Revlon Sun Candy - Shimmering Sunset

Hi anyone that's reading this. I've sort of been slacking a lot when it comes to posting. Honestly I'm just being lazy...and I've starting playing World of Warcraft again. I had stopped for a little while and I just started again recently, around Christmas. Not to mention I started playing Neopets again. Too many games! Anyways you're here to see nail polish, so let's get to it!

So I was shopping at target and on a whim I went down one of the cosmetics lanes and saw this and had to snap it up. It's one of Revlon's new polishes from it's Sun Candy line, just like Moon Candy, this comes in a tube with one solid, cream polish at one end and a fine, glitter, polish topper at the other end. 

It is currently the polish I'm wearing on my nails and have been for the past three days which is why you can see so much tip wear.

As for the formula, the pink was nice and creamy, self levelling and decent coverage (two coats) however the glitter, while gorgeously orangey-gold, was a bit thick and on the gloopy side. Nothing that couldn't be worked around just felt really thick.

Drying time was average. I wore a base coat of Nail Tek nail strengthener, two coats of the pink, a coat of the glitter and topped it with a generous coat of Seche Vite to smooth everything out, and with about five mins of drying time between EACH coat it still took more than 20 mins to become dry to the touch. Then it was tacky for about 30 more mins. Meh.

While I've toned down my polish purchasing a lot, I had to snap these up, as they are just too gorgeous. I was only able to find four at my local Target and one Walgreens near my house had one left and another had nought. I'm still on the lookout for more because the colour palette it totally up my alley.

L-R: Sun Shower, Solar Flare, Pink Dawn, Shimmering Sunset.

Queen Victoria's Street

My sister had a $10 off $25 coupon at JC Penny that ended yesterday so we stopped by a store on our way to Orlando for vacation. Of course while she shopped I found myself in Sephora. I really went looking for nails inc. Princess Arcade (which I got and will review soon) as I was on the hunt for the perfect pink glitter, when I saw this:

nails inc. Bling it on Emerald! 

The kit comes with an applicator tray, a small brush to dust away stray glitter, a mix of green, blue and silver glitter, and a bottle of Queen Victoria Street nail polish and retails for around, $25 which is what I paid for mine.

I'm not going to review the whole thing as, honestly, I'm not really interested in applying loose glitter to my nails. I am far more interested in the beautiful green polish that came with this set.

My nails are looking slightly worse for wear as I'm on vacation and didn't bring cuticle cream.

Queen Victoria Street is a beautiful grassy green/blue with a yellowish cast, creme. There seems to be a slight dustiness to the colour as well. The formula is delightfully creamy, like...have you ever had (insert Asian culture here: i.e. Thai) doughnuts? If not, I'm sure you've eaten or used sweetened condensed milk. The consistency of the polish is like that but slightly more flowing. I know, amazing right! What you see on my nails is; one coat of O.P.I. Original Nail Envy, one coat (!!!) of Queen Victoria Street nail polish and a quick top coat of Out the Door, which I only used to help dry and protect the polish as it dries decently glossy on its own.

This second picture is a bit more colour accurate as its taken with window filtered daylight and the previous was taken in yellow lit kitchen lights. The bottom pic is also from the kitchen.

You can see slight bald patches and visible nail line in these pictures but I assure you they were not apparent in person at all.

I am always searching for that perfect green, or blue, or teal and this one has definitely found itself at the top of the list.

First post

So this is my first post and I'm just going to show you what I did earlier this week.

I used, Wet and Wild Black Cream and gold striping tape on the designed nails and Essie Mesmerize and O.P.I. Ink for the blue nails.

Originally I wanted to do the Gatsby nails that everyone's doing lately but I got super annoyed by the third time doing them and having the black smear all over the gold underwear I was using so I just decided to do some skittly, Art Deco-y nails.

Have you guys done any Gatsby inspired nails?