Wet 'n' Wild: On a Trip.

Hey guys happy Friday!! I hope you all are well!

Sorry about the break in post. School crept up on me  and it was a mad dash to get myself organized and ready for this past Tuesday!

However school has started and it seems like the course work will be heavy but I will have lots of free time to do it and blog so hopefully I will get myself on a schedule of Monday-Wednseday-Friday thing. There are so many things I want to blog about!!

Today's post is a really pretty nail polish that is from Wet 'n' Wild's Meglast Line, I got it in that gift set my mom got me for Christmas.

Its called On a Trip and its a pretty purple creme polish. When I first started getting into nail polishes purple was the one color I loved the most and most of my collection was purple. However I branched out to other colors but purple never gets old.

This polish is vibrant and definitely a purple I didn't have in my collection. It only takes two coats to be opaque. The formula is about average, not to thin where it gets everywhere and not thick. But if this is like any of the other Wet 'n' Wild polish I have, the longer this sits it will get thicker. But in the end though it will make a good stamping polish.

This polish will be one to wear as the weather gets warmer!

One thing I love about these Megalast Polishes is that with top coat they just get so shiny and pretty.

Wet 'n' Wild is available at most Drugstores accross the U.S.! I always get mine from either Rite Aid or Walgreens!

45 Days Of Untrieds Day 10: Color Club Eternal Beauty.

Hi!! Happy middle of the week! Sorry I've been MIA but I'm back in the game today! I definitely need to catch up to Adrianna who is up to day 15!

Today's untried is a beauty! I don't own many linear holographic polishes, most of them are the scattered kind. They are nice but when you get spoiled by a linear holo, there might be no going back.

The beautiful holo I have is from the Color Club Halo Hue's Collection. Its called Eternal Beauty!

When shopping at the Beauty Plus Salon I believe earlier this year I grabbed two from the collection and this is the one I am trying first. I have worn them before out and about around people but not here to show the blog. Lets get to it though shall we?

I freaking love this color, I love purple polishes in general but this one is in my top favorite purples for sure!

You could essentially get away with one coat of this polish, I know this because I have. In my photos for this post I used two with top coat.

I love the "oil spill" effect that you get when you have an amazing linear holo polish. I wish that the China Glaze Hologram Polishes were more like this, maybe then I would of bought some.

I hear that the Dance Legend Holos are like this, I think I need to get some of those now.

Don't forget to check out Adrianna and Shaylads to see their untrieds!

What are you favorite holographic polishes? 

<3 Nicole

L'oreal Paris: Royalty Reinvented.

Good morning!

Hope you all are having a fantastic start to the weekend!

Today I have to show you a new L'Oreal Nail Polish! L'Oreal recently launched a line called " Le Nouveau  Riche   TRENDsetter collection. It consist of six to eight new shades of nail polishes. The display at my local CVS only had the six. That kind of disappointed me because I really wanted to see the three metallic shades included in the set. Guess I'll be hopping over to Walgreens soon to see if they have it. Usually I go to Rite Aid for the newest collections but my local one is slacking lately. :(

So this collection like I said above has three metallic shades and six pastel crème shades. If you want to read more on the collection you can head on over to Nouveau Cheap's blog for all the deets.

Out of the six crème shades available to me I picked out the purple crème called Royalty Reinvented. I wanted to grab more but at $6.49 a pop I had to say no, I did however have $1.50 in extra bucks so it knocked it down to $5.51(including tax) in the end.

The reason I bought yet another purple nail polish is because I don't have many pastel purples, the only one this is even remotely close to was my very first pastel purple from OPI when they released their Shrek Collection. Funky Dunky is the name and its actually darker than RR and matches my winter jacket perfectly.

I'm always cautious when wearing a crème polish due to brush drag, spottiness, the usual. This polish is most certainly among the average crème colors, the first coat was sheer but by the next coat the opacity quota was met making Nicole a very happy girl.

Immediately wanted to layer something over this and with it being the start of the new year I grabbed for my Tasmanian Devil Confetti Polish and added one layer over top. Who doesn't like colorful sparkly nails?

*All photos taken in indoor lighting. No flash. Two coats with top coat and glitter. The last photo is the more IRL color.

 

This combination reminded me of a robins egg. Now I know usually robin's eggs are blue with black splotches, but we can say this is its oddball cousin who is the wild child of the family.

The one thing that I did notice today while I was out killing time in Wal-Mart while my mom was doing laundry was that the pastel purple from the NOPI Selena Gomez collection look awfully similar to Royalty Reinvented, and one of the glitter polish which is multi-colored is an exact dupe of the Confetti Polish in these photos! And to mention price point, usually at Wal-Mart L'Oreal polishes are $4.97 versus the $7 dollar price for NOPI.  I was kind of excited to buy some of the Selena polishes and did buy one of them today and I'll feature here soon.  Is it weird that I'm glad there were dupes in that collection from what I have so I didn't have to buy? ( As I type this I hear my wallet's cries of joy).

Do you own any of the new L'Oreal Nail Polishes
Nicole.

