Saturday Spam - Nail Polishes

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I have a lot of polishes to show you all, so strap in and enjoy!

Revlon - Mistletoe

Mistletoe is a charcoal base polish with gold and green glitter. I bought this forever ago on clearance for under a dollar, and never got around to swatching it. It applies in two coats, and the formula is a little on the runny side. 

Finger Paints - Colorful Collage

Colorful Collage is a clear base loaded with chunky holographic glitter. It was a little hard to get them spaced out, since they wanted to clump together, but it was easy enough separating them again. This is just one coat over Sinful Colors - Coffee.

Finger Paints - Bombshell

I keep finding the Peridot dupes everywhere, and I finally picked one up just to have one. Bombshell is a gold/green duochrome. It shows the brushstrokes, which is always a little bummy, but it applied well.

Spoiled - Champagne Siren

Champagne Siren is a gold glitter suspended in a clear base. This is packed with glitter, but not enough to wear on it's own. This polish is a great one to have to just "fancy" up your manicure. Adding a little touch of glitter to spice it up.

Maybelline - Color Show - Ageless Olive

Ageless Olive is a grey-green polish with little silver flakes throughout. I love mattes, but you definitely need a ridge filler to make them look good. I love this polish, however, and it was just gorgeous, so when I saw it when I was out with Ani? I couldn't resist! It applied in just two coats.

Salon Perfect - Shocked

I actually returned this, so I don't have it worn on the nail, but Shocked is made up of hot pink and blue glitter in a clear base. You can wear it over a colour, or on it's on with three coats. I did four to be safe. It would need a couple layers of top coat to be smooth, since it's gritty to the touch otherwise.

Salon Perfect - Kaboom

Kaboom is a neon green and blue glitter suspended in a clear base. It's a dupe of Floam, so i you want to save a few dollars this is a good alternative. It applies with three coats, four to be safe, or layered over a colour. It also needs a couple layers of top coat if you want it smooth, otherwise it will be gritty.

Orly - Matte FX - Green Flakie Topcoat

Orly Matte FX in Green Flakie Topcoat is something I'm really glad to have in my collection. It's a nice blue-themed flakie, that is said to dry matte. I think it dries more of a semi-matte, since it still looked so shinny! I tried one coat over Wet n Wild Teal Slowly and See, and over Maybelline Ageless Olive.

Essie - Skirting the Issue

One of the many shades I just can't get enough of - blood reds. Essie - Skirting the Issue, is a beautiful blood red jelly. This is with three coats, and as you can see, you can still see some nail tips/gunk. Yuck! I think this is a fantastic polish for jelly sandwiches, but I don't see myself wearing this on it's own.

Funky Fingers - Jawbreaker

After seeing Pretty in Polished's version of Jawbreaker, I was itching for one for my collection. Lucky for me, I found an almost-dupe with Funky Fingers - Jawbreaker. It's a fantastic polish, that wears alone with just three coats. Packed with colourful glitter that just makes you think of candy, it's a wonderful polish to have. I even bought one for my sister!

Charlotte Russe - Periwinkle

Periwinkle is actually not the name of this polish. Charlotte Russe doesn't have names for their polishes, or even colour numbers, so I had to name it myself. However, 'nameless' as it is, this is a wonderful polish. It applies in two coats, dries pretty quickly, and didn't give me any problem. I also really love the bottle as well. 

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Funky Fingers - Venom, Evenora's Envy, and Taken

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Quick round of swatches from Funky Fingers. 

Evenora's Envy

Evenora's Envy is from their OZ collection. It's a basic, light teal (minty) creme. It really resembles Sinful Colors - Mint Apple, but slightly lighter and without the shimmer. It was opaque with 2 coats.

Taken

Out of all three, I hated this one. Taken is a shredded glitter in a blue base, but the glitter payoff is terrible. This is with two coats. It looks gorgeous in the bottle, but it ends there.

Venom

Venom was one that was on my wishlist, and I was happy to find it in the store. It's a violet/green duo-chrome polish. It was opaque with two coats, though reminded me of...

Color Club - Portfolio

Venom - Right, Portfolio - Left

They were almost dead-on dupes, but Venom was slightly darker.

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Funky Fingers - Wild Child

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Funky Fingers in Wild Child

Wild Child is a bright neon turquoise colour, that dries to a rubber finish. It takes three coats to be opaque.

I was expecting it to apply like Riot, but that wasn't the case. They were both bright, but Wild Child was runnier, and was sheer. It took another coat to get everything straightened out, and it would get all over the place.

I love the colour, but I hate it on my nails. It's a little darker than Turned Up Turquoise (Neon) by China Glaze, but it doesn't have a shimmer to it. I think that's what it's missing for me. It doesn't look terrible on me, but I'm no in love with wearing it either.

