OPI Rumples Wiggin'

*OPI Rumples Wiggin'*
(2 coats)


Rumples Wiggin is a pretty generic pastel purple that came out with the OPI Shrek Collection. When this came out last year it seemed like literally every single company was doing the same collection of pastels, which was pretty boring. But anyway, I always get a lot of use out of Rumples Wiggin, and it is one of my few OPI bottles that actually shows significant usage. In my opinion Rumples Wiggin' dries a little "chalky" if that makes sense but it didnt bother me to much.

Also,the shrek collection is 2 for 10$ at Ulta right now...and you can use a 3.50$ off 10$ coupon. Therefore getting 2 OPI's for 7.50! I would have taken advantage of this but I have every color from the Shrek collection except for Ogre the top Blue. Plus I'm on a no-buy. (so I tell myself)

I think thats it. Yeah.

OPI Houston We Have A Takeoff ?

*OPI Houston We Have A Purple*
(2 coats)

Haha when I got this polish and was telling my sister about it I said "Yeah, it's one of the new sorbet things. Its called houston we have a purple...you know like Houston we have a takeoff!"

...what? Dunno what I was thinking haha but my sister thought it was funny :)

Anyway Houston We Have A Purple is the darkest shade of the Texas jellies. Most people say it doesnt look purple at all, but I think it does lean purple in certain lights. I thought this would be my favorite of the jellies, but I think I like the others better.

meh, not much else to say really. It's kind of rainy and gross where I live so my mood has matched that, I spent the day watching sex & the city (which I dont even like that much) and then like 5 solid hours of Project Runway.

Is anyone going to be sporting Zoya Sooki in honor of True Blood coming back on Sunday? I'm MUCHO excited because I'm so sad Game of Thrones is over but True Blood will ease the pain :D

OPI Steady As She Rose

*OPI Steady As She Rose*
(2 coats, no topcoat)

At first look, Steady As She Rose may fade to the background next to the other pirates of the Caribbean colors, but it is one of my favorites! Steady as she Rose is a grey-ed out light pink-y purple shade, pretty unique! And the big bonus here is that it is opaque in 2 coats :D

The PotC collection really crept up on me...I didnt think I would like it at first but it is definitely my favorite OPI collection in a long time. I still need to get my hands on Mermaid's Tears and Sparrow Me the Drama...I'm thinking of getting those Sinful Colors dupes that came out.

In other news I finally got a good quality nail file and my life has changed! Haha, seriously I didnt know what I was missing out on...it works so beautifully! So if you dont have one I highly suggest picking one up!

Yep. Have an awesome day!

OPI Stranger Tides

*OPI Stranger Tides*
(2 coats)


While I still firmly believe that the colors of the POtC collection are not especially pirate-y..I still love them! I ended up only passing on Mermaids Tears (I have $OPI Read My Palm which seems close) and Sparrow Me The Drama.

Stranger Tides is a dusty murked out green avocado-y shade. I found the brushes on the pirates shades to be stiffer than usual but that could just be me. Above was 2 coats, but it definitely needed 3 due to bald patching which I didnt notice at first.

It pulls a little weird on my skin tone but that never stops me haha...though a better option may have been Essie Da Bush which is a little different toned and has a better formula I hear.


I'm waiting on an AveYou.com order to come and then going on a 9-10 month no buy. Yeah, can you believe that? I'm saving money to go on a school trip to Italy which is of course VERY expensive. So for Christmas I'll probably only ask for polishes haha because I'm major lemming the Muppets collection!


Have a great night guys!

OPI Austin-tatious Turquoise

*OPI Austin-tatious Turquoise* (Did I even spell that right?)
(2 coats)

This polish is really awesome! I'd say it is my favorite out of the Texas collection. It is a bright lake blue color with beautiful shimmer flecks and a SLIGHT duo-chrome...it has a killer purple shift to it. Only complaint would be that 3 coats would definitely be needed for full opacity, but I knew I was going to use the Shatter over it so I really didnt care about the VNL. Like all OPI collections, I find myself steadily getting more and more of the Texas collection without even realizing it haha :)

I'm very excited because my local supermarket just got the Essie Retail Line Display...yay! I can't tell if it is a smaller display or the size of some big ones I've seen photos of. I didnt buy any because I had no money on me, but I'm seriously eyeing up Sweet Talker, Jamaican Me Crazy and some others. I searched it for dive bar, but I couldnt find even a slot for it. I actually don't mind the retail bottles as much in person...but still don't like that weird sticker on the side of the cap. I also like how they had space for the newest collection above the others, but my display (sounds odd saying that haha) only had French Affair and Sand Tropez. Which is sad because I was liking the looks of Topless and Barefoot.

