Nfu-Oh 61 + Giveaway Winners

First order of business, I finally got through the entries and have selected winners for my giveaway! The winner of Prize 1 is Tropical Chrome, and Prize 2 goes to Peripatetic 33. Congratulations to these lovely ladies, and a big thank you goes to everyone who participated! Blogging would definitely not be as fun without ya'll. ^_^


  Second order of business is to show the polish I wore all of last week. Recently, I've been craving holo polish, and after wearing a few that were on the disappointing side, I decided that it was time to bust out the big guns. So I dug into my pile of polishes that I'm saving for something special (LOL) and came up with Nfu-Oh 61. Behold! (But please excuse the chips. These were taken after a week of wear). 

Nfu-Oh 61 is a clean silver polish with a strong linear holographic effect. 

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       I know people are not strangers to Nfu-Oh 61, so I'm just gonna say that it's glorious, and if you love holos and are looking for a relative affordable and strong linear one, this would be it. It looks amazing all the time, even indoors, and I got a million compliments on it. This is the only one I have from their line of holos, and I think I'm going to go back and get a couple of more. Maybe the blue one. 
     I applied Nfu-Oh over Jessica Cosmetic's Aqua Base, so I didn't struggle too much with application. It was a bit tough getting it smooth, because it dries so fast and is prone to dragging. But putting a little more on the brush than you need, working quickly and lightly, and letting the polish dry fully between coats should take care of that. Incidentally, I would also recommend investing in an aqua base for this though...it really makes the holo pop and eases application. 

This is Nfu-Oh 61 without the aqua base, and even though the holo is still present and nice, it's not comparable to what showed up in the previous pictures. And it took four coats of polish to get this level of smoothness in the polish, compared to two with aqua base. So get yourself some aqua base! 

And for topcoat in the pictures, I am using Sally Hansen Hard as Nails. The holo still looks good, and for a week's time, I thought the wear was pretty good. 

And that's all from me today!! I hope everyone is having a nice Saturday, and thanks for reading!!

Confetti Tasmanian Devil

     Hi guys! The past week has been really hard, so I wanted to wear something festive and fun. I couldn't think of anything, but then I noticed Confetti Tasmanian Devil sitting on a shelf, and decided to just put it on. 

Tasmanian Devil is really complicated. There's purple, green, orange, blue, gold, and silver large and medium sized hex glitter. And in between all of that is a bunch of square silver microglitter. I also noticed some triangular pieces of glitter in there, although those were few and far between. 

It has a clear base, but I layered it over Diamond Cosmetics Matte Black. 

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       Tasmanian Devil is such a party polish. It's so super blingy, and I love how all the colors of glitter catch and reflect the light. I do think that the microglitter made it look a little messy though...I would have liked it with just the large and medium glitter. But the microglitter does give great coverage and helps set Tasmanian Devil apart from the other numerous DL Happy Birthday! incarnations. 

    Tasmanian Devil was also very easy to work with. I used two layers of it, and they went on really smoothly and dried very quickly. I went to wash some plates about 20 minutes after applying this, and it still looked perfect when I was done. 

But that's all I have for you guys today! Thanks for reading, and have a awesome Wednesday!

Revlon Starry Pink

    For today, I have another pink for breast cancer awareness month. This time, it's Revlon Starry Pink from their fall Expressionist Collection.  

Starry Pink is a super pale baby pink jelly base with lots of large and small silver hex glitter.

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   Starry Pink is really cute, dreamy, and soft. It reminds me of when I was a kid and used to pretend to be a princess in a castle in the sky. Yeah...I've kind of been a loser since birth, but that's okay. The only bad thing about Starry Pink is that it only really looks good at one or two coats. Anything more started looking kind of gross and lumpy, so going forward, I'll just save this one for layering. 

   Formula-wise, it's the same thing. Starry Pink went on fine for the first two coats, but around the third and fourth, it started feeling goopy and draggy on the nail. I waited between coats, but it was still like that...maybe I should have waited longer? Idk. But anyway, the pictures are with four coats of polish and two of topcoat.

And that's all from me today! Thanks for reading, and have a great Tuesday! 

