1 Year Blogiversary Prize 6

RED ALERT!  I REPEAT, RED ALERT!!!!  The AMAZING, beautiful, sweet Jen from Jindie Nails has donated another prize to the 1 Year Blogiversary Giveaway!!!  The winner will get to choose a bottle of their choice from Jindie's store!  HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!  I'm adding it to this prize, prize 6, and as such I've added Jindie's Facebook page into the Rafflecopter widget.  Once the winner is announced, I will let him or her know the code to use to obtain the polish of their choosing from Jindie's site.  Remember, to go here to enter!  All polishes were either purchased by me or were donated as part of the giveaway and not for review.

Ok, now that that bit of fun news is out of the way, let's take a look at the polishes in prize 6!  It's going to be a quick one so I can get to bed as soon as True Blood is over!

Prize Six

Sponsored by Wishes of a Blue-Eyed Girl, Amy's Nail Boutique, and Sharla Sells Avon.

 Julie G Mermaid's Tail, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Operation Hennesy, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Eleanor, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Birthday Wishes, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Self Satisfied, Amy's Nail Boutique Electric Eel, Revlon Whimsical, Avon Moonbeam, Avon Aurora, OPI mini Oy - Another Polish Joke, unpictured - Jindie of your choice.

Bottle Shots

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquers Self Satisfied

To see a full review, you can go here.  Clear based polish with green shimmer packed full of neons in primarily green and yellow accented with pink, purple, orange, and blue as well as teal holo moons, neon green stars, fuchsia dots, and silver holo butterflies.

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquers Operation Hennesy

Operation Hennesy is a navy blue based polish filled with blue, green, and purple hexes, and lime-gold squares.  This is three coats without undies.  Application and dry time were average.

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquers Eleanor

Black based polish with fuchsia and blue shimmer, pink, purple, and blue hexes.  This one can be wore alone or with black undies depending on the depth you're looking for.  Again, application and dry time are average.

Amy's Nail Boutique Electric Eel

Electric Eel is a lime green straight linear holo with a golden glowy flash.  It's the flash that just knocks this polish out of the park.  It's just so glowy, like it's lit from within.

The holographic prism is quite evident, both indoors and outdoors in the sunshine.  Oh, and my kitties apparently enjoyed me taking swatch shots outside.

Application was medium - the polish was a tad thick, but applied without dragging or balding.  Dry time was medium, meaning it was dry within 5-8 minutes.

If you're looking for a bright and vibrant holo for the summer, Electric Eel is the perfect polish for you.  You can purchase Amy's Nail Boutique polishes at her store.  Follow her on Facebook for news and updates!

That's the last of the giveaway prizes!  I hope you guys are as excited as I am for this.  Since there are so many prizes and so many entries, it's going to take me some time to go through and verify the winners' entries.  That being said, I'm hoping to have an announcement by Monday, 8/12, at the latest.  Good luck, everyone!!

1 Year Blogiversary Prize 4

I just can't catch up.  I try so hard to get caught up on the house work, photo editing, providing thoughtful and insightful reviews, working my two jobs, eating healthily and exercising, and attempting to sleep enough so I'm not passing out at work the next day...  It's just not happening.  Tonight's post will be super quick in order to give me time to get to bed at a decent hour.  We're going to look at prize four tonight.  All polishes were either purchased by me or donated for the giveaway and not for review.  Remember you can enter the giveaway and see the other prizes HERE.

Prize Four

Sponsored by Wishes of a Blue-Eyed Girl, Indigo Bananas, Polished 10, Sharla Sells Avon, and Nail Bed Dreams.

Julie G Gumdrop Sugar Rush, LA Girl 3D Brilliant Blue, Jindie Quit Staring at my Melons, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Birthday Wishes, Lynnderella Sapphire Starfire, Indigo Bananas Blue Iris, Rainbow Honey Koi Pond, LA Girl 3D Electric Coral, Avon Radiant, and Bath and Body Works PS I Love You Body Lotion.

There are five polishes to look at tonight, so I'm going to just give a quick blurb about each one.  Let's get to it!  Click on the photos to enlarge them!

Bottle Shots:

Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquers Birthday Wishes

A bright royal blue with a strong pink shimmer.  Sheer and requires 3-4 coats.  It can get a little thick as you go, but plays well with thinner.  As this is one of my babies, it's only available right now through this giveaway.

And here's a shot in the fridge to show the pink a little more easily.  It is quite evident in person, but it kept hiding from my camera.

Lynnderella Sapphire Starfire

This is the newer version without the problem glitters.  It's a clear base with blue glitters in various shades and shapes, including diamonds, hearts, stars, and blossoms.  Like most Lynns, this bad boy was a glitter bomb.  It was easy to get the glitters out, but you definitely need the dab method to get the glitters to spread out well enough.  Here, I've used one coat over Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Birthday Wishes.  Follow Lynndrella's blog and fan pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  Right now, the only place that sells Lynns are at their eBay store here.

