~♥~ Billie " Tripp'in Smurffs" ~♥~

~ Outside shade ~

I am diss-appointed that there has not been sun-shine here for 2 days.... But I must continue on with my 7 day nail polish challenge..... I am sure to wear these colors again soon, I am ready to start modeling the bright pinks I acquired......

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Here is an intense primary blue, aptly named " Blue", but I had to change the name to something more appropriate... I call this one Billie "Tripp'in Smurffs" This is a matte polish, it goes on easily and dries very, very fast. I fiddled around with some frankens this weekend, and this polish is helping to create some beautiful colored frankens....I think this polish looks like Smurffs. Because of it's matte-ness, it reminds me of blue tempra paint, like in school, just a basic plain blue.... it is definitely a fluorescent blue......adding a topcoat really made it flashy and noticeable....

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The next  photo I added one coat of clear.....

My INDEX finger is just 3 coats of this shade, but all my other fingers I painted two coats of a opaque white polish, then 3 of the blue..... not sure exactly why all my nails look to be different colors, my ring finger looks really, really light, but I think it is just the angle...With flash, the 2 layers of white are really visible, My INDEX finger has no white undercoat, This color also looks alot brighter in the sun where I used the white " undercoat" I used two coats of white and 3 coats of this "blue" color.....

~ A photo of the 2 layers of white.. & glitter frankening I am working on ~

~This is only 1 coat of the blue, it is pretty sheer,
~so 3 coats will get it to the bottle color~

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Ha-Ha, here is a photo of one of my previously posted polishes, the 'Orange" color, It matches perfectly with the price sticker from a store!!! All the while I wore that orange, I was craving orange Popsicles.....

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~♥~ Billie "Blue Skies" ~♥~

~ Blogger is no letting me up-load pictures of the NOTD an insane blue I names' Tripp'in Smurffs"...... WTFudge is up with blogger lately.... I hope to at least draft it soon, i have alot of nail photos, plus some rad frankening I did today That I hope to write about, before I forget all the little details... anyone else having problems with blogger today? (Saturday Night ~ April 18/09)


Oh-well, onto a very pretty polish I wore last week during my Deez-Nailz 7 day NOTD Challenge......

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Blue Skies, this is a fitting name, a soft- shimmery- matte- light- blue, two coats, dries ultra fast, very happy with it. I remember in the 'olden' days when I would paint my nails and they would not be dry for hours, sometimes overnight.These Billie polishes dry fast, I am so happy with this brand, and hope to add many more of these to my collection, they are soooo cheap, too (.99 cents, CANADIAN ) The two pink neon polishes I bought are alright, but I will likely never wear them again.... well, possibly the purple one - but I will definitely need something layered over it. I am stocked up with 'un-worns' probably till X-Mas, and at the moment I am trying hard to not pick up zny new polish till I wear / swatch the ones that I have never worn.

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Not all bargain polishes have been good to me, I do like to try new stuff, in this case, I would likely never wear neon's, other than on my toes, so I don't mind trying them out, just for .99 cents. but It cheese's me off when I but a polish, or make-up, or a moisturizer, whatever - buy something and it turns out to be something completely different or not be what I want, or what I thought it was. I am grateful for all those people out here, show-casing their nail-polish goodies, and product reviews... So that I can make an informed choice, and no longer will I have closets and cabinets stuffed with beauty products that I will never use.

Thank you Much!

~♥~ Billie 'Orange' & Burning Hot' ~♥~

~Billie "Orange" and Billie "Burning Hot" (on my ring)~

Billie "Burning Hot" is a light burnt orange shimmer, 2 coats -dries super fast, but was a little strong smelling for me. The color sorta looks like Orly Cha-Cha-Cha, which comes in a mini and full size. Those Orly minis are sooo cute! This is a very sheer polish, that will probably look its best layered over another polish.

