Revlon Scented - Gum Drop & Mad About Mango

My local CVS had some of these marked down 75% making them just $1.49! So I picked up the two that looked most interesting to me.

The formula on both of these left a good bit to be desired. 

Both were thin and watery requiring 4 coats to reach opacity

Gum Drop

A light purple. The scent smells like generic chewing gum to me.

Mad About Mango

Medium tone orange. The scent was fabulous! A refreshing fruity, definitely mango scent. Delightful.

I wouldn't have paid full price for these, but $1.49 was on par with the quality I got out of them.

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Disappearing Ink Surprise Nail Art

I feel like I've seen this on another blog before, so I'm not claiming this idea is original to myself. The idea of stamping with a UV changing polish over a base polish of similar color.

I used Ruby Wing Crowd Surf over Color Club Power Play, these are exact dupes indoors. 

 Indoors this combination looks like just a simple solid color manicure.

Once outdoors and in the sunlight, the design comes to life! I stamped with a zebra pattern (and first it wasn't opaque enough of a stamp to show on it's own, so I later freehanded over it to "darken" the stripes.) Once the design is stamped or freehanded, make sure you use a topcoat so it smooths the lines nicely.

I think this is a really cool idea for the summer time!

I tried this same concept again with Color Club Get Your Lem-on and Ruby Wing Electric Firefly. I used the skull and crossbones stencil from this set available for $3.89 on Born Pretty.

 

The stencil didn't pull off perfectly cleanly, you can see little flecks of red stuck on my nail. My index nail didn't take the pattern very well at all and it really blobbed up and garbled the design.

I also added a thin freehand line of Electric Firefly for a french tip.

 *The stencil was provided for review by Born Pretty*

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OPI Liquid Sands - Jinx & Honey Ryder

These are part of the OPI Bond Girls Liquid Sand Collection. 

The gritty texture trend in nail polish was a turn off when I first saw swatch pictures. And when I first applied these I had a big case of the heebie jeebies because it felt so.... wrong! But I wore Jinx for 3 days and by the end I had gotten used to it and felt it was pretty cool after all.

They were provided for review by Beyond Polish.

Jinx

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Bright orange/coral with gold glitter. Being a liquid sand, it's meant to have this gritty texture.

Very easy to apply, just 2 coats, dry time is fast.

Honey Ryder

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Light neutral gold tone. This polish seemed less textured than Jinx. 

Pictured is 2 coats. The formula was equally easy to apply.

 

*These were provided for review*

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Ruby Wing - Festival Paint Collection - Electric Firefly & Crowd Surf

These are a few of the color changing Ruby Wing polishes from this summer's collection "Festival Paint."

Electric Firefly

(Can be found here for $10)

Turns from neon yellow with green shimmer (exact dupe for Color Club Get Your Lem-on) to an orange shimmer in the sunlight.

The neon is so bright it'll make your eyes bleed. This is 2 coats over a white polish base.

In direct sunlight, the polish transitions to orange. 

The shimmer is still the same, but it looks less obviously green.

Crowd Surf

(Can be found here for $10)

Changes from neon pink/purple to a deep magenta in sunlight. 

Note that it also dries to a semi-matte/rubbery finish.

Indoors, bright pinkish purple. This is just 2 coats.

In direct sunlight, the color transition is quick.

Here I shielded my index nail from the sun while the other nails darkened. 

Then took a quite shot to compare them side by side.

 

 

 *These products were sent for review as part of the Color Society Bloggers Network*

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OPI - HTF - mystery polish....

This is the third polish that I scored from Goodwill for only 99 cents. It's label is missing so I have no idea which one it could possibly be.... But the simple lettering on the back of the bottle matches the bottle of Plymouth Lox. It's not like the newer OPI bottles that have a lot of lettering and symbols. 

The fill line hits at the horizontal line just below the OPI letters.

It's a warm orange with hints of coral. Creme finish. Pictured is 3 thin coats. The lid of this one was quite stuck and required some effort to get into. Then I had to add a couple of drops of thinner because it was slightly gloopy. Once I thinned it a bit, it applied perfectly.

So do you have any idea what it could be? I don't have much knowledge when it comes to old OPIs. I'd appreciate any help I can get.

Then I decided to use it in some nail art inspired by this look I found through Pinterest.

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OPI - HTF - Back in the Saddle

This is another great black label find at my local Goodwill. I got it for only 99 cents.

The fill line on this bottle was also just barely used.
It hits right at the rim of the bottle well above the OPI lettering.

It's a pumpkin-y orange color with heavy gold shimmer.

2 coats are pictured. Again, despite smelling of toxic old fumes, the formula was still really good and went on smooth.

The label on the bottom is pretty disgusting and damaged. 

I tried to clean it up a bit but it's still difficult to read. 

In the sunlight I managed to make out that it's 4 words long and the last word is "Saddle" so my online digging leads me to believe it's "Back in the Saddle" from the "Wild Wild West" collection from 1999. The color seems to match.

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China Glaze - Life Preserver

I like wearing orange in the fall. It's very harvest-y.

This is 2 coats of Life Preserver.

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Sally Hansen Lustre Shine - Lava

Finally some pictures of the other Lustre Shine I bought recently. Pictured is 3 thin coats. It is quite sheer, my nails are short now, but if they were much longer I would probably choose to layer it over another polish. There is visible nail line.

The color shifts from reddish pink to bright orange. Lots of glassflecks :)

Here is an underwater shot to try and better show the color shift. Too bad it's blurry and the water has bubbles! Lol. So sorry!

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