Lime Crime's Parfait Day

Another in my series of Lime Crime polish reviews. Here is Parfait Day. Personally I'd like the name more if it was "Parfait-a-Day". Haha. Doesn't that sound like the way to live? Parfait Day is a lovely, perfect pastel bubblegum pink. I can already tell that this polish is going near the top of my "Top 10 favorite polishes of all time" list. It's seriously and honestly flawless. If you love pastels, if you love unicorns, if you love pink, if you love femininity, this is the polish for you. Here are the pics! Lightbox messed with the colors terribly, but I tried to edit to make them truer to life.

 The cuticles weep. This is them after moisturizing. -shudders-

Also, I've been working on nail shape a little. Can you tell? I'm going for ovals.

Posing with my favorite perfume. Versace Bright Crystal.

Overall Grade:

A

Another win for Lime Crime, another flawless polish.

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Lime Crime's Once In A Blue Mousse

So sorry for not posting much lately. Winter-like temperatures and manual labor at work are seriously ravishing my nails and cuticles. I break or tear at least one nail a day. That's kinda inconvenient when my blog revolves around taking pics of my hands. I've also been in a bit of an emotional dip, and I haven't felt like doing much. Plus the stress of having to do reviews makes it so i want to do them even less. I know that doesn't make sense logically, but if I'm supposed to something, I'm less likely to do it. I don't know why. I'm really stubborn, or some shit. But they will all get done eventually, even if it takes me 100 years. I have my blogger polishes lined up in order or my receiving them, so I will complete the reviews in the same order. I have contacted as many makers as I could to let the know the situation, and they were all very sweet and understanding. I'm not trying to make excuses, I'm just letting you all know that I've clearly slowed down my reviewing habits. And it really doesn't help that the sun doesn't come out anymore. So outdoor photos just look hum-drum. I built my lightbox and even found lamps that work for it. But of course it turns my photos all yellow now. Ugh. So while I work out my issues, there are sure to be some not-so-exquisite photographs. But hopefully you all can look past my ugly cuticles, my infrequent posting, and my terrible lighting and just appreciate the polish for what it is. Thanks in advance for your understanding! Without further ado, here is today's review.

It's Once In A Blue Mousse by Lime Crime. A perfect Tiffany blue with an amazing, nearly one-coat formula. Lime Crime is really acing the pastels here. I'd go as far as to say topcoat isn't needed for gloss, but I did use Seche Vite in these pics because I'm terribly impatient. Dry time on the polish was great but I'm far too lazy to wait even for that. Here are the pics!

 My cuticles are crying.

The perfect pretty blue. Thoughts? 

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Overall Grade:

A

 The oh-so pretty shade and flawless, fast drying formula makes this polish a no-brainer A.

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Lime Crime's Peaches And Cream

My favorite makeup company, Lime Crime, recently came out with their own line of nail polish. How could I say no?!? The ladies that run this brand are simply amazing. I like to think that kinda like me back, too! I have a poster of their in my room, a mini eyeshadow primer, a standard size eye primer, 5 of these new polishes, an eyeshadow palette, and 2 lipsticks! Everything I have from them rocks, so I didn't expect anything different from their polish. How right I was!! Here's my favorite of the five, Peaches <3 Cream. I'm not sure how you would say that out loud. Peaches Heart Cream? Peaches Love Cream? Peaches And Cream? I don't know. I don't care. All I care about it how flawless this polish is. A beautiful cantaloup/circus peanut shade.

 The adorable packaging. I'm far too swayed by brilliant package design. Drippy white and lavender, green on the inside of the box. Foggy semi-matte frosted bottle with the signature unicorn logo on the bottle!

  This color seriously brightens up my gloomy winter.

Stunning! What do you think?

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Whimsical Ideas by Pam's Once Upon A Time

My first whimsy! This is Once Upon A Time from her Halloween collection. How could I say no to this one when my fav 2 colors are involved?! In addition, I had Essie Navigate Her and Sally Hansen Lacey Lilac sitting right in front of my when this cutie came in, so I couldn't resist. Just a quick pic. It's blurry but its so pretty! And I figured I'd write up a quick post because Whimsical Ideas By Pam shared it on their page! (Thanks again Pam!!) So it must not be too shabby. This polish is a dream to apply and to wear. Here it is!

Overall Grade:

A

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Lime Crime

I'm going to take a minute to post about makeup! After all, this is my blog and I do what I want :) My vision of this blog is it being a place for me to post whatever I feel necessary... and this is quite necessary. This post is about Lime Crime makeup. They're a brand that really means quite a bit to me. They make the most beautiful cosmetics. Strange and unique colors, finishes, and textures. They are most well known for their lipsticks. Glossy and ultra-pigmented, opaque, and free of aging shimmer. In February they started releasing eyeshadow palettes. I bought the Palette D'Antoinette, and I absolutely adore it. Their pastel shades are not in the least bit chalky. They are silky and smooth, and over LC's Candy Eyed Eyeshadow Primer, they really just pop. They are the strangest pastels, as they have neon notes. They apply like a dream and the high pigment content makes it easy to use them sparingly. Oh yeah, and all of their products (except the primer, which contains beeswax) are VEGAN! Yay! Well here are some visual aides, you'll see what I mean about how awesome they are!!

A guide to what will work well with your skin tone!

The newest palette, mermaid theme!

This is the one I have. Stunning!

The China Doll palette. Very bold colors.

And the nail polish. More pastels, woo!

They also carry sparkly lip glosses, new liquid eyeliners, and will soon start carrying "face" products, though they are being very secretive about those! :)

If you'd like to purchase anything from them or just check out the beautiful new mermaid-y website, click here.

Candy Lacquer's "Pastel Confetti"

This little cutie is coming to you as Indie Week Post #3. It's a mix of many different shapes and sizes, all in these pretty pastel shapes. If you love glitter, or pastels, or both, this is a really great polish. I saw a swatch of this and asked the store owner if there was a way I could ensure that I'd be able to get a bottle when they opened, and she listed a bottle for me then so I could buy it. So nice! She's no longer doing special orders but I was glad that I didn't miss out by not being on the computer at just the right time! Absolutely zero formula issues. Just a great polish. Bottle shot borrowed from Candy Lacquer's Etsy site (although mine doesn't have bar glitter or black glitter? Hm.):

 I did this mani while at a birthday party today so its not super neat (you probably will never see a mani of mine that IS neat. Haha, my camera is so good that it sees stuff the human eye won't pick up right away) and also my cuticles are ugggggllyyy. But no excuses. Judge me if you'd like. The birds are out this evening chirping, it's nice. :) Here are pics.

Polishes used were (in order of application): Seche "Retain" (basecoat), Wet n Wild  #402 "Tickled Pink", Candy Lacquer "Pastel Confetti", and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri #110 "Clearly Quick" as a glossy topcoat.

Later gators.