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!