Joe Fresh Hula - Swatch

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Today I am showing off Joe Fresh Hula! It is a pale pink but what makes it unique is that leans peach and has a subtle almost pearly finish! It is also not SO light... so I don't look like I have corpse hands, that is always a bonus for me with pale colours! It is also really work appropriate but feminine too :) I think it would look really pretty with a soft glitter overtop (something like pirouette my whistle, or love lace & lilacs)..mental note, gotta try that.

The formula gave me a little trouble though.. it was a little goopy/draggy so I needed three coats to make to even everything out to a smooth finish. I found it odd because most of my Joe polishes have great formulas! End result looks good though!

In Canada you can buy Joe Fresh polishes in Atlantic Superstores in the cosmetic section  for $4 or 3 for $10! Be careful though.. lately every time I go for groceries I come home with three new colours!

China Glaze Im With The Lifeguard - Swatch

Big day today! Not in my life (my life is boring), but in my polish land. I found a green that might bump Twiggie out of the #1 spot on the list of my favourite greens: China Glaze I'm with the Lifeguard!! It came out with the Summer Neons collection for Summer 2012. I wanted every single one of those polishes but I'm on a strict no-buy right now until I go back to work and I broke the rules and allowed myself to at least buy one polish.. for now. Rules are for breaking and I'm soooooo glad I got this bad boy. Now I can't imagine my life polish collection without it. I really do love the colour green. Also how cute is the name of this polish? I WISH I was with the lifeguard.. hahahaha

Im with the lifeguard is an insanely bright neon lime green. Like, it burned my retinas it is so bright! And to top it off it has an amazing yellow toned lime green green shimmer that in real life is absolutely stunning!! It applied great and had an awesome formula for a neon! Not gluggy or thick at all, if anything it was on the thinner side, but not so thin as to pool in my cuticles or anything. But I was careful just in case. It dried to a satin finish. These photos are two coats over a white base with topcoat. My camera struggled to capture the shimmer because the finish is so bright but in real life the shimmer is very obvious, not subtle like my pictures make it seem, you'll just have to trust me on it.

I absolutely adore this colour, it is right down my alley and I can see myself wearing it all summer long! It even makes my hands look sort of tan. I can't imagine how amazing it would look with a real tan or on a darker skin tone. I was thinking it might be a dupe for my American Apparel Neon Green but Im With The Lifeguard is SLIGHTLY darker, has that added shimmer, and has a WAY better formula.

If the rest of the colours in the collection are anything at all like Im With The Lifeguard then I can't wait to pick up some of them up!

Nails Inc Portobello - Swatch

Yoooooo everyone! Sunny day out today! I'm going to spend it at the SPCA walking some of my furboyfriends and girlfriends. I am still waiting for the call (my work call, I'm not a superhero unfortunately) so I spend a lot of my time volunteering out there. It is a lot of fun to give and get some love from the dogs and cats, plus there are some spots to hike and go for long walks so it can be good exercise too! On a side note though, I need to get a call for work, I'm starting to be really broke and I have some big bills to pay!!! Also some nail polish to buy!

Anyway, on to a happier topic... today I have a Nails Inc Neon to show off! I got it at Sephora for $10 the last time I was in the city. It was just sitting by the cash staring at me.. being all neon... begging to be bought. It even has a huge orange sticker on it that screamed NEON SHADE. I wasn't so sure I needed it, and then I picked it up and saw that it was named Portobello and I was like HOT DAMN and threw it into my basket. Portobello? Come on, I had to. Those are like.. the most delicious mushrooms ever. Not that this colour looks ANYTHING like a mushroom. Where did nails inc even think up this name? Probably picked it out of a hat or something.

In the bottle it definitely looks coral, but it dried darker on my nails to more of a tangerine orange colour with SLIGHT pinkish undertones. It definitely feels like a jelly in application, which I love. Its got a great formula, but since it is so jelly-ish it is a little sheer. It dries to a satin or semi matte finish.

The first picture is two coats over a white base. 

This second picture is four coats on its own. Yes, I needed four coats to get absolutely no visable nail line. I was okay with that though because it dried really quickly and it has such a squishy look to it that I really REALLY like. If your nails are shorter or a slight VNL doesn't bother you than two or three coats would be fine!

Squishy.. neon.. coral/orange.. jelly = awesome. I love the fact that it packs a double batch of win for me because of the neon\jelly. Those are my two favourite things. I think it is a great summer colour and would look great on most skin tones, it even makes me look sort of tan! (sort of). Also neon corals are apparently super trendy this summer, so it would be a good colour to pick up :)

Side note again!!! Here is my buddy Wilber who lives at the SPCA. He is such a good dog! I'm headed out to play with him now :D

Lynderella She Lived In A Swamp - Glitter Tips!

Today I decided to do something different with She Lived In a Swamp! I'm really into gradients right now so I thought I would try it out! 

She lived in a swamp is my favourite green glitter right now. Its got my favourite shade of chartreuse, as well as medium shaded green and gold glitters in different sized hexes, bars, squares and microglitter too! I love it a whole lot.

I added the glitter gradient on the tips over OPI Did It On 'Em, a dirty yet bright chartreuse shade from the Nicki Minaj Collection. I thought it was the perfect combination... very swamp-like. Plus I had it on my nails yesterday.. haha! 

I should mention that with all of that glitter I needed a coat of gelous and a thick coat of SV to make it shiny and smooth. Here are some.. actually a lot of pictures Hahaha :)

 Can you tell I really liked this manicure?? Hahaha I hope you like it too!

OPI Did It On 'Em - Swatch

Hello hello!

Today I am wearing my favourite colour: Chartreuse green, in the form of OPI Did It On 'Em! This came out in January 2012 with the Nicki Minaj Collection! The song that this is inspired by is....  very odd to say the least haha! and it is definitely not my favourite Nicki song but it might be my favourite polish from the Nicki collection. I actually want to paint the walls of my bedroom this colour.

Its a sort of dirty chartreuse that manages to be bright at the same time! The formula wasn't perfect but it wasn't terrible. Application was a little bit streaky. I needed three coats to even everything out and these pictures were taken with top coat!

This colour is directly down my alley. Most chartreuses don't look good with my skin tone but this one does!!!! Or am I hallucinating? No, I think it looks good :) I think it would look even better on someone with darker skin!

Color Club Twiggie - Swatch & Nail Art

Color Club Twiggie may be my favourite green of all time. Probably because its the most unique green on the planet! (or you know, in my collection). It manages to be a light shade of "soft or almost pastel" green... while being insanely and almost neon-ly bright. How?!?! Why?!?!?! I don't know. I just know that I love it and I will continue to wear it all of the time. I need a back up. Without topcoat it dries to a semi-matte finish, which is kinda cool too.

Twiggie came out with the Summer Poptastic collection set. It was my first Color Club set ever and I still love it so so so much. I wish Color Club was more available in Canada. I can find the sets long after release at Winners for 12.99 (Which don't get me wrong, I love) but I want more Color Clubs and online the sets retail for about four times what I pay at Winners, and single polishes for almost the price of a set! Thus... I must wait and hope I snag Color Club's at Winner's. This puts me out of the loop for awesome older collections unless I want to dig deep into my wallet.

End rant, now let's look at Twiggie. This is two coats plus topcoat.

In the sun!

Artificial Light

I decided I wanted to spice it up a bit so I added some a-symetrical dots on the tips with a medium sized dotting tool using OPI Jade is the new black, Orly Green Apple, and China Glaze Jolly Holly. On my ring finger i switched it up and did the dots on the bottom. I think it makes it look sort of funky and cool. I'm not very good at doing this but I think it turned out okay!

Have a nice day :)

Layla HOLO Mercury Twilight - Swatch

Ohh looky a silver holo!!

Layla is blowing my mind lately. Big fan of how they listened to my polish holo prayers. Today I'm sporting Mercury Twilight, a gorgeous silver linear holographic that makes my eyes pop out of my face. I'm not sure how this compares to other silver holos because I actually don't own too many, for some reason my holo collection is mostly colourful.

Anyway! This is three very careful coats with no basecoat or topcoat. I floated it on carefully to avoid too much pressure so I could avoid patchy bald spots. I'm getting better at applying these the more I practice!

I would just like to point out that this picture is inside.. and ITS STILL SO HOLO!! When I tried to take pictures outside my camera basically freaked out because it was SO shiny and SO holo.

Do you see what I see?!?! Double rainbow!!!!! That means goodluck where I am from :)

This last one is outside. It is insanity. All rainbows and unicorns and sunshine!

These layla holos are hard to apply, and don't wear very long.. but I love them anyway.

Ta-ta for now!