China Glaze - Exotic Encounters and a comparison

  Hi! Happy Saturday! I have Exotic Encounters from the On Safari collection. A dusky teal creme. The formula was really nice and smooth, not too thick like some of their other recent polishes. I couldn't resist this one even though I was pretty sure I had something very similar... surprisingly, I do not.

2 coats

 

shade 

I've seen a few people asking on the nail board if it was close to O.P.I Jade is The New Black, did a little comparison for myself. They're quite different, but in case you were wondering...

EE on middle and pinkie

JiTNB on ring and pointer

China Glaze - I'm With the Lifeguard

Hi! Happy weekend! I was out of the area and ran into a Sally's I hadn't stalked visited yet, thought I would see if they had the ChG neon's out since my Sally's is worthless. They didn't have them out but one of the SA's offered to get them out of the back for me. Win! I didn't even ask. I picked this up along with a few others. The SA asked me if I knew the girl who always has her go back there to look for the new collections...and how did we know about this stuff? Instead of explaining I just told her I was psycho and to tell the other girl I want to be her friend. Haha. I need a polish crazy friend to shop with!

Anyway, I'm With the Lifeguard is a blazing neon lime green w. shimmer! LOVE it. Makes me think about those lime ice pops that give you mouth paper cuts..mm, summer. Formula is thickk but easy enough to work with, may thin it out a bit.

3 coats

definitely on a neon no buy...lol

Cult Nails - Toxic Seaweed

Big sigh for Sunday night! Bummer. Oh well, how else will I buy all the polish if I don't go to work? Anyway, here's something that makes me feel a bit better... Cult Nails Toxic Seaweed. LOVE this. One of the many polishes I added to my collection this week haha. Couldn't wait to try it out though! It's fabulous. Formula was pretty nice, a bit thick but quite easy to work with. This is 3 fairly thick coats :

Look at those coppery flashing flakes! Love it.  Think I will pull it out again for St. Pats :)

A bit of VNL but I don't mind, taken in not so sunny weather. VNL more visible in direct sun.

What do you think of Toxic Seaweed? I didn't think I'd like it as much as I do but I still had to buy it, glad I did!! Highly recommend getting some Cult Nails shades if you haven't tried them yet :)

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O.P.I Jade is the New Black + Essie Shine of the Times

Hi! Jade is the New Black was sitting in my untrieds foreverrrr.. along with like 5 other greens. Shame! I needed to pluck a green so I picked this - and it's gorgeous!

2 coats of this loverly Jade creme

(pictured wet and not full clean up, lol)

Was really not feeling like a plain creme though so I jazzed it up with Essie Shine of the Times + Matte About You.

pretty cute but I have to say I am not a huge SotT fan.. it is sooo overly dense to me (I majorly thinned it out here!!) and it just doesn't flash the rainbow in the bottle.. 

So pretty! I just love looking at it - but I think I'll need to find a similar flakie that isn't so dense and wants to flash more than orange and yellow! 

Almost the weekend :)

Back to blogging -- Essie Armed and Ready

Hi!  I got a little sad about never having the opportunity to take pictures in the sun once winter came around and all my sun hours are spent at work.. but then I discovered the flash on my phone so I am back :) Okay.. MOSTLY I am just lazy...but I am anxious to get back in touch with Blogger and will be visiting all you wonderful ladies soon.

For my comeback swatch I decided to post Essie Armed and Ready... it's from the new 2012 Go Overboard trio, I picked this & Go Overboard up, didn't think I needed Play Date. OH BUT I DO and I am going to pick that one up this weekend.

A really nice greyed out green with a golden bronzey flash!! NEED ALL THE HIDDEN SHIMMERS. Unfortunately the flash lies here and the shimmer is quite hidden, but it's so pretty when it comes out to play!