Wuuuuutttttt?!

For shizzle my zombizzles! Sporadic be thy name. Again, not dead but undead here in zombie!land. Work has been hectic but I have been spreading the polish gospel to the uninitiated and innocents in the world! I do hope all is well with you all, kids and kittens. Lots of new collections have been released with some along the lines of pant wettingly awesome (new color club holos) and some an orchestra of sad trombones (china glaze holograms).

I figured I'd do a little spamming right now of some of my more recent manis. Nothing super fancy but sharing is caring!

Liquid Lacquer Collide Into You

Jade Extasy

OPI Iridescent Opal

Liquid Lacquer Blue Bomb

ManGlaze Royal Matterimoaning with a. accent of F4 Rainforest

Heyyyyyyy. Hey, gurl, hey.

Surprise! Still undead. Funny, I gave blood last night and the phlebotomist had a hard time finding my pulse, so there you go!

Been a while since I've been on here. I Instagram (jennguin) and FB but not so much in the blogosphere which is probably for the best since I totally fucked up my ring finger on my swatching hand last week at work.

I also have an iPhone and this is my first post with him so maybe that will spurn me to start posting more.

So, what's new, kids and kittens?

Swatchcicles! Things you can't have, things you can have soon, things you need to have!

Hello Chrildens! I'm still very much undead and here, just not...-here-. If anything I've been posting pics  on instagram more than anything so I'll put a link to my instagram feed in here so that you can follow me there should you choose to do so. 

I miss blogging but at the same time I just haven't found the right balance of everything going on right now to fit it in. At work we're still totally swamped and with Christmas and MiniMe's birthday coming up...yeah. YEAH. BUT, I'm like 95% done with my shopping! WOO! I hit the mall first thing this morning and pretty much got everything I need save a bottle of wine and some small things. My bank account is anemic right now but I'm done and I feel pretty good about it. 

I've got some swatches of things you can't buy...yet...and never. Some have already sold out and some aren't out for sale yet. 

Liquid Lacquer Mockingbird. HOLYFUCKMESHIT! Is this not fucking GORGEOUS! I love this polish so much I can't even BEGIN to explain! It's a gorgeous bright cobalt jelly with a mix of large matte white hex glitters interspersed with medium and small white hex and small and fine white squares. This polish was made after a few of us in our FB group said we wanted something that looked like another discontinued indie polish. This is two coats of Mockingbird with a coat of Gelous and SV on top. No staining upon removal and I didn't have to use the glitter method either. Unfortunately this polish has now since sold out and will not be made in the future. Liquid Lacquer products are made in batches of 30 and once they're gone, they're gone so I implore you all to follow the Liquid Lacquer Facebook page for updates on new colors and restocks. You can purchase Liquid Lacquer on Etsy.

Matching Mommy/Daughter manis using Mockingbird.

Ah, my  beloved F4 Polish. This is another one of their new creations, not yet out for sale. This one is Lemony Cupcake and should be available after Christmas. It's a super saturated primary yellow base with a mix of red, blue, green, white and pale lavender hex glitters. Three coats gave full opacity of this one. I would call this one a crelly, leaning more heavily on the cream side. The formula on this was perfect as it went on like butter. No glitter fishing here! Removal easy as well, regular acetone nail polish and cotton balls, no foil required. It really does remind me of bakery cupcakes with the large pressed sugar sprinkles! YUM! Follow F4 on Facebook and make sure to check out their Etsy shop. 

This is two coats of China Glaze Little Drummer Boy with an accent of Orly Sunglasses at Night. Little Drummer boy is a deep blackened blue with a slight blue shimmer and Sunglasses at Night is bar holo glitter in a light black jelly base. This is one of the hardest manis to photograph that I can remember. The camera doesn't quite capture the depth of the blue.

This is a quick and dirty swatch of the Liquid Lacquer polishes I received in the mail today. !!!!! White Walker, Storm Born, Mother of Dragons, and the Drowned God were from the Game of Thrones collection with The Drowned God being the extra polish if you ordered the other three during a pre-order promo. Morning Cosmos is a brand new polish as is Old Blue Eyes and First Born Unicorn. Twinkle Toes and Lounging Lily are dupes of other very popular colors with Blue Pistachio being an original creation. That one may very well be sold out already, as is Twinkle Toes and I believe Lounging Lily. Again, if you want these polishes you have to be super quick to grab them because there will only be 30 made of each color and after that they will be retired. Liquid Lacquer is fast becoming one of my favorite polish brands, indie or otherwise. All of her products are of the utmost quality, no bleeding or curling glitters in any of them and her customer service is top notch! Melissa is very open to custom orders and taking suggestions from people as to what polishes they want to see and different themes on which to base colors on. 

As I stated above I do have an instagram that I'm quite active on. You can follow me on there under the name jennguin and here is a link to my profile.

