Whoops, I Broke It

Today I have another of the Spider-Man collection, Shatter the Scales. After wearing Just Spotted the Lizard for a day, I figured I might as well spruce it up a bit!

I glopped the crackle on pretty heavily and it may have benefited from a slightly lighter application, but I'm so in love with the color of the crackle that I don't even care that you can't see much of Just Spotted the Lizard underneath.

The one and only downside is that I have the feeling it's going to stain when I take it off, based on my cleanup. But that's a small price to pay!

I still can't say that I'm going to run out and buy every crackle polish out there, but I'm very pleased with this one! I don't want to take it off!

Green is the New Black

Wellllll, we all know about O.P.I.'s new almost-dupe for Chanel Peridot from the Spider-man collection, Just Spotted the Lizard.

I. LOVE. IT.

It sparkles in the sunlight, the color shift is lovely, and it's definitely an attention-grabber. My (male) roommate even asked to look at my nails instead of me doing my normal things of running up to him and shoving them in his face.  Of course, the fact that there was a line of Spider-man nail polish boggled his mind, but still.

This is one of those polishes that I know I'm going to want to wear a lot. It's different, which makes it nice, and there's no way I personally would pay for the Chanel polish when this one satisfies me just fine!

Off right now to buy another bottle... hope it didn't sell out already!

Dance Dance

Quick post today.  Here we have Ulta's Dance Teal Dawn.  And yes, I did ding my ring finger on the door as I was walking outside to take the pictures.  Figures!

At first, I was honestly a bit disappointed.  The color looks super dark in the bottle but was pretty thin.  It did, however, build up to a nice color after three coats, which is what you see pictured.  

It did stain a little bit, but not as much as I was expecting.  

All in all, it's a pretty color, but not quite what I was hoping for.  A fourth color may have been beneficial, but I'll have to do that another time.

Under a Harvest Moon

It figures that as soon as I look outside, see how sunny it is, and decide to swatch something, the sun runs and hides by the time I'm ready to go outside.  Ah, well.  Indirect light will have to do!

Today I have one of the China Glaze Hunger Games series, Harvest Moon.  I love colors like this and I originally picked it up because it reminded me of one of my favorite polishes ever, O.P.I. DS Glow.  They actually look quite different, since Harvest Moon has a lot more brown in it, but I can't decide which I like better!

Three guesses why I like it... Glitter!

You see no staining on my finger, none at all... *attempts Jedi mind trick*

I'll definitely have to get pictures in direct sunlight sometime, because this is just not doing the color justice!

Shatter the Sky

Honestly, I grabbed Pure Ice Celestial off the shelf because I am in a never-ending quest to find the perfect Tardis blue.   This isn't it, but it's still nice!

It's a little streaky, and there are a couple of bubbles, but I was also in a rush and glopped the polish on rather carelessly.

For some reason, I love layering glitter and such over this color.  It's just a good, solid blue.  It does stain a lot though, which I always wind up forgetting about when I wear it.  Boo.

Then, just because I was bored, I put a coat of China Glaze Cracked Medallion over it!

This was the first time I used a crackle polish and I think it went pretty well!  I can't say I'm a huge fan of the trend, but this was on clearance at Sally's for $2 so I couldn't pass it up.  I almost want to go back for the other colors I saw... almost.

I really love the color of Cracked Medallion.  It's gold, but almost antique-y rather than in-your-face yellow gold.  Don't you love my technical terms? :D  In any case, the gold looks really nice against Celestial.  I want to go hunt around for more interesting colors to layer it over now!  Maybe a really dark, stormy grey?

I'm a Fashionista!

I'm not a fashionista, actually, but when I saw Revlon's Fashionista on the shelf, it practically flew into my hand.  It's blue, it's dark, and it's blue!

All pictures are two coats.

It's not a shade I'd normally gravitate to, but just looking at the pictures makes me want to go put it on again.

The pictures I have today are of it by itself, but it practically begs to be stamped on or covered with some sort of sparkly top coat! 

These outdoor pictures are in indirect sunlight (yay, clouds).  

I love Revlon.  Super cheap if you catch it on sale and great quality.  It went on smoothly and I didn't notice any major staining problems.  Win-win!