Sunday, October 30, 2011

Halloween!

Here is my halloween mani. Wet & Wild black creme + China Glaze Lubu Heels topped with Essie Matte About You and red striper to make the blood. Accent nail of some random red and OPI Gettin' Miss Piggy With It.





I made some brownies! Mmm evil brownies..

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

OPI - Sonic Bloom, Megawatt & Electric Eel

These are three polishes that can be lovely 1 coat sheers but here is 3 coats of each to give you an idea what they can build up to. No base or top on any of these.

Megawatt





I really liked this one a lot more than I thought I would. At one coat it is like a layer of spun gold on the nail. It is very sheer but it is prominent. This is 3 coats and I really love the ethereal glow. Definitely a keeper.

Electric Eel





I think I might like this one better at a single coat than three. While it is a very pretty green at 3 coats, at 1 coat it gives off a very subtle (for me) green glow. I did not do 1 coat swatches with these because my nails are stained all to shiz. No one wants to see that :|

Sonic Bloom







This one is fabulous. One coat is less than thrilling. Three coats, however, is beauty. Is it blue? Pink? Green? Guile? All of the above? Pin It

Thursday, October 13, 2011

OPI - Sugarplum Yum

So pretty! It's a grey base which often leans quite purple with pink/peach duochrome action. This is 2 coats. Surprisingly opaque! I was expecting it to be ultra sheer. No base, no top.





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Saturday, October 8, 2011

OPI - Movin' Out

I originally swatched this on its lonesome. I did not love it. Now I do love it!

2 coats over black. Here are 10 gazillion pictures.

Indoors (apologies as some pics are blurry)










Outdoors, overcast.








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Sunday, October 2, 2011

OPI - The Muppets Collection Swatches

Today was a good day!




This is a fabulous collection. Application on almost all of them was flawless. I apologize for any wonky cuticles, bits of fluff, stray glitter, ugly cleanup jobs and/or slightly longer ring finger nails *shakes fist* that you may encounter in the pics below. Get ready for overcast shitty day pictures galore!

First up is Designer De Better

This is 2 coats with no topcoat. The application was fabulous. This is a silvery champagne foil with pronounced pinky/peachy/bronzy bits in it. It reminds me of Zoya Crystal in a way.





Indoors


Here we have Warm and Fozzy. Not the duochrome that many of us were hoping for, but still nice! It is a light brown jelly with green leaning yellow gold and pink particulates that make it look quite foily. This is 2 coats with no topcoat.





Indoors


Here we have Animal-istic

This is 2 coats with no topcoat. It could almost be a 1 coater. I had a teensy bit of VNL so I decided to do a 2nd coat. If I had been more careful, it could have been a 1 coater for sure. This is a lovely orange leaning red. It looks like shimmery sparkly glass candy! Mmm glass candy *munch munch bleed*





Indoors


Wocka Wocka!

1 coater! I did 2 for.. why did I do 2? Anyways this is a gorgeous deep vampy red. Vampy without being too dark. It has subtle shimmer and I love this polish. These pics make it look a lot brighter than it is outdoors. Truly I think it is somewhere in between the out and in pics.





Indoors.


Meep-Meep-Meep

This is 2 coats but it could have been 1. The consistency of this one is a bit viscous. It is a fuchsia pink jelly that is packed with microflakies that gives it good depth and bling.





Indoors


Pepe's Purple Passion

This is another one where i used 2 coats but could have gotten away with 1. This one disappointed me really. It was promising. The polish is thick and I want to say.. silty? This is the only one I used topcoat on. Even with topcoat it is not amazing. Maybe it needs better lighting? It's a deep murky dirty dark red leaning purple with irregular shimmer particulates.




Indoors



On to the glitters! I don't really need to say much about these individually. I layered them all because that is how I will wear them. For the most part they are all amazingly stuffed with glitter. The only difference being in FFoBA and GMPWI. We have a series of 4 coloured microglitters with medium silver hex. Getting Miss Piggy With it has the addition of red hex glitter. Excuse Moi is different, I will explain it when I get to it. All but Excuse Moi are 1 coat.

Divine Swine + OPI Can You Dig It





Indoors


Gone Gonzo + Kleancolor Beach Blue





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Fresh Frog of Bel Air + OPI Jade is the New Black





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Gettin' Miss Piggy With It + Essie Geranium





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Excuse Moi

This one is a pink jelly with rainbow glitter. It could use some topcoat, but I was too lazy at this juncture. 2 coats.





Indoors


Rainbow Connection over Wet & Wild Black Creme

I am not normally down with the clown barf but I like this! Not terribly original but the formula is good and I like it damnit!.





Indoors


All in all I do not regret purchasing this entire collection. It filled some gaps in my collection, the formulas are all excellent, the glitters are fabulous and I am spent. Swatching all frigging day is hard work!

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