Zoya Charla

Please don't slap me, but I'm gonna show you yet more photos of Charla. A lot of these are unfocused because it looked better that way in photos.

My ring and pointer nails looks so creepy. I swear they don't look that creepy in real life. It's all because of that weirdo curving that long nails seem to get. I don't know why, but it pisses me off. Man, can I ever stop complaining and being negative? Probably not.

Later! =)

LA Girl Rock Star Addict

How's everyone doing? Today I did my nails with LA Girl Rock Star Addict. This color has to be in my top (insert number) reds, up there with Ruby Pumps. I have ChG Stroll too, which I think is a dupe to this. So that needs to be up there too. But back to Addict. It has such beautiful gold and red flake glitter in a maroon jelly base. Sometimes it looks like the dark red color and sometimes it looks like a burnt brown red, almost completely brown. I loves it.

Gah, my middle nail is taking forever! I know I keep filing it to shape it, but damn it, I'm impacient!

Close up *drools*

Shade

Haz click it!

Purple Pizzazz and Daddy's Girl Comparison

I thought maybe I had a dupe for Purple Pizzazz. Apparently not. I had no acetone so no clean up this time and this photo is color corrected. Rain + no sun = bad pictures.

Both of these are at 3 coats.

Daddy's Girl, Purple Pizzazz, Daddy's Girl, Purple Pizzazz

Outdoors they look very different, but indoors they look very close. Purple Pizzazz takes 3 or 4 coats, has an annoying brush and average application. Not very sparkly. Daddy's Girl takes 2 or 3 coats, has a normal brush and better application. Lots of sparkles. It looks lighter but somehow darker to me. Weird.

The verdict: Daddy's Girl has better application and is cheaper. It also has no VNL and actually sparkles, wow! Now, I'm being kinda hard on Purple Pizzazz and although it looks flat and boring in these pictures, it's really not. It's purty too.

Something else I noticed is, but that's off-topic is that Orly has apparently asked the e-tailers to raise their price cause now they cost $3.75. If I'm correct they used to be $3.18 or $3.50. I hope China Glaze doesn't get all big headed over this OPI sh*t now too and raise their prices. These brands like Orly and China Glaze need to realize that without the e-tailers and the women who blog about them and give these sites most of their traffic, they wouldn't make near as much money as they do. (run on?) I never knew either of these brands until I started my addiction and I guarantee I never would have. Which is a shame cause CG is probably my favorite brand and Orly is really nice too. /end rant

Sally Hansen X-treme Wear Purple Pizzazz

I haven't been feeling very nail-y lately. Kinda uninspired. So here's something I just slapped on to keep my nails protected. This was sheer and needed 3 coats and would probably look even better with a fourth. I really hate these long and skinny brushes. It's hard to clean the polish off the stem and then a big drop comes while you're painting and ruins what you just did. Also when you stick the brush back in if you even scrape it against the rim the polish on the stem just spills over the sides. Anyway...

In the sun

Indoors under fluorescent. There's no VNL indoors like it looks here.

All in all it's a really pretty color. I have a dupe in mind and I'll be doing a comparison of those two here soon.

And just to make this post more positive here's a picture of a sleeping kitten.

Nubar Night Sparkle

Pretty, but hell. I see hellish removal and smurf fingers in my future. This is 2 coats with 2 coats of Seche. Sorry for the messy fingers, I don't do clean up, so... I blew the application. This is so much more pretty in real life. These pictures suck, they don't do it justice.

Blurred to show the glitter.

Color is more accurate in this photo.

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

Good lord, why did I wait so long to get this beauty. Red's my favorite color and it's one of my favorite polish colors. I'm also a glitter ho, so this is perfection in a bottle. Holy hell is this ever perfection. I only used two coats and I see some bald spots, so definitely should've done three. This is absolutely GORGEOUS. Backup worthy, just like it's sister Emerald Sparkle. I know you've seen this 16 million times, but this is my take on it. Oh, and don't worry I'm not a zombie, these types of reds always make me look as white as a corpse on camera.

I failed to take a color accurate picture. There was no sun out so it's much more red than this. It was a funny sight, I was running around chasing the little patches of sun that would show up for 2 seconds, holding my hand with the bottle in it up to the sky. I'm sure my neighbors think I'm even more deranged now.

Sinful Colors Green Ocean over Liquid Leather Matte

My latest mani mattiefied. It's weird how blue the flakies and glitter in Green Ocean turn when you put it over black. I'm sure they turn blue with Green Ocean by itself too. Pretty nice wear outta this for almost the third day. I usually have some major chips by then.

Sinful Colors Green Ocean over Liquid Leather

As soon as I saw Siobhan do this, I went out and got Green Ocean. It looks so gorgeous, it reminds me of China Glaze Meteor Shower. This was 2 coats of Liquid Leather and 1 1/2 coats of Green Ocean.

LOVE!

Guest appearance: Mi hermana

An appearance by my one and only sister! She's wearing Color Club Blue Light with China Glaze Solar Flare over it.

Sparkly things always make my camera freak out, so that's why they're all blurred and smeared. D:<

Purdy, purdy!

Wet n Wild Night Prowl

First off I love the name of this one. The color is just a simple black with purple glitter. I love it none the less. For a dolla you can't go wrong. Had pretty nice application too.

Lots of pictures here! Sorry for the weirdo finger placement.

Bottle

Sun

Shade

Inside

I like it a lot. Also, it's not as blue as it appears in some photos. Just a purple glitter in black.

I bring worse pictures!!

Today I have more bad pictures for you. I need to 'borrow' a better camera. I have for you Meteor Shower from the China Glaze 50 glitters uhh specialty...collection. This is such a beautiful color, the glitter in it just glows and gah! I love it. See more of my jaundiced skin below!

This gal's chunky and lumpy, but a coat of Seche fixed it up good enough for me. For most it would probably require 2 coats of Seche. And the removal's a bitch. Hey, It's glitter. I guess in these pictures my skin doesn't look too yellow.

I also bring you Mint Candy Apple by Essie from last year's winter collection. I'm a sucker for reds and I looove Lolipop from that collection, but now I'm getting off topic. I took this a while ago so I'm not sure, but if I remember correctly it's a little brighter than this picture shows.

What do these have in common? I don't know and I don't care! I just wanted to squash these together in the same post. The application on this one was really good, not chalky like some of the other girls were saying.