butter LONDON EventFull Swatches!

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I purchased the 6 piece butter LONDON Eventfull set before Christmas and am just now getting around to swatching these. Since I'm not a fan of overly saturated posts with pictures, I broke this up into 2 posts, with 3 polishes in each post.

Warm Fuzzies is a taupe creme. This had a really nice formula, covering in 2 coats. All of these polishes did dry very shiny, as well! I've not tried the Patent Shine line before but they seem to live up to the "shine" name.

Mum's the Word is a peachy mauve. This covered in 2 coats, as well. This tone of color isn't my very favorite for my skin tone but otherwise the polish itself was fine.

Scrumptious is a berry creme. This needed 3 coats.

Stay tuned for the other half!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

China Glaze Rebel Collection Fall 2016

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The China Glaze Fall 2016 collection is called Rebel and has some beauties to offer us. There are 12 polishes so I'm going to be short and sweet with this post.

Dope Taupe is a taupe creme. I like colors like this a lot lately. Maybe I'm getting old, lol. This was 2 coats.

Fresh Prince-es is a pale pink, which seems sort of odd in a fall collection but maybe that's part of the Rebel theme, ha. This was pretty thin and needed 3 coats.

Purple Fiction is a beautiful magenta shimmer. This was 2 perfectly lovely coats.

Teen Spirit is a midnight blurple glitter in a dark base. This was 2 coats with another nice formula.

Don't Mesh With Me over Teen Spirit, and Jagged Little Teal. Don't Mesh with Me is a blue and purple shimmer topper. 1 coat over Teen Spirit and 1 coat over Jagged Little Teal.

Ya'll Red-y For This is a glowy red with shimmer. This was sort of a surprise favorite but this was also just one coat!

Pearl Jammin' is definitely one of my favorites. This is a light blue with a fiery orange shimmer. You can use this as a topper or on its own, which I did here in 3 coats.

Holo At Ya Girl is meant to be a topper and I didn't quite realize that until I was 3 coats into this swatch lol. So it can be built up but even at 3 coats, this was not completely opaque.

Jagged Little Teal is a deep teal creme. Not terribly unique but I always love colors like this because I'm a sucker for blues. This was 2 coats, with a great formula.

Blue-Ya is a dark blue with green fleck shimmer. Another great formula, and 2 coats.

Heroine Chic is a charcoal gray with red micro shimmer. A bit thin and needed 3 coats.

Combat Blue-Ts. Oh. Mah. Gosh. This.. This is just amazing. A dark cobalt matte blue. This is one coat. Yes. One. Coat. The formula is a bit thick and you do need to work quickly to get even coverage but holy moly. I did add topcoat after this but I cannot seem to find that picture.... sooo... whoops. Trust me, it's gorgeous either way!

Did you pick any up from the China Glaze Rebel collection? What are your favorites?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

OPI Washington DC Collection for Fall 2016!

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Today I have the OPI Fall 2016 Washington DC collection to share with you! I have all 15 polishes so let's just get to it! (Side note: I believe there are 3 additional Limited Edition shades available for purchase but I haven't seen those yet!)


First is Pale to the Chief, a true nude with the slightest slightest slight blue shimmer, which was basically not visible at all once applied to the nails. Whoops. This was the tiniest bit sheer after the second coat, but I will say that I also had some blue stained nails so if your nails are not stained smurf blue, you could most likely do 2 coats and have full opacity. For me, I used 3 plus topcoat.

Never A Dulles Moment is a gorgeous sunflower yellow creme. This was 3 coats plus topcoat. I didn't have any issues with formula and I pretty much just expect to do 3 coats for any yellow. I love this color, though!

Freedom of Peach is an orange creme. This was 2 coats plus topcoat.

Yank My Doodle is a rusty orangey color, and I quite like this one! This was two coats, plus topcoat.

Madam President is a pinky red (it looks more pink in person) with a FANTASTIC formula. This was 2 coats but alllllmost one.

OPI By Popular Vote is a maroon creme, opaque in two coats.

We The Female is a dark burgundy creme, opaque in 3 coats. This was almost a jelly/crelly consistency.

Kerry Blossom is a deep purple creme. 3 coats, plus topcoat.

Suzi - The First Lady of Nails is a gorgeous dark green creme. This was 2 coats plus topcoat.

