Superbowl Sunday!!!

Today is the day!!!  lol  Who am I kidding?  I watch one football game a year, only if the Patriots are playing.  It just so happens my husband's team, the Giants are playing as well.  As my husband so lovingly explained to my daughter, "Mommy and daddy are like the Romeo and Juliet of sports."

It's true.  I grew up in Massachusetts and by default and of course eventually love of sports have become a Red Sox, Bruins and Patriots fan.  As a native of New York State, my husband prefers the Yankees and Giants.  Our children are caught up in the middle, showing preference to the team that is playing or the jersey a family member has gifted to them.  Currently there are Red Sox sweatshirts and hats and Giants football jerseys.  And of course, my argument is that they are too young to decide!  I'll be darned if I raise Yankees fans.  :)

So of course this mani has no resemblance to a football team or colors for the matter.  It's just fun!

I started out with a layer of DL Happy Birthday, followed by a layer of Confetti Pink Paradise.  I needed a more opaque pink so I looked to my new nail polish rack (more on that later!) and spotted WnW Tickled pink and put a layer of that on.  It was almost too opaque.  I put on another layer of DL HB and then 2 layers of Confetti PP and a layer of Seche.  Surprisingly, everything dried amazingly fast.  I waited a minute or 2 between each layer, which there was a lot of I must admit but the end result was nice.

Are you watching the game today?

GO PATS!!!

Extending a mani...

Another installment of extending a mani...  I have what, 8 coats of nail polish on now?  lol

I used Orly Matte Top. 

NOTD!

I do have 2 more Rimmel polish to go, but when I paint my nails a dark blue, I can't help but I want to top it off with Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe.  It doesn't need a blue base coat, but I do love to layer it!

This is by far one of my all time favorite polish!!!

Deborah Lippmann Stripper to go

So these amazing inventions came in the mail curtesy of Birchbox last month and yes I am just getting around to trying them.  I figured glitter polishes weren't the best test polish.  Basically the product is your standard acetone but has some nicer ingredients like my fave lavender essential oil and aloe vera extract.  Nice touch and leaves the cuticles soft and not dried out.

There is some extra remover in the packet so keep it upright after opening.  The mitt is a clever idea and works really well.  I was worried it would be similar to a cotton ball.  You know when you grab a handfull and then get comfy to do your mani and you know you need another cottonball but just are too lazy to get up and the polish drags and stains your fingers?  Well this doesn't happen with the Deborah Lippmann finger mitt.  The polish stays put on the cloth and is successfully removed from the nail.

So did they work?  Oh yes.  All 10 nails.  Now it was getting a little hairy at the end, my right thumb, but I dipped the finger mitt back into the packet and soaked up some more remover and it worked like a charm.  I'm impressed.  I had 6 coats of polish on 4 nails.  Yes, 6, a base coat, 2 WnW Diving for Pearls, top coat, swatches of Pure Ice Crackles and another top coat.  The rest of my nails had 4 coats.  

$12 will get you 6 mitts.  I think that's a fair price.  You don't have to worry about lugging around a bottle of remover and cotton balls while on your travels and you can still change your polish.  My nails always chip carrying around luggage.  They tuck neatly away anywhere. 

Right now Birchbox still has free shipping.