Showing posts with label L.A Colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label L.A Colors. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Tropical Pair

Mangos taste like what I think perfume smells like. I love the flavor. 

Here are  couple of mango shades that are fairly unique in my collection. 

L.A. Colors Dimple


This is three coats, it is a crelly formula and I found it at the Dollar Tree. No top coat.

It's not the perfect formula, a little less than what I call self leveling, however I didn't have to wrestle with it and it did cover in three coats. It's a pretty shade, though I think it's not going to be a universal classic one for every person. I will add that there are few shades I don't like on my fingers, so for me it's universal. Some help, right?

I grabbed this to try to stamp with and while it's nice over white, it doesn't have the chops to do anything deeper than a light pastel. I don't know if evaporating it will actually help. It's pretty unpigmented or that kind of task.



China Glaze Home Sweet House Music


Three coats, no top coat.

I worried when I swatched this, because it doesn't look like any of the photos online. It's not really orange, it's a orange tinted yellow. 

I'd read that this was difficult to work with, but I had no real problems. I didn't do any clean up and you can see some sloppy application here and there, but nothing that was unsolvable. 

Still on the China Glaze website, this is from their 2015 Electric Nights collection, a crayon bright collection full of summer sun hot shades, worth a look.

Ostensibly this is a neon, but I feel like people are fairly free and easy with that description: no, this is a bright shade of papaya, but not enough oomph to call it a neon.



I like both shades, which are a thin slice of the color spectrum in my collection. I didn't try stamping with the China Glaze, but I might try it out down the road.



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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Blue Water Chrome

Ah....summer.

Here's a deep water blue that reminds me of an evening in the Maldives.


Old Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup for the win! Two coats and no top coat.

Found either at the Dollar Tree or on eBay, not sure which, but a perfect peacock blue. No ridge filler and might as well be a one coater. Love it.


Here it is topped with a L.A. Colors version of OPI's Last Friday Night


This was one of those polishes that was super thick and rather smelly. This Color Craze is 3-free and didn't seem a happy camper.
So, I bunged it out in the sun to evaporate. Fast forward that evening I had both evaporation and the top 1/3rd of the polish had lost all pigmentation. ACK! So I took a Pure Ice blue glass fleck and poured some in as I thinned it out. The result is that it's back in business with the blue, but a thinner more useful formula to layer on glitter.

This is two coats and no top coat. Love the result.


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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

More Layering - Vampy and Bright

Maybelline Amethyst Glimmer is not very amythest nor does it have much glimmer.
It's a dark purple.
It's the color of a dark grape.

The first two coats were alarming: sheer and streaky. I finally bailed on the third coat and laid it down pretty thickly. I was lucky: no bubbles.


Darkness!


All right! Nice!
Who doesn't love the dark polish? I have a load of it and I want to wear it!



A day earlier, I thought I would try one of my new L.A. Colors Intense polishes, but found it a wee bit sheer, so I thought I'd try it on over the top of this.

It's a coral leaning pink shimmer.



How that happened, I have no idea!
Score!

What a nice surprise! What a great layering polish! Thanks, Susie! I really loved all that loot from that win!!

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Pink Foil

Found at Dollar Tree. L.A. Colors. For some reason I unpackaged them, threw the packaging away and realized they had no names on the bottom, so I can't remember them! It's very pretty, like metallic water melon.

I didn't feel like a bunch of coats, so I put New York Color 233 underneath for one coat.

Here it is:


Notice the bad New York Color top coat! Massive crackling!

NYC 233 is a cool pink creme, I think I've worn it before.

Unfortunately I used the NYC Super Shiny Top Coat as top and base coat and this cracked and chipped in less than a day.

So much for using up the bottle!

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