This Week in Nail Polish

Hi everyone! I was really good this week. Can you believe I only got ONE bottle of nail polish this week?! I know, it's total madness! Here's the lone gunman:

This is Spoiled Trust Fund Baby. I went to CVS for something and was surprised to find the Spoiled line there. They even had the Milani spring collection. This is actually shocking because I live in a small town and we don't get a lot of collections at the drugstore or they show up later than usual. I was only able to pick this one polish up. Of course, there were more that caught my eye!

Since this post is a bit light on nail polish related stuff, I'm sticking in a photo of an older manicure. Although I've only recently started blogging, my nail polish obsession is nothing new. I've been taking pictures of my nails for a while, without the intention of ever posting them on a blog or anything. But I still took them. So the details on this manicure are a bit hazy. This photo is from November 2011!

Can't say what base coat I used or how many coats of the polish. This is Barielle Slate of Affairs and on my index finger I have a coat of China Glaze Cracked Concrete. I know the top coat is more than likely Seche Vite. I almost NEVER use any other top coat. Seche Vite is my everything when it comes to top coats :)

Slate of Affairs has a nice blue shimmer that didn't show up in this picture though. Too bad.

Kitty time!

I like these two pictures because you can tell they were taken in succession. In one, she's wistfully looking off into the distance and in the second one she's probably thinking, "Why won't this crazy lady leave me alone?!?" Hehe...at least that's how it goes in my silly mind :)

Penelope says hello and thanks for stopping by!

Barielle Gotta Have Fate

Hi everyone! Today we have swatches of an interesting color that seems to change with the lighting. You'll see what I mean in the pictures.

Base coat: 1 coat of CND Stickey
Polish: 3 coats of Gotta Have Fate
Top coat: 1 coat of Seche Vite

Barielle's website describes this one as an "opaque creamy coral". Now I'm going to have to disagree with that. I think it's more of a jelly, so opaqueness might not be totally possible. You can't see it too well in the photos but in person, after 3 coats, I could still see my nail lines.

As for the color, well that's tricky too. Most of the time it looked orange on me. Sometimes the coral would peek through. This polish is VIBRANT. Very bright and not for the faint of heart. I never wear shades like this because I don't think they're very flattering on me. I think this might pull so orange on me because of my skin-tone. I'm obviously on the darker side and that seems to pull out the orange tones in this one.

Formula was unexpectedly pleasant to work with. Didn't have any issues at all, very fluid and each layer just flowed onto the other.

I bought this on the Barielle website, which you can visit here, during one of their sales. Every now and then they have a 30% off sale and free shipping for 24 hours. And their polishes are always buy one, get one free. So that brings the cost of two polishes to $8.40, including shipping...which is a deal I can't resist! If you sign up for their email alerts, you'll get a notification of this sale if you're interested.

That's it for today...thanks for stopping by :)