tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10623924901063913232024-03-07T03:27:26.618-07:00Goose's GlitterBecause life is too short to wear polish for more than a day!Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-17710054809068320302013-11-26T15:16:00.001-07:002013-11-26T15:16:49.821-07:00Literary Lacquers - A Thousand Christmas Trees (Custom Polish) Swatches and ReviewToday's post is super exciting for me. The featured polish was a custom order made for me by the awesome Amy from Literary Lacquers, and it's stunning! She makes the most amazing holos; they have a deep 3D effect due to the jelly-esque formula that suspends micro glitter nicely, and I knew it would be perfect for my dream polish. I asked for a Christmas tree green with little holo glitters to make it look like sparkling colorful lights, and it couldn't fit the description better. Check this out!!<br />
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<b>Literary Lacquers - A Thousand Christmas Trees</b></div>
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This is truly a sparkle bomb in the sun. It's the perfect neutral green (not too teal, not too yellow) with strong smooth holo that's accented with multiple sizes of silver holo micro glitter. So gorgeous. So rich. So festive. I love how the glitter sparkles separately from the rest of the holo, giving it the "Christmas tree lights" glow.<br />
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The glitter lays within the layers, not on top, so the finish isn't bumpy or chunky and it's glassy smooth with a coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl top coat (my favorite). Although it has a jelly-like formula, it is completely opaque in two coats, though I did three to add a tiny bit more depth (also, I may have dented a nail or two and wanted to smooth it out ;o). It's even beautiful in dimmer lighting as you can see in the photos below (indirect daylight) - I think it shows the "lights" more prominently:<br />
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Amy really hit it out of the park, that's for sure. It's even better than I imagined, and I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you to Amy for making this beauty for me. It's beyond perfect. I love it so much.<br />
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Now for the best part. <br />
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<b>Although this was a custom made for me, Amy came up with a great idea for Black Friday: it's available as a gift with purchase for the next week (11/25/2013 - 12/2/2013) in the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LiteraryLacquer">Literary Lacquers Etsy shop</a>! All orders between $20 and $49 will receive a mini bottle. All orders $50 and above will receive a full size bottle. There's no code needed; it will be added to your package as it ships! As far as I know, it will not be available at any time after this, so if you want it be sure to get your order in! I highly recommend If It Pleases You (a sultry reddish plum - elegant and classy with an edge) and Jack Rose (a unique caramel), or Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster if you love bright sparkles!</b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-42070698583600828062013-09-18T19:52:00.001-07:002013-09-18T19:52:12.576-07:00Cupcake Polish American Beauty Collection Swatches and Review<div style="text-align: right;">
<b>*Press Sample*</b></div>
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Cupcake Polish is coming out with a super holo collection called American Beauty. Each Polish is named after a city here in the United States and all of them are gorgeous strong linear holos!<br />
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I was sent three of these for review:<br />
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<b>Cupcake Polish - Chicago</b></div>
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Chicago is an amazing, unique, stunning light purple. I have a TON of purple holos, but this one is totally different from all of them. It's kind of between pink and purple... maybe orchid? The pictures portray it way more blue-toned purple than it is in person. It's much brighter and pinker. And freaking awesome.<br />
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<b>Cupcake Polish - Dallas</b></div>
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Dallas is a bright coral red base with amazing holo flame. I now have over 200 holo polishes and this is absolutely unique in my collection. Most of the red holos I have lean very pink/fuchsia, but this one has a little bit of both pink and orange which gives it the overall coral color. I'm not usually a huge fan of reds, but I think this is my favorite of these three.<br />
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New York is a vibrant teal blue. Although I have quite a few teal holos, this is one of the most saturated ones, and the holo is super strong without making it look greyed out. <br />
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All three polishes had perfect, easy to work with formulas. They were all almost opaque in one thin coat, and completely opaque in two. They have none of the dragging, patchy issues that some holos have and don't require any special base coat. I actually swatched all of these with no base coat because I'd been warned that they might stain some and I wanted to test. Honestly, I had very minor staining with both Dallas (red) and New York (teal) (none with Chicago), but all it took was an extra clean cotton ball and it all came right off. I think a single coat of regular base coat would probably help with that too. <br />
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I have to say, I'm incredibly impressed with these. I've been on a huge holo kick lately, and I've been scouting out all of the very best brands. Cupcake Polish is definitely one of them. There are three more polishes in the American Beauty collection:<br />