Dunno why but I'm having an essie streak right now...we'll see how long this lasts haha :D

Hope you guys all had an awesome weekend. My totally flew by and I'm definitely not ready for school in the morning lol

OPI Guy Meets Gal-veston

*OPI Guy-Meets Gal-veston*
(3 coats)

I LOVE the name haha, I think its really cute. Guy Meets Gal-veston is a "sorbet" (aka jelly) coral shade that is really juicy looking on the nail. I do wish that it was a touch more opaque, even though I knew it would show VNL. For people who like a more opaque look, Big Hair Big Nails, also from the Texas Collection seems really close to it. I'm really happy that OPI is doing jellies now, though I think its funny that in all that articles/advertisements about the Texas collection OPI really plays up how original the sorbet look is haha

Sorry about being gone so long! My computer got a virus and I wanted to wait until my dad, who was away, got home because I was afraid to touch it haha. Also I'm excited because I got my ulta rewards today which = 2 OPIs or ChG for me! :) So its not REALLY breaking my new no buy, right?


And to end with, a cute crack story! :D

Haha, like a lot of people I have been searching for OPI shatter since it came out with no luck, every time I went to Ulta they were sold out and so was the local JC Penny Salon. Anyway I pretty much just gave up because I didnt want to order it online (I've heard its on ebay & such for mucho $$$). But yesterday my and my friend went out for her birthday and when she got in the car she pulled out a bottle of OPI Shatter & gave it to me! HEART=MELTED.

She said she was at Ulta, and there were only about 4 bottles left so she picked me up one! Luckily she was with her mom because apparently the people at Ulta were only letting people buy 1 per person. Which I can kinda understand because I dunno, like what if those times when I checked and it was out of stock, some lady who came in 5min before just bought like 3 bottles. But then its also annoying cause if you're getting for a friend or whatever.

Yep. Have an awesome day guys!

Thoughts on Upcoming OPI Femme De Cirque + Pirates of The Caribbean Collections

Recently promo pics of The upcoming OPI Soft Shades and Brights have been coming out. I, of course, wanted to talk about it :D

The OPI Soft Shades Collection is Called Femme De Cirque. Pretty sweet name right? I got excited from just hearing the name, even though the OPI Annual Soft Shades are definitely the least exciting releases of the year IMO.


MEH. Like I said Soft Shades don't really get me going. You can see swatches of a few on alizarine's blog! Here's what I needed to get off my chest: OH GOD THE NAMES! Or I should say name, singular.

So Many Clowns....So Little Time. I SHUDDER. haha, im sorry but even thinking about that creeps me the hell out...and I'm not even one of those people that have a fear of clowns. But still. Creepy!



Heres Promo Pic for Pirates:


GAH GAH GAH. OPI could have done so much with Pirates as a collection. When I think pirates of the Caribbean I think of rich reds and deep purples....beautiful emeralds.I guess jewel tones in general. But we'll see how these come out...I do see potential for greatness, just not with the theme of pirates. ALSO I think the names could have been way cooler, with more character/movie specific names. As opposed to pirates in general. Also there will be a silver shatter releasing which sounds pretty awesome...though I'm getting a little tired of all the crackle


Sooooooo yeah. Thoughts? I always like to get out my original feelings on collections because its fun to look back after they come up. At this point Soft Shades is a Nay and Pirates is a Yay. I think some of the pirate colors may turn out awesome...I just think the colors don't match what I would think of as 'pirates of the Caribbean"

Have a great day. I used a lot of caps in this post...don't let it fool you, I still love my OPI's dearly :D

*pics from mbeautylounge

OPI Funky Dunkey

*OPI Funky Dunkey*
(2 coats)

Though I'm sure it doesnt need to be said, let me just give the general disclaimer that all purples of this type need: ITS NOT THIS BLUE IN PERSON. :D haha, seriously though, these types of purple are impossible for me to capture. Pretty much Funky Dunkey is a mid tone purple creme. plain & simple. I know ChG Grape Pop is a dupe and I'm sure there are tons of others. I really like it though, and I'm really surprised I didnt have a purple like this in my collection already. Though the formula was a teeny bit on the thin side compared to usual OPI creme formula, but it didnt give me any issues. Also, does anyone know if the shrek collection is permanent? Because my Ulta still has TONS of all the colors.

