China Glaze Cranberry Splash with a twist!

Hello lovelies!

It is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and I'm still debating on doing some sort of Turkey day nails.

But anyway today I have a red polish for you that I can say I like way more then my favorite red from last year! Last year I was obsessed with Velvet Bow from China Glaze. It was from their Let It Snow collection and it is this amazing vampy red squishy polish! I don't normally wear reds because of my skin-tone but when I saw this red this year I had to have it!

This year China Glaze in their Holiday Joy Collection put out quite a few reds; actually almost half the collection is reds. Cranberry Splash was the one that stood out from the pack and spoke to me saying it wanted to join my stash! How exciting!!

So on a trip to Sally Beauty Supply I went to go and get the few polishes I wanted from the holiday collection and to see if the Cirque polishes were out yet. Out of all the polishes I went to search for Cranberry Splash was the only one who came home with me. There is more to this story but right now I don't want to bring it up since I'm waiting to hear back from Sally's.

Cranberry Splash is a glowy shimmery not frosty red. I can't tell if it leans more orange or blue it's somewhere in the middle, you know how sometimes you can tell. On the night that I bought it I was dying to try it out so I made my mom the test subject and painted her pinkie nail. For someone who hates my love of polish but yet will buy it for herself sometimes, my mom really liked this one! Hopefully I will be successful and get her to wear it for Christmas!

I was literally in love from the second I painted it on her nail! One coat actually seemed to be perfect! Although upon taking a picture of her nail you could see two coats would be best since there were some thin spots. Even though these thin spots were only visible in direct light.

For myself when I changed my polish on Friday I did the standard two coats and let it dry. Now this polish is super shiny without a top coat but you know I need the extra protection. To make it more glittery I had to add a new polish I just bought; I added Maybeline Color Show Sequins Ruby Rhinestones to my ring fingers. Ruby Rhinestones is a ruby glitter polish that is in a raspberry tinted base with small round red glitter, medium red hex glitter and surprisingly has tiny square black matte glitter too! When looking at it from the bottle you do not see the black glitter , I didn't even see it on my nail until I had my nail close to my face one night after I took my contacts out!

The wear time on this polish is good, I have had it on for three-four days now and it only has minor tip wear! I plan on buying a back up of this polish once Head2toe beauty comes back from there holiday break!

So take a look at the photos and tell me what you think!!! Until next time!

Cover Girl Stay Brillant Nail Gloss in Wine Stain.

Hello! As I type this we have a hurricane-a-brewin' outside. Hurricane Sandy is bearing down on us here in Northeast. Last year on this very day we had a freak snow storm, so I'm pretty sure the apocalypse is happening....haha just kidding....maybe. Next it will be zombies or something....

Anyway I haven't forgotten that Halloween is in three days and today I have a very simple nail polish for you that would go great if you are going to be a witch or a vampire or you just don't like nail art and just want a color that says vampy but still somewhat work appropriate.

I know a polish is work appropriate for me when no one notices it at work. So this polish is by Cover Girl! I have never seen Cover Girl Nail Polish before, but I should refer to it as they call it Nail Gloss. I had heard they would be releasing a line of polishes and I was excited to see what they would produce. While at Walmart preparing for this lovely hurricane we had to go past the beauty section to pet supplies and low and behold there on an end cap was the new collection. I was immediately drawn in to the display due to the bottles. They look like Chanel Nail Polish bottles. Tiny little square bottles. Then the excitement dropped as I didn't particularly like the color choices. they had some nice what I call ' mom' colors or colors my mother would wear. I then picked up a vibrant purple color that was the brightest in the display and decided to get that and then I saw the one I am about to show you today.

I love a good vampy red color, it looks the best on my skin tone, so when I grabbed for Wine Stain, (the name of this perdy color) I definitely saw Halloween, and also it made me think of all the 'Oxblood' polishes that I have seen some people get excited about.

