Ah ha! I just need to add some Grapefruit Glimmer.

So, I was wondering what color would work with my Mink Muffs mani, but I wanted something that wouldn't take away from the awesome brown color....and perfect! I added a layer of Revlon Grapefruit Glimmer. GG is a sheer pink with pink glass flecks. It works so well, it doesn't change up the brown, it just adds a little jazz to it. ♥



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Revlon: Whimsical - Re-swatched

Sooo, when I put on One Day Without Shoes yesterday, I can't believe I didn't think to use this as a base for Revlon Whimsical when I 1st swatched it. Truthfully, I think I forgot I owned it, I'm more of a vampy girl and don't really have any other colors like this. They go great together and I kind of have a crush on this combo right now.





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Color Morphing franken - fail

Remember my Revlon Royal post the other day? I mentioned that I decided to franken a top coat using all three of the color morphing pigments mixed together. Well here is the result. I was hoping for some color shifting fabulousness, but instead, it was just a sparkly mess. Not terrible, but it lost it's shifting ability, there was just too much going on.

Shade


sunlight


Oh well, it was worth a try I guess ☺

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Revlon Top Speed: Royal

So, the other day I decided to franken a topcoat using all three of the color morphing powders mixed together. When I was thinking of what color would make a good base, I pretty quickly thought of Revlon Royal....then it dawned on me. I've only used Royal as a base coat, I've never worn it as it's own mani. So, I decided I needed to fix that. Royal is a perfect cobalt blue jelly polish, I used two coats for this mani.



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Super Clearance!

I love a good deal, especially on polish. I found this color just sitting on an end cap at Meijer and picked it up. When I read the name, Snowed-In, I knew it was from the Christmas collection....so I took it over to the bar code scanner and it rang up for..... 29 cents! Woo! Sold! I also got Orna-mint for the same price. Not bad!




What a cool color, huh? I decided to try and layer Revlon Whimsical over top a darker blue (since I don't have any light ones) and I did not love the look. I also layered Sally Hansen Glass Slipper over the other nails and I do like that combo. Too bad I ruined the ring finger with Whimsical, cuz I would have worn the heck out of the Glass Slipper combo.



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Revlon: Whimsical

After a little mini search, I finally found Revlon Whimsical. As you probably know by now, it's a spot on dupe to Deborah Lippman's Glitter in the Air. Whimsical is a very sheer light blue base with blue and pink hexes and a tiny bit of blue micro glitter.



I had wanted to wear this over a nice light blue, but I actually don't own any! Can you believe that? So I settled for this gray cream from LA Girls. I don't know the name because the label is missing.



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Finger Paints: Motley

Well, day two of my Revlon mani is not going well. Major shrinkage and bubbling. Blah. It hasn't even been 24 hrs yet and all I did was watch a movie and go to bed. Hmm, not impressed. Bummer! So I decided to re-wrap the tips, add another layer of color and top it off with a coat of Finger Paints Motley to hide any new bubbling.

Motley is a green and blue flakie and I just love it overtop a teal color. I usually wear flakies over black, but I'm trying to experiment more with them and I really like this combo.










Here's what the Revlon color looked like before I fixed it.


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Revlon Colorstay: #290 Midnight - Day 1

I've been wanting to try the Colorstay polishes for a while now, they're supposed to wear up to 11 days provided you use their base and top coats. I picked up Midnight, which is a dusty teal cream. The formula is a bit thick, but goes on well. I only needed one coat, but did two just to make sure everything was even. I used Orly Nail Armor as a base coat.





So far, so good.

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Revlon: Facets of Fuchsia

Facets of Fuchsia is a dupe for Deborah Lippman's Bad Romance,so I was pretty happy when I found this sucker at Walgreens. It's a sheer black base with bits of micro and larger hex glitters mixed in. This is one coat over Pure Ice Taupe Drawer.