I definitely had an awesome birthday because I got to go to PF Changs, which I love! The lettuce wraps are amazing! And I had my favorite, honey chicken. So I'm a happy camper :)

Also I found the Anchors Away Collection at Ulta (while searching for Black Shatter, they didnt have it)! Except it was only a very little display that holds 1 of each color, luckily no one had touched it before me. So I got Ahoy! and Sea Spray...and I'm very happy with the purchase! Normally I never buy ChG at Ulta because they're like 6.49? somewhere in the 6$ range which is a lot compared to what you would pay at like Sally's or something. But I had a 20% off coupon so I just got them because I wasnt sure if I would get the opportunity again.

Whew, wordy post. I kind of just felt like jabbering today haha :) Thanks for looking guys!

OPI HooDoo VooDoo & Smokin' In Havana on TD!

Hey everyone! I was roaming around TransDesign when I saw they had OPI Hoodoo Voodoo and Smokin' In Havana for sale! If you remember or did not know, these shades where included in a 100,000 fan giveaway OPI had on their facebook where they gave away 12 (I think....actually maybe just 8 or 5) retired shades. And these two were part of it!


(Smok'n in Havana)



Now, these 2 don't excite me really BUT I can only pray this means they will be bringing back the other shades (aka I NEED Parlez Vous OPI?) Hope you guys are having a really awesome day! I had a snow day due the freaking 18 inches we got and I have a 2 hour delay tomorrow, WOOT! :D

Any of you guys excited for these 2?

*got the image from TD

OPI The Show Must Go On

*OPI The Show Must Go On*
(2 coats)

My camera was dying as I took this pic so I didnt even try to capture the gold side of the duo chrome, you've all seen it I'm sure. I really loved the way this polish applied, I'm not really in love with the color though. However I'm glad I own it & have worn it 2x already so its getting good use. Also I got great wear...it lasted 5 days and then I removed it so maybe longer. I feel like with this color you're either totally in love with it or just like "meh".

My current obsession right now is the Zoya Intimate collection, I'm loving it! But I dont think I can justify getting 6 new Zoya's now that I have I think 11-12 untrieds, which for me is to much. I hope you guys are having an awesome day! I'm on a snow day from school so its a great day haha :)

OPI All the Berry Best

*OPI All the Berry Best*
(1 coat!)

Oh, I love this polish so much. 1 coat, smooth as butter. Beautiful shimmering ruby with pink undertones.



^^ I think this picture is the most color accurate. This is one of those polishes that really comes alive with topcoat, so if you have this color make sure you TC it! I just loved looking at it while it was on my nails and it wore like iron for me!



^^ this shows (or was meant to show..) how AtBB doesnt come across strictly red 100% of the time. Most people named this as least favorite of the Ulta exclusives, but I think it is way better than Gift of Gold. I don't know, I usually hate reds that arent cremes but this one is awesome!

A VERY Merry Christmas :) (+OPI Dazzled By Gold!)

I hope everyone who is celebrating is having an AWESOME christmas! I'm waiting for my extended family to get here so I thought I'd post my Christmas mani and some goodies santa left for me :D


*OPI Dazzled By Gold w/ $OPI Only Gold For Me Topcoat*
(2 coats)

I remember when I first got this. Ulta was doing that thing where you spend 17$ you get a free bottle, but the bottle has to be one of the exclusives. They were completely wiped out of the purple and red which I was so upset about because I was in my hating gold phase. So I got Dazzled By Gold, hating it but it turns out it is pretty much my favorite gold ever now! 2 easy coats for me, people with longer nails may need 3 though. Just look at the picture...it says what I can't haha

Also, I got $OPI Only Gold for Me as an Xmas gift so I decided to put it on top of my thumbs this morning!


And here's all of the nail polish I received for christmas! I dont know where to start for trying them!


