Saturday, May 2, 2015

Happy Blogiversary!

Today marks  my 1 year Blogiversary!!  That crept up on my so fast - April completely flew by!  I decided that, to celebrate, I would re-do a mani featuring the first indie polish I ever got that started this whole indie nail polish journey of mine - "Smoke Gets In Her Eyes" by Colors by Llarowe!








"Smoke Gets In Her Eyes" is a light brown jelly with a dark pink/green shifting shimmer throughout.  Opaque in 2-3 coats, depending on how thick you layer - I did 3 thin coats and topped with HKGirl Glisten & Glow.

I won this beauty in a giveaway CbL had last year, and it is the first indie I ever owned!  I remember receiving it and thinking, "HOLY CRAP!  This is amazing!!"  It was unlike any polish I'd ever owned before, or seen in stores, and I knew I'd want more :)  Hundreds of bottles later, here I am :P

So funny looking back on the last year and all the things I accomplished - improving my clean-up and swatching process, improving my pictures, realizing I can do nail art and feeding that talent, establishing relationships with some pretty darn fantastic indies!  I've done a lot in a year with my little blog!  What started out as something I thought nobody would read, something that was just a fun thing for me to do outside of being a mom and a wife, has grown into a passion and a gateway to meeting some wonderful people in this industry, makers AND bloggers alike!  It's been so much fun, and I look forward to the next Blogiversary!

To celebrate my 1 year, I'll be doing a giveaway, most likely starting Monday, so keep your eyes peeled!


20 comments:

  1. Congrats on 1 year!!! I love looking back and seeing the progress made. Here's to many more years!

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  2. Oh my congrats on your 1 year blogiversary, reading your post just made me realise I totally forgot mine!! Stupid life got in the way xx

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  3. What a gorgeous polish! Happy Blogiversary!

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  4. Congrats on 1 year! It moves so quickly. This polish is perfection on you.

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  5. Congratulations!!!! This polish looks amazing on you!!

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  6. Such an interesting color! Congratulations!!

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  7. Congratulations on 1 year! Amazing how much you've accomplished, I'm so happy for and proud of you!

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  8. Congrats on a year! I do love this polish as well, wish the unicorn pee pigment was not discontinued *cries*

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  9. Happy blogiversary!! This polish looks amazing on you.

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  10. Congratulations!~ Heres is to many more!

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  11. Congrats on reaching one year! That's so exciting to hear and I can't believe you remembered the polish that started it all. It looks gorgeous!

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  12. Congratulations!! And what a gorgeous polish!!

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  13. Congrats and OMG how has this polish escaped my grasp?!

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  14. I love this one so much, a nice shade of brown and fantastic shimmer!

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  15. Happy Blogiversary! This one is gorgeous on you!

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  16. GAH That is stunning!!! I was trying to steer clear of CbLs. If I can't find a dupe, I might have to hunt this one down. Congrats on your year!! <3

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  17. Congratulations and Happy Blogiversary!!!!

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  18. Big Congratulations! This polish is a good one to kick it off & revisit. I'm going to have to see if I can hunt this one down. that is a really nice color. - mtk design/

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