Revlon Vixen and OPI Man With the Golden Gun

Happy weekend, readers! I have a fun weekend planned. It's filled with studying for midterms, a violin performance and a twelve page research paper. Thankfully, I'll be taking a lot of study breaks to keep myself sane. Here's what I'm wearing now, Revlon Vixen:

And here it is topped with OPI's Man With the Golden Gun. I snagged this one up at Ulta after looking for it since the Skyfall OPI collection came out. I played around with my lighting in the first of these pictures and my topcoat looks crazy shiny!

Talk to y'all soon, and have a great weekend!

OPI Stranger Tides

Here's a go-to favorite of mine. I swear it looks nice on my skin, for some reason my camera just freaked out and wanted to show lobster hands! At least Zoidberg is a funny character so I'm okay bearing a resemblance to him.

Half Moon Manicure

Hey guys! This is a half moon manicure I did from a while back. I used french manicure guides which is why my 'half moons' are so large. Next time I'm using whole punch reinforcers! I used two coats of China Glaze White Cap for the base and one coat of China Glaze Ruby Slippers for the red. I really like the shimmer these two give off together!

'Til next time!

OPI DS Original

Hey everyone! School year resolution: blog more. On this blog. I started a neuroscience blog last year but it's pretty pathetic (as in zero people visit it) and I do enjoy swatching, so I'll be posting here more frequently!

This is two coats of OPI DS Original, which I realized I have no swatches of alone on here. Here you go!

Hope everyone's doing well!

Revlon Powder Puff + Lynnderella Snow Angel

Decided to keep it clean and simple today. This was two coats of Revlon Powder Puff topped with one coat of Snow Angel. Clean and pretty!

Revlon Chic

Here's another blue polish to balance out the purple :) This is Revlon Chic, two coats. This is a very... blah polish to me. It's pretty, but would be prettier with some hidden shimmer. It's too plain!

Lots of Revlon posts lately!

Revlon Royal Cloak

I have some purple spam for all you purple lovers out there! I'm actually not a huge fan of this polish to be honest (and by not a huge fan I mean I don't like it at all...). It looks nice in the bottle, but not as nice on the nail. Boo! Even so, Revlon is on FIRE lately with how many great nail polishes they're releasing. Definitely my favorite nail brand right now! I think this was two coats.

What do you think? Like it? Leave it?

Revlon Fashionista

I can't believe it's already 2012. I found these over winter break with my friend, Layla, in Ulta. I saw the Revlon display that has Whimsical in it totally empty, and I had to ask if they had put the polishes out.... they didn't! So I got to go through all the boxes of polish and get first dibs to any colors I wanted. Hooray! One polish I chose was Revlon Fashionista, a beautiful one-coater.

I decided to make it funky for New Year's Eve. I can't file my fingernails into points because they're super short, but I can make them pointy using polish! I used a nude franken for my base color and Revlon Fashionista for the tip color. I think it's super cute!

Know what else is super cute? BABY ALBINO OTTERS!! Am I right??

(Not my picture, taken from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/photos-albino-animals-ghosts-wild-4633992)

Revlon Lily with LA Splash Baby Octopus and GITA!

Today I have one of my favorite cremes, Revlon Top Speed Lily. It has an awesome formula and the color is amazing. Try this one out if you can, it's totally worth the $6!

Here it is with LA Splash Baby Octopus. This is a holographic glitter polish with circle and octagon glitter. 

Here it is with my favorite, Lippmann Glitter in the Air!

Thanks for lookin'!

Teal Franken

Today I have a teal franken that I made a while ago. I made this one using NYC Kisses, Wet n Wild Black Creme and an LA Colors Color Craze blue that I had lying around. The sparkles come from NYC Kisses, and I'm in love with them! Everything was under a dollar, too: I bought the LA Colors polish at the dollar store, and bought the NYC polish in a two pack at the dollar store as well. Wet n Wild Wild Shines are already 99 cents to begin with, and Rite Aid had a deal a while ago to get two for 99 cents, so I stocked up! Cheap frankening is my favorite by far.

Here's a bottle shot. You can see the shimmer really well in this one.

