Rainbow Honey FAB Summer Set Swatches

Some more Rainbow Honey swatches for you! I got sent these polishes for review (mini sizes) and immediately after swatching them I went and bought the full sizes. I love them that much!

image courtesy of Rainbow Honey

These polishes are a little unusual as they are not available on Rainbow Honey's website. They are exclusively available on FAB (affiliate link for those who do not have an account with FAB) and only as a set and for a limited time. For a discounted price of $25 (normal price $30) you get three full size bottles including:

tenda is a bright kelly green lacquer with golden shimmer

costa del sol is a shimmery lacquer full of iridescent and holographic glitters ready to add some sun and sparkle to your manicure

schrammi is a deep coral lacquer with golden shimmer

You can purchase the set on FAB here.

For the swatches I used two coats for each of the base colors (Schrammi and Tenda) and one coat of Costa del Sol on my ring finger.  The polishes applied great. The two creams with gold flecks were a teensy bit thick but not streaky and overall had a good formula. The glitter only needed one coat to get a nice amount of glitter on the nail and wasn't as thick as glitters in clear bases sometimes are.

Rainbow Honey Schrammi with an accent of Costa del Sol

Rainbow Honey Schrammi with an accent of Costa del Sol

Rainbow Honey Tenda with an accent of Costa del Sol

 

 

Rainbow Honey Tenda with an accent of Costa del Sol

So what do you think? Any polish with gold shimmer instantly makes me swoon.

Disclosure: I was provided these polishes for consideration by Rainbow Honey. My opinions are my own and as always, my first priority is you lovely people who read my blog.

Nubar Reclaim Swatches (Green Holo!)

Nubar Reclaim may look a little familiar to you if you read my last post. It was the polish I was wearing in the picture holding the palette. Now this is a polish I've wanted for years. 3 years, 5 months, and 4 days to be exact. Which is the date I read about the Going Green collection from Nubar at Scrangie's blog. And was this polish ever worth the wait! It's green and it's holo; what more is there to say? My only regret is that I waited this long!

This was 2 coats with base and top coat.

Nubar Reclaim

This polish doesn't have the most intense holo effect, but it is visible. Typically holos ship easily on me, but this wore really well. I'm in love with formula on the 3 Nubar polishes that I've worn.

Nubar Reclaim

Nubar Reclaim

Nubar Reclaim

I love this polish and i think it's one every polish fanatic needs in their collection. Even in the 3 and a half years this polish has been out, it still seems pretty unique. I'm not sure I've seen another holographic green polish exactly like this. I bought this polish on Amazon for $5.49 with free shipping. Not bad considering Nubar polishes retail for $8 on their website and you still have to pay shipping.

NOTD- Lime Lights of Olympia

So here she (he? it?) is. The promised first "real" post! Nail polish is my first and main love so it's fitting that this is my first post back.  I bought Sally Hansen Lime Lights, a sheer shimmery green, in a two pack from Dollar Tree so it basically cost me 50 cents. It look horrendous by itself, but looks awesome layered. Don't worry, I haz proofs.

And here are my disclaimers (Maribeth I know you love these, haha)- please excuse my gross cuticles as I basically didn't give a crap about my nails for several months, the sloppy application job as I don't have my clean up brush, the bad quality pictures as I'm using an unfamiliar camera, and anything else your eyes may deem offensive. Okay, now that we are sufficiently disclaimed, we may proceed.

This is one coat of Sally Hansen Lime Lights over 2 coats of Sinful Olympia.

Sinful Olympia and Sally Hansen Lime Lights

Whew, that wasn't so hard. Hope to see you guys again soon!

Fish Scales and "Woe is me" Tales

I'm STILL upset about the stupid neighbor thing from yesterday. Especially since we had to spend $90 and 4 hours building a mini fence in front of the actual fence between our yards. I acknowledge that my dog is bad to chew on the wooden fence boards when her dogs are barking at him, but I try and prevent it and don't let him out when her dogs are out. But she doesn't do anything when her dogs are running and bouncing off the fence on the other side. I have to be the responsible one and throw money away to keep my dogs from misbehaving while hers are free to do whatever they want. UGH! You know what? I don't think she let her dogs out ONE TIME today. Talk about an extreme reaction. They still need to go to the bathroom. Does she seriously think I don't ever want them to go out? I wanted to thank everyone who commented yesterday on my rant-y post. You all made me feel so much better. I just want so bad to believe that everyone has at least some shred of rationality to them, and it bothers me that some people will never have that, no matter who talks to them or what they say. So sorry I've been a bit of a Debbie Downer lately. I'll return you to your regularly scheduled pretties shortly.
As a way of easing back into it, here is the fish scales part of the title.  According to my boyfriend this mani looked like fish scales.

