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I have recently discovered Dashing Diva polish and so far am liking it a lot. I showed you their new colors last week and after I saw how nice they were, I decided to pick up some older ones and test ‘em out. I only have a formula issue with one of them, which I will talk about below. Pics taken in sun with no top coat.

Rosario PistachioThis is my favorite one, of course. So it’s not an olive green, but definitely an off the wall, not your average green! It seems like a metallic almost from the pic, but really it has very fine shimmer throughout. The name is right on, it’s definitely what I would call a pistachio green, though it does have a lot of yellow in it as well. This is two coats.

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Happy New Year! 2009 is off to a slightly backwards start here at Vampy Varnish. I am bringing you Carolyn New York’s Holiday 2008 Collection. These were supposed to come out on Dec 1st on their website, but didn’t actually show up until mid December. By the time I received and swatched them, it was after Christmas already. Oh well, I liked most of them anyway and for the most part these colors seem more like a Spring or Fall collection rather than Holiday (except for the red one). All pics taken with my sexy new camera, in the sun with no top coat.

Tinsel TownTinsel Town was a color I knew immediately was not going to work on my skin. It’s just too yellow for me, which gives me that wonderful jaundice look I am oh so fond of. Though it doesn’t look great on me, I did like the color, which is a shimmery yellow gold which almost looks foil-y. This is two coats.

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Happy Friday! The nice folks over at butter London sent me their Holiday 2008 sets to try out. I really like their polish. I know a lot of you feel it’s too expensive and you don’t know a lot about them, but I really believe in them and their collection. I absolutely LOVE the witty names of the colors and they definitely have some colors you will not see anywhere else. My only complaint, which I have mentioned before, is that the bottle shape is very hard to work with. For me it’s hard to get a really good grasp on the brush with that rectangle shape and then the top doesn’t want to go back on the bottle smoothly either, which creates a bit of a mess. It’s nice aesthetically, but not practical…Anyway I am only showing three of the four colors they sent because I already have and swatched one of them (Chancer). Pics taken in sun (when it came out for 10 seconds today) and with no top coat.

The Full Monty
Now don’t think of me the wrong way, I am not a Star Wars geek, but to me this color screams C3PO! I love it! It’s a really glittery awesome gold with a foil like finish. Normally I am not a *gold* person, but this is extremely flattering on fair skin (it almost has green undertones) and I will definitely be wearing it. You could do two coats, but I did three just for fun.

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Hump Day is here and with more craptastic
pics from my old camera! Wheeeeee. Ok for real, here are some Carolyn
New York swatches that I did last week when the sun was out and it
wasn’t 30 degrees like it is today. Global warming much? I am really liking their polishes lately. The price is right ($5.99 on their website) and the consistency has always been really great so far. The one thing that irks me is that they will not respond to my emails and they are a bit slow with shipping. Anyhoo, all
pics taken in sun with no top coat. And soon I will bring you some
other Carolyn New York blue polish swatches as well as their Holiday
collection which they just announced on their website here. Enjoy!

Howard Beach
Isn’t this SO pretty? I always love a great purple and this is no exception. as you can see, it’s a really deep grape with blue and lavender shimmer. I was thinking that this is a lot like other purples I have but I just looked and really it’s not! The others are either blacker, lighter, brighter or a different purple, so I say buy it! This is 3 coats.

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