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.

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...)!

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)????

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!

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.

China Glaze 'Strawberry Fields'

I don't know about you people, but I'm pretty sure strawberries are red.  But I still like this color.  (and when I took these pictures, so I used my EOS egg)  It's a pink jelly with golden shimmer.  The only thing is that it's a bit sheer, so this is four coats.  Also, tip wear was pretty bad.  This is after one day and I wore this for a week in DC and it was not pretty.  Here's a close up below:

Island Girl 'Aloha Magic' 5 Pack

This is the 'Aloha Magic' pack shown here.  Umm I love my dad and am extremely grateful, but do u see the awkward bald spots on these nails.  These are all 4 coats.

First up is this magenta color (btw non of these have names). Now this is very unoriginal, I  have two exact dupes in my hoard and have seen many a more in the stores and online. (sorry but for the life of me blogger would not let me center that picture!)

This is another unoriginal color.  I have an L.A. Color that is IDENTICAL!  And while I haven't used that nail polish probably better than this.  Also not to big on this color any ways.

I really like this color. But no matter how many coats, there was always a bald spot.  

My favorite color of the bunch a really pretty teal-blue kinda color. although not very opaque.  Oh Island  Girl, you pretty colors and- oh no I can't say that on the internet- bad formulas depress me.

Best formula.  No awkward spots nice color too! So while not the best color it's defiantly the best polish!

This is a picture of all of them. 

What do you think?  Is this set worth the $12?  Do you have dupes for any of these colors?  Comment below

Pumpkin Nail Lacquer, Unnamed Hot Pink

I really like these pumpkin nail polishes.  For several reasons:

1. They dry INSANELY fast.  Like, I paint my nails from left thumb to left pinkie, then right thumb to right pinkie, and I can keep on doing that.  No dry time.
2. They glow in the dark (see slightly scary pictures below).
3. I rather enjoy the bright colors.  I also have neon purple and orange.
4. HAVE YOU SEEN THOSE LITTLE PUMPKIN BOTTLES?!?!?! (full bottle picture here)

This is four coats without a topcoat

Finger Paints 'I'm a Survivor'

I bought this with the rest of my pink nail polish in this haul. It's a really pretty medium pink with light pink flakies (see close up below).  This is two coats.  I actually got this on the little clearance rack at Sally Beauty for $2.  Seriously anytime you go check the clearance rack, because they can have some good deals on nail polish.

Snowman Nail Lacquer

Really quick swatch for you people today.  This is a Snowman Nail Lacquer.  Made by the same people who make the Pumpkin Nail Lacquer (shown in this haul HERE).  And there sold for $2 at Rite Aid.  Well Mimi got this for me and it's so pretty.  This is a sheer-ish magenta base with a bunch of lighter hot pink glitter.  Now ya know how a lot of glitters say they're 3D glitter?  This is 3D-looking glitter.  It has like depth and stuff.  When you add a top coat it is BEAUTIOUS!

All for today, Bye!

Island Girl Mood Nail Color

This is the Mood Nail Color set I got from my Island Girl Haul.  Well mood nail polish doesn't actually change with your mood (umm duh.).  But onto the swatches!

This is the nameless pink.  All of these dry matte although this is the only one that's photographed without a topcoat.  I'm not really a huge fan of hot pink but I do like this color.  This is 5 coats.  Yeah, did I forget to mention the formula on this SUCKED!  I probably should've done another coat.  If I went over it all of the polish below would disappear.   

This was my favorite color.  And it was surprising because in the bottle it didn't look like I would like it, but it's so pretty.  Also It changed the most (see below).  It normally looked like this but in sunlight it was brighter and had the dark green tips.  This is 5 coats and the formula was better than the pinks.

This a really pretty blue.  It was my favorite until I swatched the green.  Color-wise I still love it mostest, but green has it's formula beat.

BEFORE

DIPPED IN POT OF BOILING WATER

They all changed colors but green is the most obvious. (no duh why else is it my favorite?!)

I like it normal better because then you see less awkwardness.  But I still think its cool how under extreme heat it changes color.

Sally Hansen LACQUER SHINE 'Vibrant'

This is my 2nd to last LACQUER SHINE post and then I'll mainly be doing the 31 day challenge. 

Sorry I don't have a bottle picture, I normally do.  But it some how got deleted.  Anyways,  this is a really pretty pink and although there's probably a dupe somewhere I don't have anything similar to this in my collection.  This is two coats and it looks like this but pink. 

A few months back I had made a franken using little holo heart decals from Sally Beauty and purple blue and pink glitter.  I had also slightly tinted the base purple.  Of course I named it 'Unicorn Belly-Button Lint'.

Well that night I was going to a movie and wanted to put on some glitter.  Of course I didn't have a glitter that would match this color so I used my franken.  It's really spread out glitter and you have to work hard to get the holo-hearts but I think it's pretty.

Below is intense blurry close-up to show glitter-y colors of it: