Battle of the Beauties....Essie VS Loreal

Hi love bugs, hope you're all having a (mama) smashing day!  I'm finally starting to feel back to my old crazy self again.  Summer colds just kick your butt don't they?  Hopefully I'm free and clear til winter now (yuck there's that word again, winter)  *shiver*

So I don't have any nail art for you little bears today but I do have something a bit new....I've noticed a lot of polishes lately that are so similar (something we, in the beauty world refer to as dupes) and I want to share with you all which ones are worth the money and which one's should be left in the dust.  So "Battle of the Beauties" will be a reoccurring theme when I find 2 lovelies that require head to head (or brush to brush) battle!  I knew these 2 ladies would be my first victims....they are insanely similar yet so very far apart!!

In the east corner, wearing the peach trunks....ok ok, I won't do it, but I am so tempted to!

This is the Loreal Macaroon Me Madly. She's a newcomer to the blog but her competitor has been here before....do you know who I'm talking about yet? My old friend Essie Van D'Go, anyone else with me on this?  I just featured her on the blog not too long ago.  Let's have a peeky poo at Vandy (as I like to call her) and see what the dilly is.

Come On!!! Could they not be twinsies? Color is pretty much spot on!  The Loreal polish is a teensy weensy bit lighter but it's ever so slight!

Here they are side by side, you be the judge!

Definitely could be sisters!  If you're wondering which one to purchase, allow me to help....

The formula on Essie Van D'Go is 100 times, 1000 times, a gagillion times better!  She is opaque in 2 coats, where little Miss Macaroon required 4.  Ain't nobody got time for 4 coats! Both colors are indeed stunning but the work I had to put into Macaroon me Madly to get this outcome was no joke!  She was a bit streaky and seriously bitchy. (if a polish can be bitchy, this one certainly was!!)

Vandy is definitely the winner of this battle royale!  She is so opaque, wears amazingly well, and isn't the least bit bitchy!  She doesn't feel the need to streak or get super high maintenance and require more than 2 coats....ever!  I know I'm usually partial to Essie but I stayed neutral for this one. The formula on Macaroon was just so mediocre (at best) that it wasn't even hard to choose.

There you have it kids, if you were lemming either of these 2 beauties, there is no question in my mind which one you should take home with you! Leave Ms. Macaroon at the store....at least she'll be able to boss the other polishes around and release some of that built up diva behavior!

And by the way, let me just say that I am in no way sponsored by Essie.  Someone asked me that once since I use them and rave about them so often.  I wish I was (hey Essie, hook a sister up) but I'm just a nail freak who happens to love her Essie's.

Do you have any polishes you'd like to see go head to head?  Let me know in the comments, I'm sure I have them somewhere in this massive heap of heaven that I call my polish stash!

Happy Polishing my loves!

Warm Weather Nails....and a...beatdown?!

Hello kittens, 2 days in a row...wow I am on my game this week!  I am turning over a new leaf!  Blogging every morning before I start my day is going to be part of my new routine.  So far so good, 2 days in and I'm liking my new system!

So last night I did a super fun little mani that kind of just came about.  It was one of those "I have no idea what I want to do so I will decide as I go along" type mani's.  I really wanted to pair these 2 colors together and I'm so happy I did!

I used Loreal Royalty Reinvented (purple), and Loreal New Money (green).  Let me just say....I absolutely am in love with Loreal nail polish!  Aside from one or two that I have tried, their formula is so amazingly perfect.  The colors are super saturated and just flow on the nail so smoothly.  Both of these colors were super opaque and did great with 2 coats.  

I started off by painting my index and pinky finger with Royalty Reinvented.  I did my middle finger with New Money and I top coated them all with Seche Vite.  I did my ring finger with white but I didn't topcoat that just yet.  

Once the 3 fingers aside from my white ring finger (which we will get to in a minute) were dry, I taped off a few spots with striping tape, painted over that with the opposite color and removed the striping tape immediately.  I let that dry about 10 minutes and swiped on another coat of Seche Vite.  Then I slapped my mama just cause I could.  I thought about beating my husband over this happy little mani but I decided to let him slide...I'm nice like that.

On my ring finger, I just took both Loreal colors and put some different sized dots all around the nail.  And of course, I topped that baby off with Seche Vite once it was nice and dry.

I have tutorials for both of these designs on my YouTube Channel, which is the same name as this little diddy...Young Wild and Polished. Although I think it's more like YoungWildandPolished, no spaces kids.

What do you think?  I'm so flippin ready for spring!  Maybe if I keep doing these summery bright looks someone will take notice and flip the thermostat to warm?  I am so done with this cold ass weather.  My skin is dry, my cuticles fight me on a daily basis, not to mention I have soooo many cute little spring dresses that are just calling my name.  Come on, Mother Nature, warm this state up before I get to slappin ho's....I'm not above beating the piss out of a crabby old bat who loves to torture sweet girls like myself.  Mother Nature...you and me is about to get down.

