OPI: Your Web Or Mine

OPI :Your Web Or Mine

Quick Nail Of The Day. Today I'm wearing OPI Your Web or Mine from the Spiderman Collection. I just felt like today was a good day for a frosty pink. I usually don't care much for anything remotely frosty.

OPI Your Web Or Mine

Here it is in the bottle. For some reason my pictures are making this lean much more warm toned pink than it is. I thought it might be similar to Orly Sterling Silver Rose, but it's more salmon-y than that. 

OPI Your Web Or Mine (ring finger  - NOPI Step To The Beat of My Heart)

And on the nails. It's a pretty color but not very unique. Somehow I felt as if I allowed my entire manicure to be this color it would be too boring so I painted my ring finger blackened glitter with Orly After Party and then put NOPI Step 2 The Beat of My Heart over that. Yes, A Justin Bieber themed polish...I know don't tell my adult friends. I had to pick and place the hearts but they were still fun. Smoothed everything out with a coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dry top coat and this was the final result. So shiny I can practically see my reflection! I wore this mani for 2 days with no tip wear but alas I'm a fickle chick so tomorrow the frosty pink has to go. It may or may not be clashing with my new highlights which are bright red/magenta...story for another day.

Urban Decay Lip Junkie: Crush

OK so here's the thing. I'm still working out this "blogging" thing, and I find that perhaps due to my ADD shorter posts will keep me posting more frequently. I'm one of those people who starts a project...starts another one...forgets first project (remembers, gets annoyed with self, runs back to first project because they don't want to give up)...you get the picture. And I don't want to relinquish this blog because makeup is my BABY (aside from my real babies of course). So here goes:

Urban Decay Lip Junkie

"Crush" in tube

Here it is in the color "Crush". This is the full size tube and the first "high end" lipgloss I've ever dropped 20 bucks on. I don't regret it at all! This is my favorite gloss!

Lip Junkie in "Crush" on my lips

As you can see it's not so pigmented that it screams pink but it definitely is a nice color. Lip Junkie is a plumping gloss, and I never would've seen myself purchasing a plumping gloss as my lips are already plenty "plump" but I received a sample in the color "Naked" with my Naked 2 palette and after using it a couple times I was totally hooked. I don't feel like it plumps as much as it smooths out the fine lines on the surface of my lips which I like. Also the tingly minty sensation is pleasant and smells nice. I don't find this gloss to be "too sticky" but it is the type to get your hair stuck in on a windy day. There's always a tossup between stickiness and staying power and if you ask me this is just the right balance. You won't have to reapply every hour.

I give this gloss an: A

Definite repurchase. I'm already half empty and all of my other glosses are getting neglected but I want another!

OPI: If you Moust you Moust

 

So I hadn't written in awhile. Busy bartending etc, but as it turns out I couldn't stand the politics of the bar I was at and I sorta quit. Whatevs, now we can discuss polish. Here we have today OPI If you Moust you Moust from the Minnie Mouse collection. This is the only polish I picked up from this collection, mostly because the whole collection was pink and Pink polishes totally dominate my collection.

 

 As you can see here IYMYM is a pretty creamy blue toned pink. I've seen it compared to OPI Pink Friday and it's much darker while being more cool pastel than OPI Strawberry Margarita. Formula was good not perfect but definitely professional quality. Two coats was enough to cover the nail line. You may or may not have noticed the dent/ding on my pointer finger. This occured like almost an hour after I painted my nails with two coats OPI and one coat of "fast dry" top coat by "Best Nail Treatments". Fast dry my ass right? I have more complaints about this top coat later.

On my ring finger I used Essie Navigate Her, but then I smudged the tip so I made like a funky French tip with the IYMYM and a white nail art pen. Funny side note: I read in some article I stumbled upon that putting a different color on the ring finger signals to lesbians that you're A. also lesbian, and B. into "femme" lesbians. This made me laugh, because I've been doing this for years and I think I'm straight...but if I were gonna be a lesbian I'd admittedly want to date "femme types". Yeah, this post got way off track.

