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Woot woot, we have sunshine today! I hope everyone has a fun Saturday and a stress free weekend.  I don't have too much planned, but I'm looking forward to this nice weather.  So here is another Summer appropriate color :)


Have a great weekend all! I'm out!

I really am a spoiled Californian, but I'm getting tired of this grey weather.  It's the end of May, I demand sunshine and summer weather!

Ahhh summer is upon us! I am so excited to be wearing neon collections like China Glaze's Poolside!  So far, I've only got one from the collection because my beauty supply only had one :(

Another Monday *groan* Well, I'll take the Mondays as long as we're getting closer to summer.  The weather in my area this weekend really made me excited for days to come.  I even managed to get to the beach :)
Speaking of things that don't have anything to do with the weather or the beach...

Well ladies and gents, I now have 50 wonderful followers on my little blog!  I am so excited to have each and every one of you following me, so I decided to have a giveaway to show my appreciation! Many thanks to all of you!!
This giveaway is open to followers and subscribers and will run until 11:59 PST on May 3rd, 2010. 


To enter:

1) You must be a follower of some kind. Any and all new followers are welcome! Leave me a comment letting me know your email address in case that you win.  1 entry


2) Blog about this contest for another entry! Leave a comment with a link to the post. 1 entry


3) Tweet about the contest! Either @ me on twitter or leave a link to your twitter in the comments! 1 entry


4) Add Lacquered Literati to your blogroll. Send me a link and I'll make sure to add you back.  If anyone has a blog that you would like on my blogroll, please email me! 1 entry

5) This one is a freebie! Tell me what colors you like to wear during summer or anything you want about the summer season! It's up to you :) 1 entry

To save yourself some sanity feel free to put all your entries into one comment. No matter what, please include your email so I'll be able to contact you.  You have until May 3rd, 2010. Have fun!

Ok.  I really need to get back into the swing of posting frequently.  Sad thing is that it still isn't consistently sunny in my area! I did get some swatching done today, so I'll have to awesome Zoya posts this week, whoop whoop!

Here was my Spring mani I wore for Easter.  Although I've loved these spring colors and pastels, I think I'm ready for some summer colors!

Oy, a week without posting. Sorry, all! Life just got away with me last week and I pretty much did not turn my computer on for the last 5 days.  Bad, blogger, bad!!

I seriously could have a million holo posts and I'm positive this will not be my last one.  I can't help it, the sun is out and for me that means BLING polishes!
I'm also celebrating my friends 25th birthday this weekend and I know will be spending some time by the pool.  I think this polish is pretty festive :)

Since there is no such thing as too many green polishes, I figure why not post some! Just call me Alan GreenSPAM.

This lovely is Rimmel Camouflage.  It's a beautiful green with a golden shimmer to it. The bottle says it'll be good in one coat, but I didn't find that to be the case.  This here is two coats! A great St. Patrick's Day color!

I must say that I love China Glaze so very very much right now.  All of their colors always seem to suit my mood and make me happy while I wear them.  Today, I've got two from the Up and Away Collection.  These are such great spring colors!

Just a quickie post again, with another amazing China Glaze holo!

We had a few days of sun last week, so I definitely made it a point to break out my holos. So, here I am continuing the holo theme, but this time with China Glaze!!!

Here is the ever beautiful LOL from the China Glaze OMG collection.  I must say I do like writing in internet speak from time to time, ROFLMAOCOPTER11!! Juuuuussst kidding. This is a great mid purple holo that I cannot get over.  These bad boys look so great in the sun! Check out that rainbow effect!

You do have to be a leeeedle bit careful applying these.  You can use a base coat, but I make sure mine is bone dry before applying my polish coat, otherwise you may experience some drag. Holos have a tendency to chip rather quickly, so I usually wear a topcoat with them, even though it dulls the shine a little bit.

Hope everyone is enjoying the day off today! Here is my belated Valentine's day mani!  I took off this weekend for some R&R, but was a bad blogger and didn't set up any posts for you all. My love day was low key and enjoyable.  Lots of sunshine and cold drinks :)

Meet, China Glaze's Watermelon Rind from their Summer Days collection.  This is one of the first polishes I obsessed over last year.  I first saw it on VampyVarnish and would go back often to ogle it.  Very sad, but true. I finally got my hands on it after lurking Sally's enough for them to know my name.
This picture makes the color look a little darker than it actually is, but you can see the wonderful glass-flecked finish this polish has.  I picked this color as a little pick me up from all this grey weather we've been having.  I think I like non-vampies when its grey out because there won't be a tendency to look black in low lighting.

This is late, but here is was my Christmas mani, the very famous Emerald Sparkle.  This was rereleased this year in the "Love You Snow Much" collection along with a few other polishes.  This is the better of the two versions that were released.  I don't think I've ever seen the other less sparkled version, so I'll count my blessings.
I can't say enough about China Glaze's nail polishes.  Their color selection is fantastic and I've never had any issues with any of them.  They put out fun collections and I'm looking forward to seeing what they have on display this year.