GOSH Swatches & Review

Today I have GOSH polishes to share with you guys. This is my first time ever trying this brand of polish. I've read and seen great swatches and reviews on this brand. I was super excited when I saw these at my local Duane Reade. Once again these swatches were done before I broke my nail, aside from the first swatch!


Mystical is a gorgeous taupe base with purple shimmer. 2 coats. This one reminded me a lot of Chanel's Paradoxal. They are not dupes though, because Mystical is more brown and lighter than Paradoxal.


Forest Floor is a forest green creme. 2 coats. Such a beautiful green. I received a lot of compliments when I had this on.


Rebell Yell is a blackened teal creme. 2 coats. I love how this one looks black, but with lighting the teal shows!


Ocean is a metallic aqua blue. 2 coats. Very minimal visible brush strokes for a metallic. This one was super bright and very appealing to the eyes.


Purple Heart is a duochrome of purple and green. 2 coats. I love duochromes so when I saw this one, it was a definite must have for me.


Here showing the green


And here showing the purple

The formula for these were excellent. They really opaque in one coat, but I did two to smooth things out and out of habit. They applied so smooth and even, including the metallic. I love applying polishes with no frustration. It makes me happy lol. I don't know much about the brand but it won't be the last time I will be reviewing for this brand. I will be stalking my Duane Reade for any new polishes from GOSH. I believe these were $8 a bottle. I think they're worth it being that their formula is excellent and the colors are gorgeous.

Well that's all I have for today! What do you guys think of GOSH polishes?

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Nicole by OPI Four New Textures

Today I have four new Texture polishes from Nicole by OPI to share with you guys. Textures are just like shatter polishes from OPI. When I saw the promo pictures for these I was really excited to see the glitter textures, as I am very curious in how the glitter crackle polishes will work. Well they didn't work much to my favor. Let's have a look.


Amethyst Texture is a purple glitter shatter. I did this over white hoping the purple glitters will show more, but it seems to me that the glitter are not dense enough, so the shatters look a bit sloppy.


Aquamarine Texture is a aqua blue glitter shatter. I did this over black since Amethyst Texture didn't look that great over white. The shatter is extremely hard to see. Once again I wish the glitters were more dense.


Quartz Texture is a metallic lilac shatter. I did it over black, and apparently my pointer and ring finger didn't shatter as much as the ring and the pinky. I think it was because I didn't wait for the polish to dry first.


Opal Texture is an iridescent opal shatter. I did it over black, and the opal turns out to be purple. Seems fun to play around with. But once again it doesn't look dense enough. At this point I was a little frustrated with the texture polishes so I also didn't wait long enough for the base polish to dry.

I did swatches on a nail wheel and they actually looked better on the nail wheel than it did on my own nails. Especially Opal Texture


Left to Right: Aquamarine Texture, Amethyst Texture, Quartz Texture, and Opal Texture.

I wasn't pleased with this collection. In the bottle they look amazing, but on the nail not really. Glitter shatters seems hard to master since glitters are not dense. Maybe these need to be extremely thick for the glitters to look good. I even tried doing two coats of each but it didn't even shatter, and just covered the entire nail. The only one I did like was Opal Texture. It will probably look good over white, and a dark purple polish.

Well that's all I have for today. What do you guys think of this collection? Will you buy it?

(These were sent to me for review)

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Models Own Beetlejuice Collection

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!



Beetlejuice is one of my favorite films growing up (even though I was petrified of him). I was very excited to hear that Models Own is coming out with a collection called Beetlejuice and have duochromes! I was unfortunate to miss out when it first released, so I waited for the box set to be back in stock before purchasing. This is my first time trying Models Own polishes!


Pinky Brown is a dark pink, orange, and brown multi-chrome with glass fleck finish. 3 coats.


Here is more of the brown color in different angle/lighting.



Golden Green is an olive green with flashes of gold. 2 coats. I don't know if my top coat is to blame for the bubbling of this one because I used the same top coat over the others and it didn't bubble like that!


Aqua Violet is a blue and violet duochrome. 2 coats. This one is my favorite. I caught so much attention with this polish, and a salesperson in Macy's even asked me where she can get it!


Flashes of violet.


The duochrome visible.

It's quite similar to Deborah Lippmann's Money Now Sleep Later but not duplicate of it. I will definitely do a comparison of the two once I have time!


Emerald Black is a blackened green shimmer. 2 coats.


Purple Blue is a purple, blue, and fuchsia multi-chrome with glass fleck finish. 3 coats. This one was quite hard to capture in photos, I tried my best and it's as accurate as I can get.


Here it is in low lighting, which shows the duochrome.

