Sephora by OPI Make The First Mauve

Today I have Sephora by OPI's Make the First Mauve to share with you guys. I found this on their website and I thought it'd be interesting so I decided to order it.


Make the First Mauve is a rosey mauve with light silver shimmer. 3 coats.

It kind of reminds me of their other popular color Call Your Mother, with shimmer.

The formula for this was a bit runny. It was a little hard to work with but I didn't have too much trouble. I do like the color though because it's pretty classy.

That is all I have for today, what do you think of this polish?

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CND The Look Jason Wu Swatches & Review

I hope everyone is enjoying their Labor Day weekend more than I am. But anyways, today I have CND's The Look Jason Wu collection to share with you guys today. Designer Jason Wu collaborated with CND to create a set of five polishes named after five iconic women. Of the five polishes, one of them gives a matte feathery like texture effect called Anna; which is pretty awesome and fun to play with. Let's have a look at the swatches!





Miss Wu is a white out grey with very subtle shimmer. 2 coats. The shimmer is more noticeable on the bottle than on the nails.





Brigette is a rosey mauve creme. 2 coats





Sophia is a taupe brown creme. 2 coats





Veronica is a creamy vampy red with a semi jelly finish. 2 coats.





Anna over Miss Wu. You can't really see the feathery texture in this one because Miss Wu is so light.





Anna over Brigette is slightly more noticeable.





Anna over Sophia. Here you can definitely see the feathery texture, pretty cool huh?





Anna over Veronica. This is my favorite combo.



The formula for these were superb. They applied like magic. They were pretty opaque under one coat, but I did two out of habit. Now the colors may not be unique and easily dupeable. But I feel like Anna is unique for its effect. I don't think there's any top coats that can create the feather effects. Veronica happens to be my favorite of the whole set. Which is surprising because I am not a fan of reds.



I ordered this set from CND.com back in May (I know I'm late with my reviews) but I don't see this on the website anymore, so correct me if I'm wrong!



Did any of you buy this set? If so which one was your favorite?

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Illamasqua Spam

Greetings all! I finally finished swatching most of my untried Illamasqua brand polishes. And since I haven't updated for awhile, what else is better than an Illamasqua spam post?



Jo'mina is a bright lilac creme. It's a little similar to Color Club's Puccilicious but I feel that Jo'mina is lighter than Puccilicious.


Jo'mina over Prism. Prism came with the collection with Jo'mina and Force. I love how prism gives it a blue iridescent glow


Force is a bright royal blue creme 2 coats


Prism over Force again it gives this glowy look that I like


Hectic is a deep olive green creme. 2 coats


Phallic is a blackened blue with blue flecks of shimmer. 2 coats


Smash is a semi-neon green creme. It's not neon enough to have that neon glow but it sure is bright enough. 2 coats


Jan is a muted gray pink creme. 2 coats


Velocity is a gray rosey mauve. A little hard to describe this color.. 2 coats


Elope is your true mean green creme. 2 coats

I've always loved Illamasqua nail polishes, that's why I bought so many even though they retail for $14 a bottle. Some cost me more because I bought them from illamasqua.com which costs me international shipping. What I love most is how heavily pigmented these polishes are. They were pretty opaque in one coat, but I did all two coats for even coverage.

Every color seen on this post here are available at sephora.com except Velocity, Smash, Hectic, and Elope. Those four are available at illamasqua.com

Well that's all I have for today!

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China Glaze 'Tis the Season to be Naughty & Nice

Hello all. Today I have China Glaze's 'Tis the Season to be Naughty & Nice collection which is their holiday/winter collection. This whole collection which consists of 16 colors is truly a holiday collection filled with Christmas-y colors. I liked every single color in this collection, there wasn't a single one I didn't like :)

All pictures were taken under artificial light


Sugar Plums is a dark rosey mauve shimmer with multicolor glitters


Mommy Kissing Santa Clause is a slight dark red shimmer


Little Drummer Boy is a navy shimmer


Jolly Holly is a green shimmer


Peace on Earth is an olive green shimmer


Cheers to You is a metallic silver foil


Midnight Kiss is a gold foil


Frosty is a soft white shimmer with silver flecks


Jingle Bells is a metallic gold


Phat Santa is a red creme with semi jelly finish


Naughty & Nice is a dark reddish brown creme


Ruby Deer is a bright red creme, also with a semi jelly finish


Mistletoe Kisses is a green shimmer with silver flecks


Mrs. Clause is a jelly red base with red and silver fleck glitters


Party Hearty is a clear base with silver, gold, green glitters and big red glitters


