Illamasqua Human Fundamentalism Nail Lacquers

Hey everyone! Aren't we glad the weekend is finally here? I sure am!

Today I have Illamasqua's Human Fundamentalism nail lacquers to share with you guys. It consists of two of my favorite colors, a green and a purple. Therefore I definitely had to buy this once it was available at Sephora. Before I show you swatches, I want to say that my pictures does the polishes no justice, and these definitely need to be seen in person to enjoy the beauty of them.

Stance is a bright fuchsia violet creme with a slight jelly finish. 3 coats. I wanted to say this is a neon purple as most neon purples look like that but this one is super shiny. One of my co-workers thought it was a gel manicure. 

 Nomad is a light green creme. Illamasqua describes this color as a Jade, and it definitely does remind me of jade green. This was 2 coats. It was also super shiny!

 

After seeing the promo picture, I couldn't help but try to do the nail art, but in a different way. Instead of doing free hand to have the edges show some green too I used nail tip guide stickers to just make a some what moon design. I still like the way it turned out and the combination of the two colors!

The formula for both of these were excellent. Nomad was actually opaque in one coat, but I did two to even it out. As for Stance, since it had a slight jelly like finish, it was a bit sheer with just 1 coat. Under two thin coats there were some visible nail line, so I settled down with three. I love both of them and they were well worth the money to me. These are available at sephora.com and retials for $14 per bottle.

What do you guys think of these two?

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OPI Pirates of the Carribbean on Stranger Tides Collection Swatches & Review

In honor of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides debuting today, I have the OPI Pirates of the Carribbean on Stranger Tides Collection to share with you guys tonight. And I have to be honest, I have never watched any of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but fear not because I have all three movies so I can catch up and then watch the fourth movie soon :)

So this collection consists of 6 pastel like cremes and a silver shatter. Let me first say the silver shatter is amazing. In my pictures it might look a little dull because my camera cannot really capture the shimmer in the silver and the contrast between the pastels. First set of photos are the six pastel shades with no top coat. And the second set of pictures are with silver shatter over them.



Planks A Lot is a medium lavender creme. 3 coats


Sparrow Me the Drama is a rosey pink creme. 3 coats


Steady As She Rose is a greyed out super light pink creme. 3 coats. Such a unique color!


Skulls & Glossbones is a light grey creme. 3 coats. I do not know why my camera made it appear green-ish. I went through every photo I took of this swatch and it all appeared green-ish. In person, this is really a light grey creme that is a bit close to beige.


Stranger Tides is a greyish green creme. 3 coats. Now this one is correct. It is indeed a green grey, or grey green. This is my favorite one!


Mermaid Tears is a turquoise close to mint green creme. 3 coats. It's not bright enough to be a mint green, but I still think its pretty sexy xD

And here are them with silver shatter over them!


Silver Shatter over Planks A Lot


Silver Shatter over Sparrow Me the Drama


Silver Shatter over Stead As She Rose


Silver Shatter over Skull & Glossbones


Silver Shatter over Stranger Tides


Silver Shatter over Mermaid Tears

Now the formula for these were a excellent. I didn't have any problems with application whatsoever. They weren't fully opaque therefore they all required 3 coats to reach bottle color. I must say I am really in love with the Silver Shatter. It is by far my favorite shatter ever!

What did you guys think of this collection? I really loved it because I love pastels and the silver shatter just made it even more amazing!

Well that's all I have for tonight!

P.S- It's Friday, Friday! Gotta get down on Friday! Oh Rebecca Black, your song is Friday's Anthem..

(These were sent to me for review)

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MAC Quite Cute Nail Lacquers

Today I have for you nail lacquers from the MAC Quite Cute collection. I didn't purchase anything else from the collection because I'm trying to save money, and also because there was nothing that really suited me. It didn't really make sense that I purchased three polishes with colors not at all unique and costs $14 right? Yea I agree, but I have a spending problem, especially for nail polishes lol Well take a look at them!


