Twinsie Tuesday: Inspired by your purse, backpack, handbag...

Good morning everyone! Happy Tuesday! That means Twinsie Tuesday!

For this mani I decided to match my Tyler Rodan Kingston Crossbody bag in Daffodil with OPI Just Can't Copa Cabana. The Kingston Crossbody is pretty much the only purse I carry... I have it in 4 colors (this sunny yellow, orange, pewter, and cobalt blue). It is seriously the most perfect size and shape ever. It's my perfect bag, and I'm hoping to add a few more colors to my collection. (specifically pink and red... and green... and any other color I can find... lol)

The formula and application on this color are pretty ok, for a yellow. First of all, it's nearly impossible for me to ever capture a yellow polish accurately. My skin is as fair as fair can be, and it always looks tan or lobstery. The application was a bit streaky, but it's yellow so that's a given. For this mani it took 3 coats to even everything out, then I topped it with Glisten & Glow HK Girl topcoat. Honestly? I hate yellow polish. Its fine on some people, but on me I hate it. I wore this for a day and it ruined the day. Well, ruined might be a bit dramatic... but it's kind of like a bad hair day, ya know? But it's a bad nail day. :) 

Here is the bag that it matches. This picture is more color accurate. 

I can't wait to see what the other twinsies post! Links to their blogs below, go check them out! 

Thanks for reading! 

~casey

**The products in this post were purchased by me for my own personal use.**

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Heather at Peace, Love, & Polish

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Rachel at Top Coat It

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Traci at DrinkCitra

It's Not Sane

No, it's really not sane. :)

Happy Monday morning everyone! This morning I've got an extremely cheerful mani to brighten my Monday, and hopefully brighten yours too. 

I recently discovered Pipe Dream Polish on Etsy. You can see my post on Pink Elephants and Lemonade to read more about how much I love this shop, today I'll try to not ramble too much. 

This yellow beauty is called It's Not Sane. I have never been a fan of yellow polish, I like it in theory, and on some people it looks great. But I've never found one that looked right on me. Actually I don't even wear yellow clothes. I love the color, my handbag is daffodil yellow, but yellow clothes just look weird on me. So I'm really not sure why I picked this color out, but boy am I glad that I did. I was only planning to wear this as accent nail or two every now and then. I was planning to swatch my left hand but I never saw myself wearing an entire mani of it. That all went out the window as soon as I got it on one nail. 

It's Not Sane is a bright lemon yellow crelly with a lovely subtle shimmer that softens the yellow just a bit. It is jam packed with a mix of medium hex glitters in orange, a pretty turquoise blue, fuchsia, purple, and iridescent. Let me tell you about these iridescent glitters. I didn't realize they were in there because when I ordered this I didn't read the description. I saw the picture and thought "want" and bought it. So when I was applying this I thought I had a couple of pieces of dud glitter on a couple of nails. I couldn't really tell, but I kept powering through. I try to never judge a polish until it's top coated. After topcoat these little things turn into the prettiest little subtle hint of color. I couldn't capture any of them in pictures but trust me, they're awesome. As I said in my last post about Pipe Dream, April really has a knack for the "jelly sandwich in a bottle" type of polish. Her polishes are jelly enough to show the glitter in every layer, but opaque enough to build to full coverage. 

For this mani I applied 3 easy coats of polish and topped it with one coat of Glossy Glam. I didn't have to dab this glitter at all.

Light Box (sorry my hands are a little lobstery)

Light Box Macro

Bottle Macro

Sunlight

Sunlight Macro

What do you all think of this polish? I am so in love with April's polishes and can't wait to order more!

Thanks for reading! 

~casey

**the polish in this post was purchased by me for my own personal use at a discounted price in return for an honest and unbiased review**