Saturday, May 30, 2015

Swatch Saturday: Essie Turquoise and Caicos

Happy Saturday all.  I just a have a quick swatch today of a popular Essie polish.  It is not quite to the level of Mint Candy Apple with its cult following, but this one is nice too.



This is Essie's Turquoise and Caicos.  It is a murky sea foam green cream that was opaque in three coats.  The formula was a bit finicky and patchy, but it did eventually become opaque.  The max number of coats I'm willing to deal with for one specific polish is three coats, so it managed to avoid being thrown out the window.  I have heard it said that Turquoise and Caicos is a dupe for China Glaze For Audrey.  Yeah, no it's not.  For Audrey is noticeably bluer than Turquoise and Caicos.  If nothing else it is a less dusty version of OPI Mermaids Tears.




 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Friday, May 29, 2015

Hard to Find Friday: Cuccio Colour Chemical Attraction

Happy Friday!  Guess who has to work an extra shift at another branch this weekend on top of the normal work week?  This gal.  Uggg, so over it.



Today I have a a swatch of Cuccio Colour's Chemical Attraction.  First off, I'm classifying this as a hard to find polish because the only place I have ever seen any Cuccio polishes are some of the random nail supply shops in Orange County.  Really, to get my hands on this polish I drove almost two hours.  I also hear that one of the nail supply shops in Las Vegas has them and Amazon does too.  But then Amazon is expensive.  



Chemical Attraction is a pink tinted glitter topper with a gold shimmer and rose toned metallic hexes.  The glitter dispersement on this polish was fantastic.  I painted one coat of Chemical Attraction over Rimmel's Caramel Cupcake for the picture and I loved just how even it was.  It is also completely opaque in two to three coats.  I would have included a picture of it, but the metallic properties of this polish made is so very difficult to photograph.  

If you're interested in this polish, head over to yelp.com and search "nail supply" in your area.  You never know, maybe you'll find a fantastic shop that has these.  

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Untried Wednesday: Essie Coat Couture

Happy Wednesday all!  The week's halfway over and the weekend is coming!  The first day back after a long weekend is always hectic at work, so I'm hoping today I get a breather and some time to catch up.  Probably not.

Today I have Essie's Coat Couture from the 2015 Cashmire Matte collection.  Originally, I was not interested in these polishes at all.  I was just not into the matte crazy that had been going around.  They all just looked like polishes in my collection, but matte.  Really, I don't wear matte polish, I always top coat.  A perfectly glossy manicure just does things to me.  ;)  So what's the point?  Fortunately I was gifted to of them by my polish wifey.  She knows me better than I do.  


Coat Couture is a purpley gray with blue shimmer running through it.  The formula was smooth and easy to work with.  It was almost completely opaque in one coat, but I did have the odd patch, so I did two coats.  It's just such a pretty color and the blue shimmer almost coats everything in a flash.


I did want to include a picture of Coat Couture glossy.  The blue shimmer is more defined this way.  Either way it is a gorgeous polish and I loved wearing it.

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)


Monday, May 25, 2015

Mani Monday: Memorial Day Mani

To those of you reading this in the US, Happy Memorial Day.  To everyone else, happy Monday!


Today I have a more subtle patriotic mani than what I usually go for.  I guess that's what happens when I let Mr. LacquerVixen pick.  I used Zoya Purity, Illamasqua Phallic, some Vinyl Boutique Dream Catcher stencils, and some tiny red rhinestones.  


I painted Purity on my middle and ring fingers, then Phallic on the other three.  Both were pretty much one coaters with the odd bit of touching up on random nails.  Once Purity had completely dried, I placed the dream catcher stencils on my nails and painted over them with Phallic.  The stencils were okay to work with.  Most of the extra bits do come off on their own, unlike other ones I had tried before.  I did have a little bit of bleeding under the vinyls on my ring finger, so I had to go in with a brush to fix it.  Once my nails were dry enough, I did go over them with top coat and then pressed a small red rhinestone in the center of the design while the polish was still wet.

If you want to check out Vinyl Boutique, you can find the storefront here.  They do have some pretty cool designs.


