Whimsical Ideas By Pam Seuss

I own three Whimsical's and each one is special to me, not only because they're beautiful polishes but because they were all gifts from friends. :) Getting a polish from a friend always makes it that much prettier, don't you think? The Whimsical I've got for you today, Seuss, was a gift from the fabulous ChiChi. Seuss is...well, it's pretty freakin' magical. It's got a vibrant blue base chock-full of tiny blue glitters, medium red hexes and large white hexes.  So cute!

Seuss has a great formula. The base is nice and opaque without being too dense to let the glitters peek through. I used three coats here. The glitters themselves are nicely mixed, with the white hexes being the most common, and they spread easily across the nail.

This polish perfectly captures the fun, colorful vibe of the Dr. Seuss classics. The color scheme reminds me of The Cat In The Hat in particular. What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book? I've always really liked The Lorax!

You can purchase Whimsical Ideas By Pam through Pam's Facebook.

Twinsie Tuesday: Whimsical Ideas By Pam Super Hero

Before we get down to business with this week's Twinsie Tuesday theme, I want to welcome our two newest Twinsies: Bridget from A Painted Nail and Jessica from Blue Velvet Lacquer! If you get a chance, do drop by their blogs to say hello! :)

So this week's theme is "summer lovin'." Other than making me think of the song from "Grease," I wasn't sure what we were supposed to do with this theme--and based on the chatter in our TT group, it seems I wasn't alone! So we decided you could just interpret the theme however you like.

Now, I don't talk very much about my personal life on here, but my boyfriend just returned from a study abroad trip a week or so ago after being gone for ten months! So this theme makes me think about how happy I am to be able to spend the summer with him and do the things we love. 

One of our biggest shared interests is comics, so I thought it'd be fun to pay homage to that with Whimsical Ideas By Pam Super Hero. I got this polish as part of my birthday gift from the wonderful ChiChi and it is so much fun! Super Hero is a yellow jelly with small gold glitter, large blue and yellow hexes and red stars. It's very Wonder Woman, no? 

If a yellow jelly isn't your thing, you could always layer Super Hero over a white or yellow creme, but I think it looks perfectly pretty all on its own! I used two coats for this mani. The formula is fabulous. You don't have to fish at all for the larger glitter pieces, although you might have to use the dabbling method a bit to disperse them evenly across the nail.

You can purchase Whimsical Ideas through Pam's Facebook page. And be sure to take a look at what my fellow Twinsies did for their "summer lovin'" manis!

 

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace
Anna at Going to the Showing
Bridget at A Painted Nail

Casey at CaseyLane Loves Polish

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Erin at Paint Those Piggies

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Kelly at Tuxarina

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Stephanie at A Little Polish

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Whimsical Ideas By Pam Saturday Morning Cartoons

Today is a sad day in the blogging world, as we collectively mourn the loss of Google Reader. Goodnight, sweet prince. I've made the switch over to Bloglovin' to keep up with all of my favorite blogs (You can import your whole Google Reader blog list with just one click!), but I'm still going to miss good ol' GR. If you've been following Nailed via Google Reader and haven't made the jump to a different platform yet, you can check out this post for other ways to keep up with Nailed, plus some bonus Corgi cuteness. :)

So with that business out of the way, let's talk polish! I recently received my very first Whimsical polish, Saturday Morning Cartoons, as a birthday gift from my amazing friend (and birthday Twinsie) Nory! Saturday Morning Cartoons is a dark blue jelly base filled with blue, silver, green and red glitter. This is a very fun polish that could double as Deborah Lippmann Across The Universe's more colorful, playful little sister.

It started pouring rain before I could take some snaps of this polish with my camera, so I hope these iPhone pictures I took in the parking lot at work will give you at least a glimmer of how lovely this polish is!

The jelly base goes on sheer at first but I built it up to complete opacity in four coats. You could stop at three if you aren't as ridiculously particular about concealing any trace of VNL as I am. Although this polish is filled with all kinds of glittery goodness, it still applies evenly.

You can order from Pam on her Facebook page.