Purple Days- Day 2: OPI 'Funkey Dunkey'

Day 2!  This is 'Funkey Dunkey' one of best nail polish names of all the nail polish names that I have (see picture below).  So this is a dark purple jelly polish.  Now when I say 'jelly' that means a sheer creme that's very shiny.  Key word there is sheer.  I got this as a pedicure back in February and the person only gave me 2 coats so I had all these bald spots!  Foolishness.  But it has a great formula with a super shiny finnish and a really nice purple that's not to blur or red.

Purple Days- Day 1: OPI 'Rumples' Wiggins'

So 'Purple Days', is something that I'm doing for my little sister, Mimi.  And so her birthday is June 14th and her favorite is purple.  And she has fibromyalgia and the official color for that is purple. So they go hand in.  So for the next 13 days each day I'll show a purple swatch or purple manicure.

'Rumple Wiggins' is a light lilac creme from the OPI Shrek collection (which I love).  And when I say 'light', I don't mean that it's not bright, because it is.  It's so pretty this is the perfect color for Easter, if you don't want a washed out color.  Of course Easter has pasted...

What did you wear on Easter?  Do you even remember?

Sally Hansen 'Laser'

This is one coat of 'Laser' over Essie's 'No More Film' ( a beauteous navy creme). Seriously, I'm not kidding this picture is HIDEOUS in comparison to the real polish. It has this really pretty shift from blue to purple and in the sun it's RIDICULOUS! Do you guys have any HD colors?

Hunger Games Mani

Hey guys, I know a lot of you have been wondering why I haven't made any posts, part of that reason is that I got really lazy as far as blogging is concerned and also my computer has just been nuts lately.  Now while I haven't posted on this blog I have been putting some of my swatches up on Pinterest and on Instagram (larsoncarter).  Onto the mani!!!!

This is my first attempt at nail art and I think for a newbie its pretty good (and it only took 1 1/2 hours!).  I did this before seeing the Hunger Games with some of my friends (GREEAT GREEEEEEEEEEAT MOVIE! BUT YOU *MUST* READ THE BOOKS FIRST.  THEY ARE AMAZING!!!!!!!!).  It's a base of China Glaze 'Smoke and Ashes' (one of the most beautiful colors my eyeballs have had the gift of seeing) with layers of acrylic paint.  What do you guys think?  Did you see the movie? Read the books?  Did you have a special manicure for it?  Comment below!

Sinful Colors 'Love Nails'

 

(from L-R: White, Black, Sinful Colors 'Why Not', and bare nail)

This is one coat of 'Love Nails' over 3 different polishes and bare nail.  The reason I did this swatch like this was because this is a sheer polish meant for layering, and I wanted to show 4 different looks side-by-side.  'Love Nails' is a sheer blue shimmer that I'm pretty sure could never reach full opacity.  Personally, I like it best over black, but it also looks really beuatious over any blue.


What do you think??

Magnetic Polish At dELiA*s by Color Club?

Hey, just a quick post from my phone. So I'm at Delia's and I saw they had magnetic polish and on the bottle it said it was a polish by Color Club. I hasn't heard of Color Club partnering with Delia's so I was wondering what this is about. What do you think about these polishes???

OPI 'Ogre the Top Blue'

This is from OPI's Shrek Collection.  I really LOVE that colleciton because it's all cremes but non of them were boring (see great swatches here).  This is a great medium blue creme, and I think every nail polish hoarder should have it.  At first I thought that it would be a dupe for Sally Hansen 'Blue Streak' but that's a lot more light and teal.  This is 2 easy coats great OPI formula.  Only problem is that when you take it off it may make your fingers blue!


What do you think?


Also there are these HYSTERICAL YouTube videos me and my friend Erica are obsessed with see below:

(watch all 4 episodes!!)

China Glaze 'Dorothy Who?'

Silver glitter in a sheer medium blue base.  4 coats.  First shown here.  All I need to say it's that beutious.

OPI 'Save Me'

HEY I'M BACK! THE BEST IS YET TO COME! Sorry had to say that.  I haven't blogged for a while because this weekend was my birthday and I've been feeling like CRAP!  Plus for my birthday I got an iPhone, so I don't really have any need for the internet on an actual computer.  But now, I promise, at least 2 posts a week.