This is 2 coats of China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise under 1 coat of Hard Candy Break Up.

In the sun

My camera is dumb. It makes non-neons looke neon and actual neon look pastel. Turned Up Turquoise is a saturated neon green-based teal shimmer. Break is large opalescent hex glitter in a clear base. They glitter is hard to get even, but I like the way it looks so I keep using it.

In the shade

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

Holographic Green Franken Polish- "Bog Moss"

So the oh-so-amazing and beautiful Robyn of Stay Beautiful inspired me to create some frankens. I'm not the best at it, but I do it anyway because it's fun. I recently bought some holographic car paint pigment stuff called SpectraFlair that people use to make awesome nail polishes. This stuff is crazy expensive, like $18 a gram, but it is so worth it. you hardly need any to make a super holo polish. If you want to buy any (she also sells some really cool color morphing powders I should be getting soon. Just check around on her blog!) I suggest you do so from here- http://morenailpolish.blogspot.com/p/get-powders.html.

I can remember my exact recipe for making this franken. Of course I used the holo powder. I also used the glitter suspension base from TKB Trading (here) and mixed in some random polish colors. I originally started out making an orange but it looked nasty, so I somehow turned it into a green. I think the orange gave it a murky base color. I named it Bog Moss because that is what the color reminded me of. If bog moss was covered in holographic glitter, of course.

This was 2 coats with base and top coat.

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

Chanel Peridot Swatches

This post is going to be short on words and looooong on pictures. I recently bought my first Chanel polish- Peridot. $25 is an obscene amount of money to spend on nail polish, but I don't regret it. It's a gorgeous color and completely unlike anything I have.   I know everyone has seen a million pictures of this by now, but oh well. After this you'll only have seen a million and ten.

First of all, here is my super cool gif!

Here it is with a matte top coat. The awesome duo/multi chrome action is still evident.

So what do you guys think? Was it worth it?.

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

NARS Zulu and Midnight Express Are Just Meh

Hrrm, feelin' kinda introspective today. Probably because I'm sick. And just a little down in general. I'm a weak person. Well, I find people in general tend to be weak, haha. But, the areas I'm weak in, I try to avoid.  Like I know I'm weak when it comes to drama. I try to avoid it because it is so freakin' easy for me to get sucked in to it. It starts out just chatting with friends and devolves into this terrible beast of a thing. At the time you don't realize that what you're doing maybe isn't the best and people could get hurt or whatever. But then afterward I'm just kinda sick at all the drama I participated in. So, I try to avoid it altogether.

And you know what? People always associate drama with women, but men are just as bad. I didn't realize this until fairly recently. My boyfriend is a firefighter and he is in an environment that is 100% men all the time (they have no female firefighters. I think it's partially a cultural thing here and mostly because the physical test you have to pass it freakin' hard. Only like 10% of the guys pass it.) Anyway, he tells me that men are just the same as women. They gossip about each other, get mad at talking behind each other's backs, and are just as petty.

Anyway, I have a couple NARS nail polish swatches for you. Unfortunately I dropped and broke both the bottles (ugh) while rearranging my polishes so I had to salvage what I could and put it into random bottles. For me personally, I think Zulu and Midnight Express are overrated. I don't care for polishes that look black in most lighting so I'm not even sure why I bought them. But if the formulas were perfect I might could overlook that. They are both fairly streaky and take 3 coats on my to even out. As GSP would say, "I was not impressed by your performance." (if you get the reference I love you forever). I actually like Midnight Express a little. I might be tempted to wear this one occasionally.

These swatches are pretty turrible, but that's okay. It goes with my turrible mood!

NARS Zulu in the sun

NARS Zulu in the shade

NARS Midnight Express in the sun

NARS Midnight Express in the shade

Available:

• There retail for $17. Sephora doesn't have these shades listed on their website, but there are still a few places online you can find them.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a better day than I am having! Haha.

