Barielle Snap Dragon

shades by Barielle "Snap Dragon" was the odd duck to me in the Wildflower collection.  Barielle calls it a metallic sea foam green, and I must say, that's pretty dead on.  It was almost a chrome in my opinion as it applied a lot like the China Glaze Khrome collection.


I must say though, I had application issues.  The formula was pretty thick, and yet a thin coat left bald spots, so I just went with one thick coat and cleaned up my cuticles.  I used Seche Natural for my base, one coat of Snap Dragon and a coat of Seche Vite to hold it all in place.


Sun and shade picture to follow:

Brush strokes galore!  I had just buffed my nails a few days ago, so you don't see all the ridges, but as with all metallic/chromes, I highly suggest a ridge filler.

Barielle retails for $8/bottle.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Color Club Wild At Heart vs China Glaze LOL

With my sunshine fleeting, I wanted to quickly get a side by side of Color Club "Wild At Heart" and China Glaze "LOL".  Right off the bat, you can see from the bottles that these are not duplicates at all.  The Color Club bottle is a deeper purple and the holographic effect looks more like a glitter whereas China Glaze is a more blue purple with a pronounced rainbow holographic effect.


In the sun, you see the same result:

Oh the loveliness.  Sadly, in the shade, everything is dulled, but you can see the pigment difference in the two bottles.

Check out those amazing cuticles.  Yeah, I was in a super rush as you can tell.  I'm actually embarrassed by it!  I also need to start really investing in my cuticle oils - making sure that they are moisturized and pretty for you.

Color Club is located on several etailers, including Head2Toe Beauty [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Color Club Wild At Heart

Color Club "Wild at Heart" was from their Wild At Heart collection, and I knew it would be one of my favorites overall.  The best part was the coverage.  I used Seche Natural as my base and ONE, yes ONE coat of Wild at Heart.  Originally I put a top coat of Seche Vite, but unfortunately with most holos, it made the pretty holo dull, so I took it all off (I also had a doctor's appointment that afternoon) and did it again, sans top coat.  I was pretty freaked out to go without a top coat, but the polish faired pretty well.


Wild at Heart is a deep purple that just sparkles rainbows, quite differently than the China Glaze holographics, but I will leave that for another post.  ^_^


I really liked that this was one coat.  Sun picture:

I mean really, check that out!


In the shade, however, it's slightly duller of a color.  Nature of the beast!

Still pretty though!

Color Club is located on several etailers, including Head2Toe Beauty which has it for $3.00.  You can also Like them on Facebook and Follow them on Twitter.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Cheeky Monkey Bite Me

Have I mentioned how much I love the names of these polishes?  Also in my PR sample from Cheeky Monkey, was this pretty pink creme (listed as "medium pink" on their website) that wasn't quite Barbie but not quite Pepto Bismol pink either.  Whatever it was, I liked the sound of it... it was nice contradiction... pretty pink but with a name like Bite Me?  Yes please.  I imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Sarah Michelle Gellar version only) would wear this... either that, or Nail Me... which I'll be swatching soon enough... /foreboding music goes here.

TAG LOVE!

I used one base coat of Wet Dream and as per bottle instructions, I did use 2 coats of Bite Me, however I could still see some VNL (visible nail line) as I added my top coat of Seche Vite.

One sun and one shade:

So I decided on my right hand to put on three coats, to see if that would be better... here was my result:

You can still see a bit of VNL but it was better than the 2 coats.  I may have needed 4 coats from this baby, but at this point, my sun was disappearing, so I was just excited to get pictures.  Overall, a very wearable pink for my skin, and I may even have a duplicate of this in China Glaze from the Glitters and Cremes Speciality collection, but none have as cool of a name.  ^_^

Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics is based out of Canada and you can order right from their website [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

deborah lippmann Sale

deborah lippmann is holding 3 more days of her free shipping with your order of $30 or more.  I haven't been able to test one of these yet, but I'm going to buy one at some point ^_^  


You can buy deborah lippmann polish at her official website here.

Nfu-Oh Sale

FabulouStreet is having their April, Spring Break, Easter Special

All Polishes are priced at discounted prices.

We are clearing our inventory on the Discontinued Paint Series (No. 133-282).  They are marked 30% off.

All other polishes are marked on 10-20% off.

OFFER Valid from 04/01/2010 until 04/30/2010

Prices, specifications and availability suject to change with notice. (No raincheck on purchases)

China Glaze Towel Boy Toy

China Glaze Towel Boy Toy is the lone neon shimmer from the Poolside collection.  It's funny, you would have never caught me dead wearing blue nail polish a few years ago, and now I'm quite pleased to do so.  I did not use a white base with this, but instead just some Seche Natural for my base, 3 coats of Towel Boy Toy, and a top of Seche Vite.  Despite the bad cleanup on my cuticles, this polish was very well behaved - even for a neon.  I really didn't have any issues with steaks or anything.  What I am having issues with is my nails themselves.  I tried buffing out the ridges to try and smooth some layers out but that didn't quite work.  I have the entire Seche system from Sally's, that I want to try for a week (sometime), and I also bought another product at Sally's to see if that works.


Without further complaining about my nails, here's a "sun" (cloudy) picture from yesterday followed by one in the shade.  I totally rocked this color for Easter Sunday mass, heck yeah.

One thing I have to mention about this color was that the shimmer made it much less retina burning neon than the other colors in the collection.  I think this would really rock for an 80s party.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Sneak Peek

Holy Mother of Pearl - I have a lot of swatching to do.  Here's just a sneak peek of my polishing rack of colors to be reviewed, and missing are the 30+ colors I just recently bought from a company... I'll own the entire line when I get my package!

China Glaze Sun Worshiper

I actually wrote this blog last week but had some Internet issues.

China Glaze Sun Worshiper, also from the Poolside collection was a very bright in your face orange.  My bottle was mangled by the shipping company as you can see, but it's holding well.  I decided to do things a little differently for it and not use a white base.

Instead for my pictures (this is under sun), I used Seche Natural for my base, 3 layers of polish and on my first two fingers (pointer and middle) I added a layer of Seche Vite for shine.  The other two fingers (ring and pinkie) I left matte.  Can you really tell?  It was better in person because it was either shiny or not.

In the shade, you can tell a little better.  This would be a great color for Halloween too.  I didn't have any problems with the formula, which is always a plus.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

Essie "Wedding Collection"

Please click on the image to see it full screen.  Essie is coming out with a Wedding Collection this year.  The colors look sweet - Petal Pink, BBF Best Boyfriend, Pillow Talk, Walk Down The Aisle, Show Me The Ring, and Main Squeeze.  I'm not sure if they are creams or shimmers, but they are pretty.

Essie can be purchased on their website [official website] or etailers like Head2ToeBeauty [official website] or TransDesign [official website].