Ready for Snowmen?

These are so cute. But the first time I saw it, I passed. Then I thought about the red holo and how neat it looked. But when I went to the same Rite Aid, all the red holos were gone. Now, I had to have it!

2 or 3 Rite Aids later I found one lone bottle.

The worst part is, I didn't like it that much on the nail! For starters this is 4 coats and there is still VNL. The red (which was hard to capture on film) was a lot lighter on the nail than it was in the bottle. I did enjoy the mellow holo glitter that peeked out in the sunshine.

Velvety!

Velvet Voyer

I can't remember what collection this is from, but it was hiding in my local beauty store's discount bin (hence the scribbles on the bottom). I picked it up. It looked interesting because it's really dark, but when you turn the bottle just...so, it's a dark fig purple.

Very interesting!

There, you can see the dark grape color.

I loved this, it was like wearing black nail polish...without the severity of wearing black nail polish. I don't find Essie to be an "exciting" brand, but when they do a good polish, it's really good.

Who doesn't like 25% off!?

Use code FF25 to snag 25% off SkinMedica and other great stuff at SkincareRX. I think the code is good until December 1st. I want to give their Vitamin C and E complex a try, since I am starting to really freak out about the wrinkles around my eyes!

Cosmic Blue - Sally Hansen Xtreme

This is without top coat and it's kinda lumpy and sloppy. i haven't had a chance to try to photograph it again.

Rockstar Supernova!

I took two layers of Rock Star - Heavy Metal which is an interesting dark grey-black with metallic particles. It looked pretty awesome on it's own.

But, I have a 4-day weekend, so some holo glitter was called for!

This is two layers of Supernova, which is a really neat holo bar glitter. I was a little impatient so you can see where I smudged it a little. It's a bit bumpy too, so I used two coats of Seche Vite which worked well. I had planned to change my manicure, but I am liking this so much, I think I am going to keep it a little longer!

Hard Candy - Beetle

NYC Peony

This doesn't look all that exciting in the bottle. But as I passed it in the display at Rite Aid, it caught my eye.

I was there in search of flashier colors, but I kept coming back to this, and for $1.99 (and BOGO 50% off) I said what the heck!

I'm glad I did, because this was a hidden gem! On the nail, it's totally gorgeous! It's got really pretty secret shimmer.

Dry time and wear were excellent!

Cosmic Midnight Blues

This is Midnight from the Wet n Wild Holiday collection I believe. It photographed kind of weird. To my eye it was more of a medium purple.

It has great holo glitter pieces that were hard to capture because there was no sun out.

Indoor lighting.

Midnight looked sort of familiar so thought I would compare it to Duri "Midnight Blues" which I have posted before and Sally Hansen XTreme Cosmic Blue, which is a LE this season and I don't think I have posted yet.

Index: Duri, Middle and Pinky: W-n-W, Ring: SH Xtreme

There is no top coat so they look a little chunky.

SH has some weird bar glitter that doesn't shine through because the polish is kind of dense.

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?

Lady Sings the Blues

I made the (longer than I thought it would be) trip to the Westchester in search of Lippman's "Across the Universe". The sales woman informed me that someone woman had bought the last three bottles of it. Yeesh! So I made myself feel better with these little pretties!

This is "Lady Sings the Blues". Isn't she beautiful!?