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Thursday, 15 August 2013

Big Earner by The Polished Mafia! Pictures, Swatches, Review!

Hello everyone!

I know, I know, I suck at blogging lately. But this post is about a polish that makes me want to shout from on top of a mountain about about much I love it!

This is Big Earner from the Mafia collection from The Polished Mafia. The creator, Sam, is actually a good friend of mine I met through the polish groups and she is so kind and SO talented. I actually am really proud to say I helped inspire this one! I wanted something green (obviously) that full of body and sparkle, but subtly luxurious, like money and jewels. Mmm.. Yeah. Like really expensive emeralds. I have been dreaming of a polish like this forever and Sam totally made my dream come true. It exceeded every expectation I had!

Big Earner is a lustrous emerald green holographic polish. This is two coats for extra oomph. It was super saturated with colour and sparkle. It has real depth to the colour, not totally a creme or metallic base, more.. shimmery. Easy to apply, it was a good thicker consistency and stayed where you put it while applying. No pooling or clumping. Nice and smooth. Of course my pictures don't do it justice, it has more of a linear effect in real life and I love how it sparkles. I also love that the holo is still prominent without totally changing or greying the emerald green. The colour still pops!

(Outside on a not-so-sunny day)







You can buy The Polished Mafia from her shop here: http://thepolishedmafia.storenvy.com/ :) She has a ton of beautiful colours ranging from holos and glitters to cremes and even a new collection of textured polishes! She even has mystery grab bags and will do custom polishes if there is something YOU have been dreaming about and want it to come true! I promise you will love them! I can't get enough!

Oh and here is my IG pics of Big Earner!!

Hope you love it as much as I do! Thanks for stopping by!


Thursday, 6 June 2013

a-England St George! Oh and I'm back!

Hi. *hangs head*
I've been gone for awhile, I know. But I am back now! I have a stunner today, a-England St. George. Holy crap, this is a good polish. Deep green-y teal. Perfect formula. Smooth and glides on. If you're careful it is a one coater. Its got a scattered holo that comes alive in the sun. It is super gorgeous!


a-England can no longer ship worldwide due to silly Royal Mail and their polish laws but it is available at Llarowe and Ninja polish :)

Thanks for reading!


Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Daring Digits Popped!

Hey polish people!

Today I am wearing Daring Digits Popped over Color Club Poptastic! The weather is starting to warm up here in NB (even though it just snowed two days ago....) but this manicure is perfect for this sunny day!

This has got little circular glitters in rainbow colors and bigger rainbow coloured shard glitters! When I say rainbow I literally mean rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue & purple :)

This is two coats of Popped and the glitter distributed nicely, I pushed some of the big ones around on the second coat to get the look I wanted. I like how this turned out, a different take on rainbow glitter. I like the randomness of the shards and I like the ratio of shard to little glitters!


Look how bright and happy this polish is? I am a huge fan. I am so happy to have this polish in my collection. It is a great colour for summer.

Something I love about Daring Digits is the size of the bottles and also the price. This is "mini bottle" and is 9ml! That means this will actually last me a long time. For reference a full size aEngland is 11ml, and a full size HITS is 8ml. This mini bottles are such a nice size. Her full size bottles are 16.5ml! That is a BIG bottle! Standard bottle size (OPI, CG, etc) is 15ml. Full size bottles retail for $8, and mini's for $4. The quality is great too. It is a great bang for your buck! Also her CS is great. When I had a question about my order, I had a response the very next day! She also runs some great sales, with reasonable shipping costs, even to Canada!

What do you think of this mani?
Thanks for reading!

Sunday, 7 April 2013

a-England Avalon! Swatch!

Hello!!

How did everyones weekend go? I went to the market and we finally saw a bit of good weather here in NB!

Today I'm showing you a-England Avalon from The Mythical Collection. Super gorgeous red toned purple shimmer. The purple shimmer has got a bit of red sparkle too. It has that quality that makes it super glowy. Incredibly pretty with a great formula. This is two coats!


I love it! What do you think?

Thanks for reading!

