Old And New - Cover Girl Nails Slicks Midnight Metal & Spoiled Are Mermaids Real?

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Anyone else a fan of Cover Girl Nail Slicks? Okay good, I have built quite the collection and need to start showing them all off! You'll be seeing much more of them in my upcoming Old and New posts. Today I have a great one to share - Midnight Metal. Midnight Metal is a great charcoal grey-based polish with gun metal shimmer setting off a fantastic metallic effect! I loved the way this polish dried to an almost satin finish, so I went without top coat for my swatches. The formula on most Nail Slicks tend to be on the watery side, but after the second coat they always even out great. This is two coats.

Next up I have a wonderful polish from Wet N Wild's new CVS exclusive line, Spoiled. Since I work at CVS, let me assure you I've bought almost a dozen polishes from this line, and am now just starting to swatch them. I am in dire need to play catch-up. One of the front runners of this collection is Are Mermaids Real? A vibrant lilac purple high shimmer polish with bright gold shimmer woven through out, this polish has a great whimsical feel to it for sure! It's so PRETTY! This is two coats. Side note - I love Spoiled polish but their brushes SUCK. They're waaaay too wide and hard to work with. 

Have you tried Spoiled polishes yet? -D

Reswatch: Vintage Zoya Matta Harri

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Back when I first started my blog, I came across five vintage Zoya polishes and my little heart almost exploded! Only two of them had names, and the wonderful Polish Fairies at Zoya actually helped me find the names of the others - they were a great help! I only showed a few pics of each beauty back then, and I think it's time to reswatch my faves of the bunch! Here is the amazing and wonderful Matta Harri!

That's right - soak it in! I REALLY wish Zoya would re-release this chrome beauty! From what I learned from Zoya this polish is from from 90's and the formula still held up all these years. This was a smooth two coats and it actually dried in decent time, too! So ladies, keep those Zoya polishes around - they have a GREAT shelf life! This gunmetal chrome is very special in my stash. 

Essie All In One Base/ Poshe topcoat

Orly Minderal FX - Rock Solid

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Have you ever passed on a polish only to later find you freaking really like it after all? This is my relationship with Rock Solid. I passed on it initially and got Stone Cold instead. I always wished in the back of my mind I would have nabbed it. Than a fellow lovely blogger Katrice of Blue Polish held a giveaway and I won this bad boy! (FYI - it was my first time ever winning one! Woo Hoo!) Here it is!

 Rock Solid is a gun metal/dark silver polish with a scattered holo affect. Application was truly great, I used two thin coats and it was good to go! Beautiful metallic foil color, great pigment payoff, the only small letdown was the scattered holo didn't translate well from bottle to the nail. It was there, don't get me wrong, but just not was strongly as the bottle itself. I still really like SC though!

Overall, I really like the two Orly Mineral FX polishes that I own. I really want to try more, I have a pretty long wishlist! :p 


Orly Mineral FX polishes are a little pricier than their regular line, pricing at about $8.99/bottle.


Essie all in one base coat/ Sally Hasen Insta-Dri topcoat