So this is 'Save Me' from the OPI Nicki Minaj Collection.  And while I'm a HUGE Nicki Minaj fan the collection did disappoint me (really? 3 cremes? really?  And a crackle?  Didn't that end back in August??) I was really exited for this color.  'Save Me' is micro silver glitter with some holo bar glitter in a clear base.  Now this isn't extremely dense, which is good if you like layering glitter, but bad if you wanted to wear it solo.  So what you see above is 6 coats, so I would suggest layering 2 coats on top of silver.  But the holo bar glitter IS AMAZING! because when you move your fingers all of the pieces light up all different colors and it's like a disco ball.  

Did you guys like the Nicki Minaj collection?  Did you get any of them??

Color Club 'Candy Cane'

Happy Valentines Day!!  This is my Valentines Mani post.  No nail art.  I'm not a nail art kinda person if you haven't really picked up on that.  I wish I was, I actually found out this technique I might do more nail art....

Anyways, this is 'Candy Cane' from the Color Club Beyond the Mistletoe collection along with 'Holiday Splendor' and 'Sugar Plum Fairy' and three others I have yet to swatch. Actually it's 'Candy Cane' on top of Color Club 'Hot Like Lava'.  'Candy Cane' is a pink and lavender glitter with some holo glitter (see the blurry magic below).  This is 3 coats, but it's not totally opaque because in real life I could see 'Hot Like Lava' underneath.  But all in all i really like this nail polish it's a great glitter and I think on top of another color that's more pale this would be a lot less of a hot pink manicure, because if it wasn't for the base color it would be a light purple-pink.

OPI 'Planks A Lot'

I REALLY like this color it's so pretty (just like the 2. (and this)).  This is a lighter-medium gray-purple jelly.  Well, with all the other colors from this collection they only needed 3 coats.  These needed another couple because if you look at that, it's really awkward covered in bald spots.  So other than the sheer-er formula I really like this color.  And the name is funny, in OPI tradition. 

OPI 'Steady as She Rose'

I don't know why, but I LOVE THIS!  It's in my Top 19.  This is 'Steady as She Rose' from the Pirates of the Caribbean Collection. It's a pale pink-lavender creme that has a great OPI formula (2 coats!)  Now, there's really not anything else I can say, it's just really pretty.  I love this, and, and honestly a little bit more than OPI 'Mermaids Tears' because that's most peoples favorite from this collection.

Color Club 'VooDoo You'

This 'VooDoo You' (Say that 5 times) from the Back to Boho collection.  Normally, when you buy Color Club you get all 7 in the collection, but for Christmas presents I had bought a whole collection and split it up, so your only gonna see 4 from this collection (sorry).  LOOK AT HOW COLLECTION IS 4 TIMES OVER THERE!!!  

This is a green-grey color that was opaque in 3 coats.  It has a really pretty blue and magenta and silver shimmer.  It's a pretty color, but I don't know I just don't really like it too much.  I don't know...  But it's a nice color

Do you guys have any pretty colors you don't really like?

THANK YOU ALL!!!

Hola me Amigos! I have some great news!  The nail polish adoption I told you about earlier is over AND I WON!  Thanks to the 161 votes that you guys all got and told you friends about!  So a big shout out to Kelly, Sara, Emily who all shared it on there Facebook and Laura who used her used her phone that let her vote every day and all those others who used there's and there rent's and sibling's devices to vote!  Thanks you guys!!

Nails Inc. Magnetic Attractions Polishes Swatches

Yes.  YEES!!!!   When I opened this up on Christmas I FREAKED OUT!  I feel bad for taking this long to swatch it, but I wanted to wear them and not just swatch 'em (mind you they are $15 dollars a bottle and $45 per ounce).

This is just to show that 'Trafalgar Square's cap pops off because it's a magnet cap.

'Trafalgar Square'.  That's a weird name, but for those of you who didn't know all of Nails Inc. Polishes are named after a famous British places (it's a British brand, there all so proud of there foreign-ness like butter LONDON, a-england, no USA Lacquer brands...).  Sorry for the rant.  This is the gray magnetic and the stripes that apprear when you hold it up to a magnet it dark gray almost black. 2 coats.

