OPI Suzi Takes the Wheel

Good afternoon! I have another gray polish today; imagine my surprise reaching for this after nearly three weeks of gray skies and rain! I do love gray with yellow though, and this is a great pair with a yellow sweater and yellow tights! 🙂

Suzi Takes the Wheel is from the OPI Touring America collection released in fall 2011. If you live near Meijer, it is THE best place to find OPI in the clearance bin. I found this polish for $2.12! I also bought a few other shades along with this one.

This polish is an interesting color; it’s a greenish gray, sort of with a blue hue too. It’s definitely not your standard gray. The application was good, but a little thin and slightly watery compared to other OPI polishes I have. It did dry quickly though, which is always a plus!

What do you think of this shade?

Orly Seagurl

Hello! What a week! I hope everyone out there is staying safe with Sandy. I’m nowhere near the bad stuff, but Michigan is definitely feeling the storm. We had ice pellets this morning, tons of wind, and my power was even out for awhile yesterday. Anyway, I have some Orly to show you today! This is from the 2011 Birds of a Feather collection. I have a mini bottle of this polish. I love minis because they take up less space!

Don’t mind my super short nails; I really ripped off that middle one (by accident). In the last month it seems like I just keep breaking one and then I have to file the rest. Seagurl is a very pretty color; it’s gray, but it has silver and gold shimmer throughout, which is more prominent in person.

This polish went on smoothly, but it seemed to chip rather quickly. I’m thinking maybe the top coat was to blame. Still, this is a great color, especially for fall. What do you think?

Mariah Carey Teams Up with OPI

More and more, word of the 2013 polish collections are coming out. I’m especially excited for this new collection from OPI and Mariah Carey! I love Mariah and even had a Barbie doll named after her back in the day. 🙂

From OPI (as seen on multiple nail blogs!):

To pay homage to her iconic status, we wanted to launch her collection with something completely new and exciting. OPILiquid Sand nail lacquer offers a never-before-seen look with a pebbled finish that lightly shimmers with fine glitter particles. Worn without top coat, Liquid Sand lacquer gives nails a unique textured matte finish worthy of a superstar.

What do you think? I think it sounds promising!

L’Oreal Sparklicious

L’Oreal is a very new polish that is part of a special holiday display at the drugstore. I saw this at a few different places, and it seemed like every time I saw the display there was only one left, or they were totally gone, so if you like it, get it when you see it!

This is another cool toned gold shade and the sparkle is simply amazing on this! I could not stop staring at my nails when I had this on! The glitter in this comes in a range of sizes, from fine glitter to medium glitter.

The finish was very smooth after using a top coat. If that’s something you look for in a glitter, you will like this one!

I did layer this over China Glaze I’m Not Lion, but I can still say this glitter is densely packed. What do you think? Are sparkles for you?

 

Gloomiest Week Ever Polish Haul

I know I have been complaining about CLOUDS constantly, but it has seriously been cloudy for almost two weeks straight! Luckily we have had some hints of sun here and there the past two days, so it seems to be breaking. My job is really stressful right now as it always is with a semester turnover, so when I got a break to get out and do some fun stuff, I picked up some new polish from the holiday collections coming out!

Since I had a 20% off everything coupon for Ulta (dangerous), I picked up two of the holiday polishes from Butter London: Scallywag, and Scuppered. Scallywag is a bright turquoise glitter, and this is a polish that I really wanted just for the name for sentimental reasons. Scuppered is SO AMAZING- It’s described as an “opaque, copper shimmer with pink, gold, and green glitter.” Amazing, right?

I also picked up two Essie polishes from the “Leading Lady” winter collection: Beyond Cozy and Where’s My Chauffeur? I debated WMC, since it seems so similar to Turquoise and Caicos, but after comparing them this one has a lot more blue in it and seems to be a little darker. Beyond Cozy…well I totally debated this one since I have similar glitters, BUT after getting it home and comparing it, I’m glad that I got it! It’s another cool toned gold, but seems to have just a hint of warmth- it’s just a good champagne color. Plus, there was only one left!

I’m not sure if you can tell here, but the L’Oreal polish I bought, Sparklicious, is similar. The biggest differences are that Sparklicious has larger pieces of glitter, and it isn’t as warm of a shade as Beyond Cozy, at least in my eye. I actually think these will look really pretty layered together. Sparklicious is currently available at Walgreens and Rite Aid on a L’Oreal polish display.

I did get one more polish this week and forgot to snap a photo of it; that being OPI’s Elephantastic Pink! I have wanted this polish for awhile and can’t wait to use it. It is SO pretty!

China Glaze I’m Not Lion

Good afternoon! I am so glad it’s Wednesday. This is the best day for me to take off from my job due to the way it is structured, so I have a bit of breathing room today. I painted my falsies a couple days ago and went with China Glaze I’m Not Lion from the On Safari collection. This is an amazing glitter; cool toned with holographic particles throughout. It’s hard to see the holo effect in the above shot, since that was outside with no sun (grrr to  these clouds…going on a week and a half now).