1. Gift of Gold
2. Plum Full of Cheer
3. All the Berry Best
4. OPI Base & Topcoat Combo (I didnt wish for these, and dont need them all that much, but I'm in love with the package...it will be great for bringing polishes if I'm traveling!)
5. $OPI Only Gold for Me (Ohhh, look at that sparkle!)

And here are a bunch of Zoya's I also got!


1. Harlow
2. Verushka
3. Shawn
4. Kelly
5. Flowie
6. Yasmeen
7. Ali
8. Cheryl


What an awesome Xmas! Also my family really liked my gifts for them which was great to see, I love watching peoples faces as they open gifts! Have an amazing day! I'm like peeing myself here!

What's with the Catitude? + Gift Ideas (ish)

*OPI What's with the Catitude*
(2 coats)

You can tell I was fighting for sunlight in this pic...but I think it is pretty true to color. A pale blue, very nice and refreshing for summer, when the Shrek collection came out. I don't really have much else to say, but I do love this color a whole lot.

I know a lot of you guys are out of school but do you all remember how painfully slow the month of december goes until break? Its excruciating. I've already got done pretty much all of my shopping and I thought I'd share what I got people so maybe it could spark ideas if anyone is looking. Mostly I just want to share what I got but I cant tell anyone in my family haha:

Mom: PJ's from Ann Taylor Loft. It's one of my moms favorite stores and they were having a 40% off everything sale. The motivation was my mom keeps complaining about hot flashing (haha, she's hilarious about it!) at night & being over heated so they are all cotton and very light weight.

Dad- Road ID, its a bracelet you wear when cycling/running that has all of your personal info on in case you crash or fall and some stranger finds you.

Sister: Unofficial Harry Potter Cook Book. We're both Potter nerds, 'nuff said :)

Cousin: Hub man, its a little man with usb ports for arms and legs...so you have like extra ports. I dunno, he's like 24 so hard to shop for, but I thought it was a good idea

Aunt: Bath and Body works sleep aromatherapy gift basket thing with some of those extra long socks from my november favorites.

Nana: Chocolate. LOTs of chocolate haha


Have a great night guys :)

OPI Ulta Holiday Exclusives for 2010 Bottle Pics!

I saw this when browsing through the latest Ulta circular and thought I'd share!



1.Plum Full of Cheer
2.Gift of Gold
3.All the Berry Best


Okay, LOOK at plum full of cheer...I'm liking the looks of that gold shimmery stuff! :)

These will be sold exclusively at Ulta's for 8.50 each and they also come in a mini pack containing each of the 3 colors plus a mini topcoat for 6.95 which is cheaper than OPI mini packs usually are I think.

Very promising! Can't wait to see swatches of these...What do you guys think?

OPI Ali's Big Break

*OPI Ali's Big Break*
(2 coats)

This probably could have used 3 coats for complete opacity...but I knew I was only going to be wearing it for like two days. This polish is one of the type that has a "juicy" feel to it. I'm not really sure what I expected out of this polish...I'm very lukewarm about it. So, it's nice, I guess haha, I got compliments on and I've heard a lot of bloggers like it so I'll have to try it again soon.

But at least I didnt spend any money on it...it was free with my ulta rewards thing-y.

I hope all of you had a great thanksgiving! Fittingly enough, im also lukewarm about thanksgiving. DONT SHOOT haha...but yeah I just am not a big fan of all traditional thanksgiving food. Which may be because my aunt (who holds it) is not the best cook. She cooked the turkey without removing the bag of guts!!

Oh yeah, anyone get any good Black Friday deals? I stayed at home and from the safety of my laptop took advantage of the zoya sale, which was perfect because I needed gifts for my three best friends so I got them each a color cube with the BOGO+1. Annnnd might have picked up Crystal and Valerie for me...but no one needs to know that ;)

Have a great night!

Two Burlesques and Thoughts on Upcoming OPI Texas

*Simmer & Shimmer*
Gorgeous! And this photo is very color accurate. I used 2 thick coats and it was fine. I got pretty good wear out of it....but my friend who was wearing Show It & Glow It had chipping after just a day or two. I'm wearing this right and dreading removal haha, but it is sooooo pretty


*Teas-y Does It*
2 coats. AMAZING. I literally have no words. You can see it was a little beaten up in the picture which I took after wearing it for a week or so. I already want to put it back on! Deep brown-y purple with beautiful shimmer to it. I'm in love. It has for sure rocketed into my top 10.


