American Apparel: Two swatches

A short post for today! I have two American Apparel polishes to share with you guys today. Both of them are green-ish tones. No surprise there! Let's take a look.


Army Jacket is a light pale army green creme. 2 coats


Mac Arthur Park is a murky yellow green creme. 2 coats. This is quite an interesting yellow green. I can't quite explain it, it's a bit mossy, kind of looks dirty. You get the picture.

The applications for these were ok. I had a little problem with Mac Arthur Park, it was a bit thick to work with. Other than that I never really have issues with American Apparel polishes. However, I think these may be the last American Apparel polishes I'll be purchasing. Nothing against the polishes, just something about the company I don't like (and please don't bash me as this is entirely MY opinion). Although, I know a few people who agrees with me.

Well, that's all I have for today!

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Sinful Colors Seaweed and Adventure Island

So today I have two Sinful Colors to share with you guys. I found these at Rite Aid and the whole collection seems to be like OPI Pirates of Caribbean dupe. I should look more into Sinful Color polishes. They are decent priced and the formula is not bad at all.





Adventure Island is a yellow green creme. 2 coats





Seaweed is a murky green creme. 2 coats



Seaweed looks quite similar to OPI Skulls & Glossbones except Seaweed has more green to it than Skulls & Glossbones. They're not exact dupes that's for sure.



As I mentioned, Sinful Colors formula are pretty good. I didn't have any issues with these two. They applied well, and was opaque in two coats. I hope they come up with more great colors in the future!

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Illamasqua Spam - Toxic Nature and Throb Collection

Good evening all! I promised a post today so here I am. I have a bunch of Illamasqua swatches to share with you guys today. All are from the Throb Collection and Toxic Nature collection. I am a huge fan of Illamasqua polishes; aside from them burning a whole in my wallet, I can't get enough.



Throb Collection





Throb is a cherry red creme. 2 coats. It was opaqued in one coat but I did two to even it out. I probably have about 30 red creme polishes but it doesn't really matter to me. I really like this one. It's a red I can wear.





Load is a creamy buttery white creme. 2 coats. This happens to be my favorite one because the color is quite unique. It's not yellow enough for it to be called a pastel yellow. It reminds me a lot of butter. Not to mention it wasn't streaky and was opaque in two coats and extremely smooth.





Scorn is a black matte creme with a rubbery leather like finish. 2 coats. Pretty interesting, I like the finish.



Toxic Nature Collection





Radium is a bright yellow green with a hint of shimmer. 2 coats. A very interesting color especially when certain lights hit it; it gives a blue shimmer. I love the subtle shimmer as well.





Purity is a pale peach creme. 2 coats. Purity is the only 'calm' looking shade of the whole collection. It applied incredibly smooth as well.





Gamma is a bright orange creme. 2 coats. This one dried matte like neon but it wasn't 'neony' enough to be classified as a neon. It was just a really really bright orange creme. I like it though!





Bacterium is a taupey light brown with subtle blue shimmer. 2 coats. This is a VERY interesting color. Definitely unique on its own. I love the subtle hint of blue shimmer on certain lighting. It's such a weird color, staring at it makes me just think..





Stagnate is a purple grey brown creme. 2 coats. I think it's the perfect name for it. Color suits it well.



Well there you have it. Can you imagine the amount of money I spent on these polishes? I shake my head every time I think about it. But I feel that it's quite worth it. Illamasqua polishes are extremely smooth and applies so well that's worth every penny. Some of the colors they produce is so unique where you don't see much of it. Take Bacterium for example, I was in awe of that color. The formula for these were all excellent with zero complaints.



What do you think of these two collections?

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China Glaze Island Escape Collection

Wow, where does time go? I looked at the calendar and we're at the second to last week of July. I swear it felt like July 1st last week. So first I want to apologize for the lack of updating. Fear not because I have a few posts scheduled this week. I have so many swatches to share but just didn't have the time to type up a post.

