Maybelline Express Finish: Bronze Beam

Good morning!

I hope you're all having a great day so far. Today I thought I would bring out one of my vintage Maybelline gold cap polishes, Bronze Beam. I didn't honestly remember AT ALL that I had this one until I saw it again in my Helmer. Shopping the stash, people! I actually don't think that I have too many gold caps that I haven't swatched over the years. Bronze Beam is gorgeous, yet not at all entirely unique. A golden, bronze shimmery glitter hybrid - it's beautiful none the less. I tend to LOATH the formula and brush on these old gold caps. I swear, the brush is always wonky and the formula always needs thinner. It was worth it! This is two coats. 

Hope you have a beautiful day!

<3 Dana

L'Oreal Perfection Laquiresist: Cyprus Blue

Good afternoon!

Today I have a fun little vintage L'Oreal polish to share today, Cyprus Blue. I think this was a gift from my lovely pal Jacqui a few years back if I remember correctly! I have a sizable collection for L'Oreal polishes, some of the colors are truly unique. Cyprus Blue is one of them! A great deepened teal creme polish with a nice, warm tone to it. For the age is has on it, the formula was still really amazing on this one. Opaque after just one coat, and nice and smooth. I was impressed. I thought I would have needed thinner for sure. I love this color. I think it would be beautiful with a nice gold or bronze glitter on top! 

Have a great day!

<3 Dana

Hard Candy: Mischief

Allo!

I hope you're all having a great day so far! If you know anything about me, you know that my obsession for vintage Hard Candy polishes run deep. Wish I had more, always want more, will never have enough. Back when they re-released their cheaper, crappy-er line at Walmart years back, I want cray and bought pretty much every color. Once they hype wore off and I realized in general that my beloved HC turned to cheap crap and will never be the same again, I sold all but two. They've since then changed bottles for the worse once more and I haven't bought any since. I'm happy searching the world for the 90's gems, thank you very much.

One of the two that I saved was Mischief. I love this one mostly because it reminds me of Halloween in a bottle! It had a black, smoky base loaded with vibrant orange glitter. The pics really don't do the brightness of the orange justice! This is two coats over a deep bronze polish.

Enjoy your day!

<3 Dana

Rimmel Salon Pro: Saturn

Hello there!

I love Rimmel. In general. I love their matte powders, blushes, lipsticks, lip glosses, EVERYTHING. So naturally, I love their polishes. Vintage and new alike. The new line they've come out within the past year or so - Salon Pro - is one of my favorite polish lines out there. They just work for me! The brushes, formula, it all. So much so that I think I now have over a dozen. The moment I saw the swatches for the new Kate Planets Collection on my girl Hannah's blog HERE, I knew I needed at least three of them. The first that caught my eye is the gem I have to share today, Saturn! 

Saturn is seriously flipping AMAZEBALLS! AH-MAZE-BALLS! I know I have few colors like this in my collection, but I can't pin point them right now. WHO CARES WHEN IT'S THIS BEAUTIFUL. Saturn is a shimmery velvet golden olive green masterpiece. I only needed two buttery smooth coats and this wore like iron on me for about five days chip free. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. You will too. Go buy this. NOW.

Did you leave to go buy this yet? GO!

<3 Dana

Quick NOTD - Hard Candy: Haze

Hello there, we meet again!

Lately I've been hitting the jackpot with vintage polish. eBay, Ecrater, you name it, things have just been popping up left and right! If you're a vintage polish collector like myself, you know how these things go. Things come in waves. One minute there will be a drought, the next it's a field day out there! I'm riding this wave as long as I can!

I recently bought two lots of Hard Candy polishes on eBay for a STEAL, and one of them is this 90's gem I have today, Haze. Frosty? CHECK! Streaky? CHECK! Pastel purple? CHECK! This is one of those quintessential polishes that you know we ALL had when we were in middle school! Will I ever actually wear this? Well, no. But it will get happily tucked away with my collections of vintage Hard Candy polishes and be loved of all its days. This is three coats of watery, frosty goodness hot mess.  

Have a great day!

<3 Dana

Revlon Colorstay Gel Envy: Wild Card

Hello again!

Today I have a great blue polish to share, one of the new Revlon Colorstay Gel Envy polishes - Wild Card. I LOVE these polishes so much! They apply opaque at one coat, the formula is nice and smooth, and they wear really well on me. I think I have about four of them, but this one might very well be my favorite! Wild Card is a very close dupe for Sally Hansen Pacific Blue. (although I don't own that one to do a comparison.) I love these types of blues that really pop, they are great colors for all seasons as well in my opinion! This is two coats shown. LOVE this one! 

Have a nice day, ladies!

<3 Dana

Sally Hansen Hard As Nails: Radar

Happy Hump Day!

I finally got to sit down and get some good swatching and blogging done today! It feels so good sometimes to sit down and relax and have some quality time for yourself! (While watching Netflix, of course. DUH.) At some point I guess I should shower and try to look human again, but we're not quite there yet. 

Today I have one of the many of these Sally Hansen Limited Edition Sally's that I own, Radar. I love these polishes, they're all milky unique/fugly colors with holo glitter. AKA, right up my alley! Radar is definitely one of those fugly kind of colors, it's a maroon/chocolate brown sort of color. I really wasn't sure at first what kind of color I should go with to layer this over, so I ended up using two coats over Urban Decay Brick House. Most of the glitter was stuck on the side of the bottle with time, but I was able to get enough on the nail. I can say I have nothing else like this in my collection!

Enjoy your day!

<3 Dana