OPI Beauty Brands Exclusive If You Pink So...

OPI If You Pink So... Two coats. I recently picked this up at Beauty Brands and I believe this is their summer exclusive. Last year it was Teeny Weeny Pink Bikini. At least it is not a rebottled Ulta exclusive! Rebottle Dazzled by Gold at least OPI!

Hello Kitty Pink Sprinkles over If You Pink So... One coat.

And I wanted to do something special for my readers who have stuck it out with us. I have purchased an extra bottle of If You Pink So... All you have to do is leave a comment with your email address. If you are a follower you can get an extra entry, so just leave your follower name in the comment as well. International ladies are welcome! I will leave this open until next Saturday. The giveaway has ended. Thank you to everyone who entered!

BB Couture Eye Candy Men swatches

BB Couture Heavenly Hunk. Three coats.

Ruby Kisses Baby Blue Glitter over Heavenly Hunk. One coat.

BB Couture Playboy. Two coats. My favorite from this collection.

NYX Girls Gilded Glitter over Playboy. One coat. Not color accurate but I love this combo.

BB Couture Sexy Centerfold. Two coats.

BB Couture Rustic Romantic. Three coats.

BB Couture Dirty Blonde. Three coats. I found the formula runny and a bit hard to work with.

BB Couture Silver Fox. Three coats.

Overall, I like the women's collection better. The formula on these were on the runny side. Not enough to make me complain like Dirty Blonde, but still noticeable.

Chanel Diwali swatch and comparisons

Chanel Diwali. Three coats. Nice formula. This is a limited edition nail polish from the Paris Bombay makeup collection.

Deborah Lippmann Boom Boom Pow over Diwali. Two coats.

From left to right: Illamasqua Swinger, Chanel Diwali, OPI Glitzerland, and Orly Luxe. Two coats for Swinger and Luxe and they also had the best formula. Three coats for Diwali and four for Glitzerland. Pinky (left) is Luxe, ring is Glitzerland, index is Diwali, and index is Swinger.

I love gold foils! I also have a few others, but they did not look similar enough for the swatch. I can still swatch them if anyone is interested. Deborah Lippmann Believe, OPI Dazzled by Gold, and OPI Designer...De Better! I also thought I still had Barielle Gold Digger, but I can't find it at the moment. I have posted a swatch of it before here.

Indies: HARE polishes swatches

Halloween 2011: The Creeps

I have two out of the four that were released. The other two are called Bio-exorcist and Heffalumps. You can see swatches and more details about the collection here.

Hare Dead Man's Bones. Three coats.

Hare The Monster. Three coats. This one is pretty gritty and needed a few coats of topcoat to become smooth. I also added thinner to this one because it was really thick and hard to apply.

Spring 2012: Planet Springtime

Hare Asteroid Turf. Three coats. The reason behind the name from Nikole: The name for asteroid turf makes me giggle because one of my best friends grew up with black ASTRO TURF carpet in his bedroom and it was just so weird. I always called it asteroid turf.

Kleancolor Green With Envy over Asteroid Turf. One coat. This one turned the pink glitter orange!

Hare Cosmo Blossoms. Three coats. I really love this one!

Hare Leap Light-Year. Three coats. The big silver square glitters sink, but having the bottle upside down for a while before applying fixes it right up! There are some formulation issues with this one, so it will not be offered in the future sadly.

Urban Decay ID over Leap Light-Year. One coat.

Hare Star Tropics. Three coats. This one also suffers from the sinking glitter and will not be available in the future.

CND Sapphire Sparkle over Star Tropics. One coat.

Hare Twilight Savings. Three coats. The glitter is a little hard to get out of the bottle, but totally worth it!

BB Couture Diamond Dust over Twilight Savings. One coat.

Hare Supernova Springs. Three coats, but probably could have gotten away with two. This one has a very dark purple base.


These next three are the original Leap Light-Year, Star Tropics, and Twilight Savings but the small silver square glitter were a little melty/curly. Nikole was awesome enough to send replacements which I have pictured above. The curling is pretty slight to me so I have swatched them anyways.

OPI Speak For Your Elf. Two coats. An Ulta exclusive from the holiday collection 2011.

Leap Light-Year over Speak For Your Elf. Two coats.

Star Tropics. Three coats. 

Kleancolor Blue-Eyed Girl over Star Tropics. One coat. I didn't shake this one up enough so it mostly just gave the look a blue tint.

Twilight Savings over OPI I Don't Give a Rotterdam. Three coats of the OPI and two coats of Twilight Savings. I forgot to take a picture of I Don't Give a Rotterdam! Oops.

Hare can be purchased from her etsy store: www.etsy.com/shop/HAREpolish

Indies: Elixir Lacquers, Pretty & Polished, and Jaybird swatches

Elixir Lacquers Tricky. Three coats. I had longer than normal drying time with this one. I got a chip on my thumb only three hours after I put this on (I usually get three to four days wear with most polishes). I'm not sure if this polish just didn't like my basecoat or topcoat or what. I will have to to try something different when I wear this again. Other than that, I really love this color.

Nicole by OPI Brilliant Idea over Tricky. Two coats.

Nails Inc Piccadilly Arcade over it all. One coat with a light hand. I did not expect this one to be so opaque. I bet I can get this one opaque in two coats on its own.

Finger Paints Evergreen Dream. Two coats.

Elixir Lacquers Kind of Connery over Evergreen Dream. One coat.

Kind of Connery over a blue jelly with green/blue glitter franken a friend made me which can be seen here. One coat.

Elixir Lacquers Calypso. Two coats over black.

Pretty & Polished Jawbreaker. Three coats. I am disappointed with this one. I was expecting this to be a jelly. The red square glitter has all sunk to the bottom and are impossible to get out. I had the bottle upside down for a while before applying and still did not get any. The picture below was the one showing on the Etsy listing. She really should update the picture with one that is accurate.

Pretty & Polished Flow over Orly Rock Solid. One coat with some touch ups. The large hex glitters in this one curl, so buyers beware. Original post here.

Pretty & Polished Flow over China Glaze No Way Jose. Two coats. Original post here.

Pretty & Polished Hustle over Claire's Blast Off. One coat. Original post here.

Jaybird Junk Basket. Three coats. I never would have thought pink would look good with green glitter but I really love how this looks! Even Mr. Janimal liked this one and he dislikes pinks.

Savvy Purple Potion and Pink Fairy over Junk Basket. One coat of each.

Jaybird Thing 2. Three coats.