Color Club Neon Yellow

I still have no idea what this yellow color is called... but I still REALLY like it, which is weird cus I usually hate yellow. I wanted to try it again even after I had a semi-poor experience with it HERE. SO this time I tried it over the top of white polish and then used Essie's Kisses and Bises over the top of it to give it some shimmer... then used some grey Swarovsk crystals...

This was a really eye-catching mani. I love this color over white, this is actually only one coat!!! It couldve used a second coat but I had used two coats of white and wanted to use the shimmery Kisses and Bises over the top in two coats and didnt want SIX coats of polish before topcoat and not including base coat. EEK it was kind of weird to remove!

So what do you think? Do you like this color?

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Aero Live Love Dream Polish Silver Bells

I cant resist buying polish, so when I went to the local outlet mall with a friend of mine on Thanksgiving night I had to buy this. I was waiting in line at Aeropostal, which really isnt my type of shop but they have the best deals on sweatsuits for black friday, (this year was 12 tops and bottoms) and while I was waiting in line I saw their polishes and loved this! It ended up being $2.40 so I was in heaven!

I layered this over CND Silver Chrome, which is my go to silver, and it looked pretty. I wish I had it over a black, I bet it would've looked better!

It is a micro holographic glitter but I had to use three coats for it to make any impact. I bet this was made as a black polish topper...

Super Glittery in the bottle. Overall not a bad polish, it had a good formula but isnt as packed with glitter as the bottle makes it look... oh well!

Do you have anything like this, maybe better? Or any other Aero polishes?

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Revlon Raspberry Rapture

Raspberry Rapture is one of Revlon's scented polishes. It smells kinda like candy and is a bit strong but after a topcoat the smell was a bit more muted and better. 

 I LOVE this color, I dont actually own much pink but this was the one I thought I would like the smell of the most, they have a super pretty blue... but it's like ocean scented or something and I dont really like the smell much. I have too much purple to buy the grape but I bet I would like that one more.
Back to the color, I thought it would be really hot pink but its a bit more on the red-ish side, it is definitely pink... its pretty true to the picture.

This is two coats with topcoat, it was a really smooth formula and very opaque. If you were better than I you could do it in one! The small clay flower is from a set I bought at Sally's beauty supply. It was cute and I thought it would go together with the color and smell; the smell lasted until the next evening.

I think I'll buy the grape... I dont have much Revlon polish but I really liked the formula of this one, PLUS they are one of the mainstream 3 free brands... so thats nice.

What do you think? Do you have any scented nail polish you like a lot?

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Nfu Oh 51 Vs Layla Ceramic Effect The Butterfly Effect

So I was at Ulta poking around in the nail polish and on the bottom shelf of a woe-begotten fixture in the back of the store there was a small display of Layla's Ceramic Effects. The Ulta I go to doesn't highlight Layla very much; when I wanted one of the Hologram Effect polishes all of the people there said they didnt even carry Layla (but I had seen it a week before and just wanted to know where they moved it to!) When I saw The Butterfly Effect I lost my shit. I bought it because I wanted to do a comparison with Nfu 51 so badly... I didnt even realize it was 14 bucks (but thats ok cus I paid almost 30 to get my Nfu.)

Ok, here we go. Layla's formula is a bit thicker, BUT THAT MEANS IT GOES ON MORE OPAQUE!!! You can kinda see it in the picture with each polish at three coats. Layla has more flakies but Nfu has more pink shimmer.

Both are a similar color too; they have that shift from pink to purple to blue. 

Overall I like Nfu's smooth formula better but if I could go back in time I would probably get Layla's instead; it was cheaper for me, it goes on thicker, and I like the abundance of flakies. Is it an exact dupe? No, but it's pretty damn close.

What do you think? I have heard there's another dupe for 51, does someone know what its called, and where I can get it? 

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Color Club Neons and Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen

So when I bought my mystery color club set a while back there was an interesting fluro yellow in the mix. I wanted to try it out and as "luck" has it my nails all broke when I fell down the stairs and I had to cut them all short; neon polish looks better on short nails in my opinion. However, the application was poor and streaky... the color was great but the polish was disappointing even after five coats. It was just thin, nothing wrong with the consistency but it just didnt work. So I used some of the mint and blue from the set and sponged them on. Then I used a Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in Black to draw some designs on then used some small black flower rhinestones as decoration.

