Showing posts with label Cult Nails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cult Nails. Show all posts

January 31, 2012

Comments On Commenting... And Some Polish. I Guess.

Hi ladies!  Did my title scare you?  Sorry.  I apologize.  The blog post IS going to be mainly polish, I just feel crappy.  Ick.  And I want to touch quickly on something that has been bugging me lately.  So, I'll do that first.  

Blogger has been having a lot of issues lately.  It's been an absolutely constant battle to get things to work right.  Or, the way I think they should work.  First (and the biggest problem I have), I had to delete intense debate because I couldn't get it to work with the new blogger format.  That seriously bugged me.  I LOVED knowing that when I replied directly to a comment, it was going to notify the person that I had done so.  I seriously appreciate every comment I get, and I like to let you all know that I read them.  Honestly, that's why I have to approve comments.  It ensures that I read each and every one and that I don't miss any.  I know I say I'm going to reply to them, but how many of you (unless you ask a direct question) actually remember to check to see if there are replies?  It doesn't happen.  You read the post (or even just look at the pics.  I'm guilty of that too, and I'm okay with you doing it!), leave a comment and go about your day.  So, you can imagine my absolute giddiness when I heard there were direct replies on blogger!  

Then that feeling went away.  Direct comments don't really mean crap.  They are threaded now (yay for organization!), but you still have to check to see if your comment has been replied to.  It's crap.  If you are going to improve upon something, do it right.  I guess it's a step in the right direction, but they could have taken it all the way.  After all, that is what they get paid to do.  (Which makes me wonder why the blogroll issue hasn't been fixed yet......)

I guess what I'm getting at here is this:  Do you guys mind that I don't reply if you know I read them?  Do you check back for them?  If I found a way to email you replies, would you like me to do that?  I want your thoughts.  I feel really crappy when I don't answer comments, but I've seriously never held a conversation on these threads.  When I do comment, I feel like it goes unnoticed.  That's discouraging. Plus, I want you to feel like I AM reading them, and I AM listening.  So, tell me what I can do!  

Now, onto what you all come here for!  I went a little crazy around Christmas and bought 8 Cult polishes.  At the time, I felt like they were the remainder of what I NEEDED (which of course, now includes Toxic Seaweed *fingers crossed*).  Today I am showing you Mind Control.

I gasped when I pulled this polish out of it's wrapping!  It's gorgeous.  I don't think I had seen good swatches of it yet and I was WOW'd.  Check it out: 



Mind Control is an extremely greyed-out purple with tons and tons of pink/fuchsia micro glitter. It is an absolute stunner!  I feel mysterious when I wear it.  I know that sounds strange, that a polish can make me feel that way, but trust me.  It does.  I also can't stop staring at it!  If you get one Cult Nails polish, please do yourself a favor and make it this one!  

Finally, I don't think my baby makes the blog often enough.  I came across this picture while I was hunting down the Cult photos:
It was already edited and looked super cute, so I put it in the post.  Wrigley says HI!  lol  

So, let me know what you think about the commenting situation, eh?  I love you guys!  Thanks for reading :) 


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January 02, 2012

Cult Nails Iconic Revisited

Hello, hello!  If you remember, I won this polish from Maria herself way back this summer.  I immediately did a post on it!  It's gorgeous.  You may also remember that the pictures sucked!  So, I took a couple more.  They still aren't great, but are a lot better than the first time!  


I added some of the stickers I got in a SS package and I think they look great.  My cuticles don't look quite as bad irl, so I'm not too worried about it.  The camera sure does make them looked stained though!  lol  Sorry about that.  :)  What do you think of this polish?  Comment!  Thanks for looking! :) 

hey

November 01, 2011

MOM! The Unicorn Puked in My Purse Again!

Hi everyone!  I'm not going to talk.  Why?  I am ashamed of these pictures.  This is SUCH a gorgeous polish, and my damn camera died before i got a good picture :(  Anyway, enjoy if you can!  I present to you: Unicorn Puke! 

This is what I'm wearing to my first day at the new job!  Wish me luck, and have a great day!  Thanks for looking :) 


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October 30, 2011

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Hi everyone!  I don't know how many of you celebrate Halloween, but I sure do!  So, to all of you who do, Happy Halloween!  Hope it's full of scares :)

Today, I really couldn't think of a Halloween mani that I wanted to do that hasn't already been done.  So, I didn't do one.  Sad, I know!  I have my awesome spider jewelry to make up for it though.  Instead, I put on three coats of Orly Rock Solid, and one coat of Unicorn Puke on my accent nails.  I couldn't wait to try it!  Here are the pics!


So!  There you have it!  My non-Halloween Halloween manicure!  I think it looks hot, and that's all that really matters, right?  lol  I'll probably put something on top of it later on, so you may get a late Halloween mani tomorrow, but we'll see.  Thanks for looking! 

hey

August 29, 2011

Cult Nails: Iconic

Hello hello!  How was everyone's weekend?  I'll be honest, I did nothing.  I read the Hunger Games trilogy.  I have very mixed feelings about it as a whole.  Start a discussion below, tell me what I should think?  I knew you would :)
I ended up with Iconic on after several failed attempts to put on a new Orly.  It wasn't the polish itself, but the fact that I really wasn't paying attention and for the life of me I can't find any of the three bottles of SV I thought I had.  Finally I found Diamond Dry which, isn't as fast as SV but not snail slow like WnW.  I had already given up on the brand new polish and remembered I had this one laying around from almost two weeks ago!  I won it in Maria's (not well publicized, as I knew nothing of it until I won) "Maria's Must Haves" giveaway.  She decided when she reached 1000 subscribers to her Cult Nails newsletter, then she would randomly pick someone to receive all of her favorite products.  Well, I was super excited to win, ripped open the box at a blinding pace... and promptly came home and forgot I had any of it.  I'll have to photograph everything else she sent me because.... WOW... was it generous!  :)   In the prize pack I got to choose three Cult Nails polishes and I chose the one I've wanted since the day I laid eyes on it: Iconic.



Iconic is a very rare bird.  I don't know quite how to describe it.  Seriously.  She's a flakie, but very subtle.  Even if you can't tell from looking that there are flakes, they add an internal beauty that you just can't take your eyes off of.  Gorgeous.  Easily the best prize in the box.  I love it.  I'm sure you get sick of hearing that, because I don't really do official reviews so I don't show anything that I don't LOVE.  But, it's hard to find something that I don't :)  I am addicted, after all! 

Thanks for looking, and have a great week! 


hey
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