or give me death.

Liberty is a beautiful polish in theory. The idea is a perfect mint green with a gorgeous, fine blue shimmer packed with glass fleck. It could probably be pulled off this way by a more skilled hand. However, I lack the patience to let an hour pass in between each coat (each of three coats!) so I only wait about fifteen minutes and it turns out thick and lumpen and sad. 

The color is still stunning and it is a unique polish. If you can deal with the frustrating formula, or you like the RBL formula, I highly recommend it. 

Also, the real reason I haven't been posting as much lately is because my computer is reaching old age. Every time I open iPhoto it takes about five minutes just for it to start. Photoshop...about seven and then quits multiple times during. It's a huge effort to do just a quick crop and color adjust. Such is life. 

Liberty. Sunlight.

Liberty. Indoor light.

Liberty. Sunlight (in the car!).

Liberty. Sunlight.

Orly Matte FX Collection

This collection did not catch my eye at Sally's, but my bf decided to come in that night and for some reason he got very excited over this (so sweet) and I'm glad he did.

With the creative name of "Pink Flakie Top Coat" (an easy to apply, two-coater, matte rainbow flakie top coat) we got these gorgeous results over OPI Black Onyx.

I hope to do more pics and I think I will because I definitely plan on wearing this magical combo again soon. 

Pink Flakie Top Coat. Indoor light.

Pink Flakie Top Coat. Indoor light.

Pink Flakie Top Coat. Close up. Indoor light.

another pretty from Enchanted

I haven't really seen swatches for this yet and don't have any, but it's way better in person than the few pics I've seen online and in the sun, holy jeez. Check out these bottle shots (in a stupid format I can't fix) of Enchanted February 2013. I'd love to see some swatches from others!

Enchanted Polish February 2013

Enchanted Polish February 2013

Enchanted Polish February 2013, holo detail.

Enchanted Polish February 2013

Not Quite Yet...

I forgot to use China Glaze's new green holiday polish which I can't remember the name of and grabbed Wet n' Wild Poison Ivy from their Fall Pick Your Poison collection, one of the most beautiful greens I've ever seen. 

Some issues with Poison Ivy are that it has the WORST BRUSH EVER. In the world ever. See picture. Then if you want to clean up with a brush, it stains skin really badly so you walk around with greenish black skin for a day. I'm considering switching the bottle out, because then it would almost be the perfect polish :)

I'm almost on to holiday colors, but not quite yet, so right now I'm sorry that reader(s) will have to settle for seeing another Lynnderella Inner Space mani. I was going for a subtle gradient effect here. I still haven't done pictures of this with the perfect base color (I've got to ration my Inner Space from now on and save it for perfect bases ;p), but I *loved* it with Lippmann's Fashion. What do ya like to wear with multicolor glitters?

Lynnderella Innerspace, Wet n' Wild Poison Ivy. Natural Light.

Lynnderella Innerspace, Wet n' Wild Poison Ivy. Bottle shots. Natural Light.

Wet n' Wild Poison Ivy. Bottle shot. Natural Light.

Wet N' Wild bad brush! :(

It's so easy...

wearing green :) Actually this color's application wasn't that easy as the brush was just unpleasant. I can't explain why except that there was this one bristle that was uneven and maybe it was sort of unwieldy. Otherwise it was a nice thin formula (it did require three coats) and while some people are not fans of thin formula, I do prefer them. I believe any bubbles are from the evil bottle of Poshe and while it is one of the first metallic finishes I've worked with, I had few issues with brush stroke. 

It is one of the limited edition shades for fall from the Maybelline "Color Show" line and I had a hard time finding even this one LE shade, even right after the release. Oh big city living. Avante Green didn't disappoint though and flashed blue, green, and gold in different lights. I know we're seeing many of these multichromes (the first ones released recently I can think of were Lippmann's Mirrored Chromes released awhile back) and there is one from China Glaze that echoes Avante Green (or vice versa) in case this one is out of stock. 

Speaking of Lippmann, I do believe this line released a polish very similar to Lippmann's Sugar Daddy mirrored chrome called Pink Cosmo. If only I could find it!

Avante Green. Overcast Natural Light.

Avante Green. Overcast Natural Light.

Panorama Edition! ;) Avante Green. Artificial Light.

Avante Green. Bottle Shot (is it just me or are bottles getting smaller?).

Halloween Green

Just a quick swatch for your because I’m trying to keep my cat from eating all the paper in the house.

I saw this display at CVS and loved most of the colors, grabbed this Rainforest-y color, Poison Ivy. This is what I hoped China Glaze’s Jolly Holly would be, I just ordered it and it’s not quite blue enough for me. This is a blue/black green and similar to what I imagine my coveted OPI Rainforest would look like in person.

The formula was good and easy to apply. Except for one thing, unless I was imagining it or got a bad bottle, I got these bizarre salt-like crystals in my polish. Am I nuts? I’ve never had this happen before, but I’ve also almost never used Wet N Wild (since high school at least).

For $2 I couldn’t beat this as a Rainforest dupe, or at least cousin.

Wet N Wild Poison Ivy Sunlight

Wet N Wild Poison Ivy Artificial Light

Wet N Wild Poison Ivy Bottle Sunlight