Indigo Bananas Blue Iris

Color shifter?  Understatement.  The base shifts from blue to purple, to a hint of red.  PLUS, there are color shifting iridescent glitters.  This polish is made of win.  Here, I've layered it over two coats of Deborah Lippmann Dancing in the Sheets so you could see the shift better.  You can purchase Indigo Bananas at her store here.  Follow Andrea on her blog, Facebook, and Instagram for news and updates.

Here is Blue Iris in the fridge to show the shift a little better.

Jindie Quit Staring at my Melons

Quit Staring at my Melons is a clear based polish with various shades of melon pink, coral, green, and black in various sizes of dots and hexes.  Application was easy and didn't require much digging.  Here, I've used it over Liquid Lacquer Stick a Fork in Me from prize 5.  You can purchase Jindie Nails at her shop, Llarowe, Harlow, Femme Fatale, Mei Mei's Signatures, and Ninja Polish.  Follow Jen on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for news and updates on releases and restocks.

Rainbow Honey Koi Pond

Koi Pond is another clear glitter topcoat, but it's jam packed with black, orange, silver, and blue hexes that are holo and regular metalic.  My mini bottle had quite a bit of evaporation, but this is the old bottle design, so I'm sure the issue's been fixed.  Application was a little difficult because of that, so I decided to do a glitter gradient over OPI Can't Find my Czechbook from prize 1 instead of covering the whole nail.  You can purchase Rainbow Honey at their store.  You can follow Dee and the crew on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for news and updates.

So, what do you think about these five?  Don't forget to enter!!

1 Year Blogiversary Prize 2

Again, this is going to be picture heavy, so less chit chat and more photos!  All of the polishes in this post were either purchased by me or donated for the giveaway and not for review.  Tonight, I only have three polishes from the prize to show you as well as an example Avon - a different color but from the same collection.  Let's get down to business!  As always, click on the photos to enlarge them.  To enter, go HERE.

Here's the second prize again:

Prize Two

Sponsored by Wishes of a Blue-Eyed Girl, Kelara Lacquers, Polished 10, Soflajo, Elevation Polish, Sharla Sells Avon, and Nail Bed Dreams.

Kelara Lacquer Happy Blogiversary, Color Club (unnamed pink), Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Birthday Wishes, Soflajo My Sign's Aqua-rium, Elevation Polish Magens Bay, LA Girl 3D Dazzling Pink, Avon Saturn, Julie G Gumdrop Rock Candy, and Bath and Body Works PS I Love You Shower Gel. 

And here are bottle shots of the polishes in the prize:

Avon Starburst

The first polish I want to show you is Avon Starburst, which is a scattered holo in dark fuchsia.  The Avon in the prize is Saturn, which is an orange scattered holo.  

Can I just say that this polish was AMAZING?!  Like, seriously amazing.  It probably could've been one coat, but, as you guys know, I'm weird and did two.  

These photos are zero cleanup.  ZERO. CLEANUP.  Do you get what I'm saying?!  Amazing polish.  Such depth and opacity.  I'm almost speechless.  Looking forward to trying my hand at stamping with this beauty!

Kelara Happy Blogiversary

I used 1 coat of Happy Blogiversary over Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream.  Happy Blogiversary is a pink shimmer with multiple color and sized hexes.

Application was easy.  The brush strokes in the macro aren't evident at all to the naked eye.

Here it is with NYC Matte Me Crazy.

Since this was a custom, you can only get this polish from my giveaway!

SoFlaJo My Sign's Aqua-rium

My Sign's Aqua-rium is a glittery teal matte.

Application was easy, but it took a little bit longer to dry than the others.  This is three coats without a topcoat.

Here it is with HK Girl topcoat.

And here it is shiny with topcoat but blurred so you can see those gorgeous glitters.

Elevation Magen's Bay

I love her little pic and signature!!

Elevation Magen's Bay is a custom I had made for me by Lulu, the creator of Elevation.  I sent her photos of Magen's Bay in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands as inspiration, and this is the beauty she came up with!

A light teal base with teal and light blue dots, hexes and squares.

This is two coats.  Super easy application with a very quick dry time.

Again, since this was a custom, you can only get this polish from my giveaway!

You can get Avon products from my awesome Avon Lady, Sharla, and you can follow her page here.  You can purchase Kelara at their store.  Follow Tara and Kellen on Facebook and Twitter.  You can purchase SoFlaJo at her store and on Etsy. Follow Jody on Facebook. Lastly, you can get Elevation polishes at her store and Llarowe.  You can keep up with Lulu at her blog.

Aren't you guys loving these customs?!  I absolutely love them all!  And, man, I'm digging all of the holos in these prizes!