Powder Perfect Bermuda Triangle Trio Swatches & Review

Hi there :) Today I have three new polishes from Australian indie brand Powder Perfect to share, called the Bermuda Triangle trio! Three intense summer crèmes to flaunt on the beach, at the pool, or wherever you are living it up this season!

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Bermuda is a super bright teal crème. It leans more green in real life but my camera couldn't deal. This was lovely to apply and opaque in two coats. This kind of color tends to stain, so I'd double up on your base coat just in case. However, I didn't notice any staining personally. I really enjoy the Powder Perfect bottle and brush, the design makes it very easy to polish with.

Florida is a striking coral crème, kind of a mix between a neon and a pastel, but not really either one of those haha. This one was a touch on the streaky side, which I have noticed in a lot of coral polishes in this tone. It may be something to do with the pigment type? I used three coats here to cover the streaks but you may get away with two.

Puerto Rico is a summery vibrant purple crème. This formula was really easy and smooth for me, no issues. Opaque in two coats. I am in love with this color! I need to put it on my toes right away!

I was also able to try out their new glossy, quick dry top coat, Lightning Lady. It has a thinner consistency than I'm used to seeing from indies, but it dries pretty quickly and gives a really shiny and hard finish to a manicure. Most of my more plush top coats tend to dry faster, but they don't give me that rock hard surface that this does. Another plus to this gal was zero shrinkage! No matter what I do, with absolutely all my quick dry top coats for the last few years, I seem to experience shrinkage at my cuticles after a few hours of wear. Not the case with Lightning Lady! When I have a bit longer to wait for a perfectly tuned mani, I'll be using this!

You can purchase these at their Australian site http://www.powderperfect.com.au, or their US site http://www.powder-perfect.com. The polishes sell for $10.50 each and the top coat is $11. There is a sale right now where you can get the trio for $29.70 if purchased as a set. And as a special treat, I have a discount code for you (non-affiliate), if you put in KELLIE at checkout on http://www.powder-perfect.com, you can save 10% off your entire purchase! Valid through 7/31/16. Let me know what you think of these pretty bright shades!

❤ Kellie

The products mentioned were provided for an honest review.

Cirque Colors Vice Collection Swatches & Review

Hi there! I'm back with some swatches, yay! Today I have the Cirque Colors Vice collection to share. It's a six piece collection with five uber bright crèmes and a holographic topper.

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First up is C.R.E.A.M., a neon pastel lime crème. This has a great formula, opaque in two coats with minimal streaking, which is not typical of this shade of neon pastel. Excellent!

Lean is a juicy ultra violet jelly crème. This is very vivid in bright light and darker in lower light. I found the consistency on this works the best by using a thin first coat and a thicker second coat for maximum coverage and level-ability. Dries slightly satiny.

Next is Miami-Dade, a bright happy cyan blue crème. This is thinner than the other crèmes, could get streaky if you overwork it. It covered for me in two coats but you may need three depending on your application technique.

Nympho is a bright fuchsia pink jelly crème. This messed with my eyes when I wore it, it was a bit subdued indoors but crazy vivid in full sunlight! Photos do not suffice. I used two coats for full opacity, same type of consistency as Lean.

Here we have Vitamin D, a super pretty neon pastel peach crème. Another easy formula, just like C.R.E.A.M. This was hard to capture accurately due to the neon-ness, it looks more pigmented in real life. Two coats!

And last is We Trippy, a sparkly linear holographic top coat that can turn any shade into a holo stunner! I layered one coat over Lean.

Then I decided to see how it looked over the other shades in the collection. This is one coat over each. Très magnifique!

You can purchase these on www.cirquecolors.com for $13 each or from one of their stockists. This is a limited edition collection, so snatch them up before they disappear! Tell me what you think about this gathering of striking shades!

❤ Kellie

The products mentioned were provided for an honest review.

Look Who's Back! Rescue Beauty Lounge Fall 2012

Hi folks! I am happy to announce the triumphant return of Rescue Beauty Lounge base collection colors Coral, Moulin Rouge, and Grunge! I have wanted these colors since I first became a polish fan and put off getting them until, sadly they were out of stock. The outage unfortunately lasted for a long time. But now they are back! Be sure and learn from my past mistake and grab yours now while you can!

First is Coral, one of my biggest lemmings ever. It is a perfect bright mango pinky coral. Quintessentially happy and fun. As Ji says, this isn't your grandma's coral! Uber fantastic formula, jelly crème buttery goodness. Two coats. Please forgive my slight tip wear, I had to put this on immediately after I got it and wasn't able to get a photo until a few days after. I have a feeling this will be my new go-to pedicure color!

Grunge is a really amazing color. In the realm of a band-aid but better color for my skin tone, but slightly greyer with a subtle pink shimmer glaze. Excellent as a palate cleanser color and lady-like enough to wear in a formal office setting, with just a hint of, well, grunge! Two coats.

This is Moulin Rouge, a red wine crème sultry lady. Oxblood is a super hot trend right now and this is the definition of it. Buttery and shiny with a fab color payoff. It can look more brown in different lights and lights up vampy red in others. Two coats.

