Wet N Wild Distressed To Impress

Purchased

Hi, guys. Happy Halloween! I was hoping to have some cool Halloween nail art up this week but I just got so busy. Oh well. I hope that you guys are rocking some spooky manicures in my stead. Today I have a polish that I swatched a couple of weeks ago but didn't have time to post until now. It's Wet N Wild Distressed To Impress which was part of their recent matte collection. I think it came out a couple of months ago and it may still be available in stores.

Distressed To Impress is a dark taupe color with a satin finish. Like the other shade of this collection I have, it's not quite matte enough to be a true matte. Instead it has a cool rubber texture that makes gives it a really edgy look.

Formula on this was was alright. It wasn't bad but I don't remember it being great either. I used two coats here without top coat. 

Even though this one is kind of cool looking, I don't think I love it enough to keep it. I just don't see myself wearing it very often. What do you guys think? Should I keep it or give it away?

I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween!

Rescue Beauty Lounge Ghost

Hello, everyone and happy Friday! Hope you've all had a good week. I am happy to say that I am done with my Christmas shopping for the most part. I do have a couple of things to pick up and a few things to knit, but I think I am in good shape. The weather is also getting a lot colder lately, which I am loving.

Today's polish is the first from my recent Rescue Beauty Lounge haul. Ghost is a really unique shade - a cool leaning brown with tons of fine silver shimmer. This one was a bit of a chameleon and changed subtly depending on the lighting. Shown here without top coat.

I don't think I have anything else like this in my collection. I like that it's a cool brown and it looks sophisticated but still edgy. Formula was fantastic. It is slightly prone to brush strokes but they are easily avoided. I probably could have gotten away with one coat if I had used a thicker layer, but my coats were pretty thin and I decided to do 2 coats just in case.

Love this one and am super impressed with the formula. I haven't bought any RBL since the last sale 3 years ago because, to be honest, I was not super impressed with the formula on them. For the high price tag, I expected more. I don't know if my application skills or body chemistry had changed since them of if the formula has, but I had no problems at all with this and was impressed by how smooth and pigmented it was. I have tried a couple of others from my recent haul and they are just as good. I am really glad I was able to get this one during the sale because it is awesome.

I am hoping to get the rest of my RBL polishes soon. Thanks for coming by and have a good weekend!

Zoya Pepper

Hello again. I hope that you're all having a wonderful weekend. Surprisingly I don't really have any plans this weekend so I'll probably end up just lazing about the house. It's been a bit cloudy around these parts lately, hence the cooler one to my pics. I am not really great at color correcting so just let it be known that today's swatch pics were taken on a cloudy day.

Zoya Pepper is a reddish brown (brownish red?) creme from the Zoya Cashmere collection from this past fall. Zoya does some really awesome cremes and this one is a winner. This is a great color for fall. It totally reminds me of turning leaves and the rich, warm tones of the season. The formula on this was great and I used 2 coats below. I did use a top coat though it was already pretty shiny on its own.

I got this color when Zoya was doing their CAMO promotion. I bought some polishes and then got 4 free polishes from the Cashmere collection. Seriously, Zoya has the best promos. This probably would not be a color that I would normally get on my own. It's a little subdued for me. However, I am glad that I have it now and it's unique in my collection.

What are your favorite fall nail polish colors?

Nicole by OPI Cinna-man of My Dreams

How's everyone's week going? Mine has been kind of hectic. Nothing really particular is going on but it just seems really busy and I have been really tired at night. Not sure what's up with that but hopefully it'll work itself out. Today I have a really fun textured polish to show you. The textured trend is going strong into fall and I am still enjoying it.

Cinna-man of My Dreams is a polish from Nicole by OPI's recent Gumdrops collection. This is not to be confused with the JulieG Gumdrops collection. I had seen swatches of the Gumdrops collection pop up on some blogs in the past few weeks and knew that Cinna-man of My Dreams was the one polish that I had to have. A couple of weeks ago I finally spotted the display at CVS and there was one bottle left - just for me.

Cinna-man of My Dreams is a lovely cinnamon brown shade. But what makes this polish special is all of the awesome shimmer. This polish has really gorgeous gold and pink shimmer throughout that gives this polish a wonderful glow. Formula on this was good. A little thick as I think the texture finished often are but nothing problematic. I used 2 coats to get the finish above.

I am really happy I decided to pick this one up. It's a super unique shade and really beautiful. Glad to have this one in my collection.

butter LONDON Scuppered

Happy Friday! Wow this has been an extremely long week. Work has been super stressful so I am really happy to be able to just chill out for a couple of days. Hopefully the weather starts to perk up as well.

Today I have a polish that I wore a little while ago. It was part of the butter LONDON holiday collection last year. Scuppered is a really beautiful copper bronze shade with tiny green glitter. It's such an unusual combination and I love the finish of the copper. Below is two coats with top coat.

Isn't that close up so pretty? I really have nothing like it in my collection. Formula was wonderful and I had no issues with it. Definitely one of the most unique colors in my collection. 

Anyone else love unusual color combos as much as I do? 

My Ten Friends Chrononaut

Hi, guys. TFIG! Even though it was a short week, it felt like a really long week so I am happy that Friday is finally here. Today I have another fun glitter bomb from indie polish maker My Ten Friends. This one is called Chrononaut and since I suck at descriptions, I will let you read the official description from the shop.

“Chrononaut” means time traveller and the color is inspired by a NASA photo (see image 2 - image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech). A grayish black base filled with red, gold, blue and silver glitter in various sizes. Strange yet beautiful like the universe itself.

As you can see, this is a really unique polish. The muddy base is packed with awesome glitter. I really love this unusual combo. Formula was a bit thick but I expected that with a glitter this dense. Shown here is 2 easy coats with top coat. I couldn't help taking one close up shot of all the awesome glitter. 

You can find My Ten Friends on Etsy. Thanks for stopping by. Have an awesome weekend!