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! :(

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

Glowing Up--One of Several nom de Glow Polishes

My nails still need a little break from the major glitters. I couldn’t get this polish out of my mind all week though so after seeing it at the Walgreens I had to add it for $3.49 (not $1.49! See below) to my purchase and slather it on right away.

As I desperately brushed on this screaming neonish green shimmer with an arresting yellow flash, I was pleasantly surprised by the glide-y and thin smooth application.

After testing WnW’s Spoiled Collection, I didn’t have high hopes for their other special collections, especially since I’ve heard that the Fergie Collection is comprised of many colors from the “Spoiled,” repackaged, renamed, and double the price. See:

http://nouveaucheap.blogspot.com/2012/06/wet-n-wild-fergie-nail-color-collection.html

http://impoverishedbypolish.blogspot.com/2012/07/fergie-by-wet-n-wild-dupes-displays-and.html

Say what? Scandosh. 

The Glowing Stick! Glowstick. Full Sunlight.

Glowstick. Shaded Natural Light.

A very happy surprise, application was pretty pleasant, all except for the brush...the sad, sad, brush. It was a combo of the “Spoiled” fluff n’ stuff brush, the slant Dior/Nicole/that weird Sally Hansen Brush. Not so easy to use for me, but do-able. If you want to do three coats I think it's possible, because I found two to be a tiny bit patchy, but for me (die hard two-coater) three was too thick.

Wear was only about 1 day, maybe two. I used a coat of Gelous, waited and did Poshe, to avoid bubbling. And voila...glowissimo! I'm in glowve. Dare we say...Fergalicious? Eh...