Lynnderella ChocoLotta Love

Indoors in artificial light:


Outdoors in full sun:

Today's manicure is Lynnderella ChocoLotta Love over Butter London Dosh. ChocoLotta Love is a preponderence of brown square and hex glitters punctuated by black microglitter and red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, and purple glitter of various sizes and shapes in a sheer brownish base.
Dosh is a lime green full of peach and green microshimmer.
This manicure is one coat of SpaRitual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat of CND Stickey bc, two coats of Dosh, two coats of ChocoLotta Love, and two coats of Seche Vite.


Outdoors in full sun w fill flash:

Revlon Colorstay French Roast

This manicure is Revlon Colorstay in French Roast. French Roast is a warm poopy brown with subtle rainbow microshimmer particles. I was attracted to it because I don't think I have anything like it in my rather large collection. Unfortunately, the formula stinks. I will have to try it again with thinner, as is it was thick and runny for me and applied patchy. You can tell from the finished manicure that it didn't apply very well.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, three coats of French Roast, one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc, and one coat of Seche Vite.

Glitter Gal Dark Brown Sparkle

This mani is a Glitter Gal Dark Brown Sparkle Holo.
Dark Brown Sparkle is a brown with large rainbow holographic particles.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of polish, and one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc.
Indoors in artificial light:



Outdoors in full sun:

Tony Moly GT03 Mars

This mani is Tony Moly GT03 from the Galaxy Collection. As previously stated, Tony Moly is a Korean brand (not distributed in the US as far as I know). I ordered the whole collection on eBay for $10 a bottle. This is a brown jelly base loaded with red, orange, purple, and small gold hex glitter.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of polish, and one coat of Seche Vite tc.
These pictures were taken indoors with artificial light.


Because of the brown jelly base and metallic glitter, I thought of Lippmann Superstar and decided to do a comparison...

RBL Spring 2011: The Quick and the Dirty

I ordered from RBL on Saturday and to my surprise and delight, my package of new spring colors from the 2011 Iconic/Ironic collection was on my doorstep when I got home from work today. My cuticles are a disaster, but I did quick 2-coat (no base or top coat) swatches to share with you. These are all so lovely. I am the most ambivalent about Recherche because of it's simplicity, but I look forward to doing full manis with all of these interesting colors.
These pictures were taken indoors with artificial lighting.

l to r: Recherche, Iconoclast, Decorous, Insouciant


Recherche
a plummy, brownish, blackened purple super-vampy creme
The closest thing I have in my stash is Hard Candy Normal and a Strange Beautiful brown, but neither is a match.
\ ruh-sher-SHAY \ , adjective;
1.Uncommon; exotic; rare.
2.Exquisite; choice.
3.Excessively refined; affected.
4.Pretentious; overblown.


Iconoclast
black with multicolor flashes of microshimmer
I have nothing like this in my collection.
[ahy-kon-uh-klast]
–noun
1.a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
2.a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.


Decorous
milk chocolate with a flash of purplish shimmer
The closest thing in my stash to this is Chanel Particulare and that has no shimmer.
[dek-er-uhs, dih-kawr-uhs, -kohr-]
–adjective
characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.


Insouciant
soft lilac with a flash of blue shimmer
I have nothing like this in my stash.
[in-soo-see-uhnt; Fr. an-soo-syahn]
–adjective
free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.

NARS Desperado and King Kong

Natural Light and Flash

Desperado is a new Spring color from NARS. It's a gold metallic foil with green microshimmer. Nars describes it as antique brass.
King Kong is a Vintage shade that was recently re-released. It's a warm, almost pinky coppery-brown with metallic shimmer. Nars describes it as brown with gold shimmer.
Both are available from Sephora, Dept Stores, and directly from Nars' site.

These manis are one coat SpaRitual Lacquer Lock basecoat, two coats of polish, and one coat of SpaRitual Tout de Suite topcoat topped with one coat of Seche Vite. Please excuse the cuticle frazzle.
These photos were taken indoors using an artificial light source.

MAC Style Clan AKA Magic Poo

Today's manicure is the new MAC Style Clan from their Holiday 2010 A Tartan Tale collection launching this Thursday, October 28. I picked this up from the local PRO Store, which gets collections early. Style Clan is a muddy taupe brown color with subtle copper glitter. This mani is one coat Nubar Nu Nails, two coats polish, and one coat Nubar Diamont topped with Seche Vite. As you can see, these t/c did not play well with the MAC and I ended up with gross bubbling. The formula is typical MAC, thick and still somehow patchy. The copper accent is just too subtle in this polish. It looks nice in bright light, but in anything else it barely shows and the base ends up looking like a creme identical to OPI You Don't Know Jacques.



Comparison:


All photos were taken indoors using an artificial light source.