You can really see the holo effect here; it is even more prominent in person when the light hits. This glitter is opaque in just two coats! Also, it looks AMAZING layered with other glitters, but more on that in another post. 😉

Another shot of the holo, with flash. This polish is WAY prettier in person, trust me on that! The finish is very gritty, even after two thin coats of top coat. This doesn’t bother me, but if you want a perfectly smooth finish, you may have to work with it.

Kiss Everlasting French Petites Nails

Since my nails are so short right now, I decided to give some falsies a whirl! My sister wore fake nails for her wedding, and they looked really nice. I have to say these things have really come a long way since I was younger! I tried fake nails in high school and they were awful. My biggest problem was always that they were way too big for my petite nail beds. Now, fake nails come in all kinds of different sizes, including petite!

Kiss Everlasting French Petite Nails are glue-on fake nails that come with a cuticle stick, nail file, nail glue, and 28 different nails in 14 sizes. The nails are numbered with little tabs that twist off after application, making nail application easier than ever!

The box claims that these will wear up to seven days without chipping or wearing away. So far, I am impressed with the wear time. I’ve had them on for two days, and only one of them completely fell off, which was likely my own doing! I do wish they were shorter, so next time I’m going to get the “real short” box. They do not feel uncomfortable, and the nail glue is not irritating my skin or nail beds. To remove, the box states to soak them in acetone based remover.

As far as how they look, I really like them. When my sister had them on, I totally thought she had her nails done and that they were her real ones. The only bad thing about them is that when I take them off, I’ll be sooo disappointed in my stubs. 😀 I guess it is going to take more than ten months to strengthen over twenty years of nail biting, huh? 😉

Zoya Fei Fei Comparisons

Hello! I have not been blogging nearly enough this week for a couple of reasons. The big reason is that it was literally cloudy and raining for nearly seven days straight. We had one day of sunshine! I usually take my photos in natural light, so that was a big issue. Also, my nails are utterly pathetic right now. I broke many of them and had to file them down very short!

Anyway, I decided to show a couple comparisons to a highly anticipated Zoya polish this fall: FeiFei. I was so excited about this color, and ended up being a little disappointed by it when I got it. The impact just wasn’t what I expected, BUT I also think this is because my nails have been pretty short lately. This likely looks a lot better on longer nails.

I compared FeiFei to two other shades: Zoya Crystal, and Sinful Colors Winter Wonder. Crystal is not as similar as I thought it would be. It’s much lighter and only has two shades in it: blue with gold flecks. This is a great color and I do love it. I like wearing this when my hubby’s soccer team plays!

Winter Wonder is definitely more similar to FeiFei. I would not get FeiFei and Winter Wonder (grr…I hate when that happens). The formula of Winter Wonder is just as good as Zoya’s polish. The biggest different between FeiFei and Winter Wonder seems to be the lightness- FeiFei is a little lighter than Winter Wonder, and also leans more pink.

Crystal, Winter Wonder, FeiFei

FeiFei is a unique color. It’s blue, gold, and pink. Personally, I wish the pink had been more intense here. Maybe I just need to give my bottle a good shake? Who knows. I’m definitely not done playing with it and will see what happens when my dear nails grow back. 🙂

OPI Goldeneye

I am SO EXCITED about this polish!!! When I saw the promo images for OPI’s Skyfall (Bond themed to go with the movie, of course) collection, I loved it. Now that they are out, I am even more excited about it! Today I have Goldeneye to show you; this bottle shot looks way orange, but I promise you it is a lot more gold in person, and flakies at that!

This polish is SUPER sparkly and will be great for the holiday season; for some reason I just can’t get enough gold sparkly everything lately. This polish would be great for layering, but it is so densely packed that it can be worn alone too. I used three coats for opacity.

The formula of this polish is very smooth, and surprisingly it is not that difficult to remove. This is definitely a polish that needs to be seen in real life! If you like accent nails, this is a great polish for that as well.

Have you purchased any of the Skyfall collection polishes?

OPI Warm and Fozzie

Were you a fan of last year’s Muppet movie? I loved it so much that I saw it twice at the theater! Warm and Fozzie is from the OPI Muppets Holiday collection, and is a very complex color. It appears to be bronze, but contains some pink and gold too, making it a delight to wear in this fall season!

It looks quite dark here and is a bit lighter in real life. This is three thin coats and a top coat; application is very smooth.

My nails aren’t looking too swift these days; I broke the index and middle finger twice in one month! Anyway, this is a great polish and quite unique, at least to me. I always think of my mom for some reason when I wear it. It just seems like a color she would like!

Do you have this polish, or any of the other Muppet polishes? There are still several available online, including Warm and Fozzie!