Thanks for stopping by!

OPI La Boheme

Hey everyone! Long time no see. Sorry about that- life got in the way. I'm not going to make any promises about posting regularly, but I completely lost interest in nail polish in the past couple months and it's just now starting to come back. I have a couple pictures I never got around to putting up on here which I'll cue up to post in the next couple of days.

Here's OPI La Boheme. She's a multifaceted beauty! I tried getting La Boheme at different angles with my camera, and experimented with different kinds of light. Here were my results. I'm sure most of you have seen this polish before, but I hope that my pictures show what it looks like in person more accurately than others I've seen.

Here's a "boring" shot under my OTT light. Nothing special going on here.

Here she is with different tilts. You can really see the green and gold in these pictures, especially on the left side of my nails!

Finally, under direct sunlight at different angles. It kind of reminds me of embers glowing in a freshly put-out fire. Cozy but beautiful :)

Thanks for still checking out my blog while I've been gone- I noticed I accumulated 200 followers during my absence. You guys ROCK!! Thank you!

China Glaze Hey Sailor

Ahoy! This is a really, really pretty one-coater red. If you buy any red, I would buy this one! it's sooo easy to apply and it's very pigmented. This was one coat of awesomeness.

Thanks for looking!

Milani Rad Purple

This is 5 coats of Milani Rad Purple. It's a really pretty purple jelly- reminds me of grape juice! It has a weird matte finish though, which kind of showed in the first picture on my pointer and middle fingers.

Ulta After Party

Long time no see! I've been really busy with school/being tired 24/7, so I haven't been focusing on updating as much as I should be. Not sure if my franken thing will happen now... I can't really get myself to make them! I may do it today because I'm feeling pretty energized, but we'll see if that actually happens :)

This is Ulta After Party, on it's own. I think this was 4 coats. It's a really pretty pink and red glitter!

Hope you guys are well!

Revlon KHAKIzing

Hello, world! This is a polish a friend gave me a couple weeks ago. I didn't realize how much I loved this until I put it on... the duochrome is prominent in the bottle, but not as prominent as in person. Take a look!

Now look what it looks like at the right angle...

Crazy bright neon green! I love how unique this polish is. Unfortunately, it's long discontinued and was limited edition in the 90's (I think?). In any case, it was really nice of her to give it to me and I love it!

OPI Hungary for my Honey

Have you guys ever wanted or bought a nail polish just for its name? That was the sole reason I bought OPI Hungary for my Honey. I thought the color was fugly when I saw swatches of it online, but I thought since I am Hungarian I had to have this color. I was happily surprised when I put it on... the color aint half bad! It reminds me of paprika, which I'm sure is what they were trying to go for. Fun fact- OPI was actually started by a Hungarian!

Franken Using Maybelline Colorama #40 Frosty Pink

 Hi! I wanted to show you all this franken I made. I used a whole bottle of Maybelline Colorama Frosty Pink in it. Here's my recipe:

-1 bottle of Frosty Pink

-8 drops of China Glaze First Mate

-5 drops of Wet n Wild Black Creme

I love it! These swatches are over two coats of First Mate. My camera was being really weird and didn't show how deep this polish really is... to be honest, it's almost black but it's definitely blue. It's a blue-black!

 Here's a picture that's a bit more color accurate:

Here are some pictures that are also a little bit more color accurate where you can see the shimmer. I think I need to put this one on again! :)

Let me know if you replicate this and what you think of it! I think I'm going to hoard Frosty Pinks... they look *great* in frankens.

China Glaze Pelican Grey and Revlon Colada Fizz

Hey everyone! Quick update on the franken situation - I haven't made all of them yet because I've had so much work and because I've been sick. I think I'll only have 7 of each in this batch, and I'll make more of whichever people request the most. Just wanted to clue you guys in.

This is China Glaze Pelican Grey, two coats, on its own.

Then I topped it with Revlon Colada Fizz. I really like this combo - it reminds me of Illamasqua Raindrops! That's one of my major lemmings, and I'm glad that I didn't have to pay UK shipping to get something similar.

I hope everyone has a good day today!