The formula for these were decent. They were a little thick for me, but nothing too hard to work with. My first time trying Models Own polishes and I am not disappointed at all, especially with the colors! These are available at Models Own website. They ship from the UK, so after shipping and everything, the total came out to about $50 USD a little less. Which I think is decent priced for five polishes. It also came with a top coat that I have yet to try.

And I must add my favorite part of the movie:



Well that's all I have for today, what do you guys think of this collection?

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Deborah Lippmann Barney Exclusives

Today I have Deborah Lippmann's Money Now Sleep Later and The Future Is Yours, which are exclusives to Barneys. I didn't even know this even existed if I wasn't browsing around for the Edge of Glory holographic polish (which will be reviewed soon).


Money Now Sleep Later is a duochrome of teal aqua and purple with a slight metallic finish. 3 coats.

Money Now Sleep Later reminded me of Wicked Game but the teal and purple version!




This picture shows more of the duochrome, here you can see a slight green hint to the aqua color.


The Future Is Yours is a sheer duochrome of lavender and iredescent blue. 4 coats.


This pictures shows more of the lavender.


The Future Is Yours over black. Now that's amazing! Look at how the color just pops out over black. It's a little similar to Money Now Sleep Later with a more deep color.


This angle shows more of the duochrome for The Future Is Yours!

Deborah Lippmann polishes always have good formula, this applied evenly. But since they have a slight metallic finish, there were visible brush strokes but that vanished a little after a top coat was added.

I love both of these and I thought it was worth every penny. The sad news is I don't see these on Barney's website anymore. I don't know if it's still available in stores, so if you do want this I hope it's still available in stores!

Well that's all I have for today! What do you guys think of the two?

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Finger Paint Tiffany Imposter

Today I have Finger Paint's Tiffany Imposter to share with you guys. I don't have much Finger Paint polishes because I rarely get to visit Sally's Beauty since it's kind of far from me. And by the time I do go to one, all the good colors are already gone. But when I saw Tiffany Imposter, it was gorgeous, I also liked the name too!


Tiffany Imposter is a tiffany blue creme. 2 coats. Quite similar to China Glaze's For Audrey. I feel that Tiffany Imposter is slightly lighter than For Audrey. I should've done a comparison, but I'm a lazy person.

The formula was good for this. It applied evenly and smooth and was not streaky at all.

What do you think of Tiffany Imposter?

GIVEAWAY REMINDER: Ends November 14th, 2011. Click here to enter now!

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China Glaze Crackle Metals Collection

Today I finally have China Glaze's Crackle Metals to share with you. I was excited to hear about metallic crackles so I was waiting to get my hands on these. And I must say I'm a tad bit disappointed about this collection.

Not to mention that we have a ton of brands making these crackle/shatter effects, there's a whole range of colors as well. I'm starting to get a little sick of the shatter effects, but nothing beats the original black color shatters. It just makes some polishes look better!

Anyways, let's have a look shall we?


Cracked Medallion is a bronze/copper crackle


Platnium Pieces is a metallic silver crackle


Tarnished Gold is a metallic gold crackle. Quite similar to OPI's Gold Shatter, just this one didn't shatter as much as I hoped it would. Maybe it was because I applied too thick.


Oxidized Aqua is a metallic aqua crackle. I kind of like the weird combo for this one.


Haute Metal is a metallic pink crackle


Latticed Lilac is a metallic lilac crackle

I played around with the base colors and decided to not just do them all in black base but with variety of colors. My favorite combos were Crackled Medallion over a dusty teal base and Oxidized Aqua over a red base. I wasn't too fond of the other crackles because they didn't shatter as great nor were they as opaque as I thought it would be. And when I applied a thicker coat, it didn't shatter as much as I wanted it to be. So was it worth the money for me? No. I only liked two out of the six so that means something.

Are we sick of the crackle/shatter effects yet? Or do we want to see more colors? I'm looking/waiting for a nice green shimmer crackle and a purple creme crackle. Then I'm set!

What do you think of these crackles?

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Six New for Fail 2011 ManGlaze Swatches & Review

Good afternoon all! Today I have six new shades from ManGlaze to share with you. ManGlaze called this "New for Fail" which I find kinda silly. ManGlaze have always been my favorite brand of polishes for matte polish. Once I saw the release pictures for these I thought to myself that I must have it and I went ahead and ordered right away. Let's take a look!


Butt Taco is a bright red-orange matte shimmer. 2 coats. I can't help but laugh at the name!


Fatty's Got More Blood is a vampy dark purple-red matte shimmer. 2 coats. Again the name is hilarious!


Cabron is a dark plum purple matte shimmer 2 coats. Look at the silver specks on these! The shimmer is intense with a top coat, unfortunately I didn't take a picture of it with a top coat, it just ruins the purpose of matte polishes.


