Finger Paints polish swatches

Finger Paints Late Night Rendezvous. Three coats. This is not a Zoya Charla dupe.

Finger Paints Red Marzipan. Two coats.

Kleancolor Fuschia Glitter. One coat. That is how fuchsia is written on my bottle.

Indies: Pahlish polish swatches

Pahlish Dark Parades. Three coats. My version is a lot bluer than other swatches I've seen. Dark Parades is usually a purple. The glitter is a bit challenging to apply so I added some thinner and it helped significantly. I really like the flecks in this.

Pahlish Great Wide Open and Kleancolor Born to the Purple. One coat each over black. Born to the Purple has large and small fuchsia hexes in a tinted base. 

Pahlish Great Wide Open over Sephora by OPI If You've Got It, Haunt It. One coat. I love this polish. The white mixed with all the colors and shapes.

Pahlish Fire in the Taco Bell. Three coats. 

Fire in the Taco Bell over OPI Y'all Come Back, Ya Hear? One coat.

Pahlish Lovesong Writer. Three coats. I had a hard time getting this one smooth. There were a few curling glitters in it. The large hex glitter and bar glitter in particular.

Lovesong Writer over American Apparel Downtown LA.  Two coats.

Overall, I was a bit disappointed with these. The only one I liked was Great Wide Open. My Dark Parades was a blue rather than purple and difficult to apply. Lovesong Writer was also a bit difficult for me to apply and the curling glitter did not help.

Pahlish can be purchased from www.etsy.com/shop/pahlish.

Frankens by our very own Ang

Helios Alpha. Three coats. I'll admit this one did not impress me in the bottle, but once I put it on, I was pleasantly surprised! There so much going on but it works. I loved it even more matte. Bonus points if you got the BSG reference!

Supernova. Three coats. This is another one that I was suspect about. I thought this would look terrible with my skintone but I love it in the ugly pretty sort of way.

Nicole by OPI swatches

Nicole by OPI Orna-ment For Each Other. Three coats. I love how this is completely opaque with no effort on my part. It is a bit gritty so a few coats of topcoat will be needed. This was from the 2011 holiday collection.

 

Nicole by OPI Positive Energy Matte. Three coats. The bottom picture has topcoat but it is hard to tell. It is pretty quick drying so I had to work a bit faster when applying. It tends to clump up otherwise.

Nicole by OPI Purple Yourself Together. Three coats. I believe this is a current Target exclusive so do not wait too long to pick up this beauty!

Avon Sequins swatches part 2

The rest of the Avon sequins category swatches. If you missed part one, swatches can be found here. I said before that Avon released 45 new shades, but some of there were actually repromotes.

Avon Absinthe. Two coats. I love this color!

Revlon Apple-tini Fizz over Absinthe. One coat.

Avon Golden Wine. Three coats.

Kleancolor Red Hot over Golden Wine. One coat. It kind of looks like it is on fire in these pictures, but the orange is not there in person.

Avon Ruby Slipper. Three coats.

Kleancolor Chunky Holo Scarlet over Ruby Slipper. One coat. The chunky holos usually have color shifting glitter, but the red base covers it up. It effectively makes it a red glitter in a red jelly base. If you are looking for a similar base color where you can still see the green glitter color shift, you may want to try out Chunky Holo Poppy.

Avon Night Violet. Three coats.

Sephora by OPI It's Real 18k Gold over Night Violet. One coat. I forgot to put topcoat on, so if it looks a bit weird, that is the reason.

Avon Stunning Cobalt. Three coats.

Nails Inc Jubilee and other 4th of July looks

Nails Inc Jubilee. Three coats.

Milani Silver and Icing Patriotic Princess over Loreal Jet Set to Paris. The glitter in Patriotic Princess is pretty sparse so I used about 3 coats. One light coat for the Milani.

Gradient with China Glaze Ruby Pumps and a white franken Ang sent me. It is called Helmer's Glue! LOL. And the glitter is Lynnderella Bibbity Bobbity Boo Blue. One coat.

China Glaze Ruby Pumps and Dorothy Who? on alternating fingers with Lynnderella Paper of Pins over it. 

I hope everyone has a safe and fun 4th of July!

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