KBShimmer All Decked Out

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I hope you all that celebrate Christmas have a wonderful holiday with your friends and family. I come from a Jewish family, so I never celebrated Christmas, but this time of year is always extra special for me. I love the smells, the music, and the decorations. This is also a great time of year to reflect and show gratitude and love for all the people in your life. You also should be kind to yourself during the holidays. Celebrate you!

I have an awesome holiday polish to kick off Christmas by KBShimmer for you all today.

KBShimmer All Decked Out

All Decked Out is a forest green jelly base mixed iwth varying sized multi colored glitters, and holographic golden stars.

This is my idea of a perfect Christmas polish. I love the all the bright color glitters, the green base, and the stars. This is just fun in a bottle. I adore it! This applied well, and the formula was good. I don't think I have much else to say about it! All Decked Out is a great polish!

I purchased this from KBShimmer's site for $8.75.

Happy Monday!

Share With You Sunday: 12/16/12-12/23/12

Posts I'm Loving:
The Lacquerologist shows us her snowflake nail art.
Frazzle and Aniploish shows us some nail polish store displays.
Sweet Sugar shares with us her Starry Night nails.
My Nail Graffiti shows us her purple glitter gradient.
Polish Obsession shares with us her birthstone inspired nails.
Shelby Swatches swatches OPI The Spy Who Loved Me.
Makeup Withdrawal swatches some Laquerlicious polishes.

Posts You're Loving:
Swatched Nails shows us her Christmas tree nails.
JamieSanford shares with us her conclusion with her Polish Project.

You can submit your links for Sunday posts here. 

Reader Manis of the Week:

Name: Improbable Nails (Francesca)
Location: Sardinia (Italy)
Manicure Description: With this mani I tried to replicate a lovely quilted manicure I saw on Pinterest. The result is far away from the original one, but I like it anyway!
Favorite polish: Generally, I like dark polishes. Currently I'm in love with Essence's "Chic Reloaded".
Blog: http://improbablenails.blogspot.it/

Name: Sophia
Location: Blacklick, OH
Manicure Description: Candy Cane Stripes - I stared with a base or Orly's Au Champagne, then used striping tape to make the angled lines with Color Club's Berry and Bright. I used Rush Shine Top Coat to finish it off.
Favorite Polishes: Too many to list! :)

I need manis for next week and  January! You can find information on how to submit your manicures for Sunday posts here. 

Happy Sunday!

Layla Ceramic Effect Green Galaxy (CE 54)

I have another Christmas in Laylaland Ceramic Effect polish to show you today. This was the other polish in this collection that caught my eye. Like I mentioned in the other post, in the display these did not have any names. This one was numbered CE 54, but I googled it and found out the name is Green Galaxy through its listing on Ninja Polish.

Green Galaxy (CE 54)

Green Galaxy is a deep green jelly base with micro green and larger hex green glitters.

This is a beautiful green. I love the richness and the jelly finish of this shade of green. I know green can be a tricky color for people, but I think this shade is very flattering. The glitter in this is great, and this polish as the perfect balance of jelly base and glitter. I like that the glitter does not overpower the base. This was a little trickier to apply since it's a jelly. You could get some sheer spots towards your cuticles if you're not careful. I recommend thin coats with this and waiting in between coats for it a dry a bit before your next coat.

This was $9.95 at Ulta *gulp*, but well worth it.

Happy Friday!

Sephora X Ice Princess

Sephora has been my weakness ever since I was a pre-teen. I used to be into makeup a lot more. I honestly purposefully have distanced myself from makeup simply because I know I'd want EVERYTHING. I keep my makeup very simple, that way I can go crazy with nail polish! Sephora used to not carry a lot of nail polish, so it was safer place for me to go. We all know nail polish as blown up in a recent years, so Sephora has let their nail polish offerings blow up. I cautiously went in there recently, and found myself transfixed by all their nail polish displays. So many pretties...so many expensive pretties :(.

I first spotted their new Sephora X line. This line is divided up into categories like classics, sparkles, and so forth. I instantly caught eyes with a really unusual rose gold polish called Ice Princess I just had to have.

Ice Princess

under outdoor light lamp

w/ flash

Ice Princess is a gold-champagne iridescent micro shimmer base with larger rose gold hex glitters mixed in.

I could not describe this well if my life depended on it. The base is so unique, it has this cool iridescent color shifting effect that is indescribable.  The base is sheer, but since it has that cool color shifting sparkly effect your nail underneath is unnoticeable in real life. I used 3 coats in this picture. Ice Princess is part of The Sparklers section of the Sephora X line, and these polishes are described as 3D glitters. I wouldn't call it 3D, but it certainly has an usual effect I have not seen in nail polish before.

This could definitely be layered over a base if you'd like. Last week, I used it as an accent nail and layered it over Zoya Gloria

I read another review on this recently where the blogger had major chipping issues with this polish. I personally did not have any chipping with this polish at all. I wore it for 4 days. I'm not saying that blogger is wrong or that I'm right. I just think chipping issues can be due to so many factors like body chemistry, top coat, or base coat that it's hard to determine the type of wear everyone will experience. I personally used Cult Nails Get it On base coat and Wicked Fast top coat with this polish.

The price of this a little hefty. It was $11.50, but it's Sephora, so I get it. If you're a glitter fan and looking for something really different I think you may want to take a look at Ice Princess!

Happy Thursday!

I ♥ NP- Up To Snow Good

I spotted this I ♥ NP polish on someone's instagram a few weeks back, and had that impulsive reaction of "OMG I NEED!". I'd say it was about 2 minute later I instantly purchased it. I loved the colors this polish had in it, and it would be unique to my collection. So, why not?

Up to Snow Good over China Glaze For Audrey

Up to Snow Good is made up of a variety of translucent, teal, blue, white, aqua, prism, and pearl glitters in  a clear base. (I used I ♥ NP's description of this because I could not describe it this well!)

I love the color of combination of glitters in Up to Snow Good. I think this combination of glitters is unique, light, airy, and is perfect for winter. The bottle of this polish is also amazing. I love the professionalism  of  I ♥ NP. They have cute fancy boxes for the polishes and fast shipping.  Sadly, I had application issues with this polish. The polish itself was the not the problem, it was the brush. The brush in this polish was thick and wide. This is a type of brush regardless of the brand of polish I have issues with. I also find a brush this size hard to apply because my nails are smaller. While I do adore this polish, the application issues I had because of the brush were disappointing. 

Please note that while viewing other blogs about I ♥ NP I did not see any mention of any application issues, therefore this could just be my problem. I see how the wide and thick brush is useful, as it collects a lot of polish/glitter and requires less coats for coverage. I personally just find thicker and wider brushes harder for me to use. The polish itself on the other hand is great, so if wide brushes do not bother you I don't think you will have a problem with this one. 

I purchased this from I ♥ NP's etsy shop for $10.00. 

Happy Tuesday!