Colors By Llarowe - Mojito

Hi everyone, I hope you're all having a great Easter weekend!

Sorry for not posting more recently... I bought all of the Picture Polish Limited Edition polishes and had them swatched, but none of the pictures really turned out well and I wasn't really in the mood to swatch them again. I'll redo them, but it might take me a while.

The great thing is that all of my exams are done! Huzzah! I couldn't resist ordering Borealis (another LE Picture Polish shade) from Harlow & Co when I just happened to be browsing during a restock, so I ended up purchasing my first Colors By Llarowe polishes at the same time. I know that CbL is a pretty wanted brand at the moment, but I'd never had the desire to enter the crazy restock madness that always seems to accompany it. Luckily, there were a few shades that were still on the Harlow & Co website that appealed to me. We've had rain for most of the week, and I was away and unable to open my package, but today when the sun came out I finally decided to do some swatching.

I am SO GLAD I bought there polishes (I ended up getting Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal and Mojito). Of course I reached for Mojito first!

Almost done raving now, just a short description of the polish and I'll let you have a look!

Mojito is a beautiful light spearmint-y green with a slightly subtle linear holo. But slightly subtle I mean not as holo as the Color Club Halo Hues and maybe as holo as the China Glaze Hologlam ones (or maybe more, I haven't really compared). I actually really like subtle holos, so I love this one to bits. Actually, I think this is one of my favourite green holos ever.

Okay, done raving. Here are a bunch of photos I hope will make up for all of the jabbering! :)

Artificial Light

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Artificial Light

What do y'all think? Gosh, I am such a sucker for greens.

As always, thank you so much for reading! I hope I'll be able to get my game on and reswatch those Picture Polish shades soon!

Marisa

China Glaze Avant Garden Collection Part II - Pastel Petals Swatches

Hi everyone!

Yesterday I showed you the Blooming Brights, but today I'm happy to bring you the Pastel Petals set from the China Glaze Avant Garden collection for Spring 2013!

I'm actually a really big sucker for pastel shades, even though I don't wear them as often as I should. The only thing I don't like about pastels is that most of the time the formula will kind of suck or be streaky and annoying... I probably don't use them that often because when I don't have time to do my nails but need a polish change, I tend to just pull out my easy to apply favourites. There's nothing I hate more than trying to quickly do my nails with a polish that's crazy amounts of thick and goopy (and requires more than 3 coats!).

Anyway, I digress. Onto the polish, shall we? This collection is made up to 3 shimmers and 3 cremes. :D

NOTD: Mint Oreo Chip

Hi everyone!

I'm still in the process of hunting down the China Glaze Poolside collection polishes to compare with some of the Summer 2012 Neons. I think for now I'd probably describe the poolside collection as being bright as &^%# neons, whereas the summer neons are a little bit more toned down (aka not crazy, radioactive neon). I'm still hunting them down, although I think finding them is going to take a while. I've already exhausted all of the local stores that sell CG, so I'm going to have to broaden my horizons.

I'm going to try to keep this post short - I walked 17km today for the heck of it and I'm super exhausted!

Today's mani is in honor of my favourite DQ Blizzard flavor EVER. I recently re-discovered mint icecream (I love this stuff!), so obviously mint oreo blizzards are my favourite now.

I used Orly's Jealous, Much? for the base, then topped it with a coat of Nubar's Black Polka Dot and White Polka Dot and topcoat.

I find that Layering Black Polka Dot and White Polka Dot kind of reduces my lemming for the infamous Connect The Dots. It doesn't have the bar glitter, but it still works for me. ;)

Thanks for reading! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Marisa