With the new Rescue Beauty collection for spring becoming available, I started thinking about my Rescue Beauty polishes and deciding what to order. No More War is possibly my favorite of all–it’s a soupy, pea green with tons of yellow. It’s so pretty and so weird, I hadn’t worn it in a while.
As another installment of the Essie Spring Collection, I have some swatches of Topless and Barefoot. I had held strong but came across this unexpectedly in a CVS, and decided to pick it up. I love those little labels on the top of the cap of the retail Essies! This one is not part of the normal retail display (which only holds four of the spring colors), you have to find it in its retail packaging on a sort of small, countertop display that fits onto those shelves that drugstores have towards the front of their makeup sections. So I rationalized by telling myself that I would likely not find it again-I had to buy it!
I had a glitter craving and just broke out my bottle of OPI’s Last Friday Night. It’s a light blue glitter from the Katy Perry Collection, with a mix of blue and holographic round glitter pieces. But first, I pulled out my Chanel Khaki Vert.
Continue reading OPI Last Friday Night and Black Shatter (with Chanel Khaki Vert)
Dior’s Rock Your Nails Collection is up on Nordstrom’s website now-there has been a lot of anticipation for this one, particularly for the Rock Coat smoky top coat. Rock Coat is sheer enough to let your base color show through, and it’s the only sheer topcoat I know of that can darken your nail color. There’s so many sparkly or glittery topcoats that I was really looking forward to this one, since it offers a different kind of effect-swatches coming up!
Continue reading Dior Rock Your Nails – Purple Mix, Nirvana and Rock Coat
This is the polish that the girl in the Orly Precious Collection promo picture wears–she’s relaxing in some shady outdoor area and her nails glow with a gentle white color. I decided that I wanted to try it too! Pure Porcelain is a creamy, pinkish beige but it has a lot of white in it; it’s brighter than any of the other neutral polishes I have.
Continue reading Orly Spring 2011 Precious Collection – Pure Porcelain Swatch
Here’s a release that’s almost an oldie at this point–OPI’s Simply Smash-ing! and Black Shatter “Glam Slam” duo. This is the one that started the shatter onslaught when it came out back in January. Just to re-cap, it is the first of the Serena Williams duos that OPI will be releasing throughout the year, to coincide with the dates of the tennis Grand Slam championships. This one was for the Australian Open.
Butter London has just released a nail polish celebrating Kate Middleton’s marriage to Prince William. Prince William and Kate Middleton met while they were both attending university at St. Andrews, and have been dating for so long that the British tabloids have been calling her Waity Katie for a while–but now Prince William has proposed, using Diana’s big sapphire ring. The wedding is scheduled for April 29th, and there’s a lot of speculation about who will design Kate’s dress, but for now you can get your Royal Wedding fix with Butter London’s No More Waity, Katie.
Continue reading Butter London No More Waity, Katie – Swatch
Here’s another polish from Orly’s Spring 2011 Precious Collection-this one is Fancy Fuchsia. I always have trouble spelling this word. I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and apparently it’s a German word pronounced differently in German, but the English pronunciation means that it’s often misspelled by English speakers. The ‘s’ is after the ‘ch’. It’s a really bright pink!
Continue reading Orly Precious Collection Spring 2011- Fancy Fuchsia Swatch
Sea Spray is from China Glaze’s Spring 2011 Anchors Away Collection (I’ve also reviewed China Glaze Below Deck from the same collection). Sea Spray is a really nice, dusty light blue, with a lot of grey in it. It’s soft and creamy. Keep reading for swatches!
Continue reading China Glaze Sea Spray from the Anchors Away Collection
I’m still trying to work through the China Glaze Crackle Collection and try out all of the combinations that I’m curious about. I’ve been impressed with Broken Hearted and Cracked Concrete, but then I had a fail on last Sunday when I tried to use Lightning Bolt (the white one) over a dark blue color. I didn’t even take pictures because it was so nasty looking-the white didn’t actually crack apart except in a few spots, and it just mostly looked grey because of the dark blue underneath. I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with my bottle, or if it just needed to be shaken up, or what. So, I decided to just move along and try Crushed Candy over Zoya’s Kelly.
Continue reading China Glaze Crackle Collection – Crushed Candy over Zoya Kelly
Look at those crazy flower thingeys on the bottles! They’re actually rings, so you can slip them around your finger and wear them. On me, they seemed a little too big, but my fingers are kind of small. But anyway, this collection is so cute! So fun, and so cheap, all at once! I love Fingerpaints.
This is the other “sorbet” finish polish that I picked up from OPI’s Texas Collection (I also reviewed OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston). Do You Think I’m Tex-y? is a red raspberry color with a bit of blue in it. It’s shiny and fruity!
Continue reading OPI Texas Collection – Do You Think I’m Tex-y? Swatch
Deborah Lippmann has two new polishes for Spring 2011–Naked and Glitter in the Air. Naked has already shown up on magazine covers and on Anne Hathaway at the 2011 Oscars, and Glitter in the Air was inspired by Pink’s performance at last year’s Grammys, so they are both well-pedigreed. Keep reading for swatches!
Here’s a combination of three different Spring 2011 collections: Zoya’s Caitlin, Essie’s Kisses and Bises and China Glaze’s Broken Hearted. Caitlin is my favorite from Zoya’s Intimate Collection , and it’s a subtle color that is still office appropriate (see my reviews here: Zoya Intimate Part 1, Zoya Intimate Part 2). So I started there.
Continue reading Spring 2011 Mashup: Caitlin, Kisses and Bises, Broken Hearted
Orly’s Spring 2011 Precious collection has a nice mix of colors and finishes-there’s dark, dusky teal, jade green and bright pink cremes, frosty gold shimmer, neutral ivory-there’s bound to be a color in there to appeal to almost anyone. I chose two from the collection, and the first I have to show is Gilded Coral.
Continue reading Orly Spring 2011 Precious Collection – Gilded Coral Swatch and Review
OPI’s most recent collection is the Texas Collection. It’s been out for a while now, and is widely available. The last time I was in Ulta, it was all over the place! I checked out the swatches that popped up online and decided to try just a few of the polishes with what OPI is calling a “sorbet” finish. The term has created some disagreement, because this finish is similar or identical to the jelly finishes that have been around for a while, even though OPI says sorbet finish is new.
Continue reading OPI Texas Collection – Guy Meets Gal-veston Swatch (and China Glaze Fault Line)