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China Glaze Love Marilyn

2012-02-14T17:00:00.001-06:00

Happy Valentine’s Day!! Hope everyone is having a good one so far. My boyfriend is so sweet! He sent me flowers and chocolates (: Today I have for you what I am wearing for Valentine’s Day. I know there are a whole lot of cute nail art tutorials out there but I must admit… I am not the best at nail art, LOL. So since Love Marilyn is a polish I really really wanted and for some reason the stores around me were always out of it, I thought it would be perfect to wear today (and any day really cause its so awesome).

The distribution of the red and silver glitter is perfect because neither one overpowers the other. Initially, I started applying it with only a clear base coat on bottom and putting Love Marilyn directly on top. That did not come out how I thought it was going to. It seemed like the glitter didn’t want to spread evenly throughout the whole nail which for sure would not have been opaque =/ So I took it off and decided to give it a little “help” by laying down a single coat of a bright red creme (I used Sally Hansen Salon Manicure All Fired Up) and then put two coats of Love Marilyn over that and sealed it with Seche Vite.

So although the application was not exactly what I had hoped for, I am absolutely in love with the end result!! Having had to layer it over the red creme I used is nothing compared to how stunning this looks in person.

On another note. I’m not sure if you guys can even really notice… but my nails are short! And I’m going to have to keep them this way for my job which I actually start next week yay!! I did do some swatching over this past weekend where I did still have my longer nails so the next few posts will be with my longer nails. After that though, these are what they are going to look like. Just FYI.

So what do you guys think about CG Love Marilyn??

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

2012-02-13T21:00:00.001-06:00

Hi everyone! Today I have an AMAZING color to share with you (: Ruby Pumps came out a while back and is available in the permanent collection but I just barely got it recently. I seriously don’t know how I was going on day by day so oblivious to this beauty, LOL!!

Honestly, the pics don’t do this polish any justice. I tried taking photos of it in direct sunlight, in the shade, indoors, and no matter what I did the way it looks in person just cannot translate through photos. So these shots are the ones I thought looked best and closest to the actual thing.

Do you like?? LOL.

Ruby Pumps is a gorgeous red glitter in a bright red jelly base. I have always had a weakness for red cremes which is probably why I took so long to pick this up but I am so glad I did. This is perfect if you love a classic red (like I do!) but want a little extra oomph with the sparkle. I used two coats plus a top coat and it applied like butter!

Revlon Sparkling

2012-02-12T21:02:00.001-06:00

Hi lovelies! Today I have a new, pretty, girly glitter from Revlon. When I first saw it on the store shelf, it first reminded me of the recent Essie Luxe Effects A Cut Above glitter because of the rose gold looking color. But then I picked it up and saw that it’s a mix of different sized glitter. So when I got home, I did a little research and found that this is supposed to be a dupe for Deborah Lippman Some Enchanted Evening. LOL! In my last post I had a rainbow glitter that I specifically picked up because I thought it looked a lot like DL Happy Birthday. And then, without knowing, I pick up another glitter that is “supposed” to be a dupe for another DL glitter. Obviously I must really (subconsciously and consciously) want a DL glitter polish, hahaha!
Check out the pics!

So the mix of glitter floats in a clear base. It consists of medium and small hex glitter and some small round glitter. Surprisingly there’s also some small holo glitter that is spread out and sparkles nicely when the light catches it. I used one coat of Sparkling over OPI I Brake for Manicures (alone in the pic below).
I didn’t try Sparkling alone but I can tell from when I put it on that it wouldn’t be opaque. Overall, I do think it’s pretty but I don’t absolutely love it. I think I would have liked it a lot more if the bigger hex glitters wouldn’t apply so sparse.
But since I do love the beautiful eggplant creme that’s almost a one coater that I layered Sparkling over, I decided to show you a pic of it alone (: This is two coats of OPI I Brake for Manicures.

Thanks for reading!

Claire’s Glitter Polishes

2012-02-10T23:21:00.001-06:00

Hope everyone had a great FRIDAY! I finished the first book of the Hunger Games Trilogy today (woo hoo!!) and I just started on the second one so I’m super excited for that (:
I have some polishes I recently picked up to show you. Two of the polishes are from Claire’s which are the first Claire’s polishes I’ve ever tried. The other is a really pretty dark blue from NYC that was marked down from $1.72 to ONLY $0.86!! Hahaha, how could I pass that up? Especially since I didn’t already have a color like this in my stash.

More pics and reviews below the jump!
First off I have NYC Quick Dry Nail Polish in Pier 17. This is a really pretty dark blue shimmer. I am a sucker for creme finishes but I definitely love this shimmer. Its not too subtle or to overwhelming, just right. Applied opaque at two coats.

The next two are the glitters I got from Claire’s. This one here is Disco which is a medium holographic hex glitter in a clear base. I used one coat over NYC Pier 17 for the photos below. It did apply somewhat sparse but I am sure that a second coat would have made it cover a lot more. I actually enjoyed how it looked kinda spread out like that and it really does sparkle like a disco ball in person!!