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Los Angeles - Pink<br />
Denver - Green<br />
Miami - Orange<br />
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(Swatches for these can be seen in the shop)<br />
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<b>The American Beauty collection is going to be available (in somewhat limited quantities) in the <a href="http://cupcakepolish.bigcartel.com/">Cupcake Polish shop</a> on September 29th at 12pm Central time. They will be $12 for a full size bottle.<br />
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What do you think of these Beauties?? Are you as enamored as I am? Seeing as I only got mini bottles to review I will be in line for some full size bottles. I'm dying for Dallas, Miami, Denver, and Chicago!!</b><br />
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Here is my mint mani, in honor of the amazing inspiration she provided in the beauty world.<br />
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I used Urban Outfitters Silver Holo (dupe for Color Club Harp on It) with Jade Vermelho Surreal on top for the stripes and Rescue Beauty Lounge Dead Calm with OPI DS Glamour on top for the blue base with Silver Holo dots.<br />
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<b>Color Club Harp on It is still readily available right now, and Jade Vermelho Surreal goes in and out of stock on <a href="http://shop.llarowe.com/">Llarowe</a> and <a href="http://www.ninjapolish.com/home.php">Ninja Polish</a>. RBL Dead Calm and OPI DS Glamour are both discontinued and most likely going to be hard to find, but Glamour has some "dupes" being made more recently (one is Glamorous by Ninja Polish). Dead Calm is a dark blue creme, so there are probably some similar polishes out there.<br />
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Anyway, on the the good stuff. I wanted to come back with a BANG, and I think this qualifies... This is my second favorite polish of all time (or maybe tied for first with <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2012/03/layla-flash-black-swatches-and-review.html">Layla Flash Black</a>, followed closely by <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2011/07/chanel-peridot-swatches-and-review.html">Chanel Peridot</a>): <b>Enchanted Polish Austin Powers</b>!<br />
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Here are some indoor indirect daylight shots. In the shade you can mostly see the super reflective gold foil finish, and it's super pretty. Sometimes you can even pick out the tiny orange glitter sprinkled throughout.<br />
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<b>Austin Powers</b> is a bright yellow gold foil with a linear holo shimmer. The thing that sets it apart from almost every other holo I own is the super shiny foil finish. It makes it stunning even in low light because of the beautiful reflective quality instead of the dull/flat grey finish that's so common with holos. On top of that, the gold is bright but neutral enough to be flattering on most skin tones.<br />
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It has an awesome formula, requiring only two coats to be mostly opaque (I actually layered two coats over one coat of Pure Ice Bite Me here, but Bite Me is so sheer at one coat that I don't think it made much of a difference). And here's the best part: this is with no base coat (other than Bite Me) and no top coat AND this is day FIVE!! No chips or tip wear at all! I don't want to take it off... (but I want to try my Time to Pretend polishes!)<br />
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<b>The only downside? This polish is fairly hard to find now. If you're lucky, one might pop up on ebay or a blog sale, but they're probably going to be quite a bit above retail price (current retail is $14-15). I'm not sure if Enchanted Polish is planning on making any more of this color, but other Enchanted Polishes may be purchased from the <a href="http://enchantedpolish.bigcartel.com/">Enchanted Polish</a> site, <a href="http://shop.llarowe.com/">Llarowe</a>, or <a href="http://www.harlowandco.org/">Harlow & Co</a> when they come into stock (watch out - they sell out quickly!)</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-72455640168741429932012-08-07T09:40:00.001-07:002012-08-07T09:40:39.775-07:00China Glaze - Agro: Holo LayeringJust a quick post today.<br />
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<b>China Glaze Agro and HITS Hefesto</b></div>
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This is China Glaze Agro with one coat of HITS Hefesto over the top. As you can see, Hefesto kind of mutes whatever color is underneath. I love the bright holo effect it creates, but wish it didn't grey out the base color so much. Oh well, the sage green holo it turned into was still pretty awesome.<br />
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<b>China Glaze - Agro</b></div>
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Agro is a sage-olive green shimmer that has a bit of that "glowy" appearance. It gains a lot more depth with a top coat, and is on the edgy side of chic.<br />
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<b>Agro was part of the China Glaze Hunger Games collection in spring 2012, but as of now it's still available on <a href="http://www.transdesign.com/">Transdesign</a>. HITS Hefesto is available at <a href="http://shop.llarowe.com/">Llarowe</a> and <a href="http://www.ninjapolish.com/">Ninja Polish</a>.</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-82900292455491746632012-08-05T13:05:00.000-07:002012-08-07T16:50:31.950-07:00Butter London - The Old Bill and Chanel - Delight: Review and ComparisonI love golden, coppery polish, especially for fall (I can't wait for fall nail polish season!). Here are a couple awesome ones:<br />
