45 Days..45 Untried's. Day 1: Colormates Florida Sunset.

Hi guys!

So my very best polish friend Adrianna from Morie's Nail Art has decided that the best way for her to get back into blogging is for her to make up her own challenge. She has pulled out 45 of her untrieds and plans to feature one everyday for 45 days!

I decided to jump on the challenge wagon and join in on the fun. I certainly have 45 untrieds and definitely feel this will help me keep to blogging and stop slacking!

So for day one, my untried is Colormates Florida Sunset. Its amazing the little gems you can find at the dollar store. I want to say I acquired this polish sometime last year, I think I posted an Instagram photo of the haul I got at my local dollar tree. To say its a gem though, you will have to read on.

Colormates is definitly one of those unknown brands (to me at least) but this color is very pretty to say the least. So for a buck I think I'll keep it.

Florida Sunset is a bright almost neon pink creme. It doesn't dry matte so you know its not a true neon, but its pretty bright as you'll see in the photos.

The first coat of Florida Sunset is on the tad streaky side, if you try to go over the polish more than a few times you will also get dragging. On the second coat things were still kind of off, I think it was due to the humidity in the air but the polish seemed a little on the thick side. By the third coat things evened out a little and top coat helped even out the rest.

As much as I like this color and it didn't freak out my new camera, ( like all my other ones do.) I'm not sure if I would go through all the trouble to wear it again. I'll have to try it when either the humidity disappears, which I highly doubt or in the fall when the weather turns cooler. Or heck I might have gotten an old bottle, you know how beauty products at the dollar store are not always so fresh.

I know you can find Colormate polishes online, I think I saw some on eBay and they were relatively cheap. I didn't see any for a dollar, but three or four.

Always keep an eye out at your local dollar store if you are interested in finding Colormate polishes. Sometimes you might even find a well known brand that you thought you would never find.

So thats it for day one of 45 Days Of Untrieds, I hope you enjoyed and stay tuned for tomorrows post!

Oh and don't forget to check out Adrianna's blog which is linked above.

 Did you ever find any secret beauty gems at thedollar store? Comment below!!!

<3 Nicole

Dollar Store Finds: Colormates: Little Blue Box.

Good Morning!

Today I am bringing you another Dollar Store find! I'm so glad that I keep checking my local Dollar Tree for nail polish, seriously every couple of weeks there are either older Sally Hansen's or a random brand that I have never heard of but so far each polish I have gotten there works out well. Plus the fact that my wallet isn't screaming at me is pretty good too!

The polish I have is called Little Blue Box, and its from a collection called Colormates, by a company called Diamond Cosmetics. Now I went and looked up Diamond Cosmetics and found their website and saw that the colors I purchased are not available on their site anymore. So once again we find ourselves in the land of discontinued polishes, which is not technically a bad thing!

My Dollar Tree had quite a few colors, mostly shimmers and cremes, and a few nail art polishes as well, I picked up three of those. I purchased a Teal color that has some shimmer to it, a gold glitter that is named 14K and a Tangerine color.

However pushing our focus to Little Blue Box (which I'm abbreviating to LBB for the post) is as you may have guessed it by the name it is indeed a reference to Tiffany's. Now we know that China Glaze has For Audrey, but whether they are dupes I won't know since I stupidly don't own it.

I can compare it to my Tiffany's box that I have had since I was 16 years old and my aunt gave me a beautiful necklace from their. I have to say its pretty close! I feel maybe because my box is almost 10 years old that it could have a little discoloration and the nail polish is a little lighter, but either way its the same color by a few shades.

LBB's formula is okay, not anything spectacular by any means. First coat was a little streaky but I think that had to do with how much polish I had on the brush. The pictures above are three coats and no top coat. This is definitely going to be a nice creme to do some stamping over or some sort of nail art!

So that its for this post! Stay tuned for the next one!
<3 Nicole

Sally Hansen Insta Dry Polish: Bronze Ablaze

Hello! Hope you all are having a lovely night/evening.

Tonight I am going to bring you a polish that I had in my polish drawer from last fall! I totally forgot about it and since fall is almost around the corner I thought it would be good to give it a 'test run'.

Usually I usher in fall when Bath and Body Works starts breaking out the fall stuff and Dunkin Donuts start selling Pumpkin Coffee! Usually it's around this time!

First up is Bronze Ablaze. I first heard about this polish when Nouveau Cheap had posted about it. It was part of a Sally Hansen Limited Edition Collection that had a bunch of other jewel tone polishes in it, including Ruby Rush, which will be the next post!

Bronze Ablaze's application is like any other Insta Dry polish. The brush is bulky and you get nice even coats but its a little messy. The color is gorgeous! In different light you see a kind of olive green color to a nice antiqued gold color. I think this is going to be one of the go to colors for fall for me! I have nothing like this in my collection!

Drying time is pretty okay with these, I only used to own Whirlwind white and that dried super fast! Plus adding the Insta Dry Top Coat just brings out the shimmery goodness!

Let's take a look at the picture!