My First Brazilian Swap :)

The package I've been waiting for a lonnnnnng time, finally arrived today...

I made a swap with the lovely Bia and she sent me these lovely babies... :)

My first Brazilian polish!!! Yay!!!

Thank you Bia, for all your effort... :)

Here they are Zeus, Dionisio, Apolo, Cutie Pie, Daring and Cool!!!

I will be swatching them soon... :)

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HITS Flake Polish Lambada

OK, so I have one more HITS brand nail polish to share with you guys today, and it's from their flake polishes collection. Since I was satisfied with Finger Paints Special Effects, I've decided to give Lambada a chance since it seems like I didn't have anything quite similar to it from the swatches I've seen. I've tried to capture as many pictures as I can for the color changes in the flakies. Lambada was extremely hard to capture through camera.

Lambada is a orange, goldish yellow, green, and a little blue flakie. Here's one coat over black.

Here you can see a little bit of the blue.







Since this was a top coat, I can't really judge much on the formula. It did apply pretty well over black, and only require one coat for a nail full of flakies. Am I getting sick of flakies yet? I'm not quite sure, I still want to see some extreme flakies though. But to me, they will all be quite similar to each other, so that will be quite tough. I guess what I'm aiming for is a purple, green, and red flakies that can be seen over black polish. I'm not talking about flakies with red base in it, looking for a clear base. Maybe my dream will come true!

Again, this is available at llarowe's for $8.00 a bottle. There are many other flakies to choose from, but Lambada was the only one that caught my eyes.

Are you guys sick of flakies yet or do you want to see more of it this year?

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HITS Powerpuff Girls

Today I have another HITS set of polishes to share with you guys, this time it's from their Powerpuff Girls collection. I couldn't help but LOVE the bottles for these. I used to be a huge Powerpuff Girls fan. Come on, I was like probably 13? Those huge eyes, and they save the townsville ALL the time! Bubbles used to be my favorite, until I realized Buttercup is more badass. The bottles were the reason I bought a few of these polishes in the first place. Let's have a look!

Doce de Leite is a pale peachy creme. 3 coats.


Lovely is a pastel yellow creme. 3 coats. This one gave me so much frustration because application was pretty tough. I'll discuss formula later on.


Docinho is a pastel mint green creme. 3 coats.


Powerful is a teal creme with a semi jelly finish. 2 coats.

OK, cute bottles aside. These got me quite frustrated because of the formula. It was super thick and gooey and super hard to apply, especially Lovely. It took a lot of patience for me to get it to look like that. On a positive note, these did dry pretty fast, being that they mostly needed three coats. It was a bit tough getting them to even out, but adding a top coat did smooth most of the things out. Colors are indeed not unique at all and easily dupeable. I was going to buy Element X but after trying the formula I decided against it and just save my money. However, I didn't have the same problem with Mari Moon Cool. Do I dare to try more polishes from this brand in the future? I'm not too sure, unless a color is like super awesome.

Well these are available at llarowe's for $8.00 a bottle.

What do you guys think of these?

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HITS Mari Moon Cool

Today I have HITS Mari Moon in Cool to share with you guys. If I remember correctly, I *believe* HITS is a brand from Brazil. I was able to purchase this at llarowe's for $8. The bottle size is about the size of a nail art bottle here in USA. I've always love to try polishes from different countries, and I was pretty happy to be able to purchase them. HITS Mari Moon are collections of multi-chrome polishes. I was only able to get Cool at the time, and I will definitely getting more once I'm able to!

HITS Mari Moon Cool is a multi-chrome of olive green, gold, blue, and slight purple. This polish is amazing and it is a must see in person to appreciate it. It's everything we wished Chanel Peridot is. Peridot is beautiful, but I know we all wished it had that flash of blue like it did in the bottle. Well fear not, because this polish actually does flash blue! I took a variety of pictures in different lighting and angles; hoping to able to show you the chameleon of this polish.

The formula for this was a bit on the thick side, however dry time was amazingly fast. Maybe that's why it's so thick. I didn't have TOO much trouble applying it, but there are visible brush strokes and that's a bit hard to avoid. I had this polish on for four days maxed, and there were no chips; however there were tip wear.

Well aside from the formula being a bit thick, I didn't mind at all because of the gorgeous outcome of this polish. What do you all think about this polish?

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Random swatches...

February 16, 2012

I have some random swatches for you today!!!! Tell me which one you like the best!

This is two coats of Lacquistry Sugarplum Dipped in Rum with one coat of top coat. This polish is a very sparkly purple/pink glitter.

This is two coats of Lacquistry Cat Scratch Fever with no top coat. This polish is a duochrome shimmer polish. It has shades of blue/green/and purple.

This is two coats of Lacquistry Peppermint Swirl with no top coat.

And the odd man out ...... HITS Apolo...... It is such a lovely blue holo polish... Although I am not happy with HITS brushes, this polish is a must have in my collection!!!!

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