The Sparkle Kit - We Will Never Be Royals polish box swatch review

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Today I am sharing the next edition of “The Sparkle Kit!” This box is named “We Will Never Be Royals” and the theme should be obvious from the name haha! This box is a collaborative from Lou It Yourself , Got Nail, and Charmed & Dangerous. This is not a subscription box so no commitment! The “We Will Never Be Royals” box releases this Friday 9/4/15 at 10am MDT in the Got Nail shop and will sell for $20 plus shipping. Ok let’s get into this adorable box.

Included in the box you get:
- I See You Baby, Shakin’ That Cash – green teal crème from Lou It Yourself
- Bitch, I’m A Princess – multi-color glitter topper from Lou It Yourself
- Queen B Cuticle Oil – Beyonce Heat Rush perfume inspired from Got Nail
- Mini sheet of diamond stencil and starburst vinyls – from Lou It Yourself
-2 silver jeweled crown charms – from Charmed & Dangerous For the first mani

Gridlock Lacquer Rochester NY Summer 2015 swatches

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Today I’m sharing the newest editions to the Gridlock Lacquer Rochester, NY collection, these 3 polishes are the Summer 2015 colors. These polishes will have Rochester themed names, so if you know anyone from Rochester let them know they’ll be needing these lol I’m obviously a huge neon fan so I was excited to swatch these babies, let’s get to it!

MidWest Lacquer For The Love of Grayskull He-Man inspired collection!

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Are you ready for an 80s flashback? I posted these swatches to Instagram @twi_star already and I think a huge amount of my followers weren’t alive in the 80s haha! Anyways, enough of being old, today I have the ‘For the Love of Grayskull’ He-man and She-Ra inspired polish collection from MidWest Lacquer (Vinyl It Up) to show you! This collection releases on Friday, July 24th at 7:00 pm EST. Make sure to follow @vinylitup for more swatches.

Ok let’s travel onward to Castle Grayskull…

Look at how fun these are! I have such fond memories of this show and running around the house pretending to be She-Ra! For all my accent nails I made my own water decals. I used decal transfer paper that I found on amazon, you print the images and then spray a few coats of spray paint clear coat onto the printed sheet. You have to really let them dry for at least a day before applying to your nails and topping with top coat.

China Glaze The Great Outdoors Fall 2015 polish swatches

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Ohhhh boy do I have something fun to share today! The China Glaze The Great Outdoors Fall 2015 Collection! Wait a minute, isn’t it July? Why yes, yes it is lol I’ve actually had this collection for 2 months but just didn’t have time to swatch it, bad bad Angel. (I purchased these) I think we usually start to see swatches in August so yea to early even though Summer started about 5 mins ago. I’ve been on a real China Glaze kick and I’m a big fan of this collection, my type of colors. But surprisingly I think I like the duochromes and glitter the best! Shocking since crème is my fav finish. Ok let’s do this!

Ooooooooo, aaaaahhhhhhh! This collection consists of 6 cremes (one has shimmer), 3 duochromes, 2 shimmer metallics, and 1 glitter flakie.

China Glaze Desert Escape Collection Summer 2015 Swatch Review

(These polishes were purchased by me)

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New China Glaze Alert! Don’t you wish you really would get alerts for new collections? Haha Today I have swatches of the China Glaze Desert Escape 6 piece Collection for Summer 2015. I thought the Electric Nights Collection was Summer 2015? Not complaining, I’ll always take more polish lol And spoiler alert, I’m really digging these colors. I definitely get a Southwest/Arizona vibe from these colors. At first I thought, well these aren’t super desert-y but then I realized “Desert Escape” probably means like resort/vacation. Duh. And yea, these are polish colors I’d want to wear while vacationing in Arizona! Shall we look at pretty colors now? Ok, let’s do this.

Oooooo Aaaahhhh! Pretty Pretty. Now, I do admit these aren’t exactly unique colors but I don’t think that takes away from how great they look. We have some nice formulas and some that are ok. But for a couple of these I may have had a margarita or 2 while swatching soooooo it could be user error!

Wet N Wild California Dreaming Spring / Summer 2015 Collection swatches!

(These polishes were purchased by me)

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I'm super excited to share this collection with you!  Today I'm sharing the Wet N Wild California Dreaming Collection.  Ever since I reviewed the Wet N Wild Silver Lake Collection, I just can't get enough of the MegaLast line!  I adore their formula and colors and most especially their price, they range from $1.99 - $2.99 and you can often get them on sale.  My only dislike is the extra large brush, but not that big of a deal.  For all of my swatches I also used the new top coat from Wet N wild, Clear The Air.  I believe this top coat is supposed to be like the gel hybrids top coats out there.  It dries very fast but sort of leaves micro-cracks in the surface of the polish.  I'll point it out in the photos below.  Ok, let's get onto swatches!

