OPI Coca-Cola Collection

Hi, you guys! Happy Sunday! Do you have any plans for Father's Day? We have a fur baby (Dan the chinchilla), so we'll be celebrating Chin Father's Day haha. I have a small surprise for the hubby, but I can't say what because he's proof-reading this post for me. :)

OPI collaborated with Coca-Cola to come up with polishes inspired by their beverages, and I have the resulting nine-piece Coca-Cola by OPI Collection to share with you today.

China Glaze Your Present Required

Hi, you guys! Happy weekend! We've been having a string of sunny days here (really unusual for this time of the year when it's usually rainy), so I've been out and about soaking up the sun. :D

Today, I've got a fun glitter from the China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Collection to share with you. Your Present Required is a colorful mix of small to medium hex glitters in the colors blue, purple, peach, white, and gold all in a sheer base.

I really like the combination of colors in this glitters. It's a little unusual, but they look really great together. The application is a little odd. It's hard to get the glitters to stay in place on the nails as you stroke from cuticle to free edge. They kind of clump together and have a tendency to get dragged along with the brush. I ended up using short dabbling motions, which really helped in getting the glitters to stay in place. I did one coat over Mingle With Kringle, and I just love the way they look together. The gold base really sets off the colors in this glitter. :)

You can find Your Present Required at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7.50 for 0.5 fl oz.

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KBShimmer Sand In My Stocking

Happy weekend, my gentle readers! Hope yours is off to a swell start! :D I'm going to type out a real quick post, and then go snuggle and play with my chinchilla hehe. :)

Today, continuing with the KBShimmer Winter Collection, I've got a really fun one to share with you. Sand In My Stocking—a blogger collaboration with The PolishAholic—is a colorful glitter filled with predominantly gold and also teal, orange, and brown glitters in a variety of shapes and sizes all in a sheer base.

This glitter is just so crazily fun and sparkly. I applied it over a black creme, and I really love how the glitters just pop against the dark base. The glitter density is so high in this polish that application is a total breeze. I just did one coat over the black for the swatches, and I've already got tons of glitter coverage. I was also able to easily get the large gold stars onto the nails, which is a total plus since they look awesome mixed in with the other glitters.

You can find Sand In My Stocking at KBShimmer.com for $8.75 and HarlowandCo.org for $9 for 0.5 fl oz.

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OPI I Snow You Love Me

Happy Monday, you guys! :-)

Today, I've got a really interesting polish from the OPI Mariah Carey Holiday Collection to share with you. I Snow You Love Me is a clear polish with large round silver holographic glitters.

I did one coat of I Snow You Love Me over In My Santa Suit, but with how large the glitters are, you do have to do some finagling here. Unless you really dollop the polish on, the glitters are too sparse and too big to just show up. I think the best way is probably to use toothpicks and place them as you like on the nails. It ended up reminding me of dominoes lol. It's definitely an interesting and fun polish, but I wish there were also some smaller glitters in there to fill in in-between the big glitters.

You can find I Snow You Love Me at your local nail salons and beauty stores such as Ulta and Dillard's for a retail price of $9 for 0.5 fl oz.

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Zoya Mosheen

Hi, you guys! :-)

Today, I've got another polish from the Zoya Zenith Collection to share with you. Mosheen is a sheer blue topper filled with tons of small blue and silver holographic round and bar glitters.

Mosheen was originally released as part of the limited edition Aqua Di Lara MBFW Swim 2014 trio a few months ago. I'm usually not a big fan of bar glitters, but those in Mosheen are small and tastefully paired with the other glitters. The overall effect is fun and festive without being excessively furry. It has great application and glitter density. What you see in the swatches is just one coat over Belinda, and all the glitters are evenly distributed without having to resort to fishing or coaxing.

You can find Mosheen on Zoya.com for $8 for 0.5 fl oz. If you are new to Zoya, you can get your first two bottles of Zoya for $8 - $9 total and free shipping! More info HERE.

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Zoya Maria Luisa

Hi, you guys! Happy hump day, as camels would say! :)

Today, I've got another color from the Zoya Satin Collection to share with you. While the other colors in the collection are all vibrant jewel tones, Maria Luisa is a topper comprised of warm golden flakes in a sheer base.

This is such a pretty topper. The gold flakes instantly jazz up any color, and you can use it for a full-on mani or for just an accent nail. What amazed me the most about this polish though is its formula. The flake density in here is amazing! What you see in the swatches is just one coat over Zoya Mason, and it's already at the perfect coverage. The flakes go onto the nails so evenly and smoothly that it feels like I'm applying a creme polish. There are no bald spots or clumps, just perfectly even distribution of flakes. :-)

You can find Maria Luisa on Zoya.com for $8 for 0.5 fl oz. If you are new to Zoya, you can get your first two bottles of Zoya for $8 - $9 total and free shipping! More info HERE.

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OPI Minnie Style

Hi, you guys! We just spent the Saturday morning trying to fight back against the blackberry bush that's slowly creeping from the hillside into our backyard. This bush is huge and invasive, so it's posing to be an interesting problem for the hubby. Hopefully we can clear it faster than it's growing, but if not, I guess we can always hire some goats like they did at a local university to clear out weeds and blackberry bushes lol. :D

Today, I've got another fun color from the OPI Couture de Minnie Collection to share with you. Minnie Style is filled with uniformly medium-sized reflective pink and red and non-reflective white hexagon glitters in a sheer base.

