BruisedUpDollie Nails

St. Pattys day marbles

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Hello everyone! Today I'm brining you two St. Patty's Day water marbles! I love marbling, I LOVE green, I also love everything about the nail community during this holiday. Give me ALL of the GREEN manicures, please! No really, I can't get enough!

On to the manis!

First up is my Zoya 18k gold flakey accented marble. For the actual marble I used Zoya Veruschka and a clear polish over Sally Hansen Green Light, and added small flecks of the gold foil. Pointer and pinkie are Veruschka topped with the gold flakes. I really, realllly love this one. Verushka is a beautiful matte, but when shes top coated.. oh my!

Because what Leprechaun wouldn't love some gold on St. Patty's Day?!

Next I've done a ribbon/striped watermarble using a bunch of green polishes and combined it with some glitter as well, and then I went and added some stamping haha I don't know when to stop! I will leave a short list of polishes used for this mani, below.

Milani: Showy Sea-Green

Zoya: Veruschka

Sally Hansen: Parrot

Essie: Mind Your Mittens

The glitter is Sinful Colors Cauldron Couture and the stamping image is Bundle Monster BM-H04.

I hope you enjoyed today's post! Let me know in the comments below what your favorite color is!

Until next time!

Xo,Lo

Zoya can be purchased here or at your local Ulta.

Sally Hansen, Milani,Sinful Colors & Essie can be found in local retail stores nationwide.

*Products shown in this post were purchased with my own resources.

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Hydro boost

Neutrogena Hydro Boost water gel

*For Review*

Hello! I hope you're having a good day or night. I thought I'd bring you a quick little beauty review. Today I'm going to talk about the Neutrogena Hydro Boost water gel that I received compliments of influenster for review.

I was really excited when I found out I was getting this. I love neutrogena and I already use their products in my facial routine as it is so this was like a cherry on top!

I had been having a hard time finding a moisturizer that worked for me. I have combo skin. I find a lot of moisturizers leave my face oily. Or they would seem to break down my make up and make splotches of shiny oily spots. I don't want to be overly matte and dry, but I definitely don't want to be a hot shiny oily mess either. I also had issues with some that would leave my face slightly irritated. Maybe I have sensitive skin and just didn't know it!

I'm glad to say when I first used hydro boost, it left my skin hydrated, soft, and not the least bit oily or irritated. It's light and refreshing and is scented but not overwhelming. It absorbs like a complete dream. I've been using this for about two weeks now, alone and under make up. I think this might be the product that's been missing in my life. I really enjoy the fact it's not an oily cream. Oh, I also appreciate that it's not sticky! I was worried it could be since its a gel type product. I can't say enough good things about it!

Hydro Boost is recommended for all skins types and may be applied morning or night!

Until next time!

Xo,Lo

*This product retails for $15-$19 US Dollars and can be found online and in stores that carry Neutrogena nationwide.

*This product was sent to me for reviewing purposes compliments of Influenster*

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Insta-Dri

My Insta Dri Mystery

*I bought this*

Hello everyone! I am so freaking excited about this post and I hope you will be too! See I've stumbled upon a collection of Sally Hansen Insta-Dris in a local Walgreens but haven't seen anything about them going around! The display is labeled Limited Edition and New & Improved. They're all so pretty I couldn't wait to swatch and get this post up.

Omgosh Lo, stop rambling and get on to the pics!!! Ok, ok here we go!

Express Way

Fast Lane

Cruisin'

License To Dri

Rush Hour

Green Light

High Speed

Rev'd Up

All but one color are two coats and topcoat. I needed a third thin coat of Cruisin' because I had a small patchy spot. The color makes it all worth it in the end anyway! I love every single one of these. The formula is great, common for Insta-Dri right? I think so, I love them. And I'm absolutely in freaking love with all of these. If I had to pick a favorite I don't know which I would pick because I think they're all amazing. *sigh* The struggle is real.

Have you seen these in your stores yet? Are you excited to try find them? Have a favorite just from a quick glance? Let me know below in the comments!

Until next time!

Xo, Lo

You can find Sally Hansen online here or in drugstores nationwide.

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All products shown were purchased with my own resources.

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My First Mani Swap!

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well. This week my Wifey, nail bestie, one of my closest loves and I decided to do a mani swap! Her name is Sahyly aka LyLyNails and she's awesome! I will link her info below so that you can find and follow her if you'd like.

On to the mani swap! Yay!

Solo pics of the manicures!

LyLys mani

My Mani that inspired her. A pink and white saran mani stamped with a darker pink.

My recreation of LyLys mani

And LyLys mani that that inspired me. A stamping sandwhich, double stamping sandwhiched between two sheer coats of polish + french tips.

