Simple Swatch: W7

I am going to keep this short and sweet. Sorry these photos don't have the best lighting, it is raining in the middle of June!

This is W7- Salt n Pepper

I started off with one coat of Wet n Wild- White Creme, and applied two thin coats of Salt n Pepper. This polish applied wonderfully! Especially considering it is an international "drugstore" brand.

Then I used Wet n Wild- Black Creme and China Glaze- Man Hunt (On Safari Collection 2012) for the dot gradient. I think I went a little dot crazy, but I think it goes well with the W7 and can't wait to get more!

Essie Naughty Nauticals Collection 2013 Nail Art

It isn't very common for me to have an entire collection from a nail polish company. I have a really awesome nail mail buddy through instagram that seriously hooked it up! Her daughter's god father is a manager at CVS, and he managed to get us both the entire collection! So, naturally, I used the entire collection to do some nail art:

I didn't think the colors were that unique, until I saw the awesome shimmer in the bottle in person! The formula is great on all 6 shades, all are 2 coaters. My only complaint is that the Jennifer Green doesn't have the shimmer.

The base color on my index finger is Essie: Rock the Boat, which is almost the same color as Essie- Bikini So Teeny. The color I used for the flowers and dots is Essie- Naughty Nautical, probably my favorite color of the collection. I used the same color on my middle finger too, and used Essie- Full Steam Ahead for the flowers and dots. Then I used Essie- The Girls Are Out for the base on my ring finger, and Essie- Sunday Funday for the flowers and dots. I used the same colors as my ring finger but opposite for my pinky. Lastly, I used Essie- The More The Merrier for the centers of the dots

All in all I love the collection, and I have found that only one of the color is dupe-able. My top picks would definitely be Naughty Nautical and Sunday Funday.

Another Simple Swatch + Water Marble Using My Last Unused Gloss 'n Sparkle

Hold on to your seats and prepare for rainbow over load. I probably should have saved these to wear for SF Pride!

Gloss 'n Sparkle- Unicorn Droppings

I mainly wanted this polish for the name... But it is seriously amazing. Anything rainbow is an A in my book.

Unicorn droppings is a white creme base with a lot of tiny sparkles, but of course the sparkles aren't noticeable in the pictures! It has large glitters in pretty much every color of the rainbow. It is jam packed of glitter too, no problem with getting it on the brush. But I did kind of have to move the glitters around evenly on my nail. The less brush strokes you use, the better!

On to the marble. This is probably the most proud I have been over a water marble I have done. I used 6 colors which is insane, and I managed to get pretty much all of the colors on my nail, aside from the very tiny bit of green on my tip! But hey, that is still six colors which is really hard!

The colors I used are: China Glaze- Adventure Red-y (On Safari Collection Fall 2012), OPI- On The Same Paige (Summer Brights Collection 2009), OPI- Need Sunglasses?, OPI- Green-wich Village (Mod About Brights Collection 2008), Color Club- Endless Summer (Fiesta Collection Summer 2013), and Anise- Violet Falls In Love. I had no problem with any of these polishes!

Simple Swatch + Water Marble

I am still trying to get back into mastering water marbling, and I decided the best way to do that is to just do an accent nail. I don't have the patience or skills to do all 10 fingers yet. I am trying to use as many untried indie polishes as possible, so I am choosing colors to marble with that are pretty much the same as the indie polish. I really like how they are turning out, especially this one!

Gloss 'n Sparkle- Fruit Tingle

This polish is pretty much flawless. It is opaque in two coats, packed full of micro silver glitters, medium pink glitters, large black and blue glitters, and even larger black glitters! It is so opaque it kind of covered the glitters from the first layer.

The colors I used for the marble are Anise- Island Lover (blue), Wet n Wild Megalast- On a Trip (purple), and Wet n Wild- Black Creme. I have used on a trip for marbling before, and it worked pretty well. All these colors did really. Much better than the china glaze one I did a few days ago. I think I should stalk the next time cvs or rite aid has a sale on Wet n Wild so I can buy alll the Megalasts!

Note: I also started using bottled water. My refrigirator claims to have "filtered" water, but the polish would never spread through out the entire cup. I don't have a brita or anything, but so far bottled water is pretty sweet!

Gradient Using Mod Lacquer

The periwinkle blue shade is Girly Bits- Bachelor's Button. It is the perfect shade of blue, and has a nice subtle linear holographic effect to it! Definitely a unique shade to my collection. I used 2 coats.

Then I topped it off with a gradient. I used Mod Lacquer- 8-Bit Digits. I love this polish so much. It is pretty much just like the floam polishes. I almost compared it to Pinkerbell Floam, but the Mod Lacquer has way more green, and the floam has much more blue. But they consist of pretty much the same color and style of blue, green, and pink matte glitter.

You can get this shade of Mod Lacquer on Etsy. And you can get the Girly Bits shade on Llarowe, Harlow & Co, and from the actual Girly Bits website.

Simple Swatch + Nail Art

Exciting news! This is my 100th blogpost! So I decided to do one of my favorite types of nail art, water marbling! I also have my other Trelly polish for you:

Trelly's Misc Polish- Beach Bunny

I tried so many times to get a good water marble, but it just wasn't happening. So, I just settled for this one. I also should have replaced the yellow with a blue so it could go better with the Trelly polish!

The colors I used are China Glaze- Happy Go Lucky, China Glaze- Dance Baby (Electropop Collection Spring 2013) and China Glaze- That's Shore Bright (Sunsational Collection Summer 2013). I don't thing they are the best for marbling. They always give me this problem where the lines are always squiggly, and the outer edge will always come to the center if I am making a bulls eye pulling from the outer edge to the very center. Essie is my favorite so far, I need some Bettina though!

I used two coats of Beach Bunny. I really have nothing bad to say about this polish! It is probably my favorite type of pink to where, and the blue glitter compliment it very well! It mainly consists of a "crelly" base, packed with medium and small SQUARE and hexagonal glitters. I would definitely recommend using as less brush strokes as possible. If you keep making bush srtrokes, you will end up with all the glitter on the tips.

You can buy her polish on Etsy for $9.00, and she will be restocking on Monday!

Simple Swatch: Trelly's Misc Polish

I believe this is fairly new brand, and people are already going nuts. This is from Trelly's Summer collection of amazing glitter toppers and crelly's with glitter. I got this and one of the crelly's, so far, I am impressed! Here it is:

Trelly's Misc Polish- Dreaming of Unicorns

The name also helps with the polishes awesomeness as well, although my bottle is labeled "Barbie Dream House" Trelly had a woopsy daisy. I ain't complaining though.

The polishes I layered it over are two coats of China Glaze- Sweet Hook (pink), and Color Club- Take Me to Your Chateau (Pardon My French Collection 2010).

Then I applied a pretty generous coat of Dreaming of Unicorns. The hearts came out no problem, but I had to fish for the other bigger glitters like the stars and circles. But that is always expected with oddly shaped glitters like that. It mainly consists of irridescent glitters of every shape and size, even squares! The only solid colored glitters are the big circle, star, and heart glitters, and medium hexagonals. The base is a tad bit on the thick side, but some polish thinner can fix that. The best part is that you get plenty of glitter on the brush!

You can purchase Trelly Polish on Etsy. Her summer collection is out of stock, but she will be restocking on Monday, along with some new amazing colors!