Nail Polish I Wore In Real Life Vol. 4

It's Saturday and I'm feeling great! How are you doing my friends? I've got another few polishes to show you today that I wore as a full manicure in real life! Oooh, aaahh! Imagine that, a nail polish blogger actually wearing nail polish ;)

KBShimmer Make My Gray is from their Spring 2014 collection. It is a pale grey crelly with a mix of glitters in turquoise, coral pink, and gunmetal. I don't know why I always expect these glitter-crelly polishes to be difficult to apply, they almost never are. Maybe because they look so complex I unconsciously imagine that getting this look should take more effort. Anyway, this was easy to apply and opaque in two coats. Tons of glitter. I purchased this from their website for $8.75.

I can't believe I didn't own China Glaze Sun Of A Peach until now. It's from their Summer 2013 collection Sunsational that I almost completely skipped. It's super popular and is included in China Glaze's core line now. The formula is pretty much awful, it's streaky, patchy and generally a pain in the butt to apply. BUT LOOK! So neon it's impossible to photograph accurately, and just crazy beautiful. This is three difficult coats, but I love it. It also dries matte like a true neon so top coat that shiz! I purchased this from Sally Beauty Supply for around $6.50.

And last is Essie Chillato, from this summer's Peach Side Babe collection . I posted a review on my picks from that collection a while ago and it didn't include this one, but this color just kept calling to me! I needed it. I bought it. I regret nothing! It's a unique green tinged pastel yellow. Essie calls it "pistachio green" but I think it's more of a lemon lime shade. Another difficult formula, very streaky, a little bubbly, and it took three coats to even out. But I adore it and I don't care. I bought this from my local CVS for $8.50.

So what do you think of these picks for my recent manicures? If you're interested in this series, you can see my other posts here. Thanks for visiting me today and we'll see you again soon!

❤ Kellie

My Picks from the Essie Summer 2015 Peach Side Babe Collection Swatches & Review

What's up yo? Today I have my two polish picks from the Essie Peach Side Babe collection for Summer 2015. There were six polishes available: a peach I didn't get because I have a zillion similar shades, a shimmery white I didn't care for swatches I'd seen of, a red that I didn't need, a pale greenish yellow which I've heard has formula issues (but I think I'm gonna go back and get), and two blues. I bought the blues because I had heard the formulas on them were on point, and believe me, they are!

This is Pret-a-surfer, which means "ready to surf" in French. Oh. My. Wow. I love blues and this is such a creamy, dreamy kind of different shade of deep periwinkle than I already have in my collection that I had to have it. It's slightly dusty and just a hair purple tinted, it's definitely a French blue. This is close to Suite Retreat from the Spring collection, which I didn't get because it wasn't quite exactly the shade of blue I wanted it to be, and this totally is! It's a one coat wonder, excellent, perfect, amazing formula. You need it!

And this is Salt Water Happy, which is the cutest name. It's a pale beachy blue crème. I was also blown away by the formula on this guy, two easy dreamy coats. Pastels are usually always three coaters for me so I was really really pleased with the opacity and self-leveling abilities of this. I was so excited by this when I swatched it that I ran around shoving my fingers in my family's faces saying "Look how good this is!! It's amazing!", but of course no one understood. But you do, right?

This collection should be out now in stores. I usually pick up Essie's at my local CVS, which is where I got these. What do you think of these two blue babes? The other one from this collection I'm probably going to pick up is Chillato. I can deal with the formula issues because it's one of those colors I keep thinking about and regretting not buying haha. You'll probably see it on my blog soon ;)

Thanks for coming by today and don't forget to enter my giveaway, it ends on the 14th!

❤ Kellie

The products mentioned were purchased by me.