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Funky Fingers - Mood Ring

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Funky Fingers - Mood Ring

I bought this polish, because in the bottle it looked blue with gold shimmer. It's a duochrome polish where it's blue, and then it flashes to a pale yellow green.

It takes three or four coats to be opaque, but the colour pay off is worth it.

I loved it in the bottle, but hated it on my nails. It washed me out too much, and on other occasions made me look like my hands were red. It didn't suit me at all unfortunately because it's a gorgeous polish.

A bit of an awful quality photo to show off the shimmer.

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Funky Fingers - Riot

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First set of swatches for my new purchases. I need to find a better way to take photos of my nails...

Funky Fingers in Riot

 

The polish is a bright, cool, neon violet colour. It takes two coats to be opaque, and dries to a rubber finish.

 

In flash lighting, it appears to be warmer, but indoors, it can appear to be more blue-violet.

I think it's a lot like Checkin' into Rehab by Spoiled, except for the flakies and the formula.

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First post of 2013~

Hello again readers~

I hope you all had wonderful New Years so far, and wonderful Holidays too! 

My break has been so exhausting, but it was nice to be able to see my family and spend a good amount of time with them!

Speaking of family, today my sister and I went out to lunch with my grandmum, and then did some running afterwards together.

We went to the mall where I picked up a few things (Including Friday the 13th with Jared Padalecki yes!), and then we went off to Sally's, and then to another shopping center.

Went to Five Below, though the first time I went, I wasn't too enthused, but I made up my mind to try it again, since I found so many good things about Funky Fingers. I chose these three:

Riot, Mood Ring, and Wild Child.

Though Riot looks a lot more like this:

 

Then I was able to go to Ulta too! I haven't been to that Ulta yet, so I was excited to be able to look, that aside, I needed new foundation, and they were having a sale.

 

Ulta Nail polish in Love Fern.

 

Revlon Colorstay Whipped and Liquid foundations in Ivory.

 

NYX HD Eyeshadow Base, and Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk.

I'm so giddy, I have so many reviews and swatches to make this year, and I better get to work! 

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Swatches

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This is the first of two swatch posts. I have some polishes that I haven't swatched yet, and some that I just bought that I have already swatched. It's a little disorganized.

Wet n Wild 511B Nouveau Pink

I've had these polishes for a while, and I haven't had a chance to take a picture them yet.

Now I have.

(From Left to Right)

Milani – Silver: Chunky silver glitter. This was with five coats. It's workable to give you a foil effect, and that's exactly what I was going for.

Spoiled – My Button Fell Off: Light pink creme. Two coats to become opaque.

Spoiled – Permission to Proceed: A sheer, neon-green that gives of a rubber finish. It honestly works better layered over a white, and takes three coats to become opaque. You also need to wrap with this polish.

Sinful Colors – Let's Talk: Violet Chrome, with very small hint of blue shimmer. Shows brush strokes. Two coats for full opacity.

E.L.F.:  A Grey-Green base with green shimmer. This polish smells AWFUL, and on the nail it looks almost black, not dark green like in the bottle. I'm a little upset by the scent, but it's bearable. Two coats.

Funky Fingers – Neon Green Crackle: One coat. I picked this up, because I love goo-green colors for nails (especially layered over black), and was hoping that this would be an opaque crackle (like China Glaze). It's not. It only shows up on lighter colors, and it tints them with an awful yellow. Not a fan, and I'm not even sure of the title since the label fell off.

(Edit: Neon Green Crackle)

Funky Fingers – Teal Scales: One coat. I love this one, a lot. It doesn't stand out over black (because it's so dark) but it looks so much better than the other one. I really wanted it because it looked a lot like OPI's Shatter the Scales, and I couldn't resist. 

I did spend a bit of time looking up Funky Fingers online and reviews, and I think next time I go into that store, I'll pick up a few other colours that catch my eye, because though the neon crackle failed me, there are others that look absolutely gorgeous (like Teal Scales).

Now I mentioned that I would be working on taking better photos, so I set up a little back-drop studio area just for my blogging photos. (Still figuring out the best way to photograph clothes!)

The Wicked Halloween collection is one I sort of wanted, but didn't want it enough to shell out the money for it. When I found this on sale for about six dollars, it was worth it enough.

(Left to Right)

China Glaze Ghoulish Glow layered over Sally Hansen Night Fright: I was very excited about this polish, because I can layer it over darker colors, and still have glow-in-the-dark nails. Two coats.

Glitter Goblin: Medium orange and silver-holographic glitter. One coat.

Roguish Red: Red-Orange creme. Two coats.

Bizarre Blurple: Violet base with blue shimmer. Two coats.

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