So I broke another nail, so have shorter nails on my mani hand, so I was looking for some darker polish since I really like dark polish on shorter nails. I’d recently picked up Black to Reality from their Holiday 2018 Nutcracker and the Four Realms collection, so I thought I’d try that. It’s such… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Black to Reality + comparisons!
Zoya Prim is a pretty color, easy to apply, but the brushstrokes don’t go away as it dries, which is a bummer. I liked the color, and I’ll probably try to find a different polish this same color and ~purge~ this one- of course that just means it will go in my purge box but… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- Zoya Prim
This is a gorgeous light peachy pink jelly polish by OPI, called Heart Throb. I don’t know when it came out, but a Google search shows references to it in 2011. I did 3 coats, but it’s so easy to work with! It was a little patchy on the first couple coats, but that third… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- OPI Heart Throb
Oooooh, this polish! GORGEOUS! And aptly named, lol. It’s from a collection in 2011 I think, but it apparently can be easily found at Sally’s, which is where I found it. It’s a hot pink that really leans red. It was good in 3 coats, and I really did the third coat to deepen up… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- China Glaze Sexy Silhouette
This is one of Zoya’s Pixie Dust textured polishes. It’s a beautiful light blue! I love the look of the Pixie Dusts when they’re not topcoated, they look so cool! You can see the texture in these picture. If you don’t topcoat, you will get some weird dirtiness after a couple days, these polishes tend… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- Zoya Bay
I pulled out an Orly polish, Off Beat, and it totally has UBS (ugly bottle syndrome). I had never used a polish with such bad UBS, but I’ve always heard it doesn’t affect the polish, so I thought it would be good to try it for myself. The white at the bottom half of the… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- Orly Off Beat
I had heard about these Sally Hansen Insta-dri Crayola polishes, but hadn’t picked any up until I saw these cool metallic polishes! So I found these on a weird end-cap at my Walgreens, and I picked up 3 of them. First up is Metallic Sunburst. It’s a great gold, definitely a yellow-y gold (as opposed… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- Sally Hansen Metallic Crayola Polishes!
I picked this polish up at Sally’s awhile ago, and thought I’d try it out- it looks gorgeous, with holo and even flakies! And it was a mess. Truly a lumpy, gloopy mess. And look at this brush! It’s so weird – twisted, maybe the bottom wasn’t cut through all the way? It was impossible… Read More Mainstream Mani Monday- Orly Frenemy