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The Old Bill is a copper shimmer. It's not quite a metallic, not quite a foil. It almost comes across as a shiny nude color. Very nice at two easy coats.<br />
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<b>Chanel - Delight</b></div>
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Delight, on me, looks like a shiny nude foil. It matches my skin tone wonderfully but isn't your typical "dull" nude (I actually happen to like nude polishes, but mostly when they have some pizzazz). It looks nice at both one and two coats, but it's hard to describe the difference. Very elegant and eye catching!<br />
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Delight was actually a gift from one of my awesome readers. Thank you so so SO much!<br />
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Here are a couple comparisons:<br />
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This one shows how similar The Old Bill and Delight are in terms of base color. Delight is a little lighter, but it could be just because of the intense foil shine.<br />
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These are all of the copper foils in my collection. No dupes for delight. Orly Rage is much more of a rose gold (pink toned) and a bit lighter, and Copper Penny is a more saturated orange-y copper. I like Copper Penny on my toes, but I still prefer the nude foil look of Delight on my fingers.<br />
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<b>The Old Bill can be purchased on <a href="http://www.butterlondon.com/">butter LONDON's website</a>, or at Ulta (and <a href="http://www.ulta.com/">Ulta.com</a>). Chanel Delight is available from the <a href="http://www.chanel.com/" target="_blank">Chanel website</a>.</b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The Old Bill was provided for review. Delight was gifted by a friend.)</span></i>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-34258295022827805592012-08-04T18:13:00.000-07:002012-08-04T20:24:59.280-07:00In support of Chalkboard Nails!Today I decided to make a tribute to one of my favorite nail blogs: <b><a href="http://www.chalkboardnails.com/" target="_blank">Chalkboard Nails</a></b>.<br />
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The blog owner, Sarah, is incredibly talented in the realm of nail art, and has provided inspiration to so many nail polish fanatics, including me. I'm actually lucky enough to live in the same neighborhood with Sarah, and get to hang out with her every once in awhile. She's very sweet, social, and just plain fun to be around.<br />
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I decided to try one of Sarah's signature hand poses, though my hands don't look nearly as graceful as hers do... *sigh* :o)<br />
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<b>Chalkboard Nails Houndstooth</b></div>
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<b>(American Apparel L'Esprit and OPI Just Groovy) </b></div>
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I kinda of suck at stamping, but I'm determined to practice and get better at it. I was pretty happy with the results this time, even though they didn't come out perfectly.<br />
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Here is a picture of the inspiration (just in case she changes the background in the future. She's had quite a few really awesome ones so far!):<br />
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Sarah has actually had a bit of backlash of hateful comments and emails after having requested that a particular Instagram user credit her when using her pictures. Not an unreasonable request, but the IG user retaliated in a disgusting manner, and I feel so bad for Sarah having to deal with the aftermath. She works so hard not just on coming up with original creative designs, but also in the execution AND superb photography of them. She definitely deserves to be cited when her pictures are shared. <br />
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So I wanted to show her my support, and tell her just how much I personally love her blog and nail art.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>You're amazing, Sarah!</b></span><br />
<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-50263345222805946712012-08-02T13:56:00.001-07:002012-08-02T13:56:48.194-07:00CrowsToes - Triple Black Diamond: Swatches and ReviewAhhh, I LOVE this polish! I swatched it on just my thumb first but was so crazy about it I had to put it on the rest.<br />
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<b>CrowsToes - Triple Black Diamond (over China Glaze Liquid Leather</b></div>
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Triple Black Diamond is actually a clear base that's full of small black, purple, silver holo and DUOCHROME SQUARE glitter. It's mostly opaque at three coats on its own, (which makes the individual black glitter more prominent). I decided to layer it over black to make the other colors stand out more, and it has incredible depth! It also looks amazing over A England <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2012/02/england-saint-george.html" target="_blank">St. George</a> (Steffels has some <a href="http://steffels.blogspot.com/2012/05/crowstoes-triple-black-diamond.html" target="_blank">awesome pictures of it</a>, which is why I bought this polish in the first place).<br />
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<b>CrowsToes polishes can be purchased from <a href="http://shop.llarowe.com/CrowsToes_c42.htm" target="_blank">Llarowe's shop</a>, but you have to catch them when they're in stock! </b><br />
<b><br /></b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-88199883331156940162012-07-28T11:22:00.000-07:002012-07-28T11:22:30.054-07:00OPI - DS Design: Swatches and ReviewI'm such a sucker for nude/gold holo polishes lately, and I was lucky enough recently to get OPI DS Design at an incredible price!<br />
