I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush

For all you young'uns, that is a line from an REM song... for the rest of you, sorry for the earworm!!

This is one of the polishes Mr. Ski bought for me from the Dollar Tree in Key West, back in November.  It was one of a two pack, the other being a gorgeous purpley-green duochrome- in the bottle only...  on the nail, not so much.  These are by the brand Pro 10, the color is Crush.

I just want to go off on a quick rant here- I keep seeing posts on MUA and blogs about the awesome things people seem to find at their Dollar Trees- old Sally Hansen holos, old Cover Girl Crackles...  All I ever find at mine is LA Colors and the occasional separated mauvey Maybelline.  WTH, Dollar Tree??  What makes it even worse, it that the DT corporate offices are practically in my city!  (there are 7 cities here that are so close together they are all considered one metro area sometimes- I can drive through 3 cities in 15 minutes, LOL)  You would think since they are here, we could get some good stuff too!!  But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. ( 2 points to anyone who can tell me who I ripped that off from, LOL)

Sorry about that, I may have had too much coffee already today....  Now on to the pictures!

My camera seems to freak out with bright colors, but here is Crush...  this is a pretty bright, traffic cone orange with a bit of gold shimmer that really doesn't show up on the nail.

It is a bit brighter in real life...  I got bored and wanted to see what it would look like with a matte topcoat.  It looked like vinyl!!

Kind of looks like a diner booth, doesn't it?  I think I like this color, but I think it will be mainly a summer pedi polish.


Until Later,
Amberski

NOTD Maybelline La-La-Lime

I got this one from the sweet and wonderful Scandalous of Scandalously Polished.  I love you, Ange!!

La-La-Lime is a pretty green color that I probably wouldn't have picked up for myself- I tend to grab darker greens...  I love it though!

Pretty, right? 

Anyway, sorry this is such a quick post.  I am feeling a bit blah today...  I think I need a vacation!

Until Later,
Amberski

Freecycle Haul and another Giveaway win!

Yesterday I went and picked up some polishes from Freecycle.  If you don't know what Freecycle is, it is a group on Yahoo that you can join and request items or give away items for free.  Check Yahoo and see if there is one for your area!

This is my haul.  Some of them are dried up, and the bottles are covered on old polish, but I can used Seche Restore and clean the bottles, no big deal!!

Street Wear Chick, Colorama Blazes of Blue, Sinful Phoenix, Rimmel Lilac, Nicka (unknown color)

Unknown Sally Hansen color, CG Iced Rosewood, Maybelline Lunar Shell, Maybelline unamed color, NYC 107

Garden Botanika Amethyst, WnW 412, purple Bratz, unknown white, Revlon Mulberry

unknon white, Sation White Pearl, unknown yellow glitter, L'oreal french white, Color Impact unknown color

unknown purple mini, unknown pink mini, another unknown white

I think I may use some of these and try frankening...  maybe!

I won some polishes from You've Got Nail a few weeks ago, also:

TBN Brown Earth, Frosty Red, Black Beauty, French Pink, Aubergine and Ulta3 Spring Shower.

I can not wait to try these out.  Swatches and NOTDs of these soon!!

Until later,
Amberski

NOTD - Maybelline Acoustic Azure and Pure Ice Heartbreaker

I was inspired by yesterday's experiment with Heartbreaker over GuG to try it over blue.  It looks very similar, but I love it!!  It kind of looks like beetle wings!

It's blue!

It's green!

It's blue and green and gold!!

This is 3 coats Acoustic Azure, 2 coats Heartbreaker and of course base coat and SV.  Sorry about the random hand poses, I was running around the house trying different lights and weird moves with my fingers to capture all the colors!  I also just noticed that the Princess's tummy is in the second picture!  She kept trying to plant herself in the background of every picture I took- looks like she succeeded!!

Until later,
Amberski