Gold Polish Comparison Swatches Part 2

I seem to have accidently created a nail polish blog. The recent abundance of polish posts can be, in part, attributed to my recent Official Stash Reorganization Project. While I've been compiling and categorizing, I thought it would be a good opportunity to post swatches, for my own purposes, mainly, but I hope others might find them helpful. Nail polish is something I enjoy, and will remain a part of this weird little, ill-read blog, but I hope to get back into the swing of posting my random thoughts, and some pictures of cats. You know, the important things in life.

Until then, there are the rest of the gold polish swatches. All photos are clickable and taken in a lightbox, and the polish is shown with a topcoat, but without a basecoat. Part 1 is here. Please pardon the lobster hands and overly acetone-d cuticles.

Glitter! I love shiny things, and an abundance of glitter never fails to make me happy. I really can't believe I don't have more gold glitter polishes. I did two coats of each to show the relative density of glitter. Milani Jewel FX Gold (I hope the official polish namer didn't get paid too much for that one) is a bit of a pain to layer over things, as it's difficult to distribute the glitter evenly, but it looks great by itself, as demonstrated by Scrangie. 

Comet and Fireworks were both Holiday 2010, limited edition releases by Wet 'n' Wild. I had assumed that they were just the same polish in different bottles (yet, I bought both), but am glad to see I was wrong. Basically, Fireworks is comet with small silver glitter. I think WnW has released Fireworks under a different name (as they tend to do) at some point, and hope they do so again, especially if they also bring back my favorite of that collection, Tipsy. 

Gold Rush is the perfect small, gold, glitter topcoat, and I suggest if you can still find the Cover Girl Boundless Color Collection, that you snatch it up, along with City Lights (tiny holo glitter topcoat). 

Gold Polish Comparison Swatches Part 1

Here are a few comparison photos I did yesterday. They are mostly golds (all of the commercial golds in my collection, that I could find easily - my mom has custody of at least one). I tried to match them up by similar color, but I haven't worn some, and don't remember others, so I did a few repeats to be thorough. All are without base coat (sorry about the ridges), but with topcoat and taken in my DIY lightbox, unless otherwise noted. My cuticles are terrible, especially after having been subjected to copious amounts of acetone. Consider yourself forewarned.

The pictures are large (and clickable) to show detail, so they may take awhile to load. Most of the pictures are hiding behind the cut.

Let's get the non-golds out of the way.

no topcoat

Zoya Tiffany and Wet 'n' Wild Waves of Enchantment are similar, but WoE is brighter and pinker with smaller gold particles.

no topcoat

OPI What's With the Cattitude and Wet 'n' Wild Bird Bath are dupes as far as I can tell. I walked around and checked them in different light, but couldn't differentiate the two. My super pale skin with yellow undertones makes this look different on me than it does on the rest of humanity. I tried to edit it so that it appears the way it does on everyone else, but I gave up.

sunlight

Sale Shopping

Yesterday, my mom and I did a little shopping. We tend to shop rarely, but buy in quantity when we do. Because of this, we love big sales. Our mission was simply to buy some cat food (there ended up being a sale at the pet store!) and to hit the CVS beauty clearance. We've done this before, so we discussed which local CVS would be best, and planned our route accordingly. While we were out, we decided to run to the local Coldwater Creek Outlet. Lucky for us, it happened to be the last day of their 50% off sale. Here's a quick rundown of what I nabbed.

CVS
Most of what I got wasn't actually on sale, and I totally forgot my coupon wallet, oops. But, my mom did stock up on some dirt cheap beauty essentials, and I got a few limited edition polishes (mostly Wet 'n' Wild).

*Wet 'n' Wild Nail Pail

All of the polish in the pail, came in the pail, along with some other things I gave to my mom. The polishes in front are other WnW purchases, listed below.

I Still Have Nails

I haven't posted anything nail polish related for quite some time, and that's sad. What's even sadder, is that my nails are in horrid shape, and I haven't been keeping them polished. *gasp* In reality, it's kind of a good thing. Not only have I been keeping my hands busy making things, I haven't been chewing my nails, which is why I started my nail polish habit in the first place.

I did manage to do an Easter/pastel theme, though I didn't get around to adding the Konad stamping I'd planned. Also, the polish bubbled, and I didn't have time to fix it. :( There was food to be made, and food is generally more important.

Without further adieu, my Easter polish, and slap-dash mehndi.

 Orly Lemonade, NYC Hint of Mint, OPI What's With the Cattitude, OPI Rumples Wiggin', Wet 'n Wild Tickled Pink

I'll spare you the foot henna, and mention that the last photo is on my right hand. I'm right handed, so the combination of applying henna and taking the photo with my left hand led to a bit of fuzziness.

TWIP - This Week in Polish

Again, this is a bit more than a week...

China Glaze Blue Sparrow

Wet 'n Wild Black Creme and Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure

Nicole by OPI Sensational Scarlet and Spark My Mistletoe 

I really love this combo, it is subtle (well, as subtle as red, holo glitter can be) yet adds so much depth.

Blurred to show the sparkle

Wet 'n Wild Black Creme with Color Club Revvvolution toward the tip, and stamped with yellow Konad polish.

This was my Super Bowl mani. I didn't watch the Super Bowl. I missed the Puppy Bowl.

An unnamed franken, greyed lavender with realllly secret shimmer.

Space Nails

This is what I wore to a lecture by Alan Bean to open the NASA/ART exhibit at the Clay Center.

He was very good, you should see him if you get the chance. 

Here's what I used. The three Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear bottles in the front are frankens called Center of the Milky Way, It's Alright 'Cause It's Midnight, and Dark Matter. The others are, from left to right, Borghese Purple Confetti and Mediterraneo Sea, Sally Hansen CSM Dive Deeper and Naked Ambition, and Wet 'n Wild Fast Dry Blue Wants To Be A Millionaire?.

These were both mentioned above, Blue Want's To Be A Millionaire and Revvvolution. This is another one I'm tempted to call subtle, but it's blue, and patterned, and holo. Still, it's subtle for me!

Valentine's Day Mani
About 3 million coats of Nicole by OPI Blush of Adrenaline (I should have just used OPI Samoan Sand, my go to "mannequin hand" color).

OPI Parlez-Vous OPI?
 (I picked this one up at Target a few months ago.)

Wet 'n Wild Rock Solid Rockin' In Rubies
I love these bottles, I buy them whenever I find them on clearance. The little jewel on the top gets me every time.

Emi inspired
China Glaze Ingrid and black Konad Special Polish