Essie Lapis of Luxury

Happy Memorial Day to all of those who have and will serve our country! I hope everyone is having a good day. It's pretty hot and humid in New York, so I'm trying to keep cool. Before I get to anything else I want to thank everyone who took the time to purchase something from my blog sale. THANK YOU! The good news is that my dog Milo has come home from the vet and *hopefully* with a restricted prescription diet he should be ok. They can't pin point what caused his pancreatitis but it shouldn't interfere with his Addison's disease. They also found stones in his bladder, so we're going to have to keep an eye on that. At five years old this dog has put through the ringer. As loving and healthy as he is, I will never again purchase an animal from a puppy store as puppy mills are making a profit and the dogs are the ones suffering. Lesson learned.

Today I have an oldie but a goodie for you. I was lemming the new Bikini So Teeny shade from Essie and when I finally found it I walked around Target with it for about 20 minutes. I looked down at the bottle at one point and it instantly reminded me of Essie's Lapis of Luxury, which was sitting in my stash at home untried. In order to share the love with my existing stash, I put Bikini So Teeny down.

Lapis of Luxury is a periwinkle blue with hints of purple. For the photo below I used two coats of polish and topped it off with Seche Vite. I definitely think I could have used a third coat, but I  was lazy  don't want to waste polish lol.

Overall I'm loving this shade and I can't believe it was in my untrieds for so long! I'm waiting for someone to do a comparison with Lapis of Luxury and Bikini So Teeny.

I probably won't have any swatches of any new polishes from anything that is released from this day forward for a while. Due to incurred vet bills and the cost of the monthly medicine for Milo's Addison's and now his prescription diet, I'm definitely going to be on a tight income. I hope everyone will stick around while I swatch some oldies :)

Just for some fun, here are some photos of my little guy:

Puppy days

I hope everyone enjoys their Memorial Day!