Today I have the China Glaze Island Escape collection to share with you guys. I was looking forward to this summer collection because I was extremely please with last years summer collection Poolside. I must admit, I was a little let down, but there were a few amazing colors. Take a look:



Senorita Bonita is a purple shimmer with pink flecks. 2 coats.


Electric Pineapple is a yellow green creme. 3 coats. I really liked this one because it's pretty bright and quite unique. I don't think I have any colors like this.


Cha Cha Cha is a golden apple green shimmer. 2 coats. This one is gorgeous! It's like glowing.


Blue Iguana is a medium blue shimmer with glass fleck. 2 coats. This is a gorgeous blue.


108 Degrees is a magenta glass fleck with a jelly finish. 2 coats


Papaya Punch is a bright medium orange creme. 2 coats. This one is definitely my favorite one out of the collection.

This collection didn't really excite me, I mean there are gorgeous glass flecks and two bright cremes. It happens that the cremes are my favorites.

The formula for these are flawless as usual. They were all under two coats except for electric pineapple. They dried in a normal amount of time. This collection is not bad but it just didn't wow me enough to be head over heels over it. Maybe I should've just purchased the cremes.

Well ok that's all I have for today, enjoy your Monday!

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Sally Hansen Spam!

Hello all! Got back from classes not long ago, and decided to do my Sally Hansen spam post today! I swatched all these last Wednesday. Wasn't a sunny day, but a cloudy day, hence all the pictures were taken indoors either with natural light or artificial light. I think these are the only Sally Hansen polishes I own. The last polish I tried from them was a prism? one and that was like ages ago.

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Polishes


Gray by Gray - blue gray creme. 2 coats. I love how it's not a true gray, with blue tones in it. Makes it unique.


Yellow Kitty - pale yellow creme. 3 coats. I first bought this only for the name, since I'm a huge Hello Kitty fan :D but I love this color as well. I love yellow cremes. Especially for those that apply like heaven.


Grass Slippers - lime green creme. 2 coats. Very interesting color, any green polish is already a plus for me.


Lagoon - blue/green metallic. 2 coats. Visible brush strokes as you can see. VERY similar to Sephora by OPI's Mermaid to Order (which I don't have) but from other swatches I've seen, SOPI one is better. Less brush strokes.


Sea and Be Seen - bluish purple shimmer. 2 coats. Very shimmery, interesting color.


Ring My Shell - pearly white with hints of lavender and some green. 2 coats. VERY gorgeous pearl. I love the slight duo-chrome in certain lights. I think I should've done an extra coat to have no visible nail line. But that's ok because this color is beautiful.


Dive Deeper - pale blue shimmer. 2 coats. Quite sheer as you can see. I didn't really like this one, but it looked so pretty in the bottle that I bought it. Ehhh, it happens xP


Midnight in NY - black creme with multicolored specks. 2 coats. Love the name (hello, I'm a New Yorker) :)


Hidden Treasure - clear base with flakies. FLAKIES!! I did two coats over Midnight in NY and I absolutely love it. I've been putting it over every color possible, and it just looks nice over any color. The flakies are flashes of green, orange, gold.

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Nail Polishes


Spring Green - pale green creme with yellow base. 2 coats. Formula was a bit thick for me. These do dry pretty fast, but not as fast. You still have to give it a minute or two for the polish to settle in especially if you did more than one coat. Even though one coat was opaque, I did two out of habit. Uh is it just me or do my hands look like red crabby hands? O_o


Expres-So Yellow - pale yellow creme. 2 coats. Another yellow that applied streak free. Still till gloopy for me though!

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Nail Polishes


Green with Envy - yellow green creme. 2 coats. This collection has a normal brush which was what I am more comfortable with.


Lime Lights - sheer green pearl. 3 coats. Um, no offense, but ew. I didn't expect it to be THIS sheer. It looked gorgeous on the bottle. I should've tried it on my nails before I bought this one. Not too fond of it.