 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Swatch Saturday: Polish My Life Flower Power

Happy long weekend guys!  This could not have come any sooner.  I am so looking forward to sleeping, playing with polish and catching up on my shows.  So excited!


Today's Swatch Saturday is a quick one.  This is Polish My Life's Flower Power from the 2015 Spring Collection, All Things Vintage.  It is a slightly blue toned pastel purple cream that was opaque in two coats.  In the bottle there was a slight shimmer that did not transfer to the nail.  The formula was slightly patchy on one coat, but was perfect at two.  Surprisingly I did not have any dupes in my collection, but there were two similar colors.  



If you are interesting in Flower Power or checking out other Polish My Life polishes, you can find the storefront here.  I know I want the two other greens from the Spring collection.


 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Friday, May 22, 2015

Hard to Find Friday: Bliss Polish Swing into Spring

Hey all, sorry this is so late.  It's been a chaotic couple of days at work.  Hopefully I'll get some good news soon and I get a reason to celebrate.  That's all I'm going to say right now because I don't want to mess with the juju, but I'm closing my fingers.


Yay!  Bliss Polish.  Heads up guys, right off the bat, if you want either of these colors head over to Bliss Polish RIGHT NOW. The entire Swing into Spring collection is being retired and are on sale.  Get them before they're gone!


First off we have Sprout, a pastel grass green with a subtle shimmer.   The formula is smooth and even, if not a bit sheer.  I used three coats for complete opacity.  Strangely, I don't own anything in my collection this color.


I also have Kite Flying, which is my favorite one.  This color called out to me the most.  It is a very pretty blue with a gold shimmer that dries to a matte finish.  I do have top coat on in the picture.  This formula was also sheer, but smooth.  I used three coats in the picture, but if your nails are shorter you would probably be fine with just two coats.  Kite Flying is one of those polishes that even gets comments from the nail polish casuals.  This is the one I would suggest going for.  RIGHT NOW.


As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Random Post: Pretty Serious Rooftop Soiree Collection

Woo!  Look at me being so productive and on top of the blog.  Two Random Posts in a week?  It's unbelievable!  I'm on a roll here.


Today I have two polishes from the Pretty Serious Winter 2014 collection called Rooftop Soiree.  In case you haven't see any Pretty Serious polishes before, they come in these adorable boxes that are always themed after the collections.  Generally, I don't keep the boxes that polishes come in, but these are so cute that they'll be sticking around a while.


The two polishes that stuck out to me the most are Cocktail Bar and Red Carpet Treatment. Most of the polishes in this collection are glitters in a jelly base and these were the two that stuck out at me the most.


First off I have Cocktail Bar, a mix of large blue, medium green, and small blue hexes in a teal base.  It was opaque in two coats and the glitter dispersed very evenly.  The glitters in both of these polishes were very reflective, to the point that they did not like to be photographed.  


Red Carpet Treatment is a mix of red hexes and iridescent glitters in a red base.  The glitter dispersement was the same in this polish as Cocktail Bar.  I used two coats for complete opacity, but I do think that a third coat would have deepened the red.  I was obsessed with this polish.  If glitter wasn't such a pain to take off, I would be wearing this a lot more.  

If you are interested in checking out other polishes from the Rooftop Soiree collection, or other Pretty Serious polishes, you can find the storefront here.

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Untried Wednesday: KB Shimmer Myth You Lots

Happy hump day everyone!  I hope you all are having a great week so far.  Me?  I'm so ready for this three day weekend.  I just love bank holidays.  Now if only we were going somewhere and taking advantage of it.... ;-P


Today I have KB Shimmer's Myth You Lots.  This has been sitting in my untried basket for way longer than I would like to admit.  I went through a duochrome phase for a good long while and this was one of the polishes that I had been lusting after the most.


Myth You Lots shifts from purple to blue to gold and green with holographic glitter.  It took three sheer coats to be opaque.  The holo was strong and scattered.  The shift was not really the best with this one, in my opinion.  Duochromes are generally difficult to capture in photos, but in real life I didn't have much of a shift.  Maybe I'm just spoiled at this point with the I Love Nail Polish multichromes, but I'm meh on Myth You Lots.

