Glitter Spam-Monocolors

Hey girls! (and maybe guys...?:-/) Got a fun post for y'all today, GLITTER SPAM!! Has there ever been a better combination of two words in the english language? I guess...Firefly's back...Buffy marathon...snow day...band camp...so yeah jk there are a lot :P
Anyway so I've been working on swatching all my glitters (just sayin...there's a lot) and I thought I would post them in "category" posts. So today's category are my monocolor glitters!
*Disclaimer-Not all polishes in this post are available for purchase in the US.
First up is Milani-584 Red. It's large red hex glitter in a clear base. I picked this up really recently, like 2 days ago recently. I was surprised when I saw it and realized I didn't have ANY red glitter polishes in my collection! Not one! And I always thought red glitter was really vampy and sexy, especially over darker colors, so I was like yay.
The glitter was a little hard to get onto the brush, maybe cuz the brush is like freaking tiny or maybe the bottle just needs a good shake. Anywho, as long as you swirl the brush around in the bottle a bit first you should be good. Other than that the formula was nice. It had good coverage and only needed a little bit of dabbing.
This is Milani-584 Red over Zoya-Evvie a nice dark color :)

And just for fun, here's 584 Red over Revlon Top Speed-Grape. Grape is a dark purple with a pretty shimmer, and I thought it would look REALLY good with red glitter. I was right :D

Sorry the pics are a little blurry/out of focus. My camera fails at sparkles.
Next is Color Club-Platinum Record. This is large silver hex glitter mixed with dark silver micro glitter. I considered putting this in the micro/fine glitter category, but due to the abundance of large glitter I decided to put it here. I always have issues with categorizing stuff :-/
The formula on this was very smooth and even, and the glitter applied in one nice coat. Another reason I considered putting it in the fine glitter category. But it's here now. So whatever. This is Platinum Record over Essie-Butler Please.

Do you see those random flashes of red? weird...

Also sorry for the stupid dent in my ring finger

Now these next two are Chinese brands, and not really available anywhere in the US or online or whatever. Sorry! The brand of these polishes is Lucidarling, and they don't really have names.
Also the brush on both these polishes is like microscopically small. and kinda stiff. Both the polishes needed a lot of dabbing to get the glitter on the nail. They also dried sorta matte, so these pictures all have one coat of top coat.
This first one is just large gold hex glitter in a clear base. The shade of gold is rather interesting...it's not light enough to be champagne gold, but it's not as yellow tones as most gold/yellow glitters. It's a little muted. Muted glitter? This is the gold over Essie-Maximillian Strasse Her.

See? It's a weird shade of gold.
The next one is a rosy pink color. Also not a the typical pink color I see in glitter polishes. Like the gold one, it's a little dusty/muted. Very pretty. This is the pink glitter over China Glaze-Light As Air.

God that shade of purple just makes my fingers look REALLY red! Meh...
The Milani polishes retail for about $6-7 and in places like CVS, which is where I got mine, and Color Club usually costs about $7 in stores like CVS and Walgreens or beauty retailers like Harmons.
Those were all my monocolor glitters! Thanks for reading everybody, I'll have more glitter spam posts up every week so stay tuned! K bye!
~Nova 

OPI-Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?

Hello everybody! Hope you're all having a nice week so far. I've been enjoying my summer camp, except for the long walk home :( Good news though yesterday I got to blow some of my money on nail polish! Yay! I got a few Essie's, and I don't really remember being a huge Essie fan, but all of a sudden I noticed how many Essie's I had in my collection and I was like woah! I'm also like super exhausted and sweaty as a write this because I've been biking a lot recently. My friend and I have been going on these daily bike rides, we average about 11 miles a day, it's crazy fun but it's soooo tiring!
Today's polish isn't Essie though, but it is one of my favorite colors, OPI-Did You'Ear About Van Gogh. Can we just take a second to laugh and marvel at the name of this polish? I swear I'm pretty sure I bought this just for the name.

The second I said this was one of my favorites you could probably figure it was a nude polish:P I am such a sucker for nudes/tans/off whites. This nude leans more in the tan department, it's a nice light tan with yellow undertones. 

