China Glaze Ingrid

I've had this one sitting around waiting to try until fall weather hit. Well, it hasn't hit here quite yet, but leaves are changing and with a Bath and Body Works Apple Spice candle burning this weekend, I was in the mood! I love this color - the taupe color is pretty for fall regardless, but the gold shimmer in this one makes it extra rich.

The formula on this one was pretty easy to work with, and was opaque in two coats. Topped with Deborah Lippmann's Addicted to Speed topcoat.

Rescue Beauty Lounge Firebird Collection - Piu Mosso

This one was a tough one to get good, accurate shots of for me, so bear with the messy arrangement of random pictures.

This was the polish I was most excited for from this collection! It's described as "an inky, blue-black that shoots through a flash of orange, the last glow of sunlight". This definitely comes through in the bottle - the fine, orange shimmer particles really glow. However, on my first application I must not have mixed the bottle enough because the only place I could see that pretty orange flash was in the direct sunlight! So, this morning I mixed the bottle really thoroughly and applied an additional coat, and the orange definitely showed up a bit more in other lights. In brighter lights, it almost mixes with the blue to give it a deep purply cast - truly gorgeous. Indoors, unless the lights are pretty powerful, it comes across as a dark, inky blue and the orange shimmer blends with it more to give it a warmer, brownish cast. I may try this again with all the coats being applied after a good mixing, but I do still like the polish a lot. I definitely don't have another color like it!

Onto the swatches...(excuse the tipwear)...

Essie Da Bush

This one is from Essie's 2011 resort collection. I love it! It's in the same idea as Sew Psyched, just lighter. Kind of muted, but still interesting. LOVE.


Essie's formula gets along well with my nails, so this should stay on a few days if I let it. I used Nubar's foundation base coat and Seche Vite top coat. Enjoy!

Butter London Blagger

I am a sucker for blue polishes, and while Butter London doesn't usually stay on my nails too long, I am trying it with Gelous base coat (and another coat of it under my Seche Vite top coat) to see if it will stay on any longer.

Here it is:



It's a little darker in person that shown here, but it's a fun, bold blue that I just adore. The formula was fabulous - easy to maneuver and just about opaque in one coat, although I used two for good measure.



Please ignore the paint on my thumb in the picture below. I meant to crop it out - didn't have any clean up time today!

Rescue Beauty Lounge - Pizzicato

I received my preorder of the Firebirds collection this week! Here's the first polish I tried - it was raining here today, and this polish seemed to fit with the weather! It looks like raindrops on a pretty white/lavender surface:




This shade, Pizzicato, is a pretty pale lavender shade, semi-sheer, with flakes of silvery glitter. This is three coats.




The formula is good and really easy to work with as always! What do you think?