LA Girl- Electric Guitar

 Today I'm wearing LA Girl- Electric Guitar. This is from their Rock Star collection, but I do not know when it was released. It's an orange-toned gold shimmer with tiny and medium iridescent hex glitters. The hex glitter didn't show up well in these pictures, but they were definitely noticeable in person.

 I thought that this shade would be more sheer than it was. It was almost good with two coats, but I did three because there were some slight bare spots. I really liked the color of this!

I remember finding this one at 5Below in a sale bin for 50 cents so it was definitely a good deal! I've seen LA Girl at Forever 21 and Charlotte Russe also. The only negative thing about this polish was that it peeled off in sheets! It didn't chip at all, but I picked my nails and it came off.

4th of July Mani!

I had a pretty sweet mani to wear over the holiday. This is two coats of Funky Fingers- Sound Check topped off with two coats of LA Girl Glitter Addict- Celebrate. These next two pictures are taken without the flash. 

I figured that Celebrate would be perfect to wear over the 4th of July. It had various sizes of red, blue, and silver hex glitters. It also had some fuchsia glitters thrown in there. I actually didn't even notice them until after I started wearing it! The formula in the glitter was really nice also. I didn't have to fish any of it out, and it distributed evenly on my nails.

Here's a picture with low-lighting so that you can see the different colors of the glitter.

Here is Sound Check by itself (pre clean-up) before I added celebrate. It was a metallic blue. What I love about this mani is that a couple people asked me where I got my nails done- and this mani was so easy and super cheap! Funky Fingers polishes are three bottles for $5 at 5Below and LA Girl polishes are about $2.80. I got mine at Charlotte Russe. 

I also got some nail mail yesterday:

This had some vintage gems!! This is Covergirl- Sheer Orchid, some unnamed, unbranded pink that the seller threw in as a freebie, Covergirl- Violet Vision, Clarins- Reflet Rose,  Max Factor- Electric Sunset, Covergirl- Starry Pink, Wet n Wild- Black, Loreal- Big Apple Red (I wonder which one is older, this one or the OPI one from the NYC collection?), Red Carpet Lacquer- Grifter (the only indie/non-vintage), and OPI- Tutti Frutti Tonga (black label)

Color Club- Santa's Cinnamon

Yesterday I wore Color Club- Santa's Cinnamon from the 2011 holiday Scentsuous collection exclusive to Sally's. The polishes from this collection are scented and this one smelled like Cinnamon. The smell was somewhat strong and delicious! I am wearing three coats here. There were some bare-looking spots with two coats, so I just did three. Most people could probably get away with doing just two coats.

In terms of the color, it's not very unique. Everyone has seen the red glitter jellies like China Glaze- Ruby Pumps, OPI- Speak for Your-Elf, etc. This one is a bit different in the sense that the glitter is larger than the micro glitter in other red glitter jellies. The glitter is more prominent and the texture is a bit more gritty. Red glitter jellies are really difficult for my camera to capture for some reason, but you could definitely see the glitter more in person. I got a few compliments on this polish too!

Although it smelled good, the color was pretty, the wear was TERRIBLE! This was taken less then 24 hours after application. (Sorry my camera was low on battery power and going out of focus). The polish is coming off in sheets!!! It also chipped on a few of my other fingers. It just started peeling off of the sides. I wasn't doing anything with my hands that would make polish chip. I'm wondering if there's an ingredient in scented polish that makes them chip easily. I remember Color Club- Gingerbread Man, also from this collection chipping less than 24 hours later also.

I embarked on some shopping trips, and here's what I got!

 First I stopped at Rite Aid and they had this brand called Colorphase. I got this chrome light purple which doesn't have a name. You're supposed to apply the purple first, and then there's a clear coat with a nail art brush in it that you can use to decorate the base color. The color then changes to a darker purple in the spots where you put the topcoat. I swatched it and it worked pretty well. I thought the packaging was unique. I then went to 5Below and they had some Sally Hansen HD's for $5 for 3 bottles. I got Digital, Blu, and Cyber.

At Charlotte Russe, I found this LA Girl Glitter called Celebrate. It's red, silver, and blue glitter. I had yet to add a patriotic glitter to my collection. I got nail nail from Tini from Narcissistic Nails. She found some China Glaze Kaleidoscope polishes at a beauty supply store, so I bought Rated Holographic from her.