Autumn Spice

The Polish
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Color: Revlon - Autumn Spice (Parfumerie line), two coats
TC: Seche Vite

Autumn Spice is a red-leaning brown with copper sparkle. It's been floating around my local swap group for a couple years, and I've been admiring it. I always said I couldn't do browns, but lately I've been getting more adventurous, especially with stuff I can try for free.

Nope. Turns out it's still not my thing. I thought it made my hands look like old lady hands. Still a fine color for clothes, but not on my nails. Back into the swap pile for you.

Wear: Removed on Day 3 with tip wear

Unemotional Jerk

The Polish
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Color: Native War Paints - Unemotional Jerk, two coats
TC: None

With the coming fall season, I've been wanting a nice, deep brown, but.. I don't think this is it. Unemotional Jerk is.. kind of yellow-leaning? Maybe gold-leaning? In a way that doesn't work for me, I think. Or maybe it's somehow that holo microglitter again. Meh. Anyway, I have a friend that I think will love this more than I do. Purge.

Wear: Removed on Day 4 with a little chipping and a place where a peelie peeled off. But no anxiety picking!

Challenger

The Polish
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Color: Different Dimension - Challenger, three coats
TC: Seche Vite

A multichrome today, so apologies in advance for many pictures.

Challenger, which is from a set all named for spacecraft!, is a green/gold-to-red/purple-to-brown multichrome with holo glitter and glass flecks. How's that for a description?

I can't quite decide if I like it or not. It's not really a color I would normally pick up, but it IS pretty.. The red/purple isn't very apparent in most lights. Most of the time it just appears to be a glittery dark brown.

But maybe it looks a little messy? We'll keep it on for a while and see what I think.

Hey~! I finally got the green to show in the car! You can see some glass flecks in this one, too.

Wear: Removed on Day 2 with the decision... to purge. Honestly, I probably would have preferred it without the glitter, just as a multichrome creme. *shrug* Hopefully someone else will like it.

Vampires Suck

The Polish
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Color: Enchanted Polish - Vampires Suck, two coats
TC: Seche Vite

Oooh, my goodness, this polish!! I had no idea! I got this polish from a friend, and I didn't really expect much from it at all. What a surprise! Now I guess I'm starting to understand the Enchanted hype.. :P

Vampires Suck is a deep brown linear holo that flashes red in some lights. The holo is so strong that my camera kept getting confused while trying to focus. (Note to self, the "Food" option on the Galaxy S7 is ALWAYS the superior option when taking nail pics.)

Wear: Removed on Day 4 with some lifting

Armed and Polarized

The Polish
BC: Revlon - ColorStay Base Coat
Main: Essie - Armed and Ready, three coats
Accent: China Glaze - Polarized, two coats
TC: Seche Vite

I'm starting to like Essies more and more lately now that I'm getting better at applying cremes. Armed and Ready is.. a bit difficult to describe. It is, at times, in different lights, olive, brown, or dark grey. There is a gold shimmer that shines in the bottle and outside but hides completely indoors. I tried to take a number of pictures to catch the various perspective of colors, but I'm also navigating a new phone (Galaxy S7), so it was tricky!

Polarized doesn't match as well as I had hoped because I hadn't accounted for the gold shimmer in Armed and Ready, but I still enjoy it more that I probably would without an accent nail. It REALLY didn't want to be photographed, though. Polarized is a foil-y silver with.. what appears to be red, green, and silver hexes. Swatches online show that when it came out in 2012, there were a lot more colors, but they must have faded. I thought it would make a good silver for an accent nail, but.. it's just kinda plain. If I want a silver accent nail, I have so many better ones to choose from. It's difficult for me to put this perfectly fine silver directly in the purge, though, so purgatory box for now and will probably be purged later when I can be more strict with myself.

