NICOLE BY OPI - OY OY OYSTER

This was another polish I found at Ulta that was on clearance. I think I paid either $3 or $4 for it. I didn't have my clearance sticker still on for me to take a picture of though, dang it!

I used this as a top coat on a mani I did on my mom's nails and I liked it much better than on it's own.

NICOLE BY OPI - SUCH A GO-GLITTER

I'm sort of torn on this one. On one hand I like it with the sparse glitter, that's what sort of makes this unique. On the other hand, I want it to be a total glitter bomb party like Glitz and Glisten was.

Shown is 4 coats, so I don't think it gets built up any better than this. Of course you could always do a darker blue base with this over it if you really wanted the illusion of a glitter bomb party. The base is clear with small round glitter in blue and sparse sprinkling of silver holo glitters. I couldn't tell if there was some sparse black or darker blue glitter or if it just looked that way in different lights and angles.

NICOLE BY OPI - GLITZ AND GLISTEN

Sooooo pretty! I couldn't stop looking at this one when I had it on the other day. I really like glitters like this. The pieces are small but pack a punch. I also love how versatile a glitter polish like this is. You could wear this as a once coat top coat over another base coat OR by doing 3-4 coats you get a completely opaque glitter bomb party on your nails.

MY CHRISTMAS NAIL POLISH

I usually try to not just do posts on pictures of nail polish bottles, I think they can be boring sometimes, but I thought I would share what I got for Christmas in the way of nail polish. Plus I don't think I will have any swatch or NOTD pictures today for you all. At lunch I am going to two places to pick up some nail polish from Freecycle, so I won't be able to paint my nails then either. Wish me luck on getting some goods from freecycle :)


Glitz & Glisten, Such a Go-Glitter, Pitch-Black Glimmer



Mistletoe Kisses, Mrs. Claus, Party Hearty, Phat Santa, Jolly Holly



Happy Birthday, My Favorite Martian, Moonstruck, Belle of the Ball, Pop The Cork Purple



Twinkle, Golden Goddess, Cranberry

NICOLE BY OPI - PITCH-BLACK GLIMMER

This polish is from Nicole by OPI. I think it was one of their holiday polish offerings. All I know is I saw a cool black glitter and I needed to make it mine. I got two other glitters from this same line that I will be showing you in a few days. This is one of the polishes that Santa left for me in my sock.

This was a nice polish. I wish it would have been more opaque though. Shown is 5 coats with no top coat. I do like how smooth this does finish and how quickly it dried for having 5 coats. I couldn't tell much difference between the 3rd 4th and 5th coat. This would work best over a base color if you want it opaque.

I keep wanting to call this bitch-black for some reason. I would have named this polish pepper :)

MISC BRAND SWATCH-GALORE!

Just a mish-mash of different brands. Most of these were polishes I got through freecycle or garage sales (THANKS MOM!) - with the exception of the last one; Maybelline Ocean Green, I got that at Dollar Tree.

Freecycle is how I came about the old Urban Decay polishes and the Cutex ones I showed you all earlier. Basically these people replied to an ad I had asking for any old or new nail polish. Through email they sent me their address and left the polish in bags on their porch for me to pick up - how awesome is that? Can't remember what blog I read about Freecycle on (let me know so I can credit you!)**** but it is awesome. I had two people contact me and I hope to get some more because I got some really awesome stuff!


****AMBERSKI from A DAY IN THE LIFE is where I learned about Freecycle! Check out her BLOG and her Freecycle haul! Thanks for the heads up girl :)

BATH & BODY WORKS COLOR DROPS - RAISIN





URBAN DECAY - EASY RIDER






OPI - KENNEBUNK-PORT





OPI - NO NAME





REVLON - DUSK





LIQUID EXPRESS - PROM DRESS





MAYBELLINE - OCEAN GREEN