The New Black Ombre in Waves

I really wasn't planning to keep doing swatches of ombre packs by The New Black, but it went with my dress, so I had to go with the flow and follow what the cute dress dictated. The finish on these did vary, but I use Nails Inc. Caviar top coat to speed things along. I had to run out the door quickly this morning. There was a glitter finish and the medium green on my middle finger ran more of a satin finish,to a jelly on my ring finger, the thumb and pinky your standard creme finish. But I thought it would be fair to mention without a top coat there are purposely different finishes to the set of polishes.
This set of The New Black ombre polishes is called Waves and runs from deep bluish teal to a glitter to a sweet pastel mint. As I was in a rush, I took the pictures as I was done and then had to dash, so clean up. Precious little, but you can see just how pretty a look this is. I just can't get over how nice these New Black polishes are. The shades are really well chosen.

I purchased this set at Beauty.com

Updates! The New Black Ombre, Unicorn Madness. L'Oreal.

Behind again. That's me. Just getting going and behind on my own schedule. At least the schedule I'd hope to keep with posting daily. Let's get my unicorn silliness out of the way then onto the polishes!

Shading isn't done, but four hours of sternum work, arf! Mind the shine from the ointment, next level creepy with shine. :) One more unicorn to catch up. Bear with me lol.

Pulled from my IG stream. This is my Peperino, from the Tokidoki Unicorno line of toys. So cute.

Polish time! I did end up buying another polish from the L'Oreal Project Runway line, this one is called The Queen's Ambition.

I am hoping this will keep me from being remotely tempted (doubt it!)from buying Illamasqua's new polish Creator as it is almost a third of the price. The Queen's Ambition, I tried it on, will swatch it properly, and do better in future swatches...is a basic black polish with fine silver glitter. Perfect for Halloween when you usually see this sort of thing, but with me a favorite all year round. This dries fairly quickly, but looks quite flat, the glitter has a nice sheen but if you want the polish to jump out at you, definitely a top coat or two would not be remiss. I bought this at RiteAid. Super cute.

Without going into too much detail, this summer I've undergone two surgeries, and spent my summer in bed, so picking a polish and staying with it was a big choice since I had to be immobile with my arms a lot of the time. So when I did change my polish I would wear one of these fantastic Ombre packs from The New Black.

Absolutely adore these. They look great as a pedicure as well. Here is a close up of the collection of pinks called Floyd.

I bought these via, Urban Outfitters, Beauty.com and Sephora.com.

New Hard Candy (Wal-Mart) Polish in Sweet P

I love this polish, it is cute and festive as all get out, it looks like the color of the Grinch, but if he was made out of glitter! Was so pleased with the look I didn't pause for clean up (and glitter clean up with Poshe on top, come on! pop, pop, off) because I was excite to post the pictures!

Unfortunately with these super size and loose rings, I've lost this green one already. Will have to take a good hunt for it, it can't have gotten too far, unless the vacuum has conquered it. XD

Amazingly one coat is sparse and you expect three or four for amazing coverage, but two did the trick, I was surprised, I only really used the Poshe to cover the glitter's gritty feel on the nail.

Hoping to be able to get another year's usage out of my old HD polish of Icky Eggnog, used a thinner but it is looking like it might just be passed it, but will give it a go. Have loads more greens and reds to post, so I need to step it up as it is already the tenth. Woah, it is moving quite along!.

Inside, two coats, top coat of Poshe.

Outside,show's the shade the best here, imho.

Ulta Starstruck Polish

Let me start out by saying I couldn't at all capture any where near half how gorgeous this appears on the nail. This is just chock full of glittery goodness, three coats (could have gone with two, but really wanted to be hog wild with immersion) strong with Poshe, and even before I put the Poshe on the coats were fairly quick to dry and with some glitters that is quite an amazing feat in and of itself.

Also I haven't notice any side corner chunks coming off yet, I always hate how that some times can happen with a glitter laden polish how the corner tips can slough off fairly quickly into the mani's shelf life.

Indoors.

Outdoors, sunlight.

Zoya Indigo Polish

I decided to leave the bottle picture bigger so you could see the multi colored glitter flecks in the polish. When applied they really aren't prevalent on, but they are there and will catch the odd light here and there. Quite pretty.

I need to get some vaseline so I can try the tip about clean, this pooled a fair bit around my cuticles the Poshe kinda 'helped' that out too. Two coats of Zoya's Indigo with a top coat of Poshe. Indoor lighting.

Outdoor light, slightly overcast.

Wasn't able to capture the glitter effect, but it is hard to see even when looking for it with the bare eye, it is a pretty surprise that catches the eye sometimes. Maybe with a third coat, hmmm.

Hope everyone is having an excellent week-end!

Nyx Asphalt Polish

I've been so excited to give this one a turn, it is Nyx polish in Asphalt. Which is a black base polish with rainbow glitter, it is wildly fun. Love it! This is two coats with of course a top off of Poshe.

Indoor lighting.

Outdoors in sunlight.

And I'd caved on my no buy this month, and bought three Zoya polishes. Indigo with it's multi colored glitter I couldn't resist, and of course I couldn't stop at one so to keep it company on it's journey with it came Rihana and Dita.

Petite Haul,Mad About Mango Polish, Smith's Lippy

Humming, coming atcha. Or something.

Righty, here's Mad About Mango, another of Revlon's scented line. I was surprised how well I liked it on, it pools a bit, but more fault lays with the fact of my application, must try and master applying above instead or right down in there. The scent, well it smells like any and all kinds of Hubba Bubba gum, ever, stronger than Not so Blue-Berry that's for sure. ^^

Here's my petite Nyx haul, three polishes that came in a box that could have shipped twenty, lol. These are gorgeous.

From left to right is Titanic,Purple Avenue and Asphalt. I'd had to have Asphalt after seeing swatches, anything black and with any hint of rainbow I must get my greedy mitts on.

Decided to try on Purple Avenue first, it has this amazing large chunky holographic glitter, reminds me of some Nfu Oh's. I'm wearing three coats and it gives this light flush of purple to the nails, I like how subtle it is. Bet this would be forgiving if you chipped it. Also this would make a dead lovely top coat. But I do recommend a clear coat over it, not from lack of shine but that not all the glitter lays flat, it is more of a bumpy texture.

Lastly, have to go on about Smith's Minted Rose Lip Balm.

I didn't take a picture inside, because the pot has seen a lot of use and you don't need to see that lol. Horrors! But I must say how lovely it feels, there is a hint of peppermint that isn't over bearing and rose oils. The shade is a reddish pink that goes on quite sheer for just a tint of pink, it moisturizes and is glossy. Lips feel very kissy in it. (Is that a word? XD) Highly recommend it!

Hot Topic Turquoise/Pink Glitter

Here are the two that I couldn't resist from hot topic, one is Turquoise and Hot Pink Glitter and the other is Teal.

This is two coats of the Turquoise and Hot Pink. Was good coverage and dried fast despite it being sort of globby in bottle. It did do a little bit of tip shrinkage on like two tips, so it isn't that bad or super noticeable unless you are looking for it. These run $2.99 a pop.

And here's a close up.

My SOTU box set came yesterday, it was everything and more than I hoped it would be!

Dirty Nerdy!