Some of the polishes featured above where given to me for review/gifts and others were purchased by me. Regardless of whether or not I purchased or received said products my reviews/opinions of them are not biased in anyway whatsoever.

Mani Madness!!!!

HELLLOOOOOoooooo kids and kittens! It's been a while hasn't it? I hope all is well in your corner of the world, mine has been super busy but I've been good. Work has been going splendidly save some hiccups [not involving myself] and with the holidays and whatnot it seems things are going to get more involved. I've a super special birthday coming up on Dec 24th [my lil mini-me!] and xmas and all the rest so as has been par for the course, sproadic is the word of the blog.

I do have some new polishes to share though so let's get onto the goods!!

Two coats of Pure Ice French Kiss with an accent of an unnamed polish from Love of Lacquer. I love the simplicity of the polish and yet it has such an insane shine and caught the light beautifully.

This was two coats of Color Club Harp On It. I'll let the picture say everything.

Three coats of Finger Paints Santa's Magic. HOLY HOLO BATMAN! This polish is seriously amazeballs. I chose to do this without unders to try to get the full holo effect. I'd recommend layering this because it did use up a good bit of polish for a full mani with three coats.

Finger Paints Midnight Sleigh Ride with one coat of Amy's Boutique Silent Night. OH, I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! As with all of Amy's products the formula was perfect, glitter was evenly dispersed and applied beautifully! You can purchase from her shop here.

Ah, my beloved F4!! Here we have two coats of Blue Jean Night with an accent of Rockettes. Blue Jean Night is a milky white base with fine flecks of blue throughout. It reminds me of a very delicate china pattern. Simple and yet super dainty and almost antiqued. Super cool bonus: Blue Jean Night glows in the dark!!

Three coats of Rockettes with an accent of Blue Jean Night. I did three coats of Rockettes and absolutely think this is a perfect winter polish. It's a gorgeous winter white jelly with a smattering of iridescent and holo glitters. It's delicate and twinkly, just like fresh fallen snow under a clear night sky. Check out F4 on their Facebook and their Etsy. Rockettes is part of their Holiday collection so it's only going to be available for a limited time! Blue Jean Night is a huge hit so I totally recommend not waiting to jump on that one either!

So while I've been busy I haven't neglected my nails! I couldn't do that! I don't really know when I'll get back into a normal blogging schedule so I guess pop up posts will be it for a while. Please enjoy this picture of two grumpy chinchillas I took a few weeks ago to tide you over until next time. 

Liquid Lacquer Jewel of the Nile

Here we are with another installment of polishes you'll probably never own. NOW, I just found out earlier today that Liquid Lacquer will NOT be mixing anymore of Jewel of the Nile. There may be a different version released in the future but it will have a different glitter mix. So, sorry kids and kittens!

Jewel of the Nile is a glitter mix comprised of different colored hexes and squares with a fine micro shimmer. You get teal squares, pink hexes, holo hexes, pink, silver, teal, and pale translucent blue hexes as well. It applied as well as any other glitter topcoats I have, I found that using the dab and spread method worked best with this due to the size of the glitter. For this I did two coats of Jewel of the Nile over two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, a wonderful white with just a hint of grey to save it from being too sterile and generic. I love this color more than I imagined I would.

Indoor, no flash

Morning sun

Glittersssssss

It has so much sparkle it's ridiculous.

LOVE THIS!

Liquid Lacquer can be purchased here on Etsy. I seriously suggest that if you see something you like you jump on it before it's gone!


On a different note, I expect that my posts will be even more sporadic than they have been as of late. Life gets in the way sometimes and there's things going on in my world that are requiring more of my attention than I first thought. I'll try to keep up with things as much as I can but just didn't want anyone to think I was running off into the undead sunset without a word. <3

Teaser post!

....Ihavenofuckingidea.

I just got an AMAZING package of nail mail today and just had to give a little preview of what to look for in upcoming posts! A few weeks back I was lucky enough to snag the last preorder of Mockingbird from Liquid Lacquer. With the preorders you would get a free surprise full size...well, my surprises must have gremlinized because I got four extras, TWO of which are customs! 

Melissa, the creative energy behind Liquid Lacquer, was one half of 2Chix Lacquer which is now defunct. I reviewed one of 2Chix Lacquers here back in August. Melissa is a wonderful and amazing person and she knows me so well, proving it with the two customs she created just for me!

Blue Balls and Zombody Entertain Us! are the customs.

I've been staring at the bottles for a good hour now trying to decide what I'm going to wear first! I'm leaning towards Jewel of the Nile because I've been on a blue streak, now just to find the perfect unders for it! 

So keep an eye out in the next few days/weeks as I'll be working my way through these new beauties and showcasing them here on the blog!