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??