NOTD Clarins 230 - AKA Unicorn Pee

Today I am showing off one of my most coveted and loved bottles of polish, Clarins 230. The long discontinued, VHTF and now extremely expensive on ebay polish is affectionately known in the nail polish world as unicorn pee, and for a very good reason. It is like a beautiful rainbow in a bottle!

To get 230 opaque on its own, I imagine it would take quite a few coats and I like to conserve this polish because I never EVER want to run out of it. Today I layered one coat of the awesomesauce over black. Here are some pictures taken outside  :)

Look at the pinky in the last one! You can really really see the green, orange and red on one nail!

I tried to capture the colour shift as best as I could.. from red to gold, and orange, and green! Next I'll try this over a vibrant purple or blue to bring out the base colour of the magnificent 230!

Thanks for stopping by!

Pretty & Polished Wine Night Out - Swatch & Review

It's a beautiful day.. sunny and perfect for a colour shifting topcoat!

I thought I would test out Pretty & Polished's Wine Night Out. I originally bought this bad boy simply for the name... I effing love wine, and I love going out... so it seemed to be a perfect fit. Then when I found out it was colour shifting I knew it was meant to be :D

The colour shifting particles in this one seem to be different than glitter, and different than shimmer.. but very glitter-like. Smaller, all uniformly shaped, and densely packed in a clear base.

The colour shift starts at a blue & purple at most angles, and changes to pink, red, orange and yellow. The shift is very very obvious in real life, and it is incredibly sparkly in the sun. I wish I could have captured the true beauty of it in photos. Trust me, its gorgeous.

This is one very easy coat over black. The pictures are both indoors and outdoors and at lots of different angles.

This polish is super unique to my collection and I wish I got the full size. It is really awesome and super pretty. I'm going to try it over a lighter colour next for a different effect :)

OPI Spidermen Collection, Just Spotted The Lizard & - My Boyfriend Scales Walls Swatches

Holy moly, when I heard OPI was coming out with a Spiderman inspired collection I could barely keep my composure. Like.. needed to breathe into a paperbag and shove my head between my knees excited. I love spiderman so much. The kids I babysit and I used to play spiderman together all the time. I usually got stuck being Doctor Octopus or Sandman :P Just once, I wanted to be the good guy! Hahaha

I wanted to be knocked off my feet by this collection, I wanted to be floored with amazingness. Unfortunately for me, (fortunate for my wallet) .. I didn't really enjoy many of the polishes.. and I didn't feel they were very original or representative of Spiderman at all!! In my dream Spiderman collection there would be a cobalt jelly! An eye searing red! A sandy nude with black flecks! A dirty medium green shimmer! And thats just a few ideas that do scream spiderman to me.. not the frosty pink and random orange that OPI came up with. Okay Ill stop ranting now because I do really like OPI and I do like that they collaborated to make this collection (Nail polish and superheros are two of my very favourite things!!!)

Anyway the two colors I did pick up from the collection were Just Spotted the Lizard (a dupe for Chanel Peridot!) and My Boyfriend Scales Walls (a grey toned white).

Just Spotted the Lizard- A gold to olive-y green duo-chrome with a bit of dark blue at the edges of the nail in certain and specific angles. I really really wish the blue showed up more on the nail though :( Its a metallic with a slight frosty finish and it does have some brushstokes. Careful application and a good topcoat will fix most of that though. This is three coats and Seche Vite.

Lovely bottle shot! Why or why doesn't that blue show up better?!

Artificial Light

In the sunshine

You could kind of see the blue at the edges in this one.. or at least you could in real life. Not very noticeable though :(

In the shade 

& Here are some funky angles:

My Boyfriend Scales Walls- A grey toned white, not entirely unique. I bought it pretty much for the name but was pleasantly surprised. Formula wasn't so bad for a white (this is only two careful coats), and it has got just enough grey undertones to make it not chalky or stark. I like that.

Anyway, there you have it. My picks from the Spiderman collection. I'm thinking about picking up Number One Nemesis too, it actually looks pretty cool!

Layering Day! Nfu Oh 51!

This is one of my favourite polishes, and at the moment, my first and only Nfu Oh (I hope to get my hands on some more soon though). 

Its a gorgeous colour shifting polish with multi-chrome shimmer AND flakies!!!!!! The base is sort of a blurple jelly like base, and the flakies are pretty abundant. The colour shifts from red, to orange, to gold, to green. Its very very obvious in person too.

It applied really well. I think it would probably take about three coats for it to be opaque on it's own but to conserve polish, and to give it a little bit of a funky look, I used one coat over Illamasqua stance - A bright fuchsia, and I think it looks awesome.

Ouu I love Nfu Oh bottles. I think they're awesome!

Shade

Sunshine

These next few really show off the colour shift :)

Omggg it is so pretty. I'm in love with it. I might marry this polish in the near future. I got my bottle from Nail Polish Canada where they carry brands that aren't readily accessable to us Canadians for pretty good prices :) The prices for Nfu Oh vary between $9.50-$12.50 and they carry all the flakies and holos and other great ones too!They also ship quickly! I'll be ordering some more soon :)

China Glaze Prismatics - Liquid Crystal Swatch

Yo polish peeps.

This is the only CG Prismatic I picked up, it's called Liquid Crystal and is mostly blue micro glitter but flashes purple for a nice duochrom-y look. In real life the colour shift is very obvious, but it was hard to pick up in pictures which is kind of depressing.
There is also multicolored glitter in there too (red, orange, pink, silver, yellow, and tealish). I'm not sure but there may be just a few holo glitters in there too!
It was opaque in two coats and went on quite nicely for being a little thick.

What a pretty polish :) So long for now!