butter LONDON Color Clash Fall Collection Swatches

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Evening Friends!

I thought I had scheduled this post for 7:30AM this morning, but apparently I didn't, so you're getting todays post a little later than usual. I have half of the butter LONDON Color Clash Fall Collection to share with you today. This Collection is not typical to fall in any way, which I love. The colours are fun and bright, reminding us we can wear neons and bright colours year round! Let's jump into the swatches.

butter LONDON Cake-Hole is a reproduction, meaning this is not a new shade BUT it fits with the rest of the collection so well! The description from the press release is, Opaque, nearly-neon pink cream which is pretty much spot on! This does dry to a plastic finish so I have shown it here without topcoat.

My swatch is 3 coats for complete opacity. You could probably get away with 2, but I still had a little visible nail line so I did 3 coats for good measure. Also included in the press release is what the name means and since these are such fun names, here is what Cake-Hole means, 1960s Brit slang referring to one's mouth...and the desire for it to remain closed.

butter LONDON Pimms is my new favourite yellow. Seriously this is amazing. The press release description is, Opaque, sunflower yellow cream which is exactly what this is! Shown with topcoat.

What makes Pimms so amazing is that it is this perfect in 2 easy coats! Most yellows are streaky and require at least 3 to get the perfect look. This is very opaque only needing 2 coats. L O V E! The definiion of Pimms from the press release is, Gin-based tradition at its finest...this refreshing beverage is almost as popular as English tea.

butter LONDON Giddy Kipper is the star of the show for this half of the collection. The press release description is, an Opaque, indigo shimmer. Spot on. I am dying over the shimmer in this one. It really is so pretty. The shimmer is brought out by topcoat so you want to make sure you have a coat of top coat on to really bring out the shine.

Again this had beautiful formula only needing 2 quick coats. You might be able to get away with one if you do thick coats, but I have used 2 for good measure. I wore Lac Attack Endless Summer over this which was an awesome combination and can be seen here. The definition of Giddy Kipper from the press release is, Refers to someone who is overly excited...like anyone who buys this lacquer will be! haha so true. Blue lovers will need this one.

I'm loving this half of the collection. The colours are bright and fun and I will most certainly be wearing these as we get into cooler weather. What are your thoughts on these?!

The butter LONDON Color Clash Fall Collection is available starting today! Some places have already been spotted carrying the collection so you should be able to get your hands on it. Canadians can purchase HERE for $17 CAD a bottle or get a discount for buying the whole collection. Remember to keep up with butter LONDON on Facebook here!

Lac Attack Summer 2013 Beach Daze Collection Swatches

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Morning friends!

I have Lac Attack's Summer 2013 Beach Daze Collection to share with you today! I'm headed off to the beach today with friends so I thought it was the perfect time to post! This collection was just released this past Friday and there is a little bit of something for everyone. From fun glitter toppers, to a gorgeous holo and even GLOW IN THE DARK polish! The Beach Daze Collection is available now here!

I have lots of pictures of these beauties so click through for more polish and my review!

LAVlacquer Swatches and Review

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Good Morning!

Today I have swatches of 7 beautiful polishes to share with you from the brand new indie brand LAVlacquer. LAVlacquer is created by Dij, a student studying interior design who started making polish as a hobby and has now turned it into her own indie brand! She just opened up shop June 5th, and each of her polishes is hand crafted, with ingredients are never tested on animals. Glitter suspension bases are 5 free and solid colors are 3 free. Since this is a brand new brand show them some love on Facebook :)

I have lots of photos of all these beauties so click though so see more!

KBShimmer Summer 2013 Selections

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Morning friends!

Today I have swatches of 3 of the KBShimmer 2013 Summer Collection polishes. This collection was so fabulous and I just couldn't help but get my hands on 3 of them.

Click though to see the rest of my review!

China Glaze Sunsational Collection

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Gooooood Morning!

Today I am very excited to share with you six polishes from the upcoming China Glaze Sunsational Collection. The collection is split into two halves, the cremes and the jellies, I have 3 of each to share with you today!

I have lots of pictures of these beauties so click through the jump to see them all and my review!

Pure Ice Swatch Spam!

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Hey Everyone!!

This may be old news to some, but I am super excited that Pure Ice has reach Canadian Wal-Marts! It is really nice to see some American brands coming to Canada and that they are staying at the same price point of only $1.97 a polish! Super awesome! So needless to say as soon as I was able to get to a Wal-Mart I picked up a few to add to my collection. I have six Pure Ice polishes to share with you today.

