Why yes, yes I did cheat. I applied Monster Mash from the Orly Spellbound Collection yesterday…& I didn’t want to take it off. Did. Not. Want.  This is the first of the collection I wore & I totally wasted it on a windy picnic. Boo. I wasn’t willing to remove it so instead I added a striped accent nail. I hope you will be so awed by Monster Mash that you forgive me.

The black I used as a base & for the stripes (no surprise here!) is Wet n Wild’s Black Creme. No base coat, no top coat. What you see here is 1 coat of the black base, 2 coats of Monster Mash by Orly, & on my accent finger one coat of Black Creme. That’s it! Simply fabulous!

I DO promise that my animal print nails will be fierce…I have a plan!

Before posting my nail challenge, I have to get these swatches up! I was saving them for Halloween..but after seeing them I think you’ll understand why these couldn’t wait. Spookfest is starting early on the blog this year thanks to Orly’s Monster Mash!

 Monster Mash: Holo grassy green medium hex glitters, small gold hex glitters & fine gold holo bar glitter in a sheer lime-y green base.

Another interesting factoid is that these are holo like I see on paper, not necessarily in nail polish. Have you ever seen holo contact paper or something similar? It kind of looks like a graph? Well take a look at this up close shot, do you see it?

This looks almost lime in direct sunlight, especially in the bottle. It is stunning on the nail, in the bottle, pretty much everywhere. For all those ladies who make nail polish pendants, YOU NEED THIS! There is absolutely no issues with application, which shocked me. Normally when there are bar glitters along with this many other types of glitters there is something like clumping, grouping, peeling, something. Nope. Perfection.

If you love glitter. If you love green. If you love holos. You Need THIS POLISH.

What do you think? Is this a polish you want? What Halloween type polishes are you looking forward to most?

I just received this message: Based on the immense initial response to the PRE-ORDER of our Gilty Pleasures Gift Box, Zoya has decided to make Zoya Ornate also available for PRE-ORDER starting sometime prior to Monday on Zoya.com.

So I was way crazy happy to share these shots with you guys! How fab do these look? I am SO excited for holos…I seriously have a holo problem. Are you loving these for a  Holiday collection? Any of these strike your particular fancy?

Although there should be more of these shades coming out (crossing my fingers they’re fab!) I did pick up all 6 that are available now today at Walgreens. They were NOT cheap. At $8.50 a piece they were actually a total sucker punch. I was contemplating only picking up a few but I probably would have picked the wrong ones! In fact, only 1 of the original ones I would have picked up is on my MUST BUY list so far as I’m swatching them currently. Enough talking, how you like these sugar?

So there you have it! I’ll save my long descriptions for each nail post but this at least gives you a look at each bottle! Which ones are you loving? If you could only have one, which one would you pick? What about that high price point?

  So as much as I adore dots, I wanted to try something a bit different! I’m a Pinterest freak (seriously check out my boards!) & pinned this incredible idea from Goose’s Glitter that she called “The Color Blind Test“.  Hers are so perfect while mine are not so much. Her nails are wider (ah to dream!) & it just looks fabulous. Mine are long but quite narrow. My nails also grow upwards & are really curved. Basically…I need more freaking space haha.

My date I did was 0407 which is my birthday. I’ll never do a 7 or a 0 again haha. They were so tough! Maybe it’s because my 7 is so little though! But yea, my 2nd 0 is one I am NOT happy with! The black & white is a sign of a true color test, you should not be able to distinguish the numbers on each finger. You can kind of make out the first zero. I think if I did this mani again, I could do a really good job…I’ve learned a lot!

I’m going to list all my shades….ready?

Pink/Peach/Reds:
Passion Fruit by Orly
Soul Mate by Sinful Colors
Everybody Loves Redmond by Wet n Wild

Greens:
Parrot by Sally Hansen
Jaded by Revlon Top Speed
Exotic Green by Sinful Colors

Blues:
Thinking of Blue by Sally Hansen
I Need A Refresh-Mint by Wet n Wild
Grecian Sun by Sinful Colors

Orange/Yellows:
Crush on You by Orly
Almost Famous by Color Club
Vermillionaire by Essie

My base is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Whirlwind White.

So, I’m pretty much being punished for not swatching before using these for nail art. It doesn’t even look like a gradient, it looks like green over black. BOO! I promise to do something awesome next time, I’m just too irritated to redo it!

Want to see some awesome gradients? Check out this silver & gold metallic one & this sweet rainbow one!

