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Like any good nail polish addict enthusiast, I hoard buy tons of nail polish. Since summer is my favorite season ever for nail polish--every company, big & small, comes out with neons (my favorites) and plethora of other bright colors--it's only right to spend all my money budget more so I can acquire my favorite summer lacquers.



I've decided to do these in alphabetical order, so lets get this started with two Bonita Colors from their Turq It collection for summer 2015.
I bought these solely because I saw CurlyComedyNailArt post them and knew I had to get them.


Next up are some miscellaneous Color Clubs I bought at Beauty Plus Salon

My intention was to replace the older, faded CCs in my collection, but Beauty Plus Salon was having a promotion where you buy one full size Color Club, get a mini Color Club free.


Now for a brand I was super excited to find on eBay--at a decent price might I add--LeChat Dare To Wear.


I ended up getting these for a little over $3 each plus free shipping.  Why was I excited about these? Welp, Dare To Ware is one of my favorite brands and it's almost impossible for me to get my not-so-little, well manicured hands on them.


Moving on to my first Girly Bits.

Being an avid neon fan getting a few shades from the Hoop! There It Is collection. Ever since the first time I saw the press release on Polish to Precision I knew I had to get my hands on my choice favorites.


Next up is Indigo Bananas

I've been hearing about this brand for some years now and never pulled the trigger, until now.

My last nail polish subscription box was Square Hue and I kept finding them pretty boring. So with that being said, I signed up for Nail Glam!


Last but not least, the Virtuous Polish Women of Valor collection.

Technically, this collection wasn't a summer collection. Technically, I purchased this in the spring.
But it's neon, so there.
I did some nail art with these awhile back, If you missed it click HERE.


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What collections or shades have you purchased this year?
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Last week on twitter I let word out that some labor intensive nail art will finally be delivered on Friday. Well folks, Thursday night turned into 2:35am Friday morning and my mani still wasn't finished. So Friday night I put the final touches on it and debated if it was worth posting; I'm kinda considering it a nail fail because my lettering needs a ton of work.


Anyway, I digress. As we all know I love Instagram so when I kept seeing a wall that said, "Be bad until you're good" all over my news feed, I knew I had to: a) had to find the artist behind it. b) put it on my nail beds.

A few seconds of Google searching lead me straight to Lakwena Maciver, an amazing modern artist from London with an incredible knack for design, and use of bright colors. An added bonus? She occasionally posts flicks of her own nails.





A little side note: I was holding out on changing my nail shape until they grew out more, but the corner on my ring finger snapped, so back to stiletto I went.




And here's one last pic, just cuz'.



Overall I'm kinda "meh" about these, but at least I know I need to improve.

If you want to see more of the When Nails Imitate Art series, click HERE.
If you want to see more of my honest, failed attempts at nail art from the When Good Manis Go Bad series, click HERE.


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Got ideas for other artists I should cover? Wanna talk about your biggest nail fails? Sound off in the comments below.
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Happy hump day my fellow lacquer enthusiasts! Today, I'm starting a new segment called--you guessed it--Take It Outside!

What will this segment be on you ask? Manicures that I've already done, but the photographs for them where taken outdoors in stead of in my light box.
Why? Because you (my lovely readers) suggested it to me, via social media, that I should take more pictures outdoors.

Let's get things started by revisiting my first thermal polish, Glam Paint Lacquer's Strawberry Cheesecake!


This is Strawberry Cheesecake in it's warm state, just hanging out in the sunshine!
To see the original post click HERE.


Next up, remember those beautiful mermaid scales using the Zoya Paradise Sun collection?


In direct sunlight, Zoya Isa is a lot more color accurate. Why oh why are certain shades so hard to photograph?
Anyway, see the full swatch, review, and nail art for the entire Zoya Paradise Sun collection HERE if you haven't already.


And to close this post out, I've got my blogiversary many!



So my cuticle clean up game wasn't on fleek with this one, but damn it was still a bomb ass mani. Neon, holo, gradients, oh my!
If you didn't catch the mani I did to celebrate my blog's fourth bday, the link is still active HERE.

I hope you guys enjoyed the first post of my new segment! Comment and let me know what other manis I've done that you'd like to see in the next Take It Outside! round up.
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Yes, you read the title right. Today you can enter for the chance to win $200 directly sent to your PayPal account!


What makes it even better is that there are two winners! So if you don't win the $200 prize, you might win $40.

Makes sure you read the rules before you enter. Also, good luck!

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What will you buy if you win?
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It's Friday and I want neon nails darn it! I know, what else is new about that? Well I broke out a couple She' Nail Polishes I recently purchased and did a pretty basic plastic wrap manicure.

I'm kinda sleepy and really lacking material for my usual anecdotes,  so I'll keep this post short and sweet.


I used Wine, Fruit, and Convo and Things Women Love in addition to some gold studs I had lying around in my embellishments drawer.



And because this is a neon mani, my camera freaked out. So make sure to check back later in the day. I'll take a better picture outside.


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Happy Friday lovers!
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Time for another comparison post folks. This round I'm hunting for a dupe I actually really want, the original Sinful Colors Dream On.


Awhile back I realized my bottle of Dream On was running low. I went to rite aid, walked over to the Sinful Colors display, looked at Dream On and thought something was off, but bought it anyway.

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Ah, just in time for your hump day needs.

If you've picked up on the starter pack/Rick Ross reference, congrats! You know this nail art look is about what else? Pineapples. ;)


For some reason I'm being drawn to items with pineapples on them. Not really sure why, but I've got a t-shirt and the phone case to prove it. And now I've got the nails.


You all know I love neon, so a base color of Color Club East Austin was a no-brainer. And because I love gold I had to emphasize the gold glitter on my iPhone with Ruby Wing Sunflower.

A little side note: Ruby Wing polishes change color depending on whether you're indoors or outdoors; but because I've had this polish for years, Sunflower no longer changes color & stays the bright, yellow gold you see in the mani.


I hate mini nail polishes, but it was buy one full size Color Club, get a mini Color Club free at Beauty Plus Salon. I never turn down free nail polish, so that's exactly how I ended up with a mini East Austin.


Every now and then I share my mani sketches on my Instagram *cough* @DropOutNails *cough* and have been thinking about posting them here.

Let me know in the comments if you want to see more posted here on Nail A College Drop Out.

Pineapples... #NailACollegeDropOut #TuneInDropOutLovePolish #NailArtinUpInThisBitch #iwasntready #ididntfinish

A photo posted by Nail A College Drop Out (@dropoutnails) on Jun 30, 2015 at 7:05am PDT

And for the sake of (somewhat) uniformity with every other blog post, here are some mani pics with my standard black backdrop.



This isn't the first time I've tackled pineapple nails. Dare I say, "I wasn't ready." Anyway, click HERE for the first pineapple mani I did a few years back.

Give yourself a pat on the back if you actually read this entire post and laughed at the Kevin Hart, Rick Ross, and starter pack meme references. You the real MVP. *insert MVP award emoji here*

Wanna see more of what's in my sketchbook on the blog? Wanna trade corny jokes about bae coming over? Or just chit chat about your hatred of mini sized nail polish? Let's talk it out in the comments.
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