Oztic 531

Hey guys! Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! I meant to get this up yesterday, but I've just been so busy! I hope all of you have stuffed your faces with turkey over the past two days and are in turkey comas, much like I was last night! This is ust a quick post today of an amazing polish that I won from the Polish Olympics in August this year! The fabulous Oztic 531!!

This is a stunning mish-mash polish, which means it's both a holographic AND a multichrome! The colour shifts from a coppery orange red to a yellow and even green indoors, and once it's in the sun it is holo like woaaahhh!!

The formula on this is very thin, I used 4 coats with no base coat or top coat here, I have heard that it it unreal over black, but I haven't had a chance to wear it that way yet!

This is a stunning polish and I'm really glad that I was able to try it out thanks to the lovely Hannah of Polly Polish for hosting the fabulous Polish Olympics this summer!

I'm sorry for the lack of posts lately, I've been super busy and it seems that right after I paint my nails I mess them up before taking pictures! ahh! I'm going to see if I can fix that today :)

I will finish verifying my giveaway entries and hopefully have picked a winner by tonight for you all!

Again Happy Thanksgiving lovelies!

Essence Swatch Spam Day 3!

Happy Friday Lovers! 


This is my final day of showing you all of my Essence lovelies :) 

Choose Me!  Oh baby should you choose this polish. It's seriously gorgeous and I will be needed a backup bottle or two. It's a blue/green/turquoise glassfleck with a gold shimmer running throughout. This is a dupe for OPI's Catch Me in Your Net. Kayla Shevonne did an awesome comparison that you can check out here! This swatch was 2 coats. 

 Glamorous Life This is a red jelly base with a hot pink glassfleck shimmer throughout. I really liked this one although I was expecting it to be a deeper red than pink. I think it might be a dupe for Color Clubs Wing Fling from the Take the Wing collection. I loved the way this caught the light, so pretty!!

Where is the Party? Seriously where is it? I thought I was going to love this polish. It has such potential!! A purple green duochrome I thought it was going to be right up my alley. However I just wasn't feeling it. Some people might love it, but it's not for me. This was 2 coats.

A Lovely Secret  A periwinkle purple with a pink shimmer running through. Originally posted about here. 

Nude It! An awesome nude creme, Originally posted about here. 


Well that's it! All of my awesome Essence polishes :D These all had awesome formulas and I really hope that more of them make to to Canada. 


Do you have any of these? Like them as much as I do? 








Where is the party? 

Full Spectrum of Reggae to Riches

Morning Folks!
Today is my last day at my job!! I'm so excited, yet I haven't started to pack at all and I move on Sunday... Well that's what Saturday is for right? Since I have been tying up loose ends and spending lots of time with family and friends I haven't been able to get as much nail art done lately as I would have liked, I'll have some more for you next week I promise :)

I have an accent mani to show you all today. Sally's Beauty Supply has had a Buy 2 get 1 Free sale on lately. I wasn't intending on buying anything, but I needed some thinner and once I walked in I couldn't resist getting 3 lovely new bottles. These are 2 of them that I picked up, China Glaze Reggae to Riches and China Glaze Full Spectrum from the Prismatics collection.

Reggae to Riches is a beautiful red to magenta to violet jelly that is seriously packed with blue micro shimmer duochrome beautifullness. There is no other way to describe this polish other than it glows. It is like some deep blue fire from within is pushing through the bottle and out onto your nails. It is like the blue part of a flame that is right in the centre, the hottest part of the fire. The blue shift is all throughout the bottle and boy does that transfer onto your nails.

So gorgeous. It reminds me of what an alienesque berry could look like. It is slightly translucent, super squishy, and incredibly juicy polish that just looks delicious. Can you tell I'm falling head over heels for this polish?

And check out what it looks like without the blue shimmer. Depending on what light or how you move your fingers the polish is constantly changing. The coolest thing was when I was typing and my nails kept moving, the colour kept shifting and I had a hard time concentrating because I was just drawn to look at my nails.

Now if you know me I have a hard time just leaving a polish alone so I grabbed Full Spectrum. The description from China Glaze is, Baby pink bursts into holographic magenta to party with silver, gold, blue, pink and green particles. This is exactly spot on. When I was in the sun my nails were literally holoriffic. It stunned me just how gorgeous they were! Unfortunately by the time I got home the sun had gone away so I wasn't able to snap a picture of it in the sun. Maybe because I layered it over Reggae to Riches, this polish seemed more of a purple shade that shifted to lavender. It looks pretty lavender in my above picture.

And above I think it looks more pink. I wasn't impressed with the original swatches I saw of the Prismatics Collection, but in person WOW. I think every blogger has said this, but they are seriously amazing in person.

The formula on both of these were perfection. Reggae to Riches is thick, yet fluid and simply flows off the brush onto your nail. I had zero clean up with it. Reggae to Riches really is the perfect lady. It is part of the China Glaze Core collection and should be available wherever China Glaze polishes are sold. Full Spectrum was also beautiful to apply. Simply went on and the glitters stayed in place. I used 2 coats for both of these, so on my accent nails there are 2 coats of Reggae to Riches and then 2 coats of Full Spectrum. There was still a little bit of VNL with Reggae to Riches, but the duochrome covered it for the most part.

I love this combination so much. They colours complement each other so well and Reggae to Riches is jumping pretty high up on my list of favourite polishes. Jelly duochrome?! I can't ask for more than that.

What do you think of this? Are you in love with it as much as I am? Any fun plans for this weekend?

Sincerely Stephanie