Going Green - a true green with shimmer. 2 coats. Wowee! I love this one. The green is a true green. The shimmers make it pretty. Only con about this one is STAINING. Though this one did not stain piss yellow like American Apparel's Green Malibu, this one literally stained my nails green. Took me awhile to get rid of the stain. -_- Totally Worth it though!

Sally Hansen HD Nail Polishes


DVD - sheer light purple with flashes of blue. 3 coats. Absolutely gorgeous color, need I say more?

Resolution - green with blue undertones and shimmer. 2 coats. I loved this one because in certain angles/lights you can see the blue. Which made it quite interesting.


Hi-Def - green frost? 2 coats. It's a tad sheer. I didn't like this one either. Don't know why I bought it, I guess because it was green. Sigh, how typical of me.

Phew, finally done. I hope this was helpful too all. Sally Hansen polishes can be found in most local drugstores, however, a few are already gone; such as Tracy Reese's Complete Salon Manicure Collections, DVD and Resolution. Those are the few I don't see at drugstores anymore. The others I still see around.

Ok, so this is all I have for today. I'll have a random spam post either by the end of this week or maybe even earlier.

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OPI Shrek Forever After Collection

Hey guys! I finally got around to the OPI Shrek Forever After collection. I'm slowly catching up but it's extremely hard with so many new nail polishes coming out! I"m trying my best -_-

I loved this collection, although I didn't get to watch Shrek Forever After yet. I guess I'll wait till it comes out in DVD. I loved Shrek 1 and 2, and wasn't as excited for the third one, though I heard great reviews for the last movie.


Fiercely Fiona - yellow green creme. Looks yellow in my picture, however, in certain lights it's more greenish. 3 coats.


Who The Shrek Are You? - an ogre green. Haha well it's hard to describe this green. It's fabulous that's all I know :) 3 coats


What's With the Cattitude? - a pastel blue creme. 3 coats


Ogre-the-Top Blue - bright teal blue creme. 2 coats


Rumple's Wiggin' - lavender creme. 3 coats


Funky Dunkey - dark purple creme. 2 coats

And here's my favorite part of Shrek of all times.

PUSS IN BOOTS!



I love that face xD

The application for these were smooth. Majority only needed 2 coats, only Fiercely Fiona really needed 3 coats for full coverage. The rest were pretty opaque.

That is all for today!

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Claire's Mood Nail Polish

Hey! I finally got the chance to try these Claire's mood nail polishes. When I saw these on other blogs I thought they were cool and was dying to try them! This is very picture heavy because some deserved a few shots!

Calm/Wild - when warm, it gives a bright pink shimmer, and when cold it gives a bright purple shimmer.


I love the gradient look


It looked cool in that angle


Cold


Hot

Daring/Innocent - cold - gray, warm - this weird looking nude color


Interesting combo


I couldn't get it to the completely nude color!


Under cold water.. oo bubble! *pop*

Happy/Earthy - when cold it's a bright neon-ish green, when hot it's a bright yellow green


Sexy!






This looks like some type of 'nail porn' >_> nails taking a shower! Anyways, this is running under warm water


Under cold water

Peaceful/confident - when cold it's a teal, and hot it's bright blue


This one didn't do much for me, hence only one picture. Even running under hot/cold water it still looked the same to me. You only see slight gradient in this one.

Fabulous/funky - under cold it's dark pink, under hot it's bright pink.



Again this one didn't do much for me either. Not as cool as the other 3, but you still see a little difference on this one.

These were fun to play with, especially under water to see the color change. I'm easily amazed lol. They didn't last long, they chip after a few hours of wear, maybe you're not suppose to put a top coat over it? I don't know but they dry matte. Application was ok not great not bad. I think almost all of them are three coats.

So would any of you be trying these if you haven't yet?

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