L.A. Colors - Cactus

Howdy friends :D Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! You rock. Mostly for doing something I never plan on doing haha, ye are much braver than I!

Today I have a short little swatch for ya. I found this at the dollar store, holla! It's from L.A. Color's Color Craze line, called Cactus. I expected it to be more gold than green, but as you can see it's mainly green. The base is dark, basically black, but the microshimmer overcomes it totally and you mainly see the metallic goldy green of the glitter. This is three coats. Very fast dry time. This is a picture on the third day, as evidenced by the slight tipwear.

Have a good day hunnies!

l.a. girl rockstar punk

this polish rocks. and it is literally called so. rockstar! the l.a. girl company puts out little collections in these funky shaped bottles with the collection name on them which i think is way cool. this one called punk is a midnight blue with glass fleck shimmer that also happens to be a duochrome that shows purple on it's angles. yay! love love this guy!

two polishes i don't love

the first polish i don't love that i have to show you right now is called anita be me by icing. with a name that adorable and being from my beloved icing, how could i not want it?? that's right, i could not NOT want it. so i scooped it up. also it was in a half off bin so twice the score right? wrong. apparently, old non-big-3-free polishes by icing have this ugly swirly design on the side and a flower design on the cap of the handle and this thing had that. how did i come to to this conclusion? well, by common sense, as none of my other icing polishes have these. and by googling it of course, but also by smelling its hideous chemically smell when the cap came off. ewww. but whatev, i gave it a go anyway. it had holographic sparkles for gawd sakes, and it's GOLD! and you knnnooooowwww i cannot resist gold. the result is below:

fail. ugly, unfocused pictures aside...it's just not pretty IMO. and it smells. i literally groan when i see this polish in my stash. anyone who wants to swap for it?? it's YOURS!

the second guy that i really wanted to like is copper by l.a. colors. pretty plain name, not especially exciting in the bottle, but i was on a brown kick so i was game. and it was at the dollar store. so i was like "woot woot, score, woot yeahhhh i'm so down with cheap pretty polish WOOT!". and then i got it on my fingernails and i pretty much figured out why it was only a dollar. nothing in particular was horrible about it, it just wasn't good. bad, thick but watery formula, ugly color that was not flattering on me, and the brush was the wonkiest shortest thing i've ever seen. no bueno.

welp, as i've said before, they can't all be winners. and again, if anyone wants to trade for these *ahem* lovely polishes i would be more than willing. just send me an email :D