Kleancolor-Firework

Hello everyone! My finals are over yayayay!!!! Summer had OFFICIALLY started, despite that we still have two more 1/2 days of school. Blegh. Whatever, I'm just so happy that I have no more school and homework and can waste more time painting my nails and blogging and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
So today's polish is a simple glitter that I picked up from my town's Spring Fling festival thing last year. It's just like a large open market and they always a nail polish stand with cheap nail polish so I like to go there. I got four polishes there this year, they had OPI polish there for like $6 it was awesome! My friend was forced to stay with me at the booth while I looked at nail polish and she witnessed my whole nail polish buying process. It's pretty long and tedious, I can spend FOREVER in front of a nail polish display debating about what to buy...etc.
So anyway, today's glitter polish is Kleancolor-Firework. It's a pretty fun mix of red,gold, and teal hex glitter and little gold microglitter in a kinda yellow-y base. The red glitter can look very fucsia at certain angles that it sometimes looks like there is actual fucsia glitter in it, like maybe someone knocked over the tube of fucsia glitter and some fell in lol! The yellow base isn't all that noticeable on the nail, just a little over white, which is good. I really don't like glitter in a tinted base because it's always hard to layer it over other stuff.

 The middle and index fingers have a matte top coat on top, just because I was curious about how matte would look. I might have mentioned before though that I'm just not really a fan of matte. But it does look pretty cool. The other two nails, and the rest of the nails in this post, have a coat of Seche Vite on top. 
I played around with some layering just over some colors that I already had on for swatching anyway. You might have seen these last week,
This is Firework over Color Club-Coral Cascade:

Here it is over Zoya-Kristen. I really like this combo:

I like that combo a lot, like the subtle muted Kristen contrasts against the bright and colorful Firework!
Here's Firework over OPI-Honey Ryder, which is one of those textured polishes, this combo is pretty neat too:

On my ring and middle fingers you can see some serious fucsia glitter! It's actually the red glitter that just looks pinker due to the angle and lighting. The little gold microglitters don't really show up over the gold base of Honey Ryder, but I think the glitter on top of textured combo is kinda cool. I might have to experiment with it again! I'll have swatches of Honey Ryder alone later this week. 
Kleancolor polishes can be found in drugstores, I got mine from the Spring Fling for like $2, I don't know how much they cost in stores, but I think they're pretty cheap.
Overall I really like this glitter. It's fun and I think the name is very fitting! That's it for today guys thanks for reading!

Urban Outfitters-Dust

Hello happy Saturday yay! Hope everyone's having a good weekend. I had a 6 hour marching band "boot camp" rehearsal this morning. God it was exhausting, and we've barely even started the actual marching part yet! Don't ever let ANYONE tell you that marching band isn't a legit sport, because IT IS INTENSE!
So anyway...[segway]...today's polish is another Urban Outfitters polish, Dust. Dust is a glitter in kind of a blueish base with dark silver glitter. 

As you can see, the blueish base isn't really obvious once it's on the nail. Really all you see is this blue-y tinted silver glitter. Here's a bottle shot, where you can see the grey ish blue base:

I messed with the color balacne just a little to get the base color to show better. This is how the bottle looks in real life, quite a lot of blue. Sadly that blue doesn't translate onto the nail :(

The formula is also a tad tricky. It's thinner than I expected, and runnier/streaky, so the first coat is quite patchy. The second coat is more opaque, but there are still some patchy areas, so I'm wearing 3 coats in these pictures. Since it was so much thinner than I expected, I experimented with some layering.
Here's one coat of Dust over black and white:

Over the white polish on my middle finger you can see the blue base better, and also see how streaky it is. I think it looks pretty cool over black, it looks like Color Club-Platinum Record, which is silver glitter in a clear base. I'll do swatches/a comparison maybe some other time.
Here's one coat of Dust over OPI-I Don't Give A Rotterdam! which is a slate blue with slight copper shimmer.

I tried to choose a polish with a similar base color as Dust to see how it would look. I kind of hoped the copper shimmer in IDGAR would show through, but it didn't :(
And for the sake of experimenting, here's one coat of Dust over Jordana-Pink Lilac

I had hoped that the blue on top of the pink would make a purple-y color, but I clearly still have much to learn about layering polishes, cuz all I got was a streaky ugly blueish mess.

:D
Overall I think I would like this polish a lot more if it were in a clear base, or if the blue showed up better. Right now, it's just sort of grungy looking, and I'm not sure when I could ever use it, except maybe as an accent nail with nail art or something :( 
Urban Outfitters polishes cost $5 in stores.
Anyway that's all for today guys thanks for reading!

Zoya Farah and some glitter!

Hi everyone! So today, instead of studying for finals which I should have been doing :/ I decided to paint my nails. This was a fairly simple rush job, but I thought I would post it anyway. It started with a color a picked up recently, Zoya-Farah. I LOVE this color! Have I ever mentioned how much I loved neutrals like this?

This is such a nice color, it's a sort of tannish color with the ever so slightest tint of an olive green in there. Zoya always puts out such beautiful colors! The formula was also lovely on this, it was definitely a one coater, but I always like to do 2 coats of polish. With smaller nails, a second coat really wouldn't be necessary! 

Now I can never go out with just a plain color on my nails (it's so, yaknow, plain) so I decide to try one of the new untried glitters I have. This is Model's Own-Freak Out! and it's from their Mirrorball collection, which is a collection of 5 crazy fun glitters. Model's Own is a UK brand, so when I was in London a couple months ago, I was excited to get my hands on some of their polishes. I ended up buying 4 in total, and 3 of them are from the Mirrorball collection. I'll be posting those at a later date. 

Freak Out! is a mix of dark fuchsia (lol I had to check the dictionary on how to spell fuchsia I can never get it right!) hexagon shaped glitter, larger dark blue glitter, and teal shard and bar glitter. The bar glitter is slightly holographic but you can't really see it.

 The glitter applied super nicely in one relatively thick coat, and only a little bit of dabbing was required. The only thing I don't like is that it dries SUPER slow, even with a fast drying topcoat. I did a gradient on my ring finger and thumb(I love accent nails!), and by the tips of the nail where I have like 3 coats of the glitter is still not dry and it's been like 30 minutes! Maybe I'm just impatient :P

   Zoya polishes cost $8 on their website (and I've never been able to find them in any stores!) and the Model's own were £10 I think, but you can't buy them in the US :(

So that's it for today, hope everyone enjoys the rest their week!