Muffin Monday!! Pretty & Polished Tomboyish

Oh My!! 

  Yes, you are seeing correct! Muffin is back!! I don't even remember how it has been since I last did a Muffin Monday, even Muffin forgot what it was all about lol. For those of you who may be newer to LTHP Muffin Mondays are a feature that I started back in 2010 and I used to do it EVERY Monday. Basically I would like up random polishes and which ever shade Muffin "picked" I would feature in one way or another.  As I started to get busier and busier it because harder to keep up with the weekly Muffin Mondays. That said, so many of you lovelies reached out to me asking where Muffin was, I had to bring it back!!

  For today's feature miss Muffin picked me one of my new Pretty and Polished acquisitions, and one of the coolest polishes I've played with in a long time! 

 To see Muffin's pick in action just continue reading ♥.

 Muffin picked me the great Tomboyish by Pretty & Polished. This amazing shade of smokey Teal changes colors, drastically, with warm and cold temperatures. I had played with color changing polishes before but none with a change as noticeable and awesome as Tomboyish. In the picture below you see Tomboyish in it's "cold/natural"state. I really love this beautiful shade of smokey Teal creme and all the pretty shimmer suspended in the base. 

 This look is inspired by the name of the polish, in a backwards sort of way. I wanted to give Tomboyish a very delicate and girly look. For the lacey stamps on my Index and Pinkie fingernail I used Cheeky plate CH23. For the bow stamp on mr Ring fingernail I used Konad plate M59. To accent my stamps I used some small pearls set into my top coat. On my middle finger I did an accent of Lynnderella Connect the Dots.

 In the photo below I have dipped my fingertips in warm water to get the color shift. Tomboyish goes from a deep, smokey Teal to an ethereal, shimmering Green-ish- White. I kept switching the water from cold to warm to see the nail art pop and "disappear" with the color changes of the base.

 And here you can see Tomboyish before any nail art was added. This beauty has a fantastic formula and I only needed Two coats for full opacity.

 This pretty does dry a bit dull and gritty so a top coat is a must to bring out shine and smooth out the surface. Other than that, I am so very impressed with every aspect of this awesome nail color.

 What are your thoughts on color changing polish? Do you own any? You can color me impressed with this beauty. I'm thinking that I might need to head to P&P's shop and pick out a few more of these fun pretties!

 Are you happy Muffin is back?!

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Etsy Mania!! Windestine Carbon Copy

Good morning!

  Words later.. For now please enjoy these pics of Windestine Carbon Copy over Pretty and Polished Candy Coated. 

 Don't feel well.

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Etsy Mania!! Pretty & Polished Swatches

Hi and freaking Monday.....

   But at least I have some more pretty indies to show you... I am in a particularly shit mood today... I know normally this is a happy place and all that jazz but my "real life" is getting to be quite annoying... I just wanna live in my blog. Is that too much to ask? I just wanna be surrounded by color and great people all day long and talk about art, nails and trends and write and take pictures.. That is all I want out of life... But f*ck*n life has other plans for me it seems.... 

Also, you may or may not know that Bundle Monster is holding yet another contest where you can win a set of their new 2012 stamping plates. Against my better judgement, I entered.... They have entered the voting stage and I would be ever so grateful if you guys would head over there and give me a quick vote. Check out the picture on the right-hand sidebar :D. Or just click this whole rant :D.

  Enough depressing shit... Onto some AWESOME polishes by one of my favorite Etsy shops: Pretty and Polished. I own SO many of Chels' pretties and I am always excited when I see that she has come up with new colors. 

 Sorry for these crappy collages.... I shall never get over the tragedy that is Picnik's closing... Tried PicMonkey and it's great and all but the whole-  Upload, edit, download, upload, edit, download.... Yeah... Just not working for me.... Too time consuming :( Anywho... Keep on reading to see some pretty swatches. 

 Pretty and Polished Valentino over Butter London Snog

 Valentino is an awesome mix of Black, White and Silvery White hexes in all different sized suspended in a clear base. I love this polish to bits and I love that it stands out from all the other Black and White glitter combinations out there. There is no fishing with this glitter, it applies very easily and you get lots of glitter on the brush. I think I did Two coats of Valentino for this one because I wanted it to be extra speckled.

Pretty and Polished Hello Dolly over Zoya Lara

 Hello Dolly is a super dense and fun mix of glitters. There are White hexes, Silver Hexes and these cool "see throught" large Magenta hexes that seem to float on the base of little, light Purple, glitter. This particular glitter is so dense that I only needed one coat for the pics above :D!

Pretty and Polishd Jawbreaker

 Jawbreaker is a very playful mix of different colored, shaped and sized glitters suspended in a White base. This polish looks SO tasty! The name is absolute perfection and so is the effect it creates. I seriously kept wanting to lick my nails when I was wearing this. This polish is crazy opaque and could almost be a one coater but I did Two to give the glitters a sandwiched effect.

Pretty and Polished Forgery over Color Club Sky High

 Forgery is a super neat-o micro glitter matte top coat. Yeah, you read right.. Multichromatic, matte glitter top coat. This is not the best combination to showcase this awesome glitter in pictures but in real life this looked amazing as the colors kept shifting on the surface of my nail.

 This is what the glitter in Forgery looks like.

Pretty and Polished The Amazing Technicolor Top Coat over Color Club Metamorphosis

 Quite the name on this one :D. The Amazing Technicolor Top Coat is a genius idea by Chels from Pretty and Polished. No Two TATTC are the same. Each bottle of this glitter is different and that is why I needed at least one mini bottle of this concoction. Basically whenever Chels is done making pretties, experimenting or whatever.. She gathers her left over glitter mess and bottles it up. How cool is that?!!! They are all random and all different.

Pretty and Polished Candy Coated 

 Candy Coated is the most precious thing ever! This pretty is a yummy blend of Purple and Pink hexes and small Purple glitters in a soft, jelly- like Pink base. This baby goes on flawlessly and is fully opaque in Two coats. Another perfect name for a perfect polish.

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