Thursday, September 8, 2011

Huge, Absurd Collective Nail Polish Haul!

Hi everyone! So in case you haven't seen it, I have a huge summer-long nail polish haul. If you haven't seen the video yet and you would like to enter to win a couple of these polishes,click here! Here are all the swatches of the polishes. Let me know if you want reviews of particular polishes. Here we go!

Revlon Minis from L to R: Butterfly, Moss, Tulip, Waterfall, Sparkle, and Garden

Revlon from L to R: Grape Fizz, Colada Fizz, Carbonite, and Demure

From L to R: Grape Fizz, Colada Fizz

Revlon Carbonite

Revlon Demure

Revlon from L to R: Royal Cloak and Midnight Haze 

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails X-Treme Wear from L to R: Teeny Greeny Bikini, Time to Shine, Midnight Sky, Twinkle, Twinkle, and Set the Stage

 Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Bronze Ablaze

Nicole by OPI Sea How Far You Go

Essie from L to R: Cute as a Button, Mint Candy Apple, and California Coral

Essie from L to R: French Affair and Lady Like

Essie Swatches from L to R: French Affair, Cute as a Button, Mint Candy Apple, California Coral, and Lady Like


China Glaze Crackle Glaze from L to R: Cracked Medallion, Haute Metal, Oxidized Aqua, and Latticed Lilac

 China Glaze from L to R: Flip Flop Fantasy and Shocking Pink (Reversed in Swatch)

China Glaze (Metro Collection) from L to R: Skyscraper, CG in the City, and Midtown Magic (Reversed in Swatches

Orly from L to R: Sea Gurl and Fowl Play

 Orly (Mineral FX Collection) from L to R: Rock Solid and Rock the World

Orly Swatches from L to R: Fowl Play, Sea Gurl, Rock the World, and Rock Solid

 OPI(Nice Stems Collection) from L to R: Be a Dahlia Won’t You, Play on the Peonies, I Lily Love You, and Come to Poppy

 From L to R: Be a Dahlia Won’t You, Play on the Peonies, I Lily Love You

OPI Come to Poppy

OPI from L to R: It’s My Year and Crown Me Already!

 Sephora by OPI from L to R: Make the First Mauve, Don’t Feed the Hand Models, and Spark-Tacular!

Zoya (Touch Collection) from L to R: Minka, Shay, and Pandora

 Zoya from L to R: Avril and Mitzi

Zoya (Smoke and Mirrors Collection): Jana and Nimue

 Zoya Swatches from L to R: Mitzi, Minka, and Shay

Zoya Swatches from L to R: Pandora, Avril, Jana, and Nimue

Butter London Yummy Mummy

Chanel from L to R: Quartz, Graphite, and Péridot

Chanel Swatches from L to R: Péridot, Graphite, and Quartz

*WheW!*
That's alotta polish.
*Hangs head in shame*

Let me know if you have any questions!

As always,
Jessica  





Monday, July 18, 2011

Revlon Lipstick Review/Swatches!



Hi everyone! 
This is another post about some of my favorite drugstore lipsticks, this time from Revlon! I made a YouTube video with swatches, if you haven't seen it, click here!!  

In my opinion, Revlon has the best color selection (besides NYX) at the drugstore. They have a great variety of finishes as well, with pearly, matte, and cream finishes in their Super Lustrous line and pearly and cream finishes in their Color Burst line. Overall, the cream finishes are my favorite, followed by the matte lipsticks. I am not a huge fan of the pearl finishes, as I feel they lose some of the pigmentation of the other formulas.

 I have been very, very pleased with all but one of lipsticks I have purchased from Revlon. The only one that was a miss for me was from the Color Burst line. Candy Pink was a beautiful bright pink, but the pigmentation was really lacking. I sold that one in my blog sale. Since I took the photos and filmed the video for these lipsticks, I have purchased one more lipstick from the Super Lustrous line in the color Coralberry. I love it, and it actually looks fairly similar to MAC's Everhip. 

For me, the pigmentation of these lipsticks is generally good and they wear pretty well for me. The mattes wear the best, but are a little drying and look best with a gloss over the top. If you haven't tried any of these, check out the swatches below. Their color range is fabulous and they have something for everyone!

From left to right: Smoked Peach, Icy Nude, Soft Nude, and Fashion's Night Pout

From left to right: Rosy Nude, Fire and Ice, Mauvy Night, VaVa Violet, Black Cherry

From left to right: Candy Pink, Baby Pink, Paparazzi Pink, Berry Haute 

From left to right: Stormy Pink, Pink Pout, Sky Pink, Primrose 

Let me know if you have tried these, and if you have, I would love to know what you think. Are there any colors I have to have?

Until next time, 

Jessica