Orchid Funky Monkey

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I'm back with Orchid's Funky Monkey! I'm kinda on the fence with this one, it's a really pretty color; sheer light brown base with redish/orange/brown glitter. It goes on smoothly and dries in a decent amount of time, but oh is it sheer! In the swatches below I applied 3 medium-ish coats and you can still see my nail, not just the nail line, but the whole nail.

In the next photo I put a coat of Funky Monkey over Avon's Mudslide, a medium dark muddy looking brown cream polish. I like the effect that Funky Monkey gave to Mudslide, make it look like a completely different polish.

So in my opinion a good polish for the most part, just super sheer and will most likely be layered over another polish any time I use it. I'm wondering if their cream polishes would be any better. I've looked for Orchid online in the form of a Google search and also looked for it on Amazon, but there is little to be found.

Friday I hope to be back with 2 more untried polishes to show y'all!

Pink Ice: Chocolate Chip

A couple weeks ago I went in to Rue21 to check out their nail polish and came out with two. Today I want to share with you Chocolate Chip! A pastel Green with matte bright colored glitters.

This is a great polish for spring and summer, it's just such a fun looking polish! When I put the first coat down I was like oh no this is not what I thought it was, but it worked out. I had to apply 3 coats to get the polish to a good opaque finish. Luckily the polish dries fairly quickly, I was happy with that!

These Pink Ice polishes retail for $3.99, but I guess sometimes they have them on sale 2 for $5, that's what I got mine for.

I think they are a good quality nail polish, I wore this mani for about 4 days with no chips and just minimal tip wear. I really didn't want to take this off, it's so pretty to look at! It was a little bit of a pain to remove, but what glitter polish is not?

In other news, I have no clue what kind of posts I will have for the rest of the week. I have not had time to sit down and plan anything out :/

Hope you all are having a fantastic Tuesday!

Essence Break Through & China Glaze Fairy Dust

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Today I am showing Break Through from Essence that I received from Lizzy! Stop by and check out her blog, she has a different nail post everyday, I look forward to her posts each day!

I'm just going to start off by saying I love this Essence polish! Such a gorgeous mid-toned shade of purple. The application was wonderful, I think due partly to the brush. It's one of the wider ones that has a nice subtle curve to it that really fits nicely around the cuticle/nail bed. I also love that this polish dries super fast. I really like it because it has a jelly like texture/finish to it. Once I put it on I could not stop looking at it.

Here is a quick shot of the brush:

I thought I would add some glitter to it by applying China Glaze Fairy Dust. Indoors and in the shade Fairy Dust just looks like silver glitter, but once you get it under some light, especially out in the sun, you can see all the holographic glittery goodness. My pictures do not do the sparkle of Fairy Dust any justice.

The following photos I took with my iPhone, they are out of focus, but that really shows the sparkle better and makes the color look more accurate :)

I could just stare at it all day LOL, but I have a ton of other things that must get done.
Next week I'll have a couple reviews on some beauty products, a nail look, and possible my March favorites/empties. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Review: KKCenterHK 2.5mm Circle Glitter

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Today I am reviewing the N.NAIL 2.5mm Circle Glitter-Gold Dark Khaki from KKCenterHK, they have a wide range of nail art supplies at awesome prices!

These little glitters are made from plastic and were super easy to work with. I started off by painting my nails with a base coat, then I applied two coats of Creative Fantasy by China Glaze. After my first two coats had dried I applied a third coat to one nail and then used some nail art tweezers to pick up the gold glitters and place them on my nail. After I did that to each nail I applied my NYC quick drying top coat and noticed that the glitters still looked raised up from my nails so I added another top coat, but in the end some of the glitters still looked raised up.

They were very easy for me to pick up with the tweezers and place on my nails, I do wish they would have set farther down on my nails so they would not have been raised up because this caused me to

Nail of the Day: KKCenterHK Ebalay Warm Orange Shiny Glitter

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Today's post is a NOTD plus a mini review of EBALAY Warm Orange Shiny Glitter Nail Polish that I received from KKCenterHK for review.

I had some difficulty with this polish, I tried several different base colors with it, from white, orange, black, blue and several shades of purple and could not find a color that looked good with it. In the end I opted to do a jelly sandwich with it using Wet n Wild's 2% Milk and really liked the results.

The Ebalay polish is a clear base full of white and orange hex glitters, white bar glitters and some purple iridescent glitters as well. The polish it's self is a nice polish, does take a little extra time to dry, but that may also be because I felt like I put heavy coats of polish on in order to get a good amount of 'glitter' on my nails. The glitter was slightly hard to work with. I think it looks amazing in the bottle, just not so much on my nails.

Application: 3/5
Drying Time: 3/5
Longevity: 3/5
Overall: 9/15

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Wet N Wild Hot Rocks Collection

Happy Friday! I went out to another one of my local CVS' to check out the big 50-75% off sale and stumbled upon some beautiful new nail polishes from Wet n Wild. It's a collection called Hot Rocks, it's a line of nothing but gorgeous glitters! There are six colors available, if you are interested in seeing all six check out Nouveau Cheap's post, and they are only $1.99 each! I only picked up two of them, Rocking Rubies and Caught on Sapphire.

Rocking Rubies is just that, it looks like crushed up rubies in a bottle, oh my gosh it's so pretty! It has big circle glitters and some tiny glitters, both red, in a clear base. Caught on Sapphire has the same round larger looking glitters, but it also has a bluish/purple iridescence to it, set in a clear base.

I have swatched each of these polishes alone, over white and over black.

I have to talk about this too, hanging on the display for these nail polishes was a tag that said buy one get on 50% off, one of the main reasons I picked up two of them. When the lady was ringing up my items I asked her if it took half of one of the bottles and she said no, I told her about the tag I had seen, so she went and checked. She said the sign was old, but she was nice enough to actually refund me the money for one of the nail polishes and not just the half I should have got off, but the entire $1.99. So always make sure that your items are ringing up properly.

Gorgeous right? Have you seen these at your CVS?