Saturday, 6 April 2013

Enchanted Polish Wish Me Good Luck Swatch

Heyooooooo

I know, I know.. Been a couple weeks since my last post. I'm back though! Hi!

Up to bat is Enchanted Polish Wish Me Good Luck. This is from the Love A Lot of Glitter collection, and its Care Bear themed! This one has got a clear base with lots of little sizes of green glitters and then black squares, bars, and huge hexes. I think there are also a few blue squares and iridescent glitters in there too.

It was a little thick but applied nicely enough. I put two coats over one coat of Elevation Torres de Paine. In theory, I should love this... green? black glitter? big glitter? iridescent glitter? It should be in the bag. And don't get me wrong, its super funky and cool. And pretty in its own right. I just am not feeling it as much as some of her other polishes I suppose. I guess I am not totally in love.

First picture is indoor lighting, second is with flash.



What do you think?

Thanks for reading!

Sunday, 24 March 2013

ManGlaze Nawsome Sauce Swatch!

Hello!

Todays post is Manglaze Nawsome Sauce! First of all, GREAT name from ManGlaze, as always. This is a emerald like matte green with silver shimmer! This is two coats and I chose to keep it matte :) I really love this one! Super pretty!



What do you think of this one? I love it!
Thanks for reading!

Thursday, 21 March 2013

OPI Ski Teal We Drop Swatch

Herroh!!

Today is just a quick post with one of my favourite teals! This is OPI Ski Teal We Drop. It came out with OPIs Swiss collection from fall of 2010! Its gorgeous. Two coats of shimmer teal goodness. Great formula.


Hope you like it! Thanks for reading :)

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

OPI The Impossible Swatch

Greetings!

Today I have one of the OPI "Liquid Sand" polishes to show you! This is The Impossible from the Mariah Carey collection. I got this as a Valentines Day gift from my Secret Cupid. I was so happy! <3 

This is two coats. It is a coral leaning red textured polish and is super bright. Brighter than my pictures show. There are some holo hex glitters in there that sparkle as well as the occasional big holographic star glitter! This took a bit longer to dry than I am used to because of the lack of fast-dry topcoat. It wore very well though, except a few of the stars came off (probably because my nails are pretty curved).



I like the look of this one and the texture didn't bother me at all (except the couple of stars that eventually fell off!) What do you think? I think its a great polish for the summertime :)

Thanks for reading!

Sunday, 17 March 2013

St Patricks Day Green Swatch SPAMMM!

Happy St Patricks Day!!!!!!
I'm drunk. Beer is awesome. Here is some green spam!!!!

Essie Navigate Her

 OPI Just Spotted The Lizard

 China Glaze Cling On

Nerd Lacquer No Medal For Chewie

Color Club Fly With Me

 Zoya Tracie

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover with Color Club Beyond The Mistle Toe Gradient

Layla Soft Touch Limoncello

 KB Shimmer Toucan Touch This

Essie Mojito Madness

Dollish 1-UP

China Glaze Agro with Dollish Hero Of Time

China Glaze Tree Hugger

aEngland Dragon

China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard

OPI Did It On Em with Lynnderella She Lived in a Swamp

OPI Did It On Em

Dollish Zombie Flesh

Nerd Lacquer All Of Time and Space

OPI Gargantuan Green Grape Matte

Color Club Holiday Splendor

 Kelara Dragon Scales 

Color Club Gingerbread Layered over Dragon Scales

 Zoya Meg

Nerd Lacquer Purely Logical

Elevation Torres De Paine

Koopa King Layered over the Elevation

OPI Fresh Frog of Belaire

Julep Leah

DL Almost Paradise

Color Club Twiggie

HARE Bisbee

China Glaze Glittering Garland

Lynnderella Funny Money

Rimmel London Camouflage 

OPI Here Today Argon Tomorrow Suede

Butter London Two Fingered Salute

Layla Emerald Divine

HITS HK Melon

Ninja Alexandrite with flash

 Klean Color Metallic Green

China Glaze Jolly Holly

Manglaze Nawsome Sauce

Enchanted Polish Green Peace on Earth

Happy St. Patricks Day to all...... and to all a good night!!!