Revlon Color Chrome: Orchid Chrome

Hey there, polish lovahs!

I suck. I have had so much going on, blogging has just honestly taken a back seat. I need a good old fashioned swatching day indeed! In the meantime I have an oldie Revlon to share from their vintage Color Chrome line, Orchid Chrome. A blog sale find, it was a no brain-er for a vintage Revlon collector such as myself. Looking back at my pics now, I see that I REALLY needed that extra coat after the bald spots I'm seeing. I *think* this is three coats.

Have a great Tuesday!

Illamasqua - Glory

Hey there, girls!

You'll all be surprised to know that I only own one Illamasqua polish and I just recently bought it! Today I have Glory to share, a fab blog sale find. There's so many great Illlamasqua's out there I can't even name them all, and hopefully this is the start of a great Illamasqua stash!

Glory is your pretty standard silver chrome polish, but what really makes me love it is one of two things. The first is the formula. This was nearly a one-coater and it was nice and smoooooooth. Second, I love the sparkle in Glory. It really makes your standard silver that much more special. This is two coats. I NEED MORE ILLAMASQUA'S! 

Have a great Hump Day!

Revlon Color Chrome LE - KhakiChrome

TGIF!

Today's the day!!! My mom and brother are currently on their way to Virginia Beach! I feel like I a kid at Christmas! *big goofy grin* :D No worries, they'll be here for a week but I have all my posts ready to go! 

Today I have an amazing (and my first!) Revlon Color Chrome LE polish - KhakiChrome, KhakiZing's cousin. (Swatches to come soon!) My polish BFF Jacqui gifted me this gem. MAN looking back at these swatches remind me how much I love this gem! Oh vintage Revlons, you have my heart. Where do I start? Formula? Great AND it dried in a flash. Not to mention this is a duochrome that's actually a chrome LOL!  A metallic, shiny chrome at that! It shifts from a pink/mauve to a gold/copper. Obviously for the majority it stays in the pink/mauve side of things, but I tried to capture the gold/copper best I can. The bottle shot at the end really shows it off. Two coats.

See that color shift?

Have a great Friday!

Old and New - Nail Fetish Alien & Wet N Wild Chrome Grew Up In Cobalt-imore

Why HELLO THERE!!!

Today is yes, that's right, another Old and New post! I have two great polishes to share today, up first I have one of my MANY Nail Fetish polishes. These polishes are very special to me and dear to my heart since I owned quite a few as a tween-ager. Their polish embodies that 90's, an era I love with a passion to this day. Today I have Alien to share, one of my favorites from Nail Fetish for SURE! Alien is a vibrant in-your-face medium green polish with a slight frostiness to it. It's green polish greatness. Two coats, nice and smooth.

Next up I have one of Wet N Wilds new Chrome polishes, Grew Up In Cobalt-imore. I had been on the search for this display, but the only one I found was really, really picked over. I ended up only getting this one, and I thought this price was pretty steep for Wet N Wild - $3.99. They're prices for LE's have really been going up..... anyhoo. Formula was FANTASTIC! This is one coat. ONE! Formula was smooth as can be. I love this vibrant cobalt blue metallic very much!

What do ya think?

Urban Decay - Twisted

WHAT'S UP?!

Who wants to see an amazing vintage Urban Decay polish this morning? YOU DO?!?! I've got just the amazing gem to show off. This is another amazing polish gifted to me by the ever so big-hearted Esther. This is one of the Urban Decays still lingering on my wish list, and this amazing gal hooked me up! Oh, boy. I knew I wanted Twisted, but DANG I did not know what I know now. No photos do this polish justice. At all. The golden chrome shines to an extent I'm not yet sure I can put into words. *drools all over her laptop* This is three thin layers of sparkling magic. If you don't own Twisted, you must!

Isn't she a BEAUT?!

