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Afternoon dolls! I've got a few posts for you today but here's the first! Today's the last installment of Go Pink Wednesday (sad panda face) and it's also Halloween! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! A huge thank you to the lovely Andrea from Finger Painting Fingers for organizing this so well!

For today's Go Pink Wednesday, I have a review of a great polish line called Mint. Off the bat, I love the name and the story behind it is fantastic! Greta, the lovely lady behind Mint got started after she discovered that you couldn't just throw nail polish away with the rest of the trash in Los Angeles. Why? Because they are considered hazardous waste products (insert shriek)! So Greta went about to create a polish line of long lasting nail lacquer to improve shine, durability and application!

The polish I have for you today is called Bellini Babe. 

"This sophisticated sparkling peach was inspired by our brunch beverage of choice - the bellini of course! Bellini Babe is the perfect sparkling nude nail color - slightly sheer and very shimmery. The undertones are a mixture of pink and peach, this color truly flatters all skin tones."

Hello hello hello! Today is Day 6 of the 8 Spooky Nights nail art challenge and the theme is spiders -- eeeeeeeekkkk! I am absolutely terrified of spiders. 

 Super cute and easy which is my kind of art! Have you tried any of these techniques before? Be sure to check out the other ladies of 8 Spooky Nights!

Evening dolls! Late night post here for you, but I'm finally caught up with the challenge so I feel better :) Day 5 brings us to witches, and we're more than halfway through the challenge! Halloween is RIGHT around the corner and I'm super excited!

For this mani I used:

OPI Berlin There Done That

China Glaze Ingrid
China Glaze Champagne Bubbles

Enchated Polish Witchful Thinking

Nina Ultra Pro Black

Sinful Colors Amethyst

NYX Pure Green

I used Pure Green for the base on my pointer finger and drew a witches hat with a black nail art pen. For the ribbon, I drew a thin line with Amethyst and added a square silver rhinestone as the buckle! For the base of the broom, I used Berlin There Done That and drew the broom with Ingrid and Champagne Bubbles.

I decided to do a little play on words with my ring finger and use another GORGEOUS Halloween indie polish from Enchanted Polish. Witchful Thinking is a pink, brown and gold glitter packed top coat that I layered over one coat of Nina Ultra Pro Black. Finally, for the cauldron, I used my black nail art pen again and dotted on Berlin There Done That to make it look like some smoke was coming out!

That's it for Day 5!!! Monday starts 6 and I'm super excited! I hope you're enjoying these Halloween themed manis so far. What's your favorite Halloween nail art?

Check out the other ladies of 8 Spooky Nights!

Hi lovelies! I'm a fail of a blogger this week, I'm finally getting around to posting my Go Pink Wednesday Friday. Thankfully, things in life have relatively settled so I can get back to blogging! Today I'll be showing my ABSOLUTE favorite color in the entire world. I love love LOVE a dark, dusty pink/rose and China Glaze does not disappoint with this!

Sigh, she's beautiful and I never want to take her off ever.

That's all for this week! I'll be posting actually on Wednesday next week for our last Go Pink Wednesday. Can you believe October is almost over already?!

Be sure to check out the other lovely ladies of Go Pink Wednesday!

Hi dolls! Sorry I've been so MIA lately, I've been dealing with some pretty big issues on the home front and blogging just wasn't a priority. But I'm back and it's time for another nail art challenge! Well it started a few days ago, and I've done my nails for each day I just haven't had the motivation to type a post up so you get the first 4 days in one, and a separate post later today with Day 5!

I'm super excited to be participating in the 8 Spooky Nights nail art challenge hosted by my good friend Kelly from Peace Love Lacquer because this is my absolute favorite holiday. Today, tomorrow and next week I'll be showing you guys some of my nail art from my favorite season!


Day 1: Skulls

For skulls, I didn't want to do typical skelton or Jack Skellington so I chose to do Sugar Skulls! I'm obsessed with the whole sugar skull theme so it was perfect! These came out alright, although they weren't what I pictured in my head. For this mani I used China Glaze Bizarre Blurple, China Glaze Rougish Red and Dazzle Dry Portia's Wit (aka my new favorite white). The nose is a small upside down glitter heart that I got for review from Dahlia over at datyorkLOVES which went perfectly!

Day 2: Vampires

For day 2 I just went really really simple. Honestly, I didn't even take a good picture of this one. It's your typical crappy camera phone pic only because this way a bad day for me and even nail polish couldn't get me out of my funk (shocking right?). For this mani, I used OPI Berlin There Done That on my pointer, Dazzle Dry Portia's Wit as the vamp's skin with Nina Ultra Pro Black for his hair and teeth. On my ring finger I picked up my NYX Dark Glitter which was a great black jelly packed with red hex glitters and for the blood drip I chose Milani Rapid Cherry and again the Nina Ultra Pro Black.