 
If you want to join in on the 31 Day Challenge, just let Kimber know! She’s first on the list of participants 😉

Ever since I did my Yellow Challenge nails (they are black & yellow spun sugar!) I knew I would be trying rainbow spun sugar nails! I didn’t do a top coat on this one because it was a bit tougher to photograph. Plus you can see how ridge-y it is here 🙂

I used 2 Sally Hansen polishes & the rest are all from my Wet n Wild Saved by the Bell post! I wanted this to be bright & fun, so these were perfect!

Since you guys seemed to like seeing the pre-clean up post I figured I’d show you it again with this one!

& after cleanup:

Colors used:
RED- Sally Hansen in Cherry Red
ORANGE- Wet n Wild in Straight A Jesse
YELLOW- Wet n Wild in Pin’ Em Slater
GREEN- Wet n Wild in Nerd Alert: Screech
BLUE- Sally Hansen in Blue Me Away!
PURPLE- Wet n Wild in Fashionista Lisa

I’d LOVE to know what you guys think of this mani! Besides some clumping on my index finger, I thought it was pretty great! These polishes weren’t as easy to spin because they’re all new but I waited it out & moved it around enough to get it to work.

 
If you want to join in on the 31 Day Challenge, just let Kimber know! She’s first on the list of participants 😉

When I heard about this collection, I had to have it. Like immediately. So…its NEON, 99 CENTS, & Saved by the Bell? You bet I had to make it mine. I almost resorted to Ebay (true story) because it just wasn’t popping up anywhere. Then there it was, on the lowest shelf at my CVS in the back. It looked so lonely. I was the first one to hit it.

 So although the names aren’t exactly with the colors I would have picked, I like all of these shades. I’m actually sad they didn’t come out earlier so I could have worn them longer without being “that” girl who forces a trend to last on & on. For only 99 cents a piece, I had to have all 6, duh. What I DIDN’T expect was to see 3 dupes in this collection for the Fergie line, all of which I already own.

Weird factoid: All the colors actually photographed most accurately in the GROUP shot (the first photo at the top) but I’ll still throw these in along with color descriptions. Also, so you can see shimmer in the 2 that have it. ALL of these dry semi-matte.

Pin’Em Slater: A bright highlighter yellow. Seriously, if you’ve ever spilled highlighter on anything, this is that shade! I actually saw this & immediately thought this was Zack. I wouldn’t have picked this shade for Slater.

Straight A Jesse: A bright orange but not glaringly neon. Eh. I don’t put Jesse & orange together, but I don’t hate it. Kind of wish they had gone with a bright blue.

Fashionista Lisa: A violet with somewhat pink tones. I really like this shade but I wish Lisa had been something flashier!

Nerd Alert: Screech : A bright lime green with golden/lime shimmer. Love this shade & so fitting for Screech. There’s a dupe below.

Chick Magnet Zach: A slightly bright teal with teal shimmer. You know what, I would have put this one as Jessie probably & done the orange for Slater. Anyway! Love this shade oh so much & there’s a dupe below!

These 2 dupes might look slightly different but I promise they aren’t. Because the Fergie bottle is so different, the light hits these differently. I assure you, they are identical in the whole shade/shimmer ratio.

Left is Nerd Alert: Screech & right is Glowstick

On one hand, I’m excited for the people who couldn’t get their hands on this line because 3/6 you should be able to find at Walgreens. On the other hand…3/6 (at least) weren’t original shades. I wonder if I looked hard…could I find that the other 3 shades were re-releases of something else?

What do you think guys? Did you get your hands on the Wet n Wild Saved by the Bell collection? If not, are you happy about the dupes? Coming up, I have all 7 of the Fergie by Wet n Wild polishes I own so stay tuned for that! Some gems in there!

Woohoo! It is now the 8th challenge & this one was metallics. I’ve picked up quite a few…supposed to be huge for fall! I thought I’d go with my 2 CND metallics, Gold Chrome & Silver Chrome. Each of these are rather unique & lean slightly in an nontraditional sense. I thought I’d do a gradient since gold & silver just look fab together. I REALLY wish I had the Copper shade form CND! Since I haven’t featured these before, here they are on their own pre-art.

Gold Chrome by CND is a really soft gold, super wearable & definitely not in your face. Silver Chrome by CND is kind of a nickel type silver. I love it.

& my final design! I sponged it on, nothing crazy. I think these would be great work nails even, they aren’t in your face & come off quite soft. Maybe they they just seem more demure since I’ve been wearing crazy deigns lately haha. I love them though!

 
If you want to join in on the 31 Day Challenge, just let Kimber know! She’s first on the list of participants 😉

*The polishes featured in this post were provided by PR. This in no way alters my opinions.