Minnie Style is a glitter very much from the same inspiration as a lot of the glitter polishes we see from OPI, with their signature larger-sized hex glitters in a variety of colors. Application is a little tricky, but that is typical of glitters of this size. Make sure to get enough polish on your brush, then dollop that onto the nails and gingerly smooth and distribute the glitters around. It does take a little bit of finagling, but it's not too bad. What you see in the swatches is one coat over OPI A Definite Moust-Have.

You can find Minnie Style at your local nail salons and beauty stores such as Ulta and Dillard's for a retail price of $9 for 0.5 fl oz.

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OPI When Monkeys Fly!

Hi you guys! Happy hump of the week! :-)

Today, continuing with the OPI Oz The Great and Powerful Collection, I have another glitter from the collection to share with you. When Monkeys Fly! is made up of small and medium silver reflective hexagon and large gold hexagon glitter pieces, all in a sheer base.

Oh gosh, I feel like this polish is not at all like the others in the collection. While the rest of the collection is soft, understated, and elegantly fun, this one is a bit garish thanks to the large gold glitter pieces. It also has some obvious formula problems, as you can see from the swatches. The large gold pieces are curling up such that their edges lift off of the nails during application, a big no-no when it comes to glitter polish. This then causes a tendency for all the large gold pieces to cluster around and stick to each other, making it difficult to place them on the nails. The end result is quite messy.

After many complaints about the curling glitter issue, OPI owned up to the problem and offered replacements for those who bought this polish. Here is what they had to say via their Facebook page:

"We have determined that in some instances, due to the glitter’s size and shape, it can curl over time as it sits in the lacquer base. This was not experienced during field-testing and is now being addressed. Those of you who are dissatisfied can contact our customer support team with the batch number listed on the bottom of the bottle and they will replace it with another Oz shade of your choice."

It's surprising that a big polish company like OPI would have missed this issue during their initial testing, but it's definitely heartening to see them step up and offer to make right for anyone who encountered this. :-)

You can find When Monkeys Fly! at your local nail salons and beauty stores such as Ulta and Dillard's for a retail price of $9 for 0.5 fl oz.

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OPI Which Is Witch?

Hi you guys! Hope your week is off to a fantastic start! :-)

Today, I've got another pretty glitter to share with you from the OPI Oz the Great and Powerful Collection. Which Is Witch? is a densely populated glitter made up of silver reflective glitter pieces in various shapes and sizes, including small and extra-small round, medium hexagon and small bar glitters, all in a sheer base.

When the light catches all those silver glitter pieces, their sparkles remind me of that of a disco ball. Due to how dense the glitters are in this polish, the application is easy-peasy. It applies smoothly and evenly, with the glitters distributing effortlessly across the nails without any pushing or shoving. I needed just one coat over OPI Don't Burst My Bubble for the swatches above. I'm usually not a huge fan of bar glitters, but the ones in this polish don't really bother me. The bar glitters are relatively small and subtle, adding just a bit of sparkle and variety to the glitter mix.

You can find Which Is Witch? at your local nail salons and beauty stores such as Ulta and Dillard's for a retail price of $9 for 0.5 fl oz.

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OPI Lights of Emerald City

Hi you guys! Hope you're having a great Saturday! :-)

Today, I've got one of the glitters from the OPI Oz The Great and Powerful Collection to share with you. Lights of Emerald City is a sparsely populated glitter made up of medium-sized square opalescent and large square white glitter pieces in a sheer base.

The large white squares in here look like pieces of paper on the nails... definitely an interesting look. Since this is sheer, it's better used as a topper, and I've got it over OPI I Theodora You in the swatches. Application-wise, this polish was on the trickier end. Due to how sparse the glitters are, you have to dollop the polish onto the nails, then gingerly smooth it out. But as you smooth it from cuticle to tip, you kind of drag the glitters along, so more of them end up on the tips. I did one coat for each nail, then went back and filled in some of the bald spots along the cuticles.

You can find Lights of Emerald City at your local nail salons and beauty stores such as Ulta and Dillard's for a retail price of $9 for 0.5 fl oz.

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China Glaze Mosaic Madness

Hi you guys! Today, I've got the last of my picks from the China Glaze Glitz Bitz 'n Pieces Collection to share with you. Mosaic Madness is the blue and black one from the collection, comprised of a mix of small, medium, and large round and hexagon blue and black pieces, as well as some black bar glitters, all in a sheer base.

The mix of glitters in Mosaic Madness is similar to the other ones in the collection, just with blue glitters instead of a different color. In the swatches, I paired one coat of the glitter over Sunday Funday. It's a fun combination, but I think the blue base color is too close to the color of the blue glitters, so the blue glitters don't pop as much as they could.

This being the third one I tried from the collection, I finally figured out how to reliably get those big pieces of glitter onto the brush. Instead of dipping the brush into the bottle between nails (as I would do for other polishes), I find swirling it in a circle in the polish helps the bristles grab onto the big glitter pieces, which then makes it easier to get them onto the nails. :-)

Hope you've enjoyed my picks from the China Glaze Glitz Bitz 'n Pieces Collection! :-) It's fun to see mainstream polish brands starting to come out with the more interesting glitters that indie brands have been doing for some time. Be sure to let me know what you think of this collection and if any will be making its way to you in the comments below.

You can find Mosaic Madness at your local nail salons and at beauty stores such as Ulta and Sally Beauty for a retail price of $7 for 0.5 fl oz.

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