Wet n Wild Purple and Blue

I just got these polishes the other day and absolutely fell in love! 

I was actually quite surprised to see such a developed, by this I mean the duo-chrome/color they had, polish for only 93 cents each! 

The polishes I got were Wet n Wild Wild Card and Wet n Wild Rain Check. 

Beautiful colors! And I almost passed them up too. 

I actually have quite a few polishes from Wet n Wild's Wild Shine Collection, all of these colors from this collection I would highly recomend because of the tendency to have that chrome finish for such an inexpensive polish. 

But anyway, back to THESE polishes! Love at first sight. 

Wild Card - This polish is so hard to describe, the name is so fitting here. The best I can say is that it is kind of a mauve-ish purple with a pink shimmer. It does look pink in some lighting, but for the most part it is that lavender/mauve/purple(? Most bloggers I've read say lavender). It did take three coats however to get full opacity, the first was barely visable. It did have a good formula though it wasn't too thick and it didn't dry too fast, becoming tacky. And! Amazing, it was not streaky, which I was expecting from this chrome-finish polish.

I also did a little design on top of this with the blue that I was talking about above:

Rain Check.

Rain Check is a beautiful blue with a heavy silver/grey undertone. There is also a bit of a purple tone in this polish. This one was only a two coater, but other than that it had the same formula and also did not have any streaks at all. 

For the silver here, I used silver acrylic paint and a striping brush. My first time ever doing free hand painting like this! That's why it looks so horrible. Lol. Except for my thumb, and that's why I had to show it off. 

With matte finish

I also put a matte finish over this in the end, and I must say that I love these colors matted! 

Though they do look great both ways. 

I used Hard Candy Matte-Ly In Love which I got from Wal-mart for $4.00 

What do you think?

Sponging for the first time

So I tried sponging today, and it didn't come out exactly how I wanted... 

My base coat was Sally Hansen's Wet Cement, which is a light grey and I sponged a gradient of Sally Hansen's Celeb City, which is a silver. 

It didn't quite have the impact that I wanted because they were both so similar in color, so I added Sally Hansen's The Real Teal to give it a little bit more of a pop. So then basically now my nails are just a blue-ish silver..

I really need to work on sponging because I am no where near that good. The colors basically took over my whole nail and you can't even tell it's supposed to be a graient anymore.

Tutorial I used:

Link

I bought the Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear for Buy 2 for $5 or 1 for $2.99, so these were on sale when I bought them from Walgreens. I did buy them in a bundle for the cheaper price, so that they were only $2.50 each.

China Glaze - Luxe and Lush

I finally got China Glaze Luxe and Lush in the mail yesterday! So instead of completely redoing my nails, I just put it on the nails that I already had done because they hadn't chipped yet. 

I had on Sinful Colors Midnight Blue which I talked about here. 

Luxe and Lush - is a polish that  you really need to wear over another color. It's a very large glitter that is foil, if that makes sense... They're foil pieces to make up the polish. They foils are a gold sheen and a pearl-ish opal that change colors as the light hits them.

When I went to put this on, I was dabbing it on at first and it made it go on really thick, as you can see. But on my right hand, which I don't have pictures of, I started to just paint it on like I would a normal polish and it went on much more scattered, and in my own opinion, I like the look better.
The pictures did not capture how beautiful this polish really is!

When I put this polish on however... When I went to put on the clear topcoat, which you will need one because the foil is kind of chunky, but the polish wasn't dry yet.. Well, the blue polish ran over the Luxe and Lush polish a bit! 

Now let me remind you, I have had the blue polish on my nails for a few days now, so I didn't even think that it would have wet it again. 

But now the little foils have a little sheen of blue now. I would prefer that they didn't because it did take away from the shine, but keep this in mind when putting on a top coat. 

Sinful Colors - $1.99 ( Walgreens)

China Glaze - Approx. $4.50 (Amazon)