Showing posts with label Foil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foil. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Rainbow Honey - Robot Collection

I tend not to talk about useful things when I blog about polish. I suck at describing colours. These swatches are sort of crap. I need to redo them. They look good on the tiny camera screen *squints*

These are all 1 coat of polish. The would likely look far better with more than 1 coat, but I was just so pleased to have 1 coaters. They are careful 1 coaters! I approve.

These came packaged so well.




I really like these little bottles. Rainbow Honey has always has great packaging, and this is just more of the same.

Dusty Bot


Bitty Love Bot


Femme Bot


Lucky Bot


Skyward Bot


Yoshimi 1 coat


Yoshimi 2 coats


OPI The Lights of the Emerald City over 2 coats Yoshimi over Lucky Bot


The set of minis is $25 and the full size set is $50. If you spend $50 + you get free shipping, though I cannot recall if that is worldwide. Certainly it should say on their site.

I plan to reswatch these when the sun comes back out again.

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Pretty Serious - They Came From Beyond Space!

I was so stoked to receive this collection on Friday.  I peered in through their little windows and whispered "I'm going to swatch you on Sunday", and then I did.  Here are the results!

Apologies for 60 different lightings.  It was hard for me to capture the different colour shifts.  So shifty these fellas.

Also apologies for the shots where my fingers looked like they just slammed into all the Slim Jims.

Oh and any unfitting pink flashes on the bottles is likely just a reflection from my pink camera.

P.S. apologies for any craptasticly obvious shopping of black polish that I failed to notice until after all the polish was removed :|

As I was swatching I had Richard Stamos singing Loving You stuck in my head the entire time.  Thank you South Park.

All ring fingers are 1 coat over black.  All other fingers are 3 coats.  No topcoat.

Atomic Brain, not sure what the qozn is on the label there *squints*







Galaxy Invader, it's a bit redundant that I am announcing the names since the first picture is of the label..







Phantom Planet, and now a picture of the label.








All of these were a dream to work with.  Not too thick not too thin.  I like them alone or over black.  They aren't so sheer that you can't build them to opacity in 3 or even 2 coats if you are careful.  The colour shifts are strong in all of them.  I loved walking around through the different lights in the house moving my hands around checking out the pretty.  I want to try layering them over all of the things..

These are described as duochrome foils.  This means that they are tres blingy!  Very shiny and flashy as you can see since I did not use any topcoat.

They Came From Beyond Space! is available at Pretty Serious.  10% off if you buy all 3.  Shipping is totes reasonable considering they are coming from Oz.  Canadian ladies you should be especially pleased since it costs the same as it does from province to province.  Stupid Canada Post *glares*

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Gold Foil Comparison

Orly Glitz & Glamour has been my ultimate gold foil. A friend of mine wore it to school once, and I wanted it BAD. I ended up missing the boat and actually got OPI Rising Star instead. So not what I wanted. Still a good polish, but not what I wanted. Recently I purchased Sparitual Solstice. It is an exact dead on dupe for Glitz & Glamour which is not entirely surprising since they have the same parent company.


Sparitual on the pointer and Orly on the ring.


Rising star is obviously a bit more copper leaning. Without these to compare it does look quite gold.


The formula on the OPI is pretty bang on. The other 2 require more coats. The formula seems to be a clear base which is jaaaam packed full of golden bits. 1 coat is not enough to cover.


Both Orly and Sparitual have a rubber cap. The Orly brush stem and brush bristles are a bit longer. I prefer the Orly brush. The Orly bottle also holds more product which is always a boon.


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Sunday, August 7, 2011

OPI - Rising Star & China Glaze - Cleopatra

First up is OPI Rising Star from the Burlesque collection. It's a pretty gold foil, but imo it isn't as nice as Orly Glitz & Glamour which I do not own why?? Grr..





Here it is with 2 coats of China Glaze Cleopatra (love!)


Cleopatra is an awesome glitter, mostly gold but with scattered holo glitter as well.





I love me some glitter :oD I think I am going to start doing my posts before bed now. So that I can have time to.. exercise.. before work :S Maybe ;o)
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Monday, July 18, 2011

OPI Miss Universe 2011 - Swimsuit... Nailed it!

I was in the nail supply this weekend just looking around. I wasn't expecting to love this one. I picked it up 3 times before I decided I had to have it. It is gorgeous.



This is such a wicked crazy blue foil. LOVE!



And because I cannot take anything off without layering something else over it first, here it is with one coat of OPI - I Lily Love You




Now please band together and hope for sunshine for me today ok? Pin It