NYC Flat Iron Green vs Milani One of a Kind

I have seriously been on a buy every dark green kick this whole summer! Don't know what has gotten into me, but I just have to buy every dark green I see. I was at CVS the other day and HAD to buy these two even though 1) they both look almost black 2) they really aren't anything special. I'm crazy, right? haha I think posting this entry...

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Color Club Untamed Luxury, Part I: the glitters

Here are my first set of swatches done with a wrist brace on. And they took much longer and don't look half as good as they should. I just couldn't wait to try the new Color Club collex (provided by Color Club for my review). So I'm not sure if my swatching was particularly bad or if these polishes were particularly difficult to make look...

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Elegant Glitz: OPI Glitzerland

I know I already swatched my OPI Swiss collection picks for you, I just had to show you a picture from when I wore OPI Glitzerland as a full manicure. This polish really exceeded my expectations! If you can, click on the pic to enlarge - you will see the multi-coloured shimmer in this bad boy:I have a soft spot for metallic polishes, but...

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Claire's Flirty/Shy

I will fall for every gimmick you throw at me. A bagel slicer that takes up my entire counter-top? Sure. A giant food dehydrator when I don't even like dried fruit? Why not!Hence, the mood polishes. I thought from the get-go that the mood polish series from Claire's would be yet another gimmick I fell for and it would be a miserable...

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Illamasqua Fern layered with Sally Hansen HD Spectrum

Sally Hansen HD Spectrum layered over Illamasqua FernThe pattern of shimmer makes my nails look a little bizarrely shaped. Hmm, odd. Anyway... as much as I loved Fern, I needed it to brighten it up a bit. Because bright vibrant blue needs brightening up. Always. It turns out, Fern is a great base color for Spectrum in that it makes it look...

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Lippmann Collection - Across the Universe AND ONTO MY FAVORITES LIST!

Trust me, I understand that everyone and their mother has desired for, swatched and raved about this polish, and please understand that I hate nothing more than appearing like I am hopping onto the proverbial band wagon.I have to say, though... everyone was right. ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.Lippmann Collection - Across the UniverseDid I balk at...

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Illamasqua Fern

Just received Color Club's Untamed Luxury collex yesterday from their PR folks. Hopefully, I'll have a chance to swatch them over the weekend. I'm currently in a wrist brace right now (explanation can be found at the bottom of the post) so it may be a little slow going. I guess I could remove the brace for swatching but that seems to be going...

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Water Marbling with Metallics

I wanted to do a water marble of gold and turquoise for my friend's wedding (it ended up looking totally ridiculous for wedding purposes so the day of I switched to $OPI's I'm Wired--terrible formula, fyi).Still I thought the result was kind of cool. I used a metallic gold polish from a random brand I've found in the NYC area. It behaved...

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The Hunt For Red (By) October, Part 2

Battle of the blue-based reds! Here we have the latest polish auditioning for the part of my perfect red - Essie A-List:Check out my A-List nubbins! This red jelly is another blue-toned red (like OPI Vodka & Caviar...as seen in Part 1 of my Hunt), but it reads deeper than Vodka & Caviar, which I think is more flattering on my skin....

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Sinful Colors Dream On

We all know that neons are hard to photograph and so are purple polishes. What makes perfect sense? That the hardest polish that I have photographed so far is a NEON PURPLE polish.Sinful Colors Dream OnSinful Colors Dream On is a pretty fabulous color even though it likes to kick the garbage out of my sweet little unassuming camera. Neon...

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Jessica Tourmaline and Quirius Sand Castle: two polishes I didn't know I'd like

This isn't really a themed post. The only thing these two polishes have in common is that I thought I'd hate them but I actually was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed them. Jessica TourmalineThis cool lavender pink falls between foil and frost for me. It doesn't have the sort of full-foil effect that a lot of foils I'm used to have......

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Essie Fall 2010, Part II of II: Little Brown Dress, Velvet Voyeur, and Limited Addiction

Cuticles are still travel ravaged. And I tried using the Nfu.Oh cuticle remover (like, for real, not on fairly neat cuticles while wearing nail polish) and gotta say, I find it pretty useless! No removing powers as far as I could see. So I went back to my trusty old Blue Cross Cuticle Remover and voila! a good job done quickly for far cheaper....

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China Glaze Ruby Pumps

Ladies and (maybe one or two) gentlemen, I give you one of the most popular polishes in the world!!!China Glaze Ruby Pumps - indoorsChina Glaze Ruby Pumps - sunlightYou knew it had to be Ruby Pumps, right? I mean, come on - this polish is legendary! Originally released as part of "The Wizard of Ooh Ahz" collection and then placed in their...

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A Love Resumed: OPI Tickets to Paradise

Have you ever re-discovered a hidden gem in your stash? A polish that you haven't used in a while, and you can't quite remember why you kept it...then you try it and it's fab? That's what happened to me!I used to *adore* OPI Tickets to Paradise, and I don't know why I ever stopped...This is the most beautiful orchid-tinged white that just...well...

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I recently needed a super fun mani to cheer me up so what did I decide to paint my nails? I decided to paint them OPI Catch Me in Your Net which is a beautiful polish and is stunning on its own, but I wanted more.... so I topped it off with an Anna Sui glitter that I picked up earlier in the month called 101.So what's the deal with these...

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NOTDs from the previous two days: Milani Bare to Wear and Incoco Oscar Night

My cuticles are still a bit travel-ravaged even though I've been treating them with Mango Mend every few hours since getting home. Sigh, traveling does do quite the number on my body. I'm still dead exhausted. Milani Bare to WearThis is supposedly somewhat close to Lippmann Waking Up in Vegas but I don't have that polish. This is a very greyed-out...

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