Wednesday, May 23, 2012

There is no photo in this post but I'm too excited not to say anything!

I ordered a bottle of Max Factor Fantasy Fire a few weeks back. If you aren't already away, this polish is very similar to the rare and long discontinued Clarins 230 polish. I've been checking my mailbox religiously for DAYS now and tonight when I opened it.... THERE IT WAS!

I'm so excited to try it out. I will get some pictures up for you soon so you all can see how awesome this polish is! 

That's all for now. Short and sweet. Haha, I hope you all have a good night (or day, depending on where you are).

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Orly Glowstick - Take Two!

Wow. So that last post should teach me to never swatch/post as an alternative to sleeping. I just pulled up my computer and that picture from my phone is absolutely TERRIBLE! It's not color accurate at all.

I managed to fish out a working camera that I used, and took some pictures in shade/natural light. I don't have the skills to manually edit and color correct photos in Photoshop or another graphics program, so I relied on some comparison shots to try and bring across the true color of this polish. Everything from the last post is still the same when it comes to formula and all that, but here are some WAY better pictures!



As you can see, my camera is just wanting to pick up on the fact that this polish is yellow. In reality this polish really does glow. (Not in the dark, although that would be pretty neat!) Looking at my hands, I'm reminding of being in middle school and coloring on my fingernails with markers, or a highlighter in this case! I hope I wasn't the only one to do that? Haha ^_^ But you can see how yellow this polish is, right? The picture in the last post looks pastel, almost, and this polish is so far away from pastel! 

To try and show how yellow and neon it is, I took some pictures next to Fingerpaints Lemon Sour. It has it's own set of swatches here if you want to compare side-by-side swatches.



Lemon Sour is a very pastel/muted yellow. It's not canary yellow, but you can see how bright Glowstick is when they are placed next to each other! Glowstick is SOOOOOO colorful! 

Since I don't know how you got to my blog, this is the link to my first attempt at posting this color. I'm not taking it down because I had to type it up twice! So now it will stay up on principle... or something like that. haha

Anyway, longer post than I thought. Oops! I'm planning on relaxing all day today. It's my weekend and today is my birthday! Movies + Polish + Coffee + Cats sounds like bliss.


Saturday, May 5, 2012

Orly: Glowstick

Ah! I just typed up an entire posts and it got deleted! At least it wasn't terribly long so I can retype it easily. :)

Hello everyone! It's been such a long time. I'm so sorry I haven't been able to post recently! As a quick update before getting on to the polish, I am loving my new job. I'm finally used to the schedule, although that will be changing soon. In other exciting news, I am house-sitting for a friend of mine while she is spending a few months working in a different state. It's been fantastic!  I'm taking care of her cats, mostly, but as someone who likes her "me" time, the solitude has been refreshing. The only drawback I come up with is that the lighting here isn't very good. Out off all the rooms, only the kitchen, the bathroom, and a back room used for storage have overhead lighting. All the other rooms are lit by table lamps, so along with finding time to take pictures, being able to get decent ones has been rough! I'm hoping to get a cheap table lamp soon so I can use that.

Today I have a polish for you from Orly's Feel the Vibe collection for Summer 2012. One thing I am learning I love about summer is all the neon polishes that come out. I am a sucker for neons! This polish is called Glowstick and is the classic highlighter yellow. This polish is BRIGHT! I need to swatch it on a nail wheel next to my other wheels to compare them, but this one might as well just glow! (Haha, GLOWstick. I think I need to go to bed soon.!) The formula was also great for a neon. It is on the sheer side and is prone to streaking, but not as badly as some of my other neon colors. It also isn't as sheer. The dry time was very quick and the polish went where I wanted it to. It didn't pool in my cuticles or get all over my skin.

I'm so sorry I only have one picture of this, and that the quality is so poor. I only have access to the camera on my phone. It's a good camera, but not for this! (And the cat just needed to get her tail in the picture! That's Bella in the background.)


Ahh, I don't recommend clicking the picture. I think it's probably huge since I didn't get to edit it! I've also noticed a pickup in the number of views. Thanks for stopping by everyone!

It's my birthday tomorrow so I'm going to have an awesome, super bright day! (And I get to sleep in... I'm exited about that!)