 

 

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If you own an orange high-lighter; this is exactly what "Orange" looks like, exactly. I would say that it is an average neon orange. The neon safety vests construction people wear is a little more of a burnt orange, where this is a color you would get when you use paper-mate/liquid paper and a high-lighter on your nails (if you were bored in school). This is a matte finish, I thought that a shiny top-coat would tone it down a little, nope, it actually makes it appear a little brighter....It's hard to find a picture of how this specific color looks to me, as all the neon's that I have found recently and neon polishes in general are difficult to photograph, hence my bizarre descriptions and Google-hunting....

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~ Stuff I think my polish looks like ~

~ The Nike (TM ) swoosh (TM) on this rad sneaker ~
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~ OSHA Safety Spray Paint ~
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~ This ~
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I really, really hoped the sun would come out today, but it is starting to look like that is not happening. But, neon's really look their best in the shade, or crummy indoor lighting, and I am hurting to take this off and paint my nails another color from my haul.... so here we go with the photo's.......

~ They are all in the shade, it is soooo gloomy here ~

So instead of 5 to 6 coats of this sorta water-ey neon, I used twocoats of a plain white nail polish on all my figers except my ring of course and on my pinky I only used one coat of white..... The 1 coat of white was very streaky and it is clearly visable through the neon orange..... So now I know for next time... 2 coats of white.

Since I learned about the tiny brush dipped in remover to clean up all the mistakes around the nail bed trick (thank you soooo much) I have become extra sloppy when applying nail polish. Before, I was trying to be too careful - especially on my right hand, (I'm right handed) which previously resulted in a very uneven application .... not any more! It turns out just as good as my left hand with no drag marks, sheer spots, etc.

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~♥~ Nail Polish Haul ~♥~

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All my good deeds are paying of for me.... I have been very mindful of 'giving' and so ta-da,I really hit the jackpot at my favorite discount store in town. Below are a few picks of the new polishes I bought, I have quita an arsenal of this brand, with alot of options for frankening. I am really delighted that these polishes dry so fast, At the moment I am rocking a severe high-lighter orange.

If you are planning on using any neon polishes anytime soon, I have 'dicovered' that using a white polish, after a basecoat and before your first coat of color, really, really, brightens your neon, like insanely bright. This would probally be a good thing for any lighter bright polish..... I tried this last night and it turned out amazing!!!! The sun should come out here today, so I am waiting to get some outdoor pc's of the orange color I am wearing.

Also, I learned an awesome tip that i wish I thought of, or knew of at Nixxy's Nails ... What a smart cookie she is!


Anyhoo, on to the photo's of my recent nail haul, yes, I did break my promise of not buying anything till May, but I realy really love these.

~ Here is the insanely retna burning bright polish "Pink Pansy" in the middle, I found two similar, but less 'Day-Glo' bright pnks. I hope to get both of these on my nails STAT,with a real comparison instead of just on my home made swatches. I aplogize for the quality of my photos, but this is really an interm post, and I hope to properlly model these soon

The "Rose" color, is leaning toward a pinky-orange, while the "Fuchia" is an average hot pink.

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Top~ Rose, Left~ Pink Pansy, Right~ Fuschia
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~ These are some better pic's to see the difference in color... ~

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My newest Haul with some other polishes of this 'Billie' Brand (* sigh*)
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~ Left to Right ~

~ Blue
~ Blue Skies
~ Green
~ Green Meadows
~ Purple Haze
~ Rose
~ Pink Pansy
~ Fuschia
~ Orange
~ Burning Hot

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I am surprised with the naming of some of these new ones I bought, just primary name colors? All the other polishes have names with a little personality, They all went on smoothe and only needed two coats. Only the second-to-last polish pictured here is shiny this is a very pretty burnt orange with shimmer in it, very nice. The last polish is the 'Blue' with a coat of glitter that I also picked up but is not pictured.

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On my 'homemade' swatch there is two coats of each polish, with the exception of pink pansy and orange. In the future I will always use a coat or two of a white polish before I use bright colors such as these neons, or any other bright color for that matter.