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<b>OPI - DS Design</b></div>
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Design is a perfect nude base with tons of sparkly holo pigment, just like the others in the DS series. For some reason, the rainbow colors seem a bit more subdued in this one, but it's still very stunning in the sun. In the shade, it matches my skin tone PERFECTLY.<br />
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Unfortunately, DS Design is discontinued (along with all the other holo DS polishes) and can be tricky to find. I found mine in a blog sale, so keep your eye out and you might just get lucky!<br />
<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-62453904550733302942012-07-18T16:57:00.000-07:002012-07-18T16:57:59.442-07:00Wet n Wild - Cost is No Issue: Swatch and ReviewWe all know I love glitter, so I was pretty thrilled with a lot of the Wet n Wild Ice Baby Collection. Here is yet another beauty from that set. (The first two I reviewed were <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2012/01/wetnwild-diamond-in-rough.html" target="_blank">Diamond in the Rough</a> and <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2012/01/wetnwild-back-alley-deals.html" target="_blank">Back Alley Deals</a>)<br />
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Cost is No Issue is a clear base chock full of teal micro glitter and small sky blue hex glitter. This is my FAVORITE glitter combination (mix of micro and small glitters in complementary colors that are opaque in a couple coats), and this one is quite pretty. Nails Inc Fitzroy Square is a dupe.<br />
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This is not a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Mermaid Dream, but honestly I love this one so much more. Mermaid Dream always looks so... chunky. I've heard that it's actually smooth, but I don't care for how it LOOKS so bumpy and textured. So to me, this is Mermaid Dream's way more awesome sister - a wonderful, even more sparkly alternative! WIN.<br />
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<b>I think it'd be very unlikely to find this one in stores anymore as it was released sometime last year, but Nails Inc Fitzroy Square may still be available (though a bit more expensive).</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-71136988568023327982012-07-17T12:28:00.001-07:002012-07-17T12:28:20.858-07:00Dollish Polish - Toxic Avenger: Swatches and ReviewFunny story about this polish. <br />
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Toxic Avenger is an amazing duochrome AND holo foil. The duochrome is similar to Orly Space Cadet or Hard Candy Beetle: it's a purple to gold/green duochrome in a teal base, but this has a ton of holo pigment added to it. Usually, the holo takes over in the sun, and the duochrome really comes out in indirect light. Basically, it's just all-around interesting! It's also not being made anymore, so I'd pretty much given up hope at ever finding a bottle.<br />
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This was from a couple Dollish sales ago when the "bonus mystery shade" was a mini bottle of the original Toxic Avenger. I actually didn't know about the sale until it was already 15 minutes into it or something, and all the Toxic Avengers were in carts already (if you don't know, Big Cartel SUPPOSEDLY will hold it for 30 minutes once it's in someone's cart so it doesn't get taken from them while they're in the payment process).<br />
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So I waited for another 15 minutes <span style="background-color: white;">(wildly refreshing the page)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> until it was finally dropped from someone's cart into MINE... WOOHOO! I was so excited and hurriedly went to payment and just as I was about to pay on Paypal's site... BOOM, it's gone out of my cart (obviously, Big Cartel's hold does NOT always work). OH, MISERY!</span><br />
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So I sat there for ANOTHER half hour wildly refreshing waiting for someone else to let go of one in their cart. And FINALLY, I got one and was able to pay for it, and you can bet I did it LICKETY SPLIT.<br />
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I know the story sounds dramatic, but really, even if I hadn't have gotten it I would have just moved on with my day. I LIKE the chase of nail polish sales on Etsy/Big Cartel/whatever. I think it's fun to try and snag the polishes I'm longing for, but to me it will always still be just nail polish. At the end of the day, there are so many more important things to me.<br />
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But yes, I DID spend an hour of my life refreshing a web page so I could get this polish, and it was totally worth it!<br />
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<b>Like I said, unfortunately (because of availability of ingredients) Dollish Polish isn't making this polish (at lease with this particular formula) anymore. It could be she releases it with a new formula in the future, so be on the lookout for it!</b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-51727528650620787552012-07-13T18:41:00.001-07:002012-07-13T18:41:42.755-07:00Pixi Polishes: Swatches and ReviewThis is the first I'd heard of Pixi polishes. Here are three that are perfect summer colors:<br />
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Vivid Coral is my favorite of the three. It's bright neon watermelon red-coral jelly that is mostly opaque in three coats and dries with a satin finish. The formula is nice and easy to work with, but it IS a jelly so it still shows a bit of VNL at three coats. But isn't it just SOO juicy? It makes me crave a watermelon Jolly Rancher! <br />
