Orly Pink Your World

Purchased

Hi, everyone. Happy hump day! Hope you're all having a good week. I can't believe that it's June already. This year is seriously flying by! Today I have a polish that I picked up from Marshalls recently. This is Orly Pink Your World, which is a light pink glitter with gunmetal grey shard glitter in a clear base.

I was really excited to find this one. It looked really cool in the bottle and the shard glitter made it really unique. Unfortunately this was way cooler in the bottle than on the nail. The glitter payoff wasn't great and it took my 4 coats just to get it to look mildly OK in these swatches. The cool shard glitter was really hard to get but you can see that I did manage to get a few pieces on my nails. 

This may look better over a colored base but, after 4 coats I really didn't feel like working with this one again. 

I am kind of bummed that this one didn't turn out like I wanted it to, but it's definitely a unique polish. If you don't mind doing a little work, it might be fun over another color. Personally though this is probably going into the giveaway pile. 

Anyone here a fan of sheer glitter toppers? I'd be interested in hearing what you think of this one. Thanks for stopping by today!

Stashed (17): OPI, Zoya, Orly

Hello, everyone! I've been meaning to post this Stashed entry for a couple of weeks now but haven't had the time. This is a holiday weekend though so I am finally getting a little more free time to post. I hope to edit some photos this weekend, too, so that I can schedule some posts for next week. I did buy a few fun things in the last few weeks. I am still on a low buy though so I have purposely been avoiding places where I might be tempted by buy polish.

 

First purchase was this limited edition mini set of Liquid Sands that OPI did for the Brazil collection. I wasn't going to get this initially but saw some pretty swatches up on a few blogs and it was as steal for $5.99.

 

This is my Zoya Earth Day promo haul (I know, ages ago) along with one polish from Orly's Baked collection. Sorry I am too lazy to look up specific names right now but if you want to know, leave a comment and I'll look it up.

This little stash is from a friend who was cleaning out her nail polish box. She has one shoebox with nail polish in it and wanted to clean it out and offered me what she did not want. There was more than this but I gave those away and kept just what I really wanted. There's a fun OPI Hey Get in Lime! in there as well as Linkin Park After Dark Suede. A couple of the Ultra brand polishes looked fun so I kept those as well.

I actually haven't had a chance to paint my nails for the last couple of weeks and my toes are naked (gasp!). Hoping to at least give myself a pedicure though this weekend. Hope you are all enjoying the longer weekend!

Orly Hot Tropics

Purchased

Hi, guys. I am kind of excited about today's polish because I love it. I purchased Orly Hot Tropics about a week ago and wore it all last week. The color is amazing and wore like iron. Hot Tropics is from Orly's new summer Baked collection. I bought pretty much all of the purples from this collection. Hot Tropics is a very red-based purple with amazing shimmer. As you can see below, the shimmer is not hidden at all. I did 2 coats to get the coverage below and topped with Out the Door top coat, which I've never tried before. I am liking it though this manicure wore for almost a whole week without any issues before I took it off.

I was having a really hard time capturing the color on my digital camera, so I ended up taking these with my phone. This reminds me a lot of Essie Perky Purple (or its dupe Zoya Charisma), which is one of my most favorite nail polish shades ever. Hot Tropics has shimmer though which makes it a special one in my collection.

Love, love, love this polish so much. Fantastic color and formula that is perfect for summer. I am excited to try the other shade I bought from this collection and am thinking about picking up a couple more the next time I see them. Have you tried any shades from the Baked collection yet?

Orly Country Club Khaki

Hi, everyone. Sorry I've been MIA this week. My office is getting ready for a big move and it's been crazy packing up and organizing. It doesn't help that my allergies are horrid right now. Last night I basically slept from 8pm to 8am. Crazy.  Anyway, today I have a nice palate cleanser shade. It's Orly Country Club Khaki.

This shade has been on my wishlist for a while now and I finally managed to pick up a bottle over the holidays. Country Club Khaki is falls into that nude/mushroom category. It's not quite beige but not quite taupe either. I quite like it though and it has a really nice, neutral look. The formula was nice and creamy and I only needed 2 coats for the swatches below. Shown with top coat.

I don't wear shades like this too often but I do like them on occasion. I can see this working for a lot of people who have more conservative office environments or who like neutrals. Another lemming off the list!

Thanks for coming by today. I hope you've all had a lovely week!

Stashed (11): Sally Hansen, Essie, Orly

Hello! I hope you're all having a good weekend. After a brief cold spell the temperature is back up to a balmy 70 degrees here in Southern California. It seriously does not feel like Christmas with this warm weather, but it only 10 days away. That's super crazy. This week's polishes are all gifts that I received this week. I love getting nail polish as a gift!

