Pink and Blue Sparkles

I finally got my hands on Revlon Whisical! 

I saw swatches of it online months ago and ran out to my local Walgreens looking for it, but they didn't have it; no one in my town did. 

So I forgot about it eventually. But finally we got a super Wal-mart up here and they had it, but it was sold out... But the next week I went down and they had it! So of course I got a bottle. 

It is the most amazing glitter I own. It is such a delicate glitter, it's not overpowering to the color underneath, I love it! 

I chose to pair it with OPI What's With the Cattitude?

I have had this OPI for who knows how long and I have never used it... 

The formula was weird with the first coat, streaky and very thin, but luckily with the second coat it was all fixed and to full opacity. A few nails, however, I did need to do three coats where the brush pulled the nail polish. This is a creme polish. 

The middle finger I did two coats of the glitter to show what it would look like more built up, and to see if it would even go thicker. 

The glitter was actually a little hard to apply, it is suspended in a rather thin, very sheer, light blue shimmery blue base. The glitter kept wanting to migrate to the tips of my nails when I would just brush it on, but it didn't really want to pat on either. I did end up brushing this on like normal polishes and it turned out okay. A few nails have a bit of glitter up near the tips. 

OPI I got a while ago from a local salon, so I don't remember the exact price; probably around $7-8. 

Revlon was $3.95? Somewhere around there and I got it at Wal-mart. 

It was below $4.

What do you think of this combo?

Rimmel and Color Club

I wanted to do something with the glitter top coats that I just got, so I came up with this. 

I used Rimmel Londoon Lasting Finish Pro - Burgundy Flirt as the base color and Color Club's red sparkle that doesn't have a name on the bottle for the tips. 

Burgundy Flirt - this polish does seem like a jelly polish to me, though I have never used one, so I cannot say for sure. It was a bit difficult to work with, it was on the thin side and needed three coats to get to the color in the bottle and it still showed my nail line. Though, when I brought this to a salon for them to put this on my toes for a pedicure, they did thin this down, so your's may be completely different! I also have had this polish for a couple of years. 

In different lights, this red does look different, though most typically it is a very deep color like the last two pictures. 

Color Club - just red sparkles. They are small sized and went on very well, one coat got very good coverage. 

Rimmel London is most typically $2-$2.50 at Walmart but that price sometimes flactuates if it is on sale. 

I got this Color Club in a pack of 7 polishes for $7.99 from Ross. 

Gold and Red

I finally used my striping tapes! 

But I got lazy and just used the red polish that I posted the other day. (Revlon Saucy) 

The tape was a lot harder to apply than I had origanlly thought. It wasn't very sticky, so obviously it didn't want to stick to my nails, but of course eveything else. When I finally got it onto my nails and in the right place and moved onto start painting some of the tape had started to lift, and I hadn't noticed. So my right hand is pretty messed up, because I had done that one last so the tape had plenty of time to be good and lifted. My left hand is still pretty good except for my pinky finger. Next time I will have to be wary of this. 

But I just put the tapes down in a cross pattern on all my nails, except for my ring fingers; there I just did typical french tips for something different and to show more of the red. 

I was going to do red french tips on the rest of the nails, for more color, but then I decided not to... I liked this look too much. 

The gold polish is Essie Good as Gold.
My firsy Essie polish ever! And I must say that I do like it, worth the price definitely. It went on with only one coat, even over the red and dried very quickly. I half expected it to start crackling with how it went on, because the formula reminded me of my crackle polishes; they go on thick and dry fast.

Essie - $8 (Walgreens, it is cheaper at Wal-mart)

Revlon - Approx. $5 (Walgreens)