Under the Sea

Over the weekend I was sporting Atlantis for a day, and I LOVED it! For as long as I was lemming it (like 5 weeks?), and for the amount of time I've had it untried (2 months!), it's kind of embarrassing that I didn't try it sooner. I love the color in it, and the sparkle... well, it speaks for itself. Pictures galore because this one is a stunner!



Here's some blur to show the sparkle:

Just look at this color!



Here are some comparison pictures too! From left to right we have Claire's Green Confetti, Sinful Nail Junkie, and China Glaze Atlantis. And I know I just did a tribute to Atlantis, but I have to say my fave is Nail Junkie, but I do think you need both! Atlantis has an amazing color, but Nail Junkie has some bigger sparkles and these amazing blue flecks that peek out in some light. It's best to meet them in the middle; 3 coats of Atlantis for color and then 1-2 coats of Nail Junkie. I don't have pictures, but I did an experiment with them. 1 coat will give you some blue sparkle and bigger chunks, and 2 will give you the perfect amount, but will change the color of Atlantis. I personally like 1 coat better.


Claire's Green Confetti was something I picked up for $1 on clearance, and it's pretty cool. It's more of a standard green, which you can see in the second pic, and it has larger chunks of glitter! Sadly, it's pretty sparse, and while 3 coats will get you a jelly-opaqueness with color, you need at least 4, and really 5 coats, to get enough sparkle. But it does dry fast!

(You can click these two to see them bigger, it shows the color differences much better)


For my mom's b-day I let her pick anything from my collection, even my HTF's and LE's, and did her nails. She picked Nail Junkie, and got so many compliments at her party! Even more than my Absolutely Alice did.... not that I was jealous or anything, LOL!

Parlez Vous OPI?

After wearing nothing but bright glitters and bold colors for the last week, I decided to switch to something muted, understated, and overall pretty. This OPI is a little older, but new to me, and it's an instant classic. While I applied this I listened to Freezepop's Parlez Vous Freezepop? Just because the name similarities made me smile.

Not sure if it will ever happen but I'm totally waiting for Sprechen Sie OPI?... A German collection from OPI! Come on, OPI, think of the green you could make and call Lederhosen!! I'm sure it would be awesome!


I'm also kind of lemming You Don't Know Jacques from this collection, is it worth tracking down? Most people seem to like it, but I'm so pale that I don't know if I could work it.

Science Art Activity: Winter Art Ice Blocks

We did a wonderful Science Art Activity for our Winter Theme that the boys perform together. It is called Ice Block Design. The materials needed are: Coarse sea salt, containers, plastic plate, paper towels, water and food coloring.We placed several small containers of water in the freezer for two days. The plastic containers we used were originally Hillshire Farm Lunch meat containers, but you

Week in Review for January 11-15, 2010

WEEK 16 in reviewThis week our unit study (theme) was on learning about Winter. The boys learned about the Winter season, clothing and outdoor activities associated with Winter.To start our learning about Winter, we discovered how cold it can get in Winter. We went out the previous Saturday in 16 degree weather. We dressed in layers and that seemed to keep us much warmer than just wearing a heavy

What my Child is Reading: January 11 - 16

This week we are readingHere are some of the boys' favorite picks this week:Mouse's First Snow by Lauren Thompson, illustrated by Buket Erdogan. My youngest son is a huge fan of the Mouse series by this author. When it came to learning about Winter this month, I knew I had to find a Mouse book that would suffice.The book is a wonderful story about Mouse's first encounter with snow. On a bright

A really good Snowman and a Snowman craft

This week we read the book "A really good Snowman" by Daniel J. Mahoney. The book is about big brother Jack and his little sister Nancy who seems to always want to help Jack. Despite his little sister's efforts, she only makes things worse for Jack by making a mess.When a snowman contest is held and Jack is relieved that only there can be three people to a team so Nancy cannot join his team. He

Absolutely Amazing Alice

On the nail board at MUA, this gets shortened to AA, which makes me smile when I see it in some sentences, such as, "I'm so happy I have AA today!" or, "AA is wonderful!" I guess if you had just stumbled over there you would think we're all a bunch of addicts. Which we are.... lol. I applied just 2 coats of this over yesterday's Dating a Royal and you can't see even a hint of the blue that was there. Sadly as you can see there was a bit of shrinkage, though my almost used up bottle of SV is to blame for that. I'm waiting on a fresh bottle in the mail I don't have any polish thinner. One coat of SV barely caused any shrinkage, but the second one really did me in... and you really need that second coat to bring out the sparkle in this one. Alice's blue glitter is extremely fine and the slightest bit of movement really shows it off. Based off this and Mad as a Hatter, I'm pretty much convinced that we all should get together and write to OPI and beg for an entire collection of glitters. These two became instant must haves for me.


As much as I love this, it has to come off tonight! I'm throwing my mom a huge surprise birthday party tomorrow for her big 5-0! And while I've picked my dress, eye shadow, lip gloss and jewelry, I have NO CLUE what to wear on my nails. I'm a bit panicked! My dress is purple, anyone have any suggestions?