This polish is from I think the Dutch collection from a couple years ago. I could be wrong though, but I know this polish is a little "old".
God it's so pretty! Reminds be of another favorite, Zoya-Farah. 

Didn't hurt that the formula on this was like utter perfection! Almost a one coater, for people with small nails this is definitely a one coater. I needed two just to smooth out a couple areas, but the formula was actually flawless.
OPI polishes cost about $8-9 and you can buy them in beauty retailers and in places like Target.
That's it for today guys! I'm planning a couple of fun posts for the future so stay tuned! Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time!

Essie-Lilacism

Hi everybody! How was everyone's Tuesday? My summer camp started yesterday. It's pretty fun, it's an art summer program and there are only 2 other girls in the class! Which may sound awkward but I LOVE small classes. Plus the teacher's nice. Plus I can stop in down town and buy nail polish on the way home. Which is the best part :P I actually did this same program last year and did a still life oil painting of some of my nail polish bottles. But that will never be shown...because I hate it :0
Today's nail polish color is kinda an oldie, at least for my collection, Essie-Lilacism. It's a very pretty sorta dusty light blue. The pictures are making it look WAY brighter than it really is! My camera can never capture these dusty colors properly. If you want a better idea of what Lilacism actually looks like you can check out my flower outline nails here. 

The picture below is probably the more color accurate of the two, though it's still a tad brighter than the real shade. but just a tad ;)
It's funny because in my opinion, this color isn't lilac at all! It is DEFINITELY a light blue! I've seen other pictures of this shade and all of them lean more purple, but for some odd reason mine is just totally blue. Not that I'm complaining; it's a super pretty blue :)

The formula on this was kinda sheer and it was pretty streaky on the first 2 coats. You can still see a little bit of streakyness in the pictures. I'm wearing 3 coats here, a couple of the nails needed a fourth, but I think you can get away with just 3.
Essie is available in most drug stores like CVS or Walgreens, and also in Target and retail for about $7-8.
Overall I REALLY love this color even if it's not really a lilac. I prefer this color to a lilac polish anyway. That's all for today guys thanks for reading!

Sunday Nail Art-Outline Flowers

Hello and happy Sunday! I just got back from Connecticut from visiting some of my parents' old friends. They had a college reunion thing, but I just played cards and stuff with the other kids.
Today I have nail art that I actually did a couple days ago (before leaving for Connecticut on Friday). They didn't really take too long and are really cute! Flower outline nails!

I had a lot of fun doing these nails and got lot's of compliments on them! Flower outline are a design that I've been wanting to do for a while, but I just put it off for some reason.

The white base is OPI-My Boyfriend Scales Walls and the light blue on my ring fingers and thumbs is Essie-Lilacism. The flower colors are Essie-Cascade Cool(pink), Essie-Playdate(purple), and OPI-Can't Find My Czechbook(blue). The little leaves are Confetti-Green With Envy. 

After painting the base and letting it dry, I just used a large-ish dotting tool to make the flowers. When they had dried I used a smaller dotting tool and the base color to go back in over the flowers. The leaves I did with my little detailing brush. When I was done they kinda looked plain, so I resorted to my favorite manicure pick-me-up, glitter! I used glitter which would correspond to the color of the flower, except I didn't own pink glitter :( so I just used red.

These nails were really easy and only took me about half an hour. 
So what do you guys think? Thanks for reading and I'll see you all next time!

OPI-Berlin There, Done That

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a nice fourth of July. I just kinda chilled at home...watched some Buffy the Vampire Slayer...fun stuff. 

So today's post is gonna be a short one. The color I have for you all is OPI-Berlin There, Done That. It's from their Germany collection, and it's like one of my favorite colors!

Berlin There Done That is a lovely taupy putty-ish brown creme, I don't really know how to describe it! It leans towards brown, but it's a very warm looking brown, it's soft and mellow. It has some purple undertones in it, which I think is what makes it look this nice and warm. I love warm browns with purple undertones like this. I have at least 2 more polishes like it. 