Here are some pic' form the store, my goodness, I love that store, I am always sad when I go in there and there isn't one lonley polish for me to buy, So yesterday I hit the motherload with these, I restrained myself and only bought 10, but I am going back today to take a closer look at the polishes which are named after wines and spirits (' the booze collection .... ha ha) and will most likely pick up a few more, if there is any left. I tried to get pic's from different angels and get their names also, saving me from typing them out. .

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~ "Booze Collection for Spring/Summer" ~
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~ I hope thre is one of these' Passion' camel brown polishes left, I think it will be perfect as a base for a "cheeta" mani

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As I have been reading blogs and googleing nail polish, i come across brands I have never heard of, brands from other continents and countries.........I looooove to see pic's and swatches of these. I also have been enjoying reading comments about the 'Fabrege Eggs' of Nail polish, polishes that are dis-continued and polishes that are limited edition and rare. It is good to see all the 'frankens' and people using their creativity to re-create these types polishes!!!!!! (ie. the Zulu one)

~♥~ yessssss! New Nail Polish Shipment at awesome store!!! ~♥~

So before I take off my beautiful vibrant, but unfortunately named, "Purple Haze" I had to layer something over top of it. This is another pretty polish by the mysterious Billie Brand, two coats of "Majestic, which is layered over 2 coats of "Purple Haze"..... sorry, I cant find another main-stream polish to compare it to. I say it's like a rose gold, just more rose-ey. Like all polishes in this Brand, it dries to the touch in 5 min, even with 3 coats, this one though was pretty strong smelling, it might be because i slapped this on very early in the a.m.

 

 

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It is very dark and gloomy here, with rain and strong winds, so no outside pic's today, but I captured the color well with these photos.

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Last night I had the most lovely dream, that I walked into a discount store somewhere, in a far off land, and found bins and boxes full of mini nail polish bottles of all shapes and styles, with the most god-awful colors in them ( so I would not feel guilty pouring them away) But.... this is even better, I am absolutely delighted that my favorite .99 cent store got a shipment of inexpensive - but really good nail polish After picking up ten, the ladies who work there were kind enough to let me take pictures of their newest stock.

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I am sorting them out on my computer this evening, but posting this lonely picture here in hopes that someone else will see them and run to their .99 cent store ( CANADA ? )to get some. I have already swatched them, but cannot get them onto blogger at the moment. I only bought 10 for myself.... yes I totally broke my not-buying-anything-till-May promise, but I did not want to pass these up.... The lovely ladies who work there say that they get snapped up really, really fast.

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Blogger is not letting me upload any more photo's at the moment, not sure whats go'in on, The ones I picked and have swatched are very nice, I picked out 4 glitters, but all 4 pretty much look the same.......Any hoo, onto the photo's, I am extremely eager to try out the orange polishes I picked up today!

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When I think of neon I think =yuck, but I am really starting to like them, I picked up and orange neon, a green, a blue, and two pink neon's. I found two pink neon's that are not so in-your-face, as the one I wore the other day.

~♥~ Billie "Pink Pansy" ~♥~

Wow, brightness. That's all I can say about this one. This neon matte took 3 coats to get to opaque, this dries sooo fast, too fast. I think that is the only drawback for this polish. After doing dishes, tidying up, washing my hands a million times etc, only 1 tiny little chip on my index.

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As for color, this is not the pretty, neon pink that other polish Co's have for their spring/ summer line up, this is the 1960's - 1970's psychedelic polyester shirt neon pink. Or, glow in the dark pink. This looks very much like that spray paint that construction companies mark the ground with before they start digging. Ironically this is called "Pink Pansy"....... there is nothing "pansy-ish" about this retina burning color. I have not seen any polish swatched , or even anything on Google images that is this bright. I'm not bragging= I would never ever wear this in public, hopefully I can tone it down to a more earthly Day-Glo pink, instead of this.

 

  

  

  

~ What i think this polish looks like... TO ME ~

~ Construction Industry Safety Tape ~

~ A Dancers Shoe ~ 

with Billie purple rain