Holographic Halloween

Color Club Worth the Risque with Mash stamping to make it festive! 

I'm hoping to get one more Halloween-y NOTD in before Saturday's Halloween party.

Hope you have lots of treats and only some fun tricks :)

(Some items in this post were sent to me for review, that doesn't change my opinion at all, etc)

BIrthday NOTD

I turned 19 on the 3rd. My NOTD was Lippmann Glitter and Be Gay, because that's a great goal for this new year of life.

Gold holo glitter with purple interspersed is fantastic.

Sunny Days

China Glaze DV8 is a gorgeous teal holo that is everything I could ever ask from a summertime polish. An oldie, but such a  goodie.

Alpha Nail Polishes!

Alpha Nail, a polish company for men, sent me some of their nail pens and Clean Slate remover for review. Check their products out here, just don't do it at work!

The polishes come in a pen applicator, which is, I suppose, intended to look less feminine for their target audience. Honestly, I found it just made things more difficult, especially on Cocaine. I eventually got the hang of application, though, and the nails came out a little better looking. My method was pumping the pen for polish, dabbing that on a piece of paper, and then using the brush to put that on the nail. More complicated, yes, but also more uniform.

Now, as for the colors, these were pretty darn cool! Deep Ocean has this shimmer that's unbelievable and Burnin' Rubber is SO matte. Gasoline has a slight holographic effect. It's not a lot, but it's there. Cocaine, though, wasn't salvageable. I love how dirty and off-white it is, but the formula was too chunky for the unforgiving finish.

The remover Alpha Nail sent me is called "Clean Slate" and comes in a twist-off cylinder that contains the pre-moistened pads. It smells a little odd and feels a little greasy. They weren't my cup of tea, but my little sister now uses them and swears by them, saying she can get all the polish off her fingers and toes with just one wipe. They're acetone free.

Overall, I'm never super crazy about products being branded for one specific gender but I see what Alpha Nail is trying to do here. The polishes deliver cool "toughness" without looking too feminine, though they just as easily work on any girl.

These products were sent to me for review. I still have given my honest opinion of them.

Stained Glass Nails

I liked these. 

It's still sunny here

Errr, well, it was. And then it started raining so hard the roads flooded and we almost beat some records. Anyway, when it was sunny, I took these pictures. 

OPI Sanderella. A hard to find and super pretty purple holographic polish. I can post a comparison of my purple holos if you're interested, it'd just take awhile to edit and I don't want to do that if no one really cares.

Talk about late to the party. Wow. The OPI sorbets are so pretty, why didn't I get any when they first came out?! Guy Meets Gal-Vaston is a corally color that is pretty enough on but it's really Too Pink to Hold 'Em that's my favorite. It looks like raspberries. 

Taking advantage of the sunlight

It was sunny so I wore China Glaze LOL. Gorgeous.

Painted Tips Polish is a GO!

HEY EVERYONE, I have exciting news!

You know how I gave away some of my frankens and told you people I'd be selling them soon? Well, guess what?!

(You probably guessed it, but they're now for sale).

You can buy the Jane Eyre collection and many more at my Etsy shop, Painted Tips Polish. The price is $7.50 a bottle, which is the lowest I could make it while still turning a modest profit.

Here's some pictures of my pretties:

A salon franken

Yup. I went into a dusty planning on looking for some cheap but rare polishes but didn't find anything that looked interesting until I saw this. I have NO idea how they made it/acquired it, but it's obviously not *actually* OPI. Anyway, it's pretty.

EDIT: Apparently I stumbled into OPI Paris Couture For Sure. Lucky me!

A pretty (rare) polish

Found a bottle of OPI What's Dune? in an old nail salon. It's a duochrome holo polish from ages ago. Make my hands look red as lobsters, but it's mesmerizing in the sun.

This is one pretty polish

I bought this ages ago, when the collection first came out. It's nothing new, obviously as China Glaze hasn't made a holo this fabulous since the OMGs. Very holo and very pretty and very pink. I like it lots.

If you haven't entered my giveaway yet, you're obviously insane. Get your booty over there and click a few buttons for the chance to win some AWESOME polish!

Dare to Wear a Dollhouse

Hehehe, I'm clever. And funny. No really, I am.

or not.

Anyway, Dare to Wear sent me their lovely Dollhouse collection. This was one of the most exciting moment of my month as the colors are GORGEOUS. A hint of pastel, holographic glitter, and a jelly base. YUM.

I wanted this collection for its yellow glitter, Fashion Fever. Sadly that yellow glitter is actually a green-yellow, emphasis on the green. So my quest for a bright yellow glitter continues....

They all have small specks of silver glitter, medium sized holographic circles, and holographic bar glitter. I repeat: yum.

I like Pop Artist, a bubblegum pink, the best, I think. Though Rock Star is awfully pretty, as is Social Butterfly. Lady Luck would be PERFECT for St. Patty's Day, and Dream Princess is a unique and rather odd shade of pale orange, I've never seen a glitter quite like it. All in all, they're gorgeous.







The products in this post were sent to me for review. This did not, in any way, affect my opinion.

Two cheap thrills

Essence polishes, a steal at one dollar a piece.
The holo is Can't Cheat on Me, a sheer silver that has scattered holo akin to the Kaleidoscopes from China Glaze. Adore.
The other is Irreplaceable. Really, really pretty.

PRETTY

OPI DS Extravagance. Stunning

The find of the year

A holographic OPI My Private Jet. Goes for $40 on eBay, bought for $4 in a nail salon. I almost screamed when I saw it.
And yes, all the pictures were necessary.

Feeling Mellow

COMPETITION TOMORROW!!! OMFG!!!! Sorry, I had to. It's districts, so nothing big at all, but I really need to do well. I was going to wear my Chanel (Pearl Drop) but my top-coat bubbled on it and was icky, so I settled on this, my favorite pink. It's ChG How About A Tumble, a holo light pink from the Kaleidescope collection. It's a bit too much for competition, I'll have to mattify it to make it subtler.