Sephora by O.P.I Ruby Without a Cause

New $OPI's keep finding their way into my stash, this is one of them. Ruby Without a Cause is a new red - purple red shifting duochome. The bottle has a lot of teal but I caught none of that on my nails...

here is 2 coats,

look at that mega blue swirling in the bottle! I was expecting it on my nails so I was pretty disappoint. Still pretty though.

:)

              Hope everyone keeps power through the storm if you're in it!  

I should probably go buy candles or something.

China Glaze Swanky Silk + Deborah Lippmann comparison

  Hi! I've been blog tardy for a bit due to a nasty wisdom tooth infection.  So nasty I got a huge box of polish and didn't even care to open it for 2 days. The horror. Let it go way too long and by the time I called my dentist they couldn't get me in for a few days. Ended up going to the ER with a swollen face, fever and rocket-y blood pressure from pain. There's no dentists at the ER (and no pliers they insisted.. not buying it) but there is pain medication and antibiotics. Got to relax and think about magical unicorns for a while. So, I have probably been too high to post this week. Sadly I really need to get these teeth out before classes start. SIGH. I am terrified.

 Anyway, in my stupor I was able to do my first ever comparison! Haha. I actually have a few comparisons to post. I will show you Swanky Silk first :

Swanky Silk is a champagne to pink flashing duochome, that fails to show up well on my camera no matter what I do. This is 3 coats.

shade.

 I just knew this was going to be a good dupe for DL Sugar Daddy. It's more than that though - a dead on dupe. Couldn't even note a difference in the formulas. Both need 3 coats, both have the same duochrome strength :

w.flash

Swanky Silk on Pointer & Ring

Sugar Daddy on Middle & Pinkie

I really love this shade and happy to have a dupe. Particularly because my Sugar Daddy flew from my clutch and collided with my tile... just lost some glass but I can't bear to decant it from it's pretty bottle. I will use Swanky Silk up or bleed I guess.

sugar daddy has sads.

Elevation Polish - The Arches at Sunset

Hi! Happy Tuesday :) Today I have my first polish from Elevation. I HAD to have this. I am really impatient with indies...but I made sure I was around for her July restock. ( I believe she stocks each month on the 7th.. her blog gives out great info on what will be available and when.) The Arches at Sunset is a brown/green duochome. Probably most definitely in the ugly pretty category, but I think it is gorgeous! Immediately a favorite. This is 3 coats.

:)

American Apparel - Smoke Dazzle

  Hi! Happy Saturday! Supposed to get to 103 degrees today..gross...not into it. NERP. My boyfriend is at a  free outdoor concert (the dirty heads)... I was supposed to go but, 103 degrees! All those sweaty people crammed together. Sounds smelly, no? Free concerts are a mess anyway, but the weather is a good excuse to pass. I would probably pass out anyway.  Hope you all have cooler ideas in mind if you're in this heat!

 Anyway, today I have Smoke Dazzle from AA. One of their metallic polishes. It's a duochome beauty!! The  color shift in it is pretty similar to Butter London Knackered if you didn't like the holo glitter in that one. They're not dupes though.. get both. :) This is 3 coats.

most of the time it is this greenish color, but it's also grey..purple...pink..

Really love my AA polishes. I only have a few though,  I strongly dislike going in that store. I swear every time I go in there is a 13 year old yelling at her mother about how a bandeau is an appropriate top. -shudder- that is a whole other topic tho. What are your favorite AA polishes?

O.P.I - Just Spotted The Lizard

Hi! Happy Mother's Day to the mommy's out there, hope it's a great one! This is my NOTD, and yes.. I broke my no-buy for it :( I've only been lemming Peridot for centuries! I am weak. What can I say! I know there is plenty of dupage of this but when I heard O.P.I was releasing this I decided to hold out. It is a dead on dupe. The formula is great. No brush stroking issues and opaque in 2 coats.

Love it!! Still Chanel-less.

China Glaze - Awakening

Hi!  Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I am having an extremely lazy Sunday.. :)

Today I have China Glaze Awakening.. OH boy do I have a lot of China Glaze to post if I do actually ever get swatches of ALL my polishes, hope you like yourself some ChG!~

This photo is not color accurate. It's way less purple, more of a dusty rose color with a big golden duochrome effect. I LOVE it super mucho, but it's probably not for everyone (it's a little frosty..maybe a little grandma) I really did not have much of an issue with brushstrokes. In some swatches of this online it looks pretty frosty.

It is in the core display at Sally's.. aaand I think you should get it! :)