piCture pOlish - Denim

I don't like the word denim. Would you like to know why?
Every single time I try to type it, I write "demin" first. Demin. Every time.

Despite my demin problems, I adore this polish named Denim!

piCture pOlish - Denim
This cool blue polish is a super unique, super pretty shimmer shade with flakies!
I will warn you, my skin tone in these photos is laughable - I did a lot of swatching in the same day and I think by the end my camera just didn't want to see my fingers anymore.
The polish looks accurate in the photos so pay attention to that and not my skin!

This photo and the two that follow are more accurate to the true color of Denim. It's definitely a cool purple-toned blue.
The shimmer in the polish as you can see is bright and glowing, and then you've got the subtle flakies mixed in as well. It's awesome!

It shimmers like crazy and is super glossy on its own. It covers great in just 2 coats and the formula gives no issues.
I think one of the things piCture pOlish was going for with this shade was to make it a cool, comfortable shade that is not too distracting but still looks great - just like your favorite pair of jeans!

This polish delights me! If you're getting yourself some polishes from PP, this is a must-have.
I hope you enjoyed my pictures despite my weirdly colored skin. Haha!

Girls, I have got SO many swatches built up to show you! Maybe I'll do some spam posts with a bunch of polishes just to start clearing out my swatch folder.
I promise that once my semester is over, I'll have way more time for nail art!
My exams start on Saturday morning (yes, really, Saturday morning exam) and then end on the 20th.
I can't wait to be done with school until September! I'll have way more blog time. Gotta love summer break!

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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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Finger Paints Flakie Swatches

Hey guys! A few weeks ago, I picked up four of the five Finger Paints Special Effects Flakies. 
I swatched them pretty quickly after receiving them but totally forgot about the pictures until now!
So I'll show you the swatches today.
I swatched the four of these on a wheel so that you could see them next to each other.

Asylum, Flecked, Motley, Twisted

This is two coats of each flakie polish over black.

Finger Paints - Asylum - red/orange and blue flakies
Finger Paints - Flecked - green flakies
Finger Paints - Motley - green/turquoise/blue flakies
Finger Paints - Twisted - red, orange, blue, green and turquoise flakies
(The fifth polish which I did not get is called Flashy and that one is orange/green flakies, and is quite similar to Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, which I have already.)

As with most flakies, these are all duochromatic, so when you look at them on different angles, the colors change. You can see that when you look back and forth between the above photos.

Now let's see close ups of each one!

Finger Paints - Asylum
This is a really unique combo, I haven't seen these colors in a flakie polish before. The blue and deep red-orange contrast nicely. If you look along the edge of the nail you can see how the colors flash to a lighter yellow-orange and a deeper blue.

Finger Paints - Flecked
Flecked is all a bright emerald green flakie that flashes to a bright turquoise. Love this one. Reminds me a little of the color you would see in some Nfu-Oh flakies.

Finger Paints - Motley
This one is my favorite of the group. The flakies are shades of turquoise which get darker on different angles.

Finger Paints - Twisted
This one is basically all the other colors in one, which is a really interesting effect!

I decided to show you three other flakies in my collection over black to see how they compare to the Finger Paints.

Cult Nails - Unicorn Puke, Nfu-Oh - 50, Sally Hansen - Hidden Treasure

Unicorn Puke is another mixture of every flakie color imaginable, the Nfu-Oh is strong green (with a dark blue flash) and Hidden treasure is a deep red-orange that flashes green.
50 is similar to Flecked but the color change in the Nfu-Oh is stronger and darker.
Hidden Treasure is not like the others I have shown but as I mentioned above, the fifth Finger Paints one which I do not have (Flashy) is a less-dense version of this.

Check this out...

Finger Paints - Twisted and Cult Nails - Unicorn Puke are basically dupes over black!
UniPuke is obviously different where it has the purple tinted base but over black, it's pretty hard to tell these ones apart.

I wore Twisted over Essence - Just Rock It!

This was a really satisfying combo because the flakies really stood out on the deep blue.

Finger Paints really knocked this collection out of the park because they actually listened to what the customers want, and brought us some awesome flakies at a really good price!
(Now if only companies would listen to the cries for more holographic polishes...)

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Barielle Spam #1

Hey everyone!
I recently got to try a new-to-me brand, Barielle, because these awesome 5-pack sets showed up at Winners here in Canada. (5 for $16.99!)
I ended up being able to get all the shades I had my eye on which made me totally pumped.
I'm going to show you five of them today (and the other five whenever I manage to swatch them.)

I'll start with my absolute favorite!

Barielle - Do Unto Others
This is a totally cute and happy shade of bright turquoise. Just perfect.

This applied great in 2 coats and I totally love it. I've heard it stains pretty badly though which sucks but I will deal with it anyway because of the color payoff.
Love love love.
I tried dupe-hunting in my stash but couldn't find anything identical.

Barielle - Decadence 
Another win! Shimmery teal. I think this was three coats. Not streaky and draggy like some similar shimmers.

At first I thought this was super unique in my collection but then I remembered Orly's Bailamos. That's a bit more blue but they are definitely in the same vein.

Barielle - Swizzle Stix
This is a cute light blue jelly-creme. You know, one of those polishes that can't decide if it is creme or jelly. It's in between.

Very "squishy" looking but without the visible nail line. Me likey. Not a unique shade, but cute none the less.

Barielle - Slate of Affairs 
This is a pretty slate blue color, sort of periwinkle looking, with bright blue shimmer. 3 coats for full coverage.

It reminds me of H&M's Peppermint Fusion but darker. Big fan.

Last but not least, a flakie!

Barielle - Buddha-ful
I love the name of this polish, it's so cute! This is a pretty interesting polish, it's a nude jelly packed with green flakies. Three coats are shown here to build the base color.
Because of the milky base it can be difficult to find the correct polish to layer it over.

Above it is pictured over black, Slate of Affairs, and Do Unto Others.
I absolutely love it over Do Unto Others but the milky base makes it sort of cloudy on the darker shades. If you apply it really evenly it can look nice but I prefer it on brighter, lighter colors.

That's all for my Barielle swatches for today! As I said, I have 5 more coming at you in the future.
Do you have any Barielle? Got any recommendations for me?

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