Some Girly Bits Swatches

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How's the weekend treating you? I placed a relatively large order with Girly Bits a few months back but am a bit behind in my swatching. Here are the three I've managed to wear thus far:

Girly Bits Bird Is The Word

Bird is the Word is a pinky-purple scattered holo. I'm not uber crazy about it, but I think that it is due to there being a million and one of these scattered holos around at the moment. I prefer linear or smoother holos. The formula is very nice, opaque in two coats.

Girly Bits Off The Scale

Off the Scale is a blue micro-glitter top coat that can also be worn solo with three coats. It contains blue, silver and iridescent blue-green glitter for extra sparkle!

Girly Bits Visions of Sugar Plums

Visions of Sugar Plums is a purple (with brownish undertones) jelly packed with iridescent glitters that shine pink, blue, green and purple. I'm wearing it alone at three coats but I think it'd look prettier layered over a dark purple (think China Glaze Urban Night) this Christmas!

I've got three exams left this week and am in the midst of studying for the big bad Clinical Veterinary Anatomy & Physiology....

There are just so many diagrams to memorize and all the parts of the body and their function, argh! Blast you scientists!!!!

xxx

NPA

My picks from OPI Oz, The Great And Powerful Collection

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This year the theme of OPI's Soft Shades Collection was Oz The Great and Powerful. I thought it was an odd choice considering all the rich colours in that film, but they came up with some beautifully delicate semi-sheers - of which I do not have a lot - so I picked up three bottles :)

OPI I Theodora You

 I Theodora You appealed to me immediately. It's a pale pink that builds nicely in 3-4 thin coats. It was surprisingly even looking after some Seche Vite. Definitely office safe.

OPI Glints of Glinda

 Glints of Glinda is a peachy/yellow toned flesh. The formula is very similar to ITY and it is soooooo close to Samoan Sand that I originally thought it was a dupe. Happily when I compared the two, SS is much more neutral and GOG has that orange cast. Again 3-4 thin coats for full coverage.

OPI Lights of Emerald City over Sprung

Lights of Emerald City is a white and iridescent square glitter mix in a clear base. The base is pretty thick, but you get decent coverage with one coat. Maybe some thinner would benefit it? I layered it over Sprung because I'd only seen it over the other semi-sheers from the Oz collection. I think it looks pretty cool because the iridescent glitters shine orange like Sprung!


Which lacquers were your favourite from the collection?


xxx
NPA

Candy Lacquer Sugar Skulls

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Wow, after just two days of my Vet Nurse plus course, I'm exhausted!!! Pleasantly so, though.

I came home yesterday and hopped in to bed at 5:30pm, slept till 7:50pm, got up for dinner and was back in bed by 9:30pm! I also slept through my first alarm so I cut it pretty fine this morning!!!
Besides the shock to my system, I'm enjoying it so far. A lot of basic cell and tissue bio was crammed in to my brain today that brought back all the bio I did at high school. We learnt all the terms used to describe locations on an animal and the basic form of cats and dogs. That area has me a little flummoxed! I not very good at visualising objects, so I'll have to practice the terms using my dogs. The afternoon was luckily, fairly lax, we just went over a lot of OSH information.
There are an awful lot of ways I could be seriously harmed in a vet clinic though you guys! And apparently cats are the devil, with all the nasty infections they can give you from scratches and bites.

On a sad note, I'm not allowed to wear nail polish during clinic, so I suppose now is the time to invest in some OPI Envy Matte!!!! Clinic is only two days a week, so I'll still manage to wear my polish lots. "Don't panic!" I keep telling myself. :)

The best part thus far is how friendly the staff and other students are. There's only 20 of us, so it's like being in a classroom environment and you can actually get to know everyone unlike huge lectures at uni. We're aged 17-40 something too which is kind of great since I'm turning 25 tomorrow.


Now back to the subject of nail polish...

Candy Lacquer Sugar Skulls over Elevation Polish Higravstinden

 Sugar Skulls is a matte glitter mix with white, pink, teal, pale seafoam green and yellow hexes, as well as fine iridescent glitter. There are yellow flowers and pink hearts too! The only way Sugar Skulls could be better was if there were chunky skull shaped glitters in it too! One day, aye? It's best to dab the glitter on because it's soooo concentrated and you can control where the hearts and flowers go. She dries really textured so you'll also need a thick top coat to smooth it out. I'm wearing 1 coat of Glitter Gloss and 1 coat of Seche Vite.

I loved, loved, loved wearing Sugar Skulls. It'll be making a comeback this Easter for sure!!!


xxx
NPA