PearlyQueen
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PearlyQueen
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Pahlish - Test Batch Yummy Mummy (bought as a Mystery Pahlish)
PearlyQueen
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New forum format is a bit of a pain... but I'm glad it's back anyway!
Anneri
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I think all Glams of that particular LE chip fairly fast - mine chipped after 24hrs. I love the colours I got though!
And yeah, the new forum is quite a pain. I'm not good with new computer programs and stuff anyways, so I'm quite challenged with all the changes!
Anitacska
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Thank you! I wasn't sure it worked very well, but it was an interesting effect anyway.
Thank you! The box is still available if you want to get it.
Thank you!
May 2013 is so pretty. It had been my top 3 ISOs, the other two being Ocean Potion and I'm Kind if aq Big Deal, for a long long time, but the prices always put me off. Someone's selling IKOABD for $40 on one of the FB groups, but it's only half full. I'd get it for $30, but not likely she'll sell for that.
Sorry not sorry.
That was a good deal. RC had a crap deal, she didn't offer the £1 discounted shipping, so I passed. Instead got the Glams and EdM and Powder Perfect from C4N, and some Bears and Girly Bits. Now I'm done. All your manis are lovely!
Yes, it is a pain. I hate it that you can't post more than one picture in one go.
I've been really busy, bought a Helmer and 2 Alexes in IKEA, plus a rainbow tower in Hobbycraft, took 2 evenings to put the Alexes together, now I've started moving my nail polishes into the Alexes and the Helmer. It's going to take forever! I need to figure out a good system, plus I'm updating my spreadsheet as I go along and it's sloooooow. The rainbow tower is mainly for my make up, but the bottom few drawers might take some nail polish.
Fuzzy
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Hopefully your radiator is fixed or will be soon.
Thank you!
Thank you! haha well, the dress was from the 70s! The very low light in the bar highlighted the iridescent flakes pretty well.
Argh, so I haven't figured out to post pics from my mobile, I'm in an awful nailpolish slump and while I'm still wearing polish on my nails, the weather has been totally horrid for the last week. Plus, my mobile crashed and I lost a lot of pics. So.
Anyways, anyone know about some good Black Friday indie polish deals? I know that some brands do a sale, but I'm more interested in the re-sellers store ones. I know C4N has one, but I'm not really interested in anything she has (Anitcska, didn't you say that her EdM exclusive is a dupe for Pandore?).
I wanted to give a lot of thanks for all the manis and hauls you all posted, but well, there're no longer there.
I couldn't get photos from my phone either, hopefully that will get fixed soon. I'm dealing will all sorts of new stuff as I finally updated to Windows 10... it broke a few things and I'm slowly fixing them.
I hope they add the thanks back too!
Wow that's a long trip to Ikea lol Congrats on your new Helmer & Alexes!
Pretty manis!
Wow much better than $100+! Glad you found one of your most-wanteds!
Great manis! love the Powder Perfect one!
Thank you! I wasn't sure it worked very well, but it was an interesting effect anyway.
Thank you! The box is still available if you want to get it.
Thank you!
May 2013 is so pretty. It had been my top 3 ISOs, the other two being Ocean Potion and I'm Kind if aq Big Deal, for a long long time, but the prices always put me off. Someone's selling IKOABD for $40 on one of the FB groups, but it's only half full. I'd get it for $30, but not likely she'll sell for that.
Sorry not sorry.
All your manis are lovely!
Yes, it is a pain. I hate it that you can't post more than one picture in one go.
I've been really busy, bought a Helmer and 2 Alexes in IKEA, plus a rainbow tower in Hobbycraft, took 2 evenings to put the Alexes together, now I've started moving my nail polishes into the Alexes and the Helmer. It's going to take forever! I need to figure out a good system, plus I'm updating my spreadsheet as I go along and it's sloooooow. The rainbow tower is mainly for my make up, but the bottom few drawers might take some nail polish.
Best of luck for getting them all organized! It will be so nice to be able to find them easier and have them not all in boxes.
I want to make a desk of some sort with two drawer units and a table top at some point, but it's just so far behind other things I need to get... like a kitchen cart. It would be so nice to to free some space on my kitchen counter and not have to keep my slow cooker on my dining table. It's bad enough the sewing machine has taken up permanent residence there lol
but who knows when I'll even get to that!
PearlyQueen
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Today's mani!
