OPI Swiss Collection Fall/Winter 2010

This is the first half of the Swiss Collection and is made up of metallics, and shimmery colours,. I’m really excited about these colours! I have to admit, I’ve had the Swiss collection for a while now, since the beginning of August and I’ve been holding off because I’m just really not looking forward to the year to start, with school and all, it’s going to be so stressful, back to homework, studying, tests and projects, and I am definitely not looking forward to not being able to sleep in. :(

But that’s immature and stupid thinking on my part, and these colours are WAY too nice not to swatch, hehe :)

So these are what I thought of the first half of the collection and I have to be honest, the other half is filled with crèmes that are mostly in the red family. Although I do love a good red I wish they would’ve added more other colours but I’ll go more in to detail on that post, haha!

Yodel me on my Cell

It’s a different kind of turquoise that is darker then most of the turquoises you see regularly, it has a bit of dark pearly blue. It’s a super flattering and really cool, unique colour! I must admit, I loved this one on me, hehe! This was two coats, to even out the bald spots, and the second coat made it dramatically darker. So if you want to keep making it darker you can apply a third one but this colour looks just great with one or two coats!

Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

Is a silver and gray that’s loaded with shimmer and I LOVE IT. It’s a very edgy look to wear, and would look stunning if you were going to a party or something! The name kind of bugs me, it’s a little long and hard to spell, haha! This took 3 coats to make it as dark as this and the first first coat was kind of sheer. It was messy to take off though, it made my hand covered in glitter! Hate when that happens!

The Color to Watch

Is a watery pearyl lavender colour with little hints of blue and red in it, and when it dries it looks sort of gray. I must say when I first saw this on my nails I thought it was really, really ugly. But after a while it grew on me! It is very flattering on my skin tone and it’s a very different colour. This colour was super sheer, and since I don’t roll that way- this is it on my nails with 4 coats.

Cuckoo for this Color

This colour is an emerald green that’s really, gorgeuse! This was 2 coats, and it’s just such a nice, nice, colour! If your looking for a dark colour but want to stay away from purples and reds, this is an amazing alternative! I love this!

Gliterland

This colour is a pearly champagne gold, literally. I was really surpised by how nice this was! If you are some one who is into golds this is going to be your dream colour! There is not a lot of yellow behind this gold, it’s really a champagne shimmer metallic gold that is super flattering on any skin tone!

Diva of Geneva

This is the only colour that I’ve reviewed so far that I didn’t think was that unique! Reason being is everything is so different and cool and ugh I just love them all soo much!! In the bottle it looks like a metallic red, but when I started painted my nails its actually like a raspberry colour to it! I do have a soft spot for reds, and this colour is different from the other reds although it is strictly red.

So which colours from the Swiss collection are screaming “BUY ME!” to you?

Sally Hansen Kwik Off

Today, unlike anything I’ve really done on this blog, I’m going to review something besides polish.

Nail polish remover!

Everyone has there own opinions about nail polish removers, acetone, acetone free, protein enriched, nail polish with vitamin E, with chamomile, pro-vitamins, soy based, the list goes on and on.

But this nail polish remover is unlike any nail polish remover us nail polish lovers usually use. It’s a whole new idea about removing nail polish.

Lets start with the way us people normally remove nail polish, we take a quilted cotton pad or cotton ball (depending on your preference, I usually prefer quilted cotton pads) and pull out our nail polish remover, pour some on our cotton pad, and wipe off the current adorable colour we’re sporting on our nails.

Well, Sally Hansen has found a way to sort of, combine the combination of cotton pads and nail polish remover all in one! In one little container!

O.P.I Ate Berries in the Canaries

This colour was so generously given to me for my birthday by my best friend, she gave me like a little basket of everything I LOVE! I was SO happy and this was definitely one of my favourite birthday gifts out of all time :) This colour is from the South Beach collection for Summer 2009... and this colour is TOTALLYY stunning!

60 Seconds Rimmel London; 2 new colours!

This nail polish brand that’s a little older, available in drug stores claims that after 60 seconds it’s completely dry! I want to be able to review nail polish that’s in all different price points and after 60 seconds I touched the polish to see if it had dried as the commercial promises, and it smudged! Dammit. I like the idea of nail polish being able to dry fast, and this did. But not after 60 seconds. How disappointing!

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OPI Absolutely Alice & Mad as a Hatter

OPI Alice in Wonderland came out much earlier this year, and I was in LOVE with the collection… okay only half the collection! The glitter-packed colours. At the time, I hadn’t bought these colours but now my friend was nice enough to lend them to review and swatch. These colours are glitter-packed and fun! They are the nicest colours EVER! I am in love with these two colours! Tell me if they are half as amazing as I THINK THEY ARE!

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American Apparel Nail Laquer: Colours for Fall!

After a recent trip to American Apparel, I saw these 3 colors and had to purchase them. They have a promotion, 3 bottles for $18, or 1 bottle for $7.50. If u think about it, your saving 20%! Their colors are cool, unique and really different. Good job American Apparel :) 

Nail Polish, from Korea! Pt 1; Olive Deco

On my good, good friends (since grade 5 if you can believe it! Who is such a beautiful person and one of those people who are just as the beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside) travelled to South Korea, she was nice enough to bring back to me 8 stunning, beautiful, GORGEOUS nail polishes! My first four, are from a brand called Olive Deco, or Deco Olive, not really sure :P But, after doing my extensive research, (a.k.a typing it in to google, hehe) the brand is called Olive Deco!

