Funky Fingers Pastel Swatches.

First off Happy Mothers Day to all the fabulous moms out there! I hope you all who are celebrating with your mom or if you are a mom are having a wonderful day! I too am spending the day with my mom. It was luck of the draw that I didn't have to work today even though they tried to make me!

Today I bring you swatches of some Funky Finger Polishes I picked up a few weeks ago at Five Below. I love that they do 3 for $5 polishes and 2 for $5 on there special ones ( usually crackles). I also found out from Alaina from The Little Canvas that the company that brings us Funky Fingers also brings us Color Club! How about that right?

So to start off there are three pastel colors that they have put out for the spring season. A lovely mint, baby pink and a lilac/lavender. All three of the pastels have a lovely gold shimmer that is very visible in the bottle. On the nail, well I get to that.

First up is the mint color called Mrs. Mint. Appropriately named this is the polish I had the worst time with. It is beyond streaky. Which is sad to say because its my first and only true mint color.

The formula is on the thin side, and can flood your cuticles easily. as you can see when  I tried to clean up my cuticles. When applying this polish you have let each coat dry practically completely or else you get major brush drag.

This is three coats, I can't remember if I put a top coat on for all the polishes or not. I'm going to say yes there is a top coat on these swatches though. Now for the bummer on the gold shimmer. I was so happy to see it in the bottle and then on the nail it gets lost. Unless you are in blinding sunlight you don't see it at all.

Next up is a favorite, mainly because of the name. The pink pastel is called Queen Cupcake.

This polish reminds me of Pink Friday by OPI or the Nicole by OPI Kardashian color. This polish is streaky as well but you don't have have each coat completely dry before adding another coat. A few minutes is more than enough and three coats is good for opacity. 

The last and final color is called Sugar Plum Fairy. Now I know that, the name is usually associated with Christmas, at least to me. I would of picked a different name for it. Out of the three though this had the best application. Yes the first coat is streaky but not nearly as bad as the previous two and its such a pretty lilac/lavender color that you could get a way with it all year round.

Two coats is good for this polish and the shimmer that isn't prevalent in Queen Cupcake and Mrs. Mint actually can be seen in this. The camera didn't pick it up but I could see it in real life.

Funky Fingers is available as I said in the beginning at Five Below. They always run specials for 3 for $5. It worth a trip in if you live near one.

Hope you all enjoyed this. Until next time.
Nicole

NOTD: China Glaze Dress Me up with hearts!

Hi all! Happy Tuesday!

I hope all of you have been well. I know I haven't posted in about a week I believe, so glad to be back though. Lots went on over last week and this past weekend. My dad came home for a visit from taking care of his dad and on my dads first day back our dog Doby starting having problems.

Doby wasn't a young dog, he was old; around 11 years old, so that's 77 in dog years. I refer to him the past tense because as things progressed he got horribly worse. He wouldn't get up to go for walks or even to eat, yet when you looked at him he wagged his tail and still growled at the cats as they passed by. When he finally did get up we could tell his back legs weren't able to support him anymore. Doby was a big dog and when I say big I don't mean fat, he was a Black Lab, Rottweiler, and great Perinese all mixed in to one body. On Friday which also happened to be my dads birthday we finally had found a vet that would come to our house to put Doby to sleep. Friday was the worst day ever. In reality though it was a happy day because the dog would no longer be in pain and suffering. Even the vet that came to the house said putting him to sleep was the most humane thing to do, and it was the right thing. I will miss Doby terribly but he's always in my heart.

So glad I made it through that paragraph without crying!

Everyone is still adjusting to not having the dog around the house, even one of my cats is having a hard time but she is getting better. Today's manicure is dedicated to Doby in a way and its also the first manicure that I have actually been pleased with.

I started off with two coats of China Glaze's Dress Me Up from the Hunger Games Collection. This polish is a very nice neutral dusty rose pink creme. It could be opaque enough in one coat if you are on the go but two coats was good for me. This color definitely goes into my  ' wearable for work' colors.

For some odd reason I couldn't just leave this plain jane color alone. So I broke out Mrs. Mint from Funky Fingers and stamped some green hearts. Since the green hearts don't come out really opaque it looks like patter on fabric to me. I couldn't just stop there either I added the black dots to fill the void space around the hearts.

If you want to see my two meh manicures I posted them on Twitter and on Instagram. You can follow me on both under the name Mynailsmypolish.  Hope you like this. I should have another manicure later in the week for you all.

Till then.
Nicole.