HITS Mari Moon Toxic Galaxy:
HITS Mari Moon Toxic Galaxy:
Anitacska
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Very nice!
Hopefully your radiator is fixed or will be soon.
Thank you!
Thank you! haha well, the dress was from the 70s! The very low light in the bar highlighted the iridescent flakes pretty well.
I couldn't get photos from my phone either, hopefully that will get fixed soon. I'm dealing will all sorts of new stuff as I finally updated to Windows 10... it broke a few things and I'm slowly fixing them.
I hope they add the thanks back too!
Wow that's a long trip to Ikea lol Congrats on your new Helmer & Alexes!
Pretty manis!
Wow much better than $100+! Glad you found one of your most-wanteds!
Great manis! love the Powder Perfect one!
Best of luck for getting them all organized! It will be so nice to be able to find them easier and have them not all in boxes.
I want to make a desk of some sort with two drawer units and a table top at some point, but it's just so far behind other things I need to get... like a kitchen cart. It would be so nice to to free some space on my kitchen counter and not have to keep my slow cooker on my dining table. It's bad enough the sewing machine has taken up permanent residence there lol
Thanks, the radiators are now fixed.
Thank you.
You know, the weird thing about IKEA is that it's only 10 miles away! Just the roads are stupidly slow, so it took me an hour to get there and 1.5 hours to get back. Wasn't even rush hour! But I'm very pleased with my Alexes in particular. If I had enough space, I'd get another one, much nicer than the Helmer.
I've been very slowly making my way through my polishes, but it will take days (weeks?) to move them all. But then it'll be great.
So funny though, you know you buy too many polishes when you receive an order you don't even remember placing! Yesterday I received a package from WingDust, I'd totally forgotten I placed an order!
My current mani is Liquid Sky Lacquer Mystical Peacock with WingDust Space-Junk in Her Trunk (totally coincidental, this is an old shade):
Fuzzy
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Pretty!
Wow that is bad traffic! My Ikea is about 11.5 km away and I don't think it's ever taken longer than 20 minutes to get there via the highway, but of course that's not during rush hour.
LOL Nice little haul! I've had those 'what was it that I ordered?' moments in the past.
Very pretty mani, a good pairing!
Fuzzy
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My mani
Orly - Sparkling Garbage (over OPI Don't Touch My Tutu to help keep the glitter stuck on my nails and helps the green pop too)
I chose this for a fancy event on Friday and of course it was too dark in there to see the holo glitter!
It's wearing pretty well except for a couple tiny edge chips on the thumbs I got while setting up stuff for a holiday party today. 
Orly - Sparkling Garbage (over OPI Don't Touch My Tutu to help keep the glitter stuck on my nails and helps the green pop too)
I chose this for a fancy event on Friday and of course it was too dark in there to see the holo glitter!
It's wearing pretty well except for a couple tiny edge chips on the thumbs I got while setting up stuff for a holiday party today. 
MRV
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Uh, I'm not used to this new platform. Where is our upper right hand pic box??? I can't even always see the pics in the posts. I use the same browser (Firefox) at home/work, so maybe it's a PC/Mac thing.
Thanks, Anitacska!
A very pretty mani, love the colours!
Another pretty mani! The combo's great and they make a very festive mani.
That's the only colour wheel we need! Great idea. Bet other kids did not have the same wheel.
That's a nice box, the Cupcake and Bear especially.
Great news!
Hope you all get your heating fixed. We had a few colder days, but now it's back to storming and raining, although yesterday I woke up to a miracle: the sun was shining.
A pretty, delicate mani. And lucky you - your nails are not stained yellow so you can wear someting like this.
Thanks, PQ!
Sorry to hear about your mobile problems. I also should BU my pics. They are just too many.
Thanks, Anitacska!
Current mani is Takko Cheshire Cat with ILNP Paradox (H).
Cold state
Transition
Warm with flash
Cold with flash
A very pretty mani, love the colours!
Okay, I've worked it out.Will get used to it eventually I'm sure. Let's see if I can upload a photo.
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Okay, that worked. It's my recent mani (about to come off) with Zoya Dream and Essie On a Silver Platter, plus stars done with vinyls and Color Club Star Light Star Bright. Please ignore the botched up index finger. I ran out of time and vinyls to redo it.
Talking of Color Club, my daughter had to make a colour wheel out of objects for school, so she suggested nail polish and we used all CC polishes.
