Categorized: Silver

January 12, 2009

Dashing Diva Holiday 2008

No we have not gone back in time. I just received these since I believe they were sold out on their site for awhile. These are from Dashing Diva’s Holiday 2008 collection. Swatches in sun with no top coat.

Dashing Diva A Silver Lining Dashing Diva Holiday 2008
A Silver Lining
I wish that you could really see how cool this one is. The chunks of glitter in this are different sizes and shapes and it is way more “chunkier” than your average silver glitter polish. I could just not get the pics to show this. This is three coats here.

Dashing Diva Golden Opportunity Dashing Diva Holiday 2008

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January 5, 2009

China Glaze OMG Nail Polish

I have had some of the China Glaze OMG collection sitting around waiting to be swatched for some time now and finally got around to it this weekend. As you probably already know, these are holographic and super uber fabulous! I didn’t get the whole collection, only the five that appealed to me the most. I did three coats on all of these because I like the color to be really saturated, but you can get away with only two. Pics taken in sun with no top coat.

China Glaze OMG China Glaze OMG Nail Polish
OMG
OMG look how holographic OMG is! Ok that was lame. I was really suprised how cool this was and that I was able to capture the holographic-ness of this. As you can see, OMG is a silvery holo with micro glitter.

China Glaze DV8 China Glaze OMG Nail Polish

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Categorized: China Glaze, Varnish
December 19, 2008

butter London Holiday 2008

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.

butter London The Full Monty butter London Holiday 2008
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.

butter London Diamond Geezer butter London Holiday 2008

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December 6, 2008

China Glaze Romantique – Warm Collection

As promised, here are the warm colors from the China Glaze Romantique collection. Personally I liked the cool set a bit better because I am fair and some of these don’t mesh as well with my skin tone, but they are still pretty. All were only two coats and again all had really nice application and pigmentation. Pictures taken in sunlight with no top coat.

China Glaze Admire China Glaze Romantique   Warm Collection
Admire
Admire is a pretty flattering silvery pink/lavender metallic. I was surprised that I liked it this much, normally something like this doesn’t do it for me.

China Glaze Delight China Glaze Romantique   Warm Collection

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October 16, 2008

Misa Swatches

I finally ordered a bunch of Misa polishes since I had been coveting them on other bloggers sites for awhile. Overall I was very impressed with both the quality and colors of their polishes. I will definitely be ordering more from Misa and am excited that I discovered a new brand for myself! My pictures are all taken in sunlight with no top coat.


DSC02669 Misa Swatches
A Sin Worth Committing

Gorgeous! This color is really pretty, especially in the sun. It’s a deep inky bright blue with gads of shimmer. I have on 3 coats and the application was smooth as glass. 

DSC02667 Misa Swatches

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Categorized: Misa, Varnish