Ninja Polish - Ambrosia

Hi!  I have an amazing polish to show you today, Ninja Polish Ambrosia.  Anna got me Ambrosia and Pacific Coral for my birthday last month and I've been wearing them non-stop.  I really think I could wear Ambrosia for a month straight and never get sick of it.  This description from Ninja Polish is absolutely perfect:  am·bro·sia (amˈbrōZH(ē)ə) Noun - The nectar of the gods. Ninja Polish Ambrosia from the Enigma collection is a simply sweet taste for the eyes. It's hot pink jelly-ish base is the ideal consistency to not only cover in 2 coats but also to show off the gentle shimmer. Don't look away as you as you twiddle your fingers or you might miss the delicate color shifts in the shimmer! We hope you will find this polish as delectable as the nectar of the Gods....

I used Rejuvacote Base, 2 coats of Ambrosia and SV.  This polish wore like iron.  I wore it for 5 days straight without one chip or tip wear.  

What do you think?  Do you own any of the polishes from the Enigma Collection?  They all so gorgeous! 

Enchanted Polish - sPINKled

I'm going to start off by apologizing for showing you this amazing polish that is basically impossible to get.  Sorry.  But not sorry.  Because it's too beautiful to hide.  Many moons ago, I saw this post from Crystal's Crazy Combos and I knew I had to have sPINKled.  I'm really, really bad at keeping up with polish restocks (I just took a break from this post because that reminded me that I wanted Pretty Serious The Pink One and it was restocked yesterday. Got it! Score!) and I always forget.  sPINKled was a limited edition polish that randomly pops up in the Enchanted restocks Anyway, a sweet girl in my nail polish world let me know she saw it on a blog sale and I snapped it up!

I would described sPINKled as a hot pink jelly base with various sized black glitter and scattered holo glitter.  Basically, heaven in a bottle.  I used three coats for the swatches below and one thick coat of Seche Vite top coat.  I love everything about this polish!

What do you think?  Do you love it as much as I do?  Was it worth months of waiting and internet stalking?  I say yes.

NOTD: Revlon Entice

Here's another summery color for you, Revlon Brilliant Strength Entice. I'll have to do a comparison post soon, but it's a slightly darker, brighter version of OPI Mermaid's Tears. The brush and formula are great — barely any cleanup required — but as I mentioned in my review of Impress, the smell is enough to make your eyes water, so use it in a room with open windows! Must be something in it that gives it it's brilliant strength?

Revlon Brilliant Strength Entice, two coats plus top coat

Mod Lacquer

Hello! Today I have an awesome new-to-me indie line to show you guys. When I got the opportunity to try this polish, I jumped on it! Mod Lacquer offers all kinds of polishes. From holos to glitter toppers to jelly based glitter, I'm kind of hooked. I also really dig the bottle shape.

Ok first up is 8-Bit Digits, a fine multi-color neon glitter polish in a clear base. Let me show you the undies I used on their own. Alfresco from the new Sinful Shine line of Sinful Colors polish. What a gorgeous bright cornflower blue!

I used two coats of 8-Bit Digits over Alfresco for the swatches below. I topped it with HK Girl topcoat to get it smooth and shiny.

Dreamland is a lavender creme that has tiny sparks of rainbow colors from the micro holographic glitter. I love this polish so much! It's such a Robin color. And as I'm writing this I remember I was supposed to send it to her but I completely forgot to give it to Erin to put in the next package of nail mail! Oh well. I guess I get to keep it! She's totally not gonna read this, right?

Under the OTT light

In sunlight

Sunlight

OTT light

Nonpareils is a milky white jelly base with a variety of different sizes and colors of glitter. I love the mix of tiny glitter with the larger hexes and squares. The only problem I had was with the milky white jelly base. It was a bit milkier than I expected and I wasn't able to get full jelly coverage with the thin coats I was using. Two coats alone for the swatch below.

But I love the look of these glitters! Let's try it with a different base. Two coats of Essie Marshmallow make for good white jelly underwear.

Then I added two coats of Nonpareils over top. Perfect!

How fun are these polishes? I'm so impressed with Mod Lacquer and I can't wait to add more to my stash. Have you tried Mod Lacquer yet? You can purchase from their etsy shop and keep up with new collections on Facebook.

**The products featured in this post were provided for an honest review**

Revlon Impress

Do you have a CVS ExtraCare card? If you don't, you should get one! It gives you coupons and you can earn "ExtraCare Bucks" with your purchases, which is how I managed to get this bottle of Revlon Brilliant Strength for a whopping 42¢!

Revlon Impress

Impress is a kind of wet cement color, a beige-greeny-gray or maybe what the military would call an olive drab? In any case, it's different from my other grays and a welcome addition. I really like the brush and bottle shape but I have to warn you that the smell is awful! It's like when you squash a stinkbug, it's that bad. But the formula is fabulous and I got several days wear out of it. I haven't found the colors in this line to be terribly original but this particular one stood out and I'm glad I got it. One can never have enough neutrals, right? Just be sure to use it near an open window!