Cult Nails A Day At The Races Collection Swatches

I'm gonna post this in the morning, but right now it's night and I'm writing this post, drinking strawberry daquiris, and cooking dinner (steak, shrimp and vegetable skewers, and twice baked potatoes- yum!). I drink like twice a year and am notoriously bad at holding my alcohol so I'm going to go ahead and make this a quick post! Hopefully I finish dinner before I'm too far gone... (Apparently I did get too far gone because I forgot to set this post to actually you know, post when I wanted it to)

Today I'll show you guys Cult Nails' A Day At The Races collection.  A few of these polishes are sold out and won't be coming back, but at least it gives you a good idea of the awesomeness that Cult Nails creates. I'll let you know which you can still buy (although really, you should be buying them all!). Check out my review of Cult Nails' polishes and swatches of their Inaugural Collection here.

Cult Nails Captivated in the sun

 This was 2 coats on my left three fingers and one coat over Cult Nails' Quench on my index finger.

Captivated is my favorite of these, but unfortunately it's sold out!

Cult Nails Captivated in the shade

Cult Nails Always Winning in the sun

This one was 3 coats and is still a bit sheer. It's pretty and unique but isn't my favorite just because I wish it looked on the nail how it does in the bottle!  It does look better in real life than my picture shows, however.

Always Winning is currently available.

Cult Nails Always Winning in the shade

Cult Nails Cruisin' Nude in the sun

This was 2 coats. I love this polish! I just wish the pink shimmer was as apparent in the picture as it is in real life.

This is not currently available but it available for pre-order.

Cult Nails Devious Nature in the sun

This was 2 coats.  This one isn't quite as bubblegum pink as it looks here and has a more purple tone.  The shade picture is more color accurate.

This shade is currently available.

Cult Nails Devious Nature in the shade

Cult Nails Let Me Fly in the sun

This was 2 coats.  Let Me Fly is sold out online :(

Cult Nails Let Me Fly in the shade

Available:

• Cult Nails polishes are sold through their website and retail for $10 each.

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

Week 13: Shopping my Stash for Untried Polish- Sally Hansen HD in Resolution

I bought 4 or 5 of these Sally Hansen HD nail polishes when they first came out.  I quickly realized how sheer they are after and put the rest of them in my Helmer to be used on a day when I had the patience to layer them or apply a million coats.  And seeing how patience is not one of my virtues these never made it back OUT of my Helmer.

As I was looking for more untrieds the other say I came across this one, Sally Hansen HD polish in Resolution.  The color looked gorgeous in the bottle so I knew I had to try it out.  (Click here to see what I wore in previous weeks of this series).

This was 3 coats with top and bottom coats.

Sally Hansen HD polish in Resolution sun

Please excuse my ugly nails and crappy application.  My swatching hand is still on injury leave, and I’m not great at painting this hand or taking pictures of it.

Sally Hansen HD polish in Resolution shade

This is one of those colors I like better in the bottle than on the nail.  It’s a bit sheer and bubbled a bit on my nails.  This is weird, because I haven’t had a polish bubble on me in over a year.  Also, there is a dusty pink shimmer you can see in the bottle but doesn’t translate as well to the nail.  You can still see it, but only in certain lighting and at certain angles.  I still like the color though and I will probably wear it again at some point.

This was taken under a lamp.  You can see the dusty pink-ish shimmer a bit in this picture- especially in the bottle.




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Three Milani Holo Nail Polishes

I think Milani has the only holographic polishes that are available at the drugstore.  Sure there are a few others with holo glitter, but that doesn't count.  While these may not have the strongest holo effect, they are still holo, and of course that means that I had to have them.  I have three right now, but plan on picking up the rest when I get the chance.
Sorry for not much chatter today, I have an exam on Friday that I need to study for!

These are all swatched with no base or tops coats.  This was 2 coats of each color.

Milani Cyberspace in the sun

Milani Cyberspace in the shade

Milani 3D in the sun

This one probably had the least holo effect.  It still was more than this picture shows.

Milani 3D in the shade

Milani Hi-Tech in the sun

Milani Hi-Tech in the shade

Available:

• These retail for $4.99 and are available in drugstores where Milani is sold or on Milani's website.

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