L’Oreal Snow Ball

Snow Ball is a polish from L’Oreal’s Holiday 2014 line. I’m still seeing this in stores, so you might be able to find it. I highly recommend it, as it is an amazing glitter! I layered it over Sinful Colors Real Teal above, and that is just ONE coat, so you really get a lot onto the brush and it lays flat.

This is a multi-colored holographic glitter polish. If you like serious glitter and sparkle, get out and find this one! I like that the glitter pieces are on the larger size and that they are easy to get out of the bottle. I can’t stand it when I have to fish for glitter. 🙂

Overall, I’m very happy that I picked this one up and see myself wearing it A LOT!

L’Oreal Gold Dust -Hidden Gems

The L’Oreal Gold Dust collection is a limited edition collection of textured polishes. Since I am a big fan of textured polish, I wanted to get at least one shade. The gold was really calling my name, but I have enough gold and instead picked up the most unique in my opinion: Hidden Gems.

Hidden Gems is a blackened teal polish with slight pink duochrome and some silver glitter. I really love this color because it is so interesting. With the right lighting, the pink is very subtle. This polish is opaque in two coats, though I did notice it took awhile to dry. This seems to be the case with many textured polishes, particularly Zoya’s Fairy Dust formula.

I purchased my bottle of Hidden Gems from Rite Aid and it is still available for $6.

L’Oreal Hidden Gems

Last weekend I finally spotted the limited edition L’Oreal textured polishes. They are gorgeous, but I only picked up one: Hidden Gems. Interestingly, this appears to have some duochrome qualities! This is a deep teal with some pink shade shifting, and silver glitter pieces.

I’m so into the textured trend and love this polish! Hidden Gems is so unique and really needs to be seen in person! I used two coats here and it went on smoothly. My only annoyance is that when it comes to drugstore brands, they always produce their best stuff as limited edition products. I don’t get it! Anyway, if you want to try out textured polishes but haven’t sprung for the more expensive variety like OPI or Zoya, this is a good place to start. I paid $6 at Rite Aid for Hidden Gems. 🙂

L’Oreal Jolly Lolly

This is an older manicure with that pesky broken middle finger, but I couldn’t help but show the gorgeousness of L’Oreal Jolly Lolly! This is a limited edition shade from the Miss Candy collection. I’m still seeing this in stores, so you may be able to pick it up. The polish range is a collection of jellies! Jolly Lolly is cherry red.

This polish is so amazing! It’s decently opaque for a jelly; it looks so glossy and juicy on the nail! It’s pretty with two coats, but I used three for maximum squishiness. I still need to use this for a jelly sandwich manicure!

Did you get any shades from this collection?

L’Oreal Royally Yours

Royally Yours is another polish from L’Oreal’s spring Versailles Romance collection. This collection might still be in stores, but since it’s limited edition, you may want to look for it now! Royally Yours has an amazing formula.

L’Oreal seems to have stepped up their game with their nail polish. I can recall the thin and watery formula of Now You Sea Me (which the bottle seems to have since changed to “See”), and Royally Yours isn’t like that at all! Instead, it is opaque in two coats and not streaky.

This is a classic baby blue shade, yet I don’t have anything like it! It is a bit of a chalky blue too, very white-based, which I adore. This is a great shade and I think it will look amazing with a summer tan!

L’Oreal Crème Puffs

Crème Puffs is a buttery yellow polish from the spring Versailles Romance collection by L’Oreal. This display is still in drugstores and convenience stores like Target, so if you like it, you can still find it! The polish formula is really spectacular here. I can’t believe how well it applied! This is three coats; you might be able to get away with two, but you’ll still have some visible nail line.

There is one thing I wish about this polish that was more prominent. In the bottle, you can clearly see a pink shimmer in the polish, through very light. This just doesn’t translate at all on the nail, unfortunately! Still, this is a great yellow shade and worth picking up for the great formula if you like light yellow colors that border on being nude.

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!

L’Oreal The Mystic’s Future

The L’Oreal Project Runway Limited Edition Collections are out right now and contain eight polishes broken down into four categories: The Muse, The Mystic, The Queen, and The Temptress. This pink polish is The Mystic’s Future, a shimmery metallic fuschia.

This uniqueness of this polish is hard to capture in photos, but when it catches the light at different angles, it’s positively beautiful and bright. The formula was fine for a drugstore polish; it went on smoothly overall, but was the slightest bit runny.

Happily, it is opaque in two coats. All of the polishes in the Project Runway collection are quite pretty, but I didn’t feel like they were super unique. This one and The Temptress’ Touch were the ones that caught my eye, even though ALL of the polishes are pretty!

L’Oreal Tea and Crumpets

L’Oreal Tea and Crumpets is from the limited edition “London Fall” collection by L’Oreal. All of the color themes are London based of course, and have very cute names just like this one. Admittedly, I was a little reluctant to purchase another L’Oreal polish since I wasn’t thrilled with the formula on Now You Sea Me, but I just couldn’t resist the beautiful nude that is Tea and Crumpets!

Now this is my kind of nude. It is a cooler nude shade and has a touch of purple to it. The application is way better than my experience with Now You Sea Me. NYSM was runny and a bit difficult to apply because of it, while Tea and Crumpets went on with better consistency.

I really like this nude for fall. It would look great against any fall themed color palette, and would especially pop against darker outfits. This is the only polish I bought from the London Fall collection, but I am also leaning toward getting the yellow polish (I think it’s called The Perfect Trench) too; I need to pop Butter London Bumster in my purse to see how they compare first.

Here’s a not so great shot indoors; you can see how this polish is a little bit of a shape shifter here! 🙂 This is three coats plus a top coat.