Here is the Pure Ice by itself:



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OPI Muppets: Gone Gonzo

Yay, my 1st Christmas post! I've been wanting to get in the Christmas spirit for a while now, but I was trying to hold back until after Thanksgiving....not easy! LOL.



This is one coat of Gone Gonzo over Revlon Royal.






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Revlon Top Speed: Royal

Yikes, it's been almost a week since I posted! I realized when I posted the Clarins swatch that I forgot to include a pick of Royal by itself....so now I'm giving Royal its due. Royal does a brilliant job of being a dark (although I wouldn't call it vampy) color without looking black!



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The most amazing Clarins 230 combo ever!

So, I came across this mani on The PolishAholic's blog and I just had to try it myself. What a great color combo she came up with!!

The base is 3 coats of Revlon Top Speed in Royal, one coat of Clarins 230 and one coat of NYC#203 top coat. Royal shows off Clarin's many colors so beautifully, they were meant to be worn together! Make sure to click the picks to enlarge them.









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Revlon Perplex + Cover Girl City Lights

I ♥♥♥ Perplex. It's definitely in my all time top 10 favs. And another color in my all time top 10 is Cover Girl City Lights. CL is a holo glitter top coat that dries smooth and can dress up any color.

I used the tape method for the accent finger:


I adore the shimmer in Perplex:


I love it!

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Big Lot's Revoln haul

So, after hearing some buzz on MUA about Revlon's being spotted at Big Lot, I decided to drop in and see what I could find.

I got backups of Perplex, Galaxy and Star. Also a color called Bewitching Bordeaux, which looks like a vampy brown cream and these two colors. All of them were $1 each and there were plenty there.

This is a scented color called Coconut Crush. I usually shy away from whites, but I adore all things coconut so I grabbed it. It's actually quite cute.


and this is Gum Drop, another scented color. It's a pastel purple. Again, not my usual vampy, but it just looked so Spring to me, I had it have it ☺


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Revlon scented polish: Not So Blueberry

Today I picked up Revlon's Not So Blueberry from CVS. It's supposed to smell like Blueberries when dry...and it does. Not too strong, but definitely there...kinda cool. The bottle color is a light lilac purple color with a very fine glass fleck look to it.

Here it is swatched. I know it looks blue, but it's definitely a light purple. Unfortunately, i think I prefer the look in the bottle more then I do on the nail.


I may have to "donate" this one to my sister...



Meh. I guess I love my vampy colors too much....cuz this isn't just doing it for me.

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Revlon: Perplex

I'm sure you've all heard of Perplex recently, it's Revlon's version of Chanel's Paradoxal. I had been hunting my CVS' for this sucker for a couple of weeks, but finally fount it at Ulta.

Perplex is a taupy purple color with purple shimmer:



So cute!




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Maybelline Blackened Teal + Revlon Galaxy

Since the sun was down when I finished my mani today, I decided to try using a lightbox when taking photos. The base color is Maybelline Express Finish in Blackened Teal (Dollar Tree) topped with Revlon glitter topcoat in Galaxy.



I think it's a pretty combo, but I think maybe I'll use a different base when using Galaxy it picked up the blue the glitter better. Make sure to click on each pick for a closeup ☺



This was one layer of Blackened Teal with one layer of Galaxy and one layer of Seche Vite.


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Revlon: Ruby + Slipper

I'm in love with today's NOTD! I originally saw this set posted on The Nailphile. Well when I saw the red, I was of course done for! LOL. It's a combo polish set, the base color is called Ruby and the glitter top coat is called Slipper:



The base is a deep red jelly, very nice on it's own:



And the topcoat Slipper is A M A Z I N G! I love it! It's got red and sliver glitter with silver holo hex glitter. Layered over the red, it's so pretty!!


These are my first Revlon polishes and so far, I like 'em. I also picked up Galaxy. I found mine at Meijers and Rite Aid if anyone's interested.

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Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

Yesterday's NOTD was Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure over Revlon Dark Pleasures in Patent Leather:



I tracked this baby down at Walgreens. My husband really liked this one 8-)