Barielle Hot Chic for Fall 2015

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Today I have the Barielle Hot Chic collection for Fall/Winter 2015!

Sheer Nonsense is described as a pale sand color with pink tones. Despite the name, it is not sheer at all and was opaque in one coat. I did 2 coats to cover a few mistakes that I made but the polish itself was opaque in one. Shown with topcoat.

Orange U Jealous is a medium orange with gold shimmer. This was 2 coats, plus topcoat.

Secret Desire is a bright iridescent purple. 2 coats, plus topcoat.

Born 2 B Naughty is a dark pine green and is completely gorgeous and was opaque in one coat! Shown with topcoat.

Harley D is a beautiful dark brown with shimmer. This was 2 coats, with topcoat.

Harley D is probably my favorite from this collection, though all of these had lovely formulas and were very easy to apply and work with. I love a beautiful brown polish and the shimmer is subtle not noticeable.

Talk to you soon!
Amanda

Pinwheel Polish Swatches!

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Today I have 3 polishes that I received in a giveaway prize from Pinwheel Polish! These are my first Pinwheel Polishes so I was excited to try!! This is the Autumn Trio.

Hot Toddy is a off white milky jelly with orange, brown and gold glitters. These are super sheer so if you don't want to see your nail, I would layer over an opaque base color. This was 4 coats of Hot Toddy, plus topcoat.

Flannels By The Fire is a gray jelly with metallic orange, green, and blue glitters. This was 4 coats plus topcoat.

NightFall is a black jelly base with rainbow micro glitter. 4 Coats, plus topcoat.

Even though these were really sheer, they were not thick or goopy at 4 coats, and the glitters were plentiful but not chunky. I like the color combinations and they are perfect for layering over opaque base colors!

Have you tried Pinwheel Polish??

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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Vampy

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Since it is fall time, vampy is a word that appears often in regard to clothing, makeup, and nails. I am not the most vampy of polish wearers but I felt this was a great time to bust out an old old OLD favorite. When I was younger (meaning teenage years), Maybelline Vintage Burgundy was. My. JAM. I wore this polish all the time and I still have it so it seemed appropriate to wear it for the Vampy prompt.

Well, that was my plan, but since I hadn't used Vintage Burgundy in years, it was beyond saving. I tried adding thinner and shaking and shaking and shaking and it was just beyond repair. So that's sad but I had to pick another polish, lol.

I went with OPI's Malaga Wine, which I recently purchased from Meijer on clearance. This is a beautiful deep berry color. It's somewhat sheer and needed 3 coats for opacity. Shown with topcoat.

I wanted to add some drama to the nails and used a nail vinyl and OPI's Goldeneye.

Whatchu think?? What is your favorite vampy polish to wear??

Alaina at The Little Canvas

Amanda at Amandalandish

Amber at Nails Like Lace 

Bridget at A Painted Nail 

Chelsea at Nailed Blog 

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi 

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

​Lisa at The Polish Playground 

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Tiffany at Polished To Precision 

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

Dashing Housewife Swatches

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I have two polishes from a new to me indie brand, Dashing Housewife Polish. I purchased two colors from her store a while back and here they are. I'm slow, lol.

Not Just A Filler is a mint creme with green shimmer. This was 2 coats plus topcoat. The formula on this was a little bit thick but not unmanageable.

Holy Ships Ahoy is a medium blue with green shimmer. This was also 2 coats plus topcoat. This polish was the opposite of Not Just A Filler and was a little thin, lol. But it was not difficult to work with and still covered in two coats.

Are you familiar with Dashing Housewife?

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Amanda

Sally Hansen Boho Blue

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I picked up one of the polishes from the Runway Fall 2015 Sally Hansen collection, Boho Blue. Immediately, I thought this might be a dupe for the OG Pacific Blue and upon comparison, they are very very close. The formula on this polish is nowhere near as nice as Pacific Blue and Boho Blue required 3 coats, as it is a thick jelly consistency. However, if you are in love with the color of PB and don't own it, this is basically the same color, but in a jelly finish.

If you didn't want to read all of that (LOL), this was 3 coats, plus topcoat. This is indeed a thick jelly polish, which could be tricky to work with if you are not careful. It did not level very well.

Did you spot any of the Runway polishes or are you on the lookout for this collection??

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Amanda

Twinsie Tuesday: Hobbies Other Than Polish

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I had to think about what other hobbies I have other than nail polish. I enjoy makeup and organizing but I was feeling lazy and didn't want to take the time to think about translating either of those to my nails, lol. Alaina suggested Netflix, since we watch shows together on Netflix and since I don't have cable, 9 out of 10 shows that I might watch are either on Netflix or Hulu. I chose Netflix!

Stardust Polish Yes Your Majesty is a beautiful cherry red linear holographic. This had a really nice formula and was opaque in two coats. I thought this was a pretty darn close match to the Netflix red and the fact that it is holo is an added bonus :-p

I'm very curious to see what my other Twinsie's hobbies are so be sure to read their posts as well!

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer

Sharon at Behind Green Eyes

Savannah at Addicted to Polish

Sara at The Call of Beauty

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Megan at A Beauty in the Business

Marisa at Polish Those Nails

Marisa at Polish Obsession

​Lisa at The Polish Playground

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

Claire at Kerruticles

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Amanda at Amandalandish

Talk to you soon!
Amanda