LacquerWear

Revlon Girly

Laura — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:59:01 +0000

I started looking for this color after seeing it on lots of blogs, and it took me forever to finally come across it. I snatched it up when I found it in an out-of-the-way Walgreens! A lot of bloggers who don’t usually review Revlon posted this one, which made me take note. It’s an interesting [...]

Whimsical Ideas Just Add Milk

Laura — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:24:52 +0000

Okay, I think this is the last food polish I have to share. It’s Just Add Milk by Whimsical Ideas by Pam. This is the polish that made me try out this brand; it looks just like chocolate chip cookies! I saw pictures of this polish and felt like I had to have it to [...]

Lynnderella Spumoni w/ Zoya Dove

Laura — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:41:00 +0000

For the next installment of my food polish posts, here’s another Lynnderella – Spumoni! This makes me think of ice cream. When I was a kid I remember my parents buying Spumoni ice cream a lot. It’s a bit like Neapolitan – there were stripes of different flavors in the ice cream box, which always [...]

Lynnderella Salad Days w/ Zoya Neely

Laura — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:40:55 +0000

Lynnderella’s Salad Days is another food polish that I couldn’t resist. I’m a vegetarian, so when I came across Salad Days, the name kind of got me. I also like the Shakespeare reference, and the cute little “carrot” pieces. So it came to live with me. I used Zoya’s new Neely as a base, a [...]

Candeo Colors Smores w/ Dior Bronze Libertine

Laura — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:16:58 +0000

I’ve noticed that I have a thing for food-related nail polish. One example follows: Candeo Colors Smores polish, which I just picked up recently. I decided to branch out and try a few “indie” polish brands, and I was drawn to this speckly glitter while browsing on Llarowe. I chose it kind of randomly, and [...]

Essie French Affair Y-Gap Manicure

Laura — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:12:15 +0000

I’ve been pining for Dior’s Tutu, a new release for Spring 2013 that isn’t available yet in the US, so I pulled out Essie’s French Affair to try to soothe myself. Tutu is a light pastel pink that leans a bit lavender; so pretty. It’s been available in the UK for weeks, and I went [...]

Sally Hansen Coral Fever w/ OPI Sprung

Laura — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:57:07 +0000

When I was checking out the new Estee Lauder spring collection I was drawn to the coral color (Coral Cult), but I thought it seemed too close to an old Sally Hansen to justify buying. So I pulled out Sally Hansen’s Coral Fever to check. I do think the colors seem to be pretty close. [...]

Winter Sparkles: Essie Cocktail Bling w/ A Cut Above

Laura — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:58:38 +0000

Over the last few days the weather here was dark and gloomy, so I’ve been wearing a wintery Essie combination of Cocktail Bling and A Cut Above. Cocktail Bling is from Essie’s winter collection from last year. I haven’t used it much but I wanted a pale polish, so I pulled it out. It’s a [...]

OPI Mariah Carey Collection Stay The Night Swatches

Laura — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:02:51 +0000

The OPI Mariah Carey Collection also included four polishes in a “Liquid Sand” finish, so I picked one to try – swatches of Stay The Night coming up! I read just a bit about the liquid sand finish and I thought it was going to be more matte, or gritty, or something, than it is. [...]

OPI Mariah Carey Collection Studio Shades – Swatches

Laura — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:49:06 +0000

OPI’s new Mariah Carey Collection is divided into two parts, the “studio” shades and the “stage” shades (which are the four Liquid Sand colors). I picked up the four normal, “studio” shades over the weekend and I have swatches to share. I liked that the collection was divided in half like that – it’s symmetrical [...]

China Glaze Cirque du Soleil Get Carried Away w/ Dior Apparat

Laura — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 04:52:28 +0000

Today I have a few pictures of another one of the recent China Glaze Cirque du Soleil polishes, Get Carried Away. It’s a glittery mix that is frankly a little weird. In the bottle this polish looks promising; it clearly has large silver and orangey-red hex glitter peeking out from a dark, swirling base, in [...]

Christmas Nails: China Glaze Mistletoe Kisses

Laura — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:21:27 +0000

These are just a couple of pictures of my Christmas nails from this year – I decided to use China Glaze’s Mistletoe Kisses alone, with no extras. I had used Mistletoe Kisses for my polka dot manicure and it was so pretty in the bottle that I wanted to see more of it. It’s a [...]

Christmas Glitter: Dior Lime and Dior Lady w/ China Glaze Party Hearty

Laura — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:00:38 +0000

My favorite holiday polish ever is Party Hearty from China Glaze – it’s the perfect mix of big red glitter and smaller green and gold glitter. It came out in 2010, so it’s fun to pull it out each year, sort of a holiday tradition. The combination of glitter in Party Hearty is so obviously [...]

Christmas Polka Dots w/ OPI The Spy Who Loved Me

Laura — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:14:30 +0000

I saw a polka dot manicure on Short n’ Chic recently that I liked a lot, so I tried it out myself. It required buying a bottle of OPI’s My Boyfriend Scales Walls to use as the base, but I had been considering that anyway so it provided a good excuse. OPI’s My Boyfriend Scales [...]

Dior Lime w/ Sally Hansen Malt – Y-Gap

Laura — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:31:42 +0000

I tried out a new combination with Dior Lime – I used a base of Sally Hansen Malt for a “y-gap” manicure, a design used by U.K. nail celebrity Sophy Robson. The y-gap is kind of like a moon manicure, but with two sections at the bottom of the nail. I liked the nude look [...]