Retro Sunday Squared with Scholarly Nail - Revlons

I can't believe it's already been a week! It's time again for another installment of Jacqui and Dana's Retro Sunday Squared and today our pick is Revlon! I love Revlon oh so much. They have a drawer and a half in the Helmer are one of my favorite brands, especially their vintage beauties. Some of my favorite reds are Revlons as well! They somehow always manage to blow my mind with their reds. Case in point - today polish - From Russia With Love. It was a part of the Limited Addition Holiday 2002 007 collections. I want them ALL - check them out on this link. I love my thrift store here so much. This bottle is less then half full, so I'm sure I'll never more than swatch it, and it took a good amount of thinner. Totally worth it - this red is HOT And the shimmer is sexy. Just like 007. ;) Two coats.

Next up I have Punch Chrome from their Top Speed Chrome line. They had to keep up with the Sally Hansen chromes I suppose! :p This is the only Revlon Chrome I own and I think it's pretty and shiny but not as chrome-y as I would like. Still pretty and had really nice formula. Two coats and I coat topcoat, it dried a little dull.

Have a great Sunday!

Old and New - Maybelline Blue Aluminum & Claire's Technopop

Hello again!

It's time today for another installment of Old and New! These posts are so fun and gratifying to me because although my true polish love is all things vintage, there are lots of awesome new polish that I don't want to overlook as well. For the Old today I have a Maybelline Aluminum to share, Blue Aluminum. I only have a few from this line, but the ones that I do have I really enjoy. Nothin like a good old fashioned chrome polish! :) Blue Aluminum is a sky blue chrome and it really has a glowing feel to it. I really enjoyed the formula, I completely could have gotten away with one coat, but I ended with two.

For my New collection I have a polish that just plain confuses me. A LOT. I bought this polish from Claire's when I bought Candy Shop and since all polish was buy one, get one half off - I decided to try one of these layered polishes. What I expected and what I got were two different things. The bottle top says "Do not shake". Fine. But the only color that the brush can reach and that translates to the nail is the grey/purple color with holo glitter. No blue. No pink. It dried matte so this is with top coat. Two coats. I have to say, I like the color of the polish, but not for what I bought. Pretty lame, Claire's. Pretty lame.

Looks cool, right? NOT!

See ya tomorrow!

Old and New - Avon Color Last Mosaic Plum & Savvy Femme Couture Berry Slush

Greetings, fellow polish addicts!

Today I'm starting this post off right with my old polish. I don't own many Avon polishes, not many of them suite my fancy so I think including this one I have three? Four? Either way, after falling in love with this gem, it's time I gave Avon a closer look. I bring to you Mosaic Plum! Mosaic Plum is well, a plum polish (duh!) with a copper shimmer that really sets this polish on FIRE! The color combo and the effects it has are phenomenal! I bought it from eBay. I was the only one bidding and I think with shipping I paid a whopping three bucks. Two coats. Still drooling. :P  

For the new section for today I have my lone Savvy Femme Couture polish to share. I bought Berry Slush from Sally's for 99 cents recently and it really is a fun color. Turquoise chromes win in my book and the formula was pretty great. Yet another brands I need to give a closer look! Two coats. 

Have a great rest of your day! -Dana

Layering Fun - Hard Candy Trailer Trash & OPI Save Me

Good Mornin'! 

I hope everyone's weekend was great! I have a stunning manicure I wore recently to share on this fine Monday. Back when the Nicki Minaj collection was released there was only a lone polish I purchased and that's today's glitter- Save Me. Due to having an overflowing stash (not that I'm complaining :P) I haven't worn it until now and I don't know why. I'm in bar glitter Heaven! (my glitter of choice as of late) I love Save Me, a clear-based polish with micro-fine silver glitter with holo bar glitter. This is two coats over Hard Candy's Trailer Trash. I love how this combo shines and glows! 

Bar glitter = current weakness.

Underneath the glitter fun is Hard Candy's Trailer Trash. This is the version that was re-released in 2008, but I definitely remember owning this polish back when I was a teenager. Ah, the good old days. Trailer Trash is a silver chrome polish that actually applies relatively thin. This is three coats.

Hope your Monday goes by fast! ;)