life, love, nailpolish.

I will be the first to admit that I love Valentine’s Day because I loved stuffed animals and candy. WHO DOESN’T LIKE STUFFED ANIMALS AND CANDY? Let’s all just let go of our pre-programmed hate for a consumerist driven holiday that makes self-esteem levels bottom out into the lower reaches of hell and focus on the candy and fuzzy animals!

Okay, maybe not. Either way, Valentine’s Day means PINK! And oh, do I love pink. Unfortunately, I apparently do not have pictures of any of my pink polish, so we’re going to say, OH DO I LOVE COLORS IN THE RED-ISH FAMILY!

Orly has one of the best formulas ever. I love Orly! This is Pink Chocolate, two coats. Look at how shiny it is! Delicious. Also, I think that pink chocolate would probably taste better than regular chocolate just on principle, but that’s just me.

I really do love pink, so it’s incredibly strange to me that I never wear pink polish. My phone is pink. My laptop case is pink. The awesome stretchy cover for my Chemistry book? PINK. IT’S ALL PINK. I confuse even myself.

ChG Heli-Yum, stamped with WnW Black, plate M71. Also known as the creepy girlhead plate. Some of the designs that come on the Konad plates honestly perplex me. I can’t tell you how many coats this is because this mani was the love-baby of a FAIL attempt at a dots manicure. I started out with two coats of Heli-Yum (almost a 1 coater! Works great with Konad), and I was like, HEY! LET’S DO DOTS! WHO GIVES A CRAP IF I DON’T HAVE A DOTTING TOOL!

Yeah, don’t be me.

Anyway, I wiped off the dots, put on another coat of Heli-Yum and konaded over the dents the dots made in my polish. At least I’m handy, right?

Goldie unnamed Red. If you see this, please do yourself a favor and shoot yourself in the face before you buy it. It comes in this set (I got mine at TJ Maxx, where two of the polishes were missing and one was cracked open, but I’M A SUCKER FOR A DEAL) with a sparkly blue that is JUST AS MUCH OF A PAIN AS THIS ONE IS and some grandma colors. This is 6 coats. And I spy with my little eye…. VNL! AFTER 6 COATS. AUUFRUHEFREUFUEFUH.

It was also a pain in the ass to clean up and stuck to my cuticles for days after. Hey, sounds a lot like love. HOW FITTING.

OPI Cinema Cinnamon. Or Cinnamon Cinema? Something along those lines. I got this from a friend, so it’s pretty old. It was super thick, so I added a buttload of thinner and it was easier to work with. This is two coats! I really love the color. (Do you like my masterful hiding of the smudge under my watermark? Oh, I know.)

The finish on this looks way strange because I was trying out a new top coat (SH Insta-Dri in the Red Bottle) and hadn’t got the hang of how to use it yet. Speaking of SH Insta-Dri in the Red Bottle, YOU SHOULD TRY IT. It’s not as quick dry as say, Poshe or Seche, but it’s a hell of a lot shinier and I get way less tip-wear. I want to try layering it over maybe Diamont, because that one has less of a tendency to peel off in sheets than the other two when you build on it.

So, that’s all for today, folks! Eat your weight in chocolate and have a great day!