Friday, June 5, 2015

Delush Polish Life's A Beach Collection

Hello, happy Friday!

Today I have for you swatches of the Life's A Beach Collection from Delush Polish. 


The collection consists of 7 unique crelly polishes. 6 neon crellies and a white crelly with some neon glitters. 

Hip Hip Vacay
Babewatch
All Twerk & No Play
Cheers Comes The Sun
Just Take It Breezy
Turn Over A New Reef
Dazed & Enthused

Ok so let's start.


Hip Hip Vacay:

A white crelly with matte neon pink, green, yellow glitters in various shapes and purple circle glitters. For this swatch I did 3 thin coats plus Seche Vite top coat. I had no problem with getting the circle glitters.

Macro



Babewatch:

Neon pink crelly with blue hex and circle glitter. It's very bright but I couldn't capture that! I did two coats plus Seche Vite top coat. No fishing for glitter here either.

Macro



All Twerk & No Play:

Neon orange crelly with light blue? Silver? Hex glitters in various sizes. Two coats plus Seche Vite top coat. Another super bright hard to capture polish. But you can see it made my skin tone darker so that should tell you that it's bright!

Macro



Cheers Comes The Sun:

Neon yellow crelly with blue/teal hex and circle glitter. So bright! I did three thin coats plus Seche Vite top coat.

Macro



Just Take It Breezy:

Neon green crelly with matte white and pink glitter in various shapes and sizes.
Two coats plus Seche Vite top coat.

Macro



Turn Over A New Reef:

This one is a bit brighter in real life. It has neon green matte glitter in various shapes and sizes. I did two coats plus Seche Vite top coat.

Macro



Dazed & Enthused:

Pretty purple crelly with matte glitter in various shapes and sizes. I did two coats plus Seche Vite top coat.

Macro


And there you have it. The complete Life's A Beach Collection. I can't decide which one is my favorite! I had no problems with the formula or with fishing for glitter. It's a different take on neon polish for sure!

What do you guys think of this collection? Do you have a favorite? 






**Complete collection was bought by me. 




Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Glam Glaze Graffiti Collection

Hey there lovelies!

Today I have for you swatches of Glam Glaze Graffiti Collection. This collection consists of 6 neon creme polishes and 1 glitter topper.


For all these swatches I did 3 thin coats plus top coat. No white undie. I tried to get color accurate photos but that's a bit tricky with neons.



Paint-Eater Pink:
This is a neon hot pink creme polish. I did three thin coats on it's own plus top coat. 

One-Liner Orange:
Super bright orange creme polish . Three thin coats on it's own plus top coat.

End to End Yellow:
Super bright yellow with slight shimmer in it. Three thin coats on it's own plus top coat.

Getting Up Green:
Bright green creme. Three thin coats on it's own plus top coat.

Back to Back Blue:
This is actually brighter in real life. I couldn't get a color accurate photo of this one. I used three thin coats on it's own plus top coat. Two coats would've been fine.

Piece Purple:
This one isn't color accurate either. Much brighter in real life. Three thin coats on it's own plus top coat. This would've been fine with two coats also.

Graffiti Topper:

This glitter topper has a mix of black and white glitters in varying shapes and sizes. I used only one coat over the watermarble accent nail.

Oh yes they watermarble beautifully! I actually don't have anything that watermarbles this great, except for 4 of the Maybelline bleached neons from last year.

You can find Glam Glaze on Instagram. Her shop link is in her bio or you can search for her shop on storenvy.com

I recommend you get a full size as I find the minis a bit tricky to work with.

Check out my Instagram @anas_manis or check back here tomorrow for some nail art with this collection :)

See you soon!






**press sample provided by Glam Glaze for review. Opinions expressed are my own**


Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Lemming Lacquer Swatch

Hey there everyone! Sorry I've been gone for a while. I didn't have anything exciting to blog about. But I'm back! 

Today I have two swatches from Lemming Lacquer. I found this indie shop browsing though Instagram one night. She was about to launch the next day so I checked out her page and got really excited. This collection is Alice in Wonderland theme. It's called Curiosties From Wonderland. 