OPI Texas:
Okay, so I've looked at the commments on blog posts about the collection and a lot of people seem kind of luke warm about it. BUT IM SO EXCITED! I love jellies and I love berry colors! I feel like it was the same with the Swiss Collection, like when pictures first started coming out nobody was really digging it but now we all own like 4 or 5 haha. I know that to the blog world they may seem boring and overdone because we see SO many colors but I really think this collection will be powerful with more commercial things (is that even the right term??) as in I think people who arent as obsessed with polish will eat up these shades when looking for a mani color or just spontaneously picking one up.

yeah. very excited haha.


Have a great day everyone!!!

DS Coronation (+ RBL giveaway reminder!)

happy halloween guys! I'm totally slacking in the halloween themed nails front. So today I thought I'd show OPI DS Coronation...



3 coats that went on smooth as a baby's bottom :)



Too bad it was freaking gross out the day I took these pics so I couldnt get the holo to come out :(

I really liked this polish, it was a very elegant silver and then watch out when it hits the sun! Gorgeous! This was just retired not to long ago from the DS line to make room for the new ones, but this is still pretty easy to get your hands on.

Annnnnnnnnd just wanted to remind everyone the giveaway ends tonight at 10pm EST (it went by so quick!)

I'll announce the winner possibly later tonight because I have everything ready to just be plugged into random.org but it could be tomorrow :)

So go enter!! LOL the odds are looking pretty good since not that many people have entered, so thats good for those who have haha !

Here Today Aragon Tomorrow (+ Question)

I really thought I would love this since its a dark vampy green and I love green and vampy colors but I dont know..something didnt connect for me.



2 coats. I picked this blurry picture because I thought it was most color accurate. (and they all turned out blurry today...BLEH!)



Though it definitely grew on me the longer I wore it. I think I just had such a lemming for it that it could never live up to my expectations LOL

So exhausted right now, but I did have time to change my mani to Zoya Savita...I'm really loving the mattes right now because schools nights my time is very limited :(

QUESTION (S) !

1.) Anyone know a way to figure out what your shipping will be at transdesign before you complete the order??
2.) erm yeah I just forgot never mind haha

OPI Color So Hot It Burns

I got this because I loved Red My Fortune Cookie so much and my bottle was actually showing significant usage. I might like this one better though, because it is more opaque.


2 coats, gray skies. Great formula!


I would highly recommend this polish though I think we all know it is pretty unoriginal so everyone probably has something very close to this anyway. I love bright red cremes and they are pretty much the only color of red I actually like polish wise.


Zoya is having a sale if you spend 10$ and enter the code VKiss you get a free Raven, Trixie and something red..I forget LOL. It ends Sunday! I'm seriously debating using it because I'm having major lemmings for Valerie and Crystal from Fire and Ice. But I Probably will refrain since I just ordered so many


Have a nice night everyone :D

I've Been A Bad Girl... (+OPI Diva of Geneva)

a VERY bad girl haha...not only have I totally neglected my blog, I pretty much smashed my no buy into thousands of pieces and then stomped all over it...oops LOL


-Dovima,Savita, Edyta, Ginger, Midori, Zara, Cassi, Kiki, Jo, Happi, TopCoat, Drip Drops (By the way the drip drops work great!!)



-Fiercely Fiona, Who the Shrek Are You?, Color So Hot it Burns, Princesses Rule!



-Essie Summer Collection Mini's (demure vixen, pretty edgy, haute as hello, knockout pout) to be fair these were on clearence for like 5 bucks so I couldn't pass it up



-Nubar 2010....SO EXCITED!!!



These really killed my wallet haha, but they are so gorgeous!!! RBL Tudor Polishes (Anne, Catherine, Catherine H, Jane) Can't wait to try out Catherine H!


Thats it haha...and here is OPI Diva of Geneva which I'm wearing right now and I cant wait to see what 2010 will look like overtop it!


2 coats. Pre-Cleanup (ew, I know) Shady Sun. Definitely my favorite from the Swiss Collection!



So yeah I'm back, school was pretty much eating up my entire life the past couple weeks :(

Any ones you guys would like to see me post??('cause I have no idea where to start haha)