NYX Pink Metal

Pink Metal is soft metallic pink.

Color: Along with nudes and neutrals I love nude and neutral metallic shades too! This one caught my eye at the NYX store. I love the pinky tone to it so it doesn't look so stark against my skin tone which I find with some silver or silvery white metallic shades. It's shiny, but it's also soft at the same time.

Formula: The formula on this is sheerer than I'd prefer. It took 3 coats to the get the opacity and I still found it to be a bit sparse in spots. It's not a bad formula and was very easy to work with, it just could be more opaque.

Price: This was $5 at the NYX store.

Overall: I do like this shade. I love the soft metallic pink and I find the color flattering. The formula could be bit more opaque for my liking. It's nice, but it's not the greatest.

My Rating: 4 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Tuesday!

Sally Hansen Therapewter

One of the first things that caught my eye in the new year was Sally Hansen's new Color Therapy line of polishes. I can't say Sally Hansen has done much to impress me in recent years, but this Color Therapy line has impressed me. I reviewed Steely Serene back in January. The colors in this line are not the most unique compared to indie standards, but they are some high-quality polish with excellent wear time from my experience. I have one of the more glitzy colors to share with you today.

Therapewter

Therapetwer is a slightly green-tinged silver foil with sparse gold and bronze flakes.

Collection: Sally Hansen Color Therapy Core 2017

Color: This is actually a really unique color to me. I love the foil-like metallic finish and in this great silvery with just a hint of green neutral shade. It's not a flat color either there are sparse little gold and bronze flakes throughout that give this color some dimension. It's gorgeous and definitely a great go-to color when you're not sure of something to wear.

Formula: This had a smooth and easy to use formula. It is sheer on the first coat but builds up opaquely and easily in 3 coats. I've worn both Steely Serene and Therapewter more than once for full manis and did get a solid 6 days of wear out of both without any chips. This line wears so well on me!

Price: You can find this in the $6.70-$8.00 range at Target, Walmart, Ulta, and drugstores. Look for drugstore deals on these though!

Overall: This is a beautiful and complex color. I absolutely adore it and the other colors in this line. These are really well made and have excellent long-wearing formulas. I'm really impressed and plan to add more of these to my collection.

My Rating 5 out of 5 *Golden* Paint Splatters

Happy Thursday!

ILNP Pink Mimosa

I've been very much in creme territory lately. I can't enough cremes and they're all I've been wearing for over a month now. I decided to break it up though when I saw this untried beauty in my stash from ILNP. Sometimes picking out what to paint my nails can be daunting. I have so many colors and sometimes I just can't decide. When I saw this color I didn't even have to think twice. 

Pink Mimosa

Pink Mimosa is a super feminine rose toned nail polish packed with bright silver flakes, vivid pink shimmer, and an incredible holographic sparkle.

Collection: ILNP Summer 2015

Color: Wow! This is such a stunner. Sometimes it takes an ILNP polish to remind me just how great bling and holo are. There isn't another brand out there that really can do a finish like this. I love this icy rose shade. It pops against my skin tone while still having that touch of softness because of the pink. 

Formula: This had an excellent 2 coat formula. This was smooth and easy to apply. 

Price: This is $10 on the ILNP website. 

Overall: This is an amazing polish. This is a part of the Ulta Metallic line and that certainly fits. The shine in this is so reflective and that holo is icing on the cake. I am in absolutely in love with this polish. It's perfection. 

My Rating: 5 out of 5 *Golden* Paint Splatters

Happy Monday! 

Third Week Throwbacks: Zoya Kerry

I have such trouble with this Zoya polish's name. I continue to call it Belle even though it's named Kerry. This polish should be called Belle, dangit! You will see why in just a second!

Kerry

Kerry is a yellow gold foil metallic.

Collection: Zoya Irresistible Collection Summer 2013

Color: This should be called Belle, right? This is exactly the color Belle's dress in Beauty and the Beast. That's all I can think about when I see this color. Yellow golds are slippery slope for me against my skin tone, but I like this one. The finish on this is beautiful. I've never seen a finish quite like this on a gold before.

Formula: This had an excellent formula. I used 3 coats above and this applied easily.

Price: This is $10 on the Zoya website.

Overall: Belle Kerry is a stunning and unique polish. I love this beautiful yellow gold and the amazing foil finish. I miss foil polishes! I think this is definite must have if you're a nail polish fan. It's definitely one of those one of kind polishes!