Milani 3D Holographic Nail Polish in Hi-Res.

Hello!!

Happy Thursday!

 In the beginning of the year I when I really started by polish regularly and had the chance to go to stores that I normally don't have access to and I picked up my first holographic polishes. Two were from Color Club, and the rest were Milani! So today's holographic goodness is from Milani, if you didn't get that from the title.

Hi-Res is the name and I like how these polishes have that tech savvy name to them. I featured the Milani Pink Holographic polish on here sometime in the very beginning of the year and for St. Patricks day I showed you the Green Milani Holographic polish.

I like to describe these polishes as jelly-ish holographic. You seriously need about four to almost five coats to achieve opacity. I tried pairing a similar color underneath these and it seems to take away the holo effect which is weird,.

Whether having to apply four coats to me its worth it. Once again these are not linear holographic polishes like the new Color Club Halo Hues Collection, which I have still yet to obtain or the Layla Holos, I can't justify a $15 dollar polish no matter how cool it looks, these are scattered holographic polishes that sometimes have a slight linear look to them.

I am going to be putting seven pictures in this post so please excuse the picture spam!

Application like I said is tricky, the fact that they are almost jelly like in consistency it really neat and definitely adds to the 3D effect but I would rather just have to apply two coats of thicker creme-ier polish and get the same effect.

The scattered holo effect is sadly lost in a couple of these polishes, which I will be posting soon. I will say the Silver one is the worst, four coats and I could still see my nail line.

I would definitely describe the color of this as a delicate lavender/lilac. It really is a spring time color, but for me its one of those work appropriate colors. No one noticed the pretty sparkle, so I guess if corporate were ever to come and visit and shake my hand its good to know this polish won't get me fired or something. To be honest my job doesn't have a problem with the front end wearing nail polish, its only if you work in the food prep area's like the deli that you can't.

These polishes are not cheap, they are most certainly at the high end of the drugstore spectrum, as most Milani Cosmetics are. Its because they are good, I have read a lot of reviews on Milani products and Milani seems to have hits with lots of things. I purchased this polish at CVS for $5.99 each.

I hope you enjoyed this post.! Stay tuned for more. I just got some of the Pure Ice polishes that are new and I can't wait to show you!

<3 Nicole

Beach Cruise-r on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hi! Its Monday, not my most favorite day of the week. Although what better way to pass the time with a new blog post!

Today I bring you a star filled neon manicure. This past week has been crazy! Tuesday was my 25th birthday, then it was the fourth of July and then I spent most of the week hanging with my family and friends. Of course I treated myself to some new polishes over the week and I will feature them as soon as I can.

But I figured I could start out with a new polish I bought at my local Walgreens. I'm talking about the Fergie Collection from Wet 'n' Wild. I have been lemming that star polish! After dropping my dad off at the train station early I popped in right when they opened to take a peek.

 I was super excited to find the entire Fergie Collection practically untouched at the end of one of the beauty isles. I immediately grabbed two of the three star polishes on the display and one of the gold and black glitters., I like a lot of the glitters they had, but I didn't have enough money to get all the ones I wanted.

When I got home I took off any existing polish and started off with two coats of China Glaze's Beach Cruise-r. Beach Cruise-r is a lovely medium dark purple neon. It doesn't have the shimmer that the other ones in the collection do. Application was very nice, not streaky like other neons are. Two coats gave me great opacity.

After letting it thoroughly dry I then set off to apply Hollywood Walk Of Fame. This polish is multicolored stars in a clear base. There are plenty of stars in the bottle and the clear polish is kind of thick. I could get lots of stars on the brush, the brush by the way I think is the same wide brush that are in the new Megalast colors. Not entirely sure though. Getting the stars to place where I wanted wasn't too hard but sometimes they come off in clumps and you have to constantly swipe the brush to spread them out.

What I was surprised to see was mini bar glitter mixed with the stars, I definitely like that. Sorry but the photos in this post I took with my iPhone. My batteries in my camera died and I have to charge them.

None of these pictures were taken with flash, all the light you see is natural sunlight from the window. With the clear polish being so thick in HWOF I thought dry time would be super long. It wasn't though. A good few minutes and the polish was okay to touch with my fingers. Letting it dry a little more I then applied my top coat and let that dry for at least 15 minutes before taking pics,. I didn't want to risk smudging. God knows I'm they champ when it comes to it!

So that's it for this post. Fergie's collection can be found at Walgreen's. Mine retailed for $3.49 a piece.

Until next time!
Nicole

Zoya Savita

Hello! Happy Friday to everyone! Hope you all are having a fabulous Friday!

Today I have a manicure I did over Easter weekend. Its what I wore on Easter and was supposed to post it on Easter as well, sadly the holiday got in the way and I didn't have time to get to the computer! I do hope you all had a lovely Easter too!

My untrieds are starting to generate more and more, I think right now I have about 25 or so if I were to go and look right now. I purchased two Zoya Polishes for the first time back in January when they had the get two free polishes and just pay shipping. That promo was good, so many people participated that my polishes didn't get to me until the end of January!