Urban Outfitters Nail Varnish

I’ve always been skeptical of buying no-name branded nail polish. But after waiting inline at Urban Outfitters for fifteen minutes (don’t you hate it when they don’t open up a new cash-register and the lines just getting bigger, and bigger?) I noticed a wooden basket filled with nail polish with a sign that says, “SALE! 99 CENTS NAIL POLISH!” And if you couldn’t tell by now, I’m addicted to nail polish. Just like a sale on shoes, I can’t resist a sale on nail polish! At first, I reached into the basket and took out handfuls of polish, I had at least 23 bottles (okay maybe I’m being a little overly dramatic- but you get what I mean!) in my hands. But after realizing my tight budget, and my over priced clothing, I really couldn’t afford all those bottles, and made a very, very hard decision… only buying 2. To be honest buying more then 2, wouldn’t have been a good decision. Especially since I’ve never even heard of this brand, or even knew that Urban Outfitters’ sold polish. The polish is regularly priced 5 dollars, which is still cheap for nail polish! So I bought two and these are what I thought of them:

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Knockout Cosmetics!

Knockout nail polish. I’ve never heard of it before, only saw it at the cash while inline at a Canadian clothing store, called Aritizia (I believe this is also available at Henri Bendel and Kitson LA) This clothing store is a Canadian fashionable store and I believe, overpriced. When I saw this nail polish, I fell in love. I’m a sucker for no shine, matte nail polish! These colors are really interesting, but after seeing the price tag, I couldn’t believe it! 21 dollars for a bottle of nail polish! I couldn’t afford it, and it really upset me. If you see the bottle, my boyfriend made a comment about how the bottle was what you were paying for because these bottles are BEAUTIFUL. They are much taller then regular bottles and they have a frosted look to them.When my birthday rolled around, my good friend was kind enough to buy me two of these bottles in colors that I am in love with! So I’m so happy to be able to swatch these and wear them J before I owned these, I borrowed my friends in a cool blue matte color I believe is called Pool. It did turn my nails yellow. I’m not sure if you want to blame it on my basecoat (which has never given me problems before, but matte colors are more dense then regular) or the actual polish. Moreover I would recommend painting on two basecoats before painting your nails any matte color! Also this nail poish is cruelty free, and DBP, toluene and formaldehyde free. Now, here’s what I think: 

American Apparel Nail Laquer!

I’ve always loved mint green nail polish, but after looking around for a WHILE I couldn’t find a mint green that was the mint green I was looking for. All of the mint greens were too green, or too washed out. I was looking for a really strong mint green. Nail polish always catches my eye, and at my friend’s birthday party I saw this mint green this girl I had never met before wearing, and I walked up to her and introduced myself and began questioning where did she find this perfect mint green. In fact, I even took a photo of her hands (okay, you probably think I’m crazy, but she was just as fanatic about nail polish as me so she understood, haha) and she began telling me about American Apparel nail polish. You’d think that a big brand like American Apparel would come out with nail polish, the colors would be “meh” but after doing my research I saw they came out with a bunch of really different, cool, fun, colors that I needed to get my hands on. They still have the reds, the blacks, but they did add cool teals, washed out yellows, lavenders, and I’m super excited to try these on. I went to the American Apparel downtown and if you can believe it, they were sold out of the mint green I was looking for, and most of their other colors (this was back in May, hopefully they’ve restocked) so I actually ordered them online. I got only one of my colors shipped in, and they wrote me saying they were sold out of the mint green (called Office) and the yellow I wanted (Butter) and they’d send it to me as soon as it came in! I guess they were selling fast! Two weeks later I had gotten them in the mail and voila! Here are my reviews! 

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OPI Hong Kong, Spring/Summer 2010

I'm super excited about the OPI Hong Kong Spring/Summer collection. These colours OPI brings us, are unique, fun, and different . The formula is amazing, (no suprise there), and thanks to OPI's prowide brush, it's just so easy to apply on to your nails! Here's what I thought about these 12 colours: 

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Lucky Lucky Lavender

In the bottle: This looks really pink, with only a little bit of lavender, and I was excited to put this on my nails, but this wasn’t as exotic as the other colors in the collection, and it looked really similar to Panda-monium Pink.

On my nails:  On my nails, the photo shows only 2 coats, the formula was great and not streaky at all. If I wasn’t such a perfectionist with my nails I probabley could’ve gotten away with one coat. Keep in mind this is a pink with only a little bit of lavender… I figured it would be a little bit more purple. This color was really nice and I would wear it for sure, but I’m not really too excited about this color. 

Nail Polish Lovers UNITE!

After being inspired by other beauty blogs on the internet, I wanted to create my own personal blog, but exclusively to nail polish! I've been wearing nail polish since I was 12 years old, and since then, my love and passion has bloomed into roaming the streets with lime green toes, to spending my pay checks first to last dollar on a bottle of nail polish I simply had to have! I hope to use this blog as a creative outlet with my love of writing, nail polish (and recently) my love of photography. I will give all my personal opinions and express myself as best as I can with all the latest nail polish trends, colours, and collections. Thanks and hope you keep reading!!