Forever 21 Love & Beauty swatches

I do not know the names to these. The labels on the back of the bottles just say "blue" or "pink glitter." I purchased these about a month ago and I believe they should still currently be on the website.

Light Blue. Three coats.

Bubble Gum. Three coats. The formula was a bit thick.

Coral Multi over Bubble Gum. One coat.

Blue Purple. Two coats.

OPI Sugarplum Yum Glitter Topcoat over Blue Purple. One coat.

OPI Love is a Racket. Two coats. This one was really hard to photograph. It is so glowy it freaks out my camera.

Pink over Love is a Racket. Two coats.

I've done a comparison with Pink and OPI I Lily Love You. These are all over black. Pinky (left) and middle are F21 Love & Beauty Pink. Ring and index are OPI I Lily Love You. Pinky and ring are one coat while middle and index are two coats.

OPI I Have a Herring Problem. Two coats. I didn't even do any clean up! Perfect formula.

Multi over I Have a Herring Problem. One coat.

OPI Don't Toy With Me. Three coats. This is from an old holiday collection.

Pink over Don't Toy With Me. Two coats.

Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire over Don't Toy With Me. One coat.

OPI DS Couture!

Here is one of the older colors from the Designer Series line - Couture. This is one pretty polish! I love holo and I love this! I just wish OPI would continue to make all their holo DS polishes. Oh well. This is 2 coats with the DS top coat.

Here's a quick video:

Call me crazy, but I feel like the DS top coat actually dulled some of the holo? Next time, I'll try Seche Vite I suppose. But just in case you're wondering why the bottle is wet, here's why:

I had the bottle on the snow on top of my car. So that's why it's wet! That's it from me for today. I hope you're all doing well and TGIF! My kids are going to be out of school for the next 2 weeks, so atleast no more having to wake up early to get them to school for the rest of the year :p

China Glaze Tarnished & Varnished

So, Tuesday I put this on for the first time since buying it. I fell in love! Wow. I've heard so much about the Martini Pedicure polishes. How they're living proof that China Glaze can do glass flecks like it's nobody's business. But I did not believe until now. Out of the set, I only kept 2. This one and Sass in a glass. This one seems to be the most pigmented of the Martini Pedicure set. The rest all still had VNL with 3 coats. This one is 2 coats and pure gorgeousness!

Here it is indoors without flash

Outdoors without flash

You know I suck at describing colors. But I could best describe this one as a coral with a tiny bit of pink. At times it looks pinker than red, at times it looks like an orange red more than pink. It's hard to describe really, but it's quickly winning my heart over :)

I'll be back with a haul and swatches for you guys in my next post! Thanks for reading :D

Zoya part 2

Zoya Evangeline. Berry with gold shimmer.

Zoya Elodie. Coral creme.

Essie Canyon Coral

Essie Canyon Coral

I was still in the mood for something bright after Chinoise so I decided on this! Canyon Coral is a very vibrant red coral that dries fairly glossy considering how neon it looks. Indoors it looks fairly red-orange, which I am totally loving right now. There were no application issues and the formula was quite easy to work with. You could get away with one coat if you don't mind a little visible nail line, but I usually do two coats for good measure.

Absolutely Alice, of course you can get a Grape Pop if you're as Mad As a Hatter!

Yeah, you're probably wondering, 'WTH did you do to your nails?' Well, the truth is I got these 3 colors on the same day and couldn't decide which to use first. I wanted to use them all at the same time, but didn't want to do skittles. So, I thought, why not do something a bit more creative? I was initially going to do a funky french, but remembered that I suck at doing even lines. So I settled on this idea. It actually looked a lot neater in my head. But the truth is, I LOVE the combination of glitter and cremes. Of course it does help that both Mad as a Hatter and Absolutely Alice are gorgeous!



And here was my NOTD from before the experimental craziness. RBL's Starfish Patrick. I have to say, I wasn't too thrilled with the formula/application on this one. I do love the way it looks against my skin tone. But the fact is I used 3 coats here on top of RBL's base coat (my HG). It's shiny enough, but the polish itself, unlike most RBL polishes was lacking in the opacity department. A lot of the RBL polishes I own are one to two coaters for no VNL. But I've found that Square Pants and Starfish Patrick (pictured below) need more coats to get an even opaque color. And even then, with 3 coats you can still sort of see my nail line.


Overall, still a gorgeous color in my opinion. It reminds me of cantaloupes and summer! I'm not at all ashamed to admit that a woman of my age with 3 kids was drawn to colors like these. Yes, I did join in on the Alice in Wonderland craze and yes I did buy the Spongebob and Patrick RBLs cause I thought my kids would get a kick out of them. But the truth is, all that aside, the nail polishes are still wonderful and I probably would have gotten them regardless. Until next time, thanks for looking and have a great day! :D

-Angel