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Today's arrivals (the November Paint the Rainbow box):
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Otherwise, I've been single for 5 days and loving it! Although he's spent a lot of time here packing up his stuff and also kept coming back to eat and watch telly as he had no food in the flat and still hasn't got a telly. But this week is more normal now. Over the weekend we'll sort out the rest of the stuff and then done. And I'm off to IKEA on Wednesday to buy some Helmers and Alexes!
It's flipping cold here though and now one of the living room radiators is broken, it won't switch on.The one in my daughter's bedroom however, will not switch off (they all have thermostats, but it just stays hot). Seriously!
EDIT: Now my pictures are tiny.
Another pretty mani! The combo's great and they make a very festive mani.
That's the only colour wheel we need! Great idea. Bet other kids did not have the same wheel.
That's a nice box, the Cupcake and Bear especially.
Great news!
Hope you all get your heating fixed. We had a few colder days, but now it's back to storming and raining, although yesterday I woke up to a miracle: the sun was shining.
Here's my mani
OPI You Calling Me a Lyre? With Nfu Oh NFU 48
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I chose this for the opening of a new Tiki bar here because I was wearing a really loud dress
A pretty, delicate mani. And lucky you - your nails are not stained yellow so you can wear someting like this.
Thanks, PQ!
Argh, so I haven't figured out to post pics from my mobile, I'm in an awful nailpolish slump and while I'm still wearing polish on my nails, the weather has been totally horrid for the last week. Plus, my mobile crashed and I lost a lot of pics. So.
Anyways, anyone know about some good Black Friday indie polish deals? I know that some brands do a sale, but I'm more interested in the re-sellers store ones. I know C4N has one, but I'm not really interested in anything she has (Anitcska, didn't you say that her EdM exclusive is a dupe for Pandore?).
I wanted to give a lot of thanks for all the manis and hauls you all posted, but well, there're no longer there.
Sorry to hear about your mobile problems. I also should BU my pics. They are just too many.
MRV
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Whoa, that took some time! Our Ikea is about 15km away, and it once took me almost 1,5 hours by bus to go there. Which I hated! Now they have a quicker connection, but I just don't want to get the bus to anywhere. (= If it's not in a walking distance they usually loose my money.)
Pretty manis! Love the BO and that pink mani.
Great catch!
Thanks for reminding! This is the only BF NP offer I splurged on! Four EdMs total!
Congrats! Yeah, I only got those four, and concentrated more on hair and skin cleansing stuff, and a few other things (clothes & accessories).
You'll be so close to NP
down there in China! The regional shops and maybe the Aussie companies can also ship there?Pretty manis! The first Glam has a lovely shade and the PP looks so pretty (I got only the pink version).
May 2013 is so pretty. It had been my top 3 ISOs, the other two being Ocean Potion and I'm Kind if aq Big Deal, for a long long time, but the prices always put me off. Someone's selling IKOABD for $40 on one of the FB groups, but it's only half full. I'd get it for $30, but not likely she'll sell for that.
Sorry not sorry.
All your manis are lovely!
Yes, it is a pain. I hate it that you can't post more than one picture in one go.
I've been really busy, bought a Helmer and 2 Alexes in IKEA, plus a rainbow tower in Hobbycraft, took 2 evenings to put the Alexes together, now I've started moving my nail polishes into the Alexes and the Helmer. It's going to take forever! I need to figure out a good system, plus I'm updating my spreadsheet as I go along and it's sloooooow. The rainbow tower is mainly for my make up, but the bottom few drawers might take some nail polish.
You have a nice ISO list. Would not mind to get those polishes, but I'm not doing any ISO. Maybe she repromotes!?
Good luck with the rearrangement! It takes time if you're updating your list at the same time. I did a NP inventory a while back, it took maybe three days (well, three evenings on a weekend). My Helmers are already full. Sigh.
Nice!
You got an early xmas! Lovely mani (the SL especially).
My mani
Orly - Sparkling Garbage (over OPI Don't Touch My Tutu to help keep the glitter stuck on my nails and helps the green pop too)
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I chose this for a fancy event on Friday and of course it was too dark in there to see the holo glitter!
You can't never go wrong with SG, it looks really nice, kind of translucent.
MRV
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Oh, looks like I did not get to post last week at all. First one is Enchanted Beautiful Rule Breaking Moth with FF Haunting Spectre
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EdM Future Royals?