Little Girl Type is a pastel lavender creme. 2 coats


Ice Cream Cake is a pastel pink creme. 2 coats


Mischievous Mint is a mint green creme. 2 coats

Surprisingly the formula were pretty good. I see that MAC has been improving their formulas compared to their infamous Peppermint Patti. It wasn't streaky at all, and it applied evenly after 2 coats. However, these colors are definitely not unique and must haves. I assure there are dupes for these but I am just too lazy to go through my stash for them, so spare me :P

Well that's all I have for today!

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SpaRitual Nail Lacquers

I've heard about SpaRitual nail polishes awhile back, but I've never tried them myself. This is my first time and I'm definitely loving the quality of it. Although it's a little pricey on my side ($12 a bottle) I guess it's worth it, since we have Chanel polishes for $23 and the formula ain't even all that.

So anyways, I bought five colors which is most from their Spring and Summer 2010 lines. It was the only colors that interested me. But I am eying their Fall 2010 line because there are a bunch of gorgeous colors! Since I've spent so much money on the MAC Venomous Villains collection, I need to watch my spending for a bit for the upcoming months.

So here are the swatches:


Delight is a pale minty green creme with slight jelly finish. It's good to see a pale mint green as I've been seeing a lot of bright mint greens. I kind of like how soft this looks.


Full of Life is a pale baby blue creme. Again this is more soft than other baby blues I've tried.


Optical Illusion is a green shimmer full of silver and green glitter flecks. I love how this one looks. It's gorgeous. I just wish I captured a better picture of it.


Shoot For the Stars is a purple creme. Like a true purple. Purples polishes are my second favorites aside from green polishes. I've been looking for a true purple polish. This one appears darker in person than my picture reveals. I'm still looking for the perfect purple creme, and RBL's Mismas is my closest choice but still doesn't seal the deal for me.


Yes I Can! is a forest green creme. LOVE! After tons of mint greens this summer, I'm loving this dark creme. It is beautiful.

The formulas for these were all great. I didn't have any application issues whatsoever. My favorite has to be Yes I Can! Not because it's green...OK who am I lying, yes it's because it's green, but also because it's beautiful!

And that is all I have for today! Don't forget to enter my ManGlaze 600th followers giveaway, you have a bout 21 days left to enter! You can get to the entry from my sidebar!

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AVON Going Green for Summer Collection

Just a few more posts on Summer collections and I promised you I'm done! (Aside from a bunch of Illamasqua and Nfu-Oh polishes) I've been working on my Fall collection swatches lately :)

Anyways, before I head off to work, I just want to do a quick post on Avon's Going Green for Summer collection featuring two colors: Jade and Olive Green. Check out the swatches below!


Jade - a green based mint green. A true mean green! I love how this color just "glows" It's awesome! I had slight problem with application for this one. Some reason it was a little hard to control and a bit streaky. But after a third thick coat it seem fine.


Olive Green - dusty green creme. 2 coats. This one reminds me of RBL's Orbis Non Sufficit. This color was heavily pigmented. It's a close dupe, I believe Orbis Non Sufficit is darker. One coat did the job, but out of habit I did two.

These are available to purchase on www.avon.com. Sometimes they have deals like buy 3 for $7. Right now it's on sale for $3.99. Retail price is $5.00.

This is my first time trying Avon nail polishes. I can't guarantee I'm going to buy more. Although I am deeply in love with their base coat. It's by far the best base coat I've tried. I loved it so much that I bought 6 more bottles (when it was on sale of course). What I loved about their base coat is that it's not.. "sticky". You know how some base coats get a little sticky towards the end? I'm halfway done with one bottle and no problems at all. Still goes on smooth and does the job as a base coat.

Ok well that is all I have for today. Off to work I go :(

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Diamond Cosmetics Spam

Happy 1st day of fall! Being that summer is *officially* over I want to get started on my Fall collection swatches. But I have so many polishes dated back in March that has yet to be swatched. Hopefully I get everything done by end of September so I can start my Fall swatches in October!