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Very Violet is bright magenta purple creme that's completely opaque in two coats. A typical neon purple, but I actually don't have any in my collection to compare it to! It's extremely vibrant - much more that the photo shows.<br />
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This makes an excellent base for Fantasy Fire that varies from the typical dark blues and purples. It is really glowy in person; you'll have to try it to see what I mean.<br />
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The last one is Paradise Pink, a bubblegum pink creme. This one is quite cool toned and therefore doesn't really flatter my skin. The formula is wonderful: two easy coats and fully opaque. Nice color and application, just not my type.<br />
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Pixi polishes are available for $8 each on <a href="http://www.target.com/">Target.com</a> but they appear to be on backorder at the moment. <a href="http://www.zappos.com/">Zappos</a> has Pixi polishes as well, but none of the names seem to match, so I'm not sure if they carry these colors.<br />
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Tanzy is an amazing light orange base that's absolutely packed with sparkly golden glass flecks. Rica is the same formula except with a coral pink base, and both are absolutely amazing. Zoya's Sparkle (summer 2010) and Sunshine (summer 2011) are two of my favorite collections of all time from any company, which is why I was a little disappointed in the 2012 summer collection. Oh well, maybe next year they'll come out with something even more spectacular!<br />
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It started out as one of those "I can't decide which one I want to wear!" days, and since I never actually made a decision, I just ended up painting one hand with Tanzy and one with Rica. Turns out, the crazy gold sparkles in both pulled them together into an awesome mismatched manicure, and I ended up loving the rebel feeling of having two different colors. I will certainly be doing this again!<br />
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Both of these are shown at two easy coats, but for some reason these have a longer-than-normal dry time. They were still slightly dentable after a couple hours even with Cult Nail Wicked Fast (quick dry) topcoat.<br />
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<b>Zoya Rica and Tanzy are both available on <a href="http://www.zoya.com/">Zoya's website</a> for $8 each, but if you love gold sparkles, I highly recommend picking up the whole Sunshine set. Every single one is a stunner.</b><br />
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<b>atrophie - Bathysphere</b></div>
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Isn't it squishy and sparkly and AWESOME?! I had almost given up all hope when I decided to post on facebook that I was looking for Bathysphere (and other atrophie polishes) and was SO surprised and excited when I got a reply from someone who had an extra bottle (THANK YOU SO MUCH)! I am so lucky to own this! I have to say, I like it best on the short nails <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/88914080/bathysphere-teal-and-gold-glitter-nail">in the listing</a>, and next time I have to file my nails down because of a break I'm definitely wearing this one again.<br />
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Now, I know it says that it's named for the Cat Power song (I don't even know if I've heard it), but what it makes me think of is this:<br />
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<b>Bioshock Bathysphere</b></div>
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I know, I can't help it. I'm a bit of a nerd. If you like video games and haven't played Bioshock, DO IT. It's such a trip.<br />
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Unfortunately, I don't really think there's any way to get atrophie polishes anymore. Hopefully someday in the future the shop will open once more, and if it does I have a whole wishlist of polishes ready!<br />
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<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-57867276200102754642012-07-05T18:21:00.000-07:002012-07-05T18:21:30.027-07:00Claire's Starstruck - Cosmic: Swatch and ReviewI haven't gone to Claire's polish-hunting in awhile, so I was pretty excited when I found this pretty polish the other day.<br />
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<b>Claire's Starstruck - Cosmic</b></div>
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Cosmic is a sparkly purple with what looks like micro glass flecks in violet and blue. I think it's a tad more purple (less blue) than the pictures show, but it's close. It is part of the Starstruck line, which parallels the Color Club Take Wing collection (the Claire's polishes actually say "Color Club" on the back), except that Take Wing doesn't have this purple, and Starstruck doesn't seem to have the yellow. I love the chunky square bottle it comes in.Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-7860722621673069172012-07-04T12:02:00.000-07:002012-07-04T12:25:21.465-07:004th of July NailsHappy 4th of July!<br />
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Right now I'm missing my family in Michigan because we usually have a huge party that lasts all day/night with tons of beer, food, and fireworks. I LOVE family parties!<br />
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These are the nails I did to celebrate (I DO get to go over to my grandparent's and have a little party with them and my aunt and uncle). I used Revlon Royal for my left ring finger, China Glaze Phat Santa for my right finger and OPI You Callin' Me a Lyre? for the base on the rest. Then I layered All That Glitters Glitter Glory over the ring fingers and sponged it on in a gradient French over the others. It is very easy to apply with the brush, but I had a little trouble sponging it. I do love the result, though!<br />
