Trash: OPI Sparkle-icious, OPI Ski Slope Sweetie, Essie On a Silver Platter, OPI The Living Daylights

Starting another post off with a song... because I can!


So not only is this song one that I seem to fall back in love with in the fall, it also is a bit fitting for this Hodge-podge of somewhat over the top glitter.

My other excuse is that I felt like celebrating my birthday on my nails for an obscenely long time...I may have not stopped either....and part of that celebration includes a lot of Suede.

First off bottle shots! 

The Living Daylights

On a Silver Platter

Ski Slope Sweetie

Sparkle-icious

Another reason why this post is titled Trash, is because all the shots I got of all of these polishes were a bit crap. Oh well! ONWARD!

Actually just a warning these are truly crap, I mean I put very little effort into these because my nails have been looking especially bad lately and because I wasn't too thrilled with the outcome of most of these...

 Here I am wearing On a Silver Platter on top of Ski Slope Sweetie mostly because I hate the look of these chunky glitters with super fine glitter mixed in, so it looked less lumpy this way.

 Here is the Living Daylights over Orly Rage, it turned out not as well as I remember it turning out in the past... kind of a bummer. But a very nice mix of copper, pale gold, sliver and teal glitter. It is surprisingly autumnal

And Lastly... a blurry shot of Sparkle-icious. I meant to take this off a day earlier but I was too lazy to take it off, so this photo is a result of me thinking, well I might as well take a photo since I wasn't going to anyway. Now some people might wonder, why bother taking photos of these if you weren't super thrilled/they looked off. Well, I already took the bottle shots, which I quite liked. Maybe I should stick to just bottle shots, I much prefer that since I prefer photographing objects that do not move. I will consider it. I also have a bit of time to consider that as I am currently changing my polish to Formula X Alchemy again... I will try to wear an un blogged polish soon...


~♥Drastic

I Spit Roses: Formula X for Sephora Alchemy

So I've had I Spit Roses by Peter Murphy stuck in my head all week (I had it stuck in my head most of last fall as well) and since this polish has a dusty purple-rose feeling to it, I thought sharing this video would be fitting.

This polish is one of the limited edition fall/holiday polishes for Formula X. I partly wanted it because of the name Alchemy and the shiny cap was pretty appealing as well. At first glance the polish didn't look that exciting it reminded me of OPIs The World is Not Enough and from far away they probably could look similar enough. But, Alchemy is definitely more foil finish and less glass fleck (TWiNE is a glass fleck sort of shimmer)  and instead of just being browny-rusty-purpley it changes depending on the lighting. I think this is mostly due to the different color particles in the polish. Up close it reminds me of CYMK printing, and that brings me back to highschool graphics class. I suppose a more accurate term would be CYM as the shimmers are magenta, cyan and yellow, but there does not appear to be any black in there. I think part of the reason this comes off more rose colored is either there are silver shimmers in there as well or there is just a greater amount of magenta...or maybe there are two different pinky-red shades in there, it is very difficult to tell. This is one of those polishes that I seem to catch myself randomly staring at during the day, especially if I am somewhere with some different lighting.

Aside from CYMK this polish also reminds me a bit of Superman ice cream. Though I suppose it sounds a bit classier if I say it reminds me of a color process/model as opposed to a garish ice cream :-)

Sorry for so many photos, but this polish is just a bit mesmerizing. In some lights it just looks neutral but in others the multi color particles really stand out and do this kind of crazy thing with my eyes. I'd also like to apologize for the tip wear and the chip on one hand, I was scrubbing some stuff with a Brillo pad earlier in the day and it didn't occur to me to take photos before I started scrubbing... oops.

I'm not sure how long this will be in stores but if you are at all interested in a color that looks sometimes pink, sometimes steel grey, sometimes yellow sometimes mutli color you should definitely at least go to Sephora and test it on their little plastic nail sheets. So glad I bought this one.

Happy Election Day!

~DA

Halloween Nails: OPI Extra-va-vaganza! and Bring on the Bling

My week was a bit insane and whenever things get really crazy I love to pull out my favorite nail polishes and actually wear them. I have a terrible tendency to wear my favorite polishes a couple times and then hide them away so I don't waste them. This tends to be a bit of a problem as I don't end up wearing my favorite nail polishes at all, but it is on the other hand a good thing as most of my ultimate favorites are limited edition polishes which are pretty difficult to get a hold of.  This week I wore two of OPI's Burlesque collection glitters. For those of you who don't know the OPI Burlesque collection came out Fall 2010 as their holiday collection. Half of the collection was glitters half were glass flecky/foil type shades. Hands down my favorite collection ever, if I was stuck wearing only one collection of polishes for the rest of my life, it would be the OPI Burlesque.  Enough babbling! Here are the photos.

Bring on the Bling

Extra-va-vaganza!

As you can see they are both essentially the same polish, Extra-va-vaganza has an orange base and Bring on the Bling has a yellow gold base. They are basically just different color versions of OPI Mad as a Hatter. The yellow/gold base of Bring on the Bling shows off the mutli color glitter better but they both are the same. I've seen people say that some of the colors in this collection aren't as rainbowy as Mad as a Hatter, but that is patently untrue. All the Burlesque glitters (except for Sparkle-icious) have a color and sliver "base" (main glitter color) then there is a mix of yellow, green, blue, pink, and orange glitter. Depending on the base color of the polish, different colors in the mix seem to pop, hence why overall Extra-va-vaganza comes off more orange, silver and green blue.  Anyway that was more than enough of an analysis, (can you tell I come from a family of engineers?) time for some not so great nail shots. The weather has been dreadfully dreary lately and when it was sunny I was unable to get good shots with my normal camera, so we will have to do with phone photos.

Yes I am holding a produce bag at the grocery store..the lighting was very complementary to the polish :-)

I'm wearing each polish at two coats with a layer of  Gelous and a layer of top coat. Super sparkly and pretty, very difficult to capture though. My camera both regular and phone camera had trouble focusing on the smallish glitter. But honestly they are the best sized glitters, fine without being too fine, and not too chunky that they snag on stuff. I have all the Burlesque glitters and I love them all. If you get a chance to buy one go for it, I'm sure you won't regret it. I'm not too sure how easy the Burlesque ones are to find. I know a couple of stores around me had a couple of them floating around until at least Fall 2012. Four years later is a long time in nail polish years but I've seen unexpected things pop up in some of the local grocery and pharmacy chains.

Hope you had a lovely Halloween!

~Drastic