Misa Peach Passion and CND Crimson Sparkle

This is another one I picked up at the Misa sale. This is an orange leaning bright peach creme. The formula was pretty typical for these kinds of colours. It was a bit thick. I used 3 coats for these pictures. It was a bit streaky, but I blame that more on my application. I think the best way to apply this is with thicker, even coats that are allowed to dry a bit in between. That being said, I am not unimpressed with how it looks with 3 quick coats. It doesn't level very well, like a lot of similar polishes I have found, and so if your final coats do not completely cover your last ones you will end up with obvious layers around the edges. You may be able to see this in my pics.

Because I cannot leave anything alone I added a coat of CND Crimson Sparkle. I am beyond disappointed that CND decided to discontinue their line of Effects. I hope they bring them back in the Vinylux formula. I found this difficult to photograph. In actuality, it is a really prominent pretty pink shimmer that changes to gold as you shift your hands around closer to the light source.

Ask - Nailwear Review

Along with my tiny bottle of mighty remover I was sent the following 4 polishes, a bottle of top coat and a bottle of base coat.

These are swatched without base because my ridges really create a super nice.. effect on the nail?  Okay it was a foolish oversight.  I normally try to swatch with ridge filler on.  Hopefully these are not too heinous.  I didn't use top coat because I want you to be able to see what a polish looks like on its own.

These all dried very quickly.  Most of them were 1 coaters.

Romantic Sunset - I cannot say I love the name.  In the bottle I was a bit meh on the polish.

On the nail I really quite like it.  One coat!

 There is a very subtle hidden silver shimmer in this polish which you can see a tiny bit of in this picture.

I wanted to see what it would look like with a coat of Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat.  Nice, and yet still office appropriate.

Always with the hairy bottle bums.  Here is Oh So Aubergine.

One coat!  I am really glad to have these polishes in my stash I have to say.  More and more 1 coat is really ringing my bell and becoming tres important.

I actually needed to add a few drops of thinner to this one.  I do not consider this a bad thing.  I am very much pro 1 coat polish.  Adding a few drops of thinner which I always have hanging around is not a big deal.

Rich Sapphire.  This was not a 1 coater.

This is 3 careful coats.  This one likes to pull.  The first 2 coats were very thin, and the last coat was fairly thick.

This one is very jelly like and squishy.  The first 2 coats were quite transparent.  It does build up nicely.  I would lean more towards calling this a jelly than a creme.  It's not a jelly that you can sandwich, but a jelly.

Finally here is Classic Peacock.  This is a lovely teal.

Another 1 coater.  This one also needed a few drops of thinner.

The above pictures were my having reswatched.  I swatched originally the week before and didn't check them until this weekend, discovering that they were ugly pictures.  Below here is a picture from my original swatchings.  I put Classic Peacock on Sunday afternoon last week.  I wore it until Thursday evening, took this picture and removed it as I had a large chip in my thumb.  This is an illustration of the tip wear.  Starting with the pinky I am wearing Ask base coat under alternating nails.  The tip wear is not as bad on those nails.  Note that I did not wrap the base coat so really all it is helping to prevent is the tip wear crawling higher up the nail as it has done on the other nails.  This picture was taken indoors.

I then decided to take this opportunity to illustrate the difference between Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat and CND Crimson Sparkle as I had heard someone say one day that they were essentially the same and that if you had one you would not need the other.  In hindsight, they might have meant Raspberry Sparkle which I do not own because although these are similar, they are not dupes.

The pinky and middle finger are Sparkle Top Coat.  The pointer and ring are Crimson Sparkle.

I do not believe these are up for sale yet.  When they are, you can find them at the Ask Cosmetics website for $9.95/bottle.

These products were sent to me for review.

Fin.

Rescue Beauty Lounge - Scrangie

Oh Scrangie how I love thee :o)

Scrangie is the 1 RBL that I felt like I really really really had to have. A fabulous lady made that dream come true for me! Btw.. Kevin + ample food + airmail asap.

Purpley greeny goodness! But you know what it needed?

So I topped it with a coat of CND Teal Sparkle from the Urban Oasis (NEVER SHOULD HAVE STOPPED MAKING THIS BAD CND BAD BAD CND) duo. (Also an amazing gift from an amazing girl).

It was hard to capture the extra cow bell in the Teal Sparkle shots. With or without, Scrangie you be fantasmic!!

OPI - Nice Stems

Hola! Yesterday I received the OPI Nice Stems collection and today I swatched it! I am not normally a fan of pinks but I do enjoy this collection.. minus 1 of them *evil glare* Do not mind my nubbly nubs. I nubbed them down to the quick so the shape is.. well there is no shape really I just nubbed them as far as they would nub. Nub?


Here is Come To Poppy. 3 coats with no top coat. I love this polish. Application was a breeze, polish is gorgeous, all is good!

Sorry this is blurry but I only took the one picture and I don't like deviating from patterns.. Bottom, bottle, nails!

Here is Come To Poppy with 1 coat of I Lily Love You (I lily do!! <3)

I Lily Love You is frigging gorgeous. It is irregular + small square bits of flakey in a sheer pink base. At first I was worried that it would be very similar in application to Color Club Covered In Diamonds (which I love but is a PITA to apply) but it is not. The application is easy peasy and the glitter is not chunky or obtrusive. It goes on smooth.

This is Be A Dahlia Won't You. Supposedly a dupe for China Glaze 108 Degrees, but I do not have that for comps. Application = fabulous! I love this polish.

It does have a bit of a blue shimmer but I decided it needed more. Here it is with 1 coat of CND Sapphire Sparkle.

And now on to the thorn in my side. Get it? Themed floral collection? Thorn? RDRR? Anyways.. Play In The Peonies looks nice enough once you struggle with the SHIZ application. I hated it. It was streaky and pully and too thin but too thick? Is that possible? I have dubbed it, Pain In The Peonies. This is 3 coats with no topcoat.

It is a barely pink frosty white by my eye. I do like it on the nail, but I decided I needed to punish it with some Crackle Shatter. Really La Rosa? Crackle Shatter? *shakes head* Anyways. This is PITP with 1 coat of La Rosa Crackle Shatter #18 Diva. I put this on when it was still wettish, and I do like the way it cracked!

Do you see the glitter hiding in there?

I don't even know how to classify this. I think it was their answer to the metallics being put out. It's like a coppery.. reddy.. bronzy situation? With glitter? I do love it regardless!

That was 1 coat of Diva with a coat of topcoat.. I don't remember which one.. it was kinda bluish and Orly.. top/bottom type dealy? Anyhoo, thx for looking!