Wet N Wild Spitfire Swatch and Review and first Jelly Sandwich ever!!

~purchased by me~


This is the other polish I picked up from the Wet N Wild Summer Festival Collection. It's an orange jelly that is actually super opaque with a great formula!

These limited edition polishes sport white caps in lieu of the regular gray ones.

This is it at one coat. ONE! Amazing! I don't care for a lot of jellies because of their sheerness but this one can definitely be built up to opacity! The color is nice too, great for Halloween as well as summer!

This is it at two coats. Perfect opacity, completely smooth and streak free. An absolute dream to work with. If you get any one polish from this collection it should be this one! And now for my first attempt at a jelly sandwich! I used China Glaze's Scattered & Tattered.

I believe this is from their Glitz N Pieces collection. First I put one coat on...

And stopped to admire that for a bit! I really liked the way this looks! Very halloween. Then I went ahead and layered another coat of Spitfire on...

Yummy squishy-ness. I liked it like this but you can of course lay on another coat if you don't like the glitter this opaque. If you are looking for a great orange jelly you should considering picking this up while it's still available!

Wet N Wild Ferris Wheel Romance Swatch and Review

~purchased by me~


Wet N Wild Ferris Wheel Romance is from their new limited edition summer festival collection. The polishes from this collection have white caps as opposed to the regular gray caps. Ooh la la!

Ferris Wheel Romance is a pink leaning pastel coral creme (mouthful!) I used three coats here but I think you can get away with two. It's just that with my freshly shorn nails, I have to relearn the amount of polish it takes to cover each nail. I still apply it as if my nails were their normal length -_-; resulting in flooding, streaks and patchiness. Sadness overall.

It's a very sweet color, dare I say reminiscent of Zoya's Wendy? I don't own Wendy to look see but I've wanted it for a while now. I'm also on the ever present hunt for my perfect peach polish. This isn't it lol, too pink. Still, very cute!

I reallly don't like this length nail on me but what can you do. These retail for only $.99! And there was a coupon for $1 Wet N Wild in last weeks newspaper so you can get these for an absolute steal if you have it! I really like this color and it's actually completely unique to my collection. Not my perfect peach but perfect in it's own way. The formula is good and the price is right, if you like this grab it while you can!

Shiny Gold Comparison!

~purchased by me~


Hello everyone! Hope you had a great weekend! Today, I thought I would share my stash of shiny gold polishes. I actually used to hate wearing the color gold and was a silver girl all the way. But now I've learned to accept the shiny goodness and warmth that a good gold can bring.

Sparitual Solstice, O.P.I Goldeneye, Wet N Wild The Gold & The Beautiful, Sinful Colors All About You 

I knew straight away that the Wet N Wild and Sinful Color polishes weren't going to be the same as the other two but they have the same kind of golden glitter so I thought I might as well showcase them. The Sinful Colors polish also has reddish glitter in it.

Solstice (I), Goldeneye (M), The Gold & The Beautiful (R), All About You (P)

I first got Goldeneye when I saw my cousin wear it. I was like OMG what is that?? It looks like real gold on your nails! And she told me about this polish and highly recommended it to me. I got Solstice soon after that. The other two I just picked up randomly. I'm wearing 3 coats of each for all of these but you can wear Solstice and Goldeneye at just two coats. The Gold & The Beautiful and All About You are too sheer to wear on their own unless you don't mind wearing 5 coats of polish! They are much better for layering.

Indoors, natural lighting.

Solstice is the most dense out of the three, followed by Goldeneye, The Gold & The Beautiful and All About You. IRL, Solstice and Goldeneye are really similar, with Solstice just being a tad more opaque. You can tell that the other two have the same kind of glitter in them, just in less dense quantities. Also, I think that the Sinful Colors one might have slightly larger glitter. And just if you're wondering, Zoya's Maria Luisa and NYC Top Of The Gold are made of different materials. They have more of a gold cellophane flake and yes, they are dupes of each other. For that reason, I don't have the Zoya one. Also, I think it looks terrible on it's own. I don't know how Zoya managed to get such beautiful swatches of Maria Luisa because on my nails, Top Of the Gold alone just makes my nails look dirty and yellow.

I was losing sunlight fast so this was the best I could do. Sorry.

These are really sparkly and shiny in real life. I missed my chance to catch it in strong direct sunlight so I'll have to swatch it again sometime. All four are totally worth owning, though if you could only get one, I would suggest the Sparitual one. The O.P.I one is great too, just not as opaque. I bought the Sparitual polish from 6pm.com for only $4.99 though it retails for $12.00 at places like Ulta. The O.P.I I bought online for $6 from Amazon. It's from the past James Bond collection so it's harder to find in store. The Wet N Wild and Sinful Colors are core so you can get them anywhere! They are really cheap too, at $1.99 each. Being drugstore, you can easily get them for $1 or less if you catch them on sale!

Blackheart Beauty Nail Polish Multi Glitter Swatch and Taco

~purchased by me~


So this concludes the last of the Blackheart Beauty polishes that I own. Multi Glitter (damn that creative name) is a glitter topper with small turquoise hex glitter, large fuschia hex glitter and yellow, orange, silver, green and turquoise bar glitter in a clear base.

The base is pretty good, if a little runny/floody. It isn't too thick though and you surprisingly don't need to fish for the large hex glitters. Since it's impossible to reach opacity on its own, I layered it over 4 polishes; a blue, a purple, a black and a white. Here are their bottle mug shots.

Man Hunt, Monica, Black Satin and French White Creme

From left to right we have China Glaze Man Hunt, Zoya Monica, Rimmel Black Satin and Wet N Wild French White Creme. Here's just a picture of the undies by themselves, for reference.

Man Hunt, Monica, Black Satin and French White Creme, 2 coats no topcoat

I put one coat of Multi Glitter over each one. The glitters come out easily, no fishing required though you might have to dab a little to get the glitter where you want it. 

One coat of Multi Glitter over each

You can see those taco-ing glitters I was talking about. Not every single one of the large hex glitters is taco but a few will inevitably be in every manicure. You can see it best on my ring finger, over the black base.

One coat of Multi Glitter over each

Here you can also see them on my index, middle and ring. The index and middle one looks worse than they are. They are more of a reflective curl than an actual curl. The ring finger got it pretty bad -- there were 3 taco's on there. I decided to put on a second coat, to try to fill in some of the blank spaces.

Two coats of Multi Glitter over each

You can see the taco pretty clearly on these. The taco isn't terrible but a taco is a taco. I didn't include this one as part of my blackheart swatches because some people consider taco glitter to be defective.

Here I picked out a taco onto a toothpick so you can see the rate of curl. And then that's what it looks like on the nail without topcoat. You might be able to get it smooth with 2 thick coat of topcoat but with tacos, I've found they usually manage to poke through anyway. Here I took the taco glitter and I placed it on the Zoya bottle cap so you can see it more clearly.

So if you don't mind taco-ing glitter or are ok with fishing them off your manicure as you come across them, you might like this polish. It's unique, the formula is good and the glitters come out easily with no fishing required.

So what color do you like it best layered over? I personally like it best layered over the white. It reminds me of flowers in a garden. Are you ok with taco glitter? Would you buy this? It grew on me a little bit but I don't really care for this type of glitter topper and probably will do what I said and dump it out to use the bottle to franken with. Blackheart Nail Polish can be purchased at Blackheart Beauty and Hot Topic in store and online for around $5. I bought this particular one in store and the label was all peeling off :(