Claire’s Bedazzled is pretty much like HAPPINESS in a bottle, hahaha!! This one is an absolutely gorgeous mix of different glitter sizes and colors in a clear base. There are some really small round light blue one, small hex orange and silver ones. The rest are a mix of medium hex glitters that are silver, gold, light blue, green, fuchsia, orange, and red. I also used one coat over NYC Pier 17 and it applied perfectly!

And a bottle shot!

So can you tell I really like Bedazzled? LOL! Honestly, I think this is the prettiest glitter I have and when I wore this combo I got so many compliments, yay. I do not own Deborah Lippman Happy Birthday but I can only hope that if I ever get my hands on it, that it compares to this beauty.

China Glaze Blonde Bombshell

2012-02-08T13:46:00.001-06:00

Hi there! Hope everyone is having a great day (: I just want to take a quick moment to thank you guys for checking out my blog. I have a gotten a great response from those who have and I am super excited and thankful for that. Hopefully more and more polish lovers will soon be tuning in!
Today I have a polish from China Glaze that is a part of the Eye Candy Collection, which actually are all glitters, that came out late last year. I picked two of these babies up this weekend, Blond Bombshell and Love Marilyn (actually Love Marilyn was on my wishlist so I can scratch that one off, yay!). But more on that one in a future post, I’m kinda thinking of sporting that one for V-day.
So, Blonde Bombshell has several different types of gold glitter floating around in a clear base. There is mostly a fine glitter that pretty much serves as a backdrop for the rest of them which are a small-medium glitter and some small bar glitter. I feel like the bar glitter is more easily visible in the bottle and not so much on the nail, unless you like really really look at it close.

As far as application, it does go on slightly on the thin side but it definitely is buildable. I did use two coats but on my pinky you can kinda see some nail showing through. I used a bit of a heavier hand on the rest and they did turn out opaque. I did feel like it NEEDED a top coat. Before the top coat, it sort of looked like all one size of glitter and the top coat really made it shine and “define” the different glitters.
Overall, I do think it’s a really pretty gold. If you don’t have a gold glitter, this is nice because it’s so easy to work with and can be opaque on its own or layered over something else!
How would you guys wear it? Alone? Over what color?

China Glaze Electropop 2012

2012-02-07T01:23:00.001-06:00

Hello everyone!! So this is my very blog post ever and I am super excited and nervous at the same time!! To quickly introduce myself, as mentioned in my little about me section over there >>>, I’m Monica. I am a recent college graduate and I am so looking forward to finally having the time to start this blog. Ever since I can remember I have had an obsession with nail polish. Recently, in the past year and a half or so, I stumbled upon nail polish blogs and was so glad to learn that there are other people out there that really love nail polish like I do!! Yay! I am totally still learning this blogging shindig but I hope that if you stumble upon my blog, that you enjoy what I have to offer and stick around.
Well, on to the fun stuff. Being that this is my first post, I was really torn as to what my first post should be. I was having a hard time deciding on something passed but classic or something fun and new. Although I am aware that there a so many other swatches of these polishes out there, I decided to go with the China Glaze Electropop polishes that I picked up. These definitely are fun, new, and more importantly I just really loved the colors and quality of the colors I picked up!!

Click “more” for my review and bigger pics!
Dance Baby is a really pretty, bubblegum pink creme. The formula was very easy to work with and with a careful hand, it was almost opaque with one coat!! I used two coats with a single layer of Seche Vite on top. Since Valentine’s Day is coming up and if you’re thinking about wearing pink on your nails, I would totally recommend this for something noticeable and girly.

Kinetic Candy is a pale, pastel, dusty blue creme shade. This also applied beautifully! Here it is with two coats and a single coat of Seche Vite over it.

Electric Beat is a great medium toned blue creme. At times is does tend to look kind of purplish, like a periwinkle, but it definitely is a blue. As with the rest of the colors, it applied just as nice. This is also two coats and a coat of top coat.

Aquadelic is gorgeous bright, well, aqua creme! I do also very much like Kinetic Candy but once I applied this, I was in love and this is definitely my fave. Many are comparing it to China Glaze For Audrey but they are totally not the same. Aquadelic is a true aqua and is way brighter than For Audrey which leans more blue. As all the others, the application was flawless and I used two coats with a single layer of top coat.

So just for a quick little comparison of the blues from the Electropop collection and For Audrey… here is a pic with all of them next to each other. My lighting slightly washed out For Audrey (index finger) but you can still tell that its different from Aquadelic (middle finger). Kinetic Candy is on my ring finger and Electric Beat is on my pinky.

So that’s it! Overall, I was very pleased with the colors I got and they all applied just so perfectly. I didn’t get the whole collection but it does also carriy two purples, two other pinks, a yellow, a bright green and a really pretty glitter if you want to check those out.

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