Nawsome Sauce is a green matte shimmer. 2 coats. This is awesome! I love it. You probably think it's similar to OPI's Here Today Aragon Tomorrow Suede, but it's not. Nawsome Sauce is a true forest green. And another similar one would be Zoya's Veruschuka, but no this is different from both.


Ilf is a aqua teal matte shimmer. Kind of like a Tiffany & Co. color but in matte and with shimmer. This was in two coats.


Mink Mitten is a metallic lavender purple matte shimmer. 2 coats. This is the true beauty to the collection. It just screams gorgeous and my picture does no justice for this polish. It looks shiny in my picture, but imagine it a matte shine. This is a must have for me.

Overall, I loved this whole collection. The colors are great, unique, and awesome. The formula for these were superb. It went on so smooth with no bumps or smudges. I tend to always have problems with matte polishes, but this applied like butter (if that's a good a thing). That's the reason I love ManGlaze polishes, I never have problem applying them because the formula is excellent and makes application super easy. The only slight problem I had with these is that the label of the polishes were bleh, besides Mink Mitten. Maybe I should've waited awhile before ordering them so I could've got all the new labels. But you know what, in the end, only the polish matters!

They retail for $13.13 per bottle and it's available at there website manglaze.com, it will then let you click to either purchase from their Facebook store or their Amazon store. I ordered from their Facebook store, so I can assure you it's safe to do it there.

What do you guys think of this collection?

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Revlon Glitters

Thank you everyone for their kind words on my previous posts.

Today I have the Revlon Glitters to share with you ladies. I don't know if there's an official name for the collection, I was just too quick to grab the polishes and went to pay for it. For those that has been following me on twitter knew that I was hunting for these. And I finally found them at a Duane Reade far away from me -_-

Let's take a look at some gorgeous glitters!


Facets of Fuchsia is a sheer black base with tiny and hex fuchsia glitters. This was done in 3 coats. This is very similar to Deborah Lippmann's Bad Romance. The only difference is that Facets of Fuchsia has more tiny glitter than Bad Romance.


Blue Mosaic is a clear base with aqua blue micro-glitters and green and silver hex glitters. This was done in 4 coats and it's still not fully covered, but it still looks pretty.


Starry Pink is a baby pink creme base mixed with silver and white hex glitters and some tiny glitters. This was done in 3 coats except for my index finger, I totally forgot and only put two coats lol. This is my favorite of the whole collection. I love how girly this color is.

The formula for these were pretty good. I didn't have no issues with them. I've always had trouble with drying for Revlon polishes. These were actually ok being that they were all more than 2 coats. Everything was fine, except Starry Pink. I somehow smudged it an hour later when I was cleaning. I don't know if these are still available. But I saw a few still available at certain Rite Aid's. Starry Pink was one of my favorites.

What do you guys think about these glitters?

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China Glaze Crackle Glaze Collection

I was so in love with OPI's Black Shatter that I was so excited to hear that China Glaze came out with a Crackle Glaze collection with shatter polishes of different colors! These polishes are fun to play with especially coming up with a color to match with it.

First I want to apologize for the lack of update. I don't have time to swatch polishes so as of now I'm doing my mani's and taking pictures of them day by day and then post when I'm done with the collection. I hope that's OK with everyone :) I'm also very behind on my giveaway that I was suppose to do in January but never got on with it. I will be working on it I hope.

So take a look at China Glaze's Crackle Glaze collection:



Black Mesh is a black crackle. This one seem to crackle more than OPI Black Shatter


Broken Hearted is a pink crackle. I love the color combination for these two!


Lightning Bolt is a white crackle. Since it was white I knew it wouldn't have much coverage for one coat. Therefore I choose a light shade as the base and I love the turnout.


Fault Line is a purple shimmer crackle. This one didn't crackle as much as I hope it did. I was looking forward to this one the most. My boyfriend recently purchased a new bowling ball and it was a purple shimmer with green letterings, that's where I got the idea from. But as my coworker stated it reminds him of The Joker!


Cracked Concrete is a gray crackle. I decided to use a mint green base because I know gray looks good with any pastels, and being mint green is my favorite color I chose that :D And I think it turn out pretty nice.


Crushed Candy is a aqua crackle. I chose black as the base because when I saw the promo pictures I thought this was gorgeous. The aqua just pops out due to the black base.

It's so hard to choose a favorite! I think I love them all. But I think Crushed Candy with black base looks hot, and Cracked Concrete with the mint green looks good as well.

These definitely need a top coat because it looks a bit ridged if no top coat is on it to smooth it out. I am content with this collection, and I'm looking forward to more shatter polishes in the future.

Well that's all I have for today!

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