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Bonus pic of hubby’s birthday cake made by a friend (kids were in same grade in elementary school). We had a lovely dinner out with 2 dear friends. My daughter and I are going to pick up her birthday cake and sushi for dinner.

Thanks for looking.

Tonic Grace
Dam Year of the Dragon
Emily de Molly Sea of Lies
Polished for Days Cloudscape
Necessary Evil Beach Please
Vapid Cyber Punk
KBShimmer Hidden Potential

I gave it a bit of thought after pulled these 7 together.

Pictures for the first mani, the garden path lacquers don’t do it justice. It’s super sparkly and the shimmer is to die for, but my camera just doesn’t show it.

Second manicure is from the dungeon crawler Carl collection from jen & berries. One of six shades.

Thanks for looking.

Also, I’m so focused on wearing my untrieds that I haven’t gotten to the July top 10 favorites. Oh well.

The KBShimmer is from the VIP bag, the other was one of my Lurid purchases. I’m going to go in the order that we visited booth.

Bonus: Kelli Marissa was in attendance! It was like having royalty. It was great to chat with her!

We’ve had a great time! We are exhausted and smiling from ear to ear.

I went with this fantastic neon, love the shimmer and subtle stamping.

Jen & Berries Underwhelmed
Stamping Plates Hit the Bottle Vintage Grunge 1 & 2
Stamping Polish Uber Chic Electric Pumpkin

Reading 🎧 Land by Maggie O’Farrell

Last and current mani. I’ve worn all my fairy purchased polishes from last year’s PBE. This Kathleen was the last one.

I’m going to the Polish & Beauty expo 7/18 & 19 and meeting my nail bestie for the first time to attend together. It’s getting real now!

When I pulled this beauty out of the box I was ecstatic! I knew it would be my Independence Day mani!

This was a GWP with my last Lurid order. I love it. It will be available as an overpour in a future release, as a charity polish raising funds for ACLU.

Jumping on the algae nails bandwagon! I had lunch with two co-workers today (all the California folks like me work from home) so it was great to see them in person! Only problem is now I don’t want to work.

The polish on my thumb tried to escape while I slept. It has been redone!

Kathleen & Co My Favorite Town (PBE 2025 Doorbuster)
Cracked Beginner’s Luck - green magnetic topper
Magnetic Method 🧲 oval + dot on wand (PPU purchase), 1 coat over this lovely blue, magnetize 1 min, top coat, magnetize 1 min

Currently reading 📖 The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife, loving it!

I do love this shade. I know I have others. Years back I was chasing OPI What’s with the Cattitude from the Shrek collection. I ended up buying it on eBay and I honestly don’t think I’ve worn it yet.

Thumb to Pinky
❤️ I've Already Taken my Christmas Pills with a layer of The Rainbow Connection (GITD)
🩷 I’m a Delightful Half and Half Situation
🧡 If Anything Screams Christmas it's Meatloaf!
💛 People Don’t Wanna Carol in Front of Mom’s Wig Wall
💚 Seemingly Possessed by the Christmas Spirit
💙 Wake Me when it’s Over
💜 Everything on My List is Pre-Order
Formerly untried!

I bought this via fairy at PBE 2025. Just now wearing. A faded purple? Again? Went to bed and it was the light greenish gray. Woke up to a totally different shade and this is how it has stayed.

It is labeled solar, but it’s not reactive. I thought maybe there might be thermal pigment, but it doesn’t change at all.

I love the look that I woke up to today. I emailed the maker, just to inform.

Any ideas?

Jen & Berries Low Cap - Jenny does a great job with this finish 💜 the shifty pic was in the drive thru car each 💓

2nd mani is for a cozy vibes collab for cupcake polish maker Sara, for her birthday, posting on June 14. I chose 3 polishes from her Booked & Busy collection inspired by “staying up all night, reading, bookstore, vibes, and falling a little too hard for fictional men”.

Green* *Enemies to Lovers
Teal Utterly Undone
Purple Slow Burn
Matte tc

The formula was great for these 3.

Trying to watch the Polished Mage video of today’s Lurid release and the ads are making it near impossible!

Thanks for letting me rant.

Current mani: Lurid it’s my birthday! I can bark if I want to!

I still have a bit of cleanup to do. I’m pretty impressed. I’ll post a pic of the toy in a comment.

Such a fun shade! Messed up quite a few nails putting socks on yesterday when my orthopedic surgeon’s office called to have me come earlier, but I’m pls Ming to change it today - my last day of leave. Doctor was very impressed with my progress and released me to go back to work 6/1.

8 is the magic number! I read 8 books and did 8 manis after surgery.

Seccy

I do love the finish of this trio and the glow in the dark is so fun!

I haven’t read the books (I don’t read much sci-fi) but I’m always seeing them recommended, including by mitabird. The series on Apple TV is great.