Rescue Beauty Lounge Frugalista + Blog Award!

          Okay, so I've been wearing this color for the past three or four days, waiting on some sunshine and time, but I keep on finding myself coming up short on both. And now I have to change my polish due to chips, so I'm just gonna post the few pictures I have and put up more the next time I wear this. I finally got some new pictures! n_n
Here's Rescue Beauty Lounge Frugalista, from the Spring Bling collection. 

Frugalista is multi-sized (small and smaller) gunmetal silver square glitter, and small fuchsia hex glitter in a clear base. It looks a little more purple in the pictures, I think, but the glitter is indeed fuchsia in person.

Sunlight, no flash.

Natural light, no flash.

Sunlight, no flash.

Sunlight, no flash.

      Frugalista is wonderful. I really like the shade of silver, and the fuchsia accents are beautiful and elegant.  In sunlight, the glitter properly sparkles, and in lower light, my nails look gem encrusted. I just love looking at my nails with this polish on...makes me feel like a rich person. LOL. 

     In terms of formula, Frugalista was like many other glitters in clear bases. It went on fairly smoothly, required a minute between coats, and dried fast. I did appreciate that Frugalista seemed a little more dense than my other RBL glitters though. This is three coats of polish, and the coverage is excellent...I can't see through my tips at all. However,  Frugalista is a topcoat eater...one layer of topcoat did nothing and even with two layers, my nails are still gritty. 

     I'm not sure I would recommend this polish to anyone but serious glitter hos because it costs an arm and leg. But if you really love silver glitter, Frugalista might be one worth picking up. 


    In other news, I was tagged for the Stylish Blogger Award by Varnish Vixen and Lucy from Lucy's Beauty Obsessions! They both have interesting and beautiful blogs, so if you haven't yet, go check them out!


This is the award:

Classy, huh?

And according to the rules, I have to share seven things about myself. So here we go:

1. I hate fish. I used to eat it all the time, but one day, I was eating a fish stick and I realized that the shit was nasty. Since then, even the scent of fish makes me sick. I imagine the ninth circle of hell to be Red Lobster. 

2. I think feet are cute. Many of my friends are grossed out by feet, but I like them.

3. I'm an ugly girl. I have literally scared myself by looking into the mirror without proper mental preparation. :( 

4. In my heart, I truly believe that chocolate-covered pretzels and Take5 bars are proof that God loves me and wants me to to be happy.  

5. I never grew out of Pokemon. I'm still madly in love with it, and am upset that I never learned the Pokerap. I'm going to try to learn it this year.

6. I am an avid television watcher. I can't deal with shows that run on fuckery (Jersey Shore, Bad Girls Club, The Real World, etc.)  but a good episode of one of my favorite shows lights up my life. I swear, the apocalypse could be going on, but if there was a good episode of Lie to Me or Bones on TV, I woud be so not concerned.

7. I love babies. Especially the chubby, jolly kind...I just love their appendages. They have these fats arms and thighs, and these dimples in their knees and elbows. And if you kiss their tummies, they laugh. So cute!! ^_^

I also have to pass it on to seven other blogs, and in no particular order, here are my choices:

Susie's Home and Hobbies

Acetone and Old Lacquer

The Polished Perfectionist

Nail Noir

Addicted to Polish

Dancing Phalanges

Another Bottle of Polish?!

And that is all I've got for today! Thanks for reading! 

Blog Awards + A Giveaway

         Yesterday, The Phalanges Files won two cute awards from Blu11 at Polish Drops!! So big thanks to her and to the people who read and/or leave comments!  Here are the awards and rules:

The Sunshine Award

Rules:

1. Save the image above and post it on your own blog.
2. Pass the award on to 12 fellow bloggers.
3. Link the nominees
4. Let nominees know they have won this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to the person you received this award from.

and

The Happy 101 Award

Rules:

1. Post who gave you this award
2. State 10 things you like
3. Give this award to 10 other bloggers and notify them with a comment

   The Happy 101 Award asks for 10 nominees, and the Sunshine Award asks for 12. I thought about doing 22, but that's too many for a lazy like me. And then 10 is too small. So I'm going to split the difference and pick 16 nominees. Also, I'm going to only choose blogs with fewer than 300 followers...some of my absolute favorite blogs are bigger than that, but I wanted to highlight some smaller blogs like mine. So here we go, in no particular order:

1.  Another Bottle Of Nail Polish?!

2. Polish Wasteland

3. Playing With Polish

4.  Nail York City

5. Nailspotting

6. Alabaster Lacquer

7. Amused Polish

8. Lunatikitty

9. Crystal Visions

10. Squovalicious

11. Glaze Craze

12. Shortwidenails

13. Nail Galore

14.Tinna Nails

15. A Splash of Serenity

16. Lacquer Lady

  And then ten things that make me happy:

1. Nail polish, and everything involved in it! I'm extra partial to glitter.

2. Art

3. ANIMALS

4. My family...sometimes, I want to beat them with sharp sticks, but mostly, I love them.

5. Really good television shows

6. Good looking men

7. Water (not the kind you drink, but like pools and oceans)

8. Tasty food.

9. Stiletto heels.

10. Winter

11.  Money (I just couldn't not put that one in ^_^; )

And for the second order of business, there's a giveaway! And surprise, it's actually mine! :D

Yeahh, the first giveaway at The Phalanges Files!  It's only a small one, because I'm still unemployed and can't really afford a big giveaway. But I wanted to show how much I appreciate you guys! 

Here's the stuff that will go to one lucky (sort of) follower:

A set of four L.A. Colors Metallic Polishes

and

A small group of Sinful Colors Polishes. 

L-R: Rise and Shine, Bali Mist, All About You, Secret Admirer, What's Your Name?, and Green Ocean

For this giveaway, I'm going to take it back to the playground and lock the game...now nobody else can play. What that means is that if you are not a follower at the moment that this post goes live, you can't enter the giveaway. It's not to be mean, and sorry if that seemed mean. It sounded a little mean. But I just want to give special consideration to the followers I have now. Everyone can play next time. ^_^

 If you did qualify and want to enter, all you have to do is write one comment containing the name you follow under and an active email address.

Super easy, right?

The giveaway will be open to errybody on Planet Earth, because we are the world. AND we are the children.

I'll be taking entries until September 25th, and the winner will be announced on the 26th.

Have a happy Friday, everyone!!! 

Blog Award + Ooglay Fauxnad

            Man, I can't sleep. So I'm here to clog up the blogosphere with a post of random and nail-related things. First order of business is a blog award, because I actually won one (homophone shout out) thanks to Lacquer Ware for Tips and Toes! I don't want to be all mushy, so I'm just going to say that I really appreciate this award, and that it means alot to me. I'm also really grateful to anyone who takes out time to read my nonsense, because there are like a bajillion blogs out there, so nobody has to pay attention to mine. So thanks, people! ^_^

Very pretty, no? 

     The rules for this award says that first, I have to tag ten other bloggers for the award. I wish the number was higher...even though I'm still new-ish to blogging, there are so many blogs that I've come to love and stalk. The ladies of the nail blogosphere truly amaze me with their creativity and great personalities! Here are my picks, in no particular order:

Pinkginger's A Thing of Beauty

Susie's Home and Hobbies

Skulda's Claws

ANOTHER Bottle of Polish?!

Nailstah

Little Music Boxes

Nail Junkie

Nails Beautiqued

Nikki's Nails

Imperfectly Painted

A Black Woman's Guide to Surviving Any Money Crisis

 (Not a nail blog, but I enjoy reading it)

Yeah, I picked eleven. Say something. u_u


The rest of the rules are as follows:


Make a post about the award including the picture and mention the person who gave it to you.

Put the award on your blog.

Let your nominated 10 know you've awarded them by leaving a comment. 


Second order of business is to post some fauxnading that I did over Scherer Calypso. I wanted to remove it, but my sister wanted to go to IHOP (and what a disaster that turned out to be), so I just stamped over it to kind of...refresh it. Again...what a disaster that turned out to be. lol!

I used the Bundle Monster plate BM20, and stamped on the pattern using Color Club Where's the Soiree? Then I put one coat of Finger Paints Floatin' on a Cloud, and sealed the whole thing with one thick coat of Out the Door Top Coat.

Natural light, no flash. 

Natural light, no flash.

Natural light, no flash.

   I think I would like this a whole lot better if I had just left off the glitter. I don't know what it is with me and glitter, but I just cannot leave it alone. If there's any possible way for me to use glitter, I will use it. Even when I'm about to take off a polish, I'll think to myself, "Maybe I should try some glitter." And then I'll put on the glitter, look at it for a while, and then remove the whole thing. Smh, I need help! The good news is that this mani did make me laugh all day. Whenever I looked at it, I'd think of RuPaul shouting "Extravagaaahhnzaahhh!!" and then start cracking up. Only Jesus knows why such an image would come to my mind, because my nails have nothing to do with RuPaul whatsoever. Just one example of why I worry about my brain circuitry sometimes.