Orly Space Cadet

Again, I am so sorry for the quality of these pictures. I didn't get paid this past week and so I have no money to buy a new camera so I'm stuck with my Iphone. However, I can still rave as much as I want about this polish!
Orly Space Cadet is a beautiful duo-chrome shade. It looks sort of green/teal/purple in the bottle, but on the nails, it flashed sort of a sparkly, fuchsia color in direct light, while indirect light brought out an olive green and a light brown color. I was so fascinated by this polish, I couldn't stop staring at my nails! It applies beautifully, although it needed about 3 coats, but I had weird peeling issues on my left hand after 4 days.

OPI Simmer and Shimmer

Okay so here's what I just took off my tips today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPI Simmer and Shimmer

I got this beautiful polish from my boyfriend's mom for Christmas (along with Orly Space Cadet and Solid Gold Matte), and I wore it for my NYE mani with Zoya's Evangeline on my toes to match the pink glitter. It was really hard to photograph since I'm using my iphone due to just recently breaking my camera. However, I'm still gonna plunge on ahead and hope these pics will be at least slightly useful. The blurring shows just how sparkly this polish is. It's a beautiful glitter polish with tons of teal and silver glitter with little flecks of pink and gold. 

Funny thing about this polish. I thought I would need at least 5 coats since it's tons of glitter in a clear polish, so I tried it over China Glaze Jitterbug (sparkly pewter) and also over Rescue Beauty Lounge 360 (gray-blue). On my pointer finger I applied basecoat, 360 and 2 coats of Simmer & Shimmer, on my middle finger I put basecoat, Jitterbug and 2 coats of Simmer & Shimmer, and on my ring finger I put basecoat and 3 coats of Simmer & Shimmer. I COULD NOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE! This is a really thickly packed glitter polish!

REVIEW: OPI Simmer & Shimmer from Burlesque collection

* Wear (With CND Stickey basecoat and Poshe topcoat) - 

First chip on 2nd day and 1 nail completely chipped off by the 4th.

* Texture - A little runny but workable and much more pigmented than I first expected!

*Price - $8

* Where to buy - ULTA stores

*More info - All Lacquered Up

First post!

Hello! So I discovered makeup and nail polish this summer when I had some extra cash to blow and some extra time to read blogs. Before this I was only aware of the Walmart makeup aisle with its Covergirl and Maybelline displays. I liked NYC polishes because they were $1.25 and I alternated the navy and purple colored ones on my toes, with the occasional pink for summer. I had been wearing makeup since 15 (I'm now 21) but it consisted of tinted moisturizer, concealer, mascara and lipgloss. I had a few Almay eyeshadows that I wore for special occasions but that was the extent of my collection.

Enter the MAC To the Beach collection. I was enthralled. I had never seen such beautiful colors, products, or such high prices. I caved in and bought the Lustre drops in Sun Rebel and the Bronzing Body Oil. Then my love affair continued with my purchase of Urban Decay’s 24/7 liners in Flipside and Rockstar and hauling a huge pile of China Glaze polishes. Now I’m known as the crazy nail polish lady in my building at school. But it wasn’t until today when I realized I was measuring the cost of getting the oil changed in my car by eyeshadows and nail polishes that I thought maybe I should blog about it. This may also have something to do with the fact that my parents, siblings and boyfriend (who are subjected to my makeup ramblings the most) are getting rather sick of my carrying on about my new nail polish.

So this blog is going to be something for myself. I hope to get some readers and make this fairly interesting. I know I won’t be too big since I’m buying stuff on a college budget, but if I create lemmings for you by sharing some of my personal lemmings that I’ve acquired as well as review some products, provide swatches and some day to day ramblings then I will be perfectly happy!