Two of her polishes caught my eye. Those two were Ravens & Writing Desks and Drink Me. These are jelly based polishes filled with different types of glitter. 

I love how cute the packaging was when I received my order. Very well wrapped to keep everything safe. The card adds a personal touch.


Don't they look so pretty?

First up is Ravens & Writing Desks. This is two easy coats plus Seche Vite top coat. Very easy to apply. I barely had to do any clean up. 

Another angle. You can see it's not too thick.

A macro.

And I love how jelly polishes look matte so I had to make it matte.

Different angle.

Macro.

And a macro of Ravens & Writting Desks stamped with MPolish Sweetclover.

Macro bottle shot. Ok I'll stop now, on to the next swatch.

Here's Drink Me. Two easy coats plus Seche vite top coat. I totally want to drink it! I would've never thought I would ever say a polish looks delicious but I've said that a few times. 

Macro of Drink Me. 


You know I had to matte this one too!

Macro of Drink Me matte. I used NYC matte me crazy. 

And I stamped over it too with MPolish Sweetclover.

And last photo. Macro bottle shot of Drink Me.

So what did you guys think of these polishes? I know not everyone is a fan of these types of polishes and that's ok. If you do like these make sure to check Lemming Lacquer on Instagram. Her shop link is in her bio. 

Thank you for reading. See you next time.



**everything was bought by me. All opinions and reviews are my own.












Monday, April 6, 2015

OPI Infinite Shine swatches

Hey lovelies! 
Today I have swatches of O.P.I Infinite Shine gel effects lacquer system. The 3-step system includes primer base coat, a lacquer, and gloss that cures like gel polish with no light required. They say it can last up to 10 days with out touch ups. 

I can't compare them to other gel polishes since I've never used them before. Also as a polish addict I don't wear polish for longer than 2-3 days.

I received this package from O.P.I as part of the #PreenMeVIP program.
I don't know how or why I was chosen to receive this package from O.P.I and Preen.me but I'm very happy I was!

Here's a little collage of the swatches. There's 30 available shades and I was sent 10 shades and the primer base coat and gloss top coat.

The polish came in this cute little box.

My kit included 
Raisin' the bar
Unrepentantly red
Girl without limits
In pursuit of purple 
Endurance race to finish
You can count on it
Staying neutral
Strong coal-ition 
Brains & Bronze
To infinity and Blue-yond 

This is Brains & Bronze. Two easy coats no top coat. Look how shiny it is with out the gloss top coat! It's sort of a caramel color. 

This is Strong Coal-ition. Two easy coats no top coat. I love it!

This one is Staying Neutral. Again two easy coats no top coat. 

Next up is You can count on it. Two easy coats no top coat. Very pretty color and so shiny!

Here is In pursuit of purple. Two coats no top coat. Very pretty color, awesome application!

Raisin' the bar. Two coats no top coat. This one I had to be careful not to get it too close to the cuticule because it stains. I scrubbed with some whitening toothpaste and it worked a little. Beautiful color though.

This one is To infinity and blue-yond. Two coats plus the gloss top coat. I tried this one first and I wanted to do something fun. I wore it for three days no chips, or tip wear at all. That's pretty good. Like I said before I usually don't wear the same polish for more than a day or two.

This one is Girl with out limits. Two coats no top coat. Awesome formula. I feel like I have this pink somewhere in my pink polish drawer. 

Endurance race to finish. Again two coats no top coat. Love the color! I'm usually not drawn to oranges but I love this shade!

Last one is Unrepentaly Red. Once again two coats no top coat. Could've used one more coat since there's visible nail line. This one also stains the skin so I tried to be careful with it.



Overall I love the colors. Some are ones I wouldn't buy for myself so I'm glad I got a chance to try them. Formula is amazing as it usually is with O.P.I. I've never had problems with the ones I have. I'm a big O.P.I fan! These are great if you aren't able to change your polish often. 

Hope this was helpful. Have you tried gel polish? What do you think of it? Will you try O.P.I gel lacquer system? Any favorite colors? Leave your comments below. 



Thank you so much for reading! 


**items are a press sample sent for review. Review and opinions expressed are my own**