L'Oreal Project Runway Colors Take Flight Collection

Owl's Night. Blackened brown base with gold microflakies and multicolor shimmer. I loveeeeeee this one. Definitely the star of the collection. Two coats and very pigmented.

I know there are a lot of pictures but I was playing with different light settings. I am gearing up for winter and the lack of sun we get here in Kansas. It snows up until April sometimes! The last picture is with a plastic bag over my lamp to diffuse my light. I learned this from Cilucia over at the nailboard. It looks pretty neat and I think I just need to tweak with it a little bit before I am satisfied with the pictures.

One coat of Ulta Pinata-Yada-Yada over Owl's Night. It looks ugly but I like it. LOL

Amazon's Flash. Gold foil. It is so bright! I love it. This was four thin coats. The formula reminds me of OPI Dazzled by Gold and takes a bit to build up to opaqueness but it doesn't really add too much thickness. Does that make sense? lol

One coat of LA Girl Provocative over Amazon's Flash.

Raven's Strength. Steel grey with multicolor shimmer. There was some brush stroke action going on, but not too bad. Under my lamp you mostly see the silver shimmer, but in direct sunlight the other colors come out. This was two coats and a great formula. I admit this one did not woo me like the other two I picked up.

These are limited edition from the Project Runway Colors Take Flight collection. I would not hesitate to pick up any of these if you are even slightly interested. There is only one of each color per store!! I spoke with the SA and she did not think they were going to get more polishes in but who knows. I paid $4.99 each for these.

EDIT: I did some googling and found you can preorder these from the Walgreens.com website and they will be available on 10/1/11. They are buy one get one 50% off at the moment with free shipping at $25.00. So that might be a more viable option for some of you ladies who cannot find full displays. I am not sure how long these will be on the website or what their stock is like, but I thought I would give a heads up.

Black Lace and Illusion D'Or!!!

So the next color from the Glam Goth Collection I tried out was Black Lace. I have to say I'm a bit disappointed in it. For the color mainly. In the few pictures I've seen of it, it looked really grey. Like a darker version of RBL's Stormy. Which is what I was wanting! But after putting it on, I noticed it's not that grey. It's more of a soft black color. Not nearly grey enough for me. But still nice. The formula on this was goopy and streaky, but I'm sure some thinner should fix that. Here are a couple of pictures in direct sunlight.

Oh and by the way, please excuse the wear and scratches on this mani. I only applied it lastnight, but since I've been busy all morning moving, opening and sorting boxes, it's suffered a bit :(

So, like I said, I was pretty let down by this color. I honestly thought it would be more grey. So, I decided to jazz it up a bit by adding some Illusion D'Or! This is only 1 coat.

This is in the shade.

Direct Sunlight.

What's that you say? Not very pretty? Well, believe me when I say pictures don't really do this any justice. Don't believe me? Well, see for yourself! I had to make a quick little video of this in a tiny bit of sunlight against my wall outside. Go on, look!!!

Believe me now? Still not convinced? Well, I love this combo :D Alrighty, well that's it from me for now. I'll try to post again with the last two colors from this set over the next couple of days. Until then, hope you guys are doing well!!!

Ulta For Bitten :D

So my skin wasn't too happy about it, but I removed Tainted Love lastnight and replaced it with my second choice from Ulta's Glam Goth Set, For Bitten. I'm not very good with describing colors, but this one is definitely a hard one anyway. It looks like red glitter in a black base. But when you hold it at different angles it shows different colors. Or, atleast I see different colors. I couldn't really capture it, but in my opinion the shimmer goes from a golden amber color to a light pink purple to red. Here are a few pictures without flash, at different angles in different lighting to try and show you what I'm talking about!


I wasn't too crazy about the formula on this one. It was sort of thick and goopy. But 2 coats gave me complete opacity and it dried pretty well, so I can't get too mad at it. I do have to say though, that so far of the two I've tried from this set, both brushes are kind of weird! Weird in a sense that they both have stray and crooked hairs. It bothers me enough to want to trim them. But I probably won't do that out of fear of messing the brush up to a worse condition. Also, I'm not as in love with this color as I thought I would be. It just didn't WOW me like Tainted Love did. Hopefully tomorrow's color will be more exciting!

Alrighty, well that's it from me today. I've got a busy day of sorting and folding and washing to do, so until tomorrow when I try the next color, have a wonderful day!

Ulta Tainted Love!!!

So this weekend I was able to get my grubby little hands on a Glam Goth set at Ulta. It was $9.95 for 5 mini Ulta Salon polishes. I got it mainly for this color, Tainted Love, and I don't regret it at all! I just hope that Ulta decides to make the colors in this collection part of the regular line, because I'm not satisfied with just one mini :(

The colors in the set are Black Lace, Tainted Love, For Bitten, After Hours and Underground. I'll hopefully be trying to post swatches of the other colors in the set as well, time permitting of course! But here it is in all it's glory under different light settings. None are with flash, only in natural light.

These are indoors.

These are outdoors.

The formula on this was great! Very smooth and pigmented. I only needed 2 coats to cover my nail line completely and it dried pretty quickly as well! I only know that because I accidentally knicked one of my nails while trying to get the Seche Vite out of it's drawer. No damage! So that was a pleasant surprise. Plus, the brush is one of those flat ones that I like and it's not too wide. But what I liked the most, I think is that the square lid comes off just like it does on the normal sized salon bottles. So that made application a lot easier as well :D

That's all I've got for you right now. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful evening!