Franken Saturday!

Happy Saturday!!! YAY weekend!!!

As you probably know, I am not the best at naming my franken...

I think I have only named one, Cookie Monster, but I haven't even shown you guys (lol)

Anyway, today I have another nameless franken for you guys! 

It has a pink semi sheer (but easily buildable) base and has different colored glitters in it.

I even added a tiny bit of flakies!!

3 coats no topcoat!

Here we have some GIANT pictures so you can see the awesomeness!!! 

direct sunlight

semi shade

weird sunlight
(not sure what happened here)

direct sunlight

I think its a subtle pink with a bit of sparkle! 

A pretty shade for spring.

Any name ideas?

   -Katy

New Haul!!! *and preview!*

Last night I stopped by my local Walgreens in hope of finding some nice spring colors!

I got some nice ones....

I was soo excited that I found the new display for L'Oreal Polishes!!!!!They had a buy one get one half off so of course I jumped at the offer ;P

I also found the only remaining Essie's, Go Overboard and Armed and Ready from the new spring collection..

And lasty, I just had to get myself Revlon Royal.....

Revlon Royal, L'Oreal Tweet Me, L'Oreal L'Orange, Essie Go Overboard, Essie Armed and Ready

Look at that beautiful shimmer!!

More micro shimmer!!!

preview of what they look like
(I couldn't resist)
:D
also..plz don't ask why some of my nails are blue...
or why the cleanup is so bad...

What do you guys want to see first?!!!      

YAY! new polishes make me so excited!  :)

    -Katy

First Comparison! pale blue

Hey polish lovers! (and cookie lovers :)

Today we have my first comparison.....

Trumpets sound!!!! 

We are going to be comparing some of the different sky/pale blue creme polishes in my collection. I feel that this is one color that many polish companies have made dupes too and definitely a very common color. 

Pretty none the less. :) I am especially drawn to this color because I love blue!!! BLUE BLUE BLUE

*sorry in advance for messy clean up, I was too lazy to clean up in between coats*

On the nail, the polishes are in the opposite order that you see here:

pointer- Essie, middle- Wet n Wild, ring- Revlon, pinky-  Cosmetic Arts

Cosmetic Arts (no name), Revlon Minted, Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint, Essie Turquoise and Caicos

All swatches in this post are shown with Orly Nail Defense base coat and no top coat.

 As you can see, the formula for the first coat for all was a bit streaky...

direct sunlight
1 coat

shade
1 coat

After 2 coats, you start to see more apparent color differences and levels of opacity...

sunlight
2 coats 

shade
2 coats

 And with three, almost all are opaque with their semi different colors...

sunlight
3 coats

shade
3 coats

Conclusion: My favorite color was Essie T&C (I just loved the semi squishy jelly like feel)... a close second both color and formula wise would be Wet n Wild INRM. Revlon M turned out to be more of a pale green color. Cosmetic Arts had similar color to Wet n Wild INRM, but came in last formula wise. I think its worth it to buy both the Wet n Wild (only $1.99) and the Essie ($7.99).

Soooooo... what did you guys think?!! 

I <3 comments! suggestions?!

thanks for watching!

-Katy

year of the dragon/ vday mani!

Happy Friday!!
The other day I was trying to do a V-day mani, but it turned out to be more of a year of the dragon mani...

      I used this "funky clouds" idea that I saw on Nailside. She has a great tutorial  right here. 

For my base I used Orly Haute Red. Then I did the clouds design with Milani Gold Rush. The I matted it.

This combo is very BOLD...definitely not one of my usual combos. These colors look great together though. I might try this with a blue instead of the red.. 

Thoughts/Suggestions?

thanks!

*Be sure to check out my poll on the right of the page*

   -Katy

quick NOTD: OPI Bling Dynasty

Happy Tuesday!!!!
quick NOTD

here we have 3 coats of OPI Bling Dynasty (part of the OPI Hong Kong collection Spring 2011)
It was almost almost almost opaque in 2 but I had accidentally smudged it (oops) so I did three

unfortunately today was a very overcast/rainy day and I wasn't able to do good close ups
(you can see a rain droplet in the second picture)

A very pretty gold, no doubt

I will have to swatch this again once the sun comes out

-Katy

OPI DS Classic

HI guys!!!

I am just going to let you stare at these pictures and be amazed ;)

then I will talk about it 

my favorite thought that came to mind when I was putting it on was

"OMG this is what magic feels like"

needless to say it applied like butter (omnomnom)

and this is two coats!

Enjoy!

shade/indoors

direct sun

direct sun/outdoors

 I love how in the shade it looks like sand

shade/outdoors

direct sun out doors

and I even have a video!!!

~i had problems and couldn't figure out how to edit it so the best part is in the first 10 seconds~ 

;)

OPI DS Classic

totally brilliance!

magical

sparkly

awesomesauce

One of the things I definitely notice is that the display in the shade reminds me of the look in OPI's new Holland Collection, of the I don't give a rotterdam, I have a herring problem, and Pedal faster suzi

It makes the polish very interesting

Classic is also one of my only nude colors (which I'm totally into!!)

thanks for watching!!!!

-Katy