Nail Art: Dotticure

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Is anyone still visiting my blog?

I ask, because I've been absent.
Life is happenng. Adulting is being done. Blog was neglected.
For that, I am sorry.
I expect the coming month to allow me to post more frequently.

With that, how about some delayed nail art from around Christmas time? Maybe I should pretend it's a Valentine's day look..Red for roses and green for leaves?
Either way, it's still cute and was very easy to create!




The base color is two coats of Literary Lacquers Stinky Litte Truck from the 2015 Community Collaboration Collection. The dots were created with polishes from the Crème à la Mode winter box - Digital Nails Arboreal, a glass like jade green and Indigo Bananas Scarlet Night, also glass like but red. I used a dotting tool to apply the dots and then topcoated to finish. Easy peasy and all the polishes played nicely together!

I hope you've enjoyed the mini review and will be back to visit me again!

Turtle Tootsie: Valentine's Collection

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The Turtle Tootsie Valentine's Day collection launches Friday, January 22, at 7pm Central. If you order a full size set you will receive a FREE chocolate-scented top coat!
Isn't that the coolest?
You can also opt to add the top coat for a couple extra dollars if you purchase the mini set. I haven't tried the top coat myself, but it sounds yummy, doesn't it?



Passionate Kisses - A deep red linear holo




Love Potion - A dark purple jelly polish with pink holographic microglitter




Cocoa Kisses - A brown copper linear holo




For each swatch I used two coats with topcoat and each polish has a smooth easy to apply formula.
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Awesome Sauce Indie Box: Feat Literary Lacquers

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The Awesome Sauce Indie box this month features guest Literary Lacquers. It contains a total of five polishes, nail vinyls from Lou It Yourself, cuticle Crelli sample from Ever After polish, cuticle oil and jelly stones from Anonymous Lacquer, and nail charms from Lavish Polish. The box is available with full sized or mini sized items!

What a box! Especially nice for team mermaid, eh?

Pre-order runs from Jan 29th 8pm Central - Feb 5th 10pm Central at the Awesome Sauce Shop.




Literary Lacquers Each to Each - Sparkling aqua linear holo with the slightest touch of murk from the unknown depths, inspired by The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.

Two coats and topcoat. I created a gradient with Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and Thermofish over the mermaid scales vinyls for the accent nail. Formula was perfect, as I have come to expect from LitLaq




Lavish Polish Golden Mermaid - A beautiful golden holo with a mix of different multichrome flakies and micro gold holo glitter.

Two coats of this sparkly polish applied itself, no clean up.




Ever After Scaling the Open Seas - Silver metallic shimner with green, purple and gold ultra chrome flakes with strong scattered holo.

Super reflective and shiny, I wore two coats and the formula was great!




Anonymous Lacquer Mermaid Magic - A majestic purple holo with micro flakes.

I wore two coats, although I think one may have been sufficient. The polish is quite opaque and has a creamy formula.




Vapid Lacquer No Clam Shell Needed - A green to blue oceanic thermal shimmering with iridescent rainbow flakies. Glitter in all the colors of a mermaids scales, blues and purples clear holographic and all glitters in mattes Mettalics and holos.

A cool thermal glitter that I think is on point for a mermaid style polish. I wore three coats with slight VNL, no top coat.




I enjoyed the polishes, all the fun nail art goodies as well as the moisturizing oil and cream - they saved my skin while swatching and both smell delicious!
Which polish is your favorite? What kind of nail art would you create with this?

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