Do you need a great bright polish? Try China Glaze Bite Me! This was from their 2016 Lite Bright collection, and boy is it bright! I love it! It had a good formula- it has a slight shimmer so that made the formula easier. I did three thin coats just for opacity, and because I’m… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- China Glaze Bite Me
This is a gorgeous cream polish from the Spring 2019 Tokyo collection. It’s a purply pink cream polish. I did 2 easy coats of this polish. This is a great polish. I like this color a lot. I sometimes struggle with cream polishes, but this one was so easy to use. This one is still… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Hurry-Juku Get this Color
Are we all glad 2020 is coming to an end??? I wore a ton of nail polish this year. I wore or swatched 64 mainstream polishes (I wore a total of 347 polishes). Some were…not great…and some were awesome! So here are my top 10 favorite mainstream polishes for 2020! In no particular order, except… Read More Mainstream Nail Polish -Top 10 Favorites for 2020!
This is a polish from the Fall/Winter 2017 Iceland collection from OPI. I love the color but the formula was awful. It was patchy and meh. This is three coats. See the patchiness here? Ugh. It’s such a pretty color, but I can find a dupe with a much better formula. If I were a… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Skating on Thin Iceland
This is one of those polishes that looks black but it’s blue. But it really only looks black, lol If you look really close at my cuticle line you can kind of see the blue. The formula was fine, there’s nothing wow about this polish but it was fine. Live your life with love in… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Holidazed
China Glaze always has great holidays collections- this polish is from their Holiday 2016 Seas and Greetings collection, this was the “namesake” polish, Seas and Greetings! It’s such a beautiful shimmery purple! I love the pinky sheen to this polish. This was three coats and it had a great formula. You can really see the… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- China Glaze Seas and Greetings
The OPI Designer Series (DS) has some super pretty polishes! This is a great fall polish. This was three coats. I love the burnished copper color of this polish. I ~think~ I found this at TJ Maxx, you can often find cool polishes there. Here’s the closeup- I really like this polish! It would look… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI DS Glow
This is the other Essie I got from their 2020 Halloween collection, Payback’s a Witch. A great black polish! A great black polish with silver running through it! So gorgeous! My little Goth wanna-be heart just loves black polishes, and this is a great one. I did two coats. The finish looks metallic from far… Read More October Falloween- Mainstream Mani Monday
Isn’t it so fun that Essie did a Halloween collection! I picked up two of them from Target. This is a beautiful blue. It has a silvery metallic look to it too. I did three coats. I like the formula of this one, no problems at all. See in the close up the shift- a… Read More October Falloween- Mainstream Mani Monday Essie Broom with a View
So, I typically don’t love glitter toppers. They’re too chunky and rough- but now that I have Painted Phalanges Smooth Phalanges, well, I will wear ALL the glitter toppers! A thick coat of that, followed by a qdtc, and everything is smooth (hence the name, lol). So here’s China Glaze’s glitter topper Ghostess with the… Read More October Falloween- Mainstream Mani Monday- China Glaze Ghostess with the Mostess