My Rating: 5 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Friday!

China Glaze Check Out the Silver Fox

I have a polish from the recent China Glaze fall collection to share with you today. I'm always hesitant to post polishes I'm not very into. It's not because I don't want to review it negatively, it's just that it's not very fun to write about. Plus, I really don't know what to say about it. Here goes anyways.....

Check Out the Silver Fox

Check Out the Silver Fox is a gunmetal silver metallic. 

Collection: China Glaze The Great Outdoors Fall 2015

Color: I love gunmetal colors. This is a pretty color, but this polish is just so flat. It's almost chalky which doesn't make sense for a metallic. I tried adding top coat and that did nothing. I love foily/metallic colors like this, but there is just something off about the formulation of this color. It has no depth or shine. It looks really matte and dull. This could of been tremendously better. 

Formula: The application and formula itself were opaque and so easy to apply. I only needed one coat with this polish. 

Price: This can be found in the $7-$8 range at Sally's, Ulta, and online. 

Overall: I'm sorry, but I really don't like this. I was expecting this to be a beautiful sister to Wood Ya Wanna? which does have dimension and shine. It's not at all. This color is just so flat and dull. I find it really unattractive and not flattering. If you want a silver metallic that has some omph to it I'd recommend Zoya Trixie or OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous.

My Rating: 1 out of 5 Paint Splatters

ILNP My Little Glacier (H)

I'm sorry for my lack of posts the beginning of this year. I've had some unexpected challenges that have prevented me from spending the time I'd like on my blog. I know I don't have to apologize to you, but I really would of rather been working on blog things than dealing with life inconveniences that's for sure! I'm hoping tomorrow things will be back on an even-keel. 

On a lighter note I do have a polish to share for you form ILNP. This one caught my eye because of the color. 

My Little Glacier (Holo)

 My Little Glacier (H) is a steely icy blue metallic holo with slight grey color shift.

Collection: Ultra Chrome

Color: This doesn't have the color shift that the others in the Ultra Chrome collection have. That being said, I really love this color. I'm not big on ultachromes or multichromes. I know that may sound crazy to many of you. I just really love the complexity and dimension of this color. Colors like this can come off kind of dull and muddled, but this with the holo and that slight color shift make it stand out.

Formula: The formula on this was nice and easy to use. I used 3 coats above.

Price: This is $12.50 on the ILNP website.

Overall: I love My Little Glacier. It's wintery and it has depth unlike other colors I've seen similar to it. I like the holo effect, and adore this shade of blue. I'm not disappointed by the very little color shift effect, but it could of been amped up just a smidge.

My Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Wednesday!

L'Oreal Pop the Bubbles

I have another one of the L'Oreal Gold Dust texture polishes to show you today. I think this one has to be one of my favorites. I know I mentioned in my past reviews that I preferred these with top coat. I must say, this next one, I don't think really needs it!

Pop the Bubbles

Pop the Bubbles is a turquoise metallic glittery texture.

Color: This is sparkle city and such a beautiful color too. I can find little fault in a turquoise blue.

Formula: Excellent formula. I used 2 coats in the swatch above.

Price: I purchased this in the $5-$7 range. This can be found in the core line at most drugstores and big box stores.

Overall: This is a stunner. If you're on the fence on the textured finish, but love your sparkle, Pop the Bubbles might just do it for you. This one doesn't look flat on the nail and really sparkles without the help of top coat. The color is gorgeous and the formula is great. Awesome polish!

My Rating: 5 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Friday!

China Glaze Strike Up a Cosmo

I'm very very picky when it comes to metallic nail polish. I don't like metallic shimmers or chromes. You know the ones that look like flat metallic color? I hate them. I can't really tell you why I hate them, I just do. What I do like are metallic foils. I love metallics that are multi-dimensional. I was initially going to bypass the China Glaze Autumn Nights collection, but when I saw they had foils I was game. This one caught my eye.

Strike Up a Cosmo

Strike Up a Cosmos is a dustry rose metallic foil with subtle gold and silver foil flecks mixed in.

Color: Pinks hardly ever make it into fall collections. I know it's hard to do a fall pink, but China Glaze was succcessful with this one. What I like about this shade is it definitely reads as a neutral, so it is very wearable with any skin tone or outfit.

Formula: Excellent, one coater formula.