So now two new Cover Girl Nail Glosses were making there way home with me, the only other downside was the size of the polish and price, you  get 10ml of polish for $4.97. That's kind of steep even for Walmart. I would expect that price at CVS or Walgreen's, even Rite Aid. The Maybeline Color Show Polishes which are the same size only go for $2.97 at my Walmart the last time I looked. So its up to you as the consumer and nail polish addicts to decided on whether five bucks a pop is worth it to you.

Here are my swatches of Wine Stain. I like this polish a lot, two coats is good for opacity, and clean up is not such a bitch as it usually is with dark red polishes. The finish is very glossy and shiny, and it kind of has that jelly-esq finish to it.

I'm still wearing this polish as I write this and after a long night at work I only have two small chips on my right hand on my thumb and pointer fingers. So...so far so good I guess, and let me remind you what I do for a living. I work in customer service lifting heavy objects and register tills and constantly digging my hand into till to pick up change and money to count, then there is the dreaded self-check out which are metal bins that I have actually sheared my pinkie nail off of before. In conclusion only having two small chips is pretty good :) The only bad thing with the bottle is the top, trying to hold that square top and paint your nails gets bulky and almost blocks my vision to my nail so I have to crane my head to see I get it on the nail and not on the finger.

Okay so that's it for this post. Stay tuned for tomorrow's post to see how I used this polish in nail art!

Talk to you soon
<3 Nicole

China Glaze Wicked Collection: Roguish Red

Good Morning! Today I have a nail polish from China Glaze's 2012 Halloween Collection called the Wicked Collection.


Now I picked up the four pack and one single polish from this collection, from Sally's. The four pack had Roguish Red, which is what you will see today, Bizarre Blurple, Glitter Goblin, and Ghoulish Glow. The Single Polish I picked up is Immortal.

Roguish Red was a polish I didn't expect to like at all. Red polishes and I don't usually get along unless they are some what vampy. The bright orange-y reds don't usually mesh with my skin tone so I tend to stay away from them, however this one actually looks okay.

Roguish Red is a bright orange-red creme polish that definitely needs two coats so your visible nail line doesn't show. The first time I used this color was with a failed gradient attempt and the tips of my nails looked like I had dug into flesh. I think some nice black polish stamping would look really good over this color.

Drying time is good, I noticed it didn't take long to dry in between coats and before even adding a top coat the polish is glossy!

                                         All three pictures were taken in natural sunlight!

These pictures were taken with my IPhone, my digital camera wanted to make my fingers glow.:(
Okay so I hope you enjoyed this quick look at Roguish Red. If you think your skin tone can handle this bright polish then by all means go out there and get it!

Talk to you soon
<3 Nicole

Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine Nail Color : Dazzling

Happy Thursday to you all!

Wow it's been a little while since my last post! Life's just been quite busy, between work and personal life!

Today I bring you a polish that I got for a steal! I went into the Dollar Tree as I do about once ever couple of weeks to see what new polishes they may have gotten in and low and behold I find six colors from Sally Hansen I've never seen before!

These lacquers are technically vintage since when I researched them they were originally released in 2007! They are called Sally Hansen Lacquer Shine Nail Color! Out of the six colors I grabbed five. The sixth color just wasnt me :(

The first color in the collection I'm going to feature here on the blog is called Dazzling! Dazzling is a brilliant ruby red color! All of the polishes in this line are jewel tones which as we know are big for fall this year!

Application was fairly easy. The brushes on these polishes are the thin standard polish brush not the the thicker versions we see nowadays. Although part of me really likes those brushes for some reason. I feel I have better control over my brush strokes.

Two coats is perfect opacity. Dry time is normal for a Sally Hansen, usually by the five minute mark it's dry to the touch and you put your top coat on no problem. Pairing this polish with the Insta-Dry top coat really makes this gem shine.

For one measly dollar and 8 eight cents plus tax each I think they are rather worth it. Check out the pictures below!

Do the bottles look familiar to you? When comparing them to other Sally Hansen polish bottles I noticed Sally Hansen re-issued these bottles with the HD polishes, top and all except the HD tops are silver and these are black, the Gem Crush Collection also has the same style bottles. Personally I like the bottles they are easy to hold for photos.