Sally Hansen Gray by Gray

 This color was super hard to photograph because I didn't get a chance to photograph it outside. Its a grayish blue creme, but these pictures make it look way more blue than I than I think it is in real life.

I thought this color was so so, but what I loved was this polish! Opaque in one coat and the brush in this SH Complete manicure is just like the ones in the Insta-Dri polishes, which I loved. If you have that brush, then you wont like this one but I find that flat wide brush perfect for my nails. It also gets the job done in a little less time than a regular skinny brush. Bottom line? I want more SH Complete Manicure polishes!

♥ Lachelle

OPI Funky Dunkey

Funky Dunkey is a medium tone purple cream that I really wanted from OPI's Shrek Forever After collection. Besides OPI's awesome Pro Wide brush and butter formula, I wanted a purple that was not deep, dark, vampy, jewel toned, shimmery or sparkly. I am immediately drawn to purples like that and I realized that I was seriously lacking in purple cremes. So here we have it! 

This is one coat, but on the ring finger you can see an area of my nail that I must have not covered with well. It wasn't all that visible in normal lighting you know, so it looks way worse than it actually is. At least to me...

♥ Lachelle

OPI Strawberry Margarita + OPI Princesses Rule!

I picked up 3 OPI's this Friday at Ulta because they are having a buy two get one free sale. Oh you didn't know? Well know you do! This is a great way to stock up on OPI polishes because with those 3.50 off a 10 dollar purchase coupons, you can really save! I happened to have a rare $5 off 10 coupon they sent in the monthly mailer to my house and got 3 polishes for $12.99! Awesome.

Here's the first of my picks, OPI Princesses Rule! over the classic OPI Strawberry Margarita. I had to have this polish after seeing it across the blogosphere. I like that I can put on more coats for buildable coverage or use it as a shimmery topcoat, like here:

 Loving this combo!

PS- Notice anything different about my nails?! I'm rocking fake ones for now. I've been debating getting them for a while and decided to take the plunge. It may not be a regular thing because I hate removal and I will have to seriously baby my nails afterwards.

PPS-Notice that serial number on the brush handle? Am I late or has OPI been doing this?

♥ Lachelle

Color Club Chelsea Girl

 Um, no. Color Club's Chelsea Girl gets a big NO, nuh, uh, not ever going there again. This is actually last weekend's manicure. I put this on last Saturday when it was dark and raining, hoping this electric blue would cheer me up. It did anything but. The application was a nightmare because of a thin, almost watery formula and awful smell. Its a gorgeous blue in the bottle, but I have on 3 coats and still VNL! From this polish, that's highly annoying to me. Plus, it chipped the same day. I dont want to give up on Color Clubs yet, so maybe it could be either the my chemistry or the Seche topcoat I use thats causing the super fast chipping. We will see, trying out more Color Clubs in the meanwhile...

 

♥ Lachelle

More Gradient Nails...

 Remember when I finally got the hang of doing gradient nails and I was so excited? Well I decided to try them again...with Zoya Charla and China Glaze's Medallion. My index finger chipped so fast! I think its because when I was sponging, I piled so much polish onto the tip to make it darker. As it turns out, I didnt wear this for long...

For some reason, I'm not loving this as much as the first time around. Hmmm, I dont know whats with that. *shrugs*

♥ Lachelle

Orly Space Cadet

By now the blogosphere is crowded with pictures of the Orly Cosmix collection, but I'm about to add my Space Cadet picture spam to the internets. Hey, theres enough room for all of us! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Space Cadet. I was sooooo excited about the Cosmix collection when I first saw it...then I realized I owned most of the dupes. However, Space Cadet is a different story. I don't own anything remotely similar to it. I tweeted that I might be just a bit distracted at work wearing this because with just a flick of the wrist, it changes colors. It is MESMERIZING. So these pictures are after a days work...keep in mind I do heavy typing. Nothing like a close up picture of your nails to show you just how much tipwear you actually have. Lets just say it was more than I thought it was. Errr...on the pictures!

I went right to Sallys after work and snatched this up. There was a full, untouched Cosmix display right there on the bottom shelf. The girl that rang me up had a look like "You're paying 8 dollars for this?" Oh well, I didn't have time to school her on the awesomeness of this polish. Her loss! :-)

♥ Lachelle

Ulta Ultra Violet

 I know fall its coming, with its cooler temperatures and darker colors, but can I hold on to a bit of summer for a moment? I'm loving Ulta's Ultra Violet. This polish puts me in the mind of Color Club's Electro Candy collection with the blue-purple shimmer running through it. There's actually a color named Ultra Violet in that collection, but I don't have it to compare to. Does this look like a dupe? Anyhow, I love this polish. I have nothing in my collection like it.

Ulta's Salon Lacquer nail polish is on sale for $2 through September 25th. I have another Ulta polish to post this week that I think may be a dupe for OPI's Jade is the New Black. Dont sleep on Ulta! I used two coats and this dried matte, but that was nothing a coat of Seche Vite couldn't fix.

♥ Lachelle

Wet n Wild Night Prowl

Night Prowl is packed full of purple glitter in a black jelly base. Absolutely amazing and around a dollar at most drug or grocery stores. What more can I say? You need this in your collection if you love vampies, glitter, or jellies. It almost made the cut as my Halloween mani, but I may have a little something different in mind...

♥ Lachelle