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<b>I bought Revlon Royal in a drugstore a few months ago, so I think it's readily available. Phat Santa was part of the China Glaze 2010 Christmas collection, but there are a lot of red creme/jellies like it. Glitter Glory was purchased from the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/allthatglittersnails">All That Glitters Etsy shop</a>, but it doesn't seem to be in stock at the moment. Hopefully it will return!<br />
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<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-32602359495367802592012-07-03T09:50:00.000-07:002012-07-03T09:50:36.612-07:00Born Pretty Microbeads ReviewAccent nails have been very popular lately, so I decided to go crazy and dress up my favorite nail polish (Layla Hologram Effect Flash Black) with all sorts of accent nails. <br />
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When I got <a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/color-steel-ball-nail-glitter-decoration-p-456.html">these micro beads</a> from Born Pretty to review, I originally had a full "fish eggs" manicure in mind, but once I got it, I realized that there wasn't enough of each color. I think this wheel of microbeads is more for nail art using the bullion pieces to create patterns like Sammy's manicure <a href="http://www.thenailasaurus.com/2011/11/day-25-inspired-by-fashion.html" target="_blank">inspired by fashion</a>. If you're looking to do a full fish egg manicure, I'd probably go with the <a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/colors-steel-ball-glitter-nail-decoration-p-516.html">jars of microbeads</a> instead.<br />
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The container these came in is a little tricky. Every time I turned the top clear piece to move the opening to a slot of beads, micro beads from all over would stick to it (static cling) and migrate into the other colors. You can see what I mean in the picture below. It makes them a little bit hard to use as solid color accent nails, but I would imagine it'd still be fine for delicate nail art. <br />
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<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-24483305314211382932012-06-06T12:47:00.000-07:002012-06-07T11:54:07.466-07:00butter LONDON - Lillibet's Jubilee for the Queen's Diamond JubileeFrom what I understand, this past weekend celebrated Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, which marked 60 years since her ascension to the throne in 1952. In honor, butter LONDON has created a nail polish shade named Lillibet's Jubilee.<br />
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<b>butter LONDON - Lillibet's Jubilee</b></div>
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Lillibet's Jubilee is a beautiful, bright silvery lilac foil. At first I was disappointed because I thought it was going to contain holo particles, but now that I've tried it I think it's stunning just how it is. What it does, it does very well! The finish is incredibly reflective and eye-catching, and the lilac tint sets it apart from all the other silver foils out there. It also has excellent formula, gliding on perfectly in two easy coats. I don't have anything like this in my collection; all the purple foils I have are darker and not as shiny. Elegant, yet striking.<br />
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<b>Lillibet's Jubilee and all the other butter LONDON polishes are available on the <a href="http://www.butterlondon.com/lacquers/3-free-lacquers/glitters/lillibets-jubilee">butter LONDON website</a>, as well as in Ulta stores and at <a href="http://www.ulta.com/">Ulta.com</a>. They retail for $14 each. Lillibet's Jubilee is labeled as a limited edition on Ulta, but I'm not sure since Butter London's site makes no indication.</b><br />
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<b>OPI - DS Desire</b></div>
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In my eyes, DS Desire is a light brown holo that leans a little mauve in some lights, but has a golden cast as well (You can see it inside the rainbows on the sun picture. It looks fairly neutral on my skin tone, and is incredibly flattering.The holo is typical OPI DS holo: very bright colors in a "grainy" linear holo. This type of holo is lost in dim lighting as shown in the second photo, but shines beautifully in the sun. I tried layering it over a dark brown and a gold as well, and it was awesome!<br />
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<b>Now I'm not one to drop a lot of money on a nail polish unless it was really worth it, but the reason I ended up with this one was because the money from my purchase was going to go to leukemia and lymphoma research. The girl I bought it from, Christine, lost her brother Derick to leukemia and was raising money through her nail polish sales. I was very honored to get the chance to contribute and support Team Derick!</b><br />
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<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-41036332141395594572012-06-01T16:18:00.000-07:002012-06-01T16:18:47.140-07:00A Starry, Starry... dupe? CM - Midnight ImposterI'm not one for buying expensive nail polishes unless they are extremely unique. I'm always on the lookout for cheaper dupes or a way to franken-dupe my own for less. This is a polish I saw on a couple blogs and I thought it looked a lot like Essie's very-hard-to-find Starry, Starry Night.<br />
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<b>CM - Midnight Imposter</b></div>
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Midnight Imposter is a rich royal navy blue jelly with lots of small silver hex and square glitters. The formula is wonderful. It is opaque at two coats, but for a little extra depth I used three coats for the pictures and one coat of Cult Nails Wicket Fast on top and it came out glassy smooth. In short, it is beautiful and everything I would hope Starry, Starry Night would be if I ever decided to pay the high prices for it (which I won't... the only time I've spent $30+ on a nail polish was when the money was going to charitable causes).<br />