Inside The Isabelletway is a tan creme, 2 coats plus topcoat.

Squeaker of The House is a medium cool toned brown. This was 2 coats, plus topcoat.

Shh... It's Top Secret is a super super super dark brown. This actually looked brown in person but not so much in pictures lol. This was 2 coats, plus topcoat.

Stay Off The Lawn! is a pine green creme. I loved this one, I'm sure you could guess. 2 coats, plus topcoat.

CIA = Color Is Awesome, a dark gray with a tinge of blue. I don't have many colors like this! I like it! 2 coats, plus topcoat.

"Liv" in the Gray is a dark Prussian blue. No surprise that I love this, too. 2 coats, plus topcoat!

I actually really really loved this collection. The yellow and green shades speak to me! LOL

What shades are your favorite??

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Zoya Dotticure Featuring Rowan, Ziv, and Purity

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Today I have a manicure using some pretty but basic but mainly pretty Zoya colors! I pulled out my Satin Zoyas and decided to use Rowan for my base color, a beautiful taupey satin finish. This was 2 coats and the formula on this polish was really nice. Very even and easy to apply.

Then I quickly (and sloppily) dotted Ziv and Purity on all of my nails. Voila. Super easy but I was feeling these simple dots and colors!!

What's your favorite dotticure combination?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Nine Zero Harvest Festival Collection

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Are you so excited??? I have the Harvest Festival collection from Nine Zero Lacquer, aka Jessface90 of the YouTube. These are all holos and pretty fabulous, so let's get to the pictures.

Because I don't feel like typing the same thing 8 times, ALL of these polishes had really fantastic formula's and were opaque in two coats. I also used topcoat for all of these pictures.

S'more Holo is a taupe holo. This holo is more subtle than some of the other polishes in this collection but such a beautiful color!

Corn Maize is mustard yellow holorgraphic color. I love this color, it's not something I have a lot of and it was so nice to have an easy formula for a yellow polish.

Pumpkin Everything is exactly that: a pumpkin orange holo.

Candy Apple is a pinky red holo.

Concord is a grape purple holo.

September Sky is a dark blue holo.

Cypress is pine green holo.

Cricket is a black holo. This was the least holo of the bunch, but still pretty and easy to apply.

The Harvest Festival collection will return today (9/25) and there are also base coats and top coats available, along with the Holo All The Things topcoat (which I have and is awesome and I forgot to swatch. Whoops.)

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

butter LONDON All Hail The Queen

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butter LONDON All Hail The Queen is a taupey (almost holo) polish. This was 2 coats. I'd call it more of a shimmer than a holo. Application wise, this was quite fine. butter LONDON seems to have a quite consistent formula and I don't usually have issues with their polishes.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Orly Sea Gurl

Hey guys! I have a quick random swatch for you. I am really behind on editing my photos... that definitely needs to happen this week! I don't like to not have a stock pile of draft posts!

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I grabbed this Orly from the clearance bin at Ulta several weeks back. It was one I always picked up and then put back down and didn't purchase, for some reason. But I love it! So I was glad to see it on sale :-)

Sea Gurl is what I call a bronze taupe. Yeah, that's probably not a real thing but it's not plain taupe!

I used 1 lovely coat of Sea Gurl! I used this as a base for a glitter, which I already showed you (Candy Lacquer Opposites Attract). But still! 1 coat! Love it!

What are your thoughts on Sea Gurl?

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Essie Chinchilly

Hey guys! Sorry for the late post today; I just got home from a work project. Usually once a month, we do some sort of community outreach, painting, landscaping, soup kitchen, etc. I haven't been to one in a while and I decided to go today. I built 4 shelving units and ruined my manicure! LOL Oh well, that's why I have eleventy billion bottles of nail polish :-p Anyway! Onto today's post!

Today's polish is brought to you by Radha, from ThePolishOwl. This is the other polish she kindly sent to me, along with RBL Catherine.


Essie Chinchilly is what I call a taupe gray. I used 3 thin coats. Typically, this isn't a color I gravitate towards but it's one of those colors that just looks so good on. It's a nice palette cleanser, except that I don't ever feel my palette needs to be cleansed. Anyway, I like it, haha!

Talk to you soon!
Amanda