Glitter Gradient: Gosh Gasoline & Nicole by OPI Make a Comet-Ment

The pictures really do not do this manicure justice. It's gorgeous and holographic and purpley and wonderful.

Gosh Gasoline is one of my favourite purple nail polishes ever, even if it takes like 4 coats to make opaque.

As for Nicole by OPI Make a Comet-Ment, I just picked it up at Shoppers the other day and it's amazing. My first holographic type nail polish - beautiful silver holographic sparkle. I've read it takes about 3-4 coats to make opaque on it's own, but I decided to do a gradient with it and it looks amazing. Did you know it's really hard to capture holographic shimmer on camera? Haha.

Anyway, onto to the nails!

And here's Gosh Gasoline:

And Nicole by OPI Make a Comet-ment:

How do you feel about holographic nail polishes?
Do you have a favourite nail polish (regardless of the colour) you go back to no matter how many new collections the companies put out?

Quo by Orly: Turquoise Moonlight Swatches

I've moved on from the Cold Stone nail polish, the texture was just too awful to endure.

This nail polish faired a bit better than the Cold Stone one; another Quo by Orly polish, this time Turquoise Moonlight. This polish has a turquoise base and is packed with shimmer and looks like it has a golden duochrome affect, but this doesn't translate exceptionally well to the nail. It's a gorgeous nail polish, ends up being a very bright glittery. It can go from looking bright blue to a beautiful turquoise-gold.

This is 3 coats of Turquoise Moonlight.

I also put a coat of Finger Paints Flecked flakies on top to give it even more interest! It looks so cool now, I can't stop looking at my fingers :P

Quo by Orly: Cold Stone Swatches + EOTD

So I decided a couple days ago to swatch another of the 18 Quo by Orly nail polishes I got for Christmas... but it's taken be about three days to decide whether I should photograph it and share it or not. The colour should have just blown me away - it looked gorgeous. In the bottle it looks like a gunmetal grey colour with silver sparkles and holographic microglitter. Doesn't that sound amazing? I thought it would be extraordinary.

And it's not that the colour disappointed once it was on the nails, but I felt as though the formula disappointed. You can see what I'm talking about in the swatches. I can't tell if the polish bubbled drastically or if the glitter is so course that the polish ends up looking this textured when on the nails, but even with a coat of Seche Vite on top, it just would not smooth out.

I also tried to mattify it with Essie Matte About You, but you completely lose the holographic glitter when you do that, which is the best part!

Anyway, I love the colour, but I'll let you decide for yourself if the texture completely ruins the manicure for you as much as it does for me. Excuse the tip wear because it took me 3 days to decide whether to swatch this or not.

And finally, I did a look the other day just for fun. I used all Makeup Geek eyeshadows, and no base since I was just doing it for fun and actually wasn't wearing any other makeup on my face.

All Makeup Geek:

Corrupt (black)

Mocha (brown)

Cocoa Bear (terra cota)

Shimma-Shimma (highlight)

Asylum Explosion

My Sally's had the new Fingerpaints Special Effects collection out when I went yesterday! But they were already sold out of Twisted... on the first official day of selling... Go figure!

I'm not giving you any official swatches today, by the end of the week I will. Today I just added an accent nail to my Orly Coffee Break (which I'm still absolutely in love with). The accent is done with Sally Hansen Midnight in NY with Fingerpaints Asylum on top. Beautifulll.
Excuse my cuticles. My hands are so dry from the coldddd.

Orly Coffee Break Swatch

I told a friend that I had been looking for the perfect nude nail polish at Christmas, and it turns out she knew me better than I knew myself. All the ones I had looked at previously were very clearly too light for my skin tone, but she found the perfect one. Orly Coffee Break is a perfect nude, a little on the darker side and may even have a pink undertone to it (plus, the name first perfectly because we're coworkers at a coffee shop ;) ).

This is 2 coats of Coffee Break with 1 coat of Seche Vite.

And finally, here's a webcam picture from New Years Eve. You can't really see my makeup but it's the best I had!

Happy New Years to everyone - I wish you all the best in 2012.

Quo by Orly: Celestial Star Swatches

My first non-introduction post!

I got the "18 Piece Mini Nail Polish Gift Set" of Quo by Orly nail polishes for Christmas. As by the name, you can tell that these are 18 mini nail polishes of varying shades and finishes. From what I can tell so far, most look shimmery or glitter, but there are a few which have a flat finish.

A lot of the nail polishes in this set look duochrome to me in the bottle, but after trying this nail polish, I'm second guessing whether they actually end up being duochrome on the nail. This one potentially disappoints (because I haven't been able to test it in the sunlight - it's dark out now!) but to me, it looks just like a royal blue glitter.

With that said, it is a beautiful shade regardless of the absence of duo chrome-ness. Another disappointing fact, however is that it took 4 coats to get to this shade. I would hope for a bit more opaqueness for this nail polish. Onto swatches!

Swatches are 4 coats of Celestial Star and 1 top coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip Top Coat

This second picture captures the duo chrome aspect of Celestial Star a bit better than the first. In the bottle it looks like a royal blue shimmer with a bright purple duo chrome.

You can see a little bit of the purple in this picture, but not as much as I was hoping after seeing the bottle.

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