365 days of colour: day 32

 Day 32

I've been hunting, searching and pretty much lusting after Butter London - Knackered.  Its a blue/purple/teal duochrome with a holographic glitter.  

Image from Butter London's website.

This isn't it.  

In my hunt for a perfect dupe, I found this one at the last Beauty Expo.

It's not even close.  

Leighton Denny - Meteor Match

The glitter is more silver, and the blue is not quite as vibrant as Knackered.  The purple duo is more visible in the bottle than on the nail.  

Still a pretty colour though.


If anyone wants to gift me a bottle of Knackered, send me a facebook message and I'll love you forever.  

365 days of colour: day 31

 Day 31

Lets just say that cleanup on these textured polishes is a pain.  If you think glitter polish is hard to get off, these are worse.

But they are so pretty.  Ugh.

Julie G - Plum Fairy

I have a massive soft spot for Julie G polishes.  They're *SO* pigmented that you can easily, if you're in a hurry, get away with one coat.  If you have a little extra time, you can slap on two in a relatively short amount of time because they dry super quick.  

If you DON'T like the texture, you can add a coat of thin clear coat to lessen the bumps, or a thicker top coat to smooth it out.  Gloss top coats will enhance the sparkle, matte top coats will dull it, but it looks pretty either way.

365 days of colour: day 25

Day 25!

I cheated a little.

Sally Hansen Gem Crush - Blingtastic

Totally not recycling the same mani.  Pfft.  Who would do that?!

#sorrynotsorry.

365 days of colour: Day 22

Day 22!!

A black glitter!

Be Indulged - Black Star

These polishes have no names, so I named this one myself.  I always have issues with dark colours and their applications.  It's a pretty awesome colour - the black base evens itself out nicely and the glitters peek through.

365 Days Of Colour: day 9

 Day 9!

Summer calls for UV polish.

Color Club/Ruby Wing - Poppy with Milani - Gems on accent.

It turns a gorgeous shade of blood-red in the sun.  

Smells like its name.  A heedy sweet floral scent.

365 Days of color: Day 7

Red.

Red with glitter.

Red with glitter and texture.

That's what we got today.  

OPI Liquid Sand in The Impossible.  Ring finger: Color Club 60sec top coat.  Other fingers: Rimmel Matte Top Coat.

This was such a lemming polish for me.  I tried for ages and ages to find it, but could never bring myself to pay $25 for it.  When a friend had it for sale cheaper, I bought it.  

And I love it.  I find the texture to be a little extreme on the OPI polishes - I think when you have a solid base colour but only leave enough grit to make it gritty, it stands out as being TOO rough.  Top coat smooths it down to a more, gentle rough, as opposed to sandpaper rough.

365 Days of Colour: day 2

Todays polish is a simple shade with a semi-gloss finish.  

Color Club - Cold Metal.

Works fantastically for stamping, and is a dark opaque blue with two coats.  
I'm loving the smoothness and the subtle metallic shine.

Accent nail is Revlon - Stunning over the gorgeous blue.  





(I was stupid and deleted a bunch of photos from G+, which in turn, deleted them from my blog.  I'll retake them and repost!