Hey everybody!! Wow, I've missed you all!
I am slowly getting back into the swing of things after my 3 month long hiatus. So much has changed for me personally since my last blog post...I'm still trying to get over it. :/ I thought I would show you some of the things I've been wearing since June.
butter LONDON Shag - metallic and shimmery and gorgeous and chipped all over the place...
Orly Star Trooper - coffee-colored jelly and white glitter! Yikes, it's pretty!! Oh, and this...
Zoya Payton - imagine blackberry jam where the seeds are holo. Yep.
China Glaze Optical Illusion - my absolute favorite microglitter!
Zoya Aurora (complete with tip wear!)
I hope you all have enjoyed your summer and are ready to listen to me whine about the slow-poke arrival of our Southern autumn. :)
And a special thank you to my co-bloggers and friends Liesl, Yadi, Christine, and Emily for checking on me over the past weeks. It means more than you know. <3
Thanks for stopping by, and have a lovely day.
Hey everybody! I don't know anybody who doesn't just plain love Sally Hansen Lustre Shines. They have been around since 2012 but have apparently been a popular part of Sally Hansen's line. And it's easy to see why...Lustre Shines are shimmeringly fantastic! I picked up Lava when the line was first introduced.
Lava is a *very* shimmery, pink-to-bronze duochrome glass fleck. And yes, I couldn't seem to capture the true amount of pink in this polish because the shimmer was blowing it all to smithereens. It's there though, and in large quantities too. These seriously must be the worst ever pics of Lava. My camera was just not having any of it. Apparently, it's sick of taking pics of all these pinks. :)
I used 3 coats of Lava for the pics because Mr. You-Know-Who forced me to. I love, love, LOVE the interesting color and overall look of Lava, but I always seem to have one problem with it: it ends up looking almost grainy on me and wears off my tips within no time. BUT, trouper that I am, I always find the fortitude to soldier on in the midst of imperfection and wear it anyway. :D
I had been threatening to get Scarab for a long time, and I finally picked it up one day whilst polish shopping with Mr. Sweets. Nope, he didn't choose it for me. It's not red, silly! :P
No, it's not red...but a teal most FABULOUSSSSHHHHH! And don't even get me started on that shimmer. Oh, okay. The shimmer is blinding!! This mess is super reflective too, *almost* mirror-like. I know that's hard to imagine. Remember my post about OPI Into the Night being so shimmery it stung your eyes in the sunlight? Scarab is the same way.
I used 3 coats of Scarab for full coverage. It doesn't have the grainy look that Lava has at all. Scarab is an absolutely beautiful metallic, but there's one problem with it: I sent in a search party to find the duochrome, and they haven't returned yet. Oh well. I would be bummed if I was one of the duochrome girls. But as fortune would have it, I happen to be a shimmer girl! YAY!! So it doesn't bug me that there is no duochrome (okay, maybe a tiny bit of gold going on) because Scarab is too pretty to hold a non-duochrome grudge against it.
Do you own any Lustre Shines? My advice is to not buy Scarab for the color shift, but for the color period. And my other advice is to just ignore my extremely non-pink photos of Lava and buy it. :)
Thanks for stopping by, and have a lovely day. <3