And I digress....once again...

See you love muffins tomorrow!  

Happy Polishing Dolls!

Mustaches and Chevrons and Barbie Heads....Oh My!!!

Sounds gruesome eh?  It's not, in fact it's super cute and oh so chic!  I am so excited for this post! I am totally obsessed with this product and I think you will be too!

I got the chance to do a review for April from Make It Stick and I haven't been the same since. April is the creator of this genius idea and I seriously wish I would have thought of it because it really is awesome.  Sometimes when I do these reviews I wonder if you all think I am saying nice things just to, well, be nice.  I can assure you I do not.  I will put a bitch on blast in a hot second if the product sucks.  In the nicest possible way, of course.

But there's no blasting going on today.  I honestly am in love....with what you say?  Nail decals....of all shapes and sizes, and colors and....oh I could go on and on.  Let's take a look and I'll explain more.

To see more swatches click the read more button below!

Yoga-ta see This Water Marble

Hello hello!! We made it to Friday!  Yay!! And I have nothing planned this weekend except for lots of swatching and nail art-ing (hmm, new word of the day?).  I love weekends like that, where no one has a baseball tourney hours away, no birthday parties, no in laws to pacify.  Just me, my jammies, and a 2 day love affair with lots of new polishes!

So this week was crazy busy for me.  By the time I sat down to paint my nails, it was going on 10:00, and trust me, 5 am comes really quick as you all know.  I wanted to do a water marble, (when do I NOT want to do a water marble?) but I knew I didn't have enough time so I did just accent fingers.  I thought I would dislike but it turned out nice and it was just enough to give my mani a little ooommph!

 

 

 

 

I really really love this blue polish!  It's OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue hence my title for this post.  The WM was done with OPI Suzi & the 7 Dusseldorfs (pink) from their Germany Collection and The Temptress' Touch (green) from Loreal's Project Runway Collection. I also used Yoga-ta in the WM as you can see.  I was quite pleased with the way it turned out.  The colors marbled together beautifully, although The Temptress' Touch which is a shimmery gold-y green was looking more yellow than I had hoped as it blended with the magenta in Suzi. 

 

I recently purchased Yoga-ta get this Blue and I am so glad I did.  I do have a lot of deep shimmery blue polishes like this but I just can't get enough.  Application was a dream and the deep opaque color makes me.....wait for it....want to smack somebody's mammy.  My mother has taken enough abuse, I am moving on to friends' mothers now.

 

Here is a shot of my rarely seen, and very offended right hand.

 

 

 

 

 



I had to give her a little love, she is always brushed aside for her much lovelier sister.

 

 

Do you guys like the accent finger?  Coming up this weekend, I have a few Halloween mani's to share.  I am not a huge fan of Halloween, but I'm trying to be a good blogger and get in the spirit. 

 

 

Happy Polishing and Happy Weekend-ing!!!

30 Day Challenge Day 14-Flowers (The Little Mani That Could)

First let me apologize for being so behind in my post....I know this is coming in really late, I have been fighting with my laptop for 2 days.  I finally realized it wasn't Blogger that was the problem. (Sorry Blogger for all of the cursing and screaming I did at you, you didn't deserve it).  The problem was my stupid, idiotic craptastic computer.  I think I fixed it, and for now we are up and running.  I did have visions of me never being able to get into my blog and I pity anyone who was within 50 feet of me last night.  God bless my poor husband!

Ok I'm done bitching, let's talk nails!  So today's challenge was flowers.  You all know I am all about a good flower.  I wanted to do something a little different but that was an epic, and I'm talking super duper epic fail.  So I did what I know and love, my little dot flowers. *Dot enters the room, waves hi and struts back out, shaking what her mama gave her* 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not too bad huh?  I just love doing these sweet little flowers and they are so simple to do!  There is a tutorial on one of my early posts.  My untried was Loreal Grecian Goddess.  It's a beautiful creamy gray color.  I love the color and the name, uh hello grecian goddess? Um, have you met me?  If you don't know, my family is 100% old school greek.  Loud, crazy...yeah greek!  Some of my family lives right in Athens and my grandparents don't speak a lick of english.  I digress, so sorry...but yeah, I loved the name of this beauty.  Formula was great, 2 coats had it totally opaque, no dragging, no spottiness, just a lovely saturated color.  The black I used is Sinful Colors Black on Black and the white is my old faithful, Milani High Speed Fast Dry White on the Spot. 

 

Hope you guys enjoyed the mani that almost didn't happen.  Thank God for my husband and his computer fixin brain!

 

Happy Polishing Loves!!

 

Check out the other hot mamas competing in the  Rock Climbing While Nail Arting , pardon me, 30 Day Challenge....