The BATTLE: #1 Blue vs Green

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I had lofty hopes for some amazing nail art with 2 of my favourite polish colours, but disorganised as ever I just have a swatch for this challenge.

It is a gorgeous polish though!

Smitten Polish I Want It Now

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I Want It Now embodies the both green and blue nicely. With a forest green jelly base and green, turquoise and black hex glitter, it can look both warm and cool. I applied 3 coats to achieve full coverage, with absolutely no drama. I topped it off with 1 layer of Glitter Tamer for a beautiful shine.

Smitten Polish is available on Etsy and Llarowe

For the record, I'm on green's side :)

Don't forget to check all the other participants Challenge #1 posts:

Two Matejas Creating
An Indie Girl's Passion
Lacquered Tips
My Wondrous Marvellous Obsession
Cats n Nails
Jibber Jabber
Life in Color!
Annie Suzie

For everyone of age in the US I hope you go out and vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fingers crossed for 4 more years under Obama, hopefully without the Republicans blocking every single piece of Democrat introduced legislation!!

xxx

NPA

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Crazy huge giveaway over at Polished Criminails ladies! Congrats on the 2 year!

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract Swatch Spam

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I bought a whole bunch of these polishes off Ebay back in March and I've finally managed to photograph them!
I have worn a few of them a couple of times and while the wear time isn't great, I still think they're pretty awesome. I don't have the bottles on me right now so I can't give the correct numbers to every colour but once I'm reunited with my stash, I will edit the post.

These all have the same scent; a sort of fruity/floral perfume that eventually makes me feel pretty nauseated if I'm not applying it in a well ventilated area. Once it's on it's dry with some top coat on it I don't notice the scent any more. The formula on all these was sort of thin and sheer and I used 3-4 coats for each of them. Application was an issue on a couple but I'm fairly sure I could be remedy that (explained below). They dry matte so I added 1 coat of NYC In a New York Minute Grand Central Station (quick dry top coat) to all of them. The colours are also more vibrant in person.

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract #

 

A light hot pink with silver micro glitter.

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract #

A mauve leaning pink with silver micro glitter. This polish and another smashed on route, I managed to save about half the lacquer on this one by transferring it to an empty Seche Vite bottle, but the other polish was completely dried out :(. I did get a refund for them though.

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract #

A light lavender/mauve with silver micro glitter. There was some separation (a la shatter polish) of the polish when I applied it to my nail. I'm not sure why this happened, but it occurred on the first coat and the subsequent ones sort of went the same way to an extent. I think shaking up the bottle more before application might prevent this from happening again (I hope!!).

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract #15

Contrary to the photos, this is actually a light teal blue rather than a pale sky blue. It's pretty odd how different this one photographed in the shade and sun... Another one which sort of separated on the nail, but I managed to disguise it with some artful dabbing!!

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract #14

A medium teal blue with silver micro glitter. Some separation on this one too.

Guppy Sanding Fruit Extract #17

A medium violet purple with silver micro glitter.


What do you think?
I can forgive the separation issues considering they were only $1.99 a piece. They look a lot like the Picture Polish Mesh glitter polishes like Tease, Dorothy and Orbit too, only the glitter is less dense in these cheapies.

I can't find these polishes on Ebay any more but if they ever return I'll be buying up more colours!


xxx
NPA

Introducing The BATTLE Nail Art Challenge

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Hey everyone,

Tomorrow I'll be starting The BATTLE Nail Art Challenge created by The Blog of Beautiful Living.

The BATTLE officially started on November 1st, but I'm all over the place at the moment so I'm getting off to a late start! Luckily it's a 'go at your own pace' challenge. Anyone surprised why I signed on now?!!!

Each challenge is also super flexible, you can read the rules section for details.

Some other lovely ladies are taking part in the battle too:

Mateja and Mateja of Two Matejas Creating
'Love My Nails' of An Indie Girl's Passion
Simran of Lacquered Tips
Zoe of My Wondrous Marvellous Obsession
Natalsie of  Cats n Nails
'Jibber Jabber' of Jibber Jabber
Gosia of Life in Color!
Annie Suzie on Pinterest

I'm in the midst of packing and moving and being away from my stash for the next two weeks so there will likely be a lack of nail art during that time, but once everything settles down again I will be making  conscience effort to get my creative juices flowing. Yuck, juices is a horrible word!!! I'll actually be copying other peeps ideas, but anyways...

xxx
NPA

Halloween-y Swatch Spam

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Happy Halloween Trick or Treaters!

No one came to our house this year :( The one time we had candy!
Oh well, more for me!

I never got round to doing any nail art so here's some Halloween themed swatches for you:

Elevation Sarychev sandwiched with Cover Girl Boundless Color Amethyst Mist

Sarychev is a near tangerine orange jelly from the Island Collection. The formula is kind of watery, not like a regular jelly so I had to watch how much polish was on the brush. You get decent coverage after 3 coats but there's still a little VNL left. I started off with 2 coats, then 1 coat of Amethyst Mist and 1 more coat of Sarychev to sandwich it up.

Dollish Polish Vampire's Coven over Revlon Devil's Lure

Vampire Coven is a purple and red glitter mix in a dirty purple/wine murky, semi-sheer base. There's also some fine gold sparkly particles in it too, which you don't notice until you step in to the sun. It's a relative to Lynnderella Pretty Vampire. The glitter is a little smaller and isn't curled though!!!!!!!!!!! Application is a lot kinder too. You can wear it alone with about 3 coats, but I layered it over 2 coats of  Devil's Lure which is a vampy maroon jelly. The base makes VC look like a much more vibrant plum purple!

China Glaze Spectral over Brucci Black Emerald

Spectral is a colour shifting glitter/flakie top coat from China Glaze's Wicked Collection for Halloween. There are small and medium iridescent hex glitters that shift from orange-yellow/gold-green-blue, and lots of fine flakies to match. It looks awesome over a dark base (for maximum colour shifting effect) and I used a dark forest green with orange/brown duochrome shimmer, the gorgeous Brucci Black Emerald.

Pretty & Polished Witchy Woman

Witchy Woman is part of the limited edition Halloween Collection from Pretty & Polished. It's a really sheer purple shimmer with fuchsia, green and black hex and shredded purple glitter. Because it's so sheer, wrapping my tips didn't stop it from shrinking back once the top coat dried and the shredded glitter requires some serious glitter taming because it sticks out from the nail. I used at least 4 coats of WW for these swatches followed by 2 coats of Glitter Gloss. I think it'd look better layered over an opaque purple and that would reduce the trouble with the shredded glitter. I do like the mix of colours and it does look pretty witchy.

China Glaze Immortal

Immortal is also part of the Wicked Collection. It's a concrete grey with blue and pink micro-shimmer and lots of glass fleck shimmer. It's so pretty, my favourite Halloween release by far! The formula is great and 2 coats gives great coverage.

Hope your Halloweens are super spooky

xxx

NPA