Sephora by OPI Slushied and Sally Hansen HD Spectrum

  So just to warn you, this is the mani that caused this fail.  This shimmer that WON'T GET OFF OF MY FLOOR!  Grr, lol.

Err, after shimmer?  Probably, even though I can't see it here.

There's that purple!

It works well with Slushied.

Just Slushied.

Just Slushied.

SEE IT?  SEE THE CULPRIT OF THE CRIME??? (I'm jk)

I <3 duochrome shimmers!

With and without Spectrum

:)

  I love love loved this manicure!  I got a lot of compliments on it too!  It was so pretty, purple and blue in some lights, pure teal in others.  It's a chameleon!

  Just so you know, I am not blaming the polish for my floor.  It was my own stupidity :P.

Happy shimmering,

Em

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Blue Streak

Not auto-fixed.  Four coats.  Five on some nails.

Auto-fixed on Picnik.  No top coat.

  I'm gonna hate on this polish.  It's a nice color.  Not an "OMG!" color but not a "Ick" color.  A "meh" color.  I picked it up in a double pack with an Insti-Dri top coat.  Not used here though.

  It dried relatively quickly for a chrome polish.  Can't give you an exact time amount but it dried quicker than a creme finish polish.  It wore pretty well.  Two of my fingers got majorly chipped because I picked at them.  I didn't feel like re-doing four coats so I just did one.  You can tell which one in the first photo.

  I believe that neither of these pictures are color-accurate.  Also I really had to do four coats because of brush strokes.  UGHHHHH!!!

  I'll wear it again if I feel like it.  Otherwise, whatever.  Definitely not the best, but definitely not the worst.

Happy chroming,

Em

Guest Post: Mel

 (SC Innocent, SC Big Daddy, SH XtremeWear Twisted Pink, BonBons Black, BonBons Blue, BonBons Purple Sparkle)
  Mel said that each color was two coats and the BonBons did NOT have names but thats what color they are.  As you can see below, she French tipped her nails and her big toes which she says, "doing the black tips is kindda hard, but with practice u get better."  (I took that exactly from Google Chat so we ignore spelling and grammer there :-P)

Sinful Colors Innocent with BonBons Black for the French tips.

Sally Hansen XtremeWear Twisted Pink with BonBons Black for the French tips.

Sinful Colors Big Daddy with BonBons Black for the French tip.

BonBons Blue with BonBons Purple Sparkle over it with BonBons Black for the French tip.
(If you enlarge it, it almost looks holo!)

  This might almost be Skittles :).  This is exactly like Melissa, a different color each hand (or foot).

<3 you Mel and happy painting,

Em

My Research...

  I decided to conduct my own little experiment instead of doing my history project.  I used the blogs that I follow (a total of about twenty-five) and wanted to figure out what the most popular nail polish brand and color category is...
  Surprisingly, this really didn't take too long.  Though I really only payed attention to the top two for brands and the top three or four for colors.

Brands...
1. OPI
2. China Glaze (barely in second)

Colors...
1. Blue/Green (wayy in first)
2. Purple
3. Pink (I am surprised by this because "On Wednesdays We Wear Pink")


  And just to make life more fun, I decided to figure out the most popular colors (top five) for many top brands like OPI and China Glaze and Zoya etc.

OPI
1. Black Shatter
2. Silver Shatter
3. Teenage Dream
4. Entire Katy Perry Collection
5. Entire Pirates of the Caribbean Collection

China Glaze
1. Crackle
2. For Audrey
3. Entire OMG Collection
4. Ruby Pumps
5. Entire Tronica Collection

Color Club
1. Worth the Risque
2. Fashion Addict
3. Revvvolution
4. Alter Ego
5. Poptastic

Sally Hansen
1. Hidden Treasure
2. Nail Strips
3. Barracuda
4. Yellow Kitty
5. Sequin Scandal

Orly
1. Confetti
2. Rage
3. Space Cadet
4. Fancy Fuchsia
5. Bubbly Bombshell

Deborah Lippmann
1. Happy Birthday
2. Across the Universe
3. Gitter in the Air
4. Bad Romance
5. Boom Boom Pow

Rescue Beauty Lounge
1. Scrangie
2. Coral
3. Grunge
4. 360
5. Anne

MAC
1. Mischievous Mint
2. Ice Cream Cake
3. Made to Order
4. Bad Fairy
5. Coral Wave

Finger Paints
1. Lavendar Hilight
2. Gossamer White
3. Psychadelic Sunshine
4. Amethyst Atelier
5. Pink Imagination

Essie
1. Allure
2. Ballet Slippers
3. Nice is Nice
4. French Affair
5. Fiji

Sinful Colors
1. Soulmate
2. Hazard
3. Easy Going
4. Nirvana
5. Frenzy

Nubar
1. 2010 Collection
2. Reclaim
3. Gem
4. Absolute
5. Treasure

My favorite colors to discover were the Deborah Lippmann ones.  Grr I want them so much!

Happy discovering,
Em


DISCLAIMER- These are not official.  These are my guesses from the research that I have done.