Price: I purchased this at Sally's Beauty Supply in the $5-$7 range.

Overall: This is a great not-your-average, but totally works for fall color. This would be excellent in winter and holidays. I really like this, and I found myself wearing this a few times already. Metallic pink for the win!

My Rating: 5 out of 5 Paint Splatters

Happy Friday!

KBShimmer Lilac Dreams

Do you any of you out there have just crazy nonsensical dreams? I always have had them. My dreams are never sequential. They make absolutely no sense, and have a ton of random elements that do not connect to each other whatsoever. I had this crazy dream the other night where my cat could talk, I was on some game show with Steven Tyler, I got a haircut that looked horrible, I ordered a bunch of hot dogs, and I was some ocean-resort where the ocean was encapsulated in giant glass that looked like one of those pools they use for Shamu at Sea World. This was all one dream that flowed together at one time.  What's so weird is I'm not even a Steven Tyler fan. I don't dislike him or anything. I'm just indifferent. I have no idea why he was in my dream! Seriously, my dreams a wild.

On the subject of dreams..here is a pretty dreamy polish by KBShimmer. I can always find way to bring it back to polish....mostly :P.

Lilac Dreams

Lilac Dreams is a luscious shade that depending on the light, shifts slightly from a medium purple to a lovely shade of pink. Holographic glitter in aqua blue and sliver add sparkle and shine while a scattering of micro black and silver glitter adds depth to the color.

Ok, I totally used KBShimmer's description for this polish. It's really so complex it's hard to describe. It's a beautiful bright foily-metallic lilac that has a slight color shift and flecks of different glitters mixed in. That's the Steph description. It's really beautiful, and has great depth. I've always been a fan of the lavender-lilac color family, and I have nothing like this polish! This does dry on the gritty side, due to the amount of glitter used, but this can be remedied with a thicker top coat like Gelous or two coats of your favorite top coat.

I purchased this polish from the KBShimmer website for $8.50.

Happy Thursday!

Disney Princess Designer Nail Polish Part 2

If you did not see yesterday's post, please check it out!

Here is the other half of the Disney Princess polishes.

Ariel

Ariel is a medium blue intense shimmer.

Rapunzel

Rapunzel is a plum metallic foil.

Belle

Belle is a warm gold metallic foil.

Tiana

Tiana is a pale sea foam green pearl-frost.

Pocahontas

Pocahontas is a bronze metallic foil.

I have the same sentiments as last time. These are not unique colors at all, but I really adore this set. It kills me that Tiana is such a frosty color! Blech. What they did do a good job of here is giving you a great selection of finishes. We have sheer/jelly, frost, glitter, holographic glitter, shimmer, & foil. The only prominent exclusion would be creme, but honestly when I think of Disney and Disney Princess creme probably isn't as "magical" of a finish.

I didn't have any noticeable application problems with these. They were average, I think they all had solid coverage with 3 coats with the exception of Cinderella. The best pigmentation wise were definitely the foil ones like Pocahontas as Rapunzel. What I did notice is that these dried super fast. I know that's probably not make or break it information when it comes to buying these polishes, but it was an interesting discovery.

My favorite? I think as far as color/pigmentation I'd say Ariel, Mulan, & Rapunzel. Who is my favorite Disney princess? Ariel of course!


What is your favorite among these polishes and who is your favorite Disney princess?

Happy Wednesday!

China Glaze Emotion

A little while ago while purging my stash for my blog sale I came across this China Glaze color. I was tempted to put it in the purge pile, but I decided not to. This color has one of the characteristics of a polish I hate. It's frosty. I can't help but love this one though. I think sometimes frosts can be nice, if they're paired with the right color. At least for me, in this case I approve this frost! Plus, I think I have some attachment to it, because it was one of the first polishes I bought when I got into nail polish.

Emotion

Emotion is a warm shimmery metallic pink.

This was from the spring Romantique 2009 collection. It's funny how that was only 2 years ago, but in nail polish years 2 years might as well be 10. I actually love the finish on it. It almost looks chrome. I also love the vibrancy of this pink too. It's not your typical dated pale pink frost. This pink definitely has some depth and punch to it! All in all, I really like this color. I think it will stay in my stash. :)

Happy Monday!