To read about each of these polishes, click through the link!

Aphrodite Lacquers True Love and Heartbreak Collection

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Hello my friends!

Today I have some gorgeous polishes from Aphrodite Lacquers to share with you. A few weeks ago Rebecca came out with the True Love and Heartbreak Collection which includes jellies and glitters! Let's jump in with a jelly!

First up is Aphrodite Lacquers Love Is Lost. This is a gorgeous blueish violet jelly that is simply PACKED with glitter! As with almost all purples and my camera this is pulling a little more blue than it is in real life. So imagine this a touch more purple.

The glitter in this is various shapes and sizes of matte white glitter, silver holographic glitter and blueish purple iridescent glitter! The iridescent glitter gives it something just a little extra that I love. This was 3 coat of the polish and you couldn't see as much of my nail line in real life.

Now we have one of a glitters! Aphrodite Lacquers True Love Forever is a clear based glitter filled with pink and red shimmer, various holographic and metallic glitters in pink, fuchsia and red. I paired this with OPI Chic From Ears to Tail. For a more dramatic look you could easily pair this with a deeper colour.

This polish is suuuuuppeer packed with glitter. I dabbed this on and felt like it barely needed a full coat because the glitter ratio was so high. I'm loving this look though, its so fun!

The entire True Love and Heartbreak Collection includes: Broken Heart, Ever Unhappy, Forgotton Promises, Lonely Me, Lonely You, and Standing Here Waiting (jellies); and Romance Never Dies and Happily Ever After (glitters). Each polish is $9 for a full sized bottle and is available here in the Aphrodite Lacquers Etsy shop! Also follow Aphrodite Lacquers on Facebook!

What do you think of these beauties? Will you be picking any up?!

OPI Couture de Minnie Collection Swatches and Review

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Afternoon friends!

I'm double posting today to share with you all some amazing new polishes from the OPI Couture de Minnie Collection. I received 2 fabulous shades to review for you and couldn't wait until the weekend to share!

First up is, OPI Chic From Ears to Tail this is a wonderful bubblegum pink with s super subtle shimmer that really brightens up my skin tone. The pink is bright and fun while still retaining that high class look.

As much as I love the colour of this polish I didn't love the formula. This was 4 coats. It was really streaky and took time to build up as well it was prone to dragging. As well the shimmer was very subtle. I thought it was a creme until I started moving my hands around in the light. Love this colour just wish the formula was a little better.

Next up we have, OPI Innie Minnie Mighty Bow which is all sorts of fabulous. This is a crimson red shimmer that is simply fabulous. It completely feels luxurious and captures the Couture of the collection.

And the best part about this beauty? It's a ONE COAT wonder! This is stunningly beautiful and only needs one coat to be just perfection. If you're into reds you need this one.

I'm loving these colours and Innie Minnie Mighty Bow is a true winner in my books. I just wish the forumla of Chic From Ears to Tail was a little bit better.

What do you think of these polishes? Will you be picking up any from the collection? These will be available starting in June for $10.95 CAD wherever OPI products are sold.

Beyond The Nail Blue Microglitter and Shimmering Mermaid Swatches and Review

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Morning Everyone!

Today I have some swatches of a new to me indie brand to share with you. Beyond the Nail is a Canadian indie brand that sells quite a variety of nail polish, vinyl decals, caviar microbeads as well as some fake nail sets! That's quite a lot for a new brand! Today I have 2 of their beautiful polishes to share with you, let's jump right in!

Beyond The Nail Blue Microglitter is just that! Awesome blue microglitter. I found the formula to be a little on the thin side so I used 4 coats for the coverage you see here. You can probably get away with 3, but I wanted a little more depth in the polish. This would also be great for layering as you would get a speckled look over another colour.

This glitter is designed to dry to a gritty finish, similar to the Holiday Joy China Glaze glitters that came out last November. However I preferred it nice and shiny so I did 2 coats of NYC In a Minute top coat. We all know how much I love blues and this is beautiful. It is unique in my collection and I'm really happy I now own it!