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Now after I've looked up Starry, Starry Night again, I see that it appears to have smaller micro glitter instead of the slightly bigger pieces in Midnight Imposter, but honestly I like the look of Midnight Imposter more. Because the glitter is a little bit bigger and more sparse, it actually looks like individual little stars, and I love how some of the pieces get buried underneath jelly layers to appear to be different shades of blue along with the silver. It's classy and chic indoors and sparkly out in the sun!<br />
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<b>I got Midnight Imposter from <a href="http://www.eastbaybeautysupply.com/servlet/the-94/Cm-224-Midnight-Imposter/Detail">East Bay Beauty Supply</a>, and the cost and shipping was very reasonable in my opinion. I feel like I've seen CM polishes in store as well, but I can't remember where.</b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-72521961426652414152012-05-30T16:30:00.000-07:002012-05-30T16:30:51.749-07:00A True Color from the Capitol: 22kt Gold Glitter (pic heavy)I feel like I should be sitting in the Capitol watching young kids fight to the death in an arena while I paint my nails with real 22kt gold glitter.<br />
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<b>Real Gold Inc - 22kt Gold Glitter Topcoat</b></div>
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As many of you may know, I've been on the hunt for the perfect gold glitter, and I think I just may have found it. This is incredible. It's meant to be a top coat, but I built it up in four coats to try and make it opaque. It actually dries very quickly and thin and smooth (no Gelous needed!), so four coats wasn't a burden at all. It's hard to describe how mirror-like this is in person. It's also a beautiful, rich shade of gold - not too orange, not too green. My new favorite gold glitter!<br />
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Because it's meant to be a top coat, I wanted to try it over a couple colors:<br />
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<b>22kt Gold Glitter (one coat) over Zoya Minka</b></div>
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<b>22kt Gold Glitter (three coats) over Zoya Minka</b></div>
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<b>22kt Gold Glitter (one coat) over China Glaze Liquid Leather</b></div>
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The funniest thing about this polish is that even though it's real gold, I've spent WAY more on plenty of other polishes. I got a set of three (22kt gold, 12kt white gold, and silver plus a top coat) for only $22, which makes each one less than a typical retail OPI! Incredibly affordable in my opinion.<br />
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<b>The 22kt Real Gold Glitter top coat is available on the <a href="http://www.realgoldinc.com/index.php?Glitter" target="_blank">Real Gold Inc. website</a>. They also have 12 kt White Gold and Real Silver top coats, as well as UV gel versions, a red with 22kt gold version, and stripers, too!</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-9384286328399849052012-05-16T15:32:00.000-07:002012-05-16T15:32:57.229-07:00Love & Beauty - Silver: The Blingy-est Polish I OwnI can't believe I haven't worn this until today. I remember thinking how amazing it was when I swatched it on a nail wheel, but somehow I never got around to actually wearing it until just now. It's really too bad Love & Beauty doesn't give their polishes actual names. This one just says "Silver" on the price sticker.<br />
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<b>Love & Beauty - Silver</b></div>
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Silver is a clear base that's packed with small holo hex glitters. It's not micro glitter, but it lays pretty flat and gives excellent coverage. What struck me about this polish is how much the rainbows show even in the dim light. I'm pretty sure it's the strongest holo glitter I've seen in a polish. I've worn the Layla holos and glitter bombs like OPI Crown Me Already, but this one takes the cake for the single most "blingy" polish that I own. Even better is that this glitter doesn't even dry very gritty so it's nearly perfect with one coat of Wicked Fast.<br />
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In the right light, the colors are almost blinding:<br />
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These were all taken under a particular lamp that really amplifies the rainbows in holo polishes (as a side note, one of my favorite things to do is sit under this lamp with my holo polish swatches and just stare at the beauty... *sigh*). The pictures do not even come close to portraying the amount of color and sparkle.<br />
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<b>I LOVE when I find a new favorite polish and it happens to be incredibly inexpensive! I got this on <a href="http://www.forever21.com/">Forever 21's website</a> a while ago, so I'm not sure if it's still available (it could be <a href="http://www.forever21.com/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=beauty_nails_polish&ProductID=1087533825&VariantID=" target="_blank">this one</a> or <a href="http://www.forever21.com/Product/Product.aspx?BR=f21&Category=beauty_nails_polish&ProductID=1011409738&VariantID=" target="_blank">this one</a>), but they have a lot of amazing colors (especially glitters!) and they're less than $3 each!</b><br />