I want to Thank Sahyly for sharing this mani swap with me. I love her to pieces and this was a lot of fun!

You can find my fabulous wifey on FB here & on Instagram here.

I hope you enjoyed the manicures and let me know in the comments if you've ever done a mani swap!

Until next time!

Xo, Lo

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crelly

NailNation 3000 swatch, review & stamped mani

*Press Sample*

Hello everyone! I am so excited to share this post with you. I have some NailNation colors to show you and they're pretty awesome! Nn3 has one woman behind all of the magic, and she is truly amazing, as a lacquer artisan and as a person in general. She's so talented Im always having to pick my jaw up off of the floor.Now, on to the polish!!

Bellerophon & Pegasus

This is two coats with topcoat and on me it picks up a lovely nude tone that I love. Right outside of the holo shows the subtle purple tint. I think it's gorgeous!

Truly Madly Deeply

I love this shade of blue, add shimmer & holo and I'm sold! This is two easy coats of amazing plus topcoat.

Purple Pixies

Ok so this glitter holo topper is fantastic. This is one coat over a black Creme and 3 coats alone as my accent. Two thin coats of Seche and I was good to go! Ugh so pretty.

Gimme A Cupcake

Here's one good coat of GAC over white. I really love the look of neon crellies over a crisp white base. I had to do a little glitter chasing with this one. I didn't even care because this polish is so fun to look at! In fact I didn't want to take it off so I pulled out the binder and stamped it.... So here's a pic of that!

I used plate MLS301 from Bornprettystore.com because it's pretty much perfect for this super cute crelly, in my opinion anyway.

If you place an order on bps you can use my code LFG10 to recieve 10% off of your order of non sales items.

You can find NailNation 3000 swatches and release info on FB , Twitter & Instagram

You can purchase NailNation 3000 HERE

That's all I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed today's post and swatches. Have you tried nn3 before? Do you have a favorite that she makes? Let me know in the comments!

Until next time!

Xo,Lo

*Press Sample*
All opinions stated in this blog are 100% honest and my own.

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Bloomblast

Sinful Colors Bloomblast Swatches

Hello lovelies! Today I'm bringing you some pics of the Sinful Color Bloomblast trio.

Flower Power, Petal Be The Day, Standing Bloom Only

Let me just say that I love glitter crellies when they're done well and for sc being a very inexpensive drugstore polish.... They did pretty good, the base was mostly opaque in two coats and the glitter didn't seem to fight me to stay in place. Onto the swatches!

Standing Bloom Only (3 thin coats)

Petal Be The Day (3 yup...that's 3 coats)

Flower Power (3 thin coats)

My thoughts are pretty much the same for SBO and FP excellent coverage and suspension. Minimal visible nail line on the third coat and they were glossy and sleek once topcoated. Even when they weren't they glitter wasn't lumpy at all. My only one complaint is the base of PBTD, I wish it was a bit more opaque like FP I'll just have to layer it over another purple. For the price they're awesome and highly recommend! For awhile I wasn't into sc, now they've sucked me right back in with their glitters and these crellies!!!

What are your thoughts on Sinful Colors? Do you own any of the Bloomblast colors? Do you have a favorite sc in general?

Until next time!

Xo, Lo

You can find Sinful Colors in drugstores and Walmart nationwide.

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All products shown were purchased with my own resources.

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mani

Sally Hansen Velvet Texture

Hi everyone! If you're a fan of texture polish then this is the post for you! If you're not maybe I can convert you with these beauties! I don't know, you'll have to tell me!
As soon as I spotted these I just knew I was going to want them all, so all the went... right into my cart. Something about the bottles called to me and well being that I love textured polishes I defintely wanted to try these out! And after I did I just knew I'd have to share how awesome these are!

Onto the swatches!

First a Macro showing the texture of these awesome polishes.

Sally Hansen Velvet Texture Plush Swatch

Plush macro

Sally Hansen Velvet Texture Crush Swatch

Crushed

Velveteen

Lush

Velour

Regal

Plush

Lavish

Deluxe

I am absolutely in love with these, and I mean in love. Every single one of them is just so awesome! I do wish that Deluxe would show up more navy because its a little hard to tell it apart from Velveteen, pretty but too similar to the black for me. The formula was pretty easy to work with for me also, almost every single one self leveled itself if you don't use too many brushstrokes. They also dry down in minutes into such a soft looking texture, I just couldn't take my eyes off of them. I'm so soooooo happy I picked these up. They made their way to the top of "my favorite textured polishes" that is if I kept a list lol! What do you think of these? Are you a fan of textures? Any favorites? Let me know what you think in the comments below!

Xo, Lo

You can find Sally Hansen in stores and drugstores nationwide.

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All products shown were purchased with my own resources.