Quick Swatch! OPI Midnight in Moscow

These swatches are quick pictures I snapped of a 15 minute manicure. I had a polish mishap and had to re-do my mani before leaving for work so I didn't have time for much clean up.

OPI Midnight in Moscow is a dark grey/brown with maroon shimmer. It looks much different in the bottle than it does on the nail. In real life it looks like a dark maroon/brown and the shimmer is very subtle. Here it only appears with the bright flash of my camera. Midnight in Moscow is a unique color in my collection, but not one I wear very often.

This picture in the shade is very true to color

I just wish the shimmer was more obvious in real life because it is very beautiful.

My First Franken

I'm back after a great spring break!

First, I would like to report that China Glaze Ruby Pumps lasted amazingly this spring break. After four days on the beach there was only slight tip wear!

After removing Ruby Pumps I gazed at my Polish collection looking for a color to wear for the next few days. I can usually tell with one glance at my calendar how much time I'm going to have for nail polish and this week doesn't look very promising.

I wanted something pink, since spring is in the air... but lately I've been attracted gorgeous glitter polishes with jelly bases. Shockingly I don't own a decent pink jelly glitter! (This must be remedied). After a bit of contemplation I decided to try a franken. For a base I used my mini OPI Do you think I'm Tex-y that had about 2/3 remaining. I added a combination of OPI Crown Me Already and OPI Serving up Sparkle with a few drops of Wet n Wild Wild Shine Kaleidoscope and two drops of Color Club Worth the Risque for some glitter variety. The result? A gorgeous glittery pink jelly.

Three coats and it was opaque.

(I apologize for how rough my cuticles look, the camera always makes them look so much worse!)

The big hex glitter seemed to stick to the sides of the bottle so I didn't end up with very many on the nail but I'm very happy with the color I ended up with.

Spoiled Haul and some really awful pictures.

At the CVS pharmacy the other day I picked up four new Spoiled by Wet n Wild polishes. I love the bottle shape on these little guys, unique yet simple. Spoiled polishes are inexpensive, and they have some amazing colors. The only complaint I have (which will be familier to you if you've picked up a bottle or read any reviews) is the brush. The brush on these polishes is thick, wide, coarse, and it has a strange angle to one side. This makes it extremely difficult to paint my nails with even though I have very broad nails.

But the colors were too pretty to resist.

I then proceeded to completely botch a few swatches. It was night and my camera wasn't doing any of these colors justice.

From left to right: Shrimp on the Barbie, Plastic Flamingo, Jewelry Heist, Show me the Money, and Ants in my Pants. .

Shrimp on the Barbie is a light mauve toned pink with yellow/gold glass flecks. It's a very pretty color and the glass flecks make it unique in my collection.

This photo doesn't do it justice, but it was the closest I could get to the right color. (2 coats)

Plastic Flamingo. Oh yes, an impossible-to-photograph neon pink creme. This was two coats and applied wonderfully, for some reason the brush on this one was perfect, still wide but not so coarse.

The true color is somewhere in between this over-exposed pink and the dark yet glow-y pink below.

Jewelry Heist I only did a quick swatch with since I was lazy, the glitter was very hard to get out of the bottle (especially with the giant brush) and I sort of had to dab it on the nail (made more difficult with the wide awkward brush). Two coats over OPI Sparrow me the Drama. In a clear base, Jewelry Heist has big hexagonal pink and gold glitter (the gold glitter pieces looks almost curved in the bottle and on the nail) as well as small black glitter and tiny square holographic glitter.

Show me the money can be seen here: layered over top of China Glaze Paper Chasing.

Last, and certainly not least is Ants in my Pants. Its a black jelly base with little red glitter and big hexagonal red glitter suspended in the glitter, truly beautiful! The glitter was a little bit hard to get onto the nail but built up beautifully with three coats.

I'll have to re-do these swatches when I get a chance. How atrocious!

Sally Hansen HD Laser

I've been wanting to get my hands on this color for quite some time now. I saw it in the local CVS Pharmacy and I had to have it! Got home and did some quick swatches. This is three coats with no topcoat.

Laser is a bright blue glass fleck with a purple duochrome which I sadly couldn't capture in my pictures. It is quite sheer but application was great.

With flash

Without Flash, here you can see the purple duochrome if you look at the bottle closely.

Blurry to see the sparkles

Finally back!

I can't believe I've gone so long without posting! Luckily I have still been taken plenty of pictures and it is my spring break so I'll have a chance to catch up.

First off, my NOTD.

This is Nicole by OPI's Kendall on the Katwalk from the Kardashian Kolors colection (obnoxious name, I know). It's a blue tinted jelly base with blue, purple, and green glitter. The blue glitter is dominant, with about 25-30% purple glitter and 5% green glitter.

This is base coat, 3 coats of Kendall on the Katwalk, and 3 layers of top coat.

It dries like sandpaper and isn't nearly as beautiful until you smooth it out with top coat.

In the sunlight the glitter sparkles so much and reminds me of my OPI DS Temptation. It is definitely one of those colors where I find myself staring at my nails! Overall this is a great polish, worth buying if the name doesn't annoy you ;). The three coats dried very quickly, with only top coat slowing me down. If you can stand bumpy polish you could probably get away with just one coat of top coat. I don't recommend going without top coat because it takes away so much of the sparkle. I tried to save a finger without topcoat for pictures when the sun came out but I didn't have enough patience!