My friends saw my mention of Twitter or Instagram that I wanted to try the new Sally Hansen Triple Shines so they gave me a few as part of my Christmas gift. I think this is a nice assortment of colors and I am excited to try all of them. Shown are Red Snapper, Sparkling Water and Dive In.

Up next is an awesome swap package that I received from Pamper With Polish. I am part of the Hobby Polish Bloggers group on Facebook and they recently did a holiday swap. I got this awesome box of goodies from Mira and I love everything in it. The polishes I received were Orly Angel Rain, Orly Digital Glitter and Essie On A Silver Platter. There were other fun items thrown in as well. Thanks so much to Mira for this fantastic package.

That is my haul for this week. What new polishes did you receive this week?

butter LONDON Trout Pout + Orly Harmonious Mess

Hi, everyone. I hope you all had a nice weekend. I was feeling a bit under the weather this weekend and took it easy. The weather has been great here though and is starting to really feel like fall. Fall is my favorite month and Halloween is my favorite holiday so I am looking forward to it. I guess I should maybe do some Halloween nail art. Hmm, yeah I'll think about that. :)

But I love bright colors all year round and wore this fun mani the other day. I'd been lemming butter LONDON Trout Pout for a while but my local Ulta was always out of stock. A couple of weeks ago when BL was on sale for $10, I popped by the store to see if there was anything I wanted. I was just about to walk out empty handed when I saw a little display of BL by the front door. A little searching and I managed to find one lone bottle of Trout Pout, and you can bet I brought it home.

Trout Pout is a really beautiful pink-coral creme. I can never tell if coral is pink or orange but I think this leans a little more pink. Formula was a tad streaky on the first coat but evened out. I used 3 think coats here. You can probably get away with 2 if you are more careful.

Sorry - the sun seems insanely bright in these pics. I wanted to pair Trout Pout with a contrasting color for a bit of fun and picked Orly Harmonious Mess. I picked up this periwinkle blue creme at TJ Maxx the other day in a 2 pack. This is a lovely pale blue with slight purple undertones. Really nice shade and it looked great with Trout Pout. Used 2 coats of it here. Top coat on both shades.

I am very happy with both of these shades and super happy to check Trout Pout off of my wish list. Thanks for stopping by today. Have an awesome week!

Orly Sparkling Garbage

Happy Friday, everyone. I was so tired last night that I did not even have the energy to schedule this post. So I am doing it right now. Pardon if it feels a bit rushed. Today I have Orly Sparkling Garbage from I believe the Mish Mash collection. Sparkling Garbage is a pale, almost seafoam green with a crapload of scattered holo glitter. Originally I wasn't super sold on this shade because I had heard that it was really sheer. But I kept seeing it around and the holo kept calling to me and I finally picked it up when Ulta was having a $5 Orly sale. I am really happy I did, too, because look at this crazy disco ball goodness. All photos below taken in natural sunlight unless stated otherwise.

My camera actually had a hard time focusing on my nails in these shots but it does show off the holo quite well. Warning - this polish is very sheer. I used 4 thin coats to get this look. You might be able to get away with 3 but I wanted the color to really come through and thought the 4th coat just gave it a little more dimension.

I love this polish. I am a huge holo freak and normally prefer linear holos but this scattered holo is just so sparkly and eye catching. I can't remember if I used top coat for these swatches but I usually do so let's just go with that.

lighting: shade

You can see the glitter a little more in the shade. Even without the sun it's still quite glittery.

And here is a picture in the sun that is out of focus but that shows all of the rainbow awesomeness in this polish.

Recently I spotted some 2 packs of Orly at TJ Maxx that included Sparkling Garbage. The packs retail for $6.99 which means that each polish ends up being less than $4. That's a steal, people, and this shade is definitely worth it.

Thanks for coming by today. Hope you all have fun plans this weekend. It's a bit cloudy here so I hope to spend some quality time indoors with a cup of tea and a book. :)

Stashed (6): Sally Hansen, Orly, Wet N Wild, butter LONDON

Hi, everyone! Polish diet had been going so well but I fell off the wagon ab it with some drugstore shopping and an Ulta sale.

I used to use Wet N Wild Black for all of my black polish needs. However, the last bottle I bought was kind of thin and not really opaque like my original bottle. So I have been on the hunt for a good black. I heard that the Kleancolor back was good for stamping and suck and I found it in a random dollar store at the mall. Since it was so cheap I picked up two bottles.