So today I have a bunch of Diamond Cosmetics nail polishes to show. This is my first time trying this brand and I have no complaints. They're affordable and have a variety of colors, some are unique, some are you average Jane. I chose a few colors to purchase that attracted my eyes! Aside from being affordable, their formula is pretty good. Application was smooth and flawless, no streaks. Majority needed 2 coats only but some I did 3. One thing I know for sure is I'll definitely be purchasing more from this brand in the future.



Amethyst and Diamonds - a purple with frost-ish finish infused with flecks of silver glitter. 2 coats. Any February babies here? :)


Blue Diamonds - bright blue with silver glitters. 2 coats


Chainmail Charm - warm black holo. 2 coats. As if I didn't get enough of holos from my Nubar Prisms collection. I didn't! I love holos and I love this!


Cherry Tobacco - vampy cherry red shimmer. 2 coats


Don't Teal My Heart Away - teal creme. 2 coats


Hi-Ho Silver - purple silver shimmer. 2 coats. Slight duochrome


Never So Ever Green - smokey green with gold shimmer. 2 coats. Pretty unique color I must say.


Oh, Tiff! - Tiffany blue! Well from the name anyway. It's a baby blue, pretty close to Tiffany blue but not exact. 2 coats


Orange Blossom - soft orange jelly, more towards coral pink. 3 coats. I love this one, and this made me fall in love with jellys in which I'm trying to find more of!


Seafoam Spray - light seafoam green pearl. 2 coats Does not look as bright as it does in my picture. It's very pale in person, and I love the uniqueness of this color.


Serendipity - a grey-toned blue shimmer. 2 coats


Tranquility - bright baby blue creme. 2 coats

Diamond Cosmetics nail polishes retails for $2.00 and can be purchased through their website at www.diamondcosmetics.com.

My favorites so far are: Chainmail Charm, Orange Blush, Seafoam Spray, and Never So Ever Green!

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A Bunch of drugstore brand polishes along with some Claire's, CHI, OPI, Icing

TGIF is all I can say.

I was digging at my untried stash and I had a lot of polishes there that I've bought back in March and still haven't tried it so I decided one day to just swatch it all. At a glance, you can all see it's mostly mint greens or greens in general lol


Wet n Wild's Wild Orchid - a purple base with multicolored glitters.


Sinful Colors Mint Apple - minty green with glass flecks. Absolutely gorgeous color. It was my first time trying Sinful Colors, and for their price, their application is pretty damn good!


Sinful Colors Let Me Go - sheer pearl with green/pink/purple flashes. I didn't expect this to be sheer, I thought it was going to have this cool metallic duochrome look like it did on the bottle. But it didn't. Oh well.


OPI DS Mystery - blackened purple with gold flecks. I obviously swatched this a LONG time ago, but just found the picture hidden in a folder lol


Nicole by OPI Peas and Q's - a mint green creme. I love mint greens and can't get enough of them!


Nicole by OPI Hint of Mint - sheer-ish mint green shimmer. It was a little sheer for me, 3 coats and still visible nail line.


Milani's Tailor Made - blue with an iridescent finish. Nice color but doesn't really float my boat.


Milani's Dress Maker - mint green shimmer. Chanel's Jade dupe. I will do a full post comparing these two along with Claire's Dream Catcher!


Icing Mint 2 Be - another mint green creme


Hard Candy's Sweet P - olive green glitter. I like the interesting green here!


Claire's Marine Blue - neon aqua blue creme. I say neon because this one dried matte.


Claire's Mean Green - more turquoise than green. Also dried with a matte finish


Claire's Dream Catcher - mint green shimmer. Another Chanel's Jade dupe.


CHI Picnic in Central Park - pastel lime green creme. Love the name being I live in NY haha Although I never had a picnic in Central Park before. Maybe I should try!

So that is all I have for today. I hope everyone enjoys their Labor Day weekend!

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