<br />Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-64762351556139179792012-05-03T10:21:00.000-07:002012-05-03T10:21:47.364-07:00The Perfect Gold Holo: LayeringAwhile ago when I reviewed HITS Hermes and was a little disappointed, one of my readers (Katie from <a href="http://katieshandmade.blogspot.com/">katie's handmade</a>) suggested that I try out Hefesto (a holo topcoat) over my favorite gold. And I finally tried it!<br />
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<b>Gold Holo - Pure Ice Bite Me and HITS Hefesto</b></div>
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For these pictures, I used only one coat of Hefesto, but what's great about this combination is that you can add more coats of Hefesto to "tone down" the brassy gold color. I wanted to keep the rich gold of Bite Me because it's one of my favorites. Usually saturated golds like this don't look very nice on, but this one is stunning.<br />
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A little note: I took these pictures right after applying it. Over the next hour or so it developed a lot of bubbles! Has anybody else had this problem with the HITS No Olimpo collection? I had the same thing happen with Hermes, and it's pretty frustrating. Also, they don't seem to dry nearly as fast as other holos I own.<br />
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Here is a picture of Bite Me by itself from <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2012/01/pure-ice-year-of-dragon-swatches-and.html">my previous post</a>. I actually didn't know its name when I first posted about it because the bottom label only has a number!<br />
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<b>Pure Ice - Bite Me</b></div>
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<b>Pure Ice polishes can be found at most WalMarts and also on the <a href="http://baricosmetics.com/" target="_blank">Bari Cosmetics website</a>. Hefesto can be purchased from <a href="http://shop.llarowe.com/" target="_blank">Llarowe</a> or <a href="http://www.ninjapolish.com/" target="_blank">Ninja Polish</a> when it's in stock.</b><br />
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<b><br /></b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062392490106391323.post-32872555770733250902012-04-28T15:28:00.000-07:002012-04-28T15:28:31.207-07:00Tony Moly Galaxy: Swatches and ReviewI finally caved in and bought the Tony Moly Galaxy collection. We all know how much I love glitter, so it was only a matter of time... At first I was only planning on picking up the two or three that were my favorite, but I'm glad I got all of them because most of the others won me over completely!<br />
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<b>Tony Moly - Mercury</b></div>
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Mercury is made up of lots of small silver glitter with some sky blue and red mixed in. The base is slightly tinted grey, but it doesn't make much of a difference because the glitter is so dense. This is the most shiny of the set, and ended up being one of my favorites.<br />
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<b>Tony Moly - Earth</b></div>
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Earth is a translucent navy blue base with steel colored micro glitter and small fuchsia holo glitter. It's not as sparkly as Mercury, but still incredibly interesting!<br />
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<b>Tony Moly - Mars</b></div>
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Mars is a mix of small copper and micro orange glitter with a sprinkling of royal blue micro glitter that's not always apparent. In fact, I couldn't really see it in the bottle until I held it in the sun. I kind of wish the blue glitter was a tad bit more prominent but it's still a really awesome accent! I love brown and copper glitter so I figured this would be one of my favorites.<br />
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<b>Tony Moly - Neptune</b></div>
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Neptune is a crazy blend of green glitters in a sheer green base. From what I can tell, it has olive/gold and forest micro glitter as well as medium grass green hexes. I love green polish and glitter, but didn't expect to like this one as much. I wish it had another accent color like the rest of them to add a little bit of pizzazz.<br />
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<b>Tony Moly - Jupiter</b></div>
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Jupiter is comprised of small lavender and indigo glitter and medium cerulean blue holo glitters, but to spice things up it also has a sprinkling of copper micro glitter! I wouldn't be nearly as captivated if it didn't have the copper, but this ended up being one of my favorites as well! <br />
*Aside note: This one kind of reminds me of <a href="http://www.goosesglitter.com/2012/04/hungry-asian-sea-creature-and-sneeze.html" target="_blank">The Hungry Asian's Sea Creature</a> because of Sea Creature's purple micro glitter accent amongst the teal and blue. LOVE.<br />
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I was surprisingly impressed with this collection! All of them had wonderful formulas that were opaque in two coats (however, they all required at least a coat of Gelous and Seche Vite to make them glassy smooth) and they weren't too thick like some glitters can be. I was so enamored with the "accent" colors in all of them, especially Jupiter. The odd thing about them was that none of the bottle actually have the planet names on them (in English, anyway). They are labeled GT01-GT05. Also, Neptune is 04 and Jupiter is 05... weird.<br />
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My only complaint is that they didn't do one for ALL of the planets! MOAR GLITTER!<br />
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<b>I bought my set of these off ebay and they range from about $32-35 for the set or $7-9 each.</b>Goosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591447328557442711noreply@blogger.com17