Toetally Tuesday #11 - No Spring Yet

Was anyone else teased by the weather yesterday? It was so nice out. I'm talking sunny, comfortable temperature...I even took of my jacket walking back from class midday. It was wonderful. Then today, ugh, no such luck. It was back to being cold. For today's Toetally Tuesday post I wanted to do something that kind of hinted toward spring but then remained in winter-land. I saw my line of new Zoyas and decided Shawn would be absolutely perfect. It's green so I immediately think of spring's flowers and the green grass my friends and I lounge on in the Dell on nice days but it's just dark enough to keep the whole I'm-freezing-cold-winter-esque type feeling. I added white polka dots across the top because, well, because I could?

I used Zoya Shawn for the base and Orly White Out for the dots :) I really like how simple it is.

What is more dandy than hearts and candy?

Happy Valentine's day everyone! My manicure isn't all that spectacular since I've been busy studying for upcoming exams and what not but I hope you enjoy it anyway and I promise promise promise just as soon as I have time I'll do something special for my nails or a boatload of swatches or something to make up for all my five second posts. Today's is a stamped mani with a simple heart because what is more valentines-like than hearts? Well, I guess candy and flowers could be listed too. Oh don't worry, they aren't completely left out...I'm sitting here snacking on some truffles (yummmmmm!) my bf got me for Vday :D There just isn't any flowers or candy on the nails today. Here's a picture of my Valentine's day manicure:

I had to take a picture with my fingers straight because I stamped it facing me by accident. Oops! I used one of my new Zoyas (Dawn) as the base. It's a beautiful pink with perfect and easy application. I used Color Club Art Club in white and BundleMonster plate 09 for the heart design on my ring finger. 

Swatch: Resolution

Hey everyone! I hope you all had great weekends. I'm spending the rest of my Sunday watching the Grammys, studying some more, and painting my nails (hopefully using my Zoyas since I still haven't swatched them yet). Tonight I'm posting a swatch of Sally Hansen HD Resolution. This is a green shimmer. I should say I think it's amazing but....I'm pretty sure it's not anything special. Who hasn't seen a green shimmer?

How do you like it? Oh yes, and before I close this up I have some news. Rachel of Rachel Marie's Nails is having another fabulous giveaway because she can (and for hitting 300 followers, too)! Make sure you visit her blog for a list of all the amazing goodies one fabulous person will get!

Welcome friends!

As promised, here is a post about my twelve 13 new Zoyas. Yes, it was a 3free promo so technically it should have worked out to be 12 but my superfantabulous boyfriend heard me when I said I liked the polish Nikki but how it was 13th on my list and so he got it for meeee! Aww, so cute :) Anyway, here are the new troops!

I didn't have time to segregate the polishes into groups of three (I'll do that tomorrow after the exam I've been studying for) but I wanted to get them up and all. For those of you who, like me, cannot read those teeny tiny little labels in the pictures here's the list: Dawn, Kristi, Ki, Savita, Yummy, Tallulah, Akyra, Nikki, Veruschka, Ivanka, Shawn, Robyn and Quinn. Can't wait to get swatching but ughh school is getting in the way with a few upcoming exams! GRR!

Toetally Tuesday #10 - Say hello to Kristi!

Hey everyone! For today's Toetally Tuesday I'm being boring and only showing a plain color with no design BUT here's why...it is one of my 13 new Zoya polishes! Thank you 3Free Zoya promo! :D I can't wait to show all you guys the new bunch. Tomorrow's post will be about them I think and then maybe Thursday I'll have a swatch up or something. Ohhh there's so many beautiful colors to choose from how will I decide on which to go with? Anyway, today you are looking at Zoya Kristi, a beautiful red that seriously dries in a second and is so shiny even without a top coat. I'm loving Zoyas formula. I only had Zoya Nicole before and I never used it by itself so I never got to see just how amazing the coverage was in only one coat. Feast your eyes on Kristi:

I don't really know what happened with the flash....you guys know I don't have crazy white feet. But anyway, if you excuse the clean-up (or lack of), how do you like Zoya Kristi? I think it's one of my favorite reds now :)

Flowers for February

I was feeling a bit blah today...especially since I was so tired from making the drive back to etown in the wee hours of the morning this morning (ok, I shouldn't make it sound like it was such a long journey--it was only 2 hours). My nails are not technically from today but they are unposted from last week and I figured I should share them. They seemed to fit my overall mood so I'm using them for today's post:

I used China Glaze Recycle as a base coat. Then for the design I

used Color Club Grape Escape, White, and Black. I finished a bit

of the design with Kiss Brush-On Nail Art Paint in silver glitter.

No more street racing...

Last night on a very spur of the moment trip to Giant, I realized my car's headlights weren't on. Go figure. I stop, get out, check the lights, start playing with all the knobs and gadgets on my dash and...nothing. Fogs were fine. Running lights were fine. Headlights....nada. Very weird and very annoying so I called my family, the only one to pick up was my sister. It looks like I have some weekend plans after all. I am heading home to see what happened to my little lady car. I guess I should warn you that I have a very abnormal love for my car, my little Mitsubishi eclipse named Sylvia (because she's silver--ohhh aren't I witty?). Either way, to go back to the title of the post: I guess it's not really "no more street racing." It should be "no more street racing...in the dark" instead. ;)

I used Kleancolor Silver Pearl as the base with Color Club Art Club in red. 

But, I have found a silver lining to this colossal cloud of suckitude! By going home I can finally pick up my Zoyas that I have been dreaming of since I ordered them for the 3free promo. Win! Expect a post soon with the new troops for my Zoya Army :D

And a photo of my Mitsubishi baby:

Toetally Tuesday #9 - Happy February!