I had planned to remove the polish because I didnt like the yellow, so at this point I was just experimenting. I havent really done a good sponge application and this was the first time I was using the pen.
The pen was weird. It was a bit messy in the beginning, I dont really know how I ended up with black ink all over my arm. It was really watery but very pigmented. I made the mistake of topcoating my colors before using the pen which resulted in pooling of the designs. I smartened up on the next hand and the pooling didnt happen as much. When I say pooling, think of trying to use water colors on glass. It was very effective and I may buy more of these pens to do some intricate drawings!
The rhinestones were a bit of fun. I bought a clearance set from the kids section at TJMaxx because there was a wheel of colored rhinestone flowers and some shitty polish for three bucks!!! I may pour some glitters into the polishes or something, they seem thin enough. But the stones were a find in my opinion!

Have you used the Sally Hansen Art Pens before? What are some designs you have done?

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KleanColor Chunky Holo Black

OMG, so I was reading the color names of some of my polishes because I found out that the new Color Club set I bought from Ross was unlabeled: the box the colors, NOTHING! I came across the new KleanColor polishes I bought the other day from Ross and checked them out. Then I noticed that one of the glitters from the Kolor Revolution set was called Chunky Holo Black... but the color was like a burgundy jelly. So I got the idea to layer this glitter over black. I used my favorite black: China Glaze Liquid Leather. Its my fave because even though it goes on a bit streaky and jelly like, it is opaque after two coats and just like vinyl; its so glossy and black. Then I layered on the Chunky Holo Black...

Isnt this just divine ?? I really like the way this glitter looks, it has small, medium, and large hex glitters. The glitters are holographic without being silver or mirror-y and they changed from orange to green to blue and purple. I may need a full bottle of this baby instead of the puny .17fl oz bottle.

The polish goes on well, this is two thin coats. You dont have to fish around for the larger glitters, they dont come out heavily but the effect is just right. It does smell a bit and the brush it a bit fluffy if that makes any sense, but application is not bad at all.

I keep saying that I'm not really into glitter, but I super love this!

Do you have any polishes with the three hex sizes? It was a real surprise to me when I saw it come off the brush cuz you dont really see them in the bottle...

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Photo Dump

Another photo dump for you all, (im sure youre thrilled!!!)

I change my polish at least every other day, but sometimes it doesnt seem spectacular enough for its own post... or I dont have enough time.

This is Zoya Evvie with Glitter Gal's Silver Holorgraphic over the top, two coats each. I really love the Glitter Gal holo formula. Its packed full of holo.

These are my Bestie's nails!!! I love to paint other people's nails because it I can be more creative. I used hole reinforcements to paint a super thick tip then a dab of a lighter color for the belly and then China Glaze's Lux and Lush for the belly glitter, then a dotting tool in two sizes to make eyes and a striper for the beak.

This is my first Hare Polish... It deserves its own post but I didnt take notes on the polish when I put it on. It got a lot of attention at school. It's gorgeous think black with green glitter. I used a layer of Supernova Springs, then a layer of Liquid Leather (CG) then another coat of Supernova... almost like a jelly sandwich. 

For this mani I used the shimmery orange from my Color Barometer set (TNB) and then OPI's gold shatter and Essie's Matte About You... I like matte finishes but they dont last a full day for me, the matte polishes shiny by mid day.

I did this mani for a friend from school. She loves bright colors so I used a new Pixi polish I picked up in Vivid Coral. Its super close to Color Club's Jackie Oh! but a bit more orange tinged. Close enough that I shouldnt have them both... The consistency is good and application was easy. I used a striper for the rest of it.

Last but not least I bought this Color Club set at Ross and have no idea what the colors are, they should label their sets... its super irritating, le sigh. I cant be too sad because I picked it up for $4.99 since the price wasnt marked and there werent any others... I told them it was super similar to some other set with similar colors... but it was some brand I had never heard of and they didnt look as nice. Either way, I almost felt like I stole the set!!! I would REALLY like to know what the colors are called, I wore the purple one (which is a bit more purple than Zoya Charisma) and I received so many compliments at work. The pink isnt Jackie OH, its much darker and a bit more blue if that makes any since and the light robin's egg color is more mint green (but less pastel) than China Glaze's For Audrey. SOMEONE HELP!!!

Let me know what you think of the mani's and colors... Definitely let me know if you can identify the Color Club set. Thank you!!!

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