Giveaway!

Sorry guys for this uber late post! It's been a little hectic in the lives of the APL girls! But the giveaway begins now! All you need to do is enter in this post. Leave a comment! That is it. The contest will run for one month starting now.

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All we ask is to be a follower of the blog, that is your entry right there! For bonus entries you can do two things. Comment in a post that gets you another entry! and for a total of 5 entries (including following and comment) Just blog about us OR tweet about us. So:

Follow- 1 entry  ( all followers previous to this contest are already entered!)
Comment- 1 comment + follow= 2 entries
Blog or Tweet- 3 + entry+follow= 5 entries! (show proof)

Thanks guys for being super patient with us. I will update this blog entry with some of the giveaway gifts!


Thanks a bunch!

Nautical Mani

Finally, after ages of swatches, a detailed manicure!

First, a swatch of the base color. I used Canmake #50, a navy blue polish.
Oh blue nail polish, why must you be so notoriously hard to photograph?? This is actually a deep navy blue polish, and try as I might I just could not get the actual color to show up. Natural light was even worse, it looked light blue!
I had this planned for months specially for last month when I went to Okinawa(which was AWESOME.) I used Canmake #50, NYC French White Tip, and Homei quick dry Your Person of Destiny

Nautical Mani, a photo by KitaRei on Flickr.
I know I posted several months ago about how terrible the Diamond Nail Homei polishes are. The glitter Homei polishes are actually really good, great colors and tons of multi-sized glitter, and mine even came with a free nail tool. It's the Diamond Nail Line (which, incidentally, I haven't seen recently) that bites. I'll post swatches of both in a later post :)

Funky Fingers Melted Popsicle

Another day, another swatch. I've been meaning to focus on swatching more of my collection, as so many of my pretties are still sitting unused! (gasp) I just opened and used my 212-Sephora polish yesterday for the first time, and OH is it purdy! Picts of that to come later.

Anyway, back to today's polish! One of my birthday gifts from Erika. A really great polish with an awesome name! Deep grape-purple with micro glitter flecks. I love it's deep grape soda color!

Funky Fingers Melted Popsicle, a photo by KitaRei on Flickr.

Close to our 500th follower giveaway!

I hope you guys didn't forget about this, I didn't! We have so many goodies! Please keep following, commenting, and also is their a certain color or look that you would like to see? Let us know!

Thanks everyone:)

Revlon, you crafty minx you!

Revlon, you are very crafty.. because you made me buy another one of your polishes. Even after many times I said I wouldn't...I have. This time in the form of the Chanel Graphite dupe called Carbonite.

Mind the obvious"I didn't get all the nail polish of my nails thumb look"

Now I don't own the Chanel version, for obvious reasons. (I am po') But when I saw this polish in CVS last week, I decided to throw caution to the wind(as I always do when it comes to the nail polish gods) and buy it.

Last night, looking at my crazy chipped nails from this past weekends manicure, I gave it a go.

The formula, is.. (is Revlon reading this right now because someone is) so much better! I glided on with ease, no bubbles, fast drying time! I am so glad I bought this because it is so much prettier on the nail then in the bottle. On the nail, when you move it around you can see hints of an olive green and black shimmer.  Definitely almost a dupe for the Chanel version at almost 20$ cheaper! I paid 3.29$ for my bottle.

I think I'm starting to warm up back to Revlon, and I have to say their offerings in the past year have been amazing. I hope they release more dupes for this girl on a budget with a slight(MAJOR) nail polish addiction.

PS. Bubblewrapper brought up a good point, this color sucks up shine, so if you really love a shiny nail polish, this one might disappoint. Even with Seche Vite, it still had a muted finish. 
Ta-ta for now!

L.A. Girls Rock Star Double Platinum

Ok I know it's Wednesday, and I should be posting a pink mani, but I had already done this one, so this time I'm sticking with it :p

L.A. Girls Rock Star Double Platinum, a photo by KitaRei on Flickr.

I got this in Japan a few months ago, and I didn't get any more (though I REALLY wanted to) as they were all overpriced (as all foreign polishes are here), and the store is all sold out :*( This is a beautiful champagne-gray toned holographic glitter. It's a mix of regular and holo glitter, and in the bad store lighting I didn't notice that it had holo in it until after I painted my nails-a pleasant surprise to say the least! All nails two coats except the middle, which has three. I definitely think it needs the third coat. Awesome polish, I love it!

Nails Inc. London Plum

I got this through Kitten Nails' blog sale about 3 months ago. It was an exclusive Diet Coke limited color in specially marked packages. Sorry for the blah picture, it just wasn't working out that day.

The formula was so-so. I had to actually add nail polish thinner to it as it was too gloopy when I first tried to polish my nails with it. I only have one polish by this company, so I don't know if it was just a fluke or if they're all this way.

Nails Inc. London Plum, a photo by KitaRei on Flickr.

The color itself is, well, plum. It doesn't seem to be anything that I can't get from another brand (though it is a nice shade- just saying, if you really like it don't despair, it can be found in other brands!)
It did look really nice in the light though :)