Showing posts with label CQ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CQ. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Minty Shimmers!

I can't remember if the City Color ever had a name. I bought it...this year I think? It was a cheapie Rite-Aid polish. It's actually quite pretty. The brush is thin and kind of annoying, but nothing too awful. Both of these are over a layer of Wet-n-Wild "I need a refreshmint" see it hiding out back there?
Index and Ring: City Color
Middle and Pinky: CQ Gem Green
Gem Green has been featured on here before but it is so lovely, it deserves more attention!
 Look at that shimmery goodness!

Verdict: NOT dupes
If I had to get rid of one: Nope, gotta keep them both!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Little Treasures from Rite Aid

I stopped into Rite Aid one day looking for Sally Hansen "Hidden Treasure". I didn't find it, but I did find these little beauties. I just loved the new cute little bottles Petites is using for their "Color Fever" line. It's supposed to be a more richly pigmented polish. I spotted a few that looked like holos. I have also wanted to try CQ for awhile(the appear to be made by the same manufacturer as petites) so I grabbed that green beauty because it didn't look like anything else I owned, and it also seemed to have a little holo something going on.
I'll show you Creme Blue first. It's just what the name says, a pretty, almost robin's egg cream blue. I wee streaky on the first coat. This is two coats . It's a light blue, but still pretty rich.




Fairy pink, really does look like pale pink fairy dust on the nail. It's so pretty and there is just the slightest hint of some holo shimmer going on.




Daylight








Ahhhh...green gem. I was expecting a little more holo, but this was still amazing. I usually don't like green on my hands, but I loooooved this polish! I think I wore it for 4 days straight. The durability of it was pretty amazing to.






The real stunner though...are you ready for it?




POW! Black Diamond.


There are lots of holo shimmer particals floating around here! And it's a nice deep, dark black base. This is two coats.




I loved it so much I got some other colors out to compare.


Petites Color Fever "Black Diamond" vs. OPI "My Private Jet" vs. Color Club "Revvvolution: and China Glaze "Let's Do it in 3D"




My MPJ is the stinky "not very holo brown" version.



Nothing compares to the China Glaze Kaliedascope. But *I* think that in Black Diamond vs. Revvolution, Black Diamond comes out a winner! It's a darker black, which I really like.


Outside light
These were $2.99 each at Rite Aid, and when I got them they were BOGO 50% off, so that was nice. I'm really happy with all of them. The brushes on the petites are a little skinny for my taste, but the formula is so good, it didn't matter.