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Cadillacquer The End Begins
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And EdM Enchanted Isle. IRL this is a very bright green actually, leans a bit on the blue side. I don't know when this came out, it was lingering at C4N for a longer time. The holo is awesome!
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EdM Future Royals?
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Cadillacquer The End Begins
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And EdM Enchanted Isle. IRL this is a very bright green actually, leans a bit on the blue side. I don't know when this came out, it was lingering at C4N for a longer time. The holo is awesome!
Anitacska
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Thanks Fuzzy!
Yeah, the traffic around London is always bad. Too many people, too many cars, not enough roads.
My mani
Orly - Sparkling Garbage (over OPI Don't Touch My Tutu to help keep the glitter stuck on my nails and helps the green pop too)
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I chose this for a fancy event on Friday and of course it was too dark in there to see the holo glitter!
Love Sparkling Garbage. Haven't worn mine in a very long time.
Uh, I'm not used to this new platform. Where is our upper right hand pic box??? I can't even always see the pics in the posts. I use the same browser (Firefox) at home/work, so maybe it's a PC/Mac thing.
Thanks, Anitacska!
A very pretty mani, love the colours!
Another pretty mani! The combo's great and they make a very festive mani.
That's the only colour wheel we need! Great idea. Bet other kids did not have the same wheel.
That's a nice box, the Cupcake and Bear especially.
Great news!
Hope you all get your heating fixed. We had a few colder days, but now it's back to storming and raining, although yesterday I woke up to a miracle: the sun was shining.
A pretty, delicate mani. And lucky you - your nails are not stained yellow so you can wear someting like this.
Thanks, PQ!
Sorry to hear about your mobile problems. I also should BU my pics. They are just too many.
Thank you!
Whoa, that took some time! Our Ikea is about 15km away, and it once took me almost 1,5 hours by bus to go there. Which I hated! Now they have a quicker connection, but I just don't want to get the bus to anywhere. (= If it's not in a walking distance they usually loose my money.)
Pretty manis! Love the BO and that pink mani.
Great catch!
Thanks for reminding! This is the only BF NP offer I splurged on! Four EdMs total!
Congrats! Yeah, I only got those four, and concentrated more on hair and skin cleansing stuff, and a few other things (clothes & accessories).
You'll be so close to NP
Pretty manis! The first Glam has a lovely shade and the PP looks so pretty (I got only the pink version).
You have a nice ISO list. Would not mind to get those polishes, but I'm not doing any ISO. Maybe she repromotes!?
Good luck with the rearrangement! It takes time if you're updating your list at the same time. I did a NP inventory a while back, it took maybe three days (well, three evenings on a weekend). My Helmers are already full. Sigh.
Nice!
You got an early xmas! Lovely mani (the SL especially).
You can't never go wrong with SG, it looks really nice, kind of translucent.
Thank you!
Yeah, those are the two colours I would pay a bit more for, but not the $100+ people are asking for them. Eh.
These are all really nice, but especially the EdMs.
I've been so busy lately and I'm so tired. Still in the process of rearranging my stash, I'm not even halfway. I knew it would take long, but ugh, this is worse than I thought. I also don't think everything will fit in the 2 Alexes and the Helmer. I've already filled 3 drawers in the rainbow tower with make up and that's just a fraction as well. I think I have a problem, lol.
Anyway, current mani is Dance Legend The Knight with Indigo Bananas A Greener World (holo). Sadly I had to trim my middle finger nail after I took the pictures, you can already see the break on the left. Tomorrow when I change my mani I will trim down the others too. *sigh*
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PearlyQueen
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A nice surprise!
I always Love Mystical Peacock - but I adore the Wingdust on top! Wish I'd bought that one, I love it!
PearlyQueen
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My mani
Orly - Sparkling Garbage (over OPI Don't Touch My Tutu to help keep the glitter stuck on my nails and helps the green pop too)
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I chose this for a fancy event on Friday and of course it was too dark in there to see the holo glitter!
A lovely combo, I'm vaguely jealous I don't have SG!
PearlyQueen
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PearlyQueen
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I did my stash recently (computerised, rather than helmer-ised!) and it took soooo much longer than I expected - but it's great to know where everything is!
Love your mani too!
PearlyQueen
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New mani - Layla Butterfly Effect (CE52):
