Rococo Grandeur

The Polish:
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Color: Hare - Rococo Grandeur, two coats
TC: American Classics - Gelous, one coat, followed by Seche Vite, one coat

This indie has been on my wishlist for quite some time, and thanks to a RAOK from a wonderful fellow nail boarder, I finally get to wear it! I put it on yesterday and have been admiring it ever since.

Rococo Grandeur is a pale grey-blue crelly with blue microshimmer and white, gold, and pink glitters in hex, square, and little circles. It's adorable up close where you can make out the different glitters, but also delightful from afar. I just love the pretty color and the sparkly glitters!

I couldn't get very good pictures, unfortunately. I'm not sure why it didn't want to show color accuracy. But I got excited again cropping them, so apparently they're good enough!

And again, another crelly glitter that remained slightly bumpy, even after Gelous and Seche Vite. I wonder how people deal with this... It's just frustrating to me to have bumpies on my nails (when I'm not explicitly wearing a texture polish). It makes me want to pick at it. Meh.

Wear: Five days, peels started at four.

Tiny Tangerines

The Polish:
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Polish: Sonoma Nail Art - Tiny Tangerines, two coats
TC: One coat of American Classics - Gelous, followed by one of Seche Vite

Tiny Tangerines is Aroma in Tacoma's pink little sister. It has the same glitter in a nude base look, but a pale pink base and white, pink, aqua, purple, and iridescent glitters. The glitters were more finicky than I remember AiT's being, but maybe I'm just misremembering it. It's also still just a little rough, even through Gelous and SV, but that's probably because I had to dab the glitters on to get them to stay where I wanted them. Regardless, I super love the look. Very cute!

I decided after one day that I think maybe the glitters are too much for a whole mani. When I wear it again, I'll probably only wear it as an accent with a plain, sheer pink for the rest of the nails.

Wear: Four days, glitter chips at three.

Satin Sheets

The Polish:
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Polish: Revlon - Satin Sheets (Sweet Nothings collection), two coats
TC: Seche Vite

After two not great manis in a row, I NEEDED a palate cleanser. I sure do love my sheer shimmeries. <3

Satin Sheets isn't my favorite sheer shimmery, though. Probably because it's such a vanilla color, yellow tinted, rather than pure white. It's still pretty, though, with its red shimmer. It'll do!

Wear: Four days.

Soft Pinks Comparison

The Polish:
Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Thumb: Wet n Wild - Sugar Coat (Megalast line) two coats
Index: Essence - Cotton Candy (Nude Glam collection), two coats
Middle: New York Color - Prospect Park Bloom, two coats
Ring: Rimmel - French Lingerie, two coats
Pinkie: Essie - Adore-a-Ball, two coats
Top Coat: Seche Vite

It's been a while since I did a comparison post, so I thought I'd do another one now. My camera felt otherwise. I'm not sure why it's been prissy with me lately, but these pictures definitely show it.

Hmm... I have many soft pinks. Many. Why? I'm not even sure. I thought I liked them at one point, but now I'm starting to question myself. These pinks are all near dupes, with the exception of the Essie, which is slightly more jelly like. The rest, though... they're all pretty much the same. The only difference I could tell was that the NYC is slightly more pink than the others. The rest all have very similar colors, formulas, consistencies... even brushes, as the Megalast, Essence, and Rimmel brushes are all pro-wide.

When I brought it up with a friend, he said, "So you need to get rid of four pinks, is what you're telling me."

No...

Yes... :/

*sigh* Yes. Yeah, he's right. I really don't hardly even like these ones at all. My favorite of the five is probably the Essie, surprisingly. For the rest, I like the bottles and the brushes (well, except for the NYC), but I've been fooling myself into thinking that I like the polish itself.

I don't.

So I'm going to put all four of them into the purge box right now before I talk myself out of it.

... Three. I need to keep one, don't I?

... Nope. All four. Right now. Done.

As for the mani, I put some iridescent glitter over it, but I'm not going to show you. The application of the pinks was too terrible to show up close. Yep. I made the right choice.

Wear: Removed at four days because I was tired of it.

Sea Glass in the Sea

The Polish:
BC: Nail-aid Extreme Steel Hardener
Undies: Sally Hansen - Sea (Smooth & Perfect line)
Glitter: Pure Ice - Sea Glass, two coats
TC: New York Color - Matte Me Crazy, two coats

Meh, I'm really still not sure what I think about this polish. I put it on when I first bought it and hated it so much, it didn't even make it to the blog. I decided to try it with undies this time, but I'm still just not sure. I really like it in the bottle.. those iridescent glitters are so cute. I'm just... not... sure... :/

Plus, the matte didn't even matte properly. I even added two coats, and it still wasn't very matte. Meh.

Wear: Three days, peels at two.