Good morning!I did my first ombre manicure yesterday and I was quite pleased with how it came out. I never tried it before because I didn't think I owned enough of one color spectrum to do it. It's not perfect but it's pretty damn close considering.

Good morning!Since I have a bit more free time, I can finally catch up on my backlog of swatches.Today I'm bringing you two more L.A. Girl Metal polishes that I picked up at the Fuego store in Portland at Pioneer Place.Let's get to pictures and then I ca

Hey there.This isn't the happiest post I've had to write but since I've had some time to reflect and many long talks with my husband, family and my besties, I can now look on the bright side.I was let go from my job this week. It wasn't what I wanted to have happen but since I was no longer happy, it has b

Here is the latest press release I received from Pure Ice. Nope, I'm still not over the crackle!"Baby I painted the sky blue, my greatest creation was you!"

Good morning!It's been awhile since I had done a sponged gradient mani. Sponging is one of my very favorite techniques and it is so dead simple simple to do. The weather here is particularly grey and chilly so I needed lots of color to lift my spirits. (It hasn't helped that Matt has been talking about Cancun...

Good morning!Today I am bringing you my most expensive nail polish in my stash. I speak of my very first and I've no doubt not my last, Chanel.

Good morning!Today is the Rose Bowl and my Ducks will be taking on the Wisconsin Badgers. I'm sad because I will be missing part of the game due to work but I sure have some snazzy nails! My inspiration was the special new ProCombat uniforms and this

Good day friends!I'm super excited that my Oregon Ducks will be playing in the Rose Bowl again. I'm currently working on my mani for it but I wanted to take the opportunity to review the 2011-2012 season of Duck Day manicures.Let's Win the Day!

Happy New Year, my friends!Matt and I will be spending some time with good friends this evening. But this will have to be our special NYE party since we can't all be together in real life. (Oh, how I wish we could!)We'll have a glass of champagne...

Good day!Today I bring my annual holiday message. I myself do not observe the holiday but I do want to tell you all that I am grateful to have met you and shared not only a love of nail polish but pieces of our lives. I've been very fortunate to have made some wonderful friends via this blog and I love meeting n

Good morning!I am so behind on my swatching. Today I have something I picked up at Nordstrom Rack back in September.I find some of the best stuff when I go to Portland and I was super excited to find a brand that I have wanted to try and not seen in my local area.Without further ado, I bring yo

Good morning!Today I am bringing guest hands and toes! My niece, Sierra, is just as nail obsessed as I am. Which is both amazing and frustrating. Amazing because I had nothing to do with it but frustrating because she lives so far away from me. But I am a proud auntie and I had to share my joy.We routinely

Well, hello there!I've been slacking big time. But I had a lot going on. I went to Vegas, worked like crazy, celebrated a friend's birthday, went to the Pac-12 Championship game where I froze my toesies but got to see my Ducks win and head off to the Rose Bowl again. Now it's a matter of squeezing in time to blo

Good morning!Today I have the first of my hauls from Las Vegas.I love H&M and it is horrible that there is not one in Eugene. Again, the nearest location is in Portland. Boo. So wherever I travel, if they have an H&M, I always go.I've been wanting to try some of their polishes but

Good morning!I will be headed off to Las Vegas tomorrow morning so I wanted to be sure I got a little something here for you to see. I've been buying plenty of polish and swatching, I just haven't managed to actually post much.I'm gearing up big time for the holidays at work so i come home pretty tired. Al

Good day!Happy Halloween, y'all. I wasn't going to dress up this year but...how could I not?Luckily, I had a costume that my mom purchased for me a couple of years ago from Value Village that I never got to wear.It's totally not "me" and it was kind of funny for anyone who knows me. There's even a st

Good morning!I'm back with something a little bit different. I have a "new" brand to show that I picked up at Macy's a couple of weeks ago. I was doing some dress shopping when I spied it. I speak of the Macy's exclusive line, Material Girl. If you hadn't heard, Madonna and her daughter launched a line of clothe

Good day.I have a touch of the inexplicable melancholy so no nail polish. Instead I have a playlist of depressing music. The most amusing part is that it's not all metal, either. I have range...1. Carina Round - For Everything A ReasonI heard this song

Good day!Today I have one of the only two WNW On The Prowl polishes I could find.

Good morning!I have had one exhausting week so far and it left me feeling spun. Therefore, I needed a crazy pick-me-up.I dove into some of my recent hauls and put together something so silly, fun and over the top girly.

Good day!I've been up to my old tricks with the polish layering again. Before we get to the photos though, I apologize in advance if the quality is not so good. Matt took my camera with him on business trip so I had to use my phone camera. Hopefully, you'll like my layering enough to forgive me.

Good day!Today I have something from my most recent trip to Ulta. I went at a good time since their salon brand polishes were on sale for $2. I picked up a lemming AND found something a little more sophisticated and appropriate for fall.Let's take a look:

Good morning!I'm bringing yet another Essence polish for you today. I adore these little Colour and Go polishes. 99 cents and you have a great choice of color and it dries super fast? yes, please!

Good morning!Today is my Monday and I'm back to work.I had such a lovely weekend with Matt and I didn't want it to be over. Alas, he has to go out of town on business. Which is okay because that means I can do some things that I can't when Matt is home. (Yay for reading books!) This is also nice for Gus be

Good day!I got some inspiration for nail art on Tumblr not too long ago and I had to try it. (I cannot believe the idea did not occur to me before!!)Anyway, I have a bit of backstory. I am a metal Lamb and I love me some black metal. One of my favorite black metal bands is Immortal. They are a great band b

Good day!I have for you my most recent Duck Day mani for September 24. In case you didn't know, Oregon won over the Arizona Wildcats 56-31. We had my sister and my nephew, T.J. over to watch the game with us. I mention T.J. only because he was on fire that night. He was cracking me up! We had a good time togethe

Good day!I'm back into another LOOONG work week and I have some catching up to do. What have I been up to?Aside from practically living at work, I celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary on Friday and spent that day wandering around Portland. (I love Portland...I should live there...) I got lots

Good day and GO DUCKS!!!I fell behind last week in bringing my other duck mani so there are two this week.Allow me to present last week's mani:

Good morning!I've noticed that I've been choosing lots of dark polishes that are matching my dark moods.So I wanted to break out of that funk and have something whimsical and SPARKLY.

Good day!I wanted to show you some sweet layering I've done recently as well as some mani refreshing.As you know, I've had some issues doing my nails since...well...work has been so much more challenging.Here are some wins:This is Glam Rock layered with Color Club Snowflakes. It was a bri