From that promo I got Zoya Savita and Zoya Flora! I have used Zoya Flora in the 31 Day Challenge. I plan on doing a full post about Zoya Flora soon. Today though I have Zoya Savita, to share. It is a matte polish, my first one actually! Mattes are growing on me more and more, I actually just bought a couple more from different brands over the last couple of months,

Savita is a matte purple , Zoya has it labeled on their bottles as a Matte Velvet Lacquer.

I'm surprised I never wore any purple matte before! I do love this polish in its natural form. However with the way matte polishes chip so easily because obvious use of top coat would defeat the purpose!

Here is Savita with a top coat. I had no idea Savita had a ton of pink/orangish shimmer in it!

Of course I couldn't leave it like that. Lately I have been about stamping, so I added some silver daises with Sally Hansen Celeb City.

In each photo Zoya Savita is two coats although with a little thicker coat one could be just fine! The formula is really easy and isn't runny at all and allows for the optimum control!

Zoya Polishes can be found on Zoya's website and I believe at Ulta as well! Hope you all enjoyed this ! Talk to you all soon.
Nicole

Simply Sweet : A Purple Pink bright!

Happy Friday!!!

So glad to be off today!! The weather has been nothing but phenomenal! Yesterday a few close friends of mine actually went and had a cook out at the local park, which is right on the water of the Hudson River. The day was perfect, good food, great friends, just perfect.

Of course I had to have a bright color on my nails to celebrate with. So today I am going to show you the second polish in the Simply Sweet four pack I bought from Marshall's last week.

This color I thought was going to be a darker fuchsia or purple, but no its a mix of a darker bright pink with purple. Kind of makes me want to say pinurple, pink and purple mixed together. Its a fairly bright almost neon color. It does not dry matte so its definitely not a neon. It reminds me of  the hydrangeas we get in at work in the spring.

These first two photos are with flash. The flash makes it look a little darker than it really is. All photos are 3 coats and no top coat!

You can see how in natural light its much brighter than with a flash. It is still showing a little darker than out in the sun. But the clouds were kind of covering the sun at this time. :(

The polish applied amazingly. The first coat was not streaky at all, unlike with the blue. The second coat was enough for opacity, and that's how I wore it yesterday at the picnic. I threw on a third coat to fix any little chips but there were none, but it looks amazing with three coats! Even with out a top coat there is a nice glossy-ness to this polish. Once again the brush was good no weird bristles or anything. I think the more I go to Marshall's I'm going to continue to look for this brand!

Simply Sweet Polishes can be found at Marshall's, I paid $4.99 for a pack of four!

Have a great Friday everyone!!
Nicole

100th Post! China Glaze Magnetix.

Hello!

Two things I am sad about today, 1: The weekend is almost over and 2: Daylight Savings Time....loosing one hour of sleep is not fun...

Enough about that, today is my 100th post!!! And it also coincides with the fact that my tiny little blog will be one years old one week from today!!

Today I bring you, finally China Glaze Magnetix. I bought these as soon as they came out in January, I held off on swatching them for the blog because I needed practice with this. Plus every time I would try them, they wouldn't work or I would mess them up.

I ordered three colors, Drawn To You, Instant Chemistry, and Pull me close. I ordered them through 8ty8 Beauty's website for I believe $4.06 a bottle. Each online retailer has different prices so you can sort of shop around for a few cents.

This is the magnet that you can buy for an additional $4.06. To be honest I was not happy about having to buy the magnet, I would of like to see the magnet in the cap like, Nails Inc. and Clarie's. This magnet is not the strongest either and you will see that in some of the photos. You have to hold it extremely close to your nail to get a good design, and with that you risk hitting your nail greatly and messing up the design.

The designs you can choose from are the star, which is my personal favorite, the diagonal stripes, and the chevron. The chevron design was the one I wanted to work the best but it was the worst.

Since I had lots of time to practice and I also tried other brands of magnetic polish, I feel China Glaze could of done better with this collection. The colors are nice, but brighter ones would have drawn me to buy more.

Application of these polishes are iffy, on some you can get away with one coat and others you need two, but I found especially with Drawn To You, if you used two coats the design did not show. As where if you used two coats with Pull Me Close and Instant Chemistry the designs showed up more.

This is one coat of Drawn To You, and the diagonal magnet. No top coat.
I found a top coat would muddle the design. 

These two pictures of Instant Chemistry are two coats and a top coat.
I used the star design here except on my pointer finger.

Pull me close is by far the best one out of the three with creating the design.
Once again two coats with a top coat.

If your a nail polish addict like me then maybe adding one or two of these to your collection is worth it. Plus if you have any other brand magnetic polish you can use the magnet from them to create a design on them. Although no one else I think has a star pattern out. If you just want to have a magnetic polish my honest opinion is that they are plenty of other brands out there that are worth your money than these. Sorry China Glaze.

So that's my swatches and review of China glaze Magnetix. Not my favorite collection and not the best magnetic polish unfortunately.

Hope you all have a great start to your week. Talk to you all soon!
Nicole