Swatch and Review: Essie After School Boy Blazer

Hi everyone! It's me again! I'm showing another polish from the Essie Fall 2013 Collection, called After School Boy Blazer. It's a really nice, almost black, dark turquoise-navy blue. Whew! That was a long description. I'm going to apologize ahead of time for the tip wear in my photos. I forgot to take pictures after I swatched this colour and only remembered a few days later. 

Products I Used:

Base Coat: Pro FX Protein Enriched Base Coat and Revitalizer

Polish: Essie After School Boy Blazer

Top Coat: Pro FX Quick Dry High Gloss Top Coat

I hope you are having a great day! Thanks for reading!

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Swatch and Review: Essie Vested Interest

Hi guys! As promised, I am catching up on all my missed posts. How's the weather where you are? It's been raining all day today where I am. I guess fall is finally here. Today, I'm showing a new polish from Essie's Fall 2013 Collection, Vested Interest. It is a sage, green-grey polish with no shimmer or glitter. I think it's so creamy and pretty, just dark enough while still looking fresh and clean. I find some fall colours to be too dark and gloomy, almost like it's sad that summer's over. The formula was awesome, fully opaque in two coats. Have any of you noticed that Essie has changed their brush. I remember I used to hate Essie polishes because of their extra skinny brush. Now, it seems like they finally realize that their brushes are too skinny, and have now made them thicker....

Products I Used: 

Base Coat: Pro FX Protein Enriched Base Coat and Revitalizer

Polish: Essie Vested Interest

Top Coat: Pro FX Quick Dry High Gloss Top Coat

I hope all of you are having a great day. Stay safe!

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Swatch and Review: Orly Halley's Comet

Hi guys! How have you all been? I just came back from a three-week long trip. I would first like to apologize for my serious lack of posts during this last month; I travelled out of the country, and though I wore nail polish, blogger was blocked in the country I had travelled to, so I was unable to update all of you. With that aside, I would like to show you Orly Halley's Comet. It's a beautiful green turquoise colour packed with gold shimmer. Very sparkly and amazing. I applied three coats of Halley's Comet for a completely opaque finish. On top of that, I decided to add a glitter gradient with OPI Which is Witch. This polish did stain my nails pretty badly though, my nails were completely blue after I removed the polish. They were stained so badly that no rubbing could get the stains out. I had to use my trusty method of stain removal: using whitening toothpaste. More on this in a later post...

What I used:

Base Coat: Pro FX Epoxy Bond Base Coat
Polish: Three coats of Orly Halley's Comet
Top Coat: *don't remember, maybe Out the Door

Thank you so much for reading! I will try to catch up on posts as soon as I can!

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Swatch and Review - Rimmel Posh Pink

Hello! Today I will be showing Rimmel Posh Pink, a pretty fuchsia pink cream. The formula was great, fully opaque in two coats. It lasted pretty well too, no chips and minimal tip wear after 4 days. The photos below are under florescent light, but the colour is very similar outdoors. I did the Pink Piggies nail art with this polish as well.

As always, thank you so much for taking the time to read this post and my blog. I'll post more soon!

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Swatch and Review - Zoya Meg

Hello again! I'm really trying to get caught up with my posts, so here is another swatch and review for you to enjoy! I'm showing Zoya Meg, a beautiful metallic green. On my ring finger is a Marimekko inspired nail art pattern. I saw this on ellandish's channel on YouTube and LOVED this design so much that I had to copy her, her video can be seen here. The formula of Zoya Meg was great, opaque in two coats, but the wear time was amazing! The photos you see were taken on the fifth day of wearing this, and NO tip wear! Awesome.

What I used:

Base Coat: Pro FX Epoxy Bond Base Coat

Polish: 2 coats of Zoya Meg

Top Coat: INM Out the Door Top Coat

Have a great day!

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Swatch and Review - Rimmel Hot Gossip

Happy Friday! I can't believe it's already Friday! There goes another week! Today I'll be showing you Rimmel Hot Gossip, a blue-toned sparkly red. I'm not sure if this polish is still available since it's pretty old, but I figured I'd do a swatch and review anyways, just in case any of you still have this. The formula is pretty good, almost opaque in 1 coat, but I did two anyways. Rimmel Hot Gossip is hard to describe, it's not exactly shimmery, it's more like a standard red cream with red sparkles. Not glitter, but subtle sparkles. The polish claims to have lycra infused in it, and says up to 10 days wear, but I can't confirm that since I only wore this polish for a day.

What I used:

Base Coat: OPI Matte Nail Envy

Polish: 2 coats of Rimmel Hot Gossip

Top Coat: INM Out the Door Top Coat

Thanks again for reading! 

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Swatch and Review - OPI You Callin' Me A Lyre?

Hello, today I'll be showing you my all time favourite sheer pink, OPI You Callin' Me A Lyre? This polish is the perfect sheer, milky pink. It's never streaky or hard to apply, I've worn from 1 coat to 3 coats of this and never had any difficulties in application in terms of patchiness or streaks. In the photos below, I'm wearing three coats. I've also shown this polish in my swatch and review of OPI Which is Witch. If you are interested in that post, click here.

What I used:

Base Coat: 1 coat of Pro FX Epoxy Bond Base Coat

Polish: 3 coats of OPI You Callin' Me A Lyre?

Top Coat: 1 coat of INM Out the Door Dry Fast Top Coat

I hope you enjoyed this post! As always, thank you so much for reading, see you soon!

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