China Glaze Crackle Cracked Medallion

I know, I think of all nail polish fads, the crackle may have become one of the most overdone. I only have a few crackles, but I was definitely excited about the China Glaze Crackle metals. I think after these I'm crackled out. Gold,bronze,black, & white will probably be the extend of my crackle purchases. :P

Cracked Medallion over Barielle Falling Star

Cracked Medallion is a bronze metallic crackle.

Awesome possum! Yes, I just said that. I love how this looks like gold leaf  over the polish. This crackles nicely, unlike some other brand of metallic crackle that stinks -cough- Sally Hansen. I obviously have nothing more interesting to say about this other than I love the look of this. This is a work of art on your nails.

Happy Thursday!

Revlon Scented Not So Blueberry

Let me preface this by saying this is one of Revlon's scented nail polishes. The idea of scented nail polish is intriguing, but if you're sensitive to smells I don't think these are ideal for you. These tend to be intensely scented to the point I find them slightly nauseating. This is just me though, but I would like to throw it out there to those of us with more sensitive noses! Even though I say all that as you'll see below, I'm willing to make some sacrifices.


Not So Blueberry

Not So Blueberry is light-medium periwinkle foil metallic.

I absolutely love this color! I can't tell you enough. Usually when it comes to these foil/metallic finishes with color in them they are tend to be very lightly pigmented, but this one does have punch of color. Plus, it's in that blue-violet/blurple shade range which is one of my favorites. I don't own any other color like this.

Now on to the downside. This has one of those artificial fruity smells. It's very strong in my opinion and off putting. That all being said, I think for this type of color call me crazy, but I'll take a chance on the headache and queasiness that might ensue from putting on this polish.

What do we for nail polish! We drive around town visiting various locations for a certain polish ,we stalk e-tailers for new collections, we'll break out $$ for HTF colors, and now we'll settle for having a migraine just to wear a pretty color! That leads me to this question....


What is the most ridiculous thing you think you've done for nail polish?

Happy Tuesday!

Blue Nails for Autism Awareness: Zoya Crystal

It is now April! Time flies. It is also Autism Awareness month. Autism Awareness is something very dear to Jasmine from Colour Coated and she asked many bloggers to help participate in the recognition of Autism Awareness by wearing blue polish.

Autism Awareness is something that is meaningful to me. One of my distant cousins has autism. I spent some time with him and his mother (my other cousin) a few years ago in New York, and that experience gave me a lot of insight into autism. I think autism is very misunderstood, and that needs to be changed.

I'm a strong advocate for education, and when it comes to awareness I think we can do a lot just by clicking a mouse or looking in a book and learning a thing or two about something you may have not known anything about before. So, I encourage you whether it's autism or some other issue/cause this month take the time to gain some wisdom on something significant and meaningful to you. Share what you've learned with someone else! Spread the knowledge!

Now to polish. :)

Zoya Crystal

Crystal is light-medium blue foil metallic with flecks of gold foil glitter.

Another beautiful shade by Zoya, and very suitable for the month. I actually questioned buying this one at first, but I'm glad I did. It's a stunner!

Happy Saturday!

Color Club Untamed Luxury Diamond Collection

How about we pretend those other colors from this collection did not exist, and just focus on the good ones? The rest of this collection is really nicely done, not all of the colors are unique, but great polish colors nontheless.

Red Velvet

Red Velvet is a blackened base with red glitter suspended within. This is probably a dupe for China Glaze Lubu Heels and Milani Garnet Gems.



Snakeskin

Snakeskin is a steel gray metallic with flecks of glitter. This seems like what maybe Ms. Haute and De-Luxe-Cious was going for but didn't quite work out. This one is smooth and you can see the glitter in it. It's not chunky!


Resort To Red

Resort to Red is a red-violet shimmer. This is probably the least impression of the bunch. It's not bad, by any means, but I can probably think of 20-30 colors just like this one.


Untamed Luxury

Untamed Luxury is one of the stars of this collection. This is a blue/green sheer/jelly base with teal glitter. This one reminds me a bit of China Glaze Atlantis just with a different type of glitter.


Covered in Diamonds

Covered in Diamonds is the other star in this collection. These are iridescent flecks in a clear base. This one has its share of issues though. This isn't like Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, the flakies in here are not smooth, and formula of this is thick. It's not easy to work, but the flakies are so pretty it's worth the extra work to me.


These colors from the collection are really nice to have. I especially like Covered in Diamonds and Untamed Luxury. If you only get these two I think you'd be satisfied.

Happy Monday!