If you're interested in checking out this polish or maybe other KB Shimmer, you can find the storefront here.


 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)


Monday, May 18, 2015

Mani Monday: Herringbone Accent

Happy Monday all!  Hope everyone is doing well.  I have something a little different for everyone today for my mani.  I am not an artist, not by a log shot.  That's why I have a writing degree and I count money all day.  I like words, I'm good at numbers, but art?  Not my thing at all.  So today I tried to do a freehand design.  Really, I just like to make things difficult for myself.



I painted my nails with three coats of OPIs Do You Have This Color in Stock-holm and my accent is  two coats of ORLYs Mirrorball.  I then used a nail art brush to draw two vertical lines on my middle nail and then alternating diagonal lines between the vertical ones in Mirrorball.   Honestly, I can't paint a straight line to save my life, so I actually went in quite a bit with Do You Have This Color in Stock-holm to neaten my lines.  Over all, this was relatively easy, it just took a little bit of patience.  I would not be able to paint all of my nails this way, but it is nice for an accent.




 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Random Post: Virago Varnish Enchanting Sirens

Happy Sunday!  I'm so excited for brunch today guys.  I am going to grub, so hard.  I keep saying that I have a wedding dress sitting in my dad's closet for me to wear and it's because of days like today.  Most days I have to be really good so I can go ham on special occasions.  


Today I have two polishes from Virago Varnish's Enchanting Sirens collection.  This is a new to my collection brand, but I've been seeing these polishes on YouTube for a while now. These two made me finally bite the bullet and make an order.  


This first one is Entice, a plum jelly with gold holographic glitters.  Yeah, I said that, GOLD holo.  As much as I love holographic polishes, silver Spectraflair does become a bit repetitive.  This was a very nice change of pace.  It took two coats to be completely opaque.  I loved just how blingy this polish was.  I caught myself being distracted by my nails, a lot.  


The other polish I have today is Harmony.  It is a black jelly with the same gold holographic glitters as Entice.  I adored this polish just as much as Entice, but the formula was a took a bit more finessing.  While it was opaque at two coats, the black base looked more gray, so I had to add a coat.  Also with this one, since it is so dense with holo, the brush became packed with glitter and it was difficult to apply properly.  It took a bit more clean up than I normally have to do.  If you have a little bit of patience, this polish is totally worth it.

If you are interested in Virago Varnish, you can find the storefront here.


 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Swatch Saturday: Painted Polish by Lexi Trashed on Teal

Happy Saturday everyone!  Guess what?  There's a surprise today here on LacquerVixen.  Can you guess what it is?  Let me know if you notice a difference down below in the comment section.  :-)


Today I have Painted Polish's Trashed on Teal.  It is a dark teal jelly with larger holographic bits in it.  Being a jelly, the formula was sheer and a touch streaky.  The first coat was streaky, second still left my nails a little sheer, so I ended up needing a third.  As I have mentioned before, three coats for a jelly is par for the course, so I'm not upset.  :-P



If you are interested in Painted Polish by Lexi you can check out her storefront here.  She did just come out with a new nautical themed collection that I've been eyeballing and she has lots of other very pretty colors.  

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Friday, May 15, 2015

Hard to Find Friday: Rainbow Honey Neon Blossom

Happy Friday all! I hope your week was nice and that you have some nice weekend plans. I'm going to watch Avengers Age of Ultron again and I'm hitting the buffet with Mr. LacquerVixen for our 6 year anniversary. Yay!


Today I have Rainbow Honey's Neon Blossom for you. It is a neon yellow and pink glitter topper with square and flower shaped pieces.  For the picture I used one coat and it was an okay formula. The little pieces were easy to get on my nails, but the big blossom glitters required fishing.  I don't love this polish. I just wasn't that impressed. I am not sure what I expected from this polish, but it was probably more oomph.  I want to blame it on the big, chunky flower shaped glitters, but I own a few chunky glitters that I adore.

