BMC Glitzy Glitter Collection Set 1: A Day In The Glitter

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Hello Loves.  I have six glitter toppers from BMC (Bundle Monster) to show you today.  This is the "A Day In The Glitter" set from the Glitzy Glitter Collection.   These traditional nail polish glitter toppers layer beautifully over gel polish.  I even found that they can be removed without wrecking the gel beneath like a lot of glitter polishes will!

I swatched each of these little beauties over black, white, and nude nails.  As you'll see, most of them don't really play well with white but are great over other colors.  I also found that application is pretty much the same for all of them, so I'll talk about that now.  These glitters are quite thick.  When you pull the brush out of the bottle, you have more than enough glitter on it for each nail.  There's absolutely no glitter fishing needed.  With that said, I ended up doing one dabbed on coat for each swatch.  I say dabbed on because you can't brush them on like you would a solid polish.  The glitters will float down the nail.  Dabbing seems to be the easiest way to get a nice distribution.  I finished each swatch with one thin layer of top coat.

Boy Crazy is a mix of silver micro glitter and larger blue hex glitters.  This is the only polish in today's swatches that I feel wears well over white.

Cherries On Top is a beautiful mix of small white hex glitters, white strip glitters, and larger red, pink and white hex glitters.  As you can see, the white pieces disappear over the white nail. 

Mimosas For Breakfast is very similar to Cherries on Top with small white hex glitters, white strip glitters, and white and orange larger hex glitters.  This one isn't great over white either.

Party Deck is a fun mix of small blue hex glitters, white strip glitters, and larger blue and white hex glitters.  Yet another that doesn't play well over white.

Teeny Bikini is my favorite of the six.  This one consists of small white hexes, white strips, and larger pink and white hexes.  I'm thinking it would be gorgeous over a muted or pastel purple.

Finally, Under the Pier initially looks like a fun patriotic polish for those of us in the US, but if you look closer you'll see it's not all red white and blue.  This one consists of white strip glitters and red, white, blue and green hexes.  The green hexes are scattered throughout and definitely not as plentiful as the red, white and blue glitters, but they are definitely in there.

What do you think of these fun glitter toppers?  I love the color combinations and love even more that they're only $2.99 each on Bundle Monster's Website!  You can also grab the entire set on Amazon for $9.75 plus shipping.

~Michelle

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L'Oreal Colour Riche Gold Dust: Rough Around the Edges

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Hello Loves. I'm deviating from the gel swatches today to show you my newest love.  Loreal Colour Riche Gold Dust Rough Around the Edges.  This one caught my eye while shopping the other day, and I just couldn't leave it behind.  I'm a little behind the rest of the polish world when it comes to textures.  I didn't think I would like the rough feel, so I held out and avoided buying one to try.  I gave in and picked one up a few weeks back, and now I'm hooked.

I have only tried a few textures from different brands so far, and I haven't loved them all.  But this one...I predict this one will be used as an accent in many of my manicures in 2014.  I love the black base with the silver glittery finish, and I was shocked that it only needed two coats!  I really like this collection so far!

This is an angle I likely won't show very often thanks to my crooked middle finger.  That nail gives me fits!  I never know whether to shape it so that it the edge is straight when my fingers are extended or so that the edge is straight when posed with the polish bottle.  Since most of my pictures are with the bottles, I tend to shape it for that.  lol

I think I'll go back and get a few more from this collection.  If my memory serves me, they all have that added sparkle, and I really like the formula!

~Michelle

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A Little Off Topic: Bootie Babe Swatches and Review

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I sincerely believe that there is an immature teenage girl trapped inside us all.  I know I have one.  When I heard of Bootie Babe polishes in their little butt shaped bottles recently, I had to check it out.  I then spent a good 15 minutes reading the names and giggling.  If you haven't checked it out for yourself, go ahead and click the link above now.  Trust me, just do it.  You can come back and read the rest of this post and thank me later.

After doing a little research and learning that some of the colors will double as stamping polish, I had to order a few to test out.  I won't lie, I swatched them for the giggles I am getting just writing this post, despite the fact that I have completely forgotten how to apply RNP after using SOG for so long.

My RNP swatching adventure has taught me two things:  1) bloggers who swatch entire collections of RNP must be the most patient people in the world.  Nothing like waiting on wet nails to dry.  I can swatch 6 SOG colors in the amount of time it took to swatch just 2 of these.  2) I am way too impatient for the task.  I applied one of these colors three times before giving up and photographing them wet to avoid smudging them yet again.  So please excuse the dry skin.  I was afraid to oil!  But, I digress.

I ordered two polishes.  Honky Badonky and Pacific Rim (yes, I snickered when I typed that one).  When the package arrived a few days later, I found they included Whale of a Tail as a free gift.  While it isn't a color I would ever wear because it looks horrible on my skin tone, I swatched it anyway.

Let's start with Whale of a Tale.  This is a yellow with a jelly-ish cream finish.  I swatched three coats, and you can clearly see VNL.  I found the consistency to be extremely thin and watery.  Not a winner in my book.  But hey, it comes in a butt shaped bottle.  In a package clearly marked with the return sender "SuperBooty LLC".  I don't even want to know what my mail lady thought when she delivered it.  lol

The next one is a little better.  This is Pacfic Rim.  It's also extremely thin and watery, though I suspect this one is supposed to be sheer.  Again, this is three coats.  Pacific Rim has a bit of a purple/blue/green color shift, but it is very subtle.  It reminds of me of IBD Just Gel Jasper Casper.

Finally, here's Honky Badonky.  This is one of their "Holo" collection.  It is not holographic, but rather is a duo-chrome with a nice gold to maroon color shift.  It too is thin and watery and is slightly streaky after three coats.  I suspect it will layer beautifully over black, though.

So, all in all, the formula on these doesn't impress me.  However, they do have one redeeming quality (other than the awesome names and butt shaped bottle).  Pacific Rim and Honky Badonky stamp quite nicely over dark colors, which is surprising for such a thin consistency.  Whale of a Tale does technically stamp too, but it is too bright to show up well over white and does not show up at all over black.  Since I bought them for the stamping potential, I'm happy with my purchase and will likely order the rest of the "holo" collection at some point.  I'm a sucker for a duo-chrome stamped over black.

Again, for those bloggers out there who swatch RNP, you have my utmost respect!  I'm going back to my own little sand box now and leaving this one to you.  :)

~Michelle

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