Epilepsy Awareness Day

Today is Epilepsy Awareness Day which means adorn your purple shirts, hats, lips, & tips. Today I'm wearing purple for my Navy sisters little boy. I love that entire family & pray little man gets better. 

Now onto the outfit of the day! 

• Purple Shirt from SittinPrettyUSA.com ("Girls just wanna have guns")

• Beanie -- not a clue. It was a friends 

• Lips -- Maybelline LipElixir in "Dashing Orchid" 

• Eyes -- Maybelline MasterDrama Eyestudio pencil in "Midnight Master"

Here's my mani! I'm quite proud of this... I did it myself (:

• all but ring finger & the ribbon are Zoyas "Stevie" from the PixieDust collection. 

• ring finger is "Snow Me White" by Sinful Colors

Did you wear purple today? Do you know anyone living with Epilepsy? 

Mani Monday: zoya's "Stevie"

Welcome to Mani Mondays! A weekly post on my mani of the week. (I know this post is late but I have limited Internet access. Please forgive me >.<;) this week, my nails are adoring Zoya's "Stevie" from their PixieDust line. "Stevie" is a pretty lilacy purple with silver matte glitter. 

On the website, it says NOT to use a base or top coat & to allow to dry about 10minutea. Now, we all know that I am impatient as all hell so I do 2 thin coats, & let dry my normal mani time. Overall I like the pixiedust line, but I have a textural issue - not with the polish! With myself in general. Since it IS a glitter polish, it does have that "rough" glitter feel. 

The wear time on the PD line seems to be longer than average nail polish but it usually doesn't stay longer than 3-5 days on my nails before I change polishes again. Hahaha. Do you guys have any of the zoya pixiedust collection? If so, which colors do you have & what are your thoughts of them?

Zoya PixieDust: London

So, I know this is not a new polish but it's been sitting in my polish drawer since it became available... I just never got around to wearing it. I tried using "Godiva" but the color payoff didn't please me. That doesn't mean I won't try it again however. SO! I will get on to the beautiful-ness that is London.

London.  Natural lighting.

 Zoya describes London as "fog gray with a sugared sparkle, in the exclusive Zoya PixieDust Matte Sparkle formula". They couldn't have nailed it more spot-on if they tried. I applied 2 thin coats & the coverage is amazing. Even with one coat it was a pretty foggy gray but I could still see my nail line. + I always do 2 coats anyway.

Swatch Info:

1. 2 Coats
2. No Base Coat
3. No Top Coat

London. No undies or top coat. Natural lighting.

 Zoya on the PixieDust application:

Do not use a base coat or top coat.
Apply 1-3 (for full coverage) thin coats of polish. 
Allow product to dry completely in between layers for full effect.
The PixieDust textured formula may take up to 10 minutes to dry down completely matte. Once dry, the textured finish is long lasting,  matte and ultra-glittery!

I didn't wait that long between coats... Just long enough to do the other hand & it seems to have turned out all right. My drying time didn't seem to be 10 minutes either.... I'm thinking MAYBE 5. & that's a BIG maybe.

 London's bottle has the same shape as any of the other Zoya polishes but it has a rubberized type of top. Why? Yes. In other words: not a clue why but it does. Since applying London, I then purchased Beatrix, Vespa, & Stevie to try! I will get back to trying Godiva once this one starts wearing off to see if I like it any better.

PixieDust's are $9 a piece from Zoya.com & come in an array of colors & apparently different "formulations" too. I'm putting this bad boy to the ultimate test: BAR TENDING. Constantly having to shove your hands in a bucket of ice, dealing with money, cleaning, stocking, & all the things that come with the territory can really wear on a girls mani -- even with a great top coat!

Until next time...