Snow is a white creme with a super glossy finish. Under two coats, no streaks


Party Hearty over Snow. Gorgeous, this might be my Xmas mani :)

The application for these were nice. I had no problems with any of them. All were either under two or three coats. The foils/metallics were not streaky at all. They applied perfectly. But Snow happens to be my favorite go to white creme now. It's super glossy and not streaky at all. Took only two coats to be fully opaque and smooth looking. In my picture, there was no top coat.

Well that's all I have for today!

Don't forget to enter my Relvon Perplex giveaway!

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Some BB Couture's from Butterfly & Lady Bug Collections

Hello! So I finally go to the BB Couture SPRING collections. Absolutely late I know since it's scorching hot summer right now. -_- I'm like melting in my room as I'm typing this. I love BB Couture nail polishes with their variety of colors and not to mention, so many GREENS!! I didn't buy the whole collection as I'm not a fan of reds, plus trying to save money here lol

Butterfly Collection


Skipper - bright pink creme/frost. 3 coats


Peacock - hassle free yellow creme. 3 coats. No streaks, no problem!


Emperor - peachy creme with very slight hints of silver glitter. 3 coats


Caterpillar - creamy green with silver speckles. 3 coats

LadyBug Collection


Signs of Spring - blue creme with hints of silver specks. 3 coats


Man Bug - turquoise creme with gold and silver speckles. 3 coats LOVEE!!


Beetle Baily - purple/mauve creme. 2 coats

And that is all I have for today! Enjoy!

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Essie Summer Collection 2010

Hey guys! I finally have the Essie Summer Collection up and about. I really liked this collection for many reasons: the variety in colors, the surprises in certain bottles, and of course Essie's flawless applications.

Here it goes


Demure Vixen - iridescent mauve. 3 coats. Here's my favorite one. In certain lights you can see hints of purple in it which makes it very interesting.


Haute As Hello - neon coral. 3 coats. Surprise #1. This looked like a regular coral creme. However, when applied on the nails it turns out to be a bright coral with a neon finish, since it dries matte.


Knockout Pout - hot neon pink. 3 coats. Surprise #2. Looks like an ordinary soft pink shade on bottle. But on nails its a hot bright pink!


Miss Matched - Sheer lavender pink. Not quite lavender, not quite pink, not quite nude. Maybe in between. 3 coats. This was the only one I wasn't excited about.


Pretty Edgy - GREEN GREEN GREEN! 3 coats. A true green creme. Woweeeee. I love this one as much as I loved Demure Vixen. Good job Essie!!


Vermillionaire - red orange creme. 2 coats. I thought this was going to be a red creme from the promo pictures but it's a true orange red creme. Pretty bright too.

And that is all I have for today!

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Essie The Art of Spring 2010

Hello! First let me say that I am beyond shocked at how many entries I have for my giveaway. I honestly did not expect that many, nor did I expect to attract many new followers too. Thank you to everyone that is participating. And for those that sent me e-mails of your cute pictures, I wanna let you guys know that I will be responding to every single one of your e-mails. I've looked through a few and some of you have such ADORABLE pets. Some of you even e-mailed me pictures of your family, don't worry I enjoy looking at that too! I'm like a curious cat :) Once again thank you guys SO much!

So today I have for you guys Essie's The Art of Spring collection. Kind of late but it's always better late than never right?


Van D'go - this is in between pink and coral but mixed with melon-ish? 3 coats


Tart Deco - bright orangey coral - 3 coats



Red Nouveau - bright red creme. 2 coats


Pop Art Pink - sheer light pink - 3 coats. Ignore my konad design. I was trying something but failed >_>


Neo Whimsical - a rosey plum creme. 3 coats


Lilacism - lavendar creme. - 3 coats

I liked this collection a lot. Very spring-y. My favorite has to be Van D'go and Tart Deco. Such pretty colors. Not all of them needed three coats, but I did so out of habit. As you can see a little thickness on Van D'go.

So that is all I have for you guys today, I will try my best to post more often!

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