Neon Blossom is no longer available, but if you are curious to see what else Rainbow Honey has (like their fantastic body care items) you can check them out here.

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Untried Wednesday: Dollish Polish You've Got Red on You

Happy Hump Day!  I hope everyone's week is going well, if not, then just remember we're half way to the weekend!


Today's polish comes from Dollish Polish's newest collection, the Cult Movie Classics and is inspired by the movie Shawn of the Dead.  Fun fact, Shawn of the Dead is supposed to be part of a trilogy called The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy (because they always have a different kind of Cornetto in each movie) which also includes Hot Fuzz and The World's End.  Mr. LacquerVixen loves Shawn of the Dead, but personally I prefer Hot Fuzz.  So as soon as I heard that Dollish Polish was going to have a polish named after one of my best guy's favorite movies, I had to have it.  

It is a dark red jelly base full of small red glitters.  One coat paints on smoothy, if not sheer, but two is opaque.  It dries to a dull, textured finish so I did have to add a coat of top coat to smooth it out.  But if you do look on my middle finger, you can still see a bit of texture.  I did really like this polish.  Maybe if was the darker shade of red, but this one didn't shock me on my nails quiet as much as a true red tends to.  

If you are interested in checking out You've Got Red on You, or any other polishes from this collection, you can find Dollish Polish's store here.  

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)


Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Random Post: Essie Wedding Collection

Wow, look at me with all these posts with relatively new collections and polishes.  I know, shocker.  As I've mentioned before, I go through phases with polish.  For a while I'll get bored and be unimpressed with the new stuff coming out.  Or I'll see my basket of untried polishes and feel bad that I have so many.  And then something will click for me and I'll go shopping crazy.  I've boughten so many new polishes this past month, it's pretty bad.  Shhhh don't tell.  ;-P

Today I have the 2015 Essie Wedding Collection.  It is made up of four sheer, neutral colored polishes and two bright colors.  I picked up the three that spoke to me the most.  Over all the colors look very nice in the bottle and the lace design on the bottle cap is very cute.  


First off, I have Brides No Grooms.  It is a bright pink cream with just a touch of jelly that dried to a glossy finish.  It took two coats for complete opacity on my nails.  The formula was smooth and very easy to work with.  I have only minimal clean up with all of the polishes.  It is a fun party color or a nice toe color.  I would say that I wouldn't wear something like that on my nails for my wedding, but then I'm planning on wearing a dark plum holo for my special day.  :-P


This orange tined red cream is Happy Wife Happy Life.  As soon as I saw these polishes I needed this one, and I have no shame in saying that it was entirely because of the name.  I love the color red, but I am never really drawn to red polish.  I think it looks weird on my nails, I do love it on my toes though.  This polish is just the right shade of red that I do not mind it on my nails.  ;-)  It was two coats for complete opacity.  


Finally, I have Hubby for Desert and this was the polish that surprised me the most.  It is a pale, lilac cream jelly.  I had gotten it thinking that it would be a good neutral color that was just slightly different enough to not be boring.  Little did I know that this formula was fantastic.  It was so smooth and leveled out perfectly to a squishy crelly formula.  I did one coat on my index and middle fingers and two on my others because I wanted to show just how smooth it was.  Normally polishes like these are very patchy and streaky.  A minimum of three difficult coats is usually par for the course.  But with Hubby for Desert, two coats are completely opaque and one coat is so smooth that I don't really mind the visible nail line.  I foresee this polish coming out a lot when I need just a clean, palette cleansing mani.

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)


Monday, May 11, 2015

Mani Monday: French Tips

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone is having a great day so far.  Today, for Mani Monday I thought I'd go with a slight twist on a classic and do a french tip mani.  Let me know what you think!


For my base I used three coats of Cuccio Color's Los Angeles Luscious which is a sheer nude toned polish with a lot of gold shimmer.  Once it was completely dry I used my usual Nail Vinyls in the Single Chevron design to outline the tips of my nails and painted on one quick coat of Zoya's Purity.  

I only kept this manicure on long enough to take pictures.  Honestly,  am really not a french tip kind of girl.  They're just not my thing.  I do think that it is a nice combination and I think it would look great on many other people, but on me it's just meh.