Day 3: Candy

Day 3 makes me hungry just thinking about it. I have a severe sweet tooth and I live for the time when candy corn, candy apples and pumpkin everything to come out and then hoard it until Christmas LOL. I decided to go with my two favorite candy's -- candy corn and Hershey's Kisses! Used this mani: Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow, China Glaze Rougish Red, Wet n Wild French White Creme, OPI Berlin There Done That, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Celeb City and a white nail art pen.


Day 4: Ghosts

Day 4 has been my absolute favorite day from the challenge BY FAR and I am absolutely thrilled with the way these turned out. I wanted to do a little play on words and include a gorgeous Halloween indie I picked up earlier this month. So introducing, Mr. and Mrs. Boo! I decided to make a husband and wife ghost and put accents of Lacquerhead Polish's My Boo, a gorgeous white creme with orange and black hexes, and some black and purple glitters for a gorgeous finish. I used a white nail art pen for the ghosts, Zoya Aurora for Mrs. Boo's bow and Nina Ultra Pro Black for Mr. Boo's hat and ta-da!!! SOOO happy with these I didn't even want to take them off!


Peace Love Lacquer
XO, Noelle
College Polished
PishPosh & Polish
Beauty Dish
Nail By Katie
Jenerally Speaking 
Galactic Lacquer 
Tres' Chic Nails 
Charlottes-nails 
Manic Manis
The Life, Time and Lacquers of Lilmoon
Makeup and Nails, Not War
Not Too Polished
Mimi Manicures
Seriously Swatched
Jilltastic Nail Designs

Hi dolls! Hope your week is going well, slow going here. We've reached another Go Pink Wednesday and I'm super excited to show you this polish. Unfortunately I'm not really feeling that great so this is going to be a shorter post than usual.

For this mani, I decided to use one of the new polishes from Zoya's Ornate Collection that I bought during their pre-order. Zoya Aurora is a D-R-E-A-M! I can go on and on about how flawless the application is, but that's typical with Zoya. Zoya describes Aurora as a "full coverage, medium sugarplum purple flecked with a high concentration of micro fine diamond holographic glitter."

Hold. The. Phone. Holos? For reals? Swoon. I know this is Pink Wednesday and the reason I chose to use this because in the light Aurora has pink flashes that I think make it even more special. Let's let the pictures do the talking shall we?

Hi dolls! Happy Saturday!! After this week, I couldn't be more excited for the weekend. And Florida is having a "cold front" which means instead of 90 degrees, we're in the low 80s/high 70 which is P-E-R-F-E-C-T to *hopefully* transition into fall. I've got a monthly favorites post for you today! I kinda forgot about the past few months so I'll have a few in here that I've been loving all summer long. 

If you follow me on Instgram (if not you should! -- @collegpolished) then you might have seen my little teaser pic I posted yesterday! Let's get started!!

First up we've got my favorite nail polishes/looks from the past month! I'll be the first to admit, I am OBSESSED with all things Halloween. So when all these gorgeous indies started to come out with Halloween glitter bombs and colors I knew my stash was going to explode.

What's This, What's This? and This is Halloween are part of the Dollish Polish 'This is Halloween' collection based off my favorite movie ever -- The Nightmare Before Christmas! I was super ecstatic to get my hands on these babies, especially because they went SO fast. Even though Dolly restocked every day I couldn't manage to get my hands on Spectral Pup *sad face* but maybe it'll show up in a blog sale or something! I'll have swatches of these babies on the blog next week!

 L-R: Dexter, Finger Lickin' Good, Witchful Thinking, Pumpkin Gutz, and Igor

Up next I've got my top three favorite manis from the past month. During the month of September, I created a Falling Forward Nail Art challenge to really push myself and expand my capabilities. I have to say I'm really proud of myself (and all the girls who joined) in the visible progress I saw! This was for leaves day and I'm so impressed with myself for my leaf pile ^.^ You can see the full post here as well as the rest of the challenge!

Sunny from 365 Days of Color sent me some of her Hocus Pocus colletion to review and my heart stopped with this color! Boouk! is a gorgeous neutral with glitter (whaaa?!) and you can see my full review here.

Lastly, I had the opportunity to do a guest post for the wonderful Chelsea over at The Nail Network that showed off my love of all things girly! Be sure to head over and check that out here.

Lastly, my favorite nail product from the past month (of all time probably) is another baby from Sunny at 365 Days of Color. Sunny's cuticle oil is theeeeeee sh!t, no lie. There isn't any oily residue and it sinks in IMMEDIATELY. Not only have my cuticles become a lot softer and more managable but the scent sticks around for a long time! Currently I'm wearing pumpkin vanilla and I just wanna eat my fingers! You can check out Sunny's full line of scents here on her site (over 120!) where you can pick up a pack of 3 samplers for $6.00 or a full sized for $4.00! She also sells them in balm form too which I've got as well and they're perfect to toss in your purse for on the go!

Now this ring I got back in June (?) I think but I hadn't found the right time to wear it. I've been rockin' it a ton lately with more neutral colored tops and jeans for the fall and I love it! I think I picked this up at Icing for less than $15. Totally cute and super affordable!