Jelly Sandwich with OPI Houston We Have a Purple and Sinful Colors I Miss You

Houston We Have a Purple is a delicious purple jelly.  It looks quite dark in the bottle but goes on so sheer that it looks more magenta on the nail.  My pics make it look more pink than it is.  Since I was layering this I only used 2 coats of HWHAP- it would prob take 3-4 coats to be opaque on its own.

Bottle shots of Sinful Colors I Miss You and OPI Houston We Have a Purple

The assembled jelly sandwich!  2 Coats HWHAP, one coat SC I Miss You, one coat HWHAP and seche vite topcoat.  The glitter had this awesome pink/purple duochrome effect going on and the holo glitter in I Miss You still looked holo through the final coat of purple.  Beautiful!

Deborah Lippmann's Mermaid's Dream

As soon as I saw this polish I just had to have it.  It also helped that Beauty.com had a promo when you spent $10 on their site you got a free Deborah Lippmann polish called Dream a Little Dream of Me.  Free DL polish?  I'm IN!!  So I got Mermaid's Dream and Spa Ritual's Sacred Ground to make the order over $25 to qualify for free shipping.  2 Deborah Lippmann's and a Spa Ritual polish for $28-  not bad!

Mermaid's Dream is a seafoam green foil with tiny blue and gold glitter and larger blue round glitter.  The color combo is of this world- the finish looks pretty frosty and bumpy so I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that yet.  I thought it would look better with extra topcoat so I used 2 coats of gelous and  a coat of seche vite.  It's still a bit bumpy even with this and it looks heavily textured- sort of like gravel.  The color is incredibly flattering and unique so I still like it.  Formula was excellent, 2 coats below.

Essie Smooth Sailing

This lovely blue shimmer from Essie is part of the Summer 2011 collection.  I got this in a 4 mini cube set from TJ Maxx.   On first glance it looks quite similar to the shimmer in Zoya Skylar, OPI I Have a Herring Problem and I Don't Give a Rotterdam from the Holland collection.  But then when you look closer it has this gorgeous pink shimmer along with the silver.  Opaque in 2 coats and the formula was great, smooth and easy to use.    Essie mini polishes are the best because the brush is the same size as the full bottle!  Genius, Essie!

China Glaze Prismatic Glitter Full Spectrum

So I got the whole Prismatic Glitter collection from China Glaze today!  I knew I'd like these from the swatches I've seen, but I was still stunned when I saw them in person!  *Wipes drool*  These have to be seen in person to be fully appreciated.  There is a subtle duochrome shift of the base color in most all of them excluding Polarized (silver).  But I thought it would be great for gradients so I got it too!  (Justify however you need to)    I haven't had time to swatch the others, just threw this on as a full mani tonight.

This one is primarily pink and shifts to darker pink and mine shows some purple shift as well, maybe because it was layered over a purple?  The formula was excellent, thin but opaque, no cleanup whatsoever.  

2 coats over 1 coat of OPI Planks a Lot.  Not really necessary to layer this one, I just wanted to make sure it was opaque and maybe bring out the purple more.

I adore this collection!  I'm not even a pink fan but this is wonderful!

Wet N Wild Spoiled Trust Fund Baby

Trust Fund Baby is a unique mix of hex gold and blue glitter and SQUARE black and pink glitter.  Yes, I said square!  As if it wasn't good enough to give us black glitter- they went ahead and made it square.  Be still my beating heart!  I wanted to put this over something that would really contrast with the glitter so I used an unnamed silver foil by Color Club.  This is one of those glitters you have to "dab" on rather than brush on.    Love, love this!

2 Coats of silver foil, 1.5 "dab" coats of glitter, no topcoat

Color Club Love 'em/Leave 'em

Look at this mother- a nude holo!  Don't see that everyday, do ya?  Color Club makes great holographic polishes, they should make more of them!  The formula was excellent, went on like buttah.  2 coats pictured here, no topcoat.

Look at the rainbow in that bottle!  OMG!

Not the best pic here- I only had a small patch of sunlight in my garage to work with!

Indoors, in light box- still a nice shimmery nude!

I found this for $3.99 at Christmas Tree Shops- random, huh?

Sinful Colors Mint Apple

This is a lovely dusty mint green shimmer from Sinful Colors.  Opaque at 2 thick coats, would have been better with 3 thinner coats but I was short on time.  Good formula, minimal cleanup needed.  Fine silver shimmer throughout that shows up well on the nail.  Pics are with Seche Vite topcoat.  Really like this one, would be great on lots of skin tones.