OPI If You Moust You Moust, Essie Navigate Her, Best Nail Treatments Top Coat

So here is that topcoat I was complaining about. I picked this up on clearance at Ocean State Job lot. Now before you think "she got what she paid for" as a disclaimer I always purchase my FAVORITE top coat here which is the discontinued Borghese Presto top coat. Sometimes I can get two for three dollars and it makes my penny-pinching day. This top coat I used today...not even worth a dollar. I'll probably throw it away. In addition to not being fast drying it totally causes shrinkage which I've never even experienced before and horrendous bubbling. Maybe this was a bad batch and that's why it was on clearance but I would avoid it in the future. Apparently this is the same company that makes "Posh" nail treatments so I won't buy that one either most likely.

In conclusion: OPI IYMYM = Good

Best Nail Treatment Topcoat = Bad

Orly: Preamp

Orly: Preamp

 

A Review of Preamp from Orly's Fall 2012 collection

L'Oreal Amazon's Flare

 L'Oreal Amazon's Flare feat Essie A Cut Above

 

Today's nail of the day is L'Oreal Amazon's Flare in a jelly "sammich" with Essie A Cut above. I used 1 coat of Amazon's Flare followed by one coat of A Cut Above followed by an additional coat of AF, all topped with Borghese Presto Top Coat for shine. 

L'Oreal Amazon Flare

I picked up Amazon's Flare in the discount bin at Ocean State Job Lot (which is for those of you who don't know a discount store in New England that carries lots of random stuff that changes on a weekly basis). Only 2 dollars, so I didn't feel bad adding to my ever growing collection of polish and it was such a pretty pink how could I resist?

L-R: L'Oreal Amazon's Flare, Essie A Cut Above, Borghese Presto

 The formula was fine for a jelly. I knew what I was getting myself into. Very buildable coverage that makes me want to use this polish again for a "syrup nails" type manicure. This was my first jelly sandwich mani but it came out so cute I want to try it again with different colors. Because I used pink glitter and a pink jelly polish it is kind of reminiscent of a flaky top coat manicure but with only pink tones. Really pretty, like a pink Koi fish or something.

Indoors with natural lighting

This was my first time using Essie A Cut Above. I feel that there is a liberal amount of glitter allowing you to only use one coat and still get glamorous coverage. In fact, I'll probably pick up Set In Stones (the silver equivalent) when I get a chance. I used Borghese Presto Top coat to help dry the layers faster and add some luster. This is my all time favorite top coat. No shrinkage, no bald spots just quick deep drying clear top coat. I also found this in the bin at Ocean State Job Lot. I heard Borghese is actually discontinued so I made sure to grab like 5 of those top coats (which actually come free with the purchase of a Borghese Rapido color)... don't wanna run out you know ;) 

Amazon's Flare was part of L'Oreals Fall 2011 collection that all seems to be named after birds. Of the collection I found Amazon's Flare and Cockatoo Mystery and was happy with just those two as the rest of the collection seemed to be mostly golds and reds which are not my favorite. Cockatoo's Mystery is a cool toned grey which in bottle appears to maybe be a dupe of Orly Faint of Heart, but we'll see when I get around to swatching it!

Happy Painting Friends :)

Essie: Cascade Cool

Essie Cascade Cool

Alright so first up from my collection of unposted manicures: (as I've decided I mostly like reviewing polish) Essie Cascade Cool.

Cascade Cool is a bright pale pink that leans blue. It is a cream from Essie's Summer 2012 Bikini So Teeny line. I know it was meant for summer but once all the hot summer neon colors came out these pretty cremes just seemed to fall by the wayside in my collection. I haven't even gotten around to wearing Bikini So Teeny and the summer is half over :gasp:

 

Formula was the usual for Essie. Visible nail line with two coats and slightly streaky which evens out by the third coat. I really enjoyed this color as I was finished but was skeptical during coat 1 & 2. By the third coat I was feeling the Barbie Pink and decided to throw on a few gemstones for good measure!

 

I will definitely reach for this color again. I am a fiend for a good pink (as you will soon find out) and this one is super cute and goes with my skin (cool undertones). 

What do you think?