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Nail Art & Polish Swatches

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Let’s talk about this blue and it’s beautiful multicolored flakies! She’s gorgeous and know what else? She’s inspired by Gilmore Girls which is one of my all time favorite shows. This is two coats of the color “Ace” from the In Omnia Paratus collection by Grace-full Nail Polish

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So for this set of swatches, I have Essie Cashmere Mattes. I’m missing a couple colors from the original set, but have all the Walgreens exclusive colors.

The first color is “All Eyes On Nudes” this is a medium brown, the polish is a little thin and took three coats  to get to full coverage.

Next, we have “Comfy In Cashmere” which is a taupe brown with blue shimmer. The shimmer doesn’t transfer great to the nail, but it does pop in the sunlight a little. This is two coats.

“Coat Couture” is a dusty purple with a blue shimmer. This shimmer shows up on the nail and I absolutely love this color. Again, this is two coats.

“Yespadrilles” is one of the Walgreens exclusives. It is a mint green with a slightly darker green shimme. Not a huge fan of this one, it looks more like a creme than a matte to me once it dries and the shimmer doesn’t pop at all. This is three coats.

“Soft As Sand” is another Walgreens color. It’s a pale pink with a slightly darker shimmer. The pink doesn’t photograph well and and came out white no matter what I did. But it’s beautiful on the nail and probably my favorite of the Walgreens exclusives. It is a little thin and this three coats.

“Hip Tide” is a bubblegum pink with a fuscia shimmer and the third of the four Walgreens colors. I’m not a huge fan of the bubble gum color, reminds me of Bazooka...but it has a great fromula and is pictured at two coats.

“Sea The Sights” is the last of the Walgreens exclusives.It’s a pale blue and dries more matte than Yespadrilles but still tries to lean a little to the creme side. This is three coats

Last we have my favorite of the original launch, “Spun In Luxe” She’s black with a stunning sapphire shimmer that pops beautifully in the sun. This is two coats

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For my first set of swatches, here are the Ulta Exclusives for the OPI F/W Iceland collection.

The first is N-Iceland, it’s a kind of dusty rose color, fantastic formula, totally covers in two coats

The second is The Taupe Of The Iceberg, it’s a little lighter in person but my camera was not having it show up any other way. Again this is two coats.

Last we have Rebel Without A Moss. When I saw this color in store, I thought it was dark gray, it’s not. This is a dark gray hued green. The good news is it’s a one coat wonder if you’re careful with your application. The bad news is, it photographs horribly. Against a white background it’s black, against a black background it’s almost true to color, but still looks too gray to me (or maybe I’ve been staring at it too long)

Overall I’m a huge fan of this collection and the application of the polishes. My favorite of these three would have to be The Taupe Of The Iceberg. I normally hate lighter browns against my skin tone, but am actually a fan of this one

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DC’s The Flash Inspired Nails: Base- OPI “Red Hot Rio”; Accents- OPI “Alpine Snow” and OPI “Never A Dulles Moment”

Geode Nails: Solid Nails are done in Essie Cashmere Matte “Spun In Luxe”; Base of Nails with Geodes are done in OPI “Embrace The Gray” (Light) and OPI “Dark Side Of The Mood” (Dark); Linework is done in OPI “Black Onyx”, OPI “Alpine Snow” and OPI “I Drive A SuperNova”; Stones are OPI Liquid Sand “Can’t Let Go” (Purple) and OPI “The Sky’s My Limit” (Blue)

Camo Nails for Fort Jackson Centinnial Celebration: OPI “Suzi The First Lady Of Nails” (Dark Green); OPI “Tropi-cal Me On My Cell” (Light Green); OPI “Squeaker Of The House” (Dark Brown) and OPI “Coconuts Over OPI” (Light Brown)

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St Patrick Day Nails: Green base and clover-OPI “Front Runner”; White Base- OPI “Alpine Snow”; Glitter Topper- Sinful Colors “Feeling Lucky?”

Easter Nails: Base- OPI Infinite Shine “In Pursuit Of Purple”; Dots- OPI “Sailing & Nailing” (Blue); OPI “Tropi-cal Me On My Cell” (Green); OPI “What’s The Double Scoop” (Pink); OPI “In The Clouds”(White); OPI “One Chic Chick”(Yellow)

Birthday Nails: Base- OPI “Super-Trop-i-Cal-i-Fiji-Istic”; Ballon- OPI “She’s A Bad Muffaletta” and OPI “Oh My Majesty”; Glitter Topper- OPI “Polka.com”

Valentines Nails: Base- OPI “Romantically Involved”; Glitter Topper- Funky Fingers “Queen Of Hearts”

Super Bowl 50 Carolina Panthers Nails: Black- OPI “4 In The Morning”; Silver- OPI “I Drive A SuperNova”; Teal- Sally Hansen Insta Dry “Re-Teal Therapy”; Glitter Topper- Funky Fingers “Arctic Puffin”

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New Account

For those of you following me on my other blog thepolishedpixie, I’m over here now...I can’t get in that account anymore and I don’t know why. I’ll be reposting the nail arts I did on there here and uploading new swatches soon