Shimmery Drugstore Layering Polishes for less than $2

Nowadays there are tons of glitter layering polishes at the drugstore.  I can think of 3 from Wet n Wild's 99 cent polish line alone.  Finding a nice shimmery layering polish is a bit trickier because most of the time they just look like boring sheers in the bottle.  But man, oh man, when you layer them over a dark polish they really will pop.  It takes some experimenting to find a sheer polish that is sheer enough to layer well without being streaky and ugly.  Here are a few from the drugstore that I've found.  To further challenge myself, I only used polishes that were $2 and under!

All of these are layered over 1 coat of Wet n Wild's Black Creme.  Seriously, this is the only black polish you will ever need- it's cheap, and it's opaque in one coat.

Sorry these are a bit messy.  I decided I wasn't in the mood for swatching AFTER I had already started.  And of course I was too stubborn to stop and too lazy to do clean up on my nails.  Also I'm too stubborn to do the swatches over again, haha.

Pure Ice- Busted

Taken in the sun

 This is one coat of Busted.  It has a subtle duochrome look to it but I wasn't able to capture it. :-/

Taken in the shade

Wet n Wild- Teal of Fortune

Taken in the sun

This is one coat.

Taken in the shade

Sinful Colors- Glass Pink

Taken in the sun

This is one coat.  It's almost too opaque to use for layering, but it still looks pretty cool.

Taken in the shade

   Pure Ice- Heart Breaker

Taken inside with the flash

 This is 3 coats, but it still looks pretty awesome with two and even one.  This one is a must own- it's a duochrome ranging in color from bright emerald green to a medium blue.  I have 5 pictures of this just to show you its range.

Taken in the sun

Taken in the shade

 You can see both the blue and the green on the nail here.

Taken in the sun

Taken in the sun

NYC- Love Letters

Taken in the sun

Here is one coat.

This one is my favorite.  It looks like a boring pink sheer in the bottle but it is actually a glass-fleck duochrome changing from pink to teal.  I can't remember where I first heard about the awesome powers of this polish, but whoever discovered it- thank you!

Taken in the shade

Available:

• Pure Ice retails for $2.00 and is sold at Walmart
• NYC is $0.99 and is sold at drugstores
• Sinful Colors retail for $1.99 and is sold at drustores (I've seen it at Walgreens and Target)
• Wet n Wild FastDrys retail for $1.99 and are sold at drugstores

Thank you for reading and have a great day/night/whatever!

Week 4: Shopping my Stash for Untried Polish- OPI OPI Red and Some Glitter

This is the fourth week of my challenge. Woohoo!  Here are the other 3 weeks in case you missed them.

I have a lot of nail polish.  Too many really.  I have over 400 (I stopped counting when I reached that) and probably haven't worn a fourth of them.  I've seen people on other blogs challenge themselves to swatch their untried polishes and I really liked that idea.  But, I wanted to take it a step further and challenge myself to WEAR the polish for several days, not just swatch it.  I bought them because I wanted to wear them, and dammit, that is what I'm going to do!  So once a week I will be showing you an untried polish from my stash.  And I challenge everyone to go through their stashes, whether makeup, nail polish, or both, and actually WEAR some of the things they've bought but have never used.  You may just discover something awesome you didn't know you had!

I was looking in my red/pink nail polish drawer and realized I have way more red and pink OPIs than I remember buying.  I seriously do not remember buying them at all.  Red and pink are probably my least used colors so I don't know what even possessed me to buy them.  Thinking really hard I remember going into a random grocery store I never go to and finiding a basket of discounted OPI polishes.  I guess that must be where they came from.  Since I didn't even know I didn't even I have them, all are unworn.

This is OPI OPI Red.  Yes, I meant to put OPI twice.  The brand is OPI and the color is OPI Red.  Nice and confusing.  It is a bright neutral red with subtle red shimmer.  It took a little searching to find out where this is from, but apparently it's from OPI's Classic Collection.  I don't where red much, but there is nothing like red nails.  They just look classy to me.  Apparently most men are supposed to find red sexy.  It's also apparent that my boyfriend isn't most men.  I showed him my shiny red nails and asked if they were sexy.  He looked at me incredulously and said, "How can NAILS be sexy?  Plus, that's an old lady color."  Haha, I don't care what he thinks.  I still like 'em.
 
 This was 3 coats with base and top coat.

OPI OPI Red in the sun

OPI OPI Red in the shade

And just because I can I pulled out another polish I haven't used and slapped it over the red.  This is one coat of NYC's Starry Silver Glitter.  It has 3 sizes of glitter- tiny silver micro glitter, regular sized silver holo glitter, and large blue and pink hex glitter.  I always like glitter, but I actually think I prefer the red alone.

In the sun

In the shade

Almost looks patriotic doesn't it?

Available:

• OPI is available at places like Ulta, JCPenny, and salons
• You can also purchase OPI Red at TransDesign for $5.75 and Amazon for $5.15

Thank you for reading and have a great day/night/whatever!