'Whitehall' is a gray-turquoise metallic color that I promise is not as bright as it looks.  It's actually a lil bit uggy.  But the magnetic stripes make it very more attractive.  The stripes are dark navy almost black colored. 2 coats but that's only because it was my 1st time using the magnet so I messed up on the 1st coat.  :) hehe.

'House of Parliament' is my favorite of the 3.  It's much more purple than it looks here.  Here it looks pink, but trust me it's purple.  And again the stripes are much darker version of the regular not-magnetified color, but it's not almost-black, it's more like a dark purple.

Do you guys have any magnetic polishes???  If not YOU NEED THEM!

Also check this thing my friend Sarah showed me:

____&___   It's a guy draggin' his but on the ground. I'm so mature.

OPI 'Black Cherry Chutney'

So this is the polish that I wrote a letter to OPI about that got me these babies.  And in my letter I had complained about this nail polish for two reason:

1. When I first used it, it had so many bubbles.  It was nasty. 
2. In the bottle (see below), it had this really pretty bright fuchsia and orange-gold shimmer.  It just barely has a dark red shimmer  D:<

So I can solve the bubbles problem by waiting a really long time in between coats, but the shimmer problem makes me not like it.  Because in the bottle it's really original and on the nail I know I have 3 other dupes for it.

Top 19 Polishes of Now!

Ok so a while back I mentioned doing a top 25 post, but when I was going through my melmer I only found 19 nail polishes that I can call 'favorites', although I'm sure that once I finnish off my untrieds I'll have 25 favorites, but I haven't so they don't count.  The other thing is that I went through and pulled out my favorites, and got to my favorite 5 when I realized that I couldn't figure out where the rest of the polishes stood in 6-19th favorite.  So I have my top 5 and the other 14 favorites in no specific order.

(From L-R: Essie 'French Affair', OPI 'Swimsuit...Nailed It', 'Mermaids Tears', 'Hot and Spicy', ALDO 'Teal the Spotlight')

This is the TOP 5!  Essie being #1 and the ALDO being #5  This shows I have a thing for cremes doesn't it?

(OPI 'An Affair in Red Square', Essies 'Shine of the Times', Wet n' Wild 'Cost is No Issue', Sinful Colors 'Nail Junkie', Jessie's Girl 'Glee')

(Sinful Colors 'See You Soon', Avon 'Classic Fit', Nails Inc. 'House of Parliment', Color Club 'Sugar Plum Fairy', OPI 'Steady as She Rose')

(Color Club 'Hot Like Lava', Revlon 'Poppy', Finger Paints 'Twisted', Essie 'Power Clutch')

There you have it folks, my top 19 of 2012.  For most of these you can see my swatches, but not all have been posted, but if you want to see swatches of a specific polish tell me and I can try to rush-blog :D

What are your favorite polishes??

Sally Beauty Haul

I feel like a bad blogger.  Well actually, having nail polish makes me a good blogger, but I had kinda promised myself after the 40-something bottles I got for Christmas, I'd go on a no buy for a while until most of my untrieds were at 10.  But, in my defense all of the China Glaze were on sale, the Finger Paints were the last they had, and the Claire's Magnetix has the coolest magnet and it's a glittery mauve magnetic polish.

(from L-R: Finger Paints 'Twisted' and 'Asylum', China Glaze 'Dorothy Who?', 'Ruby Pumps', 'Frostbite', 'Blue Year's Eve' and 'Glittering Garland' and the unnamed Claire's mauve Magnetix)

Now, normally I would say that 'Swatches coming soon!' but I still have to post the mini OPIs and still have to swatch all of the drugstore polishes in this haul.  And look at all my unswatches (seen below).  And trust me it's a lot more polish than it looks. But as I type this I have the 6th swatch of the day on my hand :)


I don't know if you guys have any untrieds, but do you?

Essie 'Shine of the Times'

 WARNING: PICTURE HEAVY POST

So 'Shine of the Times' (hehe that name is so funny) is a duochrome flakie layering polish.  It is not holographic.  THIS is holographic.  Duochrome is when from different angles the same polish looks different colors.  And flakies are these little misshapen glitter like things, but they don't 'sparkle'.  And you cant wear a flakie by itself because there clear, but when layered over colors (especialy black) they look really pretty.  This specific flackie flashes from orange to yellow to green and ontop of different colors you see other colors too.  So all the pictures show all the different angles.