Hey everyone, phew the last two days were ridiculous. Between getting stuck up in the library for debate preparation until 2 in the morning and classes were canceled today...I have had quite the couple of days. Ok, maybe I'm being a bit dramatic--especially with having today off. Oh no, but not as in I-woke-up-and-checked-my-email-and-it-told-me-that. More of an I-woke-up-to-the-power-being-out-had-to-check-email-on-my-phone-and-classes-were-supposed-to-resume-at-10. Ok, so number 1: There are no 10am classes. There are either 9:30 or 11. So sure. 2: debate=canceled (which I was very pleased to hear). Then we got alerts saying the power would take longer and it wouldn't be until noon that the college would reopen and then finally, at 12:27, we got the final alert saying the college would remain closed for today. Yay! But anyway, toetally Tuesday is yes technically late--I'm sorry! But I hope you like them anyway, despite my brief bending of time (if you notice it still has a Tuesday publish date despite me writing this at...10 pm on Wed night. Here are my toetally February toesies: a little nod to the upcoming Valentine's Day which, debate the fact that I have a boyfriend, I do not like. Seriously, Valentine's Day can take a hike. Onto the toes!

I could not get the glare to go away. Grr! I used BM plate 09 for the "LOVE" stamp. For polishes I used China Glaze High Hopes, Orly White Out, and Essence Silver Surfer.


Anybody have suggestions on a good camera to buy? I need to replace my old one and so I welcome any opinions or comments! :) I hope all my readers have wonderful Februaries :)

Swatch: Secret Peri-wink-le

I have a swatch for you today: China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le. It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful  periwinkle creme from the 2008 Operation Colour collection. I don't have anything like it in my army of polishes so it was a great addition. The formula was decent and it dried so shiny! Dried/hardened fast too which is always a huge plus for nail polishes. Here's so swatch pictures:

That Jamie Sullivan sure has style...

Hello everyone, I hope you all had great weekends! A group of my friends and I all went ice skating on Saturday night. We had a great time and it was a nice off-campus break from our usual weekend movie watching and snacking. Of course, it was also educational--I was reminded that I cannot defy gravity. I fell twice. Still though, twice is not bad at all and really they were very graceful (at least I hope so!). 

Today's post is a little late but "better late than never," you know? The fabulous blogger behind LoodieLoodieLoodie tagged me with the Stylish Blogger Award a couple weeks ago and I am so grateful and excited for my *third* award!! Third! I am so tickled pink when I have comments let alone an exciting award from a fellow blogger!  I'm so happy she tagged me and, without further ado, to the award rules: 

          1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

          2. Share 7 things about yourself.

          3. Award 15 recently discovered, great bloggers.

          4. Let the winners know through a comment!

So once again a MONSTER thank you to fellow blogger Loodie for tagging me with this fabulous award! Thank you so much and I enjoy reading your stylish blog a ton!

Now for seven things about myself. Where do I start?!

1. I guess I'll start with food: I LOVE sushi. My sister discovered this amazing half-price sushi deal at a local Japanese restaurant over the summer and since then it has become our "thing" to get sushi together. Sometimes we have other company too but I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS go with my sister. There's something so delicious about sushi. I love chopsticks, soy sauce, and popping endless amounts of these little rolls of fantasticness in my mouth. Favorites include spicy salmon, rainbow, broccoli tempura, and cucumber rolls. Seriously, even thinking about it right now makes my mouth water. Yummmm!

2. Going off of number 1....I love food...in general. Just ask my boyfriend. There is nothing better than a tasty meal out and a night spent relaxing on the couch watching food network. Seriously. But the fun fact comes in with this: Although I've logged many hours watching "30 Minute Meals", "At Home with Giada", "Barefoot Contessa", "Chopped", etc. I still can not cook. Eventually I want to learn though and then all the food network watching will come in handy...I hope!

3. I go to college for Psychology but I don't plan on being a therapist. I actually plan to apply to law school at the end of this year. I'm not really sure what area of law to specialize in though so really I'm just going to test what I can out before I have to choose.

4. One thing I wish I could do a ton is travel. I am obsessed with France and have probably already mentioned the trip my sister and I are planning. Other destinations (eventually) include Egypt, Ireland, England, Russia, Hawaii, Turks and Caicos, Malta, Prague, Germany, Barcelona, Italy, anywhere really...I just want to see the world. Maybe I should have studied International Business or something. 

5. To go along with traveling--I think multilingual people are absolutely amazing. I would love to learn a couple different languages. Obviously, my native language is English (yippie) but I took 4 years of French in high school and am minoring in Spanish now at college. Eventually I hope to be able to communicate well in both languages. I'd love to learn German and Russian too!

6. My favorite nail polish brand is China Glaze. Loooove China Glaze. I think the formula is amazing for most of their polishes and they have literally every color I could possibly ever want (I still don't own them all though--hence I am still going broke due to my "polish problem"). My current conquest: DV8.

7. And lastly, I am a movie quote-er. I love movies maybe even more than nail polish (gasp!) and I quote literally any and all times I can. Which brings us full circle to the title of this post. "That Jamie Sullivan sure has style" is a quote from 2002 film: A Walk to Remember.

Ok, so there's seven (albeit a very random 7) things about me. Now, let me break the rules. Instead of tagging people with this award I'm just going to say "anyone who is reading this has been tagged with this award" since I find all the readers of NikkisNailFiles to have style and fabulous blog taste! ;)