*Giveaway!* And 4th of July NOTD

Hello Independence Day! I love America! That being said, here's a repost of the giveaway so everyone can have a chance of winning OPI DS Sapphire, one of my favorite holographic polishes. After the Rafflecopter, you'll see my 4th of July mani.


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This year's mani is 2 coats of Hits Ares with China Glaze Frostbite tips with a star stamped with Color Club Worth the Risque.

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And here is my last mani, OPI DS Temptation + Lynnderella Bibbitty Bobbitty Boo Blue + Lynnderella Bride of Franken. And lots of topcoat:

Hits Mari Moon Cool

This is the other polish that I got from Llarowe last week because of her winner every 10th order promotion. Quite crafty of her to lure me with contests... I am quite the gambler *misses Vegas terribly*. But I definitely do not regret buying this polish, it's mesmerizing!!! It is like a warmer, more pigmented, more AWESOME version of Chanel Peridot. It has a warm golden center that flashes from grassy green through aqua to blue to almost indigo. It got the approval of Mr. Fancy Pants Ricardo at our Lancome National Makeup Artist Event and his traveling artist Dustin. My hand was grabbed and fawned over, I loved it!

The formula on this was kind of a beast: thick and brush strokey with a brush from hell. But a little thinner made it easy to apply, and for some reason I like the metallic brush strokey finish. It wore amazingly well. I only wear polish for a day, but this mani lasted throughout the craziness of our event yesterday with only miiiiinimal tipwear.

For these swatches I did three coats of Mari Moon Cool with one coat of Seche Vite. I gave each coat a couple minutes to dry because I tend to get baaaad bubbling with these tops of chromes. But I only got a couple bubbles, so I'm pleased!

Hits Artsy, in all its glory

As anyone who has seen my nail polish closet will tell you, I have a LOT of nail polish. Among my most precious are my Sally Hansen Nail Prisms. I am always hesitant to use them because they are very expensive to replace. But when I found out that Llarowe sells the Hits Mari Moon polishes I got so excited. Almost all of the Mari Moon polishes are dupes for either Ozotic multichromes or the Nail Prisms. Today I'll be showing you Hits Artsy, which is a dupe for Sally Hansen Nail Prism Garnet Lapis, one of my faaaavorites. So many colors, like an oil slick. So I'll do my best to document them all here for you.

Artsy is also a dupe for my new shiny earrings from Macy's!

Hits no Olimpo Ares w/ funky french (red HOLO!)

So... a red holo is a rare and beautiful thing to find. Especially under $15 a bottle. They always tend to be too pink or too orange. Here is the beauty that is Hits no Olimpo Ares, a gorgeous red jelly holographic polish that just looks juicy and sparkly and awesome! I did one coat of Ares over one coat of Lancome's no. 22 red jelly. The formula on Ares was nice, thick but not gummy. The brush was eeeevil incarnate: little prickly bristles sticking out everywhere. Rawr.

 

Yikes! My nails are getting long. I was gonna cut them down a bit, until someone at work complimented on how they can't be real! :) We like this.

Although the version my work people saw was with french tips of OPI Take the Stage. I was trying to figure out what color would compliment the red that wasn't Christmassy, Valentine-y, or gothic, so I chose ORANGE.

You can get your own bottle of Ares at Llarowe's website . Where you can get all those hard to find holographic and multichrome polishes. A wonderland of polish goodness!

Hits Speciallito No Olimpo Afrodite - pink holo!

Now, I was asking for some polishes for Christmas, and had the hard task of limiting myself to Llarowe's site, and keeping myself under five polishes. I tried not to get dupes to the dozens of holos I already have, and one I would actually wear. I have two different types of Spectraflair pigment, so I wanted to get some polishes that I had tried to dupe, and had failed. So I ordered Hits Ares (red holo), Hits Atena (DS Exclusive dupe-ish), and Hits Afrodite. Afrodite was my wild card because I have some pink holos, but none with this warm pink tone. So here are some swatches of two coats of Afrodite with one coat of Seche Vite :).

Check out this gorgeous jellyness!

It's definitely not red in real life, more like a warm coral pink.