AVON 'Fuchsia Fun'

So awhile back my mom (the best AOVN rep I know) gave me 'Fuchsia Fun' and I was really exited to swatch it, because in the bottle it's this bright fuchsia color with a really intense purple shimmer.  But on the nail it's actually a pink with a silver/pink shimmer.  And while I do like the color, the formula was SO SHEER. This is 4 coats and in person you very easily see the VNL especially if you have long nails.  So as far as the color goes it's a win but the formula was poop, and AVON normally has really good polish, so this is really unusual for that brand.

Comments are welcome below!

Orly 'Passion Fruit'

Ew.  In the bottle 'Passion Fruit is a bright pink creme.  But, on the nail it's a drab awkward orange pink matte color.  This is 3 coats and the formula was RIDICULOUS!  Every time I did another coat it would wipe of part of the precious coat. and it had a matte finnish and that didn't save the application at all.  I had bought this at Sally Beauty (shown here) and I had so much hope, but no.  Oh well.

And on a side note the VOTING is going GREAT!  Thank you all for your votes and the news of them that you have shared!  And I'm hoping that those Orly's will be better than this one (not to hard a thing to do...)!

China Glaze 'Go Go Pink'

I bought 'Go Go Pink' forever and a day ago (ok in October) at Sally Beauty and it's been sitting on top of my melmer since then (then being when I 1st showed it).  TO THE SWATCH!

I was really exited about this because the only other baby pink I have is my absolute favorite Essie 'French Affair' and I only like to use that on special occasions.  Ummm...  yeah... no...  this was a TERRIBLE formula, it was so sheer, and what you see above is *5* coats and it's still awkward and has a VNL (nail lingo for Visible Nail Line).  Plus, not good dry time.  Took FOREVER.  But I do like the color, which makes me look tan ;).  But It's really not worth the 1 000 000 000 coats it's gonna take to look good as a full mani, but as a base for a glitter would be a good use.

Do you guys have any pretty polishes with crummy formulas??

Revlon 'Poppy'

Wow.  Look at that.  That's in the sunlight.  In doors it just kinda looks like a coraly-pink color, but in the sun it literally, lights up.  Wow.  I really do love this color.  This is a bright coral, pink I'm not really sure what color, and it has this metallic white shimmer.  It's the other polish that Mimi gave me in this post along with this polish.  It had a great 2 coat formula and dried really fast (duh it's a Top Speed Color!).  But, I'm not sure how easy it would to be to find because she got it on clearance for $2 something.  This is definatly going in my top 25. Not that I have an official list.  When I get all the unswatches swatched would you guys like to see a top 25 post(s)????

Wet N' Wild 'Believe Me, It's Real'

This is another Color Icon glitter, and I have to say: I LOVE THESE!  All of the glitters are such pretty colors and really dense, plus there only $3 ($9 per ounce).  This was another present from my lil' bro, along with this nail polish.  This another SUPER dense glitter 3 coats.  'Believe Me, It's Real' is a super fine royal blue glitter with larger purple hexagons.  So pretty.  It was gritty and a pain to take off like all glitters, but it's so pretty in person.  And it's a lot easer to tell that there's purple glitter in person.  Is all for today folks!

China Glaze 'Senorita Bonita'

This is a color from the China Glaze Island Escape.  I LOVE THIS!  'Senorita Bonita' is a red-purple shimmer, and looks rather pink at some angles.  The shimmer is gold, and blue, shown best on my middle finger.  So here's the good things:

1. Umm look at the picture that's good reasons 1 2 and 3.
2. See #1
3. See #2
4. It's so shiny.  Like this  no top coat

Here's the not good stuff:

1. Really sheer.  4 coats
2. And it's gonna be hard to find in stores old collection.

Yeah I really love this and like I said it is gonna be hard to find in stores but I found mine at the clearance section of my ULTA for $4.  

Did you guys get any of the Island Escape polishes???

Nicole by OPI Tinsel Tips Mini Set Swatches

So in my Christmas stocking I had this set of three mini Nicole by OPIs.  It includes 'Spark My Mistletoe', 'Stuck in the Chimney' and 'Kiss Me at Midnight' and little sticker rhinestones.