Also picked up some of the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes. The new collection is so glow-y and I love it. Also got a couple of Wet N Wilds from their new Tough Girl (or something like that) collection and one of the new Orly matte flakeys.

Then this happened to me at Ulta and TJ Maxx. I went to Ulta to see if there were any butter LONDONs I might want during their $10 sale. I had been looking for Trout Pout for a while and also picked up Giddy Kipper, which I had never seen below. I also found the new Sally Hansen X-Treme Wears with the bar glitter. I tried to be good and only got 4 of them. Closer pick of them below.

At TJ Maxx I picked up an Orly duo with Harmonious Mess and Fowl Play in it. They had some great duos including on with Sparkling Garbage I would have gotten if I didn't just buy it. The packs were only $6.99. Lastly I picked up 2 tubes of H20 hand and cuticle scrub. I have heard good things about it and I need to use a scrub more to keep my hands soft. This seems good and smelled pretty nice.

Here is a close up of the Sally Hansens. I am pretty excited about the white/gold combo and the orange/black. I kind of want to go back for the green one. I refrained from getting the black and white one even though I wanted it since I already have several variations of it. The one above is black and silver, which totally isn't the same thing. :)

That's my haul for this week. Thanks for stopping by and have a good weekend!

Orly Beach Cruiser

I have a slight obsession with hot/neon pink. Normally I am not really a pink kind of person but I love super bright neon pink. There's just something about it that makes me happy and I always gravitate towards it. Orly Beach Cruiser is a part of their permanent line.It's a neon pink creme that I was surprised was not already in my collection.

The formula on this was good. The first coat was a bit patchy but leveled out after the second coat. Like most neons, this one dries with a matte finish so you will definitely need top coat to get it shiny. 

While this isn't the most original shade, I still like it a lot. It's like a party on my fingernails. :) If you like bright pinks, I would definitely recommend Beach Cruiser.

Thanks for stopping by and have a good weekend!

Stashed (4): ulta3, Australis, OPI, CND

Hi, everyone. I have a really big haul to share with you this week. I did a swap with Mandee from The Bookish Manicurist recently and my package just came this week. Mandee lives in Australia and I was moaning about the fact that the new Ulta3 Glitterati collection was only available in Australia when Mandee generously offered to do a swap with me. She threw in some other brands as well and I am excited to try them all. :) I also made a beauty supply run last weekend and picked up a few polishes as well as the new CND Vinylux system. Full review to come but I've been wearing it for a whole week now and it looks great, but I am dying to change my polish and my nails are getting super long. I'll be glad to take it off tomorrow.

I am too tired right now to list the names of all of these polishes. You can see the Ulta3 names on the front of the bottle (which I love). If there's anything else you want to know the name of, just let me know in the comments below and I'll get back to you. Happy Sunday!

Stashed (3): butter LONDON, Orly, Barielle, China Glaze, Oh My!

Hello again! I've been hauling like a madwoman lately and I really need to stop. I really do have a ton of polishes that I need to swatch and wear and adding the the collection just isn't helping. That said, I did get a lot of new goodies in the last couple of weeks. Come check them out!

I have been on a major butter London kick lately. I want them all! I had a 20% off Ulta coupon last week which I decided to use on a couple of butter Londons. I really wanted Trout Pout, which they were out of but grabbed Shag and Macbeth, which are both awesome. I should have swatches of Macbeth up soon. Also picked up China Glaze Swanky Silk from the clearance section for $0.99 and Layla CE39 (sorry I can't find a name) for $4.99.

My good friend L gifted me with a couple of polishes last month. She sent me Jin Soon Auspicious Propice and Top Shop Eclipse. I haven't tried either of these brands yet and am super excited to give them a go. Also picked up China Glaze Infared and SpaRitual Deep at Marshalls.

I was on a mission to find butter London at TJ Maxx last week since I heard that they were spotted there. I didn't find any (yet) but there were lots of other goodies to be had.

This is an awesome Barielle set full of blues. I did a quick internet search and I think this is the Heavenly Blues set. All of these look gorgeous and I can't wait to try them out.

Another Barielle set called Sweet Treats. I am really into pastels right now and these are really pretty because they have shimmer.

I love finding new Color Club sets at discount stores. This is the Fiesta set which I don't think I have eve seen before. Loving that chartreuse green in the middle.

Most of the Orly sets I've managed to find at discount shops don's usually interest me. However, this one had Miss Conduct, a pretty berry holo that I have been wanting for some time. The blue glitter is really cool, too (sorry not sure what it's called right now) and both were just $7.99.

That's my haul for this week. Do you like shopping in discount stores for polish, too? What's been your best find? Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!