Discount Discovery: Revlon VIP

The Ocean State Job Lot near me has been getting a lot of Revlon polishes lately, sometime even current LE displays, so I've been checking them out regularly. Revlon had some awards themed collection last summer and Job Lot had the whole collection! I got a few of them but VIP was the big winner — when I wore it all my friends wanted it, too, so I went back and cleaned them out of that particular color. Revlon should give me a commission!

Revlon VIP

The formula was great and the color is different enough from the many mushroomy taupe colors that it stood out, which surprised me because I had definitely passed on it at full price when I saw the collection at CVS. Totally worth $2, though!

Discount Discovery: Sephora by OPI Let's Do Lunch

What a fun thing to do on a rainy Saturday, having lunch with friends, right? On a recent get-away weekend with some of my friends I visited the Marshall's in the mall next to our hotel and spotted some Sephora by OPI polishes marked down to $4 and was quite pleased to find Let's Do Lunch, a peachy shade with golden highlights.

Sephora by OPI Let's Do Lunch

This is a refreshingly juicy color and it's packed full of gold shimmer, which really sets the color off nicely on the nail, giving it that extra something.

Lots and lots of shimmer!

I now have a few colors of Sephora by OPI that I've found at either Marshall's or TJ Maxx — what's showing up at the ones near you?

NOTD — Essie Island Hopping

Tropical Storm Andrea is hitting the area right about now so I'm pretending I'm in the tropics (not very successfully, I might add, because it's also pretty chilly here.) I'm listening to vacation-y music to help set the mood and I painted my nails with Essie Island Hopping, a lovely delicate pinkish mauve.

Essie Island Hopping

This is one of the polishes I got when I couldn't find butter LONDON Toff because I was in the mood for a neutral with a little pop of color. It's part of their core line of colors so it should be easy to find.

Stay dry, all of you on the East Coast!

Aphrodite Lacquers - Flirty & Coy

***Polish provided for review.***

Hi!  Today I have a couple polishes from Aphrodite Lacquer's latest collection, Pink Is The New Black.  As always, Aphrodite knows how to do glitter.  And sometimes I think Rebecca gets in my brain and uses all my favorite colors to make her collections.  I'm serious.  Lavender glitter?  My dream.

Let's start off with Coy, made up of many sized satin purple hexes and satin white hexes, with a purple and silver shimmer in a clear base.  I died when I saw this polish.  I could have lavender nails every day.  It's my neutral polish, my go to polish.  I love it.  I layered one and half coats of Coy over Essie She's Picture Perfect and this combo is f%^&ing perfect.  I've had it on for three days with not one chip or tip wear and I refuse to take it off.  

  Flirty is up next.  Pink, gahhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Flirty is described as:  neon pink sheerish base with blueish purple and pink shimmer packed full of different neon pinks, several different satin and matte pinks, satin and matte whites, blacks, a couple different color pink daisies, a few diff sizes of circle glitters, holos.  I layered two coats of Flirty over Pretty Serious The Pink One.  This combo is a pink explosion and I love it.  I should mention that I didn't get any pink daisies on my nails but that's fine because I don't like flower glitter!

What do you think of these polishes?  Coy is a must have for me!

Aphrodite Lacquer can be purchased on Etsy for $9 for a full size bottle.  Check their Facebook page for details and restocking updates. 

*This polish was sent to me for my honest review.  All opinions are my own.***

Rainbow Honey - Fab Summer Set

***This polish was provided for my honest review.  All opinions are my own.***

Hey everyone!  Today I have the Rainbow Honey's Fab Summer Set and I love it!  Exclusive to Fab, the Fab Summer Set is as refreshing as a cold sip of freshly squeezed lemonade. This set of three includes a dazzling array of shimmering polishes: kelly green, deep coral, and a sparkly lacquer that glitters with holographic flecks. Paint yourself in a beautiful new light. -fab

tenda is a bright kelly green lacquer with golden shimmer

costa del sol is a shimmery lacquer full of iridescent and holographic glitters ready to add some sun and sparkle to your manicure

schrammi is a deep coral lacquer with golden shimmer

Please excuse the tip wear!  I wore this polish for days!

I really love this collection.  I wore Schrammi for almost 5 days and got tons of compliments on it.  Costa Del Sol added an amazing bling to it and I'm such a sucker for gold holographic glitter.  Tenda isn't a color I would normally be into but I love the gold flecks in the bright grass green.  

The FAB Summer Set is now available through fab.com for a limited time only. Each set contains 3 full size 15ml nail lacquers designed exclusively for FAB by Rainbow Honey. $25. While supplies last. For more information visit http://fab.com/designer/rainbow-honey/

***This polish was provided for my honest review.  All opinions are my own.***