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)


Saturday, May 9, 2015

Swatch Saturday: Color Club Kapow!

Happy Mother's Day weekend everyone!  I hope you are having a nice one and get to spoil those lovely ladies in your lives.  I did the three hour plus trek up to my Madre last night so I'm spending the weekend with her. I foresee it being exhausting.  


For today's swatch I have for you Color Club's Kapow! from the 2014 Poptastic Collection.  It is a bright, neon pink with a blue shimmer.  I used two coats for my picture and it is just as bright in real life as what you see, and that is without the need of a white base. This polish is quite possibly my favorite pink.  I had been on a mission to find a pink polish with blue shimmer that was not sheer for a long time and this is finally it.  The formula for Color Club polishes are usually fantastic and this one does not disappoint.  Excuse me while I go buy more Color Club neons.

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Friday, May 8, 2015

Hard to Find Friday: Urban Decay Zodiac

Happy Friday everyone!  This week is finally over.  In case you did not already know, the beginning of the month at a bank is always hectic.  Between rent, mortgage payments, payday, social security, and credit card payments you're lucky if you get a moment to breathe.  So I am glad I finally get a couple of days off and some time to play with my nail polish.  :-)


Today I have for you Urban Decay's Zodiac.  It is a blackened green shimmer that took three coats to be completely opaque.  If you are not as picky as I am, two coats probably would have been enough, but I did find the odd patch on my nails.  I really like this color and the effect it has.  It looks almost reptilian on my nails.  I bought this polish on clearance at Nordstom Rack a few months ago, so I'm not sure if it would still be there.  If you do manage to find it, I would pick it up.  And besides, the bottle is cute.  

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Untried Wednesday: Glam Polish Swatches

Hey all, I have some very exciting swatches for you guys today.  In my latest polish binge I bit the bullet and ordered some Glam Polish.  Exciting!


This first polish is Desperate Souls.  It is a dark purple linear holo that took two coats for complete opacity.  This kind of color is not unique to my collection by a long shot, but I love me some dark purple holos.  The formula on this was super smooth and easy to work with.  It could have potentially been opaque with one thick coat, but I prefer two thin ones in general.  


This is Kilauea from The Over the Rainbow Part 3 collection.  Being as it was Hawaii themed, I had to have it, along with the next polish.  It is a black jelly with holo glitter and iridescent flakes.  The formula was really nice and smooth.  I reached opacity with two coats.  The first coat was pretty sheer, and the second coat builds it up very nicely.  


Finally I have Ohana from the Over the Rainbow Part 1 collection.  It is described as a "dark cherry red" holo with iridescent flakes.  The formula was just as good as Kilauea and was opaque in two coats.  I probably would not call it a red, to me it's a bit too pink, maybe raspberry.  The flakes in both of these polishes make them really unique to my collection and I adore all of them.  I'm already queueing up my next order!

 As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Monday, May 4, 2015

Mani Monday: Turquoise Stone

Happy new week everyone!  I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  I really wish I didn't have to go to work today because I could really use a day to recover from my weekend.  


These are the nails I wore for my Polished San Diego one year meet up for Saturday. Our theme was turquoise so my plan was to do a sort of turquoise stone manicure.  It didn't quite work out the way I had planned, but I like it.  I painted my nails with two coats of OPI My Dogsled is a Hybrid to start off. Then I took a balled up piece of Seran Wrap and painted some of my usual Cult Nails Fetish on to the wrinkles.  I dabbed off some the excess polish before dabbing it onto my nails.  I did the same with Sally Hansen Go for Gold.  So what do you all think?


As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Random Post: OPI Hawaii Swatchfest

Happy weekend everyone!  I hope you're having a great time.  Today I bring half of the OPIs Spring 2015 Hawaii collection.  I had been going through a rut lately, unimpressed with all of the new collections.  All of the holiday collections bored me with so many reds (OPI) left me uninterested.  But then I started seeing pictures and live swatch videos of the Hawaii collection and felt that itch.  These were the ones I had to snag.