Beyond The Nail Shimmering Mermaid is just awesome. This clear based glitter mix is full of blue microglitter, small blue hex glitter and medium silver holographic glitter. I couldn't get the holographic glitter to shine as much as it does in real life, so take my word for it that the holographic goodness of Shimmering Mermaid is really shimmering ;)

This was 2 coats of Shimmering Mermaid over Pure Ice Bikini. I am completely in love with this polish and think it will look flattering on anyone.

Beyond the Nail is a great new brand that I am really impressed with. I didn't picture their bottles, but they are the same as Cult Nails, and I love that rounded look.

You can purchase both of these here at Beyond The Nail's esty shop for $9.00 for a full sized bottle. Also show them some Facebook love here! Since they are new they still have under 100 likes :O

What are your thoughts on these polishes? Will you be checking out Beyond The Nail?

New Polishes from Hard Candy Swatches and Review

Hey Friends!

You would all not believe the drama that has unfolded over the past week in my life. I went to pick up the keys to my new apartment on the 1st and it turned into one of the most stressful days of my life. I was supposed to be subletting a furnished apartment, pet free and primarily other girls living there. Once I showed up, nothing was furnished, the other tenants were all guys and they had a big dog. Needless to say there was some stress going on. I ended up having to back out of the agreement and then spent the afternoon finding a new place to live! Luckily I was able to find a great place, but the room wasn't furnished. So I was running around like a madwoman (as fast as a madwoman can run on crutches lol) trying to find a bed and all that jazz. Thankfully I have an awesome mom who helped me out huge, but it was just the craziest few days! I'm all moved in now, but have been given orders by the doctor to just rest for a week and try to de stress.

I've had bare nails now for over a week while all of this has been unfolding and while I was looking through my folders I found all these Hard Candy swatches that I meant to post forever and a day ago!! Let's get started. All swatches have one coat of NYC In a Minute Top Coat.

Hard Candy Little Bo Pink this is a wonderful vibrant pink glassfleck. Totally perfect for summer and will be making an appearance on my toes at some point! This is 3 coats. It was opaque after 2, but I could still see some VNL so decided to add a 3rd.

Hard Candy Pinch of Spice this is another awesome summer colour! An orange glassfleck with some yellow shimmer makes this so fun. I think this will look especially nice on people with a darker skin tone. This was 3 coats as well, it has the same formula as Little Bo Pink

Hard Candy Crush On Amethyst is a violet foil that was almost a one coater. I did two for good measure. It looks slightly darker in real life than my pictures show here. In the bottle I thought it looked really silvery, but once it was on the nail the purple really came out and was just beautiful.

Hard Candy Crush On Copper is a copper foil with some glimmers to gold throughout the polish. This was again almost opaque after one coat, and could be if you do thicker coats.

Hard Candy Pixie Pink is a lavender purple with copper, teal and white glitter throughout. I think it's a really unique glitter combination! It went on really patchy for the first coat, so I was expecting this to need at least 3, but one the second coat it completely levelled out and was perfect!

Hard Candy Pink Taffy is another really unique glitter combination. It has a bright pink base with red, black and white glitters. Awesome! The same formula as Pixie Pink.

Hard Candy Masquerade over Revlon Bare Bones. This is one coat, and could easily be built to full opacity on its own, but I wanted to see what it looked like layered. This dries to a matte, gritty finish so if you want it shiny you may need two coats of top coat to smooth everything out.

Hard Candy So So Sequin over Deborah Lippmann Shape of My Heart. BLLIINNNNGGGGG! I am in love with this one. It is soo sparkly in real life it's insanity. This could be built up as well to full opacity, but I'm digging the layered look too.

Hard Candy Party Central over Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint. This is an awesome glitter mix. I love the big pieces of white glitter and I think this is going to be super popular and look amazing over a number of shades. One coat and a little dabbing to fill the bare areas.

Hard Candy Mermaid Magic over Wet n Wild On a Trip. This is another beautiful glitter. The purple medium sized glitters intermixed with the teal micro glitter is quite pretty. This could be built up to full opacity as well, but this ia one coat.

Overall I am super pleased with these Hard Candy shades! Totally in love with the variety in the collections and the uniqueness of the polishes. These will be making more appearances on my blog over the course of the summer I'm sure!

I haven't been able to get to a Wal-Mart near me to see if they have these yet, but I hope that once I can walk again they do! I would love to be able to add some more Hard Candy to my collection. Anyone want to send me some :P Seriously these are awesome and if you haven't already you should pick some up!

Are any of these calling your name? Hope you're having a great Tuesday :)