You can pick these up on RescueBeauty.com now for $20 each. It'll be the best decision you make all day ;)

Products provided for review.

FingerPaints Gumdrops & Lollipops Collection

Hidey ho everyone :) Today I have to show you the newest collection from FingerPaints, the nail polish brand exclusive to Sally Beauty Supply. The group is called Gumdrops & Lollipops, which instantly brings images of my childhood and playing Candy Land to my mind haha. I like the pastel shades intermingling with brights idea, very Spring.

First up is Blue Raspberry Taffy. It's a bright blue cream, along the lines of the Airhead candy. Opaque and almost chalky, in that mod realm. This is three coats because the formula is not fab. It's rather streaky and thick, actually all of these are. I do like this color and would wear it again.

Here is Lemon Sour, a pale canary yellow cream. Another formula I'm not happy with, thick and streaky.  This is three coats.

Next is Pop Rock Pink. I love this polish, even though it is thick as a mofo. Jelly bright poppy pink with micro glass flecks. Very pretty in real life, hard to translate in a photo. Three coats again, just to build it up since it's a jelly. Key is to apply thin coats and wait for them to dry in between so you don't end up with a mess.

Here is Choco Mint, a delicious shade and a yummy ice cream flavor! This actually turned out to be more blue than I expected, but it still qualifies as mint green. I have a million of this color, and I definitely have some that apply better. Three coats here as well, because of streaks.

Next is Grape Gumball. I don't think of this as a grape, more of a blurple. I like the glass flecks in this and it was the nicest formula in the bunch. Two coats.

Last is Circus Peanuts. When I unpacked these guys, I thought this one was a gonner, as I saw melon color all over the box and other polishes. Fortunately it hadn't broken, just leaked because the lid wasn't on tight. *phew* I hate the candy circus peanuts, they're disgusting and just blech. Fortunately I do like this color, it's just that these pale orange creams don't look great on me. Idk why but that's the way it is. This is two coats.

Overall I like the idea of this collection but not the execution. FingerPaints sell for $4.99 each at Sally Beauty Supply stores and on www.sallybeauty.com.

Products provided for review.

FingerPaints Palette of Petals

Today I have the new Spring FingerPaints Palette of Petals collection, exclusive to Sally Beauty Supply.

Let's start with my favorite shall we? Did You Ast-her Out? is a gorgeous jelly crème bright medium pink. Love these colors for springtime! This had a fabulous formula and was nice looking at two coats but perfect at three. Oh btw, I used a topcoat with all of these swatches, even though I usually don't. They don't dry terribly shiny on their own.

Chrysanthe-mum’s the Word is a bright mint green crème. The formula on this was a tad thick but still reasonably easy to work with. Very spring-y and nice. Three coats.

Aren’t You Glad-iolous? is a funny name, especially if you said it with a pause where the dash is. If you don't, it's alright. I enjoy Gladiolus flowers, they're very pretty. Too bad I didn't care for this polish all that much. I found it very streaky and thick, and the color looked atrocious on me. Three coats.

I thought I would love Dahlia My Number, but I didn't fall head over heels with it once I had her on. It's the only non-crème in the collection, a mid-tone orange with brighter goldish-orange finely ground shimmer. I needed three coats to get this to look opaque so I'm not terribly impressed.

On the other hand, I wasn't sure if I would like Heavenly Hydrangeas, but I ended up really liking it. The "rose" shade, as it was described, looks more like a purple magenta crème to me. This looked great in two coats.

Carnation Creation is the lacquer that I was mostly excited for in this collection, and it didn't disappoint. A bright teal-toned blue, this crème flowed nice and evenly over my nails and was highly pigmented. Two coats for this guy. Too bad he's named after the worst flower ever ;)

What's the verdict on this bright Spring collection? Any favorites? Oh yeah, how cute is that flower ring?! I only got one but I assume they will be sold one to each bottle :) Adorable!

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

These were sent for review.

i'm his coral-friend

i dunno about you kids but i'm not much of a fan when it comes to punctuation in nail polish names. gets too complicated. anyway, this gooooorgeous coral is called i'm his coral-friend and is a part of the summer '08 sunbelievable by opi collection. i totally la la love it and know i will be wearing this baby more than just during the summer months. it just screams look at me. super bright and just pretty! two coats, a little bit of VNL, but it was cool with me. i'm not sure if this is supposed to be a creme or a jelly, it may be a hybrid which is cool. i got a ton of compliments on this guy, and who doesn't love that?! leans a bit more to the red side of orange but still a coral. oooh j'adore :)hope everyone's week is shaping up well ♥

blueberry wink

quick post :) nucolor nc2 blueberry wink

*edit* the brand is from a MLM complany called nuskin, based here in utah, sold internationally. sadly they don't make nail polish anymore, but i have oodles, so i might have to do a giveaway with some soon!

my nephew is in town and we've had a busy week! plus my photo software is being weird so sorry for the shorty post :D love ya!