 (Icon courtesy of  lizbot)

A-England Sale!! Also, A Bit of Spam

Hi guys!! Sorry for poofing again, I've been really sick and then had midterms to boot. As a result, my nails look like absolute crap. So instead of showing you guys something new today, I thought it would be fun to be a polish pusher instead.


So to that effect, A-England is having a sale!! They recently got to 7000 fans (yay!) and because Ms. Adina loves us so much, she's reducing her gorgeous creations to 7 pounds (about $11 if you're American) for one glorious weekend. I might not be getting anything because of some unforeseen expenses, but it's a really good opportunity to test out the brand or pick up some lemmings.


Now for some spam. 
First is King Arthur:

Next is Merlin:

Then Lady of the Lake. I was hoping reswatch this sometime this weekend, but for now, this will have to do:

And my personal favorite, Tristam!

In summary, A-England makes awesome stuff and they're selling them for less this weekend, so if possible, you should get some. Yeah. 

But that's all from me today! Thanks for reading, and have a beautiful Saturday!

Deborah Lippmann Today Was a Fairytale

Hi guys! For today, I have Today Was a Fairytale, from Deborah Lippmann's Winter 2010 Collection. I haven't worn some hardcore glitter in a while, so it was time.
Also, all these pictures are with artificial light and no flash because DC hasn't had any sunlight in like 500 years. I'll probably add some sunlit pictures at a later date (if I don't forget/am too lazy) because glitter is nothing without sunlight. 

Today Was a Fairytale (or TWaF as it shall henceforth be known) is a barely blue tinted base packed with big and small silver hex glitter. 

And here's a bottle shot, because I feel the first picture doesn't really show the detail well. 

       When TWaF first came out, I was not impressed. It was too expensive, seemed uninspired, and worst of all, reminded me of Taylor Swift, who I cannot stand. But beauty.com had a good sale, and I decided to pick it up despite my misgivings. Now that I have it on my nails, I feel kind of bad for dismissing it so quickly, because it's actually a little bit awesome. The glitter is super blingy and the different sizes give it some great visual texture. They also did a good job with the base, because it has just enough color for TWaF to look good on its own and layered over stuff. I really want to put it over New York Summer Amaranth for Slytherin-related reasons. But I stand by my assertion that the virgin diamond dust thing is some bullshit, because it doesn't show up on the nail. Wtf is a virgin diamond though?

    TWaF's formula wasn't bad. It went on fairly smoothly for chunky glitter, dried fast, and as long as I waited a little bit between coats, the glitter wasn't prone to shifting about. In the pictures, I have on four coats of polish and two layers of topcoat and am happy with the coverage and smoothness. 

And finally, my 400 Follower Giveaway was supposed to end yesterday, but I'm going to extend it until Monday. So if you'd still like to enter, you have a little extra time for that.

But that's all from me today! Thanks for reading, and have an awesome Sunday!!

Sally Hansen Opulent Cloud

     Hi folks! As some of you may know, I have a slight problem when it comes to rare polish. After painfully lusting after them, hunting them down to the ends of the Earth and finally acquiring them, I can't bring myself to wear them. Instead, I keep them locked tightly in my polish drawer, only taking them out to gently caress them and make sure that they are okay. For today, I have one such polish, Sally Hansen Opulent Cloud.

Opulent Cloud is a silvery-lavender base with lots of golden shimmer.

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  Opulent Cloud is just okay for me. I like the slightly fuzzy finish the shimmer brings to it, as well as how Opulent Cloud seems to shift colors according to the lighting. It just has this really nice ephemeral and soft feel to it that I enjoy. But I don't like the actual color. It seems kind of dingy, and I don't think it flatters my skin at all. I'm still going to keep Opulent Cloud though, because it's not ugly and I put in way too many hours hunting it down. Letting it go would be like capturing a unicorn and then setting it free because it kicks you. Just silly, you know?

   Opulent Cloud's formula was also okay. It needed three coats to be perfectly opaque, and went on pretty smoothly, without bubbling, dragging, or brushstrokes. 

And that's all from me today! Thanks for reading, and enjoy your Labor Day!