Essie - Armed and Ready

Interesting color. Brown, with an intense golden shimmer in the sunlight.

Sweet!

Hello! There are 20 days left until Thanksgiving here in the US! Have you picked out your nail polish yet? I haven't even decided if we are going to host it at our house again this year! I guess I might want to figure that one out soon!

I haven't tried Maybelline polishes in probably 12 or 13 years. But, Rite Aid put this collection on 50% off and I thought I would give Chic Chocolate a whirl.

It had a very pretty secret shimmer to it.

Wear time was excellent.

What do you think? What Maybelline polishes are your favorite?

Colors I can't wait to wear in the fall...

Station's "Golden Wine". From the measly swatch on Transdesign, I expected this Wine to be more Merlot with a golden shimmer to it, but this more....pumpkinish wine color is actually pretty too.

I don't know if you can tell from my pictures, but there is almost a duochrom effect going on, where this goes from gold to orange-red shimmer. It's pretty. Another polish I think I'll be looking forward to in November!

Ahhhhh Entity. I love Entity so much. I mean, I might take down this blog and start a new one called something-to-tell-the-world-how-great-this-stuff is (I'm not feeling really creative this morning). Anyway, take a look at "Dark Cinnamon"

I mean, have you seen another color like this?

It's brown, but it's got this deep, shimmery, fire thing going on

Whoa!

Gorgeous!

Family Secret

I first saw this awhile ago while browsing on Trans Design. When I went back to purchase it, it was gone! I found out CND discontinued a lot of their colors and just have a boring core line now. This color is cool...plus I am working on a movie right now, by the same name, so I had to have this color!

I finally tracked it down and it's even better in person than I expected! It's a gorgeous brown color, that shimmers and flashes reddish and copper. I've never seen anyting like it before.

It's a little on the thin and watery side, but I don't know if it's because the one I got ahold of is a little old. Once I got a few coats (this is 3 or 4) it was fine. It dried quick, wore nicely and came off really fast.

It's such a beautiful polish, it's a same that Creative discontinued it.

Close up...

212 - I can't decide

Sephora by OPI 212

(shouldn't it be OPI for Sephora?)

212 has had a lot of buzz. Sephora.com was sold out of it for awhile. It's only going to be sold in like one store or something. I am a sucker for a limited edition/hard to find, well anything. Plus, given the success of My Private Jet and Revvolution, this sounded like something I would like.

It's...interesting. It's kind of a brownish color, with chunks of coppery...stuff and other color glitter in it. I'm not sure what to think, so I will just show the pictures:

I slapped some Sinful Colors, "What's Your Name" over it and that is pretty nice.

As awesome as everyone says...OPI - My Private Jet

OPI - My Private Jet

Having decided the holographic goodness was something I now LOVE, I wanted something a little darker. I saw OPI - My Private Jet on I think Makeupalley's Nailboard Top 20 and I had to have it. Ordering it and waiting around for it to show up, was not going to suffice. I had to have it, so I made a trip to the mall. I hate the mall. Especially on a Saturday night. But a quick run into Trade Secret made me a happy girl. I not only found My Private Jet, but also some discounted Essie and DS OPI. Essie's St. Barth's Blue is now my first Essie and I picked up two Designer Series in Passion (by mistake so one went up for swap) and one in Chiffon which had been on my "had to have" list. I also found Color Club Revvvolution, but that is another story.

My Private Jet, is so pretty. It's glittery, but subtle enough that I wore it to work. My husband called it very classy and pretty, which was sweet, since he doesn't pay a lot of attention to nail polish. It goes on sheer at first, I think I used 3 coats and added another coat the next day. This is definitely love.