Rimmel: Lava Red + SH Star Opal: Rose Gold Opal

Lava Red is another one of those vampys that look cool in the bottle...a brownish color with dark red shimmer....but once on the nail, it looks black. This is 2 coats of Lava Red with one coat of Rose Gold Opal. RGO is very sheer, so you really can't see too much difference.



This is with two coats of Rose Gold Opal. It brings out a purple shade.



It's still kinda boring though, so I may add a layer of glitter or something tomorrow...


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Just a quick note to say sorry for all the layout changes lately, I'm just gonna keep trying different things until I find the right fit for me. Thanks for putting up with my little identity crisis!!

Maybelline: Tiger Eyes

This is another great old Maybelline Express Finish called Tiger Eyes. I adore this color, it's a nice warm brownish shade (right up my alley).

This is one coat:




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Maybelline: Copper Kettle + Massini: Drama Queen

Maybelline Copper Kettle is an awesome color and I wish I would have gotten a backup when it was all over the Dollar Tree last year. Sigh. But it's an amazing, well coppery color (real original description, huh) and it screams harvest and fall to me.



Now, of course, I had to layer over it. I was going for the gradient look adding a layer of Massini's Drama Queen, but I have no patience for dry time, so it didn't "gradient" very well. Still, I like the color combo.








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Rimmel: Purple Rain + Milani: Purple Outline

Rimmel's Purple Rain is a dark purple jelly. After two coats it looked black. Now, I love me a good vampy, but what's with all these new ones looking black? I mean whats the point of wearing them if you can't tell it's supposed to purple or red?

Ok, I feel better now, sorry for the rant there! But anyways, I wanted to add something to it to bright it up a bit. So, I added a layer of the Milani striper Purple Outline overtop. PO is a bright purple glitter with sparse amounts of blue mixed in. Now, in my opinion, Purple Outline should have been named Purple Rain because it's definitely a Prince purple!

Check out the bottle pick:



and here it is on the nail:






Mega closeup:



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Sally Hansen Extreme Wear: Blue Icing

Today's color is Blue Icing, and it comes from the same set as Mystic Lilac. It's a light ice blue color mixed with sparce amounts of holo glitter and holo bar glitter.

This is three coats without top coat. Unfortunately, the glitter doesn't show well and the texture is a bit bumpy.



So it jazz it up a bit without changing the color, I added one very thin coat of Cover Girl City Lights to it and topped it off with Sally Hansen Hard as Nails topcoat.



I love me some holo!



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Orly: Glam Rock

This color is an all time favorite of mine, it's Orly's Glam Rock. GR is a warm toned gold color with a metallic matte finish. I previously swatched it here; but this color is another one that screams FALL to me so I wanted to revisit it.



Sunlight:



So pretty! So I think I need more Orly's. Can anyone suggest a good color?

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Sally Hansen Extreme Wear: Mystic Lilac

Mystic Lilac is a light gray color with a greenish blue shimmer to it. It kinda reminds me of storm clouds.

The bottle pick really shows off the green to the shimmer, but on the nail, it does look a bit bluer. You can click each pick for a closeup.






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Nubar Moodie: Red/Orange Sparkle

This is on old Nubar Moodie color that doesn't change anymore. It was supposed to change from red to orange, but now it's kinda a mixture of both colors mixed with silver glitter.





Kinda a cool fall-ish color. This one was given to me by my bf Shmoopy ♥ and its been sitting untried for many months. I'm glad I finally got around to wearing it ☺

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Avon: Wicked + Massini: Fall Promo Shade

So, I was trying to go for a Thanksgiving/Fall look today, so I started with one coat of Avon's Wicked, which is basically black unless in direct sunlight, then you see some brown shimmer. Over top I added one thin coat of Massini's Fall Promo Shade, which is basically Color Club's Wild and Willing.

You can see alot of the green duochrome in this pick.



Head one, it's an orange-y brownish color. The finish to it reminds me of Orly's Space Cadet - kindy of that metallic foil-y texture.





Massini or as it's known today, Studio M is a Meijer brand knock off of Color Club. Last year, they released the entire Wild at Heart collection, but on each bottle listed the color as Fall Promo Shade.

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