Warm and Fozzie

Love. Love is fozzie bear on my fingers. I have nothing but good things to say about this color. It went on easily, stayed on nicely and looked gorgeous doing so. Love.

Meep Meep Meh

This was a color I coveted from afar. I don't know if I got a bad bottle or what, but the formula on mine was not stellar. It was thick and goopy. However, I bought this from a new supplier (to me) so maybe they weren't storing this nicely.

Pros: she's a gorgeous color. When people ask you can say you are wearing "meep meep meep"

Cons: if it's not just mine, it's a hinky formula.

Velvet Two Ways

So for today, I have Orly's Velvet Rope done two ways. The first is the basic Velvet Rope. And this is a great color. It's a nice deep pure purple with little teeny silver microglitter running throughout.

Next is Velvet Rope, but with two coats of OPI's stunner Serving up Sparkle on top of it. Serving up sparkle has a great holo glitter with big hex pieces mixed in. It was somewhat difficult to apply the hex glitter evenly. You really have to shake the heck out of the bottle. Frequently. But it was super pretty.

This combo is actually how I rang in the new year and it definitely felt appropriately festive!

Midnight in Moscow

Here I have the lady that initially got me back into nail polish. I got this when OPI first released the Russian collection, though it sat mostly alone in my medicine cabinet for years before the polish psychosis set in.

Midnight in Moscow is a dark, dark vampy red (though when you're removing it, it comes off black) with red sparkle in it. When the light catches it, it's just about the most gorgeous thing you've ever seen. I've had this color for... five years? Six years? And I still get excited when I put it on.

Meet Me at My Mom's House

Today I have for you OPI's Meet Me on the Star Ferry. This went on pretty easily, has a cool micro glitter in an already shimmery base. But... it's mauve. As was everything my mother ever wore growing up. I never saw her wear nail polish that wasn't mauve... in fact I think I still haven't! She, of course, loves this color. So if you want to find it, you'll have to go to her house.

Happy New Year!!

The last couple of months have been filled with changes, drama, and no time for nail blogging. I hope anyone who reads this has had a happy holiday season and one of my resolutions is to get better about updating this bad devil.

I have several swatches ready to go that have been ready for months and today I give you the first. It's from the OPI Swiss collection: Ski Teal We Drop. This lovely is a nice teal that leans more blue than green on me. It's a great creme and applied nicely, if I recall correctly. My dog seemed to like it as much as I did as she chewed on the cap as soon as I put it down. Bad stylish dog!

Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

I had an occasion to dress up in September, and I went and got my nails did. Because I was rockin' a bright blue dress with sparkly gunmetal shoes, I went with a sparkly gunmetal polish. I heart the matchy, matchy.

Lucerne-tainly look Marvelous is from OPI's Switzerland collection from fall of 2010. Its a shimmery gunmetal grey -- maybe a foil? It's close if it's not a true foil. It is SUCH a great color for us pale, cool-toned girls. Pictures below.

Moon over Mumbai w/Nubar 2010

It's been a while! Unfortunately, work and life have taken me away from regular blogging, but I'll be getting back to it as my life settles down a bit.

Today I have a two polishes for the price of one! Both were purchased from a blog sale. And both are wonderbar.

The first is OPI's Moon Over Mumbai from the OPI India Collection. It is a light, sheer grey. A little research showed that it was one of the first true greys that came out. So there's that! The formula on this was a little thin, but it built up reasonably well. Moon Over Mumbai on it's own has gone into my mental file as "great for conservative work days."

Atop Moon Over Mumbai, I put Nubar 2010. Oh man, I am in love with this polish. It is insane-level gorgeous. I've seen it over dark colors and it looks like it's on fire. Over a light color like this, it looks sweetly iridescent. This is a true beauty. The formula on this was outstanding, and it's chock full o' beautiful flakies.

The pictures below are three coats of Moon Over Mumbai and two coats of 2010. Under the color is OPI Natural Base and atop it all is Seche Vite.

Thanks for looking!

It appears I have a problem.

This blog is being born of necessity. Since April 17, I have made three large nail color purchases from the interwebz. Not just one or two... large, large purchases (at least to me). And I have not finished wearing even the first order's worth of pretty, pretty polishes.

I am a polish addict. The more I have, the more I need. I am a burgeoning nail nutty girl, so I figured I'd join the ranks of the websites I compulsively scan for the latest colors. I'm hoping to have lots of fun updates and reviews as I grow my collection.

Prior to the aforementioned hauls, I had a hodgepodge of about 11-12 colors. And this obsession was brought on by my last in-store (ULTA) purchase of two colors from the China Glaze Anchors Away Collection: Knotty and Ahoy. I bought them, I applied them, I loved them, I NEEDED more.

So without further ado, here are my first three orders that have started my collection in earnest.

Order 1. April 17, 2011. The psychosis begins...
China Glaze Jitterbug*
China Glaze Midnight Mission*
China Glaze Foxy
China Glaze Swing Baby*
China Glaze Strawberry Fields
China Glaze Sky High-Top
China Glaze Frosty*
China Glaze Bahamian Escape
China Glaze Secret Periwink-le*
China Glaze Branding Iron
This was my discovery that China Glaze exists online for about 3.00 a bottle. I love this knowledge.
*already worn

Order 2. April 24, 2011. Or: hey, there's another website and THEY sell OPI & that Seche Vite stuff everyone raves about...
OPI Meet Me on the Star Ferry
OPI Bright Light-Big Color* (presently on my toes. I'll spare you)
OPI Japanese Rose Garden*
China Glaze Something Sweet
China Glaze Sugar High
China Glaze Orange Marmalade*
China Glaze Grape Juice
China Glaze I Wanna Lei Ya
China Glaze Ingrid
China Glaze Peachy Keen*
China Glaze Tantalize Me* (presently on my hands. This I'll show shortly)
Seche Vite Top Coat

Order 3. May 15, 2011. I have no yellow. Or green. PANIC! I should order some stuff!
MISA Genie in This Bottle
MISA Touch the Rainbow
MISA Spinning Out of Control
MISA Dirty Sexy Money
MISA Toxic Seduction
Color Club Soft As Cashmere
China Glaze Electric Pineapple
China Glaze Lighthouse
China Glaze Hey Sailor
China Glaze Below Deck
China Glaze Sea Spray

I was greatly saddened by the fact that On Stranger Tides was sold out. I may have even pouted.

So this is where I start. I'm definitely obsessed. I love this whole nail polish thing.