American Apparel: Made in LA Teal

Sorry for the late post today I scheduled this to be posted earlier, but Blogger was being mean.

I found this cool polish at American Apparel. Apparently, when I purchased this one they told me that these were only supposed to be exclusive to stores in LA, but they got a shipment of them in. I'm not sure if this is true. I'm not completely buying it. I'm cynical. That being said the color cool, but it has a a bit of a flaw I'm not fond of

Made in LA Teal

Made in LA Tea is a teal glass-fleck metallic with a subtle purple duochrome effect (sadly my camera did not pick up the duochrome very well).

This polish is a gorgeous color, and I love the glass fleck finish. My only beef with this polish is oh so sheer. This was around 4 coats, and you can still kind of see the tips of my nails show underneath the teal color. Ridiculous. I've seen enough cool glass fleck colors to know they do not need to be made so sheer. I know I've become a polish snob to be so picky, but come on. Oh well. Gorgeous color....sad formula. You can't win them all.

While you may not find this "exclusive" polish in your local American Apparel because may not live in LA (Okay, now I'm just being obnoxious..sorry), you can find it online for $6.00. It doesn't seem to be that exclusive if it's sold online :P. I think the word exclusive just grates on my nerves.

Happy Thursday!

American Apparel Sheer: Redondo Beach

"Do you remember the 21st night of September?, love was changing the mind of pretenders, while chasing the clouds away....Ba de yaaaa say do remember Ba de yaaaa dancing in September Ba de yaaa never was a cloudy day" --That  Earth, Wind, & Fire song has been in my head since the beginning of September, but since it's the 21st it makes more sense to sing it now!

I think blue has been my color of the year. I noticed while going through my folder of swatches a huge percentage of them are blues. If  you did not know, when I first started blogging I avoided blues. I actually thought blues did not look good me. It's all about finding the right blues! It turned out that blue has become probably my favorite color of nail polish. Times have changed. I was really curious about the American Apparel Sheer polishes when I first heard about them, so when I spotted them I picked up this pretty blue!

Redondo Beach

Redondo Beach is a sky blue jelly.

I used 3 coats here, and I'm calling this a jelly. While, it is sheerer when applied with one coat, it's not my idea of a sheer. When I think of sheers I think of those pinky-nudes that take 5 coats to build and are a pain in the acetone to get opaque. This has more coverage than a sheer, and builds up way easier. In Steph's world this a jelly. This was easy to apply and built up so nicely. I love the color. I don't have any complaints. I think this would great to do jelly sandwiches too if you use less coats.

Happy Friday!

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