Wear: Removed on Day 4 with a chip from a peelie and some anxious picking. :/

Warm and Tulle

The Polish:
Treatment: OPI - Nail Envy
BC: CND - Stickey (left hand only)
Main: OPI - Warm and Fozzie, three coats
Accent: Sally Hansen - Teal Tulle, three coats (reversed on right hand)
TC: Seche Vite (over Warm and Fozzie only)

I don't know if I'm feeling this. Why do I still have VNL (visible nail line) after three coats of Warm and Fozzie? Gross. It's still nearly visible on three coats of Teal Tulle, too! Come on, guys!

This is Warm and Fozzie's second chance, so it goes directly into the purge box. Bye, Felicia.

Teal Tulle, on the other hand.. I was resisting wearing it because I figured it'd be tricky to work with. It's definitely not as awesome as Crystalline, but application was fine. It definitely needs at least three coats, which is unfortunate, but it's not a bad color. Think I'll keep it around for a little while longer.

Wear: Small chips on Day 3, peels on Day 4

Aroma in Tacoma... is Cookies!?

The Polish:
BC: Duri - Rejuvicote
Color: Sonoma Nail Art (Formerly Tacoma Nail Art) - Aroma in Tacoma, two coats
TC: Seche Vite

I adore this polish. Look how lovely the base. Look how sweet the colors of glitter. So simple and pleasant. And... it looks like delicious COOKIES! <3

AiT has an excellent mixture of glitters (small white and gold, medium white and bronze-y brown) in a jelly milky nude base. The first layer goes on very sheer, but two coats is perfection. Three coats would have probably deepened the nude more, but I was satisfied at two. Gah, and isn't she perfect!? Aaah, the simplicity. So. Much. Love. for this one. <3

Wear: Three days, peeled from the base at two (as you can see from the pictures). :( Must not have liked the Rejuvicote? I'll have to try again with a different base.

Edit: Nope, I was wrong. It was that I oiled my nails and then didn't wait long enough to paint them. Grrr. Lesson learned.

Warm and Fozzie

OPI Warm and Fozzie (Muppets collection)

I spent a week on vacation and did not take care of my nails at all. So, here's what it looks like when that happens. This first picture is kind of a mess, but it shows the color most accurately.

It's still a bit cold out, despite being almost April, and I had one more winter color in my untrieds I wanted to put on before I dive headfirst into pastels next week.

Warm and Fozzie was totally not what I expected. It's a complicated color, but if I had to explain it, I might say that it's a coppery brown / gold duo-chrome with specks of red and green micro-shimmer. It's also a lot more sheer than expected. This is two thin coats. I definitely could have layered on more, but I didn't care enough. I like sheer polishes, but I'm not really feeling this one. It's super pretty irl and would probably be even nicer if layered thicker, it's just not for me.

Sno Caps

China Glaze White Cap over unknown vintage chocolate brown

Wear: three days

After owning White Cap (a mini, in case you couldn't tell from the final picture) for only a few days, I began to dream of what I could do with it (as we do all polishes, of course). The name reminded me of those movie theater candies, Sno Caps, the ones that look like little chocolate mountains covered in white confetti snow, and I had the perfect chocolate polish, a vintage I received in a box from my mother-in-law.

I was a little sloppy putting the chocolate on this morning, and I was running late for work, so I decided to finish everything when I got home. The dent on my middle finger is from a three-year-old that was playing with my fingers.

The polish turned out to be GORGEOUS. It's a beautiful chocolate brown with copper shimmer. Sooo pretty! I wish I was a better photographer so that I could capture how wonderful it is. However, I don't think it's really for me. Brown is a color I wear regularly, clothes-wise, but I'm just not comfortable wearing dark polish. I think it'll go in my swap pile soon enough, and hopefully I can find it a good home!

The White Cap turned out to be different than expected. Not bad, just unexpected. I assumed it would be a shimmery white, opaque enough to tell that it's white, but sheer enough to see the undie. Perhaps it may be that way with two or more coats, but with only one, it's a gold-ish, multi-color microglitter. As I said, not bad, just not what I had in mind. Turns out I didn't get my Sno Caps after all.