Archive for 2011
October 22nd, 2011
Fright Night Claw Polishes for Halloween
Hooray for Halloween nail polishes! The Fright Night lacquers are especially fun because they come in coffin-shaped bottles. The funny-shaped cap can make for tricky application, but I can easily let that slide for the cuteness factor.
And here’s what they look like on claws:
Voodoo is a bright red glitter in a red jelly base. This is two coats. It’s gritty on its own, so a topcoat is definitely needed. I used Seche Vite here.
Toxic is a dark green foil. It really shines in bright sunlight. Two coats.
Phantom is a very chic gray shimmer. Two coats but three would have been better as there was still some patchiness on my middle finger.
Poison is a blue/purple blurple metallic. Two coats.
Enjoy!
~ Allison ~
October 19th, 2011
It’s a Skeletal Thing Etsy Treasury for a Punky Halloween
My Snow White Witch Skeleton Necklace is for all you fabulous gothic princesses, corpse brides, and snow queens out there!
It’s been featured in a new treasury, It’s a Skeletal Thing. This treasury is genius. If I could I would buy everything here! Click to see full.
~ Allison
October 19th, 2011
OPI Muppets Nail Polish Collection Holiday 2011
I don’t know about you but I grew up watching the Muppets, so I was pleased and intrigued to hear that OPI was doing a holiday collection in our favorite puppets’ honor! The collection consists of 12 shades and I ended up buying 4 of them from my local beauty supply store. Here are my swatches and reviews.
Warm & Fozzie
This copper foil has a titch of duochrome that emerges in certain lights. This is gorgeous, the perfect fall color and festive enough for the holidays too.
Designer, De Better!
This reminds me of ORLY Rage if it were reversed – instead of copper with silver flecks, silver with copper flecks. The copper serves to warm up the silver foil. Quite a wearable shade.
Pepe’s Purple Passion
Pepe’s is a vampy purplish creme that leans towards jelly, as it is somewhat sheer. You can see the flake-like shimmer throughout. This style of shimmer reminds me of Revlon’s Fizz nail polishes. Very pretty, a nice twist on the classic vampy burgundy nail.
Excuse Moi!
And now for my favorite. Excuse Moi! is a bright vibrant pink jelly base brimming with pink, and some blue and green glitter. Due to the pink base you can build it up on its own or use it for layering. Here I painted two coats over Designer, De Better!
Will you be choosing any of these polishes for your holiday looks?
~ Allison ~
October 19th, 2011
OPI I Vant to Be Alone-Star + POP Beauty Twinkle glitter
I Vant to be Alone-Star is from OPI’s Texas collection. Why the Vant instead of Want? Is this a typo or some kind of Transylvanian reference? That aside, it is a pretty, cool grey pearl. (Disregard the raggedy cuticles; these pix were taken awhile ago.)
Then I layered POP Beauty Twinkle glitter polish on top. It’s a primarily silver holographic glitter, but you can see hints of pink, green, blue, and gold as well. Since it’s finely textured it’s not as hard to remove as coarser, denser glitters.
Indoor light:
Natural sunlight:
~ Allison
October 9th, 2011
Goodbye, Summer
The nights are getting nippy, the fragrance of wood smoke is in the air, and Halloween will be here in a couple of weeks. There’s no denying that fall is here and summer is over. Still, I wanted to do a last hurrah with some summery nail polish spam.
Nicole by OPI OMB! (Justin Bieber collection)
LA Colors Raspberry
Some Sinful Colors pink underneath OPI I Lilly Love You
Wet N Wild Waves of Enchantment
LA Colors Shock
China Glaze Solar Power
LA Colors Lime
Wet N Wild Ocean Grotto
MAK3 Color aka dollar store Kleancolor reject – forget the name of this green.
Hard Candy Frenzy
Sinful Colors Rise N Shine
Wet N Wild Blue Wants to be a Millionaire
Brash Electric Sky
Butter London No More Waity Kaity
Wet N Wild Sea of Dreams
MAK3 Color aka dollar store Kleancolor reject – think this one is called Neon Purple.
Wet N Wild Sea Witch
~ Allison ~
