Formula X for Sephora the Sparklers

The Formula X for Sephora Sparklers collection has five polishes. All are different coloured glitter mixed with champagne coloured glitter. Today I have the pink and blue ones, but there are also red, silver and green versions of these polishes.

Formula X for Sephora Sparklers polishes

Love chemistry and Law of Attraction

Formula X for Sephora Law of Attraction - Sunshine

Formula X for Sephora Law of Attraction - Shade

Formula X for Sephora Law of Attraction - White Light

Law of Attraction is sparkly holographic blue hex glitter in a couple of sizes, mixed in with golden champagne coloured glitter. This is three coats. The glitter is quite dense, so perfect to use one coat as a top coat, or wear multiple coats by itself.  This is a possible dupe for Essie On a Silver Platter from this years Encrusted Treasures collection (which also has a gold and silver combo like Made for You by Formula X)

The Sephora website calls these polishes "3D". They are not texture polishes, and are almost completely smooth once on the nail.

Formula X for Sephora Love Chemistry - Sunshine

Formula X for Sephora Love Chemistry - Shade

Law of Attraction is sparkly holographic light pink hex glitter in a couple of sizes, mixed in with golden champagne coloured glitter. This is three coats. This one is not my favourite, and it think its because the pink is so close in colour to the golden base, so they don't stand out much.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Ruby Wing Spring Garden Collection

 

The Ruby Wing Spring Garden was released mid 2013 and is a collection of six colour changing polishes that are also scented. Today I have four of this collection to show you.

Ruby Wing Cut Grass - Inside

Ruby Wing Cut Grass - Sunshine

Cut grass is a pastel green that changes to a darker dustier green in the sunshine.  While it doesn't actually smell like fresh cut glass (which the Ruby Wing website says it does), it does smell nice.  To be honest it smells like my shampoo, it is floral scented, but I cant figure out like what flower, either way it smells nicer than grass. This is two coats and the polish applies like a dream. It is not streaky at all.

Ruby Wing Fresh Linen - Inside

Ruby Wing Fresh Linen - Sunshine

This is three coats. It has the thinnest formula of this collection and unfortunately does leave streaks on the nail. This one smells fruity - a lot like lemon, but a clean flowery lemon scent.  This one changes from a shimmery slightly frosty white into a light yellow colour.

Ruby Wing Poppy - Inside

Ruby Wing Poppy - Sunshine

Poppy is a vibrant pink jelly (although not quite as neon as the above picture suggests) which changes into a deeper burgundy colour in the sun.  This is two coats which apply perfectly for full coverage. This one smells rose scented, although I suspect it is actually poppy scented.

Ruby Wing Sunflower - Inside

Ruby Wing Sunflower - Sunshine

Sunflower is the glittery polish in this collection. It is a clear base packed full of gold micro glitter. This one is interesting because the glitter doesn't change colour in the sun, but the base it is in changes from clear into a bright yellow base, which makes the glitter look yellower and more golden.  This is three coats and I was surprised to see that it did actually provide good coverage in those three coats.  This one also smells flowery and shampoo like, although I am pretty sure its not the same scent that sunflowers have.

All in all I am happy with the four polishes I have from this collection and absolutely love that they combined colour changing polishes with scented polishes.  I was wearing Cut Grass all day today, however didn't really get time to get outside (and it was horrible) weather, so I didn't actually get to see it do its magical colour change.

Lots of Love
Lisa

These polishes were provided to me for review.

Sephora by OPI It's Real 18k Gold Top Coat

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope you all had a good night.

2012 was pretty big for me. I got married, got an awesome new job and went on amazing holiday around America and Canada.  I don't think 2013 can really top that, as at the moment there are no plans for anything big happening.

Sephora by OPI It's Real 18k Gold Top Coat over black - sunshine

I picked this up while I was in America in October, once I found out that the OPI version was retailing for NZ$74 in New Zealand.  This was US$30, so was about half the price of the one back home. This is three coats over a black base. It is really fine little flecks of 18k gold in a clear base.  I like the effect, but I find gold hard to match with many other colours.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Deborah Lippmann Rock This Town Set

Rock This Town is a three piece set of metallic polishes by Deborah Lippmann that is exclusive to Nordstrom.  I bought this set while I was on holiday in America, actually this exact set came from Vegas.

Deborah Lippmann Moon Dance - Natural Light

Moon Dance is described as a deep lavender swirl (glimmer).  This is three coats.  To be honest I am not a fan. It is thin and has a grey base to it.  It has lavender glitter and a smaller amount of copper glitter.

Deborah Lippmann Chain Reaction - Natural Light

Chain Reaction is described as a dirty brass (glimmer).  This one did have a dirty base colour, kind of a grey/green mix and is full of grassy green glitter.  This is three coats.

Deborah Lippmann Phoenix Rising - Natural Light

Phoenix Rising is described as a foxy copper (glimmer).  Interesting descriptions really aren't they?  This is my favourite of the three. This is three coats. This one has a pinky orange base and is full of copper and gold glitter.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Spotted in NZ: OPI Skyfall

Today in Farmers I spotted the new OPI James Bond Skyfall collection.

This collection has 12 regular polishes retailing for $27.  I bought a couple of these already on my holiday which I will swatch a bit later on.

Farmers also had the Real 18K Gold top coat. But I almost cried a little inside when I saw the price. A whopping NZ$74 for this polish. Also another thing I am glad I bought in America before coming back home.