Here's a little collage of the 5 colors in the collection, all dreamy cremes - my fav!

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Bundle Monster - First Holo Polish Collection review plus swatch-fest

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Today I have something super fun to share!  Bundle Monster sent me their first Holographic Collection EVER!  How exciting, glad to see this brand getting into the holo polish game.  I love their inexpensive polishes and these are a great option.  Along with my swatches, I did a little stamping over each color using the Bundle Monster Secret Garden plates – check out my review of this set here: Secret Garden Bundle Monster Stamp Plate Review.   Ok, onto swatches!

 

 

 

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More Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon swatches! This time with nail art!

(These polishes were purchased by me)

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Guess what?  I got even more swatches of the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neons!  As if I didn't post enough lol, you can see my first set of "plain" swatches without nail art and read my review here Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection Swatch Review - Spring 2015.  For these swatches I wanted to focus on stamping since I just got a shit-load of new stamping plates from HeHe and Qgirl.  Keep in mind, for all of these swatches I used 1 coat of white (Rica Polish Whiteout) and 2 layers of color topped with HK Girl Top Coat from Glisten & Glow.  Ok onto swatches!

Don't you just love a good collage!  These colors in this collection just make my eyeballs so happy!  Loving the whole collection, I can't pick a fav.

I'll start with my fav stamping I did for this collection!  This is 'Diggin' The Dancing Queen.'  When I posted this on instagram so many people thought it was really watermarble!  Haha!  I haven't even tried to watermarble yet so this stamping plate, HeHe 040, is a good substitute.  I used Rica Polish Blackout and a couple of 2mm black studs to finish it off.

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Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection Swatch Review - Spring 2015

(These polishes were purchased by me)

 

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Today I have a collection to share that I am SO excited about!  They are just me in a bottle lol  I'm talking about the Color Club Poptastic Pastel Neon Collection for Spring 2015.  ALL the things I love, crème finish, pastel, and neon!  Well, washed out neon if you want to be specific.  You may have seen a lot of swatches of these on instagram and heard us all talking about the.... not so great formula?  Well, ok they're not perfect BUT I kind of expect that with these types of colors AND if you use a white undie (like I do with all neons) they are perfectly fine!  I only needed 2 coats of each color over 1 coat of white to reach full opacity with no patchiness or streakiness.  Now, if you didn't use a white undie these would probably take 3 or 4 coats to be opaque and even out.  So, moral of the story kids:  don't forget to wear clean undies with these!  Onto swatches and reviews!

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Wet N Wild Silver Lake Polish Collection Spring 2015 Swatch Review

These polishes were bought by me

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Today I have swatches of the Wet N Wild Silver Lake Collection for Spring 2015.  I was so excited when I saw pics of these and knew I had to buy the entire 6 polish set.  I found them at Rite-aid for 40% off so I got all of them for less than $8 after tax!  What a bargain!  The collection consists of 5 cremes and 1 sheer shimmer.  Let’s get into swatches!

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Gridlock Lacquer Spring Easter 2015 Collection swatches!

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Today I’m going to share with you the Gridlock Lacquer Spring / Easter 2015 Collection!  I was super excited when I got these in the mail for review because a bunch of the polishes were inspired by Polish traditions……… yea not polish as in nail color but Poland!  Lol My family is Polish so these were right up my alley.  Shall we get started?

From Top Left to Right: Smingus Dingus, Butter Lamb, Polish polish

From Bottom Left to Right: 999 Broadway, Broadway-Fillmore, Pierogi Kielbasa Kraut

There’s a little something for everybody in this collection, glitter, pearl, crelly, and shimmer!  On to swatches.

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Bundle Monster Downtown Collection polish swatches

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Today I have the
Downtown Collection $13.50(that’s right $13.50 for 6 polishes! Or $3.50 each) from
Bundle Monsterto share! I have some Bundle Monster stamping plates but I’ve never tried their polishes, actually I didn’t even know they have polish lol So I was pumped when they sent me an entire collection to review. They picked a collection that is right up my alley because it’s mostly cremes and the colors are some of my faves. Let’s check out the Downtown Collection!



Sometimes I have a little too much fun during my photoshoots lol

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