But this is so gorgeous. Like glittery, goodness, GORGEOUS.
Come on in and take a look at it.
Zoya – Astra
Wednesday, 2 February, 2011
I do love this…and yes, broken record incoming: I HATE GLITTER.
Zoya – Nova
Monday, 31 January, 2011
This is such a gorgeous glitter…and I hate glitter. I know I say it in practically every glitter post. I sound like my mother.
I love shiny things. I really do. I don’t know why I don’t like glitter polish. I think it’s the removal. I think I dislike it so much is the messiness of it all. However, I’ve found some cremes to be a total pain in the butt, though. I love red nail polish, but the staining on my skin, even when I use cuticle oil. Ugh. The staining!
Anyway, here is my humble pretty Monday offering…
OPI – Black Shatter, Teenage Dream, Last Friday Night and Not Like the Movies
Monday, 24 January, 2011
I’m missing one of Katy Perry’s colors – The One That Got Away. I did buy it, I just totally forgot when I swatched. Ooops. My bad. I will do it by the end of the week.
This is one of the last collections I will show you from OPI. I’m not too keen on supporting indie companies that sell out. Good for OPI that they got $$, but bad for me because I won’t be purchasing new colors I see. Pity. Oh well. All the more money for other nail polish!
I think I will have to do a collection of OPI colors that were my favorites before they were purchased by Coty. This will be my eulogy, my obituary for them. Hm. I have to troll through my colors now! 🙂 Yay.
In the meantime, here are the colors I offer you…Behind the jump, of course!
Ginger & Liz Goin’ Back to Cali
Thursday, 30 December, 2010
I am truly the biggest fangirl of Ginger & Liz. I know I don’t feature them that much in my blog, but in my heart this is my number one brand. If they had a huge collection, I’d be snapping up every color I could. As it stands, I tend to purchase G&L few and far between, but when I do I purchase it, it’s in a frenzy – usually 4+ bottles.
I’ve had my eye on their new colors for some time, but when I purchase I want to make sure it’s hefty, meaning I don’t want to go back time and again. I like doing things in one go, unless they’re Limited Editions. I didn’t get their LEs this time around, but I got 4 colors that moved me. This is just one of them…
I’m not a fan of neon anything. I think it’s to do with my bad 80s moment where I thought I was the shiz when I had my neon outfits. I cringe looking back at those photos and they’re buried deep in my huge embarrassment pile.
I got Goin’ Back To Cali for 2 reasons: 1) it came from one of my favorite 80s movie soundtrack – Less Than Zero and 2) It’s an LL Cool J song. I love LL Cool J. I fully admit to watching NCIS:LA because he’s eye candy…and he can act.
Anyway, Goin’ Back to Cali is a color that flashes a not so neon (but make no mistake, it’s still bright) pink in some light, while in others it appears orange. It threw my camera for a loop! You’ll see the difference in the shade and sunlight shots.
I wasn’t sure if GBTC was meant to have a wax finish, but it sure dried that way.
The formula was a dream and dried in record time.
It’s looking a little pinky/orange in here…I like that it changes colors in different settings. I put a fast drying topcoat on the middle and ring ringer, leaving the pointer and pinkie bare. Not sure if you can see what I mean by the wax finish on the pointer and pinkie fingers – it looks a bit shiny, but not like the other 2 that have the high gloss top coat.
Definitely looking more orange here.
Rescue Beauty Lounge – Lulu
Tuesday, 2 November, 2010
In case you’ve been living under a rock or are not American and couldn’t give a flying leap about American sports, in particular baseball,
THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES!
I decided to share this link from youtube because the artist, Michael Franti, is a Bay Area boy and he has tons of love in his heart for the Giants. He even re-wrote the lyrics for the Giants to fit the tune for his song!
Enough fangirl love about the Giants…I had an epic fail mani for the Giants and took it off because it was really ugly and I felt it did a massive injustice to them!
This would’ve been all fingers but…I um…well, I messed the other 4 up, so you only get a thumb shot. My bad! In my excitement over the game, the fast drying topcoat hadn’t quite dried and all my fingers (save for my thumb) got mangled when I jumped up and was screaming. I cried a little, too. I am so girl. 😀
Lulu is an opaque pink that’s not quite baby and not quite grown up girl. On me, it looked kind of bad. It was this odd pink and brown thing going on. It definitely stood out and made my Filipina dark skin tone seem even darker. How is that even possible?!
Formula was streaky and hard to work with. Additionally it took a while to dry, too. That is completely the opposite of the normally superb Rescue Beauty Lounge formula.
Essie – In Stitches
Thursday, 7 October, 2010
This is part of Essie’s Fall 2010 Collection – and I love it. It is a dusky salmon pink. I thought it was super pretty…and then I wore it for a few days. Friends looked at it and agreed – very pretty. Too bad it made my hands look old. Grrr.
I rarely wear pinks and the few times I do I seem to choose those colors that make me look like…2,010 years old!
Great formula and opaque in 2 coats. Fast drying. No cuticle pull. Woo hoo!
MAC's Venomous Villains Nail Polish Collection
Thursday, 30 September, 2010
These arrived today and I fell in love with the colors in the bottles. I also did a picture comparison with Orly.
The overall formula for MAC is thin and runny. That being said, it dried quickly.
I do wish MAC had put some Villains on the polish bottles. They did it for the other items in the line, so why not this one? Kind of bums me out. Overall the colors were cute, but as you can see, nothing that really wowed me. I’ve seen Mean & Green and Formidable! before thanks to Orly. I’m still going to hang on to these, though. 😀
This is an image heavy post…you have been warned! I tried to best capture the shimmers of the polishes.
There really is no discernible difference between the two, is there? Even the size of the glitter, etc. M&G is a bit thinner than SC. 3 coats of each.
MAC’s formula is thinner and runnier than Orly. You can see it. Other than that, no real discernible difference. This is 3 coats of each polish.
Bottle shot for MAC
This formula was very thin and required 3 coats. But even after 3 coats, you can still see my nail under it. 🙁
Bottle shot
This delicate, lovely glittery color needs a delicate, lovely skin tone to match…and it’s not me. My skin tone needs some harsh colors in order for it to look flattering. Very rarely do I luck out and find pinks/beiges/neutrals that look good on me. Usually it’s blue, green, black…you get my drift.
What was a lovely color in the bottle was transformed into…something so hideous on me I had a hard time believing it was actually the same color! That’s my problem – I fall in love with these colors in the bottle and I throw caution into the wind thinking, “Maybe just this once, this color will look so good on me…” *sigh* Such is not the case.
Formula was flawless – 2 coats and in under 10 minutes this was dry and no bubbles. How can you go wrong with that? You can have my skin tone. That’s how.
Anyway, enough of my angry bitterness about my skin tone and on to the pretty nail polish!