This is a brown polish, but I sorta file it under the "nudes" category, just because I can use it as a background for any color and it goes with everything. My thinking process is a little weird like that. 

Let me not forget to mention the flawless formula on this one! Perfectly opaque in 2 coats, probably one if you have smaller nails. Let me also just say right now how much I LOVE those OPI brushes! I understand why some people with tiny little nails don't like them, but for me, they are just so perfect! It's just like smooth, even coverage in only 2-3 strokes. And it just covers the nail so well! God I promise OPI didn't pay me to say this, I just love their brushes so much! 

OPI retails for around $8-9, although my local drug store totally rips me off by charging $9.50 a bottle. All their nail polish is overpriced. But I chose not to bring it up. You can buy OPI in most beauty retailers like Ulta, and in places like Target or CVS.

Ok guys that's all I have for today. Happy Friday, and if I don't get to post over the weekend have a nice weekend everybody!

Independence Day Mani!

Hello and happy fourth of July my fellow Americans! Anyone going to see fireworks later? I'm not sure if I'm going, I haven't really been into fireworks lately. Just a bunch of people gathered to see pretty lights with loud booms and then get choked by smoke. I don't like going to crowded places, so fourth of July fireworks=unnecessary social contact. 
However, I decided to get a little into the fourth of July spirit with an independence day manicure!

Originally I wasn't even planning on doing a red white and blue manicure because I don't really like those colors together. But I figured I'd have to show my patriotism in some way, so what better way for me than on my nails!

The white base is Kleancolor-White, while the red is Essie-She's Pampered and the blue is Essie-Butler Please. The accent nails are Julep-Michelle with Milani-Diamond Dazzle glitter on top. I used a fan brush to do the red and blue zig zaggy stripes. 

There's a piece of rogue copper glitter on my index finger :P
Here's a close up of my accent nails. I tried little fireworks on them with glitter. I wish I had more colors of bar glitter, but I only have gold. The silver glitter I pulled from another polish. Note to self-buy more bar glitter.

It's kind of funny, because my friend was always joking that I should take mini firecrackers and attach them to my nails, and then I could fire them off and have mini fireworks! So these mini firecracker nails are dedicated to her ;)
I also really like this "firecracker" design. I might have to use those in another manicure sometime!

More fireworks on my thumbs yay.

So that's all I have for today! Anyone have fun fourth of July plans? Whatever they are, I hope you enjoy, and I'll see you next time!

Jordana-Pink Lilac

Hello friends and aliens from afar! I hope everyone's been having a good week so far. I know I have! My parents are finally letting me sleep past 11 and it's pretty awesome! Usually they're waking me up at like 9 going "get up already it's late!!!!!" I've been catching up on lot's of TV shows, Angel, Buffy, and I get a chance to start Battlestar Galactica, which I've been wanting to watch for a really long time! God I'm nerdy.
Today's polish is one I picked up from my local drugstore, because it was super cheap, Jordana-Pink Lilac. I don't love Jordana polishes because the formulas tend to be icky, but they are very inexpensive, and I didn't have a color quite like Pink Lilac in my collection yet.

Pink Lilac is a nice pink/salmon polish. I actually really like salmon colors, which is probably why I bought it. I also chose to get Pink Lilac because it looked like it had sort of a jelly finish, and I love jellies.This is a little opaque for a jelly, it's sort of like a half jelly finish, but I really like it!

The formula is very interesting on this. On the first coat it was REAAALLLLLLYY sheer and I wanted to cry because I thought it would take like 50 coats to get it opaque. But the thing is, this polish BUILDS really nicely! So on the first coat there was like barely any color on the nail, but when I put on the second coat it was like BAM basically opaque! I only needed 3 coats in total to get it to my preference of opacity! How cool is that?!

Overall I'm actually quite happy with this color. I don't love pink, but this color isn't so bad! It's kinda muted, it's not like an in-your-face pink. I can see myself using this on Valentine's Day and stuff.
Jordana polishes retail for like $1.99 in drug stores. It may be different in different places, but basically they're really cheap.
That's all I have for today thanks for reading everyone!