Essence: Miss Universe

Hey guys! How have you all been? Good I hope. I've been well! Sorry for the delay in posting. I just have a quick one here for you today. 

I picked this up at Ulta the other day. It's a new color that hasn't been there before and it caught my eye! It's Miss Universe by Essence. A dark blue with blue and green shimmers. 

I like this color quite a bit and for one $1.99 it's a definite win!

Sinful Colors Cinderella

Hey guys! Hope you all are doing well. ^_^ I'm a little late on the polish I have for you today but oh well! Today's polish is Cinderella by Sinful Colors. 

I picked this up when it was the "it" polish to grab. I actually ended up with two bottles of it somehow. This polish is actually a let down for me. It's a super pretty baby blue with delicate pink shimmer in it. The major drawback is that it is really sheer. My pictures only show 3 coats because that's all I wanted to do, but last time I wore this I think I did a total of 5. I don't seem to have a good layering blue for this. Anyway, it's a pretty polish, just not up my alley. 

I need to double check colors, but I think one of the more recent releases by Sinful Colors may include a blue that matches this, minus the shimmer. If I find that then I would wear this polish much MUCH more often! 

Girly Bits Cosmic Ocean and Street Magic

Good afternoon all! I'm super excited about the release of Pam's new Girly Bits collection tomorrow and so in honor of the release I have a few of my favorite layering polishes, probably ever: Cosmic Ocean and Street Magic. These are multi colored shimmers that can be layer over any color. In my pictures I picked to layer them over black, but they also look stunning over blues and greens and purples!

Street Magic is a green/gold shimmer. It shifts from green to yellow to red to gold. It's just amazing and looks just as stunning over green or blue; although, I've chosen black for my swatches.

I just. Pictures barely do this justice. Next though I have Cosmic Ocean for you. I consider Cosmic Ocean my favorite layering polish of all time. The way it transforms a normal black polish isjust.... I have no words. None. Pictures will in NO way do this polish justice. It's just so incredible I can only hope to have captured at least a little bit of it's awesomeness.

Isn't that just amazing? Over normal black. And the shimmer is just insane. I can't even talk about it properly it's so stunning.

Girly Bits Polish can be purchased at Pam's store for $10/bottle. I highly recommend these polishes. I was hoping to get Shift Happens in here as well, but I couldn't track down my bottle so I'll swatch that one later From what I understand, Pam's Spring It On Me collection will be released tomorrow although these two polishes are already for sale and not part of that collection.

***All polish in this post was purchased by me.*** 

Zoya Julie

Hey guys! Sorry for the short hiatus. I'm moving into a new apartment and have been focusing on that. I'm mostly settled and just had a mini swatch-a-thon so I have some posts lined up for the next week at least! These next couple will feature colors from Zoya's Lovely collection for Spring 2013. Today I have the purple from the collection: Julie. This is a light pink-purple with shimmer it in. Very pretty. The swatch here is 3 coats and I found the formula very easy to work with.

China Glaze: Dandy Lyin' Around

Hello guys! I've got the next polish in my batch of shades from the Avant Garden collection by China Glaze! Today's polish is Dandy Lyin' Around.

This polish is a milky-white base with silver shimmer. Like Keep Calm, Paint On, it's visible but subtle and elegant. I never thought I was one for white polishes but this is just too pretty! It reminds me a bit more of winter and fresh snow than it does of spring or a dandy lion. Although, I'm actually happy someone took the white dandy lion idea instead of coming up with a yellow polish! Much prettier.

I was concerned it was a dupe of Picture Polish's White Wedding, but it's not. I'll post a comparison in a few days!

Pic time!!

China Glaze: Keep Calm, Paint On

Today I have a snow day!! We are getting the Midwest blizzard (affectionately called "snowmageddon") so my workplace closed. I used the time to catch up on some swatching!! I have four of the China Glaze spring collection shades. With the limitations on photo positioning on my phone, I'll be posting them one at a time.

Today I have, as you probably figured from the title (hah!), Keep Calm, Paint On. This is a light, minty green with silver shimmer. I didn't see the shimmer at first but it's really pretty. Noticeable but still subtle in an elegant way. The formula was thick but not hard to work with and this is 3 coats!

If you're also getting the snow then please be careful and drive safely!

Girly Bits: Stormy Skies

Good morning! I'm excited to get this post in. I've been moving into a new apartment so busy would be an understatement! I'm almost done though and finally have some sit-down time!

My polish today is one I've had a lemming for, for AGES! I think Girly Bits is my favorite indie brand. All of Pam's polishes are beautiful! Stormy Skies is a, you guessed it, sky blue polish that has a slight grey cast to it. It's filled with blue/green shimmer. Love. I've never been drawn to a blue polish quite like I'm drawn to this one. LOVE!!

With the photos, sorry for my cuticles. Our weather can't decide if it's warm or snowy. Haha! It's drying my hands out. This is 3 coats with topcoat. The formula was flawless.

Girly Bits can be purchased at Llarow or at Pam's store HERE.