Did this one using an unnamed L.A Girl Flare that I got from Urban Outfitters forever ago. The sticker came off the bottom so no nammmeee.

At 15ml this is an awesome buy for $1.99. In the bottle, this just looks like a pretty super pale green (perfect St. Patricks Day green, which is the point of this one I think) with small green glitter and larger green flakies. There are some flashes of blue running through the glitter but you don’t really notice them.

As far as formula goes, this is THICK, more like applying a gel, it’s two steps away from being that gel they put on acrylics. You either get a little bit of polish (and glitter along with it) if you wipe the brush or, if your like me and want a shit ton of glitter, you put a large glob on and smooth it out. And that’s what your doing with this one is smoothing it out, I’m talking SUPER thick. But dry time was awesome despite that so hey.

Now for the awesome part. It’s called Green Ocean and it’s the most appropriate name I could possibly ever come up with. Like PERFECT. Once this puppy dries it gets this amazing blue/green sheen.

You obviously see the green, even the green thats in the polish (which is pretty pale but I applied 5 coats of this cause yeah, I fucking like glitter).  But that blue that you barely saw in the bottle really pops here! As you move your fingers around it shines blue! And there’s the ocean part!

I wore this without a base for these photos but I’ll for sure be doing some mani’s with this later. Layerlayerlayer

Click me to make me bigger! ^

My camera could NOT handle the blue-green-ness of this. The photo above is without flash, the one below is with. My camera was making this way more yellow than it really is, it almost looks like theres a fungus growing on there but it’s not that yellow in real life I swear!

Those green flashes also flash blue in real life!

The only real downside to this came removal time. This was a BITCH! It would NOT come off. I soaked it and soaked it and in the end I ended up chipping it off myself. I wasn’t using 100% acetone remover, that might have helped. All I had was a base coat and top coat with this. I don’t know why this was so hard to take off. I’ll keep you posted if it’s easier later on over a base with fewer coats.

That was a big review! I don’t know how much you guys wanna read but this is how much I like to talk about shit so fuck it haha.

Verdict?

RECOMMEND! This was so pretty to look at, I just hated taking it off. It wasn’t such a pain that I wouldn’t recommend purchasing though.

Also, I didn’t do any clean up yet.

I cannot take a good enough picture to show you but these two are gorgeous together! They look bleh in the photo above but trust me! It looks like a party on your nails!

Wet and Wild Mega Last in Bite the Bullet with Wet in Wild Craze Glitz layered over, just two layers.

Bite the Bullet, pre Glitz.

Pardon the creasing and overall crapness, I took this at the end of the night.

MAC’s Painterly Paint Pot

Urban Decay’s Loose Pigment in Asphyxia

Urban Decay’s Loose Pigment in Rockstar

Urban Decay’s Loose Pigment in Yeyo

Urban Decay’s Ink for Eyes in Pyrotechnics

Maybelline Line Stiletto

First off THROB has BAD connotations. Not BAD, but you know, baaaaad ;]
Not that I don’t like bad connotations…. okay here it is.

WARNING! I stole swatch photos from Scrangie! That’s right! Stole! All credit goes solely to her for her awesome photography skills and also her get-a-hold-of-shit-before-it’s-out skills. If you see her name, CLICK IT! It’ll take you straight to her website (which if you haven’t visited you might as well just kill yourself. Maybe thats a little harsh…)

Feel your pulse quicken, your heart throbbing in your chest. These are Illamasqua’s latest offerings at the altar of beauty, guaranteed to make you gasp with pleasure.

Bite…
Awaken your mouth’s erotic sensuality with the seductive red of Succubus Intense Lipgloss or enjoy the power of being an unashamedly brazen femme fatale with blood red Sangers Lipstick.

…and Scratch
Throb is a passionate red Nail Varnish, the colour of blood spilled by desperate, rejected lovers. Load is a rich, cream coating for the nails and Scorn’s midnight black matt finish is filled with contempt for the love of convention.

So lets talk about the polishes?!

I’m going to steal some swatches from Scrangie because I don’t yet have these, I’ll probably throw up a manicure or something with them later. Maybe this one?

Load….as in get a “get a load of…” or maybe…. Jesus Christ. I guess Mayonnaise wouldn’t have been a good name for this but really? Load…for a Valentines Day collection. All I can say is genius. I can’t wait to try out this color.

Throb is…red! Yup, just a red polish for a Valentines collection. I think we can move on here…

Scorn. I want. Matte looking black, I guess if you already have one of these you don’t need another one but I don’t so f(*& you.

I looked for swatches of the lip products, Sangers and Succubus, but google failed me. If you’d like to visit Illamasqua.com you can purchase the items I was able to show and check out the MIA ones. They just look like a red gloss and lipstick to me, but what do I know.

I used two Models Own polishes I picked up in Paris (at an Urban Outfitters so it isn’t like I went anywhere “Paris-y” two years ago. Does polish expire? I guess it does, (lipstick does too, what the fuck?!) but they both worked fine and so I dgaf.

Grey Day
Uhhh, two words: SUPER OPAQUE. This manicure, and all of them where I use this actually, I only used one coat. It’s awesome, because that means quick dry time, which means less incapacitated-no-I-can’t-do-the-dishes-time….wait…good thing…?

Coral Reef
This one is slightly less amazing, but barely. This took two coats (I also have super white tips so that doesn’t help…). I love this color so much, it just makes me think the word punchy.

The manicure is stupid easy, so easy I feel like an idiot for pointing out the obvious, whatever. One accent nail, never done this but I kinda like how it spices up the ehhhhgrey.

Please ignore the mess ups, I had rabid dogs running around me at the time.

I suppose you could spice this up with a konad design on the accent nail, OR?! on all BUT?!

Enjoi.

Used:
China Glaze’s Moonlight
L.A Girls’ Rockstar

Very sheer polish, took three coats to get this and you can still see my tips. But I liked the end result.

Turned that into….

I loved the way this turned out!

Who?

Jacques Courtin-Clarins

What?

Clarins touts themselves as the first beauty brand to use 100% pure plant extracts. The brand has a full line of body and skin care products (all available at Sephora here) and a line of botanical loaded make up (available at major department stores and online here).

Where?

Clarins Institute de Beauté in Paris, France and also available at department stores and Sephora.

When?

Clarins Institute de Beauté was opened in 1954.

Why?

After med school, Jacques treated circulatory problems in women through massage, using oils and creams he created. These products (we hope that’s what it was ;D) started having a nice effect on the women, they were all noticing smoother, healthier looking skin. Once Jacques discovered this, he threw himself into researching plant extracts and botanicals applied to skin care.