Last of all Farmers had the OPI Magnetic polishes in stock. Again I was totally surprised when I turned it over and saw the price. NZ$40. That is for ONE polish. I could not believe it! Please do not waste $40 on one of these polishes if you are in NZ! There are much cheaper alternatives. Look on the Color Club NZ website and fins someone stocking their magnetic polishes. They are under $20 each.

Lots of Love

Lisa

Olympic Gold means golden nails

New Zealand won a couple of gold medals in the rowing this weekend so I thought it was appropriate to wear some gold on my nails.

This is Sephora by OPI Looks Like Rain, Dear from the 2010 Holiday collection.

 Sephora by OPI Looks Like Rain, Dear - sunshine

 Sephora by OPI Looks Like Rain, Dear - shade

This is three coats. It applies nicely and for a glitter give good coverage.  It is a clear gold jelly base jam packed full of teeny tiny gold glitter and bigger holographic hex glitter.  This polish does look more impressive in the sun as that is where the holographic bits sparkle.  This polish is a glitter so did take some extra work to take off.

I am off to watch some more Olympics on TV. Have a good Sunday everyone. :)

Lots of Love
Lisa

Models Own Golden Green

Models Own Golden Green - Sunshine

Golden Green is from the Models Own 2011 Bettle Juice Collection.  This is a collection of 5 duochrome polishes. Golden green is a grass green base that flashes golden yellow. The duochrome is pretty evident all the time.  The base has a shimmery metallic finish. This is three coats.

You can order these from the Models Own website and have them delivered to New Zealand pretty quick. They are much cheaper than polishes in New Zealand, although Models Own is not B3F.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Sally Hansen Big Money

Sally Hansen Big Money - Shade

Sally Hansen Big Money - Sunshine

Big Money is another glitter packed polish from Sally Hansen's Gem Crush collection. It is a clear base with little bits of gold glitter, and bigger light pink bits of glitter. This is three coats. These two colours go well together to form a nice nudish subtle glitter. This is a glitter I could wear to work easily.

Lots of Love
Lisa

Color Club Tattered in Gold

This is the gold offering from Color Club in their Fracture collection.

Color Club Tattered in Gold (over A England Galahad) - Natural light

Tattered in Gold is a metallic shimmery gold, and because of this it is more sheer on the nail. It feels like it needs to be thicker to get the gold to show up better, but obviously cracks different with different thickness coats.

I honestly found this really hard to pair with base coat colours. I just could not make up my mind over what to stick it over. If you have a gold shatter/fracture/crackle what colours are you using it over?

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Dazzled by Gold

This is one of the three Ulta Exclusive polishes from last Christmas. I bought this one off ebay ages ago as they are not sold here.

OPI Dazzled by Gold - Sunshine

this is actually quite a sheer polish. This is three coats and I think it would look better with some underwear or more coats. It is a pretty gold though, but has a funny finish. It seems like teeny tiny micro glitter, but I am not sure exactly what it is.

This year OPI released three Ulta Exclusive polishes. Sold separately or in a pack of mini polishes.

Left to Right: All the Berry Best, Gift of Gold, Plum full of cheer.
picture borrowed from manicuremommas

This years gold is meant to be a lot more sparkly than last years - It has more colours in the sparkle. However I think last years purple is better (visions of sugarplum - which is one of my favourite purples ever)

I wont be getting any of this years Ulta Exclusives by OPI. The only way for me to get them is a swap of ebay.

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Sparkle-icious

Continuing on with the OPI glitters from the Burlesque collection - today is OPI Sparkle-icious

OPI Sparkle-icious - sunshine

OPI Sparkle-icious - outside in shade

OPI Sparkle-icious - inside

So im not sure what colour family this polish belongs in. It is a mixture of gold, fuchsia and blue. Don't forget to click on the pictures to enlarge them and see the detail (especially important for these glitters)

Well and truly not a dupe for Mad as a Hatter, like some had suggested early on before it was released.

This is three coats with a top of seche vite and had been worn for a day before these pictures were taken so there is a little bit of tip shrinkage (from the sv) but otherwise perectly intact. This is the good thing about the glitter polishes - because they are so hard to take off they stay really well on your nails :).

Lots of Love
Lisa

OPI Bring on the Bling

OPI Bring on the Bling is the Gold glitter from the Burlesque collection.

OPI Bring on the Bling - sunshine

OPI Bring on the Bling - outside shade

OPI Bring on the Bling - inside

This is three coats. The formula on all of these glitters is identical which I like (It seems weird when a collection can have so many different formulas inside it). This is mainly gold with pink/blue/silver glitter add into the mix.

Lots of Love
Lisa

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OPI Golden Rules!

ARGH I just broke a nail in the bathroom on the ceramic sink *sob* and its off my left hand which is what you always see in my swatches - never mind, you will just have to cope with my uneven nails :P

I'm going to take off my shellac tonight. I am so excited as I cant wait to try my color club ultra violet out!!!!!!!!! I have craved this polish for so long - its been hard to control myself and leave my shellac on for this long.

Anyway this is OPI Golden Rules! from the 2007 Night Brights collection. I found this in a department store not that long ago so as far as I know you can still easily get it.

OPI Golden Rules! - Sunshine

For a yellow/gold colour the coverage is good. This was three coats, but you could get away with 2 thicker ones. It comes across as quite a classy colour. I keep picturing a posh blond starlet walking down the street with a puppy inside her Louis Vuitton handbag, when I see this colour.
I was also amazed that it looked ok with my slightly pink, very white skin tone (it is winter here after all).

Lots of Love
Lisa