Review: China Glaze I'm Not Lion and I Herd That

Every once in a while, I take a wander around Winners, the kinda weird "bargain" store here in Canada. They have an eclectic selection of nail polishes but usually nothing new. Knock me over with a feather when I saw these two beautiful polishes, China Glaze I Herd That and I'm Not Lion, from the new On Safari collection. I just had to try them out together and thought I'd play around with some stripes as well.

To start with, I added two coats of I'm Not Lion, a soft gold glitter polish just packed with gold and holo micro glitter. Application was good, although I dread taking it off. I then added a gradient using I Herd That, a bronze version of I'm Not Lion, although the holo glitter is a little more sparse. Lots of people seem to like the sponge gradient but I've never really got it to work so well. I prefer to wipe most of the polish off, then paint 2/3rds of my nail, then half, then the tips. Works for me. Once that was all dry, I laid out stripes of striping tape and added the black polish. I found that you don't need to press the tape to your palm like with scotch tape, if anything you have to make sure it's all smoothed down.

The Verdict: It doesn't really show here as my lightbox doesn't have a sharp point of light but this polish is so sparkly and so packed with holo glitter, you have to see it to believe. I'm really happy with how the stripes turned out over the glitter, too.

The Polishes:

China Glaze I'm Not Lion and I Herd That, various locations.

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

Search This Blog