• So the first one 'Spark My Mistletoe' is a micro red glitter with little holo glitter in a clear base.  And click on the picture and make it big because the red glitter is little rectangles and and hexagons, and the holo is hexagon and really small circles.
• 'Stuck in the Chimney' is this red-berry color with a really pretty gold shimmer.  The formula is good, it was just the mini sized brush made application hard.
• 'Kiss Me at Midnight' is a dark red-brown with a really pretty ruby shimmer.  Great formula, although I'm pretty sure I have a couple dupes.

So yeah I do like these colors, with great formulas.  See the box below:  (would any of you like to see some comparisons between 'Kiss Me at Midnight' and other colors that I have?)

Essie 'Jamaica Me Crazy'

 

So I originally showed this nail polish in this haul.  It's from the Dive Bar collection (2011 Holiday).  It's a magenta with pink and silver shimmer.  It's a really good formula and I only need 3 coats.  That's something I've noticed, a lot of times shimmers are more sheer. So below is a close up on the bottle.  Did any of you guys get a polish from the collection?  Because those nail polishes were ridiculous!

OPI 'Are We There Yet?'

 

This was another Christmas present from Brianna along with this nail polish.  This is from the OPI Touring America collection.  On OPI's website they describe this as 'that perfect melon shade!'.  So this really is 'that perfect melon shade' with a shimmer in it that was too mean to photograph.  So as I was saying about the shimmer is that it's a gold and white little flash that you see when you move your hand to certain angles.  This is 2 perfectly easy coats without a topcoat photographed in the sun.

Wet N' Wild 'Cost is No Issue'

This is 'Cost is No Issue' From the Wet N' Wild Ice Baby Collection which is a bunch of super bright and pretty glitters.  And believe it or not my 7 year old brother, Mac, picked out this nail polish and two other AMAZING glitters for my Christmas present!  So like every other nail polish in this collection it is a micro glitter with bigger glitter in another color and I like that glitter size ratio?  (Is that what it's called?)  This is a teal micro glitter base with medium blue bigger glitter.  And I personally love this color and glitter in person is so pretty flashing and, glittering...    Did you guys get any of the Ice Baby polishes?

OPI 'Swimsuit... Nailed It!' vs. Color Club 'Cold Metal'

So I swatched OPI 'Swimsuit...Nailed It' and Color Club 'Cold Metal' and they both seemed to be rather similar.  Well...  they ain't.  If you look above you see 'Cold  Metal' (CM) and 'Swimsuit...Nailed It!' (SNI).  Well they're both blue, they're both foils and they're both 2 coats.  Other than that, SNI is much more bright and only blue, where as CM is very silver-y and darker.   So, they are NOT at all dupes but I personally think SNI is so much prettier but you can decide for yourself.  Can't wait to see your comments below

Color Club Foiled Collection

I know a million bloggers have already swathed this collection but, I have it so I figured no harm done if I did too.  And all of these are 2 coats.  The first is the color I dislike the most to the color I like the most.

'Foil me once'  Ew.  This is just a not attractive color.  it's the most silver-y of all the nail polishes.  By that I meant that in the bottle you see these lines of silver and this one is the one that shows the silver the mostest.  But it's this pale pink purple color.  I't just not pretty.

This is 'Antiquated'.  One of the 3 that I don't like in this collection.  It's just not very flattering for my skin.  It's a champagne colored foil.  That's really all I have to say about this one.

  

'Perfect Mol-ten'.  Umm...  yeah don't really hate this color but don't like it.  It's again, very silvery, but other than the silver it's this sea foam green color

'Cold Metal'.  This is the one I was looking forward to the most, and all the swatches I've seen make it look just blue.  But it don't.  I mean I like it, but it's just not my favorite.  And considering that OPI 'Swimsuit... Nailed It' is one of my favorite nail polishes, this is 'Swimsuit...Nailed It''s awkward sister.

'Lumin-Icent' is a very pale icy-blue foil.  I really like this because it's not your basic silver but it's not crazily colored.  I don't know, I just like it.

'Hot Like Lava'.  This is my favorite because it's so not silver, and the color is so bright.  It's such a bright hot pink.  And in the sun it's so SHINY!

Overall, I 1/2 like this collection.  And out of the 3 I didn't like one of them didn't look good with my skin but probably would with people with darker skin.  And the other two just weren't pretty.  But even the unattractive colors had great formulas.  Only 2 coats for full coverage and none were to thick or thin.