Hello, everyone! Happy Friday! I hope you all had a great week! I was in New York City yesterday with the nugget and my baby daddy :-P. It was a long day, but a good one. At first my poor little nugget was crying to come home. He was feeling very overwhelmed as we just live in a small Pennsylvania town with nowhere near the hustle and bustle of a sprawling metropolis. He kind of snapped in Madame Tussaud’s, crying and threatening to scream. After a little while he warmed up to it. We went to Trump Tower (NOT my idea, definitely not a fan), Dylan’s Candy Bar (they had Color Club smiley face glitter!), the Lego store, Barnes & Noble (could’ve spent the day in there- it was huge!), a comic book store called Forbidden Planet, and Halloween Adventure, a store filled with anything you could possibly want to put a costume together, which is open all year round and takes up a block! After we got on the bus, my little guy passed out within 5 minutes and didn’t wake up until we got home. And my feet didn’t get rubbed raw with all the walking, which is a huge plus in my book! To the polish!

This is a polish I received as a Press Sample from Octopus Party Nail Lacquer some time ago.

Petal to the Metal by Octopus Party Nail Lacquer

This dusty pink holo was part of one of Dave’s spring lines….possibly 2 years ago. I’m iffy with my time lines. All OPNL formulae are superb, this one being no exception. All polishes are very high quality!  For this, I did 3 coats to achieve opacity and finished it with a top coat.

As for the embellishments- I actually put this color on just to use them. I’m in a lovely little nail group called 2 Polish or not 2 Polish. In it is a member who has a nail art business who offered to send samples to a bunch of us in the group to try- no strings attached. She had sent me the flower and a variety of different colored Swarovskis, of which I picked out the pinks to accent the polish. I added another coat of top coat and applied all said embellishments. If you’d like to check out her business, it’s at www.nailartelegance.com. She has a variety of studs, rhinestones, charms, etc. all at a very affordable price.

Hope you all like my blast from the fairly recent past! Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping in!