This first one is Aloha from OPI.  It is a bright orange cream that was opaque in two coats.  I am not an orange person at all, I may own like three different oranges, but I kind of needed this one.  I don't know if it was the brightness or the cute name, but I think it's totally worth owning.  


This is another one of those colors that I don't really wear.  Go with the Lava Flow is a coral with gold shimmer that was opaque in three coats.  This was the only polish that needed a third coat, at least from the ones I picked up.  This one is pretty different from my collection, so I'm glad to have it.  


Hello Hawaii-Ya? is a dusty purple cream that was opaque in two coats.  It is more of a blue based purple than my beloved Zoya Odette, so I totally needed both of them.  Absolutely necessary.  


This two coat dusty rose cream is called Just Lanaii-ing Around.  There is a touch of silver shimmer that shows up in the bottle, disappears on the nail, reappears with top coat, and doesn't show up on the camera.  It is a very pretty color.  Looks like OPI is bringing out all the dusty colors for spring this year, not that I mind, I don't have very many in my collection.  


Lost my Bikini in Molokini is a bright purple cream that was opaque in two coats.  I love me some purple and this one may be my favorite from the collection.  It is simple in it's beauty and sometimes you need that from a polish.


The final polish I got was That's Hula-rious!  It is a pastel neon green that is so currently popular.  I wanted to love this one so much.  The color is great and it was completely opaque in two coats, but the polish almost shatters on your nails.  I've noticed that with very white based OPI polishes I get spiderweb cracks on the polish.  I got the most compliments on this color than all the others in this collection, but the cracks bugged me.

As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)



Saturday, May 2, 2015

Swatch Saturday: Sally Hansen Satin Glam Teal Tulle

Happy Saturday everyone!  If you're reading this on Saturday, hopefully I'm either nail polish shopping or stuffing my face with crab legs and desert at one of casino buffets here in San Diego.  Nom nom nom.  Today's Swatch Saturday polish is a drugstore one that I had picked up on clearance at Target, but I still see at random stores.


This is Teal Tulle from the Sally Hansen Satin Glam line.  It is a one coat shimmery teal polish that dries to a matte finish.  The shimmer does give it a satin/velvet look similar to the Zoya Matte Velvet polishes.  It is a very pretty polish, but I would not buy it at full price.  The full price of these are about $5 and as you may be able to tell, it is only a .33 fl oz bottle.  That's pretty much a mini.  For a sale or clearance price, it is totally worth it though. 

In case you were curious, the picture below does show Teal Tulle with top coat on my middle and ring fingers.  I almost like it better with the top coat.  


As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)



Friday, May 1, 2015

Hard to Find Friday: Bliss Like Totally

Happy Friday everyone.  I hope you all have some fun weekend plans.  I know my weekend is going to be super super busy.  We have a Padres game tonight, I have a polish meet up tomorrow, and then we have a cake tasting on Sunday.  This is going to be an expensive and fattening weekend.  -.-


Today I have Bliss Polish's Like Totally from her 2014 summer collection.  It is a fantastically bright, neon green holo.  Bliss Polish was hoping to bring this polish back this summer, but the pigment used for it does not mix well at all.  It is super chunky and leaves pigment clots, no matter how she mixes it.  Fortunately, her new Freestyle Summer collection that released yesterday has a neon green holo.  It is a touch lighter than Like Totally, but hopefully if you need this, that will do.  You can find her store front here.  It took three coats for complete opacity.  My middle finger does look like there is nail line, but that is actually from a gel polish mishap.

I like to wear a neutral colored gel as my base for my manis and when I get bored I just change out the polish on top.  It gives my nails and extra bit of strength and when I'm not swatching, the polish actually lasts longer on my nails.  Well recently I tried a new base coat that worked a little too well.  So well that I have patches of gel polish I can't get off my nails.  They were filed down and buffed as smooth as I could get them.  I'm just hoping that they come off over time and I don't have to wait for my nails to grow out.


As the usual kind reminder, these products were purchased with my own money.  I am not cool enough to have companies send me free stuff to review them. ;)