip more easily than a regular cream or shimmer polish. Also clean up for me was kind of a grouch with those tiny glitters! But, so worth it!

The bonus on this post, which I thought was appropriate since this is a blue polish...

MY GREAT NEPHEW JONAH IS HERE!!! Finally!! It seems like I've been waiting forever for his arrival, and he's here! He arrived July 10, 2014 at 3:45 pm. He was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 21 inches long.

And what a precious face!!! I am so in love with him already!

Happy weekend!!

Proud great-auntie,

The Unprofessional Polisher

Don't Be A Flake!!

A while ago my sister-in-law and I went to the city to do some grocery shopping and happened to stop at Sally's while they were having a 50% off red tag sale. Can I just say that's the absolute wrong thing to do when you're a nail polish junkie?!?! I ended up getting two China Glaze polishes and one Orly polish for less than $5. YAY!!

Here is one of the China Glaze polishes--a glitter topper called Don't Be A Flake! This one has matte sky blue and black hexes with holographic pink hexes. I did one coat over ellagee Forgetful Lucy. I love that in one coat you get plenty of glitter but can still see your base color!

Also, I apologize for the horrible cuticles and fingers~~allergy season is upon me and I have what the doctor called "dyshidrotic eczema". I always thought it was psoriasis, but no, it is a form of eczema and it is putting my hands through the ringer!! No amount of lotion or cuticle oil is helping! So, my fingers are flaking, and need to listen to my polish "Don't Be A Flake", hahaha!!

Flaky as always,

The Unprofessional Polisher

First Llarowe order part 2, A England

Cheerio! Today I have the second half of my first Llarowe order, A England's Tristam Eyes Princess Sabra. This is my very first A England polish and I must say it is bloody fantastic!

I was looking through Llarowe and this polish caught my eye again and again. In the pictures on Llarowe's website, Tristam Eyes Princess Sabra is a golden linear holo. It is beautiful. Their exact description is, "Gorgeous deep golden taupe holographic nail polish".

Imagine my surprise when I unwrapped Princess Sabra and found she is not, in fact, deep golden taupe, but olive green khaki. Still holographic, still gorgeous, but olive green...not gold. Her holo is also not as pronounced in my pics or in person as the pictures on Llarowe's website. But again, she's beautiful and unique to my collection so I wasn't totally disappointed. I also wore her for 3 days :-)

All in all, my first experience ordering from Llarowe was so-so. I will definitely Google pictures of any polishes I want to purchase from there before buying, as the pics for both the polishes I bought were misleading. I did get unique polishes to add to my collection, but they weren't exactly what I was looking for, and had I known that I wouldn't have purchased these particular ones.

Olive polish,

The Unprofessional Polisher

First Llarowe order Part 1, Dance Legend

Howdy everybody! Today I have one of two polishes I bought in my very first order from Llarowe. I don't know what rock I've been hiding under, but apparently it was a large one since I've been buying lots of polish for about a year now and haven't ever purchased from them!

I've been looking for a delicate pink holographic polish, and this one from Dance Legend caught my eye. It's called Shining Rainbow No. 55. I can't tell you any more than that about the name because the label is in Russian. HA!

This polish is gorgeous, but not exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a linear holo, this one is a scattered holo. Still beautiful, and I wore it for three days, but not exactly what I wanted. The formula was really smooth and it went on great in two coats, but the smell....YOWSERS! The smell is awful! I'm not sure if this is typical of Dance Legend polishes but if it is, I am rethinking my Llarowe wishlist.  I'll still use this polish because it's beautiful and unique to my collection, but the smell is definitely a deterrent.

I also tried to get several different shots of this polish, but my nails and camera weren't in sync that day, haha! But she's still gorgeous!

Pretty in pink,

The Unprofessional Polisher